![]() ![]() I’m witnessing parents and teens reading the book together. “But at the same time, I’m witnessing parents buy this book for their teens. Johnson, who is nonbinary, said in December that it’s difficult to cope with the backlash even as the book soars in popularity. The 2020 young adult memoir has been banned and challenged because of its LGBTQ content and its profanity and “because it was considered to be sexually explicit,” the ALA said. This New York Times bestseller chronicles the author’s experience growing up as a Black queer boy. ![]() There are people for whom this is vital and for whom this could maybe even be lifesaving.” 'All Boys Aren’t Blue' George M. “There are a lot of people who are questioning their gender, questioning their sexuality and having a real hard time finding honest accounts of somebody else on the same journey. “It’s very hard to hear people say ‘this book is not appropriate to young people’ when it’s like I was a young person for whom this book would have been not only appropriate, but so, so necessary,” Kobabe said in December. ![]()
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