homophobia & Amazon.com

[rm]

http://vashtan.livejournal.com/490173.html
http://community.livejournal.com/meta_writer/11369.html

Amazon removes rankings from books with homosexual characters, including from at least one YA book, because they don't wish to include "adult" content in their rankings out of respect to the range of their membership.

Queer content does not inherently equal sexual or "adult" content.

We've got a big problem on our hands with this one.

If you find a targetted media product, add to list here: http://community.livejournal.com/meta_writer/11992.html

Comments

[dragonlady7.livejournal.com]

I heard about this from alex_beecroft, whose novel False Colours, an m/m historical romance, had just broken through and was ranking in top 10 historical novels-- i.e. non-romance, non-gay-- and then it suddenly disappeared entirely from the rankings.
The novel is NOT erotica, contains only one non-explicit sex scene, but the central premise features two male characters falling in love.

[vashtan.livejournal.com]

Thanks, I added that