Youngsters’ E book by Creator Named ‘Homosexual’ Flagged For Censorship at Alabama Library

A kids’s e-book referred to as “Learn Me a Story Stella” was added to an Alabama library’s checklist of books below overview due to their “sexually specific” nature. The rationale the e-book was positioned on the checklist, nevertheless, had nothing to do with its content material—it was flagged as a result of the creator’s identify occurred to be Marie-Louise Homosexual. “Though it’s clearly laughable that our image e-book exhibits up on their checklist of censored books just because the creator’s final identify is Homosexual, the ridiculousness of that reality shouldn’t detract from the seriousness of the state of affairs,” Kristen Brassard, Homosexual’s publicist at Groundwork Books mentioned in a press release. The HCPL government director, Cindy Hewitt, mentioned that the e-book was incorrectly placed on the checklist as a result of the creator’s identify, particularly the phrase “homosexual,” triggered a key phrase within the facility’s system.