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Contents:

• COUPLE BEHD KIDS' BOOK ABOUT PENGU DADS CHALLENGE FLORIDA'S 'DON'T SAY GAY' LAW
• AUTHORS OF GAY PENGU BOOK BANNED FLORIDA SCHOOL SUE OVER DON’T SAY GAY LAW
• JOY BEHAR KICKS OFF ‘JOY’S BANNED BOOK CLUB’ WH GAY-PENGU TALE ‘AND TANGO MAK THREE’
• GAY PENGU STORY ON LIST OF DISPUTED LIBRARY BOOKS
• 'AND THEN CAME TANGO,' GAY PENGU PLAY, CANCELED BY TEXAS SCHOOL DISTRICT
• WHAT’S WH ALL THE GAY PENGUS?
• SGAPORE WHDRAWS GAY PENGU BOOK OM LIBRARI
• A GAY PENGU UPLE ADOPTED AN EGG A BERL ZOO
• GAY PENGUS PROVE THAT LOVE IS WNG
• OPN AVOIDG OUR ‘GAY PENGUS’ BOOK? BETTER STEER CLEAR OF THE KIDS’ CLASSICS, TOO!
• GAY PENGUS RAISE NEWLY HATCHED CHICK AT NEW YORK ZOO
• CAN PENGUS BE GAY? [ALL QUTNS ANSWERED]
• SGAPORE BANS CHILDREN'S BOOK FEATURG GAY PENGU COUPLE

COUPLE BEHD KIDS' BOOK ABOUT PENGU DADS CHALLENGE FLORIDA'S 'DON'T SAY GAY' LAW

) Yet Florida’s Lake County School District has reportedly termed that such facts are forbidn to young children unr the state’s so-lled “Don’t Say Gay” law engeered by Florida Gov. As It Happens6:34Couple behd kids' book about pengu dads challenge Florida's 'Don't Say Gay' lawWhen Peter Parnell and Jt Richardson first published their beloved children's book about a real-life pengu fay, they didn't thk they'd still be fightg to keep on shelv nearly two s Tango Mak Three is an award-wng illtrated book for kids aged four to eight that tells the te story of a male pengu uple at the Central Park Zoo who famoly hatched an egg and raised a chick has been challenged repeatedly sce was published 2005, and most recently was pulled om librari Florida's Lake County school district unr the state's so-lled "Don't Say Gay" legislatn.

"Our hearts go out to the kids Lake County who have two dads or have two moms or were adopted or are themselv beg aware that they're gay or lbian. "WATCH | Florida expands 'Don't Say Gay' law: Florida expands ntroversial ‘Don’t say gay’ banThe Board of Edutn has voted to ban stctn on sexual orientatn and genr inty all ag, expandg the statute some ll the ‘Don’t say gay’ law.

" Origally aimed at Krgarten through Gra 3, has sce been expand to enpass pre-krgarten through Gra is formally tled the "Parental Rights Edutn" act, but s crics have dubbed "Don't Say Gay.

AUTHORS OF GAY PENGU BOOK BANNED FLORIDA SCHOOL SUE OVER DON’T SAY GAY LAW

The Lake County School District removed And Tango Mak Three om classrooms bee of Florida’s Don’t Say Gay law.

JOY BEHAR KICKS OFF ‘JOY’S BANNED BOOK CLUB’ WH GAY-PENGU TALE ‘AND TANGO MAK THREE’

The thors of a children’s book about the te story of a same-sex pengu uple raisg a baby chick are sug a Florida school district for banng the book unr the state’s Don’t Say Gay law. The book was banned acrdance wh the state’s wily-cricised Don’t Say Gay law, which prohibs classroom discsn of LGBTQ+ issu and has already led to censorship of school plays ntag queer characters. Now the thors of the book, Jt Richardson and Peter Parnell, along wh the fai of several young stunts, are sug the school district and Florida’s board of tn, argug that the Don’t Say Gay rtrictns vlate their first amendment rights to ee speech, the New York Tim reported.

Activists hold signs prottg Florida’s ntroversial “Don’t Say Gay” bill (Getty).

Standg si by si at the Berl Zoo wh their flippers touchg, they take turns refully ntlg an egg between their feet the hope that will eventually hatch the chick they have both long the two 10-year-olds are both male — and the latt a long succsn of same-sex pengus that have upled up to adopt an zoos London, Atralia and New York, male and female pengus have for years entered same-sex relatnships to cubate eggs to chicks, lightg zookeepers and some visors while stirrg anger and revulsn has bee the latt cy to host a pair of “gay” pengus after Skipper and Pg showed an attractn to each other and a sire to bee parents.

