L.G.B.T.Q.-themed children’s literature often receives hysterical media attention. In 1992, a concerned “Larry King Live” guest denounced the book “Daddy’s Roommate” for its “explicit pictures of two men hugging each other.”
,” written and illustrated by Vera B. Williams. “That was the hands-down favorite of lesbian families at our library, because they felt it reflected what their family life was actually like,” Horning said of “Red Canoe.” “They were not sitting down with their children and giving them long explanations of artificial insemination. The book had a great story, adventure, engaging illustrations, and kids being kids.
“And Tango Makes Three” is not the only picture book that uses androgyny in the animal world in service of a queer theme. The original version of “Uncle Bobby’s Wedding,” written and illustrated by Sarah Brannen, was populated by guinea pigs, who are also rather epicene. “I wanted the story to be universal, and I thought, If I make it with cute animals, anyone can identify or not,” Brannen told me.
,” about a trans kid, much as a prosecutor would hold up a crime-scene photograph in a courtroom. Labelled “,” the offending page depicted little Max lounging pensively in a verdant patch of grass, a small dog by his side. Of course, many older children have already grasped that, in much of the country, queer people and queer families are seen as a problem. They may know, for example, that, in Idaho, where the state representative Heather Scott told an audience that the L.G.B.T.
Kyle Lukoff is the author, with the illustrator Luciano Lozano, of “Call Me Max,” the picture book held up by DeSantis as symbolic of a grooming crisis, as well as “,” illustrated by Kaylani Juanita, about a young trans boy anxiously awaiting the birth of his new sibling. Before he began writing full time, in 2020, Lukoff worked as an elementary-school librarian and bookseller. He recalled an encounter with a customer at the Barnes & Noble in deep-blue Park Slope, Brooklyn.
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