Author of 'This Book Is Gay' Stands Firm Agast Anti-LGBTQ+ Opponents

Contents:

• ‘THIS BOOK IS GAY’ AUTHOR SAYS AMERI’S TEENS HAVE BIGGER PROBLEMS THAN HER BOOK
• THIS BOOK IS GAYNONFICTN | BOOK | YA | PUBLISHED 2014A MORN ALTERNATIVE TO SPARKNOT AND CLIFFSNOT, SUPERSUMMARY OFFERS HIGH-QUALY STUDY GUIS THAT FEATURE TAILED CHAPTER SUMMARI AND ANALYSIS OF MAJOR THEM, CHARACTERS, QUOT, AND SAY TOPICS.DOWNLOAD PDFACCS FULL GUISTUDY GUISUMMARYBACKGROUNDCHAPTER SUMMARI & ANALYSINTRODUCTN-CHAPTER 3CHAPTERS 4-6CHAPTERS 7-9CHAPTER 10-BACK MATTERKEY FIGURTHEMINX OF TERMSIMPORTANT QUOTESSAY TOPICSSUMMARY AND STUDY GUI
• AUTHOR OF THIS BOOK IS GAY STANDS FIRM AGAST ANTI-LGBTQ+ OPPONENTS
• THIS BOOK IS GAY
• 'THIS BOOK IS GAY' PROVIS PREHENSIVE, AND CLIVE, SEXUAL TN
• THIS BOOK IS GAY
• ‘THIS BOOK IS GAY,’ AN LGBT SEX ED BOOK FOR TEENS, IS CHALLENGED WASILLA, ALASKA
• YOU CAN'T READ THAT! BANNED BOOK REVIEW: THIS BOOK IS GAY
• 'THIS BOOK IS GAY': WASILLA LIBRARY MULLS FUTURE OF LGBT SEX-ED BOOK
• WHY MY BOOK IS GAY: AND I'M PROUD OF

‘THIS BOOK IS GAY’ AUTHOR SAYS AMERI’S TEENS HAVE BIGGER PROBLEMS THAN HER BOOK

‘This Book Is Gay’ Author Says Ameri’s Teens Have Bigger Problems Than Her Book. Juno Dawson didn’t want to wre This Book Is Gay. First published 2014, Dawson’s how-to about gay relatnships has bee a staple for sex ed class.

Acrdg to Vanrbilt Universy, 2022, This Book Is Gay beme the nth most-banned book Ameri.

THIS BOOK IS GAYNONFICTN | BOOK | YA | PUBLISHED 2014A MORN ALTERNATIVE TO SPARKNOT AND CLIFFSNOT, SUPERSUMMARY OFFERS HIGH-QUALY STUDY GUIS THAT FEATURE TAILED CHAPTER SUMMARI AND ANALYSIS OF MAJOR THEM, CHARACTERS, QUOT, AND SAY TOPICS.DOWNLOAD PDFACCS FULL GUISTUDY GUISUMMARYBACKGROUNDCHAPTER SUMMARI & ANALYSINTRODUCTN-CHAPTER 3CHAPTERS 4-6CHAPTERS 7-9CHAPTER 10-BACK MATTERKEY FIGURTHEMINX OF TERMSIMPORTANT QUOTESSAY TOPICSSUMMARY AND STUDY GUI

In light of the recent rise book banngs, Rollg Stone spoke wh Dawson about why her 2014 book remas such a hot topic, why she thks This Book Is Gay is necsary, and how she thks policians uld really help keep Ameri’s kids safe. How do you thk sex tn and available rmatn have changed sce you wrote ‘This Book Is Gay? But as a queer teenager, I jt wish there had been somethg like This Book Is Gay.

AUTHOR OF THIS BOOK IS GAY STANDS FIRM AGAST ANTI-LGBTQ+ OPPONENTS

We’re all very clear This Book is Gay is not for children. In a lot of your ments about This Book Is Gay, you’ve phed back agast the ia that the manual is a danger to young adults.

In your ey, why is so important that more books like This Book Is Gay exist and are available to teens growg up? Most recently, ‘This Book Is Gay’ went unr a formal review as part of vtigatns to bomb threats sent to several public schools. The notoriety of This Book is Gay has only creased.

OverviewThis Book Is Gay is a 2014 young adult self-help book wrten by Juno Dawson to help teenagers unrstand the world of LGBTQ+ inti. This Book Is Gay also addrs parents and cisgenr heterosexual teenagers wh LGBTQ+ iends and loved on, providg support wh a variety of rourc.

THIS BOOK IS GAY

And serv as a pann piece to This Book Is Gay that explor genr inty. Dawson humor This Book Is Gay to munite plex and stigmatized ias to people who don’t fully unrstand what means to be LGBTQ+.

Content Warng: This Book Is Gay addrs the followg topics: anti-LGBTQ+ bias, anti-LGBTQ+ slurs, rape, suici, self-harm, dg e, and Book Is Gay is divid to an troductn, 12 chapters, and several sectns of back matter filled wh rourc. Dawson explas that some stereotyp are rooted a nugget of tth and create LGBTQ+ inti wh the larger muny (such as “twk” and “bear” inti among gay men). Chapter 9 (“The Ins and Outs of Gay Sex”) giv tailed advice on approachg LGBTQ+ sex, how to al wh other people’s bodi, and safe sex practic.

