James Dawson criticises parents who attacked his LGBT guide for children

This Book Is Gay author hits out at ‘small-mindedness and hatred’ after parents in Alaska challenge decision to keep it on library shelves

The bestselling young-adult author James Dawson has hit out at “small-mindedness and hatred”, after parents attacked his guide to growing up LGBT, This Book Is Gay.

The book has been challenged in Wasilla, Alaska, after a 10-year-old boy picked it up from the juvenile non-fiction shelf of the public library, and his mother was “shocked to find it contained frank drawings and descriptions of gay sex acts inside”, according to local news service the Mat-Su Valley Frontiersman.

Libraries have always been the natural sanctuary of marginalised young people and long may they remain open

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