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‘Don’t Say Gay’ rules and book bans might have felt familiar in medieval Europe − but queer themes in literature survived nonetheless

Written by Jessica Hines, Visiting Assistant Professor of English, Whitman College

Books whose ideas ran afoul of official church doctrine were sometimes cast into the flames -- and literature with queer themes was no stranger to scrutiny.Pedro Berruguete/Museo del Prado/Wikimedia Commons

Americans have been challenging books at an unprecedented rate. According to the American Library Association, people requested that more than...

‘Don’t Say Gay’ rules and book bans might have felt familiar in medieval Europe − but queer themes in literature survived nonetheless

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