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

Contents:

• 'THIS BOOK IS GAY' PROVIS PREHENSIVE, AND CLIVE, SEXUAL TN
• ACTIVISTS NMN VLENCE AGAST LGBTQ MUNY ST. VCENT, WHERE GAY SEX IS ILLEGAL

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

“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. Conversely, the nversatn surroundg “This Book is Gay” is about the necsy for prehensive and, most importantly, clive sexual tn.

ACTIVISTS NMN VLENCE AGAST LGBTQ MUNY ST. VCENT, WHERE GAY SEX IS ILLEGAL

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.