movement at large, was in convincing people to look beyond the cover, read beyond the title, even if that title includes the words ‘Y-chromosome’ - we asked them to read the book,” she said. “The strength of Lambda Literary, and the L.G.B.T.Q. In a text message Hough argued that Lambda Literary was attempting to regulate the discourse around L.G.B.T.Q. The Times has not reviewed any deleted tweets. Lambda did not provide examples of the posts they were most critical of. Hough said Monday that she could not recall whether she had deleted any tweets, and denied that any of her tweets had been transphobic. organization, we cannot knowingly reward individuals who exhibit disdain and disrespect for the autonomy of an entire segment of the community we have committed ourselves to supporting.” “In a series of now-deleted tweets, Lauren Hough exhibited what we believed to be a troubling hostility toward transgender critics and trans-allies and used her substantial platform - due in part to her excellent book - to harmfully engage with readers and critics,” Cleopatra Acquaye and Maxwell Scales, Lambda Literary’s interim co-executive directors, said in a joint statement Monday. Lambda Literary, which for more than 30 years has administered the Lammys, confirmed that Hough had been removed from contention for the award. A reviewer for NPR likened her skill at portraiture to that of “one of those cartoonists who can sketch out four lines and suddenly you see your face in them.”īut Hough said in an interview Monday that an editor had recently informed her that the nomination had been pulled, following a social media dust-up in which Hough had defended, at times heatedly, a forthcoming novel by the author Sandra Newman, a friend of hers, from criticism that it was transphobic. The book, described by its publisher as interrogating “our notions of ecstasy, queerness, and what it means to live freely,” drew heavily on Hough’s life experiences, including as a lesbian in the Air Force during the “don’t ask, don’t tell” era. The nomination seemed a capstone to a remarkable debut, which won critical acclaim and spent two weeks on The New York Times’s best-seller list. Last month, Lauren Hough, a first-time author, received good news from an editor at her publishing house: Her essay collection “Leaving Isn’t The Hardest Thing,” published last year, was set to be nominated for a Lambda Literary Award in the category of lesbian memoir.
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