{"id":4632,"date":"2020-09-30T12:38:11","date_gmt":"2020-09-30T16:38:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/?p=4632"},"modified":"2020-09-30T12:38:13","modified_gmt":"2020-09-30T16:38:13","slug":"lgbtq-themed-books-make-up-half-of-the-twenty-most-banned-books-of-the-past-decade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/archives\/4632","title":{"rendered":"LGBTQ themed books make up half of the twenty most banned books of the past decade"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>ALA&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ala.org\/advocacy\/bbooks\">Office for Intellectual Freedom<\/a> released a list of the most banned and challenged books of the past decade this week.  NBC Out has published a story focusing on the LGBTQ themed books that make up half of the top twenty books:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/feature\/nbc-out\/lgbtq-themes-found-half-past-decade-s-20-most-banned-n1241353\">https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/feature\/nbc-out\/lgbtq-themes-found-half-past-decade-s-20-most-banned-n1241353<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The complete list is here:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ala.org\/advocacy\/bbooks\/frequentlychallengedbooks\/decade2019\">http:\/\/www.ala.org\/advocacy\/bbooks\/frequentlychallengedbooks\/decade2019<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ala.org\/advocacy\/bbooks\/frequentlychallengedbooks\/decade2019\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ala.org\/advocacy\/sites\/ala.org.advocacy\/files\/content\/200924-oif-most-banned-books-2010-2019-2twitter.png\" alt=\"Top 100 Most Banned and Challenged Books of the Past Decade\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ALA&#8217;s Office for Intellectual Freedom released a list of the most banned and challenged books of the past decade this week. NBC Out has published a story focusing on the LGBTQ themed books that make up half of the top twenty books: https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/feature\/nbc-out\/lgbtq-themes-found-half-past-decade-s-20-most-banned-n1241353 The complete list is here: http:\/\/www.ala.org\/advocacy\/bbooks\/frequentlychallengedbooks\/decade2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":108,"featured_media":4633,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,40,817],"tags":[818],"class_list":["post-4632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-banned-books-week","category-book-banning","category-books","tag-bannedbooksweek"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4632","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\/108"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4632"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4632\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4633"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}