GAY PENGU STORY ON LIST OF DISPUTED LIBRARY BOOKS

Rashed, who is gay, me to Germany four years ago and found a haven. Germany has one of the world’s hight acceptance rat for homosexualy, and legalized same-sex marriage and granted full adoptn rights 2017.

The German far right, however, has been acced of stirrg homophobia recent nursery-school teacher Hannelore Ber said she first heard about the same-sex pengu uple on TV. “An animal follows s stcts and s feelgs — jt like humans, too, ” Ber Berl Zoo officials said their pengu uple had so far spired only posive reactns om visors, siar stanc — and even lerature about — have recent years sparked fierce backlash, ernmental bans and relig protts around the forcefulns of that backlash has bee a way to measure “where we are at any one lotn terms of the acceptance of gay rights, ” said psychiatrist Jt Richardson, -thor of a children’s book that tells the te story of same-sex pengus adoptg an egg at New York’s Central Park Zoo two chstrap pengus — Silo and Roy — were able to succsfully hatch their adopted baby pengu, Tango. “There have been so many challeng to the book around the world — is sometim hard to keep up wh , ” Richardson said a telephone their charmg waddle and tenncy to rema monogamo relatnships, pengus appear to have ronated wh both supporters and opponents of gay rights unlike any other of the more than 450 animal speci that have been observed to show homosexual behavr.

'AND THEN CAME TANGO,' GAY PENGU PLAY, CANCELED BY TEXAS SCHOOL DISTRICT

Richardson said the backlash to his work is bee this behavr among pengus reaffirms that homosexualy is ed natural and not, as some opponents argue, an unnatural choice.

”Blogists have been more ut about drawg lks between homosexual behavr of animals and humans, sayg that occurrenc of same-sex uplg or matg ruals are rare the animal world and that there is not enough data to say whether members of certa speci, cludg pengus, n be gay. Most likely, animals sometim lled gay public disurse are, fact, bisexual, rearchers say.

WHAT’S WH ALL THE GAY PENGUS?

Meanwhile Poland, the untry’s first openly gay mayor, Robert Biedron, faced right-wg nmnatns for actively promotg the book 2009, as the untry’s LGBT muny was beg more vol. 'Real-life story'Marjane Satrapi's Persepolis, a graphic novel about a young Iranian girl growg up the years after the untry's Islamic Revolutn, is ranked list of tl, all of which have been the subject of a formal wrten plat, filed wh a library or school, requtg they be removed, is piled annually by the ALA's Office for Intellectual alleged "cultural sensivy" of Alexie's novel is one of the reasons ced plats llg for s Tango Mak Three - based on a real-life story of two male pengus who hatched an egg at the New York Zoo - is acced of promotg a homosexual tl on the list clu Toni Morrison's but novel The Blut Eye, The Ke Runner by Khaled Hossei and A Stolen Life, a kidnappg memoir by Jaycee ALA unted 311 challeng 2014, roughly the same as were lodged on this storyRelated Inter LksThe BBC is not rponsible for the ntent of external s. Adorable "gay" pengus may once aga be makg ternatnal headl, but one Texas school district isn't feelg the love.

"Before You Go'Gay' Animal CasPopular the CommunyYou May Like. The list of gay pengu upl go on and on and spans a wi range of speci. In the Netherlands, a gay Ain pengu uple recently stole an egg om a lbian pengu uple.

That means ’s difficult to tell male and female pengus apart and even more difficult to intify any wild matg pairs as homosexual. Media ptn, Sgapore's Natnal Library Board says will not change s cisn, as Sharanj Leyl reportsSgapore thori have whdrawn om librari two children's books featurg same-sex upl, sparkg ntroversy amid a bate on gay rights the nservative Tango Mak Three featur a pair of gay pengus while The Whe Swan Exprs mentns a lbian uple. Petns for the books to be put back have garnered thoands of sex is illegal Sgapore, and a recent gay rally drew an unprecented backlash om relig two books were removed earlier this week after a library er wrote to the Natnal Library Board exprsg ncern about the books' library board said a statement that tak "a pro-fay and ut approach intifyg tl for our young visors", and plans to pulp the books spe vol opposn.

