“Because of Connecticut’s parochial culture, there is not one particular clearinghouse or resource that handles challenges each little library or school media center is on its own,” Lord said in an email. (Photos: Simon & Schuster/ Contributed Penguin Random House / Contributed) "Gender Queer: A Memoir" by Maia Kobabe and Let's Talk About It "by Erika Moen and Matthew Nolan have been challenged in Connecticut. Newtown has also challenged two teen graphic novels spotlighting LGBTQIA+ content. Both titles were featured on the ALA’s top 13 most banned books list for 2022. In Westport “Gender Queer” has been challenged and Brookfield has been pushing to remove “This Book is Gay” from library shelves.
He also noted that most challenged books focus on BIPOC and/or LGBTQIA+ subjects, and that most of the challenged titles are geared toward teens.
Lord said " Gender Queer" and " Let's Talk About It" are the two most commonly challenged nonfiction titles in Connecticut. This month, Douglas Lord, president of the Connecticut Library Association said that the association is aware of an estimated 40 challenges. Hearst Connecticut Media previously reported in April that the Connecticut Library Association has 35 active challenges against school and library books, which has doubled since 2022.
So a book that has been challenged hasn’t been banned officially, but it means that it has the potential to be banned. “Their aim is to suppress the voices of those traditionally excluded from our nation’s conversations, such as people in the LGBTQIA+ community or People of Color.” Overwhelmingly, we’re seeing these challenges come from organized censorship groups that target local library board meetings to demand removal of a long list of books they share on social media,” Deborah Caldwell-Stone, director of ALA’s Office for Intellectual Freedom said in the report. “A book challenge is a demand to remove a book from a library’s collection so that no one else can read it.
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