Linkdump #4 – news and newly published October 28, 2009
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- One last money push for Maine is fundraising for the “No on 1″ message to defend Maine’s same-sex marriage law. The Bangor Daily News reports in Money fueling battle over gay marriage that “No on 1 tops $4M, Yes at $2.6M” – and that “No” has has 22,000 donors, as opposed to about 700 for “Yes”.
- Scholastic Censors Myracle’s ‘Luv Ya Bunches’ from Book Fairs due to language and homosexual content (it remains available in their book clubs). If you live in the US or are willing to fake a zip code, you can sign a petition to ask Scholastic to stop censoring gay-friendly books.
Newly published
- Lacuna: A Journal of Historical Fiction premiers with a table of contents that includes two stories with queer elements.
- Things We Are Not, an anthology of queer science fiction, has been published by M-Brane SF.
- And as reported here earlier, Hayden Thorne’s The Twilight Gods (on the publisher’s site and on Amazon) “is a retelling of Native American folktale called ‘The Girl Who Married a Ghost,’ set in Victorian England, it’s an alternative perspective on a gay teen’s coming-out process”.
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Good news on the Scholastic front – they’ve changed their minds although reading the comments at their blog it seems things are not so straightforward (eg whether it will be available for grade school as well as middle school).
Woot! Great news, thanks for passing it on!