Librarians face censorship over LGBTQIA+ books - now is the time for allyship

Being able to find LGBTQIA+ books easily, with adult support, is essential for our children’s health and empowerment.

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Librarians in the UK are seeing increasing intimidation to remove books about marginalised people, seemingly emboldened by similar censorship movements in the United States. Here, however, the threat’s focus is largely levelled at LGBTQIA+ books in school libraries, according to a survey by Index on Censorship.

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