This is the start of National Banned Books Week. To commemorate (I'm not sure this is something to celebrate) the week pull out your favorite banned book and read it. You won't have to go any further than the Harry Potter series, To Kill a Mockingbird, Huckleberry Finn, Captain Underpants, and And Tango Makes Three (which is gay-themed). Some libraries are hosting events where banned books will be read.
I've read through the list of the most challenged books for 2011 and, amazingly, none of the top ten were challenged because of homosexuality. No doubt gay themed books have a strong showing in the other 326 recorded challenges during the year (the least number of challenges since 1990!). The top reason for challenges in last year's top ten is the usual bugaboo, "sexually explicit." The list of the top ten is here. I'm familiar with only a couple of them. Then again, I don't spend time in a public school library.
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