Oregon just passed a law stopping schools from banning books...

[Jessica_Rose]

Oregon just passed a law stopping schools from banning books just because LGBTQ+ people wrote them

https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/06/oregon-just-passed-a-law-stopping-schools-from-banning-books-just-because-lgbtq-people-wrote-them/

John Russell (11 June 2025)

Oregon's House of Representatives approved a bill this week that would prevent anti-LGBTQ+ book bans in schools, sending it to the state's out Gov. Tina Kotek (D), who is expected to sign it into law.

... Senate Bill 1098 would prevent school and classroom libraries in the state from banning books or other materials solely based on the fact that they "include a perspective, study or story of, or are created by, any individual or group against whom discrimination is prohibited under" the state's anti-discrimination in education law. That includes books by and about LGBTQ+ people, women, and people of color.

The bill does still allow for the removal of books from schools, but lays out specific guidelines for the process. Parents or guardians of students at a school must make a formal written request challenging a book, and a committee from the school or district must ensure that the challenge was not made based on the book's depiction of or authorship by members of a protected class under Oregon's anti-discrimination in education law.

"You can remove a book if the content is too graphic," Javadi said, according to the Capital Chronicle. "You can remove it if it's not age-appropriate, but you can't remove it just because the author is gay or Muslim or Black or because the story centers someone that makes you uncomfortable."