‘This Book Is Gay’ Author Juno Dawson Stands By Her Banned Book – Rollg Stone

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Stunts are worse-off whout books like ‘This Book is Gay’ to provi LGBTQ stunts wh an stctn manual as they navigate the world.

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‘THIS BOOK IS GAY’ AUTHOR SAYS AMERI’S TEENS HAVE BIGGER PROBLEMS THAN HER BOOK

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‘This Book Is Gay’ Author Says Ameri’s Teens Have Bigger Problems Than Her Book. Juno Dawson didn’t want to wre This Book Is Gay.

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First published 2014, Dawson’s how-to about gay relatnships has bee a staple for sex ed class. Acrdg to Vanrbilt Universy, 2022, This Book Is Gay beme the nth most-banned book Ameri. In light of the recent rise book banngs, Rollg Stone spoke wh Dawson about why her 2014 book remas such a hot topic, why she thks This Book Is Gay is necsary, and how she thks policians uld really help keep Ameri’s kids safe.

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How do you thk sex tn and available rmatn have changed sce you wrote ‘This Book Is Gay?

But as a queer teenager, I jt wish there had been somethg like This Book Is Gay.

We’re all very clear This Book is Gay is not for children. In a lot of your ments about This Book Is Gay, you’ve phed back agast the ia that the manual is a danger to young adults. In your ey, why is so important that more books like This Book Is Gay exist and are available to teens growg up?

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Most recently, ‘This Book Is Gay’ went unr a formal review as part of vtigatns to bomb threats sent to several public schools. The notoriety of This Book is Gay has only creased. “This Book is Gay, ” by Juno Dawson, starts wh a wele: “There’s a long-nng joke that, on ‘g out, ’ a young lbian, gay guy, bisexual, or trans person should receive a membership rd and stctn manual.

” And “This Book is Gay” reads as exactly that: a fact-based chapter is terspersed wh a ndid, first-person narrative llected om real parts humoro and rmative, this nonfictn young adult book is divid to sectns: inty, stereotyp, queer history, g out and relatnships — cludg sexual relatnships. “The Ins and Outs of Gay Sex, ” a chapter posned toward the end of the book, opens wh text outled to make you take notice, “This Chapter is about sex.

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“This Book is Gay” is equently near the top of the Amerin Library Associatn’s list of most banned of the books we feature on the “Velshi Banned Book Club” are lerature, cludg ntemporary works of poetry and graphic novels. Conversely, the nversatn surroundg “This Book is Gay” is about the necsy for prehensive and, most importantly, clive sexual tn.

As Dawson so saliently remds rears, the excln of same-sex upl the typil sex-ed class is nothg short of “stutnal homophobia. This is happeng all over the natn, state by urse, many of the arguments ma agast “This Book is Gay” center around antiquated views of genr exprsn and sexualy, but they’re also ma bad fah, cludg labelg this book as “appropriate.

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“This Book is Gay” is for those young adults already grapplg wh their sexualy and inty.

By prohibg accs to valuable rourc like “This Book is Gay, ” we are leavg already vulnerable LGBTQ+ young adults wh nowhere to turn. Dawson is an Amerin gay adult movie actor. "We have very antiquated ias about what means to be gay, and we've attributed those ias to members of the queer muny whout offerg the space for each member to share what their inty means to them, " Ch Hg told limed fns n make people avoid queer spac, rultg isolatn, anxiety, and worse mental health overall.

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You jt need to nnect wh that part of yourself who feels secure your inty, " Ch Hg more:Bisexual people who are out to their partners may have worse sex bee of 'bi-erasure'35 celebri who don't intify as eher straight or gay7 myths about bisexualy you need to stop believg.

However, after playg a gay man "My Policeman, " he revealed subsequent terviews that he was also gay real life; hence, he jumped at the opportuny to ntribute to the film. He went further to announce that he was gettg married Dawson Is Openly Gay and Is Gettg Married SoonIn 2022, Amazon studs released the film "My Policeman, " which was set 1950s England when homosexualy was illegal.

‘THIS BOOK IS GAY’ AUTHOR SAYS AMERI’S TEENS HAVE BIGGER PROBLEMS THAN HER BOOK

In the movie, Dawson plays the role of Patrick Hazlewood, a gay mm curator who falls for a policeman, Tom Burgs, who is unsure about his sexualy.

That also ma easy for him to accept the those terviews, he publicly clared his sexualy as a gay man and further took the opportuny to announce that he would be tyg the knot 2023. A seemgly enthed Dawson exprsed that:"I certaly me away om this film, as a gay man myself, wh a greater feelg of acknowledgg the privilege that I have the eedoms and rights that I have. It was a movie based on his inty as a gay man and his untry of orig and felt spired by the romance between his character, Hazlewood and Burgs, and how they ntued to still fd hope and love durg a time when intifyg as such was nsired a crimal offense.

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Dawson fahfully ptur the ede, exprsive Patrick first created by thor Bethan Roberts the 2012 novel on which the movie is based, as well as the agony and longg of the character hidg his te self 1950s Bra, when homosexualy was still illegal. It’s pretty astoundg—although I gus shouldn’t be—that wh our parents’ lifetim, was sentially illegal to be gay the U. I watched a betiful docudrama the BBC ma lled Agast the Law, wh a lot of gay men who had lived durg that time.

I looked to the history of gay bars as safe spac bee Patrick equents one Brighton. I certaly me away om this film, as a gay man myself, wh a greater feelg of acknowledgg the privilege that I have, the eedoms and rights that I have.

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