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BlinkyMcChuck
04/12/09

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They've also rank-banned Bastard Out of Carolina, Giovanni's Room, Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit, Well of Loneliness---lots of lit titles.
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LeighAnne
04/12/09

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Philippa Gregory, one of the more popular historical fiction writers (she wrote The Other Boleyn Girl), wrote Earthly Joys, which has a gay male sex scene and is still ranked by Amazon.
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mommy_dearest
04/12/09

@LeighAnne: You better email them to let them know so they can fix that.
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iplaudius
04/12/09

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I’m boycotting Amazon until this nonsense stops.
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Hydroceph
04/12/09

@iplaudius: I fired off a letter to Amazon. I'll see what they have to say, but my Prime membership's riding on the outcome.
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forwardmotion
04/12/09

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Who specifically in the organization created this policy? Names and e-mails, please.
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Hydroceph
04/12/09

@forwardmotion: There's a piece over on Open Salon by "Cristione de Pisan" about it. There's some links, as well as an email and phone number for Amazon's customer service.

[open.salon.com]
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rdecredico
04/12/09

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As a child I read a gay romance and was confused by how people could come so many times without leaving in between in order to be able to return so quickly.

I still haven't figured it out.
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Oy Veh (Informality Reigns)
04/12/09

@rdecredico: It's sort of like coming to a conclusion--one doesn't have to ever leave to be able to arrive again and again at the same conclusion. Does that help?
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Kid Twist
04/12/09

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I've a read a gay romance novel or two. I'd hardly call them "adult."
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Hydroceph
04/12/09

@Kid Twist: Hehehe. The writing can be execrable, that's for sure. One i recently read referred to a man's ass as "taut globes." It's impossible to say that with a straight (ahem) face.
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Baroness
04/12/09

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Baroness
04/12/09

(Want to throttle the clever genius who got rid of the Preview button, it burns my semiroyal ass.)
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phlox✔
04/12/09

Let's face it Baroness, that blue dress is all kinds of awesome.
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A throttling is too kind, I was thinking more along the lines of this:

I don't know what it is or what it does, but I do know justice when I see it.
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Baroness
04/12/09

@phlox✔: I'd totally wear that in 1991, to go with the Versace "Bondage Barbi" collection. (Yes, I'm mature, dears.) I'm waiting for the shoe design that completely ignores human anatomy or the need to walk at all, like a ballerina permanently en pointe. I'm sure it's been done.

And to all my lovely Boys and Broken Queens, do check out a gallery of gay pulp novels from the 60's, it is a marvel and a caution:

[www.gayontherange.com]
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phlox✔
04/12/09

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Side-by-side, the covers of Transgressions and False Colors are almost identical.
Both have the dark, brooding hottie in the foreground and the bossy, blond, bitchy bottom behind with a sour look on their face.
The only real difference is their attire.
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phlox✔
04/12/09

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Ah, memories of my 70's teenage self furtively reading...

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MincnglyWhrdL'mer
04/12/09

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excuseme, TRANS-gressions? is this about the gays, or 'the girls with something extra'? are we sure this isn't a book on kiki, the much rumored but rarely confirmed drag on drag sex?
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