{"id":2524,"date":"2019-09-11T09:24:43","date_gmt":"2019-09-11T14:24:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/?page_id=2524"},"modified":"2023-06-22T14:37:31","modified_gmt":"2023-06-22T18:37:31","slug":"two-boys-kissing","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/bannedbooks\/two-boys-kissing\/","title":{"rendered":"Banned Books 2022 &#8211; Two Boys Kissing"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div class=\"marsha-row mt-4 mb-4 flex flex-wrap -mx-2 lg:-mx-6  justify-start border-0 border-gray-100 first:mt-0\">\n\t\n<p><!-- *  START LEFT COLUMN  *--><div class=\"columns w-full lg:w-3\/12  lg:px-6    mt-6\">\n<div class=\"\">\n\n<h2>Links<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a id=\"current\" href=\"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/bannedbooks\/bannedbooks-2022\/author\/\">2022 Author<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/bannedbooks\/bannedbooks-2022\/title\/\">2022 Title<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/bannedbooks\/\">Banned Books Home<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><hr \/><\/p>\n<h2>Cover<\/h2>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/files\/2019\/09\/twoboyskissing.jpg\" alt=\"Two Boys Kissing\" width=\"317\" height=\"450\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2523\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/files\/2019\/09\/twoboyskissing.jpg 317w, https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/files\/2019\/09\/twoboyskissing-211x300.jpg 211w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 317px) 100vw, 317px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mulibiiidb.marshall.edu\/record=b1817183~S12\">Held at Marshall University (Drinko Juvenile Collection JF L664tw)<\/a><\/p>\n<p><!-- *** ** END LEFT COLUMN ** ***-->\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<\/p><p><!-- *** ** START RIGHT COLUMN ** **--><div class=\"columns w-full lg:w-9\/12  lg:px-6    mt-6\">\n<div class=\"\">\n\n<p><strong>Marshall University does not ban books!  The information is provided to let people know what has been banned\/challenged elsewhere.<\/strong><\/p>\n<h2>2022<\/h2>\n<p>At the Bedford County (VA) Public Schools, Moms for Liberty challenged <strong>The Bluest Eye<\/strong> along with <strong>Beloved<\/strong>, also by Toni Morrison, plus <strong>The Kite Runner<\/strong> by Khaled Hosseini, <strong>The Glass Castle<\/strong> by Jeannette Walls, <strong>#MurderTrending<\/strong> by Gretchen McNeil, <strong>Two Boys Kissing<\/strong> by David Levithan, <strong>All Boys Aren\u2019t Blue<\/strong> by George M. Johnson, <strong>What My Mother Doesn\u2019t Know<\/strong> by Sonya Sones, <strong>Rick<\/strong> by Alex Gino, <strong>Freakboy<\/strong> by Kristin Elizabeth Clark, <strong>Love Drugged<\/strong> by James Klise, and <strong>Beautiful Music for Ugly Children<\/strong> by Kristin Cronn-Mills. The group said it objected to graphic depictions of sexual acts, violence, substance use, and LGBTQIA+ representation. Board members cited policy, which limited challenges to one book at a time. BCPS administrators and book review committees made the decision not to remove any of the challenged titles from school libraries.<\/p>\n<h2>2019<\/h2>\n<p>This was one of four books challenged by public petition in Orange City&#8217;s (IA)<br \/>\npublic library. The concern articulated by a coalition of conservative and evangelical community members was that the library was distributing LGBTQIA+ materials to pre-K kids using tax dollars. The coalition requested that the books be shelved separately, segregated from other library materials. One local religious activist checked out the four books, then burned them live on Facebook. Since then, over 200 books were donated to the library, and GoFundMe and Facebook fundraisers raised thousands of dollars to replace damaged materials. All the titles have been retained. The activist was charged with criminal misdemeanor mischief.<\/p>\n<h2>2017<\/h2>\n<p>Challenged because its cover has an image of two boys kissing, and it was considered to include sexually explicit LGBT content.<\/p>\n<h2>2016<\/h2>\n<p>Challenged for homosexuality and other reasons (&#8220;condones public displays of affection&#8221;).<\/p>\n<h2>2015<\/h2>\n<p>Challenged by a parent in the Fauquier County (VA) public high school library. The book tells the story of Harry and Craig, two 17-year-olds who are about to take part in a 32-hour marathon of kissing to set a new Guinness World Record &#8212; all of which is narrated by a Greek chorus of the generation of gay men lost to AIDS.<\/p>\n<h2>On These Pages<\/h2>\n<p>A <strong>Banned<\/strong> book has been removed from a library, classroom, etc.<br \/>\nA <strong>Challenged<\/strong> book has been requested to be removed from a library, classroom, etc.<\/p>\n<h2>For additional information contact<\/h2>\n<p>Ron Titus, <a href=\"mailto:titus@marshall.edu\">titus@marshall.edu<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"tel:304-696-6575\">304-696-6575<\/a><\/p>\n<h2>Last updated<\/h2>\n<p>June 22, 2022<\/p>\n<p><!-- ** ** END RIGHT COLUMN *** *-->\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<\/p><\/div>\n\n<p><!-- *** * END FULL PAGE DIV * *** --><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"parent":2039,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-full-width.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2524","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2524","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2524"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2524\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12836,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2524\/revisions\/12836"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}