Love in Dark Settings

Reply to this comment by lemursexbot (i.e. my apprentice):

Well, I was being facetious about accosting innocent bystanders to make them read my manuscripts. But I do plan to accost a few of the not-so-innocent bystanders - i.e., authors who have written about islanders and watermen. And yes, I'll only beg them to read the scenes set outdoors, not the bedroom indoors scenes.

Reply to this comment by dharma_slut:

"The thing about the 'we're endangered you aren't' argument is that queers are endangered before they ever set pen to paper."

But as I recall (I'm writing this offline, so I can't doublecheck), that wasn't the argument made by the LLF. My recollection is that their argument was that GLBT writers are threatened on the literary level. Specifically, they cited the Amazon episode. As several folks have pointed out, Amazon didn't go around checking the bios of the authors of GLBT books before they removed those books from their search engine. So in that particular episode, GLBT authors were no more threatened than straight authors were.

Reply to this comment by yonmei:

"I think this is a much better defense of your position than your initial angry posts were: I appreciate it."

Well, I appreciate your being patient while I fumbled my way to coherency. :)