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Article: 10 most hated books.(gay and lesbian literature censorship)
- Article from:
- The Advocate (The national gay & lesbian newsmagazine)
- Article date:
- June 24, 1997
- Author:
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Among gay and lesbian titles that have been banned, censored, and suppressed, these ten have earned special distinction
For more than a hundred years, authors who have dared to write openly about homosexuality have faced book banning, public censure, and obscenity trials. The opposition is just as real today as it was in Walt Whitman's time, when his vividly homoerotic collection of poems, Leaves of Grass, was banned in Boston in 1881. The district attorney called it "obscene." Of course, it went on to be accepted as a literary masterwork. But Leaves of Grass is still vulnerable to censorship in 1997, not in the courts but in schools and libraries, where the ...