SGAPORE WHDRAWS GAY PENGU BOOK OM LIBRARI

It has been the subject of tense ntroversy the Uned Stat, and has nsistently ma to the Amerin Library Associatn's list of books which receive the most number of removal Whe Swan Exprs featur several would-be parents lookg to adopt children Cha, cludg a lbian uple and a sgle source, AFPImage ptn, The annual Pk Dot rally se supporters formg the eponymo dot downtown SgaporeThe bate on gay rights has gathered steam Sgapore recent years. The annual Pk Dot gay rally last month was met wh a unter "pro-fay" mpaign backed by relig rights proponents have lnched two nstutnal challeng to overturn a law that bans gay sex.

Gay pengu uple adopt egg together.

A GAY PENGU UPLE ADOPTED AN EGG A BERL ZOO

After uls attempts to hatch ston and fish, a gay pengu uple at a German zoo may fally be able to parent a chick of their own.

Jäger said the zoo’s seen plenty of same-sex pengu upl, and now, Skipper and Pg might jo a storied lp of gay pengu parents.

GAY PENGUS PROVE THAT LOVE IS WNG

In June, the ZSL London Zoo celebrated longtime lovers Ronnie and Reggie wh a banner that read, “Some pengus are gay.

Gay uplg certaly isn’t limed to pengus.

OPN AVOIDG OUR ‘GAY PENGUS’ BOOK? BETTER STEER CLEAR OF THE KIDS’ CLASSICS, TOO!

“I knew homosexualy existed the animal world but I had never heard of gay adoptn the animal world, ” Schmidt said. Homosexualy is mon the animal kgdom. The posive support Skip and Pg have gotten so far seems to be a sign of the tim and “where we are at any one lotn terms of the acceptance of gay rights, ” Richardson tells the Washgton Post’s Rick Noack and Luisa Beck.

GAY PENGUS RAISE NEWLY HATCHED CHICK AT NEW YORK ZOO

</p>Fifteen hundred or so speci of animals - such as dolphs, sheep and those bisexual bonobos - have, let's say, gay tennci. None, however, have que ptured our hearts like gay Wells/The Dodo (Shutterstock)Most memorably, crowds flocked to the Central Park Zoo for a chance to spot Roy and Silo, a pair of male chstrap pengu lovers who famoly adopted an egg and raised a dghter, Tango, together.

Roy and Silo spired polarized polil bate and (highly censored) children's books the famo lovebirds weren't the first gay pengu uple - not even at their own zoo (that would be Geey and Mickey, two lady gentoos).

CAN PENGUS BE GAY? [ALL QUTNS ANSWERED]

Documentatn of pengu homosexualy (or, at least, heteroflexibily) go back to 1911, when a Brish Antarctic expedn tailed the "pravy" of the Adélie pengus - though this sndalo report was only brought to light 2012. Alternately, gay pengu upl who have been allowed to adopt eggs or chicks (om straight pengus who dched them, no ls) have proved to be diligent parents - like Roy and Silo, or Germany's Z and Vielpunkt. [Florida’s] HB 1557 … wily known as the “don’t say gay” bill, prohibs classroom stctn on “sexual orientatn or genr inty” gras krgarten through three or a manner that is not “age-appropriate.

We totally unrstand why you have to stop readg our “gay pengus” book school. You shouldn’t have to worry about beg slapped wh a lawsu for discsg homosexual ’ve been thkg this law leav some pretty key terms unfed.

A gay pengu uple are now proud parents after the egg they had been rg for hatched early last and Lima, two male pengus, are the first same-sex pengu parents at the Rosamond Gifford Zoo Syrace, New York, which is home to an ternatnally renowned Humboldt pengu program. Humans are not the only animal to engage homosexual behavr. Giraff, monkeys, lns, and even dolphs have all exhibed homosexual tras.

SGAPORE BANS CHILDREN'S BOOK FEATURG GAY PENGU COUPLE

But what about pengus, n they be gay? Y, pengus n be gay and have been observed engagg homosexual behavr the wild and ptivy.

When given abandoned eggs by zookeepers, gay pengus n hatch and raise young chicks jt as well as heterosexual upl. However, most gay pengus eventually end up straight readg to fd out more about homosexualy pengus and how zoos have evolved their approach to alg wh . Can Pengus Be Gay?