Tell Scholastic to Stop Censoring Gay Friendly Books

The Issue

Scholastic, one of the largest education publishers in the world with broad influence over the reading materials of children everywhere, just dipped its toe into the anti-gay movement. 

The publisher is censoring a book that depicts a girl character with two moms because they consider it offensive and inappropriate for children, preventing it from appearing in its Scholastic Book Fairs.  These are the same book fairs that have reach to millions of schoolchildren nationwide.  By censoring the book, Scholastic is sending the discriminatory and harmful message to children everywhere that same-sex relationships and gay/lesbian parents are wrong and should be hidden from sight.

The book in question is Lauren Myracle's new book Luv Ya Bunches, which features one character that has two moms.  One of Scholastic's justifications for censoring the book is that they wanted to avoid letters of complaint from anti-gay parents. 

This is offensive, wrong, and exactly the opposite of the message of tolerance we should be sending to children.

Tell Scholastic today that you are outraged by its decision and demand that they stop censoring gay-friendly books immediately.

avatar of the starter
Michael JonesPetition StarterManaging Director of Campaigns @ Change.org. On the side I write some sketch comedy, and enjoy being the proud parent of the best dog on the planet.
Confirmed victory
This petition made change with 3,987 supporters!

The Issue

Scholastic, one of the largest education publishers in the world with broad influence over the reading materials of children everywhere, just dipped its toe into the anti-gay movement. 

The publisher is censoring a book that depicts a girl character with two moms because they consider it offensive and inappropriate for children, preventing it from appearing in its Scholastic Book Fairs.  These are the same book fairs that have reach to millions of schoolchildren nationwide.  By censoring the book, Scholastic is sending the discriminatory and harmful message to children everywhere that same-sex relationships and gay/lesbian parents are wrong and should be hidden from sight.

The book in question is Lauren Myracle's new book Luv Ya Bunches, which features one character that has two moms.  One of Scholastic's justifications for censoring the book is that they wanted to avoid letters of complaint from anti-gay parents. 

This is offensive, wrong, and exactly the opposite of the message of tolerance we should be sending to children.

Tell Scholastic today that you are outraged by its decision and demand that they stop censoring gay-friendly books immediately.

avatar of the starter
Michael JonesPetition StarterManaging Director of Campaigns @ Change.org. On the side I write some sketch comedy, and enjoy being the proud parent of the best dog on the planet.

The Decision Makers

Richard Robinson
Richard Robinson
Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer, Scholastic
Teryl McLane
Teryl McLane
Senior Manager of Communications, Scholastic Book Fairs
Kyle Good
Kyle Good
Vice President, Corporate Communications, Scholastic

Petition Updates

Share this petition

Petition created on October 23, 2009