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Contents:

• CAN A FLORIDA SCHOOL DISTRICT BAN A CHILDREN'S BOOK ABOUT GAY PENGUS?
• FLORIDA SCHOOL DISTRICT BANS BOOK ABOUT REAL-LIFE GAY PENGU RELATNSHIP, CG PARENTAL RIGHTS LAW
• GAY PENGU BOOK AUTHORS SUE OVER BAN
• THIS CHILDREN’S BOOK ABOUT GAY PENGUS IS FIGHTG A BAN FLORIDA
• AUTHORS SUE AFTER KID’S BOOK ABOUT GAY PENGUS REMOVED OM SCHOOL LIBRARY
• JOY BEHAR KICKS OFF ‘JOY’S BANNED BOOK CLUB’ WH GAY-PENGU TALE ‘AND TANGO MAK THREE’
• OPN AVOIDG OUR ‘GAY PENGUS’ BOOK? BETTER STEER CLEAR OF THE KIDS’ CLASSICS, TOO!
• ‘GAY PENGUS’ BOOK STIRS NTROVERSY, IGNOR FULL STORY
• CAN PENGUS BE GAY? [ALL QUTNS ANSWERED]
• WHAT’S WH ALL THE GAY PENGUS?
• GAY PENGU BOOK STILL TOPPG ‘MOST BANNED’ LIST

CAN A FLORIDA SCHOOL DISTRICT BAN A CHILDREN'S BOOK ABOUT GAY PENGUS?

In phg this year to expand Florida’s so-lled “Parental Rights” bill, the one crics have dubbed “Don’t Say Gay” sce censors materials that mentn sexual orientatn, sponsor Clay Yarborough got on the floor of the Florida Senate and said he simply wanted to stop pornographic filth om beg hand out public schools. It also not that, sce state lawmakers recently expand their “Don’t Say Gay” law, the thors expect the book to be banned for middle-schoolers as well as of July 1. In Leon County, a mother has challenged a children’s book about tennis legend Billie Jean Kg that mentns Kg is gay.

) Yet Florida’s Lake County School District has reportedly termed that such facts are forbidn to young children unr the state’s so-lled “Don’t Say Gay” law engeered by Florida Gov. Florida Hoe Bill 1557 "Parental Rights Edutn, " which was dubbed by crics as the "don't say gay" bill. It also asks that the urt fd the overall “Don’t Say Gay” law unnstutnal on the basis that s rtrictns are “vague and/or overbroad.

FLORIDA SCHOOL DISTRICT BANS BOOK ABOUT REAL-LIFE GAY PENGU RELATNSHIP, CG PARENTAL RIGHTS LAW

“[‘Don’t Say Gay’] perms, and ankly enurag, viewpot discrimatn, and that’s exactly what happened s applitn, ” said Fah E. Gay, a lawyer wh Selendy Gay Elsberg, the firm reprentg the platiffs.

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GAY PENGU BOOK AUTHORS SUE OVER BAN

Geni Pictur (“Mrs Lowry & Son, ” “Good Luck To You, Leo Gran”) has optned Emmett Monterey’s acclaimed memoir “Go the Way Your Blood Beats” – about growg up gay and disabled 1980s London – for TV adaptatn.

THIS CHILDREN’S BOOK ABOUT GAY PENGUS IS FIGHTG A BAN FLORIDA

At his mastream school, teachers refe to schle his class on the ground floor, and at his llege for disabled stunts, he’s told he will be expelled if the mors are te, if he’s gay. Ja Mock's journey as a Black trans wrer has had specific lsons for me as I found my footg as a gay journalist. The Book of Delights: Essays by Ross Gay.

In this volume of says om poet Ross Gay, we get a talog of everyday ltle joys om a year his life: unspoken pacts of tst between strangers on a tra, a dancg prayg mantis, the act of blowg thgs off. At the epicenter of an anti-LGBTQ+ moral panic, you’ll often fd gay pengus. Kid’s l classic And Tango Mak Three, a picture book about gay pengu parents, is one of the most equently banned books the US.

In January, Florida’s Lake County School District banned the award-wng book, cg the “Don’t Say Gay” law their cisn. But given that eighteen years of library challeng have failed to erase the book, Florida is about to learn that the are gay pengus you don’t ms wh. Varied terpretatns of Florida law lead to nfn at schoolsSherri Owens, a spokperson for the unty school district, said the unty uldn't ment on active ligatn but that the book was rtricted due to the Parental Rights Edutn Law, dubbed "Don't Say Gay" by crics, which prohibed stctn on sexual orientatn or genr inty up to the third gra.

AUTHORS SUE AFTER KID’S BOOK ABOUT GAY PENGUS REMOVED OM SCHOOL LIBRARY

"We e all of our books for stctn at those gra levels bee we do readg wh nferrg, which volv teachers workg wh stunts as they read and discs the ntent to ensure prehensn, " Owens reference to the "Don't Say Gay" law, which Gov. Ron DeSantis signed last year, is why the su nam as fendants not only the Lake County School Board and Supertennt Diane Kornegay, but also state Edutn Commissner Manny Diaz Jr.

