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Number of Unique Titles Challenged in the U.S. by Year - American Library Association

Book Challenges Rise to Record 4,240 Titles in 2023 (and 2024 Doesn’t Look Good)

Last year saw a record 4,240 book titles challenged in schools and libraries, according to the American Library Association. This year looks set to be similarly bad, with censorship triggering firings and protest at an Alabama library—and a Virginia school reading program halted after complaints about a book that includes a nonbinary tree.

In memoriam

Queer Mom and Partner Killed Defending Daughter During Mass Shooting

(Content warning for extreme violence.) A woman and her partner were killed in Norfolk, Virginia, last week, as they sought to defend one woman’s 19-year-old daughter from her boyfriend. One other woman was killed and two others, including the pregnant daughter, were injured.

LGBTQ Parenting Roundup

LGBTQ Parenting Roundup

Summer may sometimes feel like a slow time of year, but there’s still a lot happening in LGBTQ parenting news!

LGBTQ Parenting Roundup

LGBTQ Parenting Roundup

It’s time for another roundup! Here’s what’s happening that I haven’t yet covered during this shortest of months.

Virginia

Virginia Aunts Still Waiting to Become Moms

Two Virginia women who want to be moms are practicing by being awesome aunts. Why aren’t they taking steps to become parents? They’re waiting until both can be legal mothers to their child in their state. The U.S. Supreme Court is (so far) not helping.

Yes, Virginia, There Is an Equality Clause

Yesterday, the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that Virginia’s ban on marriage for same-sex couples violates the 14th Amendment’s Due Process and Equal Protection Clauses. That paves the way for Virginia, West Virginia, North Carolina, and South Carolina to allow same-sex couples to marry.

LGBTQ Parenting Roundup

LGBT Parenting Roundup

Here are a few items I haven’t mentioned elsewhere, including a blended family profile, the perspective of the teen daughter of plaintiffs in a marriage equality lawsuit, two happenings in New Zealand, and the Argentinian president honoring a lesbian couple at their child’s Roman Catholic baptism.

LGBTQ Parenting Roundup

LGBT Parenting Roundup

Some of the things making headlines that I haven’t covered elsewhere, including Utah families in limbo and a Montessori school behaving badly.

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