Fri Mar 31, 2023 – 11:39 am EDT
HILLSBOROUGH COUNTY, Florida (LifeSiteNews) — A Florida school board on Tuesday voted to remove an explicit LGBT book from all public middle school libraries in the area.
This Book is Gay, a 2015 book written by Juno Dawson and aimed at kids in eighth through twelfth grades, was first published in 2015. A best-seller, the book contains graphic descriptions and instructions concerning homosexual acts.
The Hillsborough County School Board voted to cull the book from its public middle schools in a special meeting on Tuesday, the Hill reported. The meeting came after a parent filed a complaint regarding the book’s presence in the school library of Pierce Middle School in Tampa.
A committee at Pierce Middle School voted to keep the book following a review, a decision affirmed by a district committee following an appeal. Another appeal, however, led to Tuesday’s meeting, resulting in a 4-3 vote to pull the books from the library shelves.
Pushing back against the school board’s decision, library media specialist Kathleen Daniels said the move was
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