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There is no entry in Wikipedia for '''The Encyclopedia of Homosexuality''', which is remarkable given that so much of material in Wikipedia is actually sourced from it.
In May of 1995 Garland Publishing, Inc. abruptly withdrew the Encyclopedia of Homosexuality from sale. Uniformly well reviewed, the set had garnered a number of prestigious awards. Since the 1990 publication, sales had been steady. Today objective observers acknowledge that the Encyclopedia of Homosexuality has not been surpassed in its field.
[http://www.williamapercy.com/wiki/index.php?title=EOH:WHYOutOfPrint According to Dynes], Garland 'caved in to a pressure group of leftist and feminist activists who viewed the Encyclopedia as lacking in political correctness'.
The reason given by the publisher was that a number of articles in the Encyclopedia were signed with the name of Evelyn Gettone. Gettone was one of a number of pseudonyms employed in the work. In fact, of the original four editors, two names were pseudonymous-Warren Johansson and Stephen Donaldson
Dynes claimed that 'In the entire fracas no one ever discovered serious errors in the Encyclopedia of Homosexuality. The attacks were a pretext for suppression of views regarded as politically undesirable. As such they were a shameful effort to impose censorship'.
Dynes does not say why it was thought the work was 'politically incorrect', nor what exactly was being censored.
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