Marshall Universy Librari - Banned Book 2023 - Jam Dawson's This Book is Gay. Page on books banned/challenged around the Uned Stat for var reasons over the past year - Ron T
Contents:
- BANNED BOOKS 2023 – THIS BOOK IS GAY
- ‘THIS BOOK IS GAY’ IS BANNED AT HILLSBOROUGH COUNTY MIDDLE SCHOOLS
- JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH KEV MAXEN OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR US-BASED PRO LEAGU
- ‘THIS BOOK IS GAY’ AUTHOR SAYS AMERI’S TEENS HAVE BIGGER PROBLEMS THAN HER BOOK
BANNED BOOKS 2023 – THIS BOOK IS GAY
* why are gay books banned *
In Alison Bechl's queer classic, Bechl out as a lbian only to disver that her father is also gay.
Lula knows that her bt iend, Rory, is gay. This Day June by Gayle E. This Book is Gay by Juno Dawson.
And this book prov here to buy This Book is Gay. The Elmbrook School District (Brookfield, WI) spend accs to Queer: A Graphic History by Meg-John Barker and This Book is Gay by Juno Dawson via the school’s e-book app and the school librari followg a challenge om the Wisns Instute for Law and Liberty (WILL).
‘THIS BOOK IS GAY’ IS BANNED AT HILLSBOROUGH COUNTY MIDDLE SCHOOLS
I’m not askg you to have a straight Pri Month, I’m jt askg you not to have a gay Pri month. ” Some rints suggted mors should not have accs to any lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, queer/ qutng, tersex, and asexual (LGBTQIA+) books. Commissner Shelstad then asked each library board member to answer whether they thought This Book is Gay was appropriate for Campbell County youth.
JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH KEV MAXEN OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR US-BASED PRO LEAGU
” Between the Augt 12th meetg and the Augt 17th meetg, 22 forms for rensiratn had been filed agast the 12 tl – This Book is Gay by Juno Dawson, Trans Missn: My Qut to a Beard by Alex Bertie, The Babysters’ Coven by Kate Williams, Mic om Another World by Rob Talley, The V-Word: Te Stori About First-Time Sex by Amber Keyser, Quick & Easy Gui to Queer & Trans Inti by Mady G., Mary Wears What She Wants by Keh Negley, Meena by Ine Van Mol, My Body My Choice by Rob Stevenson, The Black Flamgo by Dean Atta, Heartstopper by Alice Oserman, and Jane Agast the World by Karen Blumenthal. This Book Is Gay by Juno Dawson was one of five LGBTQIA+ tl challenged by a parent at the North Hunterdon-Voorhe (NJ) Regnal High School District.
Several Wasilla rints attacked the book at a cy uncil meetg sayg that “they didn’t want ‘gay books’ or books about gay people the library at all. 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.
‘THIS BOOK IS GAY’ AUTHOR SAYS AMERI’S TEENS HAVE BIGGER PROBLEMS THAN HER BOOK
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.
Alison Bechl's narrative, told through ic-style illtratns, served as a memoir of her life growg up wh a closeted gay father; she herself e out as a lbian after his was adapted as a mil 2013. This 2020 book om Mike Curato is a semi-tobgraphil graphic novel based on his experience growg up as a gay Catholic boy, and stgglg to supprs his feelgs and act more mascule ont of other people have cricized the book's discsns of LGBTQ ntent, but won a Lambda Lerary Award 2021 — while also beg banned by schools on 10 different ocsns. "This Book is Gay, " by Juno Dawson.