The Would-be Banning of Lawn Boy, and Why I’m Not Booking any Flights to Texas in the Near-Future
The first week of September, at a school board meeting in Texas, a woman lobbied fiercely to get my one of my novels, Lawn Boy (2017), banned from libraries for content relating to my gay protagonist, and his gay life experiences. My protagonist, Mike, has a sexual experience at a youth group meeting at the age of …
