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By: tara robertson » Blog Archive » lesbrarians vol. 2

tara robertson » Blog Archive » lesbrarians vol. 2 — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 20:41:12 +0000

[...] Read more about last year’s lesbrarian shenanigans [...]

By: Sugarlove Girl

Sugarlove Girl — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 21:27:53 +0000

I think you need a big lesbrarian desk on wheels, with one of the lesbrarians walking behind the desk on stilts, and some other lesbrians scooting around the head lesbrarian with book trucks. Yeah. Kind of like “The Rockettes” at Radio City Music Hall, only WAAAAY better…..!!

I love the “shhhhh” photo.

Ms. Tara – you are quite fierce. Very nice. I think Tyra would be proud!!!!

xoxo Sugarlove Girl

By: Diedre Conkling

Diedre Conkling — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 03:15:17 +0000

Yes, there has been a librarian contengency in gay pride parades in cities where the parade and the ALA Conference have taken place at the same time. I can’t recall all of the times this has occurred but I know that it has occured several times in San Francisco and I believe that the two events have occurred in a couple of other cities as well but I don’t remember which ones. I wish I could give you some documentation, like a good librarian would but I am not taking the time to do that right now. I have been attending ALA Conferences since 1978 (way to long) and I do remember this happening a few times.

By: Sarah

Sarah — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 02:26:08 +0000

Hey Tara
This is a great post. I love the lesbrarian gang, and I think there is tons of potential for more theatrics next year. I personally am imagining a billboard that indexes the entire lesbian community. But perhaps my dreams are too big…

By: Genny

Genny — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 01:05:40 +0000

I was in that parade in SF — apparently it was back in 1997. My memory is not by any stretch of the imagination infallible, but the political message as far as I recall was something along the lines of “Look at this cool bookmobile!”

By: tara

tara — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 23:48:19 +0000

David, this rings a bell with me too. I think it was when ALA was in San Francisco in 2001. I think the librarians might have been marching with a political statement, but I wasn’t there and my Google Fu is failing me right now.

By: David

David — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 23:39:29 +0000

I seem to recall some time in the past few years when ALA was in town at the same time as the local Pride parade, that there was a librarian contingent in the main pride parade. (This is something I saw on the web, not something I attended.)

By: tara

tara — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 23:25:40 +0000

True, men can be allies. But in practice the last few years I’ve been, I have not seen men marching.

Maybe we need to do something for the Gay Pride parade too…

By: mth

mth — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 23:20:57 +0000

You felt it was “inappropriate” for straight and gay men to come, even though the dyke march’s mission statement says:

“The Festival is a free, fun, safe, celebratory, all-ages gathering of diverse queer women, performers, and allies, from within and beyond Vancouver.”

I think these men might be considered “allies” and were therefore welcome at the event. though they may not have technically been “lesbrarians.”