Dozens of UK school librarians asked to remove LGBTQ+ books, survey finds

The School Library Association identified a trend of censorship targeted at books written by queer authors or featuring queer characters. Photograph: Houston Chronicle/Hearst Newspapers/Getty Images

More than two dozen school librarians in the UK have been asked to remove books – many of which are LGBTQ+ titles – from school library shelves, according to new survey data.

The Index on Censorship survey found that 28 of 53 librarians polled – 53% – said that they had been asked to remove books. In more than half of those cases books were taken off shelves.