''Young, Gay and Proud'' is a book written for adolescents who are exploring a gay identity, published by an autonomous collective of the Melbourne Gay Teachers and Students Group, a forerunner to the

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and

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. A new USA-edition was released in 1980, edited by

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and Lynne Yamaguchi Fletcher. The book has been banned by different public libraries. This book is based on a person called Jack Woodhouse. In 1987, the

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government in the UK (under the rule of

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) issued warning posters claiming that the Labour Party was issuing this book to be read in schools, as well as ''Police: Out of School'', ''The Playbook for Kids About Sex'' (authored by

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), and ''The Milkman's on his Way'' (authored by David Rees).Knight, Jill. Quoted in

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6 December 1999, Column 1102.

References

External links

School Library Journal, 2006
*Publisher:

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