From: Victoria Brownworth ~ Real Authentic Gay Male Porn Writer Extraordinaire
First of all, Lambda Literary is an LGBT literary magazine. We’ve been around now for several decades. We aren’t just some fly-by-night fan fic site or someone’s livejournal blog.
I love this shit. If you cannot back your craptastic article up with supporting documentation and like real facts start publicly attacking and name calling a well known online promoter who supports Gay Male Authors.
Oh, and make sure we all know you speak for Lambda Literary and the Gay Male Literary Community as a whole so we know how much reverence to give your nut job analysis.
I can tell Lambda Literary is going to have a fun time fixing this mess. Dig that hole deeper!
Martha W wrote,
Your post made me laugh… when I desperately needed it.
I did some checking… according to their website, they’ve been around since 1987. What am I missing that they’ve been around for several decades?
Link | August 22nd, 2010 at 8:02 pm
TeddyPig wrote,
Maybe she researched that like she did her post.
Link | August 23rd, 2010 at 4:35 am
Elisa wrote,
Apparently I’m living in a bubble:
“A livejournal blog is NOT a respected literary magazine. sorry to burst your bubble on that one–not mine, not yours, not anyone’s. that’s personal musings. period.”
and I have limited horizons:
“If you are counting 1,553 m/m novels that you have read (which would mean you are reading several a day since this hasn’t even been a genre for very long), i suggest you branch out into real fiction. it might broaden your perspective on actual gay people.”
After my personal rant, I’m still laughing on that.
Link | August 23rd, 2010 at 10:00 am
Elisa wrote,
Oh I forgot, do you like that part: “this (Gay Romance) hasn’t even been a genre for very long”?
Poor Gordon Merrick maybe didn’t know it…
Link | August 23rd, 2010 at 10:02 am
Michael Barnette wrote,
You know it’s weird… as I recall I had the first m/m (yaoi) book published by an ebook publisher way back in 2004 and I don’t see anyone attacking me. I told my publisher at the time that m/m was going to be the next big trend–I wrote fanfic too back then–so I saw the potential and my editor at the time convinced the publisher.
If they want to blame anyone for the popularity of m/m they should be blaming me.
Link | August 24th, 2010 at 9:01 am
TeddyPig wrote,
No it’s all my fault for “embracing our oppressors”.
Link | August 24th, 2010 at 9:18 am
veinglory wrote,
They will be coming for you soon pig, clearly you need to go to the LL edumacation camps to learn how to be appropriately gay(TM) and not hang out with the like of us.
Link | August 24th, 2010 at 11:47 am
veinglory wrote,
p.s. “appropriately gay(TM)” not to be confused with “appropriation gay(EBIL)”.
Link | August 24th, 2010 at 11:48 am
TeddyPig wrote,
When she started that routine I immediately started thinking Monty Python sketch.
Come and see the violence inherent in the system. Help! Help! I’m being repressed!
Link | August 24th, 2010 at 11:54 am
Emilie wrote,
You are busy, TeddyPig, what with embracing the oppressors and being inappropriately gay. Before they closed down the comments section of that article, they asked Steve Berman to give his take, and I thought it was pretty good. I didn’t agree with it all, but I felt it was fairly balanced, and that he made some good points.
Link | August 24th, 2010 at 12:34 pm
TeddyPig wrote,
Harvey Milk did not do what he did to play it safe or because he felt hiding out in a Gay Ghetto was going to get us anywhere.
I refuse to believe that calls for segregation and nut jobs running around name calling is the answer to any issues we might have as a community. Although when they fall on their face it can be entertaining.
Link | August 24th, 2010 at 12:48 pm
veinglory wrote,
I got a fly-by rant, yours can’t be far behind. https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=32034557&postID=6754365591168491218
Link | August 24th, 2010 at 1:41 pm
Lee Rowan wrote,
I haven’t waded through all the verbiage–I started laughing too hard at my “rage” at the GLBT community. Projecting much? Did she ever bother to post any data to back up those ridiculous generalizations?
Link | August 25th, 2010 at 4:42 am
Martha W wrote,
Not a lick of information to substantiate her claims… but we did get a really nifty bingo card…
Link | August 25th, 2010 at 4:44 am
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