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- GAY TASK FORCE - ANNUAL CONFERENCE 1985
- THE ALA TASK FORCE ON GAY LIBERATN: EFFECTG CHANGE NAMG AND CLASSIFITN OF GLBTQ SUBJECTS
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- ALA TASK FORCE ON GAY LIBERATN
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- GAY TASK FORCE - ANNUAL CONFERENCE 1983
GAY TASK FORCE - ANNUAL CONFERENCE 1985
The Natnal LGBTQ Task Force is dited to achievg eedom and jtice for lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, queer people, and their fai through proactive, targeted, change-ducg iativ. * ala gay task force *
The Rabow Round Table (RRT) of the Amerin Library Associatn (ALA) was found 1970 as ALA's Task Force on Gay Liberatn. It is the natn's first gay, lbian, bisexual and transgenr profsnal anizatn. Most of the rmatn listed below om Cal Gough’s chronology found the nference publitn for the Gay, Lbian and Bisexual Task Force: 25th anniversary, 1970-1995 gala.
On July 1st at the ALA Annual Conference Detro, MI, the Task Force on Gay Liberatn meets for the first time.
A social and “nscns-raisg event” was held wh members of the Detro Gay Liberatn Front. Barbara Gtgs puts together a list of 37 gay-posive books, magaze articl, and pamphlets - the first versn of a rource that would bee known as “A Gay Biblgraphy.
THE ALA TASK FORCE ON GAY LIBERATN: EFFECTG CHANGE NAMG AND CLASSIFITN OF GLBTQ SUBJECTS
Fifty years ago, unr the spic of the Amerin Library Associatn’s Social Rponsibili Round Table, a small group of activists, librarians, and activist-librarians formed what was then known as the Task Force on Gay Liberatn—the very first gay and lbian uc any natnal profsnal anizatn. * ala gay task force *
In June at the ALA Annual Conference Dallas, TX, the Task Force announc the first wner of the Gay Book Award: A Place for Us by Isabel Miller (published by McGraw Hill as Patience and Sarah, ISBN: 9780070420359) and holds s first program “Sex and the Sgle Cataloger: New Thoughts on Some Unthkable Subjects” wh panelists Joan Marshall and Steve Wolf.
The Task Force has a “Hug-a-Homosexual” booth the exhib hall. At the ALA Annual Conference San Francis, over 400 people attend a panel on gay and lbian characters YA novels. ALA’s Task Force on Gay Liberatn chang s name to the “Gay Task Force.
In rponse to Ana Bryant’s anti-gay csa, the Task Force subms a succsful rolutn to ALA Council reaffirmg ALA’s support of equal employment opportuny. The sixth and fal edn of “A Gay Biblgraphy” was prted.
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The Task Force’s Gay Book Award is regnized as an official ALA award. The Task Force chang s name to the “Gay and Lbian Task Force. The Task Force chang s name to the “Gay, Lbian, and Bisexual Task Force.
On June 30th, the GLBTF was promoted to round table stat and beme the Gay, Lbian, Bisexual, Transgenr Round Table of the Amerin Library Associatn. The Gay, Lbian, Bisexual, Transgenr Round (GLBTRT) was renamed to the Rabow Round Table (RRT).
ALA TASK FORCE ON GAY LIBERATN
Gay, Lbian, Bisexual, and Transgenred Round Table. The GLBTRT was found 1970 as the Task Force on Gay Liberatn.
We are the natn's first gay, lbian, bisexual and transgenr profsnal anizatn. Each year, we prent the Stonewall Book Awards (one for lerature, one for non-fictn) to the bt books wh gay, lbian, bisexual, and transgenred them.
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Recent topics have clud the future of gay books for children, llectn velopment, and mastreamg gay publishg. June is pri month, which means that our exhib Out of the Closet & Onto the Shelv: Librarians and the Olst Gay Profsnal Organizatn the U. This exhib documents the early history and velopment of the Gay, Lbian, Bisexual, and Transgenr Round Table of the Amerin Library Associatn.
Barbara Gtgs and thor Isabel Miller kiss at the Task Force on Gay Liberatn’s kissg booth at the ALA Annual Conference Dallas 1971.
Ja Cooper and Israel Fishman met 1970 at the ALA Annual Conference Detro at the Social Rponsibili Round Table ssn, and cid to form an official gay and lbian uc at ALA. The Task Force on Gay Liberatn would be the first of s kd any natnal profsnal anizatn. It formed a climate of social and polil prott cludg the anti-Vietnam War movement, the civil rights movement, the women’s liberatn movement, and the gay liberatn movement the wake of the Stonewall Rts 1969.
GAY TASK FORCE - ANNUAL CONFERENCE 1983
Barbara Gtgs, a self-scribed “full-time gay activist, ” got volved the Task Force soon after s formatn and began pilg the first Gay Biblgraphy, a list of gay-posive books and rmatn rourc.