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WISNS MIDDLE SCHOOL FEATUR 'THIS BOOK IS GAY' LIBRARY, STIRRG ONLE OUTRAGE
” Ne years later, the award-wng thor and poet will make good on his promise to further the adventur of his gay protagonists when he unveils that book’s much-anticipated sequel this fall. Once Dante nfis that he is gay, Ari begs to qutn his own sexualy as the iendship tensifi. Words such as the prent the harsh realy of what ’s like to be gay, even to this day, our society, which really hs hard.
Dante treats homosexual and heterosexual lovers equally as they plete their purifitn. Homosexual relatns, like heterosexual on, are not sful and of themselv for Dante. Only pulsive or promiscuo lovg — of any sort — is verboten, wh such excsive behavr (when unrepented) punished circle 2 (heterosexual lt) and circle 7 (homosexual lt).
I believe Dante means excsive behavr or acts of an amoro nature — not excsive sire or attractn — when he distguish between sful and acceptable homosexualy. As Teodolda Baroli argu, dividuals have no need to repent of “limed and morated homosexual behavr” to avoid eternal sufferg unr the ra of fire Dante’s Hell. To the objectn that Dante uld never promote a view of homosexualy so at odds wh church doctre, one need only rell that he has the souls of those who betray guts go straight to the lowt circle of Hell while their bodi are ntrolled by mons for the rt of their natural liv (Inf.