The White House announced a new anti-book ban coordinator to take on efforts by parents to remove LGBTQI+ books with graphic content from schools.
‘Outnumbered’ panel discusses White House and the media falsely accusing a Florida school of banning a poetry bookon Thursday announced a new effort to combat"book bans" as part of several actions designed to protect LGBTQI+ Americans unveiled during Pride month.
This move by the Biden administration is a counter to parents and activists who have complained about sexually explicit and graphic LGBTQI+ content in school and public libraries and sought to remove those materials. U.S.
The American Library Association published data in March showing that there were 1,269 demands to censor library books and resources in 2022, the highest number recorded by the group in more than 20 years. Of those reported book challenges, 58% targeted school libraries or classroom curriculums, according to ALA. tracked by the ALA in 2022 featured LGBTQI+ content claimed to be sexually explicit.
"Gender Queer" a memoir by Maia Kobabe has been criticized for depicting what appears to be an older man with a younger boy.Fox News Digital previously reported on the book’s author Kobabe defending the sexually explicit graphic images in the memoir during an interview with NPR.
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