Hunky librarian catalog to benefit It Gets Better Project

"Men of the Stacks" is a beefcake calendar featuring hunky librarians, with proceeds to the It Gets Better project.

(Thanks, Fipi Lele!)

I write books. My latest is a YA science fiction novel called Homeland (it's the sequel to Little Brother). More books: Rapture of the Nerds (a novel, with Charlie Stross); With a Little Help (short stories); and The Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow (novella and nonfic). I speak all over the place and I tweet and tumble, too.

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http://twitter.com/JustinLibrarian Justin Hoenke

YES! So proud to be a librarian.
http://mychemicaljourney.blogspot.com The Chemist

Not that I’m against the sentiment, but am I the only one worried that “It Gets Better” is going to turn into another “awareness movement”?
- malthusan
  
  Probably, but you’re unique like that.
  - http://mychemicaljourney.blogspot.com The Chemist
    
    Do some digging on breast cancer charities, plenty of which exist solely to perpetuate themselves. I’m not saying IGB is such an animal. I’m just hoping it doesn’t become such an animal.
sincarne

OB IT Crowd reference: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nVI4eiWSMPA
http://imcravingpresidency.tumblr.com/ SedanChair

Do you think they told that guy he’d be the only naked man in the whole calendar?
- Antinous / Moderator
  
  They could have used him for every month and not gotten complaints.
Private Private

Daamnn. I’d pay a lot of late fees to have him drop the book. Boing Boing really needs to have more softcore hipster porn.
Brainspore

I’m not sure I want to know how that guy marks his place.
robotnik

Check out that… book!
- Cornan_KotW
  
  Your comment actually made me scroll up to see if it was a title I knew. :P
- Felton / Moderator
  
  One of those books that you just can’t put down!
unit_1421

It doesn’t get better, just easier to deal with and more complicated, if you’re not murdered or commit suicide.
Navin_Johnson

“Book Worms”
CharredBarn

Is that a pop up book
http://twitter.com/ptliontamer Wilhelmina Frame

I wanna go to the library that has a daschund librarian.
BrianOman

Idea of the century! Libraries are seriously undervalued and under represented as the last remaining truly free centers of mass education.
BrianOman

… and sexucation.
Bezoomy

Mr Novembers name is Megan? Americans do weird things with boy/girl names.
- finette
  
  Well, it’s not commonly used for guys here either. I actually thought he might be trans and that was why the proceeds were going to It Gets Better (not that they need a reason to support GLBT causes, I just thought it would be cool if they were featuring a trans man), but from the description on the calendar site, I think he just had weird parents. His name is pronounced “Meegan.”
  - Bezoomy
    
    yeah, I couldn’t find it as a male name anywhere. Chalk it up to the my kid has to have unique name to make him special type parents.
Alice Archer

The story behind the calendar:
http://www.filamentmagazine.com/2011/09/get-your-men-of-libraries-calendar-for-2012/

It got turned down as a fundraiser for an anti-censorship charity.