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Fla. School Board Member Files Criminal Report Over Black Queer Memoir

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All Boys Aren’t Blue by George M. Johnson, which explores the author’s experience growing up as a queer Black person. The board member claims the book’s presence in some schools in the district violates the state’s obscenity laws.Jill Woolbright, a member of the Flagler County School Board, filed the report with the Sheriff’s Office.

The books were found in four schools in the district: two copies at Flagler Palm Coast High School, one at Matanzas High School, and one at Buddy Taylor Middle School, reports The Palm Coast Observer.

Administrators at Buddy Taylor Middle School had already pulled the book from its library shelves. Removing the books is required when a title is challenged, school board attorney Kristy Gavin told Flagler.

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