Banned Book Week: 10 Books That Are Way Too Gay To Read! - Queerty

Contents:

• BANNED BOOK WEEK: 10 BOOKS THAT ARE WAY TOO GAY TO READ!
• YOU CAN'T READ THAT! BANNED BOOK REVIEW: THIS BOOK IS GAY

BANNED BOOK WEEK: 10 BOOKS THAT ARE WAY TOO GAY TO READ!

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.

”'Lawn Boy'Jonathan EvisonAlgonqu BooksThis g-of-age novel, narrated by a young gay man, highlights the challeng of navigatg race and class.

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

"'This Book Is Gay'Juno DawsonHot Key Books“This Book Is Gay” is a g-out gui for lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and queer teens. This year, “This Book Is Gay” was one of three works targeted for removal Texas after a school supertennt plaed, an vtigatn by ProPubli and the Texas Tribune revealed.

Nearly 600 books spanng a variety of genr and readg levels were the target of censorship attempts at librari, schools and universi last year, and 8 out of the 10 that ma the Amerin Library Associatn’s “Most Challenged Books” of 2019 list shared a mon nomator: LGBTQ latt rankg marks the fourth nsecutive year that books wh lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and queer storyl posed at least half of the list, which is clud the associatn's annual “State of Ameri’s Librari” report. "This year marked the first time Daniel Haack’s “Prce & Knight, ” a children’s book that featur a gay fairytale weddg, appeared on the list. All three books feature gay or transgenr characters and have been among the top 10 most-challenged books sce argug for the removal of the books om school and library shelv, challengers claimed that schools and librari should not “put books a child’s hand that require discsn” and exprsed ncerns that such books are “signed to pollute the morals of s rears” and are “a liberate attempt to doctrate young children.

Though the Amerin Library Associatn says they were targeted for “vulgary and sexual unrton” and pictns of wchcraft, rpectively, both also feature gay characters. Annie on My Md was published first 1982 amidst ntroversy bee of s posive portrayal of the story’s gay protagonists.