To think the library shouldn't stick rainbow stickers on any book by a GLBT author

[GothAnneGeddes]

I know it is probably well intentioned, but it just seems a really clunky way of doing it.

Do we need a rainbow sticker on Stephen Fry's autobiography? And if you didn't know an author was gay, would it matter if you found out they were?

Sorry what is a rainbow sticker? I assumed it ws child related, but can't see them being interested in SF's autobiography :o

Brilliant. Stories for the gays, by the gays. Why not a pretty pink flower for stories by the laydees? I get really confused by that A.N Wilson - she's a bird!

YANBU.

What Shriek said, plus what is GLBT too, please.

Gay, lesbian, bi-sexual and transgendered.

What does a rainbow sticker mean and what is GLBT

YANBU. What fun they must have debating which books are worthy of a rainbow.

Agree, OP. A book's a book and the author's sexual orientation is nobody's business and completely irrelevant.

Wow...YANBU

WilsonFrickett - do you mean AS Byatt? A N Wilson is def a fellow. AS Byatt is much the better of the two!

How bizarre. YANBU. Who gives a stuff whether the author is GLBT, as long as they can write?

That can not be real .

In the UK the acronym is usually LGBT

well the OP is a regular - I don't geddit!

But what's that got to do with the book? It's about as relevant to a book as a banana.

rainbow sticker??? Really??!!

The rainbow is a popular gif for LGBT groups/ people but as the OP said why plaster it over books, as if only LGBT folk mighy want to buy it.

Being one of only 4 gays in the village I had to laugh when the Methodists flew a lovely rainbow flag over their cake stall at our village show this year!!

yanbu. ridiculous.

sorry but a very unmumsnetty lol at "being one of only 4 gays in the village"

And bossybritches - I hope you bought some nice cupcakes from the nice methodists

A rainbow has traditionally been a Christian symbol for years and years, which is why the Methodists will have been using it. I don't think it's fair to laugh at them because of it.

Yup, as a former methodist got to defend them there - rainbow has been a symbol for yonks, nothing to do with LGBT at all.

So the implication is that these are the "gay" books? By gay people, for gay people? Sounds like omeone needs to spell that out to them, I would imagine there will be the sound of cogs turning, followed by a lightbulb flaring up :)

Are you sure its for the Author being Gay and not just that the books themselves contain details of LGBT acts ?
(though I don't remember anything particularly sexy in S.Fry autobiography)
If so then I'd think it was a good idea.