Posted on Oct 8, 2023
This Seattle author wrote a memoir for LGBTQ youth. Now it's being banned
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Hundreds of books have been challenged in 2023, including numerous LGBTQ titles.
About 26% of titles banned in 2023 have LGBTQ characters or themes, according to PEN America, a free speech organization that tracks such challenges.
Seattle author Shaun David Hutchinson's memoir "Brave Face" has been among them.
It's a vulnerable look at Hutchinson's experience growing up queer at a time when he had few resources to turn to for support.
"I had been unable to find the resources that I needed to understand and come to terms with what was going on with me, to understand what being gay meant," he said.
"Brave Face" was published in 2019, well into Hutchinson's adulthood and time as a Seattle resident. Then, in 2020, he first learned his book "We Are The Ants" was being banned, then "Brave Face" followed. To add salt to the wound, it all started in his home state of Florida.
About 26% of titles banned in 2023 have LGBTQ characters or themes, according to PEN America, a free speech organization that tracks such challenges.
Seattle author Shaun David Hutchinson's memoir "Brave Face" has been among them.
It's a vulnerable look at Hutchinson's experience growing up queer at a time when he had few resources to turn to for support.
"I had been unable to find the resources that I needed to understand and come to terms with what was going on with me, to understand what being gay meant," he said.
"Brave Face" was published in 2019, well into Hutchinson's adulthood and time as a Seattle resident. Then, in 2020, he first learned his book "We Are The Ants" was being banned, then "Brave Face" followed. To add salt to the wound, it all started in his home state of Florida.
This Seattle author wrote a memoir for LGBTQ youth. Now it's being banned
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Hundreds of books have been challenged in 2023, including numerous LGBTQ titles.
About 26% of titles banned in 2023 have LGBTQ characters or themes, according to PEN America, a free speech organization that tracks such challenges.
Seattle author Shaun David Hutchinson's memoir "Brave Face" has been among them.
It's a vulnerable look at Hutchinson's experience growing up queer at a time when he had few resources to turn to for support.
"I had been unable to find the resources that I needed to understand and come to terms with what was going on with me, to understand what being gay meant," he said.
"Brave Face" was published in 2019, well into Hutchinson's adulthood and time as a Seattle resident. Then, in 2020, he first learned his book "We Are The Ants" was being banned, then "Brave Face" followed. To add salt to the wound, it all started in his home state of Florida.
Hundreds of books have been challenged in 2023, including numerous LGBTQ titles.
About 26% of titles banned in 2023 have LGBTQ characters or themes, according to PEN America, a free speech organization that tracks such challenges.
Seattle author Shaun David Hutchinson's memoir "Brave Face" has been among them.
It's a vulnerable look at Hutchinson's experience growing up queer at a time when he had few resources to turn to for support.
"I had been unable to find the resources that I needed to understand and come to terms with what was going on with me, to understand what being gay meant," he said.
"Brave Face" was published in 2019, well into Hutchinson's adulthood and time as a Seattle resident. Then, in 2020, he first learned his book "We Are The Ants" was being banned, then "Brave Face" followed. To add salt to the wound, it all started in his home state of Florida.
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I think it’s disingenuous to claim books are being “banned”. Books are being removed from school libraries due to graphic sexual content, not taken out of print, burned, or banned. There’s a reason John Grishams “A Time to Kill” was not in my middle school library, it contained a graphic rape scene. “All Boys Aren’t Blue” is the memoir of a gay man where he describes in detail sex acts he performed with an older man while he was underage. If it was an underage girl and a grown man we’d all agree this is inappropriate content we would not want available in the school library unless it is in a restricted section requiring parental permission. The issue is not whether the books have LGBT content, it’s whether they contain graphic sexual content.
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