Report: U.S. Schools Ban Over 1,000 Books, Many by LGBTQ+ Authors
Out of the top six banned titles, four deal with queer themes.
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Out of the top six banned titles, four deal with queer themes.
More than a thousand book titles, most addressing racism and LGBTQ issues, have been banned from U.S. classrooms and school libraries in the last nine months, many under pressure from conservative parents and officials, the writers' organization PEN America said on Thursday. PEN compiled a database of banned books that includes the first novel by Nobel Prize winner Toni Morrison and a memoir by actor and activist George Takei about being sent to an internment camp in California as a Japanese-American child during World War Two. "Challenges to books, specifically books by non white ...
By Sharon Bernstein
By Sharon Bernstein (Reuters) - More than a thousand book titles, most addressing racism and LGBTQ issues, have been banned from U.S. classrooms and s...