"Over the last school year, 6,870 book bans affected nearly 4,000 unique titles, with Florida, Texas, and Tennessee topping the list of states with the most book bans. While a majority of those books were targeted for their LGBTQ+ content, some were enduring queer titles that have been banned over and over again through the years, only to continually find their way back to library shelves."
"Thankfully, last month's elections signaled good news for free speech advocates, queer authors, and parents fed up with the book-banning frenzy that has overtaken so many small towns and local school districts over the last few years. Slates of book-banning fanatics backed by Moms for Liberty and other right-wing groups on local school boards went down to defeat, in a reprieve for free expression."
Over the last school year, 6,870 book bans affected nearly 4,000 unique titles, with Florida, Texas, and Tennessee recording the most bans. A majority of targeted books contained LGBTQ+ content, including contemporary titles like Gender Queer, Flamer, and All Boys Aren't Blue. Many enduring LGBTQ+ classics have also been repeatedly challenged across decades and centuries. Recent local elections defeated several book-banning school-board slates backed by Moms for Liberty and similar groups, offering a reprieve for free expression. Gifting influential queer classics can celebrate free expression and resist censorship. Plato's Symposium (c. 385–370 BCE) explores male love in ancient Greece.
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