As states restrict how identity is taught, Lux is taking conversations on feminism, race, and queer issues directly to students with help from LGBTQ+ groups.
The wild success of the steamy gay hockey show Heated Rivalry hasn’t just turned unknown actors Hudson Williams and Connor Storrie into budding A-listers; it also catapulted the book it’s adapted from onto the New York Times bestseller list seven years after it was first published. That’s despite the LGBTQ+ publishing industry struggling under the weight of attacks from conservatives. Keep Reading →
Members of the LGBTQ community and their supporters participate in the Rochester Pride Parade in Rochester, United States, on July 15, 2025. These marchers include the issue of banned books.
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On Friday, in classrooms and libraries, in church basements and living rooms, in school auditoriums and small-town community centers, people across all 50 states will open books that, in many places, have become political lightning rods. Keep Reading →
The documentary 'The Librarians' highlights the right's war on books.
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When Courtney Gore sat down with her Texas school district’s curriculum, she expected to find something, anything, that would justify the panic she’d been hearing for months. The warnings had been vivid and insistent: children were being “indoctrinated,” parents were losing control, and public schools had become staging grounds in a cultural war over gender, sexuality, and race. Gore, a former educator turned Texas school board member, had moved close enough to those arguments to believe that maybe there was a fire somewhere behind all that smoke. Keep Reading →
The Rutherford County Library System has been roiled by a book purge scandal.
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On the first night of December in Rutherford County, Tennessee, a newly hired library director stood before her governing board and did something almost unheard of in American public librarianship: She asked for whistleblower protection. Keep Reading →
A North Carolina library board was dissolved after members refused to pull a book about a trans boy from the collection.
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A county government in central North Carolina has dissolved its entire public library board after trustees voted to keep a children’s picture book about a transgender character on library shelves, turning a local book challenge into one of the most severe reprisals yet in the national campaign against LGBTQ-inclusive materials. Keep Reading →
The Alliance Defending Freedom represented Chelsey Nelson, who claimed Louisville ordinance required her to provide services for couples whose love she opposed.