Amazon Rank

So it turns out Amazon.com are removing the sales rankings from gay and lesbian books on the basis that they're 'adult' and will upset a section of their customer base. Yet books of Playboy centrefolds or trashy Jackie Collins books full of crappy smut aren't deemed adult and have their rankings left intact. It's basically the equivalent of hiding the LGBT books on the top shelf.

The really idiotic thing is, most of these books are just textbooks on queer theory, or books on the history of homophobia (oh the irony), or books designed to help confused teenagers come to terms with who they really are. :( They've even taken the ranking off Stephen Fry's and John Barrowman's autobiographies.

Search for 'homosexuality' on Amazon.com and you get an array of books about 'curing' it with jesus and the like. That says it all, really. So much fail. :(

Here's a link if anyone wants to read more about it:

@ jezebel.com

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In happier news, I've been to see my granddad today and he's doing a lot better. He's put on a lot of the weight he lost and is so much more like himself. :)