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DECEMBER 14, 2024
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Gay penguin book shakes up Illinois school
A picture book about two male penguins raising a baby penguin is getting a chilly reception among some parents in Shiloh, Illinois, who worry about the book's availability to children--and the reluctance of school administrators to restrict access to it.
NOVEMBER 17, 2006
Catholic Journalist Slams London Zoo's 'Deviant' Gay Penguins
A writer has ignited a Twitter firestorm for attacking a zoo's Pride exhibit.
JULY 3, 2019
Florida's book bans have now come for dictionaries
A children's dictionary is one of almost 3,000 books under review at a Florida school district.
JANUARY 12, 2024
Penguin Random House and PEN America Sue Florida Over Book Bans
Many of the books removed from school libraries or placed on restricted access in Escambia County deal with LGBTQ+ or racial matters.
MAY 17, 2023
Gay Florida High Schooler Faces Threat Over Graduation Speech
The senior says the school's principal has told him that no activism would be allowed at the school's graduation ceremony.
MAY 12, 2022
Florida Students Limited to Excerpts of Shakespeare Due to 'Sexual' Themes
Florida’s “don’t say gay” law is now depriving students of accessing some of the most read works in the English language.
AUGUST 9, 2023
Gay Penguin Couple at Australian Aquarium Expecting Second Chick
The gentoo penguins made global news last October with the hatching of their first chick, Sphengic.
NOVEMBER 8, 2019
A Queer Latino Educator on Coming Out
In this excerpt from the new book One Teacher in Ten in the New Millennium -- edited by GLSEN founder Kevin Jennings -- Benny Vasquez says coming out as a gay teacher in New York is harder than you'd think.
AUGUST 26, 2015
LGBTQ Books Most Challenged in Libraries
The American Library Association's annual report finds a rise in coordinated efforts against books with affirming LGBTQ themes and characters.
APRIL 20, 2020
This Small Virginia Town Could Lose Its Library Over LGBTQ+ Book Brawl
Some conservative parents are claiming books with LGBTQ+ themes are essentially pornography.
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SEPTEMBER 6, 2023
Florida School District Bans Book on Gay Penguin Couple
The Lake County School District said it was only following Florida's "don't say gay" law by banning And Tango Makes Three.
JANUARY 10, 2023
Gay Penguin Tale Tops List of 'Challenged' Books
A children's story about a family of penguins with two fathers once again tops the list of library books the public objects to the most. And Tango Makes Three, released in 2005 and co-written by Justin Richardson and Peter Parnell, was the most ''challenged'' book in public schools and libraries for the second straight year, according to the American Library Association. ''The complaints are that young children will believe that homosexuality is a lifestyle that is acceptable. The people complaining, of course, don't agree with that,'' Judith Krug, director of the ALA's Office for Intellectual Freedom, told the Associated Press on Tuesday.
MAY 7, 2008
Singapore Libraries Remove Three LGBT-Inclusive Kids' Books
Books featuring gay penguin dads and other same-sex parents draw complaints from a patron, and authorities respond.
JULY 12, 2014
Gay Penguins Are Raising an Egg Together in Australia
Since same-sex marriage is now legal in Australia, two of Sydney's gay penguins figured it was time to start a family.
OCTOBER 12, 2018
Outing Gives New Meaning to Passages About Harry Potter Wizard Dumbledore
With author J.K. Rowling's revelation that master wizard Albus Dumbledore is gay, some passages about the Hogwarts headmaster and rival wizard Gellert Grindelwald have taken on a new and clearer meaning. The British author stunned her fans at Carnegie Hall on Friday night when she answered one young reader's question about Dumbledore by saying that he was gay and had been in love with Grindelwald, whom he had defeated years ago in a bitter fight. ''You cannot imagine how his ideas caught me, Harry, inflamed me,'' Dumbledore says in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, the seventh and final book in Rowling's record-breaking fantasy series.
OCTOBER 23, 2007