A school district in northeast Florida must put back in libraries three dozen books as part of a settlement reached Thursday with students and parents who sued over what they said was an unlawful decision to limit access to dozens of titles containing LGBTQ+ content.
Under the agreement the School Board of Nassau County must restore access to three dozen titles including “And Tango Makes Three,” a children’s picture book based on a true story about two male penguins that raised a chick together at New York’s Central Park Zoo. Authors Peter Parnell and Justin Richardson were plaintiffs in the lawsuit against the district, which is about 35 miles (about 60 kilometers) northeast of Jacksonville along the Georgia border.
The suit was one of several challenges to book bans since state lawmakers last year passed, and Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis signed into law, legislation making it easier to challenge educational materials that opponents consider pornographic and obscene. Last month six major publishers and several well-known authors filed a federal lawsuit in Orlando arguing that some provisions of the law violate the First Amendment rights of publishers, authors and students.
Imagine seeing a true story about penguins and deciding it’s gay propoganda
gay propoganda
Propogaynda
Like Stephen Colbert said, “reality has a well-known liberal bias.”:
Man I wish I could have been there. That sounds incredible.
How much did this one county cost you to find out, Florida? 10 million?
At least it went to lawyers and not something stupid like hungry children.
When christians beat you with their bible, beat them back with a children’s book about gay penguins!
Let’s normalize Luxury Gay Space Libraries.
I’m just going to drop this link off right here: https://www.queerliberationlibrary.org/ 🌈
As a cis ally, I’m totally here for it! That’s a great resource, and having those spaces in schools and public libraries are important!
Totally agree. QLL is not a replacement for local queer spaces and resources, just a supplement.
Did the settlement include criteria or guidelines for other books the district is not allowed to ban going forword? Otherwise what’s to stop them from banning any other books they don’t like?
Losing this one should at least give them pause.
Hahahahaha, oh you’re not kidding? Umm. Have you met these dumbasses?
Should… Is doing a lot of heavy lifting. But apparently there are parents and authors that will take their money.
DeSantis does love to fuck around. He never learns anything from the finding out he later recieves, but oh my he does love him some fuckery.
Americans have the freedom to read any books they want
Not my book, I won’t let you! Okay, you can read it but don’t tell any of your friends.
Is it a fartography book?
There’s too much US specific legal mumbo jumbo and administration terms in there for me, but seeing that there’s a bit of resistance against this whole “ban books” thing is good.
Lmao, imagine getting your ass kicked by the gays.
Not too hard to imagine. I have many gay friends and some of them are tough af.
Picture a skinny straight guy (me) hanging out at the local gay bar with friends. I’m there all the time and know all the locals and staff too, great crowd and prob my fav place to hang for a drink.
Some guy I’ve never seen before keeps making moves on me, I just keep moving away. Someone explains I’m straight and he says, “Excellent. I enjoy the challenge.” Eventually he thinks it’s “fun” to poke my bum with a pool cue while I try play. I’ve had enough, “Dude, fuck off! No means no!” and I get ready to fight.
Well, in storms a crowd of some of the toughest guys there and the bartender, it gets so heated and they physically drag him out. A few moments later, one of my friends comes back in and asked if I’m okay. I am, it was no big deal. But he says that’s not enough. Goes back out, they drag this guy back in, force him to apologise—he’s sobbing big time—then drag him back out again.
The walkway off the street is painted as a giant pride rainbow, and apparently everyone’s favourite part was slamming him down on there and saying he’s never welcome here.
So, yeah. Don’t fuck with gay people. Not to mention some of the much older fellas have taken huge beatings back in the 70s fighting for their rights and they’re tough as nails.
Holy shit that is top-notch gay brohood there. Respect to these guys giving a rogue asshole a lesson in boundaries.
I remember back in the late 90s when casual gay slurs were the norm, I said something, I forget what, that implied that I’d beat up some dude who was gay. My dad told me “Just because he’s a slur doesn’t make him any less of a man who is more than capable of beating the living shit out of you”. That was an eye opener.
I’m sure a non-zero number of people responsible for the removal have imagined that and similar scenarios extensively
Gonna be hard since they burned them all.
Wouldn’t that mean that the publishers get to sell another round of copies to all of the public libraries, so the public pays for them again via their taxes? Sucks but it may benefit some of the writers/editors/publishers.
If I was the publisher I would be giving a free copy to any school that asked for one.
Agreed. It’s also great publicity.
