Fairfax school system pulls two books from libraries after complaints over sexual content

Fairfax County Public Schools, Virginia’s largest district, has removed two books from high school libraries after a couple of speakers at a recent school board meeting denounced the texts for sexually explicit language, scenes and imagery including what one speaker called “homoerotic” content.

The two speakers at the Thursday meeting, a Fairfax parent and a woman who said she was a former teacher, also alleged that the books — “Lawn Boy” by Jonathan Evison and “Gender Queer” by Maia Kobabe — contain depictions of pedophilia, a charge that Evison denied. Both books were recently honored by the American Library Association as texts with “special appeal to young adults, ages 12 through 18.”