Shape the Future of Rainbow Rumpus
Rainbow Rumpus is making plans for the coming year, and we need your help to make them. Please tell us what you like, what you want to see, and what you think about some new ideas. Click here to take our survey!
 Happy Second Birthday, Rainbow Rumpus
by Laura Matanah
In the past two years, Rainbow Rumpus has become the most prolific publisher of LGBT-family fiction worldwide. In two months we’ll begin a pilot project with school and public libraries. This project will bring our site and stories to more children, letting them know that there are many families with gay, lesbian, bisexual, or transgender parents.
Kids and young adults from these different family types will be speaking about their families on the site, building a community with each other, and getting the opportunity to tell folks who don’t know much about LGBT families what they’d like them to know. Brief, fun interviews are in this month’s Kids section. Interviews and youth voices will play a larger and larger role on the site in the coming year.
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Pride in the U.S.A.
by David Seitz
As more and more children, youth, and young adults grow up with LGBT parents, how do LGBT Pride celebrations relate to them and create programming for this growing part of the queer community? I spoke with parents who helped put together spaces and programs for families, children, youth, and young adults at Prides across the country, and learned that as more LGBT folks become parents, Pride festivals are working to offer something for everyone.
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LGBT Pride in Three Countries
by Alison Walkley
Taking a look at LGBT Pride events in different countries can give us a sense of global community as we learn how people around the world celebrate Pride. Read on to experience Pride in Ireland, Canada, and Iceland.
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Featured Resource: Gay.com’s Global Pride Page
Don’t know where to look for information about LGBT Pride? Check this out.
Label Libel
by Carolyn Bennett, Canadian Minister of State
Marshall McLuhan was an important Canadian scholar. He invented the idea of the “global village” and observed that the “medium was the message.” He was very critical of “label libel.” Prejudice gets in the way of people seeing actions and words clearly. Once one is labeled, assumptions get made. It does seem unfair that once one is stuck with a label such as “bully” or “brain,” all of one’s actions and words get judged differently. Even other labels such as race, religion, and sexual orientation can affect the way people deal with one another. Barack Obama is a black candidate. Hillary Clinton is a female candidate. For some, everything he says and does is attributed to his race; everything she says and does is because she is a woman. They have many other characteristics, but they are assumed to have all of the characteristics of their “label.” Label libel.
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