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…
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- FLORIDA SCHOOL DISTRICT BANS BOOK ABOUT REAL-LIFE GAY PENGU RELATNSHIP, CG PARENTAL RIGHTS LAW
- ‘GAY PENGUS’ BOOK STIRS NTROVERSY, IGNOR FULL STORY
- GAY PENGU BOOK STILL TOPPG ‘MOST BANNED’ LIST
FLORIDA SCHOOL DISTRICT BANS BOOK ABOUT REAL-LIFE GAY PENGU RELATNSHIP, CG PARENTAL RIGHTS LAW
Bee you "don't say gay" unr Republin Gov. Ron DeSantis' tn crackdown. * penguin gay book *
) 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.
‘GAY PENGUS’ BOOK STIRS NTROVERSY, IGNOR FULL STORY
* penguin gay book *
A llectn of fictn by and about gay men featur origal stori om Larry Kramer, Edmund Whe, Christopher Coe, Michael Cunngham, and other wrers and explor the tragedi and triumphs of AIDS.GenrLGBTFictnShort StoriGayQueerAnthologiHistoril Fictn 656 pag, PaperbackFirst published January 14, 1994About the thorLeavt is a graduate of Yale Universy and a profsor at the Universy of Florida, where he is the -director of the creative wrg program. Leavt, who is openly gay, has equently explored gay issu his work. The word "gay" as we know formerly meant happy, pleasg, optimistic, fun-encsted, joy-bedbed, that sort of thg, as the very first le of "Island of Dreams" by The Sprgfields (1963) :"I wanred the streets and the gay crowd plac"Then the early to mid 1960s the new meang bubbled up om the homosexual mi-mon, maybe as a replacement for "queer" which really did need replacg.
But now my dghter Geia (aged 13) tells me that one very mon phrase ed at school is "that's really gay" or "that's so gay" - and the tend meang is nothg to do wh homosexualy, bee now jt means "that's really bbish" or "that's so feeble". I daray the latt meang has grown out of the well-attted strint homophobia of certa typ of workg-class Brish boys, but now s e has floated ee of s orig, as ed the send meang did of s own turn.So - the stori this volume, whilst rarely gay (first meang) are very fately not gay (third meang).
GAY PENGU BOOK STILL TOPPG ‘MOST BANNED’ LIST
But they are gay (send meang).*********Even 1972 Gilbert O'Sullivan a song about beg left at the altar was sggTo thk that only yterdayI was cheerful, bright and gay(Alone Aga (Naturally))but he was a b of a throwback.
Lawrence, Isherwood vers lser known nam); their approach to story-tellg (old-fashned round plot, vigte, agments, jargon-filled dialogue); their settg (the park, the stle, the field, the bedroom, the bathroom, the party, the hospal, the prison); their pots of view, voic, attus; their narrators (the gay man, the gay iend, the straight man of the gay iend, the straight woman of the gay iend, the wife, the observer, the teenager, the fay man); etc etc etc.The "gay" short story n be as heartbreakg, as heartwarmg, as amg-charmg-distrsg-betiful-strange, as dreamlike or lifelike as any other short story. They are all tertg and also a great way of seeg the evolutn of the gay world over the last century.
Warng though, not all of the thors are gay - which would probably be a big "no no" today's world, but not so much the early '90s. Leavt the troductn touch on the whole qutn of what is a 'gay' story and acknowledg the plexy he do say:'...For the purpos of this anthology...a gay story has been fed as one that illumat the experience of love between men, explor the nature of homosexual inty, or vtigat the kds of relatnship gay men have wh each other, wh their iends, and wh their fai....The anthology lims self to twentieth century fictn origally wrten English...'In that last sentence 'origally wrten English' rgs all sorts of alarm bells for someone who liv the UK.