Mad Bitches Against Gay People

Last year for one of my kid lit classes I created a book list for young children with gay parents. My favorite book on that list was And Tango Makes Three, the true story of two male penguins in the Central Park Zoo raising a baby penguin together. The book is about be be released in the UK, so the Guardian ran a story on it. Here's the best part:

The children's author Melvin Burgess agrees that the media debate is being shaped by a "vocal minority who don't have a lot of actual clout. The media have a difficulty in reporting this stuff," he says. "They want a ding-dong, so they invite someone from Mad Bitches Against Gay People [onto their programme]."

I think I would love to live in a world where you have to go out and invite controversey when its convenient (or when it boosts sales). It could be a service, like scandal-for-hire. Apparently:

Here in the UK, no-one at the Museums, Libraries and Archives Council (MLA), the Youth Libraries Group or the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals is gathering data on the numbers of books removed from libraries due to complaints as the ALA does in the US. "We don't collect figures about [books that are challenged] because it's rare," says Ian Dodds. "It's not really an issue.

Wow. We can't even say "scrotum" in the US without pissing people off.