C. Vazquez- Week 7 Learning Activity by cassy vazquez

Location

cassandravazquez31 — 2025-03-07 18:41:20 UTC

I located this book on the Barnes & Noble website, as you can see, around it are many versions of the story as well as other Oscar Wilde stories such as 'Importance of Being Earnest'. On the top of the page there is related series which include; Barnes & Noble Collectible Editions Series, Chiltern Classics, Penguin Clothbound Classics, SIgnature Clothbound Editions, etc.

More information

cassandravazquez31 — 2025-03-07 18:43:03 UTC

When clicking on the book, you can see the overview which is sort of like a synopsis of the story and you can see the product details which are the ISBN-13, the publisher, publication date, series, etc. Along with that, there is an about section where it talks about where Wilde was born and many of his other stories/poems as well as where he died and his crime of sodomy. The last section on this page is related subjects some of which are; Motivations-Fiction, Fables & Allegories, Gothic Fiction, Goth Horror, and Horror-inner Demons.

LGTBQ

cassandravazquez31 — 2025-03-07 19:13:15 UTC

It should be noted that there was no apparent LGBTQ+ section when looking through the Fiction or the Nonfiction area, not even in the Teen & YA section. When clicking on Romance in the Fiction section, I had to scroll all the way down to find LGBTQ+ Romance which you can see is under Subjects. I was looking through the Romance page and there was no apparent books from LGBTQ+ referred at all. The section was around Contemporary Romance, Historical Romance, etc.

Area

cassandravazquez31 — 2025-03-07 19:24:58 UTC

Getting familiar with the area, there is a subjects section where there is bisexual romance, gay romance, and lesbian romance, etc. Looking through the books in this front page it is kind of difficult to decipher what books are for who but they seemed to be mostly male x male stories. And there doesn't seem to be anything else besides romance stories, nothing like transgender stories, or asexual ones, etc. And like I stated before looking at Romance and Fiction as well as Nonfiction and YA, there was no LGBTQ+ books, in order to see these books you would have to search it up or go under Romance and try to look for the section.

Thoughts & Opinion

cassandravazquez31 — 2025-03-07 19:46:22 UTC

I think it is pretty difficult to find the LGTBQ+ section on the site if you're not searching it up, and I personally think these books should be incorporated with other texts, yes, it is important for them to have their own section, but it shouldn't ONLY be in that section, it should also be in involved in sections they correspond with or the main page. I think perhaps Dorian Gray is in the right section as it wasn't apparent that it was an LGBTQ+ book, it was just hinted at multiple times. The last concern I had was that, when you search up LGBTQ, there is a small section that says "Celebrate Pride Month" but this was no where on the main page or in any other section, you would miss it if you didn't search it up.