Heartstopper among titles targeted as 53% of school librarians asked to remove LGBTQ+ books, study says

(Image: Vecteezy)

More than half of UK school librarians have been asked to remove books from their shelves, with LGBTQ+ literature being disproportionately targeted, according to a recent investigation.

The six-month study, carried out by Index on Censorship and shared with The Independent, found that 53% of surveyed UK school librarians reported receiving requests to remove books, with over half of these cases resulting in books being taken off shelves.

Specific titles removed from school libraries included Juno Dawson‘s This Book Is Gay, a memoir about a young person discovering their sexual identity. Dawson, who told Index in 2023 that she had “no idea whether her books were censored in the UK”, is now the third most censored young people’s author in the USA, Index says.

Other targeted books included

READ MORE OF THIS POST AT Attitude