by the way....

[novapsyche]

Alabama Bill Targets Gay Authors

Republican Alabama lawmaker Gerald Allen says homosexuality is an unacceptable lifestyle. As CBS News Correspondent Mark Strassmann reports, under his bill, public school libraries could no longer buy new copies of plays or books by gay authors, or about gay characters.

"I don't look at it as censorship," says State Representative Gerald Allen. "I look at it as protecting the hearts and souls and minds of our children."

Books by any gay author would have to go: Tennessee Williams, Truman Capote and Gore Vidal. Alice Walker's novel "The Color Purple" has lesbian characters.

Allen originally wanted to ban even some Shakespeare. After criticism, he narrowed his bill to exempt the classics, although he still can't define what a classic is.

Comments

[tay-en-pointe.livejournal.com]

hrmm.
this comes as no suprise. the hypocricy of the statement
"I don't look at it as censorship," says State Representative Gerald Allen. "I look at it as protecting the hearts and souls and minds of our children."
is where censorship finds its most dank and fertile soil.
no wonder they want to ban shakespeare. originally, with no women actors, males had to cross-dress and even (gasp) fall in love with male characters.
lets see. Oscar Wilde, many poets... oh... Plato. he was gay, right? and what about more modern theatre.
i can't wait to see the Alabama Dance Theater's version of "A Chorus Line". Will be hard to find though. Look instead for "A Square Dance with Lots of Women."
oy.

[sttatus-quo.livejournal.com]

Alabama uniformly manages to have someone making news that always embarasses me because I grew up there.

::: sigh :::

[stampytherhino.livejournal.com]

AHHHHHH

I have nothing clever to say to this, but I will gladly and cleverly hork all over Alabama lawmaker Gerald Allen.

S'ok. He'll never read this. This blog involves gay characters.

[nagisa-kaworu.livejournal.com]

I still live in Alabama. I am also a "Sodomite", who thinks of myself as a writer.

[tropicalfruit.livejournal.com]

I'll be so relieved when all these troglodytes die out.
They will die out, won't they??

[dionysus1999.livejournal.com]

Nope, they breed like rats and keep their children isolated in pockets in Utah and the deep South. Robert Allen is obviously a synonym for bigoted ass. Hope his constiuents are proud of this dumb fuck.