Delicious LiveJournal Links for 9-14-2011

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• Presbyterian minister and Sinn Féin make history - but newspapers ignore it | Media | guardian.co.uk
  'Whatever opinion people hold of Latimer's 20-minute speech at a Sinn Féin conference, it has to be seen as a landmark moment in the bridge-building exercise between Catholics and Protestants.'
  (tags: interesting important news journalism bias culture)
• Authors Say Agents Try to “Straighten” Gay Characters in YA « Genreville
  'We are published authors who co-wrote a post-apocalyptic young adult novel. When we set out to find an agent for it, we expected to get some rejections. But we never expected to be offered representation… on the condition that we make a gay character straight, or cut him out altogether.'
  (tags: literature fiction scifi discrimination lgbt culture)
• Tourist complains about sight of fish in harbour - Telegraph
  'The 46-year-old was outraged that his children, aged seven and nine, had been forced to endure the sight of 12 crates of dead fish and crabs, piled up on the quayside. He said the ordeal had left them “quite distressed” and demanded to know why the harbourmaster was not more considerate to tourists.'
  (tags: amusing wtf peoplesuck)