Re: [UUPoly-L] Anti-gay discrimination on Amazon.com

[sablehairangel@comcast.net]

I am deeply appalled by this. Is there some way Interweave can coordinate a mass direction action, such as a webpage to set up a small email to amazon.com's CEO or something? Something similar was done with Veg.com when Boca was going to increase it's eggs in their products and we actually got them to decrease the eggs significantly (down to 3%) by 2010! I use Amazon.com A LOT for random things. 



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Desmond Ravenstone" <desmondravenstone@yahoo.com> 
To: uupoly-l@uupa.org 
Sent: Sunday, April 12, 2009 7:52:20 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern 
Subject: [UUPoly-L] Anti-gay discrimination on Amazon.com 


Have just been alerted via Interweave (the GLBT caucus for Unitarian Universalists) that Amazon.com has been stripping sales rankings off of many GLBT books, including books by or about famous GLBT folks like Stephen Fry and Ellen DeGeneres. 

Result: They become harder to find on searches on the site. 

The âreasonâ: Amazon.com considers such content as âadultâ and therefore no longer worthy of a sales ranking. 

Meanwhile, books not considered adult include: 
âThe Complete Idiotâs Guide to Amazing Sexâ 
âRon Jeremy: The Hardest Working Man in Showbizâ 
âTraci Lords: Underneath It Allâ âPlayboy: The Complete Centerfoldsâ 
âA Parentâs Guide to Preventing Homosexualityâ and a number of other âex-gayâ books 

There has been a great deal of outraged chatter, including many people pledging to boycott the site altogether. 

You can find out more at this blog: 
http://jezebel.com/5209088/why-is-amazon-censoring-gay-and-lesbian-books 

Desmond Ravenstone 

"Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same." -- George Bernard Shaw 

http://www.myspace.com/desmond_ravenstone 




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