I worked at Powell's Books and they are also a union shop with the (generally awesome progressive) ILWU. Michael Powell , Powell's Books, and the Powell's union local are all strong supporters of gay rights.

From Publisher's Weekly:

A groundswell of outrage, concern and confusion sprang up over the weekend, largely via Twitter, in response to what authors and others believed was a decision by Amazon to remove adult titles from its sales ranking. On Sunday evening, however, an Amazon spokesperson said that a glitch had occurred in its sales ranking feature that was in the process of being fixed. The spokesperson added that there was no new adult policy.

For most of the weekend on Twitter, in conversations with the hash tag “#amazonfail,” users were discussing the fact that the e-tailer was removing the sales rankings for books that it deemed featured “adult content.” Many readers, and writers, decried the fact that Amazon appears to be removing the sales ranking for titles that feature gay and lesbian characters and/or themes.

The director of the Erotic Authors Association, who goes by the pen name Erastes, told PW that many of her members “noticed their titles had been stripped of their sales rankings” on Amazon. One, Mark Probst, contacted a customer service representative at Amazon and wrote about the exchange on his blog. Probst wrote that the Amazon rep responded to his inquiry by saying that “'adult' material” is being excluded from appearing in “some searches and best seller lists” as a “consideration of our entire customer base.”

Whether a glitch or new policy, titles like James Baldwin's Giovanni's Room and Annie Proulx's Brokeback Mountain are among the titles who have lost their ranking.

http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA66510…

And yes, the ranking was removed.

I guess I'll have to shop and Powell's since I'm still boycotting Barnes and Noble.

I prefer to get my used books from eBay, and my new books from Barnes and Nobel's website.