GRL 2024 - Midwestern Snub
Maya Angelou said that, “When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.”
Gay Rom Lit (GRL) has an opportunity to actually do something constructive and lose its own exclusive shit show reputation by going to Kansas.
The operators could have booked the meeting in Lawrence, Kansas - twenty five miles west with plenty of conference room in a college town and sanctuary city. Or even stayed in Olathe and promoted it in Lawrence.
They could have also avoided an Election Day.
But whatever…
GRL has been notoriously known for its dislike of other than masc presenting cis men so this sudden fear of trans people not being safe is somewhat ironic.
It’s also been known to favor more popular authors.
It posts its sign up at X hour at X day and then people have to scramble to pay for it shutting down open enrollment because “we don’t want to wade through authors we don’t know.” Now they simply move them into different rooms.
But all of this has been swept under the rug and justified 1,000 times before.
I just don’t get why Kansas is this big red line in the sand other than folks who write about that life don’t actually have to be in the situation where they’re forced to live that life. Much less support authors/ readers from that region whose daily lives are impacted by these morons in these state houses.
Especially since the 2024 Rainbow Readers Cruise is set to depart Florida - another bastion of tolerance and inclusivity at the moment - which just sounds dodgy af.
This isn’t a safety issue. This is an exclusivity issue. Again.
Have the rom lit, stage a protest, call the media, have the biggest event you’ve ever had, hire private security, and support those poor folks in this communities who’ve been forced to deal with those bills and those book bans.
You would do that if you were serious about defending people’s rights and being a community and supporting people.
But you’re not. You never have been. It’s a money making opportunity for the selectively outraged and the casually concerned.
It’s all bullshit.
Gay Rom Lit (GRL) has an opportunity to actually do something constructive and lose its own exclusive shit show reputation by going to Kansas.
The operators could have booked the meeting in Lawrence, Kansas - twenty five miles west with plenty of conference room in a college town and sanctuary city. Or even stayed in Olathe and promoted it in Lawrence.
They could have also avoided an Election Day.
But whatever…
GRL has been notoriously known for its dislike of other than masc presenting cis men so this sudden fear of trans people not being safe is somewhat ironic.
It’s also been known to favor more popular authors.
It posts its sign up at X hour at X day and then people have to scramble to pay for it shutting down open enrollment because “we don’t want to wade through authors we don’t know.” Now they simply move them into different rooms.
But all of this has been swept under the rug and justified 1,000 times before.
I just don’t get why Kansas is this big red line in the sand other than folks who write about that life don’t actually have to be in the situation where they’re forced to live that life. Much less support authors/ readers from that region whose daily lives are impacted by these morons in these state houses.
Especially since the 2024 Rainbow Readers Cruise is set to depart Florida - another bastion of tolerance and inclusivity at the moment - which just sounds dodgy af.
This isn’t a safety issue. This is an exclusivity issue. Again.
Have the rom lit, stage a protest, call the media, have the biggest event you’ve ever had, hire private security, and support those poor folks in this communities who’ve been forced to deal with those bills and those book bans.
You would do that if you were serious about defending people’s rights and being a community and supporting people.
But you’re not. You never have been. It’s a money making opportunity for the selectively outraged and the casually concerned.
It’s all bullshit.
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