Tag Archives: This Book is Gay

Banned Books Week

Posted on September 23, 2024 by David E Smith

Banned Books Week, an annual propaganda campaign by the left-wing ALA, highlights the most radically inappropriate, obscene or downright pornographic books that are available to anyone of any age without restrictions in libraries...

Posted in Education, Marriage/Family/Culture | Tagged Access to Library Resources and Services for Minors, All Boys aren’t Blue, American Library Association, American Library Association’s Library Bill of Rights, Banned Book Week, Beloved, Crank, Ellen Hopkins, Erika Moen, Flamer, Freedom to Read Foundation, Gender Queer, George M. Johnson, Interpretations of the Library Bill of Rights, Jesse Andrews, Judith Krug, Juno Dawson, Let's Talk About It, Maia Kobabe, Matthew Nolan, Me and Earl and the Dying Girl, Mike Curato, Office for Intellectual Freedom, Patricia McCormick, Sherman Alexie, Sold, Stephen Chbosky, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, The Bluest Eye, The Perks of Being a Wallflower, This Book is Gay, Toni Morrison, Tricks | Comments Off

Local Focus

Posted on January 25, 2024 by Alyssa Sonnenburg

Why are local elections so uninteresting to voters? Local elections in Illinois generally draw about 16% of registered voters. This is compared to the average turnout over the last 20 years for presidential elections in Illinois of 63% and the average turnout in the off-year elections of 44%.

Posted in Child Exploitation, Education, Faith, Federal, Illinois Politics, Marriage/Family/Culture, Pornography, Sexuality | Tagged ALA, children, Culture, election, family, Gender Queer, Illinois, Lawn Boy, libraries, local election, Lolita, Presidential election, This Book is Gay, Vladimir Nabokov | Comments Off

What’s a Library For?

Posted on September 13, 2023 by Alyssa Sonnenburg

The British destroyed our original Library of Congress and the 3,000 books it housed, in 1814 during the War of 1812... Today, the Library of Congress is the largest library in the world and holds 173 million items, 39 million of them are books. Every day 15,000 items are added to the collection by the library's 3,000 employees.

Posted in Education, Illinois Politics, Pornography, Sexuality | Tagged American Library Association, book banning, British, children, Congress, Crank, drag queen, Drag Queen Story Hour, Ellen Hopkins, Emily Drabinski, It’s Perfectly Normal, Judeo-Christian values, library, Library of Congress, Marxist, Russian Revolution, This Book is Gay, Thomas Jefferson, War of 1812, What’s a Library For? | Comments Off

Replacing Education with Activism

Posted on May 22, 2023 by David E Smith

Librarians and teachers, coast to coast, once again have been sounding the alarm over a new wave of book bannings rolling across the land. A recent call to arms involved a middle school teacher in central Illinois who was forced to resign her position in March because she showed a controversial book to members of her class.

Posted in Education | Tagged Bela Kun, Gyorgy Lukacs, Hayworth Junior High School, Igniting Social Action in the ELA Classroom, Illinois State University, Juno Dawson, Robyn Seglem, Sarah Bonner, This Book is Gay, Victor Zitta | Comments Off