In cased you missed it (the Internet seems in an uproar around this), but Amazon.com has removed the sales rankings from many gay and lesbian texts, claiming, as I understand it, that they are adult content. Jezebel has a discussion about this, as well as a list of some of the books that have lost their sales ranking listing.
What irks me the most about this (at this very moment, and I will continually find more things to be irked about) is that some books directly related to sex have not been stripped of their sales ranks, and that now searches for “homosexuality” in Amazon lead to mostly religious anti-homosexuality books on the front search page. Thanks, Amazon. I’m glad that when people want to find books on homosexuality, your company has determined to let them know first and foremost that it can be cured before they consider other viewpoints.
UPDATE: Amazon claimed on Sunday night that it was a glitch. I’m very hesitant to buy their claim.
