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Children’s picture book flagged at Alabama library because author’s last name is ‘Gay’ (www.al.com)

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“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.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago

I mean, last names tend to hang around a while. Maybe the author's family was really happy a long time ago. We can't have that now can we?!