That committee is expected to make a decision by next week. The Mat-Su Valley Frontiersman reported Albright spent two weeks on her review, reading the books and reviews, before determining the location was appropriate.Ĭampbell appealed that decision, which put it before Wasilla's three-person library reconsideration committee. Wasilla Mayor Bert Cottle couldn't provide an explanation for the library director's decision. She didn't return numerous calls for comment this week. Among the passages: 'Oral sex is popping another dude's peen in your mouth or, indeed, popping yours in his.' Move itĬampbell filed a formal 'reconsideration' request with library director Kathy 'KJ' Martin-Albright to move the book, but Albright found the book should stay. It's one chapter - 'Ins and Outs of Gay Sex' - that's getting most of the attention. It's written in a casual and humorous - though sexually explicit - style, with cartoon drawings and nicknames for body parts along with anatomically correct ones. 'This Book is Gay' mostly focuses on broader messages about safe sex, bullying, coming out and other aspects of life as a homosexual young adult. Campbell, shocked by what she considered vulgar language and graphic sexual concepts, started the unusual process of getting the book 'reconsidered' by the library director because she wanted it moved. The book drew sudden attention in recent weeks after Wasilla resident Vanessa Campbell's 10-year-old son pulled it off a shelf in the library's lower-level children's area. The other is in Barrow, where it's shelved with adult nonfiction. The copy in Wasilla is one of two public copies in Alaska. young-adult author James Dawson and published last year.

'This Book is Gay' is a rainbow-covered guide for LGBT teens written by U.K. WASILLA - A young-adult sex education book that sits on Wasilla Public Library's juvenile nonfiction shelf has sparked calls to relocate the book - if not remove it altogether. Updated: SeptemPublished: November 25, 2015

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