![]() ![]() ![]() “They werenât really learning anything they needed to keep them safe and healthy when they were in adult relationships, so I wanted to address that with This Book Is Gay.“ĭawson said her book covers sex education, relationships, falling in love, dating and family, and was written to “give young LGBTQ+ people hope”.Ī post shared by Juno Dawson anti-trans and anti-drag bills in the US, Republican lawmakers in the US have taken aim at LGBTQ+ literature in schools in recent months.Īccording to a report released last year, almost half of books banned in US schools in the past year contained LGBTQ+ themes or characters. “I felt as a former teacher that sex education for LGBTQ+ teenagers wasnât very good. It has a warning on the back, itâs aimed at teenagers and it says itâs honestly explicit at the back in places,” Dawson said. “I wrote This Book Is Gay 10 years ago next year. In a video, Dawson said her book This Book Is Gay is “one of the most most banned books” in the US, and explained her intentions behind the book, which is a decade old. The Sunday Times bestselling author spoke on Instagram, condemning the banning of inclusive books on Sunday (26 March). Trans author Juno Dawson has hit back at the far-right for its “organised attack on books” after her work, This Book Is Gay was named in a bomb threat against New York schools and an attack on a library in Cork, Ireland. ![]()
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