Name: This Book is Gay
ISBN: 9781492617839

This Book is Gay

Former PSHCE teacher and acclaimed YA author James Dawson gives an uncensored look at what it's like to grow up as LGBT. Including testimonials from people 'across the spectrum', this inclusive book explores everything anyone who ever dared to wonder wants to know - from sex to politics, how to pull, stereotypes, how to come-out and more. Spike Gerrell's hilarious illustrations combined with funny and factual text make this a must-have read.

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lokhuraMay 2023

Here are the top most challenged books of 2022 according to the ALA:

    - "Gender Queer" by Maia Kobabe
    - "All Boys Aren't Blue" by George M. Johnson
    - "The Bluest Eye" by Toni Morrison
    - "Flamer" by Mike Curato
    - "Looking for Alaska" by John Green
    - "The Perks of Being a Wallflower" by Stephen Chbosky
    - "Lawn Boy" by Jonathan Evison
    - "The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian" by Sherman Alexie
    - "Out of Darkness" by Ashley Hope Pérez
    - "A Court of Mist and Fury" by Sarah J. Maas
    - "Crank" by Ellen Hopkins
    - "Me and Earl and the Dying Girl" by Jesse Andrews
    - "This Book Is Gay" by Juno Dawson

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firstlinkMay 2023

> there is no book for children that talks about oral sex that is was in any place where a kid could read it

Yes there was, and your conviction that this must be an exaggeration shows just how completely out of touch the mainstream media-following public is from the reality of the situation. Just as a single example, the children's illustrated sex instruction manual "This Book is Gay" has had its relevant contents republished all over the internet, so that one would practically have to have been specifically avoiding seeing it. It is using LGBTQ as a shield for pedophilia and as an LGBTQ person that makes me sick. The very title gleefully declares this intent: "This Book is Gay" and therefore if you object you must be a homophobe, and not, you know, someone who thinks that maybe children shouldn't be having sex unless and until they are old enough to work it out for themselves.

ETA: I almost forgot that even Snopes had to admit about the contents of this particular book: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/tampa-school-sex-book/. In fact snopes reports it's even worse than what I said; it provides instructions on how to obtain access to hookup apps. To kids. Hookup apps. Kids. It's sick.

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jojobasMay 2023

Sure, read this.

https://www.kcrg.com/2023/05/19/this-book-is-gay-iowas-loomi...

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jojobasMay 2023

Well your trust is misplaced.

https://www.kcrg.com/2023/05/19/this-book-is-gay-iowas-loomi...

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KhaineMar 2023

According to the interwebs, here are some examples and the reason people want them banned from grade schools:

Gender Queer - has images of kids performing oral sex https://theiowastandard.com/shocking-images-from-book-gender...

All Boys Aren't Blue - includes sex scenes - https://youtu.be/ag-ByyDXhUQ

Lawn Boy - includes sex scenes https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/09/video-sucked-eachot...

This Book Is Gay - a book with sections that teach and advise kids about anal sex, oral sex, and hookup apps https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/tampa-school-sex-book/

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crooked-vJan 2023

So... one book about a boy who wants to imitate mermaids, a couple of books that acknowledge to children in a non-detailed way that transgender people exist at all, and books like Gender Queer [1] and This Book Is Gay [2], which are targeted at the junior high and up age group and have basically the same level of explicit detail as the sex ed courses those kids have already gone through (but are, I guess, somehow extra evil because they feature gay people).

Looks like the standard brand of 'gender nonconformity is the same thing as making third-graders watch porn' bullshit to me.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender_Queer

[2]: https://amazon.com/This-Book-Gay-Juno-Dawson/dp/1492617830

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