This book is gay age rating
‘This Book Is Gay’ Storyteller Says America’s Teens Acquire Bigger Problems Than Her Book
Juno Dawson didn’t want to write This Book Is Gay.
Dawson, a U.K.-based author, had spent seven years as a sexual education and wellness teacher. But when she was approached in 2012 by her publisher to create a comprehensive reference to LGBTQ+ sex learning, she tells Rolling Stone she was initially unsure about tackling such a massive project.
“To get to out to all the LGBTQ+ youth in the nature felt like a gigantic undertaking,” Dawson says. “Other than the fact that I had been a teacher, I didn’t experience that I was the best authority to be telling anybody about how to find a companion at that time when I was in my 20s—given that my like life was such a hot mess. But when I was a teenager, this would have answered so many questions. And I knew there was nothing like it. So I said yes.”
First published in 2014, Dawson’s how-to about gay relationships has become a staple for sex ed classes. But as the movement by conservatives to prohibit information about LGBTQ+ topics in public schooling has taken hold
This Book Is Gay
I did NOT offer this book two stars because I think there is anything wrong with being part of the LGBTQIA+/MOGAI community.
I gave it two stars because it claims to be inclusive but for the most part only covers issues that people who are gay/lesbian (and stick to binary genders and all the expectations society brings with them) have to deal with. I gave it two stars because I don't consider this book to be very inclusive, especially when it comes to non-binary people and/or those who are not gay or queer woman (i.e. bi or pan or ace or ...).
So please refrain from commenting when all you purpose to do is to suggest I read queerantagonistic books. Don't like this review. I'm not on your side, I don't agree with you and I honestly don't demand your prejudices in my life.
What I liked.
It's an uplifting book. One communication repeated over and over again is: "Whoever you are, that's fine!" Plus, there are lots of sections especially young people might find very useful - coming out, who to tell, how to tell, sex, STIs ... So, thumbs up for that.
The BUT. It's a very big one.
Design Editor Ellie Hanan Moran breaks down the controversy surrounding 2021’s 9th most banned book in the US
By Elena Hanan Moran | Apr 19 2023
Last week, approaching my local library in Swords, I spotted a group of protesters in the distance. My first thought was of the recent right-wing anti-immigrant protests that hold been happening around Ireland, and I panicked. Coming closer, I noticed the signs they were holding and one protester filled me in on what was happening. The team were counter-protesting recent protests by right-wing groups calling for the removal of a book called ‘This Book is Gay’ by UK author Juno Dawson, from both secondary college SPHE curriculums and the teen sections of libraries.
As someone who had study the book, I was shocked to hear the level of hatred directed at it. I own come to expect hearing of hate groups in the US banning and boycotting anything relating to LGBTQ+ issues, labelling homosexual people as paedophiles and attempting to erode any rights and safety gay, and transgender people in particular have achieved over the past thirty or so years. In the UK as well, transphobia is rampant and disturbingly widespread. In Ireland, however
The explosion in demands to pull books off the shelves is a reflection, in part, of the polarized times we reside in. But it is also because the books themselves have changed. No one is ever going to confuse this fresh generation of controversial books aimed at kids with “The Catcher in the Rye.”
Instead, publishers are churning out books on racism, gender, sexual abuse and other “realistic’’ topics for kids from kindergarten through high school, chockablock with “authentic’’ (read profane) language and illustrations. “Blankets,” another of the books Horry County schools took off the shelves, is among them.
‘’A graphic novel’’ by Craig Thompson (a 582-page comic book really), “Blankets” is a beautifully told autobiographical story about a sensitive kid from rural Wisconsin who finds himself estranged from his religion, culture and parents’ expectations. I liked the manual, but its pages of illustrations of sex, masturbation and drug use build it low-hanging fruit for the book banners.
Another of the books, “Gabi: A Girl in Pieces,” is the diary of a nerdy, overweight Mexican American girl in California who triumphs against all odds to wind up studying poetry at Cal Berkeley.
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