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As writers and activists enter the public discussions, they tend to adopt a style and way of communicating that works for them. For me, I am a gay dad who writes people letters in a very public way…

There was another significant hearing this week on Tuesday about same sex relationships and whether to ban them.

SINGAPORE — Two children’s books dealing with gay subjects won’t be destroyed after all and will be restored to Singapore’s public libraries, an official said Friday. Minister of Communications and Information Yaacob Ibrahim had said in mid-July he supported the state-run National Library Board’s decision to pulp three books deemed to have inappropriate …

SINGAPORE — A children’s book inspired by a real-life story of two male penguins raising a baby chick in New York’s zoo has been deemed inappropriate by state-run Singapore libraries, and the conservative city-state’s information minister said he supports the decision to destroy all copies alongside two other titles. The National Library Board, which runs 26 public libraries in Singapore…

The American Library Association’s annual “Banned Books Week” is underway, and again this year books about LGBT people and their families remain one of the biggest targets of censorship in school classrooms and libraries, according to the American Civil Liberties Union.