update on dcps/dcpl booklists

here they are... and i definitely spy some glbt books in there!
transport yourself back to high school and
read all those books you could never find the time for.

http://www.k12.dc.us/Teachingandlearning/summer-reading-list-2009/index.htm

hearing of the week

The Matthew Shepard Hate Crimes Prevention Act of 2009

Thursday, June 25, 2009
Dirksen Senate Office Building Room 226
10:00 a.m.

http://judiciary.senate.gov/hearings/hearing.cfm?id=3943

dcps bans glbt titles from summer reading lists?

read about it on the school library journal blog.

update here!

glbt pride book displays

image source: www.flickr.com/photos/pakgwei/

cruise by the 2nd floor east lobby and peruse the sociology and religion book displays in commemoration of glbt history and the 40th anniversary of the stonewall riots. pick up a few books and a copy of President Obama's National GLBT month proclamation too!

some highlights:
locas: the maggie and hopey stories - jamie hernandez
741.5973 H557

queer 13: lesbian and gay writers recall 7th grade - ed. clifford chase
372.1826 Q3

que(e)rying religion: a critical anthology - ed. gary david comstock
200.8664 Q35

reading the l word - outing contemporary television - ed. kim akass
791.4565 R287

stonewall: the riots that started the gay revolution - david carter
306.766 C3233

transgender history - susan stryker
306.768 S928

check out http://www.capitalpride.org/ for upcoming festivities!