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This is Jenny Lives with Eric and Martin (1983), an educational children’s book intended to reduce anti-gay prejudice. It was quickly labelled ‘gay propaganda’ and wielded as a weapon and ‘evidence’ against the #LGBT community, leading to the introduction of #Section28#LGBTHM21
Danish author, Susanne Bosche, created the book to help children ‘...understand themselves and the society they live in.’ google.co.uk/amp/s/amp.theg…
However the book became the catalyst for one of the most pernicious pieces of legislation in recent times.
In 1986 The Sun ran the headline “Vile Book In School: Pupils See Pictures of Gay Lovers”. The fact that the book was published by Gay Men’s Press in the UK simply ‘confirmed’ this view.