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School Bans Graphic Novel on Pulse Shooting for Containing “Extreme Homosexuality”

Writing in The Dallas Voice, English teacher Anna Waugh detailed an incident at a school she used to work at where a graphic novel depicting the Pulse nightclub shooting was banned.

 

Waugh said last year her faculty had created a “social justice graphic novel unit based on the interests of our students.

 

“What followed was the sudden removal of all six novels from the unit because of one LGBT-themed text.

 

“This was followed by silence from leadership, an eventual cover-up by the district, and a new policy gatekeeping teacher-selected materials.”

 

The principal was initially supportive of the unit, but changed his mind when the books arrived because of a complaint received by the Irving School District Superintendent Jose Parra.

 



Parra said the Pulse nightclub graphic novel had “extreme homosexuality”.

 

“The text is tasteful and respectful and, sadly, representative of this tragic event in our community’s history,” Waugh wrote.“By the end of the school year, the banning of Love is Love was official.

 

“Emails went back and forth between the district’s legal counsel and McDonnell, but the district held firm to the ban, citing a new policy that requires six-weeks’ notice for non-approved texts.

 

“This was not the policy in spring 2018, and it can only have been created to prevent future LGBT-inclusive texts.”



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