{"id":2003,"date":"2015-07-05T15:53:24","date_gmt":"2015-07-05T20:53:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/?p=2003"},"modified":"2015-07-05T15:53:45","modified_gmt":"2015-07-05T20:53:45","slug":"venice-moves-to-ban-and-tango-makes-three-gay-parenting-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/archives\/2003","title":{"rendered":"Venice moves to ban &#8220;And Tango Makes Three,&#8221; gay parenting books"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>By John Mack Freeman<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The city of Venice, Italy has moved to ban books related to single-sex partnerships and gay adoption as part of a move to the right by the city&#8217;s new conservative mayor, Luigi Brugnaro. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/worldnews\/europe\/italy\/11698697\/Gay-parenting-books-to-be-banned-from-Venice-schools.html\">Via the Telegraph:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>?We don?t want to discriminate against anyone and at home parents can call themselves daddy number one and daddy number two, but I have to consider the majority of families, which have a mum and a dad,? [Brugnaro] told La Repubblica newspaper. ?It is parents who should educate children about these things, not schools.?<\/p>\n<p>Around 1,000 copies of the book, as well as other titles, were introduced into the educational system by the previous centre-Left administration.<\/p>\n<p>Camilla Seibezzi, a councillor with responsibility for anti-discrimination policies who was behind the project, accused the new mayor of ?censorship?.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The previous administration had made approximately 1,000 copies of the book available. Subsequent books destined for purging remain to be seen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By John Mack Freeman The city of Venice, Italy has moved to ban books related to single-sex partnerships and gay adoption as part of a move to the right by the city&#8217;s new conservative mayor, Luigi Brugnaro. Via the Telegraph: ?We don?t want to discriminate against anyone and at home parents can call themselves daddy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":1048,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,55,57],"tags":[176,179,178,177],"class_list":["post-2003","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-book-banning","category-carousel","category-media-of-note","tag-and-tango-makes-three","tag-book-banning","tag-italy","tag-venice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2003","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2003"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2003\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1048"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}