Hopefully publishers, libraries, and bookstores will come together to resist the chilling effect of wondering whether certain books are going to be challenged under the law.
Odds are the worst problems will be experienced by queer writers, queer presses and queer bookstores, just as the bizarre laws we have on pornograpgy in general allow customs officials to seize Mexican cookbooks going to queer bookstores but not bother with most shipments going to mainstream bookstores no matter what's in them.
And of course, there will be people scrutinising anything in school curricula or libraries just in case there's any sex in them.
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Date: 2005-07-21 11:15 pm (UTC)Odds are the worst problems will be experienced by queer writers, queer presses and queer bookstores, just as the bizarre laws we have on pornograpgy in general allow customs officials to seize Mexican cookbooks going to queer bookstores but not bother with most shipments going to mainstream bookstores no matter what's in them.
And of course, there will be people scrutinising anything in school curricula or libraries just in case there's any sex in them.