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Hello, Tumblr! If you are interested in:

Comics LGBTQI life/community/themes/media Fairy tales Any combination of the above

Then - if you like! - please do fill in the above linked short survey by kiwimangoodness. Gene drew my attention to this and I am always glad to help friends and friends of friends out if I can!

The results will help provide information for a LGBT comic book project. Here are more details copy & pasted from the page itself:

Hello there! I’m leading a group project for class that involves putting together a grant proposal pitch for an LGBTQIA* Fairy Tale Comic Anthology. The hypothetical anthology would consist of comics based on well-known fairy tales and stories from various cultures with an LGBT spin on it. Its purpose is to be entertaining, thoughtful, and perhaps give children and teens (and anyone really) an opportunity to see themselves reflected in these classical tales. [ETA: To clarify on the subject matter of these comics, the creative retelling of the fairy tales would be the most important aspect of this anthology. The characters just happen to be LGBT, like how in life some people are incidentally LGBT and not defined only by that one aspect. In some stories LGBT issues may be a key point; in others it may not even be in the background. I believe that all of the artists/writers involved would trust in the reader’s capability to relate to a character, who may be like or not at all like themselves, without resorting to heavy-handed moral lessons about how discrimination-is-wrong-and-you-should-not-do-it.] The imaginary profits made from this comic anthology would first pay the artists for their contributions, printing and distribution costs, and the rest would be donated to an LGBTQIA related organization/charity. It would be super helpful if you could lend your time to fill out this survey as this project requires quantitative evidence that such a project would benefit or be of interest to the LGBTQIA community, comic book fans, comic book artists and writers, individuals not usually interested in comics, and any variation of the listed. All information provided will be used for this class project only, and then deleted after this semester (June 2012). *Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer or Questioning, Intersex, Asexual or Ally. Apologies if you prefer a different variation of the acronym and if I’m missing anyone!

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