BILLINGS — A months-long battle will come to an end Monday night, when the Billings school board decides whether to keep two books allegedly depicting gay sex on the library shelves.
The issue first arose in Fairfax County, Virginia, surrounding two coming of age stories: “Lawn Boy” a novel by Jonathan Evison and “Gender Queer: a memoir”, which is a collection of narrative drawings, also known as a graphic novel, by Maia Kobabe. Without relevant context, a section of “Lawn Boy” allegedly describes sexual acts between two underage boys. And again without context, “Gender Queer” allegedly shows drawings of two intamate adults.