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As Judd Legum reports, the superintendent of the Charlotte County, Florida, public school system, Mark Vianello, has ordered schools in the district to remove all books with LGBTQ characters or themes from school and classroom libraries. This ban is not directed to books considered to have sexual material β it's a ban of any book that has a character who is LGBTQ.
#Florida #BookBans #LGBTQ #homophobia #transphobia #Republicans #education
https://popular.info/p/florida-school-district-orders-librarians
Florida school district orders librarians to purge all books with LGBTQ characters
Librarians in public schools in Charlotte County, Florida, were instructed by the school district superintendent to remove all books with LGBTQ characters or themes from school and classroom libraries.Judd Legum (Popular Information)
Hermajestie the Hung told us, βI was given spaces to explore the real me, not the me that I had to be in order to stay alive. #Drag is so healing.β
In Digital Editor Kit @oconnell's #Culture feature from our magazine, the performers of #Austin celebrate their art in defiance of persecution: https://www.texasobserver.org/austin-drag-queens-defy-ban/
(πΈ #Photography by Cindy Elizabeth, with Kit O'Connell)
#culture #DragQueens #trans #transgender #transphobia #politics #USpol #gender #homophobia #LGBTQIA+ #dance
Drag Queens, Defiant: Austin Performers Won't Back Down
Performers remain committed to their art in the face of persecution. Digital Editor Kit O'Connell on how drag queens respond to the ban.Kit O'Connell (The Texas Observer)
#Homophobia is linked to several traits of #Psychoticism, including aggression and #antisocial behavior. We see many haters of #gays and #lesbians Some of them are driven by their religious beliefs. But some of them internalized their homophobia from their social environment. One can be indifferent or apathetic towards gays and lesbians. But why would people become aggressive and violent towards gays and lesbians?
https://www.inverse.com/article/6099-science-confirms-homophobes-have-anti-social-tendencies
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/jsm.12975
Science Confirms Homophobes Have Anti-Social Tendencies
It should surprise no one that anti-gay folk don't play well with others.Jacqueline Ronson (Inverse)