: Monday, September 28, 2009
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erastes: Lambda's Explanation of the New Guidelines and my comments - Instead of whining about how the world is shrinking for gay books, what we should be doing is submitting our books - en masse - to the mainstream, to Mills and Boon, to every book publisher out there. Instead of hiding behind a lavender veil and agreeing with the hype that "there's no market for it" "no-one wants to buy it" "No-one will publish it" we should be pushing - no, stabbing furiously at the heart of mainstream and forcing them to pay attention. -- kanata: Oh, ew. - The landscape of queer fiction has changed dramatically with the rise of original slash, much of which (like slash) is written by straight women. A minority space is being taken over by a majority. It is not discriminatory to take steps to change that. -
- rm: on the Lambda Literary Awards and the art of disappearing - The idea of awards honoring queer authors is good. So is the idea of honoring queer stories. -