‘This Book Is Gay’ Author Juno Dawson Stands By Her Banned Book – Rollg Stone

Contents:

• ‘THIS BOOK IS GAY’ AUTHOR SAYS AMERI’S TEENS HAVE BIGGER PROBLEMS THAN HER BOOK
• ALL MY LIFE I THOUGHT I WAS A GAY MAN – BUT ACRDG TO JUNO DAWSON ATTU TODAY, I'M ACTUALLY A TRANS WOMAN
• 'THIS BOOK IS GAY' PROVIS PREHENSIVE, AND CLIVE, SEXUAL TN
• HOW TO BE GAY. ALL üBER COMG-OUT, SEX, GENR UND LIEBE
• HOW TO BE GAYALL üBER COMG OUT, SEX, GENR UND LIEBE
• THIS BOOK IS GAY
• THIS BOOK IS GAY

‘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.

ALL MY LIFE I THOUGHT I WAS A GAY MAN – BUT ACRDG TO JUNO DAWSON ATTU TODAY, I'M ACTUALLY A TRANS WOMAN

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?

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

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. 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.

HOW TO BE GAY. ALL üBER COMG-OUT, SEX, GENR UND LIEBE

It's the first time I knew whout a doubt that I was gay, although I didn't have a vobulary for back share this anecdote, you might ask. Well, I thk 's important for you – pecially if you are heterosexual (most people are, of urse) – to unrstand jt how eply rooted my beg gay is part of my inty. That's right: Juno Dawson suggts today's Attu magaze (a publitn boastg a "global dience of affluent, fashn-nsc, brand-loyal gay men") that fact "a lot of gay men are gay men as a nsolatn prize, bee they uldn't be women.

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HOW TO BE GAYALL üBER COMG OUT, SEX, GENR UND LIEBE

It is que ironic really, that someone wh such potential fluence as a trans role mol and ambassador, and someone so nfint their own inty, would be so quick to dismiss the equally hard-fought inti of other people; a vast group of arguably natural urse transphobia and ignorance exists wh the gay muny – abundance, ankly – but surely this kd of platform is the place to be tacklg those divisns rather than clumsily exacerbatg them. In particular the ia that if you tend to be the more passive partner a gay relatnship, that mak you more likely to be a trans woman is surely que hard to substantiate – of urse perhaps was te for Dawson, who elucidat that wh the unfettable quote: "I jt wanted to get f****d like a woman. Dawson of urse did intify as a gay man before her transn a uple of years ago, and so perhaps she is motivated to help people who are perhaps stgglg wh a siar journey.

However, if she were for stance assertg that gay men were wrong about their sexualy based on her relig views, I have a feelg that her quote might not have ma to the ont page of the magaze.

I n’t see “Most gay men are actually straight men, bee J” havg que the same succs wh the edors. The Top Ten Gay MoviShow all 10The notn of gay men actually beg women disguise is age-old, and forms the basis for a lot of discrimatn and even mutilatn today. Consir morn day Iran, for stance, where beg gay is nsired as beg agast Islam, but beg a woman who lik men is of urse not, and so many gay men are prsurised to genr reassignment surgery.

THIS BOOK IS GAY

If you're a gay man, you're a gay man. If you live as a gay man, but you thk you might actually be a woman, then maybe explore that.

THIS BOOK IS GAY

“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. As Dawson so saliently remds rears, the excln of same-sex upl the typil sex-ed class is nothg short of “stutnal homophobia.