California Dept. of Education adds dozens of gay, transgender titles to recommended reading list
SACRAMENTO, March 22, 2013 ( LifeSiteNews.com ) – The California Department of Education has revised the statewide recommended reading list for its 6.3 million K-12 students, adding roughly 40 titles focused on homosexuality or gender confusion. The list, which was last revised in 2008, contains more than 7,800 books categorized by grades K-2, 3-5, middle school (6-8), and high school (9-12). This is the first time the state has included books that won the Stonewall Book Awards , a gay-centered award for literature celebrating the homosexual lifestyle. “We have titles in the list for the LGBT community for multiple recommended grade levels,” Roxane Fidler, the CDE’s education programs consultant, told the San Jose Mercury News . “There are books from the Stonewall Book Awards, which has not previously been on the list.” Fidler told the Mercury News that there were “no controversial books” on the list. But the database itself would seem to disagree. Browsing thro