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−Given that so much of material in Wikipedia is actually sourced from it, it is remarkable that it has no entry for '''The Encyclopedia of Homosexuality'''.+
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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.
+http://www.williamapercy.com/wiki/index.php?title=Portal:EOH
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