LGBTQ+ Poultry Keepers

[ChocolateMouse]

Welcome to the thread @boskelli1571!

 

[boskelli1571]

Welcome to the thread @boskelli1571!

Thanks, nice to chat with like minded and accepting folks.

 

[Xouie]

Hello friends! It's the last day of Banned Book Week today. A lot of folks read things like Fahrenheit 451, Huck Finn, To kill a Mockingbird etc. are on banned book lists. They're not. They're not even in the top 100 banned books.
Here's the ACTUAL list of the top 10 banned books and the reasons people list for them being banned, especially in the USA.
https://bannedbooksweek.org/about/

1. George by Alex Gino
   Reasons: challenged, banned, restricted, and hidden to avoid controversy; for LGBTQIA+ content and a transgender character; because schools and libraries should not “put books in a child’s hand that require discussion”; for sexual references; and for conflicting with a religious viewpoint and “traditional family structure”
2. Beyond Magenta: Transgender Teens Speak Out by Susan Kuklin
   Reasons: challenged for LGBTQIA+ content, for “its effect on any young people who would read it,” and for concerns that it was sexually explicit and biased
3. A Day in the Life of Marlon Bundo by Jill Twiss, illustrated by EG Keller
   Reasons: Challenged and vandalized for LGBTQIA+ content and political viewpoints, for concerns that it is “designed to pollute the morals of its readers,” and for not including a content warning
4. Sex is a Funny Word by Cory Silverberg, illustrated by Fiona Smyth
   Reasons: Challenged, banned, and relocated for LGBTQIA+ content; for discussing gender identity and sex education; and for concerns that the title and illustrations were “inappropriate”
5. Prince & Knight by Daniel Haack, illustrated by Stevie Lewis
   Reasons: Challenged and restricted for featuring a gay marriage and LGBTQIA+ content; for being “a deliberate attempt to indoctrinate young children” with the potential to cause confusion, curiosity, and gender dysphoria; and for conflicting with a religious viewpoint
6. I Am Jazz by Jessica Herthel and Jazz Jennings, illustrated by Shelagh McNicholas
   Reasons: Challenged and relocated for LGBTQIA+ content, for a transgender character, and for confronting a topic that is “sensitive, controversial, and politically charged”
7. The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
   Reasons: Banned and challenged for profanity and for “vulgarity and sexual overtones”
8. Drama written and illustrated by Raina Telgemeier
   Reasons: Challenged for LGBTQIA+ content and for concerns that it goes against “family values/morals”
9. Harry Potter series by J. K. Rowling
   Reasons: Banned and forbidden from discussion for referring to magic and witchcraft, for containing actual curses and spells, and for characters that use “nefarious means” to attain goals
10. And Tango Makes Three by Peter Parnell and Justin Richardson illustrated by Henry Cole
    Reason: Challenged and relocated for LGBTQIA+ content

Notice a theme? I see a lot of people complain about how since we can get married LGBTQ+ have equal rights and opportunity, but like for many others that's not REALLY the case. Just a reminder that we have some work to do before there's real equality in the world.

So lets go out and think about reading some banned books, and getting both teens and adults who normally wouldn't reading banned books!
(Well, except for maybe HP. That's got plenty of problems for different reasons.)

Wait,what? And Tango Makes Three is banned?!?!? But thats the sweetest book ever. What is wrong with people?

 

[ChocolateMouse]

Yep. These books are mostly banned at schools and other learning institutions. Parents get upset that their kid is reading something they don't like and asked to have it removed from the shelves because parents are to schools what someone asking for the manager is to a grocery store. :T Chances are good, these are fun or otherwise compelling reads as well, or else they wouldn't be popular enough to get banned.
Ironically, not hearing about LGBTQ+ doesn't make people less gay, it just makes them less happy.

 

[Xouie]

As a parent, I can get how some of the titles could be argued as too mature for elementary schools (maybe even middle). And high school — well we should be happy they’re reading. But Tango? No. That’s just ridiculous. Hyper sensitive, hyper entitled parents make my ears ring. Ugh.

I got Tango as a baby shower gift and was asked to read it ad nauseum for a couple of years. I was heartily sick of it but never thought it was controversial— based on a true story too.

Ok, sorry for ranting. Have a great day all. I’m off to the book store with my kiddo this afternoon to pick up some books.

 

[ChocolateMouse]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/And_Tango_Makes_Three

" The American Library Association (ALA) reports that And Tango Makes Three was the most frequently challenged book from 2006 to 2010, and the second most frequently challenged in 2009. "

A lot of people think that even mentioning that gay people exist around their kids is a violation of their parental rights because they feel it requires a lecture on why being gay is wrong. So even a sweet little kids book might get a preschool in trouble, or if it's in the kids section at the library and some conservative mommy doesn't feel like their kid is old enough to understand their lecture about how the gays are wrong or something. Remember, tango makes three came out a full ten years before gay marriage was legalized in the US. Just existing in public as a family even if you don't have a legal marriage is controversial to some people. And those are the people challenging books like this.

Truth and reality is challenging for some people who have been fed lies.

 

[ChocolateMouse]

 

[Teneniel]

I’m a farmbutch pan

 

[Kusanar]

I’m a farmbutch pan

took me a minute to process that... lol, first thought was a cooking utensil, then I remembered which thread I was on... and then I scrolled back up. Yeah, it's too early for my brain to be working yet.

 

[ChocolateMouse]

My partner, D, is the sort that makes jokes about being pansexual meaning attracted to cookware. XD He'll be like "did you know I'm pansexual?" While cooking and hold up a copper bottom pan. Then be like "Oooh, that one's really hot " while frying something. Or play the clip of Brok from Pokemon being like "I'll use my frying pan as a drying pan!" and be like "Get you a girl who can do both.".