Writer and LGBTQ activist George M. Johnson spoke with MorningEdition about what's lost when books like their 2020 memoir 'All Boys Aren't Blue' are banned from school libraries.
"The curriculum that is being taught in most school systems is still heavily geared towards the straight, white, male teen," Johnson says.
Johnson is glad to have written a book that might help others, but says watching it be banned has been bittersweet. They say that if parents don't want their own child to read it, they should opt them out rather than try to block all students — some who may really need the book — from accessing it. "Students ... have publicly said on record that works like mine have saved their lives, works like mine have helped them name their abusers, works like mine have helped them come to terms with who they are and feel validated in the fact that there is somebody else that exists in the world like them," Johnson says."And you want to remove that from them. I just think it's sad."people who want it banned most likely haven't read it.
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