Alabama's fears about "gay" literature

“Read Me a Story, Stella” is a children’s picture book about a pair of siblings reading books together and building a doghouse. However, because the author’s name is Marie-Louise Gay, the book was added to a list of potentially “sexually explicit” books to be moved from the children’s section of the Huntsville-Madison County Public Library (HCPL) system.

Gay’s book has never been “mistakenly censored,” according to Karen Li, publisher at Groundwood Books, which publishes Gay’s books.

“Although it is obviously laughable that our picture book shows up on their list of censored books simply because the author’s last name is Gay, the ridiculousness of that fact should not detract from the seriousness of the situation,” Li said in a statement.

More discussion at AL.com.   A somewhat-related incident has occurred for TYWKIWDBI.  Blogspot has been censoring my posts.  I'll write about this in a separate post either tonight or tomorrow.