The Best Queer Films You Didn’t Know Were Queer, From ‘Fight Club’ To ‘Who Framed Roger Rabbit?’ Since these lists are generated using sales ranks, adult materials must also be excluded from that feature. In consideration of our entire customer base, we exclude “adult” material from appearing in some searches and best seller lists. The response he got from Amazon’s customer service explained: Probst noticed that his book had lost its ranking, and made inquiries.

On Saturday, self-published author Mark R. But as Gawker notes in the story: “What to make of people who don’t want to believe this was a prank? They’re left with the notion of pursuing homophobic censorship, which must be pleasing to people who see evil behind every “Inc.” Pick your conspiracy theory: Someone’s playing someone.”Īs many of you know, the Los Angeles Times reported yesterday that Amazon’s new policy of removing “adult” content from its rankings seems to have made some unfortunate choices: What I really wanted wasn't a novel at all, it was a 'how to be a girl who likes girls even if you're from a small town in the middle of nowhere' manual, and that's just not what the book is.UPDATE: Apparently, a hacker is taking responsibility for the de-gaying of and – if this is true – subsequently also is responsible for making this blog entry kinda pointless. The thing is: I wanted too much from Rubyfruit Jungle and its narrator, Molly Bolt. So I stole it, and I read it in secret gulps, sneaking pages when I could. I couldn't possibly ask my grandmother to buy it for me, because then she'd know this thing about me that I wasn't even sure I knew about myself. I scanned the rest of the blurb, and then I saw it: 'women who love women.' Now I had to have it. ' I flinched - such a private word to place in such prominence on a book cover. There, on the back, was a reviewer praising this 'account of what it's like growing up lesbian. And then I turned over a small paperback. I was, without much enthusiasm, rummaging through a pile of books. I was at a garage sale with my grandmother when I found a paperback copy of Rita Mae Brown's Rubyfruit Jungle. How?Įmily Danforth is the author of The Miseducation of Cameron Post.

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