1.) Don’t comply in advance
2.) Support* indie and queer publishing, bookstores, authors, editors, and scholarship
3.) Make your work gayer
*With actual money and publicity**
** If you are doing the second on this list already but it’s just white people, you’re doing it wrong.
Paula D. Ashe
What happens when publishers begin avoiding LGBTQ+ stories before a book is ever challenged? This article explores how years of censorship efforts are creating a chilling effect across the publishing industry, making it harder for queer voices & stories to reach readers
bookriot.com/queer-books-...
Authors, agents, publishers: every part of the industry is seeing the strain of five years of escalating anti-LGBTQ censorship.
