Jillian Eugenios is a senior producer for NBC News.
When David Shelley, the CEO of Hachette, one of the “big five” publishing companies, was a teenager, he was living in Margaret Thatcher’s Britain and under a law called Section 28. The measure, which was in effect from 1988 to 2003, prohibited schools from “promoting the teaching of the acceptability of homosexuality.” In the ’80s, Shelley said, his main sources of information came from teachers and libraries, and he described himself as being depressed because he didn’t see anyone like him.
While teachers and librarians have praised her latest book, Yasmin said, some have told her they are not going to teach it or keep it in the classroom because they fear it’s going to get banned. “So what we’re seeing is this censorship happening before the book is banned because of the draconian ecosystem that we’re living in,” she said.
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