Books shelved as gay-themed: Luck the Shadows by Lynn Flewellg, Ls by Andrew Sean Greer, Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda by Becky Albertalli, So...
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GAY THEMED BOOKS
Sang Young Park’s btsellg Love the Big Cy, about a young gay man who stggl to form ser relatnships, would have benefed om havg a ls haphazard narrative and a ls petulant narrator. * is drama a gay book *
Callie beiends two cute tw brothers: Jt, who is openly gay, and Jse, who is still stgglg wh his sexual inty. 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. Let me jt say this book is not for younger rears this book clus nothg but DRAMA and thematic elements cludg a guy who says he's gay and kiss a dghter learned what gay meant bee of this book! Girl/ boy csh, boy/ boy csh, boys g out as gay, and boys kissg each other ( albe the play).
WISNS MIDDLE SCHOOL FEATUR 'THIS BOOK IS GAY' LIBRARY, STIRRG ONLE OUTRAGE
The bt lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and queer books 2019 clud fictn and nonfictn, poetry, science fictn and horror, graphic novels and more. * is drama a gay book *
For me, this is not about someone beg gay or not, I have plenty of gay iends. Even my gay iends agree. Ignore the homophobic soccer moms.