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Scholastic releases Pride educator guide with resources for fighting anti-LGBTQ+ book bans
Last year, the company ended its policy of allowing schools to opt-out of receiving “divisive” LGBTQ+ books at book fairs.
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Pride event canceled because they were going to give away banned books
Organizers haven’t even been given a list of banned books to avoid.
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Most of the books conservatives are trying to ban in Tennessee are LGBTQ+
Even when confronted with the data, anti-LGBTQ+ organizations say they’re just concerned with “sexually explicit material” in libraries.
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Anti-LGBTQ+ Democrat claimed trans care is “Black genocide.” She just lost to a queer woman.
Rep. Shawn Thierry voted for anti-LGBTQ+ bills. She lost in a landslide.
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Ruby Bridges blasts book bans as “ridiculous” attempts to “cover up history”
“The history, all the subject matter that they want to ban, it’s happening in the world.”
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Protestors interrupt a Moms for Liberty’s “fascist” book banning meeting
One protestor who called himself “Rainbow Spartacus” wore a rainbow-colored Roman soldier outfit and a rainbow cape.
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West Virginia GOP wants to jail librarians who provide “obscene” books to minors
“This is a very dangerous bill,” one legislator said of the proposed law, which now heads to the state senate.
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Moms for Liberty chapter implodes after humiliating school board election defeat
“Another one bites the dust.”
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Texas’s anti-LGBTQ+ book ban law blocked by federal court
The law requires book sellers to rate sexual content in books… or else.
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I gift LGBTQ+ children’s books to my nephew every Christmas. This is the first year I’ve hesitated.
In today’s fraught environment, we run the risk of policing ourselves for fear of scurrilous, unfounded accusations from ideologues and radical busybodies.