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Chicago Sun-Times
Chicago Sun-Times
National
Nader Issa

Suburban Chicago school board keeps ‘Gender Queer’ book that conservative parents, Proud Boys wanted banned

Protestors against “Gender Queer” hold up signs during a school board meeting, Monday, Nov. 15, 2021 at North High School in Downers Grove. (Anthony Vazquez/Sun-Times)

A west suburban school board unanimously voted this week to keep a book on sexual orientation and gender identity in its libraries after a group of conservative parents and members of the far-right Proud Boys group raised objections over the past few months.

The dispute has roiled the Downers Grove high school district, particularly at a rowdy November board meeting at which adults in one case called a student a “pedophile.”

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