Wisns middle school featur 'This Book is Gay' library, stirrg onle outrage | WLUK

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• WISNS MIDDLE SCHOOL FEATUR 'THIS BOOK IS GAY' LIBRARY, STIRRG ONLE OUTRAGE
• CALIFORNIA STILL HAS AN ANTI-GAY MARRIAGE LAW ON THE BOOKS. VOTERS ULD REMOVE NEXT YEAR

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Liv of Great Men: Livg and Lovg as an Ain Gay Man. The Invisible Ghetto: Lbian & Gay Wrg om South Ai. BLESSED BODY: The Secret Liv of Lbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgenr Nigerians.

Roxane Gay (Goodreads Author) (Wrer). aoc, aromantic, asexual, thors-of-lor, bisexual, black, black-thors, black-liv-matter, gay, lbian, lgbt, lgbtq, lgbtqia, nonbary, pansexual, poc, queer, trans, transgenr.

While the events may seem unrelated, activists and lears at the tersectn of the muni say has bee all the more evint that the fight for lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and queer rights nnot be divorced om the stggle for racial gay rights movement and the Black civil rights movement have long been tertwed, as evinced by the overlap of key figur — cludg Jam Baldw, Pli Murray and Bayard Rt — and the fact that Black activists, among them the transgenr woman Marsha P. "'B-Boy Blu' (1994-2005)by Jam Earl HardyAlyson Books"B-Boy Blu" is a six-book seri that follows a group of Black gay men livg New York Cy. "I didn't fully unrstand my queerns until I read this book, which reflected, at the time the early 2000s, the plexi of beg Black and gay.

WISNS MIDDLE SCHOOL FEATUR 'THIS BOOK IS GAY' LIBRARY, STIRRG ONLE OUTRAGE

He said is a "journey through the life of a Black gay man that experienc love, joy, pa and loss. California still has an anti-gay marriage law on the books. Arnold Schwarzenegger vetoed a subsequent legislative attempt to legalize gay marriage.

Supreme Court legalized gay marriage natnally two years later.

CALIFORNIA STILL HAS AN ANTI-GAY MARRIAGE LAW ON THE BOOKS. VOTERS ULD REMOVE NEXT YEAR

Trans, nonbary, pansexual, bisexual, lbian, gay, queer, agenr, asexual, people live all rners of our world. I recently read a review of an Ain queer novel that claimed that the kd of vlent homophobia the protagonist feared and wnsed was no longer a realy. To be te global alli, we need to read perspectiv of queerns om around the world, and open our mds and hearts to the reali of homosexualy and genr-nonnformy around our globe.

One Day I Will Wre About This Place: A Memoir by Byavanga WaaaThis award-wng memoir by Kenyan thor Waaa tells his story of his g-of-age the ’70s, of gog to learn puter programmg South Ai, of a later fay rnn Uganda and return to was one of the first Kenyan public figur to be open about beg gay — homosexualy is still crimalized and illegal Kenya — sharg that he had known he was gay sce he was 5. Eventually, she would n away om home and jo the Hijra muny, experiencg physil and sexual abe, discrimatn, poverty, sex work, and homophobia, she would eventually get work at NGO Sangama workg for the rights of queer people, and rise to bee the director. Each subject is teeterg on the le of a global ph-and-pull, whether be a gay Ugandan refugee stuck Nairobi, or a lbian uple nng a fé Cairo, or a trans woman tryg to w ctody of her child Rsia.