This Book is Gay

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• lokhura · May 22, 2023 · Mentions

  …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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• crooked-v · Jan 23, 2023 · Mentions

  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…

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• firstlink · May 22, 2023 · Critical

  …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…

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• crooked-v · Jan 23, 2023 · Mentions

  …assume that the downvoting comes from the crowd unable to distinguish that different books have different target demographics and who are thereby convinced that first graders are being forced to read This Book Is Gay until the rainbow hypno-rays have corrupted them.

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• Khaine · Mar 23, 2023 · Critical

  …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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• jojobas · May 29, 2023 · Mentions

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

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• jojobas · May 29, 2023 · Mentions

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

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• suburban_strike · Jul 7, 2026 · Mentions

  …solicit statutory rape from older men. The "goal" is clear enticement to engage in illegal and dangerous activities, and your cause argues this is necessary literature for children to have access to. "This Book is Gay" was not easily banned; quite the fight was put up by the gay community and its allies to defend it, so it cannot be argued that it's just one psycho pushing it. There is no reason to presume anything…

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