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Quick Update on the Gay Penguin Book

September 28, 2007

20070928_penguins_120x105.jpg The adorable little story involving two male penguins who fall in love and have a baby named Tango, topped the official tallied list of books banned for homosexuality content this year.

Good for them! It's about time someone told the truth about little gay penguins...

Just so you know -- the list is compiled by the American Library Association, and in particular, their branch of the Office for Intellectual Freedom (OIF), which received a total of 546 challenges last year. A challenge is defined as: "a formal, written complaint, filed with a library or school, requesting that materials be removed because of content or appropriateness."

Justin Richardson and Peter Parnell's award-winning "And Tango Makes Three" tops a list of books questioned for their homosexual themes, that include (and get this) Gossip Girl by Cecily Von Ziegesar, "Athletic Shorts" by Chris Crutcher, and "The Perks of Being a Wallflower" by Stephen Chbosky. There you go, folks, your reading list for fall.


 

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