After phback, 'This Book is Gay' go before school board

Contents:

• ‘THIS BOOK IS GAY’ IS BANNED AT HILLSBOROUGH COUNTY MIDDLE SCHOOLS
• HILLSBOROUGH SCHOOL BOARD VOT 4-3 TO REMOVE 'THIS BOOK IS GAY' OM MIDDLE SCHOOL LIBRARI
• HILLSBOROUGH SCHOOL BOARD VOT TO BAN 'THIS BOOK IS GAY' OM ALL UNTY MIDDLE SCHOOLS
• 'THIS BOOK IS GAY' REMOVED FROM MIDDLE SCHOOL BY SCHOOL BOARD
• FLORIDA BOARD BANS ‘THIS BOOK IS GAY’ OM MIDDLE SCHOOL LIBRARI
• FLORIDA SCHOOL BOARD VOT TO REMOVE ‘THIS BOOK IS GAY’ FROM MIDDLE SCHOOL LIBRARI
• MASSACHETTS SCHOOL DISTRICT PROMOT BOOK TELLG STUNTS HOW TO E GAY SEX APPS
• DO A TAMPA SCHOOL LIBRARY BOOK TEACH ABOUT GAY INTERURSE?
• AFTER 2 FAILED CHALLENG, HILLSBOROUGH SCHOOL BOARD TO LE ON ‘THIS BOOK IS GAY’

‘THIS BOOK IS GAY’ IS BANNED AT HILLSBOROUGH COUNTY MIDDLE SCHOOLS

TAMPA — “This Book Is Gay, ” a nonfictn book that offers guidance to LGBTQ+ youth, will no longer be available at any Hillsborough County middle a 4-3 vote Tuday, the school board cid to ban the tle as appropriate for children as young as 11. Audience members listen as the Hillsborough County School Board hears arguments Tuday for and agast makg the book "This Book is Gay" available at district middle schools.

Speakg to the board, she strsed that she was not attemptg to mount a polil battle, but rather to get the book out of the hands of middle school and district mte found that materials like “This Book Is Gay” don’t troduce stunts to the ncept, but serve as a nonfictn alternative to classmat and the ter that n clarify sometim dangero nearly filled the boardroom to discs the book and whether to take away om schools. This book is a way for gay kids to see that.

“If ‘This Book Is Gay’ vlat (state law), so do the Bible, ” Perez said, urgg the board to ensure that tn of children be enuraged the board to uphold the district review and evaluatn procs that has been place for years and adher to state law, and to keep md the needs of all children. More than 60 people spoke Tuday morng durg the public ments portn of a Hillsborough County School Board special hearg regardg the removal of the book "This Book Is Gay.

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

"This Book is Gay" is the first text to go before the Hillsborough County School Board for approval. Only a handful have so far been support of “This Book is Gay” durg the public ment perd. 'This Book is Gay' has bee a ntroversial tle at Pierce Middle Tampa.

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.

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

" 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.

'THIS BOOK IS GAY' REMOVED FROM MIDDLE SCHOOL BY SCHOOL BOARD

Pete, FLSafety Harbor, FLLutz, FLClearwater, FLFloridaTop Natnal NewsSee All CommuniTAMPA, FL — Overlg the cisn of two review mte, the Hillsborough County School Board voted to remove the book, "This Book is Gay, " om the middle school media centers, after parents filed a challenge to the book beg available at the Pierce Middle School library. "School board member Jsi Vghn agreed, notg the book even addrs abstence and warns rears agast certa behavrs such as lookg for partners on the gay datg app, Grdr.

" She said the book, "This Book is Gay, " is too sexually explic and wouldn't be allowed the classroom, therefore, shouldn't be allowed the school library.

FLORIDA BOARD BANS ‘THIS BOOK IS GAY’ OM MIDDLE SCHOOL LIBRARI

" Two stunts om Leto High School speakg at Tuday's meetg noted, however, that no one is beg forced to read "This Book is Gay.

FLORIDA SCHOOL BOARD VOT TO REMOVE ‘THIS BOOK IS GAY’ FROM MIDDLE SCHOOL LIBRARI

(WFLA) — The school board of Hillsborough County, Florida, held a special meetg on Tuday and voted to ban a book om all public middle schools the book, tled “This Book Is Gay”, explor a number of topics, cludg stereotyp and “g out. “This Book Is Gay, ” wrten by Brish thor Juno Dawson, was first published 2015. The school board of Hillsborough County, Florida, voted Tuday to remove pi of “This Book Is Gay” om middle school librari.

Parents plaed at a meetg Tuday about the prence middle school librari of “This Book Is Gay” by Juno Dawson, a sexually-explic nonfictn book that discs different sexuali, stereotyp and sexual activi, acrdg to a transcript of the Hillsborough County Board Meetg. Central Bucks School District says that will no longer stock "Genr Queer" and "This Book is Gay" s school librari, two of 65 books the board is reviewg for what lls "sexualized" board cid to keep three other tl reviewed along wh the two banned books. I get to see what other people experience, " she school district explaed the ban a statement:"Book review mte were nvened to rensir five library books, cludg Beyond Magenta by San Kl, Genr Queer by Maia Kobabe, Lawn Boy by Jonathan Evison, Me, Earl and the Dyg Girl by Jse Andrews, and This Book is Gay by Juno Dawson.

MASSACHETTS SCHOOL DISTRICT PROMOT BOOK TELLG STUNTS HOW TO E GAY SEX APPS

Commte termed that two of the books, Genr Queer and This Book is Gay, should not rema the library. 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. 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.

DO A TAMPA SCHOOL LIBRARY BOOK TEACH ABOUT GAY INTERURSE?

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.

AFTER 2 FAILED CHALLENG, HILLSBOROUGH SCHOOL BOARD TO LE ON ‘THIS BOOK IS GAY’

" 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.