School boards and legislatures nationwide also are facing questions about books and considering making it easier to limit access.
Monday, March 20, 2023 6:19PMThe Glen Ridge Public Library trustee board voted unanimously to keep six LGBTQ+ books after a group sought to remove them from the library. CeFaan Kim has the story.Teri Patrick bristles at the idea she wants to ban books about LGBTQ issues in Iowa schools, arguing her only goal is ridding schools of sexually explicit material.
Amanda Darrow with the Utah Pride Center poses with books that have been the subject of complaints from parents in Salt Lake City on Dec. 16, 2021.Longstanding disagreements about content in school libraries often focus this year on books with LGBTQ themes as policymakers nationwide also consider limiting or banning gender-affirming care and drag shows, allowing the deadnaming of transgender students or adults in the workplace, and other measures targeting LGBTQ people.
In Louisiana, activists fear a push by Republican Attorney General Jeff Landry to investigate sexually explicit materials in public libraries -- and recently proposed legislation that could restrict children and teens' access to those books -- is being used to target and censor LGBTQ content. The state's training materials direct the reviews to target sexually explicit materials but also say that schools should "err on the side of caution" when selecting reading materials and that principals are responsible for compliance.
Under a bill backed by Reynolds, the titles and authors of all books available to students in classrooms and libraries would be posted online, and officials would need to specify how parents could request a book's removal and how decisions to retain books could be appealed. When any district removes a book, the state Education Department would add it to a "removal list," and all of Iowa's 326 other districts would have to deny access to the book unless parents gave approval.
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