Mother Fil Police Report over "Gay" Book High School Library

Contents:

• ALL-STAR PANELIST ROGER SIMON DISCS THE ‘GAY-B-CS’ EBOOK ON WILLIAMSON COUNTY KRGARTNER COMPUTERS
• GAYBCS: A QUEER ALPHABET HARDVER – SEPTEMBER 18, 2018
• MOTHER FIL POLICE REPORT OVER “GAY” BOOK HIGH SCHOOL LIBRARY
• AND FOR THE TODDLER, A BOOK FOR LEARNG YOUR ‘GAY B CS’
• FIRG OF GAY CATHOLIC SCHOOL TEACHER ULD TT LATT SUPREME COURT LG

ALL-STAR PANELIST ROGER SIMON DISCS THE ‘GAY-B-CS’ EBOOK ON WILLIAMSON COUNTY KRGARTNER COMPUTERS

Children are learng about gay marriage, preferred pronouns, and genr inty, thanks to woke children’s books.

The rhymg story “Prce & Knight” puts a homosexual twist on the classic tale of a prce search of his te love.

Leahy: Okay, so this for krgartners ’s been removed now, but was up there, and the Gay-B-Cs clu C is for g out. The rult would be GAYBCs ―a playful, subversive alphabet book that aims to spread awarens and mystify queer termology for everyone.

GAYBCS: A QUEER ALPHABET HARDVER – SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

Usg straightforward, accsible language, GAYBCs also f ls monly known terms, such as “femme, ” “Mx., ” and “ze, ” and puts LGBTQ-iendly sps on words like “weddg” and “equaly. A mother of a high school stunt Michigan reportedly filed a police report over the prence of a gay book  her dghter’s school library due to s “graphic” ntent and belief that the book’s advice uld put stunts danger.

This Book is Gay, by Juno Dawson, is one of seven that have been pulled om circulatn by the Dearborn Public Schools system after parents objected to their ntent. The book, a semi-tobgraphil novel, tells the story of Ain, a biracial queer boy at Boy Suts summer mp who is stgglg wh his sexual orientatn and his Catholic relig upbrgg, and who is equently bullied for his appearance and effemate behavr by other boys monstratg toxic mascule behavr, cludg directg homophobic slurs at Ain, and who spend their time tryg to prove to each other who is more manly. Butler also wrote a Facebook post railg agast This Book is Gay, the book she reported to the Dearborn Police, cg ncerns over chapters that talk about how to jo datg apps and how to talk to or bate people who intify as Christian, Mlim, or Orthodox Jews and who hold relig views opposg homosexualy.

Butler said she felt This Book is Gay was “so graphic I felt I had to make a police report about . In rponse to Butler’s plat, the school district has temporarily pulled seven books, cludg This Book is Gay, om circulatn. Wh regards to This Book is Gay, specifilly, Bce told WXYZ he wish he had accs to siar rourc when he was younger.

MOTHER FIL POLICE REPORT OVER “GAY” BOOK HIGH SCHOOL LIBRARY

“You have to be able to addrs those ncerns, ” Bce said of This Books is Gay‘s ntent.

Hearthsi Books June is promotg books for the holiday season, and s talog featur a book for the grand-babi: “Gay BCs”. “The GayBCs, ” released last month by Quirk Books, is thored by a gay graphic signer who wants to ensure parents are havg a dialogue wh their children about their sexual orientatn at a very young age.

AND FOR THE TODDLER, A BOOK FOR LEARNG YOUR ‘GAY B CS’

“Gay BCs, ” thored and illtrated by Canadian signer Rae Congdon, is marketed as a “A cheeky, progrsive adult alphabet book that celebrat and illumat LGBTQ termology. Acrdg to Greystone Books, ’s “a playful, subversive alphabet book that aims to spread awarens and mystify gay and queer termology for everyone. Usg straightforward, accsible language, GAYBCs also f ls monly known terms, such as “femme, ” “Mx., ” and “ze, ” and puts LGBTQ-iendly sps on words like “weddg” and “equaly.

Published fal eded form as:PMCID: PMC6322390NIHMSID: NIHMS999171AbstractLbian, gay, and bisexual stunts (LGB) and those qutng their sexual orientatn are often at great risk for negative out like prsn, suicidaly, dg e, and school difficulti (Ellt and Kilpatrick, How to Stop Bullyg, A KIDSCAPE Gui to Trag, 1994; Mufoz-Plaza et al., High Sch J 85:52–63, 2002; Treadway and Yoakam, J School Health 62(7):352–357, 1992). This study examed how school ntextual factors such as homophobic victimizatn and school climate fluence negative out LGB and qutng middle school stunts.

LGB and sexually qutng youth were more likely to report high levels of bullyg, homophobic victimizatn, and var negative out than heterosexual youth. Stunts who were qutng their sexual orientatn reported the most bullyg, the most homophobic victimizatn, the most dg e, the most feelgs of prsn and suicidaly, and more tancy than eher heterosexual or LGB stunts.

FIRG OF GAY CATHOLIC SCHOOL TEACHER ULD TT LATT SUPREME COURT LG

A posive school climate and a lack of homophobic victimizatn morated the differenc among sexual orientatn stat and out. Rults dite that schools have the abily to lsen negative out for LGB and sexually qutng stunts through creatg posive climat and rcg homophobic teasg.

Keywords: Homophobia, Homosexualy, Victimizatn, Middle school stunts, School climate, Bullyg, MoratorsIntroductnBronfenbrenner’s (1977, 1979) social–elogil ame-work suggts the fluence of the environment is sential to unrstandg both the child and to creatg effective change for that dividual.

Unfortunately, many school districts, admistrators, and teachers are unsupportive of the needs of their lbian, gay, bisexual (LGB) and qutng stunts (Lipk 2002). Multiple natnwi and regnal surveys have nfirmed that LGB youth experience homophobic harassment equently by their peers and sometim school staff.