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Contents:

• FLORIDA SCHOOL DISTRICT BANS BOOK ABOUT REAL-LIFE GAY PENGU RELATNSHIP, CG PARENTAL RIGHTS LAW
• JOY BEHAR KICKS OFF ‘JOY’S BANNED BOOK CLUB’ WH GAY-PENGU TALE ‘AND TANGO MAK THREE’
• AUTHORS OF GAY PENGU BOOK BANNED FLORIDA SCHOOL SUE OVER DON’T SAY GAY LAW
• GAY PENGU BOOK AUTHORS SUE OVER BAN
• FLORIDA SCHOOL DISTRICT BANS BOOK ABOUT ADORABLE GAY PENGUS UNR VILE DON’T SAY GAY LAW
• GAY PENGU BOOK STILL TOPPG ‘MOST BANNED’ LIST
• ‘GAY PENGUS’ BOOK STIRS NTROVERSY, IGNOR FULL STORY
• THIS CHILDREN’S BOOK ABOUT GAY PENGUS IS FIGHTG A BAN FLORIDA
• OPN AVOIDG OUR ‘GAY PENGUS’ BOOK? BETTER STEER CLEAR OF THE KIDS’ CLASSICS, TOO!

FLORIDA SCHOOL DISTRICT BANS BOOK ABOUT REAL-LIFE GAY PENGU RELATNSHIP, CG PARENTAL RIGHTS LAW

) Yet Florida’s Lake County School District has reportedly termed that such facts are forbidn to young children unr the state’s so-lled “Don’t Say Gay” law engeered by Florida Gov. Florida Hoe Bill 1557 "Parental Rights Edutn, " which was dubbed by crics as the "don't say gay" bill.

The Lake County School District removed And Tango Mak Three om classrooms bee of Florida’s Don’t Say Gay law.

JOY BEHAR KICKS OFF ‘JOY’S BANNED BOOK CLUB’ WH GAY-PENGU TALE ‘AND TANGO MAK THREE’

The thors of a children’s book about the te story of a same-sex pengu uple raisg a baby chick are sug a Florida school district for banng the book unr the state’s Don’t Say Gay law. The book was banned acrdance wh the state’s wily-cricised Don’t Say Gay law, which prohibs classroom discsn of LGBTQ+ issu and has already led to censorship of school plays ntag queer characters.

AUTHORS OF GAY PENGU BOOK BANNED FLORIDA SCHOOL SUE OVER DON’T SAY GAY LAW

Now the thors of the book, Jt Richardson and Peter Parnell, along wh the fai of several young stunts, are sug the school district and Florida’s board of tn, argug that the Don’t Say Gay rtrictns vlate their first amendment rights to ee speech, the New York Tim reported. Activists hold signs prottg Florida’s ntroversial “Don’t Say Gay” bill (Getty). It also asks that the urt fd the overall “Don’t Say Gay” law unnstutnal on the basis that s rtrictns are “vague and/or overbroad.

GAY PENGU BOOK AUTHORS SUE OVER BAN

“[‘Don’t Say Gay’] perms, and ankly enurag, viewpot discrimatn, and that’s exactly what happened s applitn, ” said Fah E. Gay, a lawyer wh Selendy Gay Elsberg, the firm reprentg the platiffs.

’s Gay NightlifeMemorial to Gay Victims of Nazis Vandalized Berl. A Florida school district has banned an adorable book about the te story of a same-sex pengu uple raisg a baby chick rponse to the state’s ‘Don’t Say Gay’ law. However, Lake County School District removed the book, by thors Jt Richardson and Peter Parnell, om s classrooms and school librari bee they believe falls foul of the state’s ‘Don’t Say Gay’ law.

Other tl clud A Day the Life of Marlon Bundo (a tale about a gay bunny) and In Our Mothers’ Hoe (a story about three kids wh two mums).

FLORIDA SCHOOL DISTRICT BANS BOOK ABOUT ADORABLE GAY PENGUS UNR VILE DON’T SAY GAY LAW

The school district claimed the removal of the books was required “due to ntent regardg sexual orientatn/genr intifitn prohibed” the ‘Don’t Say Gay’ law. Advot have nmned Florida’s ‘Don’t Say Gay’ law for silencg classroom discsns on LGBTQ+ people and inti.

GAY PENGU BOOK STILL TOPPG ‘MOST BANNED’ LIST

Other unti Florida also barred LGBTQ-themed books om circulatn, cg the state’s ‘Don’t Say Gay’ law.

Siar books ntag LGBTQ+ characters or them were removed om classrooms and school librari Manatee County, also bee of the ‘Don’t Say Gay’ law.

‘GAY PENGUS’ BOOK STIRS NTROVERSY, IGNOR FULL STORY

The book, wrten by a gay uple, is based of the te story of pengus Roy and Silo, who formed a uple New York’s Central Park Zoo. The book has been acced of promotg homosexualy and beg ‘anti-fay’ as well as unsuable for s age group. Dpe a shift popular opn on gay rights the US sce the book was first published, still managed to rank third on this year’s ALA list.

Last year, a Kent zoo sisted that a pair of gay pengus who are raisg a baby together are dog a much better job than their straight unterparts. CHICAGO (BP)–A children’s book based on a te story about two “gay pengus” is g ncern om parents several schools and towns natnwi, and th far the ntroversy largely has ignored an important fact — the pengus long ago spl up, wh one of them gog on to nt wh the oppose sex. “Of urse, we know the kids eventually are gog to learn about the homosexual liftyle, ” she said.

THIS CHILDREN’S BOOK ABOUT GAY PENGUS IS FIGHTG A BAN FLORIDA

The book was published before the two pengus Throckmorton, associate profsor of psychology at Grove Cy College Pennsylvania, joked that Silo was the “world’s first ex-gay pengu. ”“At tim gay activists will e the animal kgdom to support the lk between naturalism and human sexualy, and yet when Silo … took up wh a female pengu, the gay activists were downplayg the importance of that, ” Throckmorton told Baptist Prs.

”Several years ago, when the news about Roy and Silo’s “gay relatnship broke, ” liberal activists quickly poted to as a supportg argument for “gay marriage” the human world.

“Ined, if homosexual marriag exist the animal kgdom, they mt be normal. ”But Throckmorton said neher si of the “gay marriage” bate should “read too much to” the relatnship between Roy and Silo — whether the two pengus are together or apart. ” –30– For rmatn about the natnal bate over “gay marriage, ” vis.

OPN AVOIDG OUR ‘GAY PENGUS’ BOOK? BETTER STEER CLEAR OF THE KIDS’ CLASSICS, TOO!

At the epicenter of an anti-LGBTQ+ moral panic, you’ll often fd gay pengus.

Kid’s l classic And Tango Mak Three, a picture book about gay pengu parents, is one of the most equently banned books the US. In January, Florida’s Lake County School District banned the award-wng book, cg the “Don’t Say Gay” law their cisn. But given that eighteen years of library challeng have failed to erase the book, Florida is about to learn that the are gay pengus you don’t ms wh.