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THE GAY HISTORY OF AMERI’S CLASSIC CHILDREN’S BOOKS
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WAS SHEL SILVERSTE GAY
” No, I know: “Frog and Toad” — a seri of four picture books by Arnold Lobel, origally published between 1970 and 1979 — is not gay-themed. But ’s not not gay-themed eher.