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Florida school removed Bible from shelves over “sexually explicit content”
The Bible contains passages about naked people, drunken incest, and one sex worker who compares her well-endowed male lovers to donkeys.
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To hide our history is to deny our existence: Kids must learn what queer folks have given the world
Queer people gave us computers, the Mona Lisa, and “Where the Wild Things Are.” LGBTQ+ youth deserve to see that they aren’t alone.
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GOP congressman claims the Bible has been banned in America for 60 years
He said “generations of Americans today have no knowledge” of the Bible because it was banned so long ago.
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Angry parents are fighting back against Moms for Liberty’s school board takeovers
The group has been commandeering school boards to ban LGBTQ+ and anti-racist content, and parents have had enough.
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Scholastic allegedly lets schools exclude “diverse” texts from book fairs
School librarians report that the publisher is segregating “diverse” books in an optional case.
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An informed populace makes it easier to challenge authority. That’s why they’re banning books.
And it’s all fueled by white Christian nationalism.
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3 anti-LGBTQ+ groups are behind 86% of all book bans across the U.S.
The groups all have right-wing Republican support and also advocate for other anti-LGBTQ+ school policies.
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As book bans soar, a more subtle form of censorship has begun ravaging U.S. libraries
Quiet censorship is a different beast in which LGBTQ+ books are not outright banned but are becoming less and less accessible.
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Appeals court allows Texas’ book ban to proceed without explanation
State lawyers couldn’t even answer basic questions about how the law is supposed to work.
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Book bans in U.S. schools & libraries increased by 33% this past school year
At the same time, students are leading the fight against book censorship, according to a new report from PEN America.