Making Bigotry Not Pay
Sep. 7th, 2011 04:26 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ysabetwordsmithIt's time to play Poke a Bigot in the Eye again, in which we take someone's stupid idea and stab it with pencils and beat it with merry bundles of cash, and conversely make more of what someone is trying to quash.
First, check out this dissection of the homophobic aspects in Orson Scott Card's rewrite of Hamlet. It's a pretty ugly example of gay-bashing in fiction. Stuff like this can perpetuate misconceptions that make life harder and riskier for real live gay people.
Ways you can indicate your displeasure if homophobia offends you:
* If you have read the book, go to Amazon.com and leave a review on the book's page expressing your opinion. Ideally, give at least a couple of specific details from the book.
* Spend some money on literature that celebrates tolerance in general or a healthy gay lifestyle in particular. For a particularly pointed comment, spend the book's cover price (list price is $35 and Amazon's price is $24.26). This can also be a fun item to include in your review.
* Read some GLBT literature or browse some queer art. Do you have a favorite story or picture about happy gays? List your favorites in a comment. Have you created something that qualifies? Promote it here too!
* Watch for prompt calls in crowdfunding and request something such as, "I'd like to see a happy gay couple who are in no way associated with abuse."
* Make homosexuality, tolerance, or related issues a theme in an upcoming project of yours that involves other people. This works well both for crowdfunding and for free stuff.
* Write, draw, or create something else featuring happy, healthy homosexuals who are not affected by abuse; or otherwise inspired by this discussion of homosexuality in literature. If you're sharing it online, please include a link in a comment so other folks can come enjoy it. Here is my contribution, "A Future History of Hamlet."
* Play a similar round of Poke a Bigot in the Eye on your own blog or other venue. The more people who get involved, the merrier!
* Whatever you do, earmark your action with something like, "This celebration of tolerance is brought to you by Orson Scott Card's book Hamlet's Father, in support of making the world a safer and happier place for homosexuals everywhere."
First, check out this dissection of the homophobic aspects in Orson Scott Card's rewrite of Hamlet. It's a pretty ugly example of gay-bashing in fiction. Stuff like this can perpetuate misconceptions that make life harder and riskier for real live gay people.
Ways you can indicate your displeasure if homophobia offends you:
* If you have read the book, go to Amazon.com and leave a review on the book's page expressing your opinion. Ideally, give at least a couple of specific details from the book.
* Spend some money on literature that celebrates tolerance in general or a healthy gay lifestyle in particular. For a particularly pointed comment, spend the book's cover price (list price is $35 and Amazon's price is $24.26). This can also be a fun item to include in your review.
* Read some GLBT literature or browse some queer art. Do you have a favorite story or picture about happy gays? List your favorites in a comment. Have you created something that qualifies? Promote it here too!
* Watch for prompt calls in crowdfunding and request something such as, "I'd like to see a happy gay couple who are in no way associated with abuse."
* Make homosexuality, tolerance, or related issues a theme in an upcoming project of yours that involves other people. This works well both for crowdfunding and for free stuff.
* Write, draw, or create something else featuring happy, healthy homosexuals who are not affected by abuse; or otherwise inspired by this discussion of homosexuality in literature. If you're sharing it online, please include a link in a comment so other folks can come enjoy it. Here is my contribution, "A Future History of Hamlet."
* Play a similar round of Poke a Bigot in the Eye on your own blog or other venue. The more people who get involved, the merrier!
* Whatever you do, earmark your action with something like, "This celebration of tolerance is brought to you by Orson Scott Card's book Hamlet's Father, in support of making the world a safer and happier place for homosexuals everywhere."
