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The decades-long fight for LGBTQ+ inclusion within the Boy Scouts of America
The following is an excerpt from Morally Straight: How the Fight for LGBTQ Inclusion Changed the Boy Scouts—and America by journalist Mike De Socio, available June 4 through Pegasus Books. This deeply-reported narrative illuminates the battle for LGBTQ+ inclusion in the Boy Scouts of America, a decades-long struggle led by teenagers, parents, activists, and everyday Americans.A post shared by Pegasus Books (@pegasus_books)On the day the Supreme Court of the United States affirmed the Boy Scouts of America’s constitutional right to discriminate against gay members, I was five years old.I knew nothing about this civil rights battle that was roiling the nation.
