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Exploring Queer Identity at 2017 L.A. Zinefest

Queer authors, illustrators, and other creators explain how zines are an avenue for expressing their identities.

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Chuck Schumer leads New York Democrats’ bill to protect Pride flags at Stonewall & national park sites

The Trump administration had sought to remove Pride flags from federal property.

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National

Gov. Gavin Newsom again under fire for comments on trans athletes & pronouns

The California governor urged Democrats to be more "culturally normal."

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'Heated Rivalry' star slams Olympic men’s hockey team for cozying up to Trump

Harrison Browne is not holding back in his critique of the men's national hockey team, who laughed at the gold medal-winning women's team.

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Sexual Health

How can PrEP use among Black people be improved?

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‘The Librarians’: Meet the heroes fighting against conservative book bans in the South

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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 →

Tennessee whistleblower says library board chair sought private data as part of state's book purge

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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 →

North Carolina county dissolves library board for refusing to toss book about a trans kid

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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 →

Southern states ban transgender books from YA and children's sections in libraries

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Multiple southern states have recently ordered the purge of books related to transgender identity from youth and even teen sections in public libraries.

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Multiple southern states have recently ordered the purge of books related to transgender identity from youth and even teen sections in public libraries. Keep Reading →

'Gender Queer,' one of the most banned books in the U.S., is getting a deluxe edition

Gender Queer Deluxe Edition new cover and additional pages

(from left) Cover and new pages from Gender Queer: The Annotated Edition

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One of the most banned books in the United States isn't going away — it's getting a special deluxe edition. Keep Reading →
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