{"id":45517,"date":"2022-06-29T18:46:02","date_gmt":"2022-06-29T18:46:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/i-read-the-5-most-challenged-and-banned-lgbtq-books-of-last-year-here-s-what-i-thought"},"modified":"2022-06-29T18:46:02","modified_gmt":"2022-06-29T18:46:02","slug":"i-read-the-5-most-challenged-and-banned-lgbtq-books-of-last-year-here-s-what-i-thought","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/i-read-the-5-most-challenged-and-banned-lgbtq-books-of-last-year-here-s-what-i-thought","title":{"rendered":"I Read The 5 Most Challenged And Banned LGBTQ+ Books Of Last Year &#8212; Here&#8217;s What I Thought"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Every year, the American Library Association&#8217;s Office for Intellectual Freedom compiles a list of the previous year&#8217;s most challenged books . And in 2021, half of the books on the top 10 list were targeted for containing &#8220;LGBTQIA+ content.&#8221; Between that and homo- and transphobic bills like Florida&#8217;s &#8221; Don&#8217;t Say Gay or Trans &#8221; law, it&#8217;s clear that there are plenty of folks out there who would rather erase LGBTQIA+ people and their history rather than try to deal with their own hatred and fear. I don&#8217;t have time for that kind of small-mindedness, but you know what I did have time for this Pride Month? Reading all five of 2021&#8217;s most banned LGBTQIA+ books. Quick note: According to the ALA , challenges are requests to have materials removed from schools and libraries, while bans are the actual removal of those materials. Mary Colussi I struggled socially in elementary and middle school, and my general fear of everything got<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tl;dr: Stop banning books, you weirdos.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[66,1],"tags":[90,19,55],"class_list":["post-45517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books-literature","category-news","tag-books-literature","tag-entertainment","tag-society"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45517","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45517"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45517\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}