‘This Book is Gay’ mak up for what sex tn leav out as schools ph for LGBTQ book bans

Contents:

• ‘THIS BOOK IS GAY’ AUTHOR SAYS AMERI’S TEENS HAVE BIGGER PROBLEMS THAN HER BOOK
• 'THIS BOOK IS GAY' PROVIS PREHENSIVE, AND CLIVE, SEXUAL TN
• TV’S HISTORIC GAY KISS: FROM ‘DAWSON’S CREEK’ TO ‘THE FOSTERS’
• IS DAVID DAWSON GAY? THE 'MY POLICEMAN' STAR IS GETTG MARRRIED SOON
• WHO IS DAVID DAWSON DATG? INSI SECRET LOVE LIFE AND 'GAY' MORS OF ACTOR SET TO PLAY HARRY STYL' LOVER
• NEARLY TWO S LATER, 'DAWSON'S CREEK' ACTOR REFLECTS ON HISTORIC GAY KISS
• THIS BOOK IS GAY AUD CD – MP3 AUD, JULY 4, 2017
• ‘THIS BOOK IS GAY’ AUTHOR SAYS AMERI’S TEENS HAVE BIGGER PROBLEMS THAN HER BOOK
• TV’S HISTORIC GAY KISS: FROM ‘DAWSON’S CREEK’ TO ‘THE FOSTERS’

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

‘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. 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. 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.

'THIS BOOK IS GAY' PROVIS PREHENSIVE, AND CLIVE, SEXUAL TN

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?

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.

TV’S HISTORIC GAY KISS: FROM ‘DAWSON’S CREEK’ TO ‘THE FOSTERS’

“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. “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.

IS DAVID DAWSON GAY? THE 'MY POLICEMAN' STAR IS GETTG MARRRIED SOON

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. “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. 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.

WHO IS DAVID DAWSON DATG? INSI SECRET LOVE LIFE AND 'GAY' MORS OF ACTOR SET TO PLAY HARRY STYL' LOVER

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.

NEARLY TWO S LATER, 'DAWSON'S CREEK' ACTOR REFLECTS ON HISTORIC GAY KISS

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.

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.

THIS BOOK IS GAY AUD CD – MP3 AUD, JULY 4, 2017

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.

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. But wh a growg cultural acceptance of gays and lbians has e a growg acceptance of genr and sexual fluidy.

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

The modifitn of LGBTQ public acceptance also means 's an easier topic to broach terviews wh celebri, sometim earnt, others an attempt to solic headl wh juicy tidbs about their personal a growg cultural acceptance of gays and lbians has e a growg acceptance of genr and sexual pot: A ty piece of a recent Btle terview wh Rosar Dawson turned to several headl about her “g out” as part of the LGBTQ muny, spe Dawson's clear disfort wh speakg as such. For the most part I’m straight, but I’m not gay and I don’t thk I’m bi eher. "It's not jt women — Lus Hedg told Vulture 2018 that while he's not totally straight, he also don't nsir himself gay or bisexual, stead, existg "on a spectm.

TV’S HISTORIC GAY KISS: FROM ‘DAWSON’S CREEK’ TO ‘THE FOSTERS’

Spacey, who has been closeted throughout his entire reer, me out as gay after he was acced of sexual misnduct, nflatg homosexualy wh his predatory behavr very poor taste. And I’d be remiss not to add that Dawson herself (along wh other fay members) has been acced of assltg a trans man who ed to work for Buttigieg, our first openly gay printial ndidate, has ed his own queerns to tract om issu wh other mory muni. In November, Black voters were particularly offend by Buttigieg's equatg his beg gay wh the experience of beg black, as well as his sayg Black voters wouldn't vote for him out of their herent generatnal homophobia.

Now, 2020, 's time to thk crilly about how we n both celebrate an expansive fn of queerns while still acknowledgg that queerns is beg homogenized post-marriage-equaly Ameri. Brish actor David Dawson seems to be unr the spotlight of such speculatn, as fans are wonrg if the 'The Last Kgdom' actor is gay.