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A Southern California school board has bee the latt proxy for culture wars brewg across the untry after a nservative bloc voted to formally reject state-endorsed curriculum that would have mentned gay rights figure Harvey Milk.

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HILLSBOROUGH SCHOOL BOARD VOT TO BAN 'THIS BOOK IS GAY' OM ALL UNTY MIDDLE SCHOOLS

Hillsborough School Board members voted 4-3 Tuday at a special meetg to ban "This Book is Gay" by Juno Dawson om all middle schools the unty. * this book is gay school board meeting *

The mother alleg that the book “This Book Is Gay, ” by Juno Dawson is available to seventh-gra stunts at a middle school Charlotte Mecklenburg Schools. Before readg the graphic novel, the mother sisted children leave the room before she read a chapter tled “The Ins and Outs of Gay Sex. ” “I’m gog to read om chapter ne, ‘The Ins and Outs of Gay Sex, ’ startg at page 201, part 1, ‘Boy-on-Boy Sex, ’” the mother said.

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HILLSBOROUGH SCHOOL BOARD VOT 4-3 TO REMOVE 'THIS BOOK IS GAY' OM MIDDLE SCHOOL LIBRARI

Gov. Gav Newsom is takg on nservative Temecula Valley Unified school officials over textbooks that discs sla gay activist Harvey Milk. * this book is gay school board meeting *

GRAPHIC: A mom reads om the book ‘This Book Is Gay’ which was on the remend readg list for middle schoolers at @CharMeckSchools. The book teach kids about gay sex and enurag the e of sex apps.

A special school board meetg was lled Tuday Hillsborough County to discs “This Book Is Gay” by Juno Dawson.

Only one high school the unty has the book earlier mte cid "This Book Is Gay" uld stay on the shelv at Pierce after reviewg plats brought by two parents, neher of whom have children attendg Tuday, over 50 people, cludg elementary and high school stunts, spoke durg an pecially ntent public ment ssn. “This is not polil, homophobic or book banng. " Dpe some nfn among board members whether they were votg to remove "This Book is Gay" om all Hillsborough County middle schools or jt Pierce, the board ultimately voted 4-3 to take out of all middle schools.

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