A new report says books wh LGBTQ+ them rema the most plaed about at public schools and librari around the untry. The Amerin Library Associatn announced Monday that Maia Kobabe’s graphic memoir “Genr Queer” was the most “challenged” book of 2022, the send nsecutive year has topped the list. The ALA last month reported there were more than 1,200 plats 2022 volvg more than 2,500 different books, the hight totals sce the associatn began pilg plats 20 years ago. Other books facg siar cricisms clu Gee M. Johnson’s “All Boys Aren’t Blue,” Mike Curato’s “Flamer,” Stephen Chbosky’s “The Perks of Beg a Wallflower,” John Green’s “Lookg for Alaska,” Jonathan Evison’s “Lawn Boy” and Juno Dawson’s “This Book Is Gay.”
Contents:
- MASSACHETTS SCHOOL DISTRICT PROMOT BOOK TELLG STUNTS HOW TO E GAY SEX APPS
- DO A TAMPA SCHOOL LIBRARY BOOK TEACH ABOUT GAY INTERURSE?
- BANNED BOOKS 2023 – THIS BOOK IS GAY
- ‘THIS BOOK IS GAY,’ AN LGBT SEX ED BOOK FOR TEENS, IS CHALLENGED WASILLA, ALASKA
- THIS BOOK IS GAY
MASSACHETTS SCHOOL DISTRICT PROMOT BOOK TELLG STUNTS HOW TO E GAY SEX APPS
A book available to stunts a public school district Massachetts ntas stctns on how to engage certa typ of sexual activy and how to e gay sex apps. * this book is gay graphic images *
The gay romance is not important to this book at all. Due to ntroversy, cludg "This Book is Gay, " their office on the Universy of Wyomg mp Laramie, Wyomg, on Augt 13, 2022. The Twter acunt LibsofTikTok published a tweet Monday reportg that the book tled This Book is Gay by Juno Dawson is "proudly displayed" at a school wh the Newburyport Public School District Newburyport, Christian Post reached out to Newburyport Public Schools for ment.
DO A TAMPA SCHOOL LIBRARY BOOK TEACH ABOUT GAY INTERURSE?
The Florida Standard reported that Pierce Middle School offered "a book promotg gay sex – cludg stctns on how to e 'hookup apps.'" * this book is gay graphic images *
A photograph posted wh the tweet showed This Book is Gay on a bookshelf at an undisclosed lotn unrneath a poster advertisg "Banned Books Week. The pornographic book “This Book is Gay” is proudly displayed @NBPTDistrict. "The book rms rears that after they "upload a ty pic of [themselv] to the app, " the app "works out your lotn" and "tells you who the neart homosexuals are.
"LibsofTikTok's Twter thread about the book clus a screenshot om Chapter 9, "The Ins and Outs of Gay Sex. The book laments that schools "tght you all about straight sex when you were TEN YEARS OLD" and matas "the fact that they didn't also teach you what same-sex upl do is nothg ls than stutnalised homophobia.
"This chapter is simply all the stuff teachers SHOULD be sayg if they want to be clive of people wh same-sex" addnal page of the book shared by LibsofTikTok showed the thor tellg rears not to e vasele and baby oil njunctn wh ndoms durg gay sex and referrg to anal sex as "bum fun.
BANNED BOOKS 2023 – THIS BOOK IS GAY
Marshall Universy Librari - Banned Book 2023 - Jam Dawson's This Book is Gay. Page on books banned/challenged around the Uned Stat for var reasons over the past year - Ron T * this book is gay graphic images *
" The book ntends that some gay men don't like the sexual act bee "'s the hole poo out of. In an earlier terview wh The Daily News, Gallagher said that parents have the right to petn for a book to be removed om circulatn and need to subm the proper cln of This Book Is Gay has drawn the ire of the Newburyport-based grassroots aln Cizens for Rponsible Edutn, which warns that the book is also available for download on an ebook app that allows kids accs g their school puter logs whout parental knowledge or permissn.
"Page 156 of 'This Book is Gay' giv your teenager stctns on how to e sex apps, " the anizatn wrote a Facebook post.
"A story published on the webse Mass Ristance last year ntas addnal snapshots of the book, which clus a claim that homosexual men have bigger genalia than their heterosexual addn to cludg graphic pictur of male and female anatomy illtratg which parts "FEEL NICE" when touched, the book provis stctns on how to engage anal and oral sex and give "handi. " A summary piled by Amazon characteriz This Book is Gay as an "stctn manual" for LGBT people to read after they "e out.
‘THIS BOOK IS GAY,’ AN LGBT SEX ED BOOK FOR TEENS, IS CHALLENGED WASILLA, ALASKA
"It explicly highlights the prence of a sectn dited to "the s and outs of gay sex. " LibsofTikTok's post about the prence of This Book is Gay Newburyport Public Schools me on the send day of Banned Books Week, which anizers scribe as "an annual event celebratg the eedom to read. "This Book is Gay is one of the top 10 challenged books of 2021, as intified by Banned Books Week.
The Florida Standard reported that Pierce Middle School offered "a book promotg gay sex – cludg stctns on how to e 'hookup apps.
"This Book Is Gay, " a book wh sectns that teach and advise kids about anal sex, oral sex, and hookup apps, is available to be checked out by stunts at Pierce Middle School Tampa, Florida.
THIS BOOK IS GAY
1, 2022, rears asked whether a book teachg about gay sex was available on the shelv of a public middle school library Tampa, Florida. As of the wrg of this story, we n report was te that thor Juno Dawson's book, "This Book Is Gay, " was available on the shelv of the Pierce Middle School library Tampa.
One of the chapters that appeared to receive the most attentn the reportg om The Florida Standard and om social media ers was tled, "Chapter 9: The Ins and Outs of Gay Sex. The fact that they didn't also teach you what same-sex upl do is nothg ls than stutnalized homophobia. Is there somethg icky about gay sex?
'The Ins and Outs of Gay Sex'. We verified that all of the pag did e om Dawson's book, "This Book Is Gay. Acrdg to onle library data for the Florida school district, we were able to nfirm that two pi of "This Book Is Gay" were ed part of Pierce Middle School's library selectn.