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8 sie 2023 · Gay penguins book beats back ban efforts from Ron DeSantis’ Florida schools. But Shakespeare is getting censored. A local school district lifted a ban on "And Tango Makes Three."
Book bans are on the rise in America. In the first half of the 2023-2024 school year, PEN America recorded 4,349 instances of books banned, from those centering racial inequality and LGBTQ+ themes to classics like The Great Gatsby and Moby Dick. These bans were driven by new laws and regulations limiting the kinds of books that children can access.
16 wrz 2024 · The Nassau County School Board in northeastern Florida has returned dozens of books to school library shelves. It's a result of a settlement the district reached in a First Amendment lawsuit. Florida's been a hot spot for book censorship, and the book at the center of this case is about a gay penguin couple. Andrew Limbong is here to tell us more.
22 cze 2023 · The children's book "And Tango Makes Three," which was banned by Florida's Lake County School District, details a true story about two male penguins who "adopted" and raised a baby penguin in the Central Park Zoo.
13 wrz 2024 · "And Tango Makes Three" is based on a true story and follows two male penguins at a New York zoo raising a chick together. Escambia County school board members banned it from school shelves...
6 sty 2023 · Schools are banning innocuous books about LGBTQ+ people to comply with the anti-LGBTQ+ law. In the wake of Florida’s Don’t Say Gay law, schools in the state are banning books with...
8 sie 2023 · In Lake County, outside Orlando, the school district reversed a decision, made in response to the legislation, to restrict access to a popular children's book about a male penguin couple hatching a chick.
