Originally published at: Florida now banning books where a character might be gay | Boing Boing
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Imagine being such a homophobe that the mere possibility of a gay couple seemed more dangerous than the practice of raising a lion in an apartment building.
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But they might turn the lion gay! 
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And this after Governor Butthurt explodes over the mere suggestion that he’s engaged in unconstitutional activities. 
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Couldn’t they change the story, so that one of the men has an intermittent wife like Dr. Watson?
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Dear Florida: Jesus will keep sending hurricanes and unbearable heat your way until you stop being bigoted jackasses.
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So basically the entirety of Tennessee Williams, Anne Perry and Patricia Highsmith.
Experts of the “The characters are gay, but flew under the radar of publishers and Hollywood”
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Are there any examples of a book where there’s no character who might be gay?
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So no books about gay confederate soldiers huh?
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Moving forward all children’s books in Florida must include at least one scene in which the principal characters experience mutual orgasm before declaring “boy howdy, there’s nothing better than the feeling of a penis in a vagina!”
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Frog and Toad are Banned.
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So lots more storms and hellish heat then.
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Roommates must be opposite sex in order to not appear gay? Unmarried opposite sex roommates are also suspect, no? No wonder there’s a housing crisis!
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The book banning criteria were grotesque and ridiculous enough when accepted at face value, but boy did they waste absolutely no time at all in dropping even the pretense that they weren’t just an excuse to be homophobic (and racist) as hell.
Heck, if we accept the content guides at face value (ha ha), any books with married couples (especially parents) should be banned before this one…
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All characters in all books must have het-sex.
That’s a lot of sex, isn’t it?
And still wouldn’t prove anything.
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Book synopsis: “Leader of radical religious cult hangs out with 12 men.”
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Roy Cohn was gay and he is a character in THIS book.
Opponents of the bill need to start filing complaints against every Christo-fascist macho ammosexual fantasy book out there.
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Awesome, the marketing of my new children’s versions of “Lady Chatterley’s Lover” and “Lolita” just got easier!
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