![]() My reaction is our procedures are following what we have been told we have to do. "I guess I'm a little surprised because this is going on all over the state of Florida, not just here. His narrator, a Greek chorus of gay men who died during the AIDS epidemic. "We have been removing books that have been called inappropriate, pornography," he said. David Levithans 'Two Boys Kissing' long-listed for the National Book Award kicks you in the gut from. ![]() However, Bill Slayton, a member of the school board, told NBC News correspondent Antonia Hylton that he was surprised by the lawsuit because the school board and the superintendent have been following state law. In an honest and robust discussion of LGBT cover art, author Malinda Loanalyzes Two Boys Kissingand the other (admittedly limited) LGBT novels that openly display affection and proximity on the cover. ![]() ![]() Neither the district nor the school board immediately responded to requests for comment. Government action may not be premised on such discriminatory motivations.” “The clear agenda behind the campaign to remove the books is to categorically remove all discussion of racial discrimination or LGBTQ issues from public school libraries. They also argued that the removals violate the equal protection clause of the 14th Amendment “because the books being singled out for possible removal are disproportionately books by non-white and/or LGBTQ authors, or which address topics related to race or LGBTQ identity.” ![]()
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