Scholastic, one of the largest education publishers in the world with broad influence over the reading materials of children everywhere, just joined the anti-LGBT industry.
The publisher is censoring a book that depicts a girl character with two moms because they consider it offensive and inappropriate for children, preventing it from appearing in its Scholastic Book Fairs. These are the same book fairs that have reach to millions of schoolchildren nationwide. By censoring the book, Scholastic is sending the discriminatory and harmful message to children everywhere that same-sex relationships and gay/lesbian parents are wrong and should be hidden from sight.
The book in question is Lauren Myracle's new book Luv Ya Bunches, which features one character that has two moms. One of Scholastic's justifications for censoring the book is that they wanted to avoid letters of complaint from anti-gay parents.
This is offensive, wrong, and exactly the opposite of the message of tolerance we should be sending to children.
They actually sent a letter to Myracle's editor asking the author to omit certain words such as "geez," "crap," "sucks," and "God" (as in, "oh my God") and to alter its plotline to include a heterosexual couple. Myracle agreed to get rid of the offensive language "with the goal—as always—of making the book as available to as many readers as possible," but is refusing to alter the same-sex relationship in the book.
NYAC is joining Change.org in asking you to tell Scholastic that you are outraged by its decision and demand that they stop censoring gay-friendly books immediately.
Click here to take action.
The publisher is censoring a book that depicts a girl character with two moms because they consider it offensive and inappropriate for children, preventing it from appearing in its Scholastic Book Fairs. These are the same book fairs that have reach to millions of schoolchildren nationwide. By censoring the book, Scholastic is sending the discriminatory and harmful message to children everywhere that same-sex relationships and gay/lesbian parents are wrong and should be hidden from sight.
The book in question is Lauren Myracle's new book Luv Ya Bunches, which features one character that has two moms. One of Scholastic's justifications for censoring the book is that they wanted to avoid letters of complaint from anti-gay parents.
This is offensive, wrong, and exactly the opposite of the message of tolerance we should be sending to children.
They actually sent a letter to Myracle's editor asking the author to omit certain words such as "geez," "crap," "sucks," and "God" (as in, "oh my God") and to alter its plotline to include a heterosexual couple. Myracle agreed to get rid of the offensive language "with the goal—as always—of making the book as available to as many readers as possible," but is refusing to alter the same-sex relationship in the book.
NYAC is joining Change.org in asking you to tell Scholastic that you are outraged by its decision and demand that they stop censoring gay-friendly books immediately.
Click here to take action.
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