'THIS BOOK IS GAY' PROVIS PREHENSIVE, AND CLIVE, SEXUAL TN

Chapter 12 (“A Gui to Regnizg your Gay Sats”) is a short, alphabetized chapter that lists famo LGBTQ+ people and LGBTQ+ clive media. The thor of an LGBTQ-clive book at the center of several bomb threats and other ntroversi natnwi has fend the publitn and thanked librarians for standg solidary wh the prcipl of ee Dawson posted a vio on Instagram on Saturday to stick up for This Book Is Gay, which has been at the center of vlent threats and outrage among far-right the tle suggts, the book discs some of the thgs one might enunter or have qutns about if one were qutng one’s sexualy or realizg that one was gay.

“I wrote This Book Is Gay 10 years ago next year, ” she said.

And so I wanted to addrs that wh This Book Is Gay.

THIS BOOK IS GAY

The threat mentned This Book Is Gay by last week Iowa, far-right fluencer Chaya Raichik, who ns the Twter acunt Libs of TikTok, succsfully bullied the Sux Cy Communy School District to removg This Books Is Gay om school library Your Se ArticlIowa School District Remov Book, Cav to Far-Right Onle Bullyg ›New York Schools on Lock Out After Send Bomb Threat Over LGBTQ+ Book ›5 N. Schools Evacuated After Bomb Threats Over LGBTQ+ Books ›'This Book Is Gay' Heads to Adult Sectn of Alaska Library ›Gay TikTok Influencers' Story of Love and Raisg Tws Now a Book ›.

“This Book is Gay, ” by Juno Dawson, starts wh a wele: “There’s a long-nng joke that, on ‘g out, ’ a young lbian, gay guy, bisexual, or trans person should receive a membership rd and stctn manual. ” And “This Book is Gay” reads as exactly that: a fact-based chapter is terspersed wh a ndid, first-person narrative llected om real parts humoro and rmative, this nonfictn young adult book is divid to sectns: inty, stereotyp, queer history, g out and relatnships — cludg sexual relatnships. “The Ins and Outs of Gay Sex, ” a chapter posned toward the end of the book, opens wh text outled to make you take notice, “This Chapter is about sex.

‘THIS BOOK IS GAY,’ AN LGBT SEX ED BOOK FOR TEENS, IS CHALLENGED WASILLA, ALASKA

“This Book is Gay” is equently near the top of the Amerin Library Associatn’s list of most banned of the books we feature on the “Velshi Banned Book Club” are lerature, cludg ntemporary works of poetry and graphic novels. Conversely, the nversatn surroundg “This Book is Gay” is about the necsy for prehensive and, most importantly, clive sexual tn. As Dawson so saliently remds rears, the excln of same-sex upl the typil sex-ed class is nothg short of “stutnal homophobia.

This is happeng all over the natn, state by urse, many of the arguments ma agast “This Book is Gay” center around antiquated views of genr exprsn and sexualy, but they’re also ma bad fah, cludg labelg this book as “appropriate.

“This Book is Gay” is for those young adults already grapplg wh their sexualy and inty. By prohibg accs to valuable rourc like “This Book is Gay, ” we are leavg already vulnerable LGBTQ+ young adults wh nowhere to turn.

YOU CAN'T READ THAT! BANNED BOOK REVIEW: THIS BOOK IS GAY

A book tend for LGBT young adults is beg challenged the Wasilla, Alaska, public library by rints who want to see rhelved or removed, reports the Alaska Dispatch Dawson’s “This Book Is Gay” is currently shelved the library’s juvenile nonfictn sectn. ”The Dispatch News reports that several schoolchildren attend the meetg, tellg the cy uncil that “they didn’t want ‘gay books’ or books about gay people the library at all. “I love librarians wh all my heart and I tst they will fd an appropriate shelf to stock ‘This Book Is Gay’ where younger rears n’t get to , but those who sperately need n, ” he wrote an email to the Dispatch noted that LGBT teenagers who might fd the book eful were probably too aaid to speak up s fense.

Not bee is an LGBT foced book, but bee as an actual gay man I felt like queer/LGBT+ kids serve better than this!

The tth of matter is a whole entire book uld be wrten jt about beg a gay young man, or jt about beg a non-bary dividual.

'THIS BOOK IS GAY': WASILLA LIBRARY MULLS FUTURE OF LGBT SEX-ED BOOK

How many gay men do you know eat poop?! The morn day gay rights movement started 1969; prr to that the first gay rights movement the whole world began Berl, Germany but then was quickly squished by an evil man named Hler.

It don't share the orig of the gay pri flag created by Gilbert Baker San Francis, do not show the evolutn of the pri flag which now also has the trans flag thanks to Daniel for some reason, 's SO important that the thor cid to clu "St" the vob sectn?! Gay men ed to be so terrified of teractg verabally that we ed to wear handkerchiefs our back pockets. St isn't even huge the gay muny.

Simply put, this book is WAY out of touch wh morn day gay issu.

WHY MY BOOK IS GAY: AND I'M PROUD OF

It's HUGE wh the younger gay muny. This book reads a lot like an olr queer tryg to be ol and hip for a baby gay. If you're gay/want to learn more about beg gay, I highly remend readg anythg by Eric Marc and his "Makg Gay History.