Sal of a children's book suffer bee of a passg reference to gay parents. Its thor hat censorship, but her livelihood is threatened.
Contents:
- TROUBLE WH GAY CHARACTERS
- CHASG THE RABOW: LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANSGENR AND QUEER YOUTH AND PRI SEMTICS
TROUBLE WH GAY CHARACTERS
From Publisher's Weekly: Sanchez returns to the liv of Nelson, Kyle and Jason-the three likable gay characters he created Rabow Boys, fg his sequel wh romance and humor. Shy Kyle is seeg Jason, and he worri that beg accepted to Prceton will mean the end of their relatnship; he also mt pe wh the anti-gay gib of his fellow swim team members.
Sanchez, a unselor whose missn is promotg tolerance, illumat var facets of adolcent gay life through his characters, and clus tailed rmatn at the back of the book on anizg a peer group, issu wh parents, vlence and hate crim agast gays and lbians, human rights mpaigns, HIV and AIDS, teen sexualy and suici, and servic on the Inter.
Here are meRabow High Stella Monroe - LbianBella Parker - LbianJa Hunter - LbianDaria Roselynn - BissexualAidan Rsel - GayLyric Lus - BissexualCarmen Major - LbianMarisa Goldg - LbianLrel Dev - LbianHolly Dev - LbianSimone Summers - PansexualPhaedra Wtward - BissexualJewel Richie - TransgenrAvery Styl - LbianShadow HighHarley Limtone - LbianMara Pkett - LbianUma Van Hoose - BissexualNile Steele - PansexualAsh Silverstone - PansexualHeather Grayson - BissexualNatasha Zima - LbianNaomi Storm - TransgenrVeroni Storm - TransgenrDia Mante - LbianAsley Slater - BissexualLuna Madison - LbianRea Crowne - LbianKarla Choupette - LbianOMG (oops wrong le), why is everyone of shadow high except Shanelle the list(eded by Hayloud)My headnonsMele [Lbian]Avery [Bisexual]Bella [Lbian]Ja [Lbian]Asley [Bisexual]Nile [Bisexual]Naomi & Veroni [Lbians]Natasha [Lbian]Luna & Sunny [Bisexuals]Ash [Pansexual]Fn [Gay]Simone [Bisexual](eded by Hayloud)I hontly thk Bella and Ja are perfect together! Although “The Trouble Wh Babi” had received good reviews, the sal of her children’s book about a young San Francis girl were poor pared wh the first tle her seri, and the paperback rights would not be more stunng was the reason: A brief passage buried the book about two gay fathers and their adopted son apparently had disuraged many librarians across the untry om buyg the tle. Although they had enthiastilly purchased Freeman’s prev book, “The Trouble Wh Cats, ” the mere mentn of the gay uple her newt work raised the possibily of a public one se, a Ptsburgh-area mother who scribed herself as a Christian mand that the book be removed, wrg to an elementary school librarian that the thor obvly had a “homosexual agenda” appropriate for young rears.
CHASG THE RABOW: LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANSGENR AND QUEER YOUTH AND PRI SEMTICS
”Now, Freeman fac a dilemma: Her publisher, Holiday Hoe, has asked her to produce a third stallment, and she has not cid whether to reta the gay fathers, as an act of pennce, or elimate them an effort to sell more books. ”At a time when gay culture is gag wir acceptance Amerin society -- as reflected televisn shows, movi, magaz, fashn trends and recent urt cisns -- Freeman’s experience is a remr that sensivi still n high on the issue, pecially when to marketg new books for younger there has been an explosn the number of books wh gay and lbian them wrten for teenagers, sal of siar tl for younger children school and public librari rema “very dicey and very different, ” said Roger Sutton, publisher of the Horn Book Magaze, a monthly that vers children’s a library ref to acquire a gay-themed book for teenagers, he explaed, they n still fd other plac -- like bookstor or onle -- bee they have disposable e.
”Ined, several gay-themed books for younger rears have remaed atop the list of the natn’s most-banned library books recent years, acrdg to the Amerin Library Assn., which tracks the such as “Heather Has Two Mommi” and “Daddy’s New Roommate” have sparked legal battl across the natn, g many books to be removed or segregated special many experts believe a more subtle and prevalent kd of censorship happens when school or public librarians simply cle to buy a book like Freeman’s, fearg may e a polil furor.
But Freeman and other wrers whose books sell mostly and rarely make headl rely heavily on librarians’ goodwill and word of mouth to keep their books is no precise way to measure how many gay-themed books have been taken off library shelv for polil reasons. ’s Office of Intellectual Freedom reports that om 1990 to 2000 there were 515 reported s school and public librari which crics sought to remove books wh alleged homosexual them. Many more s were never reported, the group of Legal FightsIn recent years, there have been legal battl over gay-themed library books Mae, Wisns, Texas, Virgia, California, Florida, Maryland and other stat.