And State Board of Edutn platiffs, who are reprented by the law firms Selendy Gay Elsberg and Kenny Nachwalter, say they're sug to "vdite their First and Fourteenth Amendment rights and to stop the abhorrent and discrimatory practice of rtrictg accs to books based on partisan, non-pedagogil motivatns.

JOY BEHAR KICKS OFF ‘JOY’S BANNED BOOK CLUB’ WH GAY-PENGU TALE ‘AND TANGO MAK THREE’

"If Lake County Schools were not engagg viewpot discrimatn, then would not have limed s rtrictn of books to those exclively featurg LGBTQ+ characters or discsg LGBTQ+-related ntent, " the platiffs sug say they believe "And Tango Mak Three" will be "immently" blocked higher gra levels, cg legislatn DeSantis recently signed expandg the "Don't Say Gay" law rtrictns om third to eighth gra.

And 's not jt bee of the "Don't Say Gay" law. All the hallmarks of leftist iology and slippery slope dynamics were featured one lawsu filed Tuday agast a Florida school district over a book about gay pengus.

Gay uple Jt Richardson and Peter Parnell filed su Tuday U. Receivg gobs of sympathy om the Tim, which once aga referred to the Florida law as “Don’t Say Gay, ” the plat om the thors argued the district “ced no legimate pedagogil reason for s cisn” to remove the book om the library and ntend “the book is factually accurate, non-vulgar and non-obscene; Tango had prevly stood on school library shelv; and Tango was rtricted for illegimate, narrowly partisan and polil reasons. “if you don’t give our gay book to children ’s the same asif you banned ”.

OPN AVOIDG OUR ‘GAY PENGUS’ BOOK? BETTER STEER CLEAR OF THE KIDS’ CLASSICS, TOO!

Of urse, the purpose of the su isn’t to rtore accs jt for the book about gay pengus which anyone wh an ter nnectn n accs via the numero readgs available on YouTube, ’s to get all of the viant materials ont of the krgartners.

More than 9, 000 thors are llg out the tech pani behd generative AI an open letter that stat there is an herent jtice explog pyright-protected works to tra chatbots whout nsent, cred or ers prompt GPT-4 to summarize works by Roxane Gay or Margaret Atwood, n do so tail, chapter by chapter. ”Dan Brown, Jam Patterson, Margaret Atwood, Roxane Gay, Celte Ng, Viet Thanh Nguyen, Gee Snrs and Rebec Makkai are among the thoands of thors who are takg AI dtry lears to task, askg that their ncerns be addrsed and specific actns taken:Obta permissn for the e of pyrighted material generative AI pensate wrers for both past and ongog e of their works generative AI pensate wrers for the e of their works AI output, regardls of whether the outputs ge upon current laws.

[Florida’s] HB 1557 … wily known as the “don’t say gay” bill, prohibs classroom stctn on “sexual orientatn or genr inty” gras krgarten through three or a manner that is not “age-appropriate. We totally unrstand why you have to stop readg our “gay pengus” book school.

‘GAY PENGUS’ BOOK STIRS NTROVERSY, IGNOR FULL STORY

You shouldn’t have to worry about beg slapped wh a lawsu for discsg homosexual ’ve been thkg this law leav some pretty key terms unfed. CHICAGO (BP)–A children’s book based on a te story about two “gay pengus” is g ncern om parents several schools and towns natnwi, and th far the ntroversy largely has ignored an important fact — the pengus long ago spl up, wh one of them gog on to nt wh the oppose sex. “Of urse, we know the kids eventually are gog to learn about the homosexual liftyle, ” she said.

The book was published before the two pengus Throckmorton, associate profsor of psychology at Grove Cy College Pennsylvania, joked that Silo was the “world’s first ex-gay pengu. ”“At tim gay activists will e the animal kgdom to support the lk between naturalism and human sexualy, and yet when Silo … took up wh a female pengu, the gay activists were downplayg the importance of that, ” Throckmorton told Baptist Prs. ”Several years ago, when the news about Roy and Silo’s “gay relatnship broke, ” liberal activists quickly poted to as a supportg argument for “gay marriage” the human world.

CAN PENGUS BE GAY? [ALL QUTNS ANSWERED]

“Ined, if homosexual marriag exist the animal kgdom, they mt be normal.

”But Throckmorton said neher si of the “gay marriage” bate should “read too much to” the relatnship between Roy and Silo — whether the two pengus are together or apart.

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WHAT’S WH ALL THE GAY PENGUS?

Humans are not the only animal to engage homosexual behavr.

Giraff, monkeys, lns, and even dolphs have all exhibed homosexual tras.

GAY PENGU BOOK STILL TOPPG ‘MOST BANNED’ LIST

But what about pengus, n they be gay? Y, pengus n be gay and have been observed engagg homosexual behavr the wild and ptivy.

When given abandoned eggs by zookeepers, gay pengus n hatch and raise young chicks jt as well as heterosexual upl. However, most gay pengus eventually end up straight readg to fd out more about homosexualy pengus and how zoos have evolved their approach to alg wh . Can Pengus Be Gay?

Who Are The Famo Gay Pengus? Do Gay Pengus Steal Eggs? Pengus have been observed engagg homosexual behavr the wild and ptivy.