Two students sue their school for banning books about LGBTQ people & race

Two Missouri students are suing their school district for banning books that talk about LGBTQ identities, as well as books about race.

A class-action lawsuit against the Wentzville School District has been filed on behalf of the students – who have not been identified by name – by the ACLU of Missouri.

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The complaint names eight critically acclaimed books that the district has removed from school libraries, including LGBTQ stories like Alison Bechdel’s Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic and George M. Johnson’s All Boys Aren’t Blue. 

Other books include Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye, Aziz Ansari and Eric Klinenberg’s Modern Romance, and Kiese Laymon’s Heavy: An American Memoir.

In the lawsuit, the ACLU accuses school officials of banning the books due to their…

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