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As Pride Month 2023 draws to a close, our columnist reflects on this year’s celebrations and what they mean to the community and wider society.
Far-right agitator Andy Heasman has jumped on the book-banning bandwagon by encouraging people to go into Eason’s on Dublin’s O’Connell Street and remove books from the shelves.
Library staff have recently been issued guidelines on how to deal with protesters targeting and sometimes removing LGBTQ+ books aimed at children and young people. But in our world of social media and Pornhub and Netflix and the whole world wide web in our teenagers’ pockets, banning or censoring books is about as useful as a chocolate teapot.
The groups objected to six titles including Dawson's book which has since been removed from the Children’s Books Ireland Pride Reading Guide.