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TDOR on Campus
Transgender Day of Remembrance Events on IUB Campus…
Monday 11/16 - Screaming Queens: The Riot at Compton’s Cafeteria movie screening. 7pm in the Fine Arts Auditorium (FA015)
Tuesday 11/17 - Featured Speakers followed by a processional to graveyard. 6pm in the Fine Arts Auditorium (FA015). 7pm Graveyard Service in Dunn Meadow East
Visit http://www.noglstp.net/iu/ for more infoTransgender Day of Remebrance
Transgender Day of Remembrance (TDOR) is November 20th. In recognition of this, we will be featuring several transgender resources here on the blog and throughout the library. Stop by the library or check back here for continuing updates.
For more information about TDOR, please visit www.transgenderdor.org
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Remembering E. Lynn Harris
Office Expansion
That’s right…the office and library have expanded! With Student Ethics moving out, the GLBT Student Support Services Office has taken over most of the house at 705 E. 7th Street. Stop by and check out the new space…and check out a few movies while you’re at it!
Welcome Back (to the blog!)
After a long hiatus, the library blog is finally up and running again! Look for information on new materials and library happenings coming soon!
Attention Facebook Users!
If you love the Lambda Literary Foundation, you can now become a fan! The Lambda Literary Foundation is the country’s leading organization for LGBT literature. And now you can follow them on […]
Bluestockings
Since 1999, Bluestockings has been a women’s collective bookstore, dedicated to feminist materials, and more recently LGBT issues as well. Bookslut has an exclusive interview with one of the Bluestockings’ owners, Kimmie David.
Just the fact that it didn’t stay a strictly women’s bookstore is inclusive in not just the gender issues and the transgender […]Reminder: Gay Travels in the Muslim World Tomorrow!
Important Reminder:
Gay Travels in the Muslim World editor Michael Luongo is coming to Bloomington tomorrow to read from his ground breaking new book. Thursday, July 10th, Luongo will be doing a reading at Rachel’s Cafe from 6:30-8:30 (300 E. 3rd Street, corner of Lincoln).
And if you can’t make it to Rachel’s Cafe, you can […]Gay Travels in the Muslim World
Gay Travels in the Muslim World editor Michael Luongo is coming to Bloomington next week to read from his ground breaking new book. Thursday, July 10th, Luongo will be interviewed on BloomingOUT, Bloomington’s own Midwest GLBT Radio Show at 6pm.
Following this, Luongo will be doing a reading at Rachel’s Cafe from 6:30-8:30 (300 E. […]More Gay Libraries in Indiana
Just in case you get tired of the GLBT Student Support Services in Bloomington, we just thought you should know, there’s a new gay library right in our backyards!
Indianapolis is home to the Chris Gonzalez Library & Archives, home to 5,600 books, movies, newspapers, magazines, photographs, and other ephemera from the last 40 years of […]Stella Duffy
If you enjoyed the mysteries of sleuth Saz Martin, you may have wondered how author Stella Duffy learned how to tie together such an engaging story. The answer: theater. This and more can be found at AfterEllen.com’s interview with the New Zealand writer.
“I started off writing mysteries, what we call crime novels,” Duffy explained of […]Books that Dare: Coverage of the Lammies
We’ve already post the winners of the Lambda Literary Awards, but the most exciting part of the awards is the awards show. And coverage is pouring in from everywhere.
The Advocate writes:
Perhaps that’s because in a part of the world where awards […]Couples in Cali getting re-married
The Advocate has a lovely article up about couples in California who married in San Francisco in 2004 getting re-married - legally this time. And it includes some familiar faces, like actvists Del Martin and Phyllis Lyon and writer Jewel Gomez.
We have some excellent documentaries about marriage equality in California, including One Wedding and A […]Author Interviews at AfterEllen
In a two-part series, AfterEllen.com is interviewing some of the leading ladies in literature, from a wide variety of genres. Go see what your favorite writers have to say about their writing and how their fields have developed.
Sarah Waters - Historical Romance, author of Tipping the Velvet and Fingersmith.
Lillian Faderman - Nonfiction, author of Surpassing […]Lammies are in!
Last night was the 20th Annual Lambda Literary Awards were announced. Pay special attention to Cris Beam’s Transparent - it’s one of the newest books at the GLBT Library!
And the winners are:
LGBT ANTHOLOGY
First Person Queer, edited by Richard Labonte and Lawrence Schimel
LGBT ARTS & CULTURE
The View From Here by Matthew HaysLGBT CHILDREN’S/YOUNG […]
Remembering a Queer Historian
Allan Berube, the independent GLBT historian, passed away December 11, 2007, at the age of 61. Berube contributed in many ways to the academic study of GLBT history, winning an MacArthur Fellowship, and publishing the innovative history of gay men and lesbians in World War II, Coming Out Under Fire (1990). In this […]
Office Closed for Memorial Day
Sorry gang, we will be closed on Monday, May so you will have to enjoy your barbecues without us. However we will be open at 9 AM on Tuesday and will have regular office hours for the rest of the week.