If you haven’t heard by now:
Online bookseller Amazon.com ignited a storm of protest on the internet and prompted accusations of censorship of gay, lesbian, erotic and feminist material over a cataloguing change in which thousands of titles were mistakenly labelled as “adult” and removed from some searches.
-thanks to TheAge.com.au
So if you go to Amazon.com right this second and search for homosexuality, you will find, on the first page alone, titles such as:
- A Parent’s Guide to Preventing Homosexuality
- You Don’t Have To Be Gay
- Can Homosexuality Be Healed ?
Very, very interesting, considering the fact that there is an entire LGBTQ literary genre that is conveniently ’missing’ from the first page (both adult and young adult…there seems to be some children’s books still up).
Here’s an interesting opinion article from the LA Times: Is Amazon Pulling A Fahrenheit 451 ?
Also, in response to Amazon’s claim that it was a simple “glitch,” a series of tweet trends has emerged (re: tweets here and here).
Feel free to sign the petition against this “new” (glitch or no glitch) adult policy banning LGBTQ literature.
Tags: 2009, amazon, amazonFAIL, banned books, glitchmyass, heterosexism, homophobia, LGBTQ
