Children's picture book flagged at Alabama library because author's last name is 'Gay'

[Nevilledog]

https://www.al.com/news/2023/10/childrens-picture-book-was-on-library-list-to-be-moved-to-adult-section-because-authors-last-name-is-gay.html

“Read Me a Story, Stella” is a children’s picture book about a pair of siblings reading books together and building a doghouse. However, because the author’s name is Marie-Louise Gay, the book was added to a list of potentially “sexually explicit” books to be moved from the children’s section of the Huntsville-Madison County Public Library (HCPL) system.

Gay’s book has never been “mistakenly censored,” according to Kirsten Brassard, Gay’s publicist at Groundwood Books.

“Although it is obviously laughable that our picture book shows up on their list of censored books simply because the author’s last name is Gay, the ridiculousness of that fact should not detract from the seriousness of the situation,” Brassard said in a statement.

Brassard mentioned other books on the list, including Angie Thomas’ “The Hate U Give,” which has no LGBTQ themes or sexual content but does depict the shooting of an unarmed Black teenager at the hands of police.

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[Magoo48]

1. As Nina Simone might say, "Alabama, goddamn."

[Duppers]

15. Zactly.

And didn't we love her! I know I did.

[OldBaldy1701E]

22. Her version of 'I Put A Spell On You' is mesmerizing. (n/t)

[Magoo48]

23. Yes, a force of nature.

[Walleye]

2. I wonder in their history lessons today leave out the part

the name of the airplane that dropped the atom bomb on Japan. Enola Gay

[Aristus]

4. Or a well-known U.S. Army general from WWII and the Korean War: Hobart Gay.

n/t

[LW1977]

5. To them, didn't happen...

Just like slavery didn’t happen…. And Christoper Columbus was a hero who discovered America, and didn’t commit any crimes against indigenous people at all….

[Mister Ed]

9. And perhaps their WWII history will censor any mention of Ensign George Gay,

the only survivor among the 60 men of the U.S.S. Hornet's Torpedo Squadron 8 at the Battle of Midway.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_H._Gay_Jr.

Arriving without fighter escort in a disjointed and uncoordinated offensive, the men of Torpedo Squadron 8 attacked without hesitation under a seemingly impenetrable hail of fire from Japanese fighter planes and anti-aircraft guns. Each of their thirty planes was shot down, and yet their bravery turned the tide of the war. The sacrifice of their low-flying planes drew the enemy fire away from where the high-flying dive bombers were about to arrive, swooping down to destroy three of the four enemy aircraft carriers and winning the battle. The Japanese Navy was never able to take the offensive again.

But still, his name was Gay, so...

[carpetbagger]

18. Gay and Antifa. Nt.

[MagickMuffin]

24. No you got it all wrong it was the Enola Pray

Doesn’t that sound holier?

[Walleye]

25. Oh yeah history revision at its finest

[bluesbassman]

3. One more step down the path to Idiocracy.

I can’t believe this is the year 2023.

[Vinca]

6. So I guess anything about WWII is out if it includes anything about the Enola Gay.

[AntivaxHunters]

7. Right wingers are ignorant dinguses

That's the only way to explain this

[lapfog_1]

8. next they will want any reruns of the Flintstones off limits

When you're with the Flintstones
Have a yabba-dabba-doo time
A dabba-doo time
We'll have a gay old time

[Sneederbunk]

10. Goes without saying that science fiction writer Philip K. Dick is banned.

[no_hypocrisy]

11. FFS, no!

[Duppers]

12. How about Dick's Sporting Goods?!!

Good heavens, they might even sell dildos in there!

[JoseBalow]

13. Some books just don't stand a chance

[Duppers]

14. Knoxville's main downtown Street is Gay!

And there a Gay Street in Baltimore.

[kskiska]

16. Then there's Gay Talese, journalist

[SpankMe]

17. This could lead to whole new book-banning criteria

Jennifer Weiner, NYT best selling author

e.e. cummings, poet

Phillip K. Dick, British Sci Fi writer

Andrew Cockburn, foreign affairs writer

There are authors with names Dickenson, Haycock, Wank, Butts, Balls, the list goes on.

Google "Scunthorpe problem" - internet problems encountered with dirty sounding last names.

These ignorant cockholes have their work cut out for them. I'd change my last name to Asseater if I thought it'd give a few of them heart attacks.

[Dave says]

19. Amazingly stupid

[Old Crank]

20. Pathetic.

Reminds me of the Christian group that changed every word GAY to homosexual.
So when they reported on a runner named Tyson Gay they changed his name to Homosexual.
That got them into trouble.

[Initech]

21. God, the MAGAs are some stupid-ass, sad, pathetic losers.

Get these cretins out of our school boards now!

[Baitball Blogger]

26. .

[twodogsbarking]

27. The Flintstones had a gay old time. They even sang about it.

[ArkansasDemocrat1]

28. Welp!

Guess they won't be teaching students about Hiroshima then

?1577047484

[Wonder Why]

29. "Don we now our gay apparel" - Well, there goes Christmas!

https://genius.com/Christmas-songs-deck-the-halls-lyrics

[love_katz]

30. Awarding a DUzy for some of the replies on this thread.

And, I am just mind blown and flummoxed by the endless idiocy of the pearl clutching wrong wing evilgelical talibornagains.

[Beartracks]

31. To be a Republican, just check your brain at the door.