This article includes links that may result in a small affiliate share for purchased products, which helps support independent LGBTQ+ media. In April 2023, residents in Douglas County, Colorado, a ...

With the American Library Association’s annual Banned Books Week set to begin on Sunday, September 22, a week of events will serve to celebrate diversity in literature and to remind Americans that, in ...

No two states have been more consistently in the spotlight for book banning than Texas and Florida. Last year, the Texas legislature passed HB 900, a law that would have forced booksellers and ...

MINOT — This year began with a depressing spectacle in our state Legislature which saw some state lawmakers and culture warrior activists evoking a crisis in our state's libraries. Our teachers and ...

Perhaps you read about Florida’s most recent efforts to beef up book banning in public schools. Yes, Florida — a state where test scores already lag — is trying to make sure students have fewer books ...

When the Instagram account of free-expression institution PEN America dropped successive posts last week about cat and dog related books that have recently been challenged for inappropriate content in ...

I was telling a reporter about book bans as I got into the Uber. “PEN America has reported exactly 3,362 book bans in public schools during the 2022–23 school year,” I said. “There were over a ...