It’s Natnal Comg Out Day. This new book breaks down the “Gay BCs” for younger children as they search for inty

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• THE GAYBCS
• IT’S NATNAL COMG OUT DAY. THIS NEW BOOK BREAKS DOWN THE “GAY BCS” FOR YOUNGER CHILDREN AS THEY SEARCH FOR INTY

THE GAYBCS

Featurg bright illtratns and upbeat, accsible poems, The GayBCs is perfect for fans of A Is for Activist and Femist Baby—showg kids and adults alike that every inty is worthy of beg celebrated.

IT’S NATNAL COMG OUT DAY. THIS NEW BOOK BREAKS DOWN THE “GAY BCS” FOR YOUNGER CHILDREN AS THEY SEARCH FOR INTY

Courty of the Jam Marshall Papers, Archiv & Special Collectns, Universy of Connecticut LibraryUpdated, 4/1/20: We’re revisg this feature, origally published last year, followg the ath of Tomie Paola, the thor and illtrator of “Strega Nona,” on Monday at 85.IN 1998, WHEN my sons were still too young to read by themselv, my partner and I gave them a picture book lled “Lucy Go to the Country.” It’s about a t who liv wh two gay men; you n tell by the tchotchk.The book, then jt published, was evintly meant to help normalize already borgly normal fai like ours by g the tradnal substutn of animals for people orr to illtrate how much fun havg gay dads n be.

(So did the name of a town en route to the untry: Peckerwood.) And if you stopped to thk about , “Lucy” seemed to argue that the gay dads, however full of fun, were aquate: When the pa chips were down, they need rcug, too.[Sign up here for the T List newsletter, a weekly roundup of what T Magaze edors are noticg and vetg now.]Maybe that’s why my boys didn’t love .