Amazonfail: Reality vs Christian Homophobia

Posted on April 14th, 2009 by Ungodly.
Categories: Dumbass Religions, Faith Based Bigotry, Faith-Based Self Loathing, Homophobia, Religious Wingnuts, Sanctity of Bigotry, Stoopit Religions.

Amazonfail: Reaction to Amazon deranking gay-themed booksRecently a number of very well known authors of books that mention the existence of gay people began to notice that their books were falling completely off the sales rank charts at Amazon. Thus these books were losing their Amazon Rank.

At the same time book searches for words like homosexuality began returning despicable books by notorious fools like Joseph Nicolosi, a fraudulent practitioner of Jeebus-brand anti-gay bigotry who pretends to "heal" men of being queer, nevermind that gay identity is not a problem that needs to be addressed in the first place.

Over the last few days Amazon has been incrementally releasing disclaimers that may begin to approach the reality of what is really happening. First they claimed it was just a technical glitch, next they seemed to border on admitting they were trying to protect people from information about Teh Gays, as if their campaign of closetization was being applied to all reading material, not just queer reading.

We find it difficult to believe that Amazon by corporate policy, or one or more employees of Amazon acting to keep the Baby Jesus from crying, are not engaging in a conscious and deliberate effort to mask and conceal queer literature from public view.

Here is how you can help.

  • Send feedback to Amazon
  • Apply tags to books listed at Amazon
  • Buy a book exposing the Ex-Gay myth
  • Buy gay-themed books for teens like the ones listed below, and donate them to your library

We think it would be better to bring Amazon back into contact with reality, rather than simply boycotting them. By getting them to reverse this foolhardy action we can make them a valuable resource for young gay people in the future. Books are good. Books can help people. Help Amazon to return to selling books that present a reality-based view of the gay identity.

As a side benefit, whenever you help to promote a reality-based view of gay people you are also helping to defeat the idiocy of religious delusions.

Tale of Two Summers Tale of Two Summers
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08:06 p.m.Saturday 07.29.06You are in L-O-V-E. Notice how I have no hesitation spelling it. At all. Reason? That was just the wildest entry you've posted! Ever....You are so seeing the world through the eyes of L-O-V-E...

A New Kind of Music A New Kind of Music
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Growing up can be tough! Especially with a punk-rock radio host for a mom. And without a dad around. Layla wants to fit in, but she's part Egytian. She looks like a father she hasn't met. She wonders how her life would be different if her mother hosted a show for NPR instead of their community radio station...

Down to the Bone Down to the Bone
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Here's what it means to be a tortillera. It means you're a girl who loves girls. Which means you get kicked out of Catholic school faster than Mother Superior Sicko can say "immoral." Which means your wacko Mami finds out...

Vintage: A Ghost Story Vintage: A Ghost Story
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A lonely boy walking along a highway one autumn evening meets the boy of his dreams, a boy who happens to have died decades ago and haunts the road. Awkward crushes, both bitter and sweet, lead him to face youthful dreams and childish fears...

Bad Damon Bad Damon
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‘Bad Damon' is a story about the infatuation of a small boy for a mysterious young man. It takes place in an African-American town during the summer of 1964. I wrote the piece as a meditation on the innocence of sexuality during a person's formative years...

Queers bash back!

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