As most m/m readers have been aware, there was a recent kerfuffle over AJ Llewellyn. I have copped some flak for being part of it, and some of the outcomes of it.

I don't wish to go on about it ad nauseum, but there is one thing I'd really like to say.

To the trans* community, I'm sorry for any offense caused. It was not my intent. My issue with Llewellyn and his recent revelations were not to do with what is in his pants - it was about the lengths he went to in misrepresentation and appropriation, including the articles he wrote and the hiring of an actor to pose as him, not to mention the fabrication of a 'real life romance' with another author. It was never about pen names. A great deal of us in this community use them - I use one! The Llewellyn issue was one that became murkier and pulled a lot of people in for reasons that they never should have been, and became about something it never was.

Aleksandr Voinov wrote an excellent post here which talks about the fallout from this whole mess, and I really advise you to read it especially as it gives a perspective of those who have been talked over in the past couple of weeks.

In the end, I would like to add my voice to his "Embrace the Rainbow" campaign. If you would like to show your site as being one that embraces all facets of the LGBTQ rainbow, add this picture to your site:




I will be adding it to my proper site once I reacquaint myself with the coding (what can I say, I'm hopeless, as my bare-bones and rarefly-updated pages will attest).

Exit, stage left.