Alabama Flags Children’s Picture Book Because Author’s Last Name Is “Gay”

By Rayna Reid Rayford ·Updated October 10, 2023

Banned Books Week might be over, but the latest reason for a book being censored might actually shock you. Alabama officials have flagged a book because it is “sexually explicit” and all because the author’s last name is “Gay.”

But the book, Read Me A Story Stella, written by Marie-Louise Gay, has no sexual content at all in its pages. It “is in

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