High school students clap back at school board protestors claiming book “teaches kids how to be gay”

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High school students clapped back at parents who wanted to ban an LGBTQ book from the school library, which they said “teaches kids how to be gay.”

Parents and other area residents showed up at a Community High School District 99 school board meeting in suburban Chicago on Monday night, holding signs that said “NO PORN” and attacking one specific book that had been approved for school libraries in the district: Gender Queer, an autobiographical graphic novel by Maia Kobabe.

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The protestors – many who came because the white nationalist and anti-LGBTQ Proud Boys promoted the meeting on social media – said that the book is “pornographic” and “homoerotic” because a few pages in the book discuss and depict sexual interactions. The book, which is not required reading in the district, is not pornography since it is not intended to cause sexual excitement.

But that didn’t stop protestors from making wild claims about it. Parent Terry Newsome said at the meeting that the book is “liberal code for teaching children how to perform…

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