Book Censorship Research

What do you think when you hear something like a book or movie has been banned or censored? Most of us think this “Oh that’s great” because it had content that wasn’t appropriate for people to see. Today in modern society books are banned/censored because people see them as not appropriate for people to see. The banning/censoring books isn’t the best idea because some books are banned just for having content that is seen a “mature” or “immoral”. One category of books that has been banned and censored time and time again are books with LGBTQIA+ material. Banning these books are not fair for the LGBTQIA+ community. Not only banning these books are closing the door for not only to help people who identify with a LGBTQIA+ , but it is also closing …show more content…
Hartinger is an author from Tacoma, Washington. Hartinger struggled as author for many years, because no one admired his work he was very much an amate ur writer. As the years passed Hartinger became a better writer and he wrote his first book that became his famous well-known book, Geography Club. Geography Club is about a sophomore teenage boy named Russel who is gay and is convinced he is the only gay student in his entire high school. One night he agrees to meet with someone from a local chat room and the person he agrees to met is a popular jock Kevin Land who is gay. Later Russel finds out that even one of his best friend is a bisexual and he learns about others students' sexuality. They form a club, but they don’t want to call it a Gay-Straight Alliance instead they come up with a club so boring no one would join, the “Geography Club”. The club is a place the teenagers can hang out and not be discovered or need to hide their truth self's. Hartinger had an interview with the National Coalition Against Censorship, the NCAC asks what was the inspiration for Geography Club and Hartinger explains, “You know, it’s partly because the story is semi-autobiographical – I was a gay teen – and I figured if I told this story, it might make things a little bit easier for the gay teens who come after me.” This book is a wonderful story teenagers accepting themselves and the …show more content…
Hartinger was interviewed and asked by the NCAC(National Coalition Against Censorship) what he thought about his book being banned. In his book about LGBTQIA+ teenagers finding acceptance, Hartinger argues “Nothing surprises me anymore, because I’ve pretty much heard it all. Pornography? Sure, why not? I mean, if you think any mention of gay people is the same as talking about sex, well, I guess you might see it as