From: owner-ammf-digest@smoe.org (alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest) To: ammf-digest@smoe.org Subject: alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest V14 #11198 Reply-To: ammf@fruvous.com Sender: owner-ammf-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-ammf-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest Wednesday, April 26 2023 Volume 14 : Number 11198 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Milwaukee Power Drill - Your order has shipped! ["Consumer Rewards" Subject: Milwaukee Power Drill - Your order has shipped! Milwaukee Power Drill - Your order has shipped! http://littlecaesaresurevy.shop/r6BlYSZP7ngCFg9YIrwWzN1QzH2mUoJjn0J27cGoqfRCdWfmYw http://littlecaesaresurevy.shop/C-GtMyY8whnQ72tgdXxStlXs8EU-WRLx2uPCd5p1Hj5WVJ-z5A Before the late 1970s, several picture books with gender-nonconforming characters existed, but there were otherwise no LGBT characters within the medium of children's picture books. Scholars of children's literature generally consider When Megan Went Away to be the first published picture book to include any LGBT characters, as well as the first specifically to feature lesbian characters and the first to depict separation in a same-gender relationship. Though the text of the story never uses the word "lesbian" to explicitly identify the characters, the word is used paratextually in Severance and Schook's dedication at the beginning of the book: "This story is for all children of lesbian mothers, for the special hardships they may face, and for the understanding we hope they will reach." As of 2022, When Megan Went Away remained just one of two documented children's picture books featuring LGBT characters to depict divorce or separation. When Megan Went Away is sometimes forgotten as the first picture book to feature lesbian characters, a distinction instead given to LeslC)a Newman's Heather Has Two Mommies (1989). For a time, the website of Alyson Books, publisher of Heather Has Two Mommies, listed Heather as the first lesbian picture book. Though Newman originally said Heather was the first lesbian picture book, she later acknowledged that When Megan Went Away preceded her work. Newman describes her book as "the first picture book that portrays a happy family that consists of two lesbian moms and their child". Severance has expressed the desire that Newman identify Heather as "the first successful book about lesbian mothers", citing the work's success and notoriety. Both Severance and Newman, who are personally acquainted, agreed that intangible factors like timing and luck likely contributed to the relative popularity of Heather. Severance also described Newman as "a hustler" who "knew how to run with" her book's popularity. Newman stated that she believed Lollipop Power did a poor job of marketing When Megan Went Away upon its publication. Despite its early treatment of lesbian characters, When Megan Went Away is not known by scholars of children's literature to have attracted any challenges or ban attempts like Heather and other later picture books featuring LGBT characters faced. In contrasting the ways in which Heather and When Megan Went Away were received, Davis wrote that both books were perhaps "too early for their tim ------------------------------ End of alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest V14 #11198 ***********************************************