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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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Joe Biden still hasn’t named a “book ban coordinator” despite Pride Month promise
Biden promised the coordinator would help fight nationwide book bans, but the position remains unfilled.
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LGBTQ+ allies defeated book banners in two contentious library meetings
Opponents claimed the LGBTQ+ books would “put sexual perversion or sexual acts in front of children.” But the community fought back.
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A school district used ChatGPT to decide which “sexual” books to ban. It didn’t go well.
The district said it didn’t have time to review every book in its collection like the new GOP state law requires. But is AI the answer?
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Anti-“smut” board member caught illegally sneaking around high school library
She has been on a crusade against library books. So she lied to sneak into the school….
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Florida schools banned this sweet children’s book for alleged “adult content” — it has none
The book includes non-sexual illustrations of the men living together, which is apparently too steamy for this school district.
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Virginia’s book ban law will no longer explicitly target homosexuality
“To solely equate homosexuality with ‘sexual conduct’ is both minimizing and antiquated,” one advocate said.
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Texas county bans libraries from providing LGBTQ+ books to minors
“Young people deserve to see themselves reflected in the books they read…. [so they] can foster empathy, tolerance, and connection.”
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School district may ban biography of Pete Buttigieg to comply with anti-LGBTQ+ book ban law
The list of 374 books that may be banned includes literary classics like “1984” and “The Catcher in the Rye.”
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Judge blocks Arkansas plan to charge librarians & store owners with a crime over “harmful” books
The state wants to turn librarians into criminals for letting kids read children’s books.