[quote]Authors, artists and musicians are due to gather at a library in San Francisco to protest against the banning of books in schools and libraries in the US.
The event, part of the 27th annual Banned Books Week, has been organised by the American Library Association.
Since 2001 bans on 3,736 books and other materials have been requested.
In recent years, Tango Makes Three - based on a true story and centring on gay penguins in New York’s Central Park Zoo - has had the most ban requests. [/quote]
Gay penguins eh? What IS the world coming to? Next thing you know people will be saying peacocks are gay.
Good grief, as if there weren’t enough things to worry about other than books like this. Though describing the penguins as ‘gay’ is equally ridiculous, especially as they didn’t have a sexual relationship.
I heard that when you hear frogs croaking at night that is actually the sound of one male frog telling another male frog that he made an unlawful entry! Frogs are randy little buggers, so it would seem.
My sister’s cat is gay. They was a certain amount of gender confusion after they first got him from the cat pound - he’s called Valerie. Mind you, he’s even had a crack at the dog, a couple of times. And when he was a kitten, we found him humping a Warburton’s ‘Toastie’.
Alas, the site is no longer fuctioning. I believe they were right about the penguins being…flexible, no? Perhaps we need another book–Penguins on the Down-Low or Questioning, Bi-Curious Penguins and Their Open Relationship or something like that.
