A “glitch” on Amazon.com has caused the sales rank to be removed from gay- and/or lesbian-themed books by James Baldwin, Gore Vidal and others.

“There was a glitch in our systems and it’s being fixed,” Amazon’s director of corporate communications, Patty Smith, said in an e-mail Sunday.

As of Sunday night, books without rankings included Baldwin’s “Giovanni’s Room,” Vidal’s “The City and the Pillar” and Jeanette Winterson’s “Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit.” The removals prompted furious remarks on Facebook, Twitter and elsewhere online.

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Missouri state Rep. Jeanette Mott Oxford, D-St. Louis, was put up for a slot on that body’s Special Standing Committee on Children and Families by the Democratic leadership, but her bid was rejected by the House speaker, Ron Richard, R-Joplin. In a letter to Richard, Oxford wrote: “The only reason cited to me so far as for why I am not on the committee is that ‘some members find me offensive.’ I do not know if this is about my sexual orientation, my stance on Roe vs. Wade, or what.” The Kansas City Star (Mo.)