“Read banned books!” they chanted as they moved across State Street in Doylestown. Car horns honked.
One marcher was costumed as the cover of Lawn Boy, the Jonathan Evison book that was banned for its gay and lesbian content and because it was considered to be sexually explicit.
The parade was more than symbolic in Bucks County, where the Central Bucks School Board recently enacted a contentious library policy that community members said amounted to a ban. The policy aims to exclude books from school libraries that might be deemed inappropriate for unspecified “sexualized content.”
Today, bans, restrictions, and challenges have reached levels not seen in decades, often pushed by conservative parents, school boards, and government leaders who object to what they see as sexual or “woke” content, according to the American Library Association and other groups. Business-owners walked to their front steps to watch, and people in neighborhood pubs paused mid-sip, looking on as the oversized “books” navigated the chairs and tables of sidewalk cafes.
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