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AND TANGO MAKES THREE Authors Seek Settlement in Escambia County School Lawsuit

Based on overwhelming evidence of inappropriate removal of the book AND TANGO MAKES THREE, plaintiffs in one Escambia School lawsuit seek su

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And Tango Makes Three by Justin Richardson, Peter Parnell. Illustrations by Henry Cole

Rating: 5/5

Age Recommendation: All ages Art Style: Soft colour drawn Topic/ Theme: Family, Acceptance Setting: Central Park Zoo

And Tango Makes Three is an adorable book. The illustrations and wording pace are perfect. The language choice intelligent allowing for introducing marriage equality and gay adoption as concepts to the youngest generation who will likely just accept it. The whole book is just beautiful, and I harbour nothing but love for it.

This book is so needlessly controversial. It is number 4 on the ALA banned and challenged books list for 2000-09. Yes, it’s two male penguins raising a chick, it happened in Central Park in 2000 get over it. Oh, look homosexuality happens in the animal kingdom too. And guess what banning/ challenging a book makes people want to read it even more. If the haters want a silver living Roy and Silo didn’t last, Silo partnered with a female penguin in 2005 (though last known Tango was in a relationship with another female penguin).

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Posting Alert!

Chapter 14  of How To Get Away is up. 

Yeah--that is Nahtoo and Peter.  I fooled around in Photoshop this weekend. 

Thanks to @bulma90-13 for the head canon suggestion of Joel David Moore as Peter Parnell. “That’s just how I see him,” she said.

Nahtoo is Emanuela de Paula because that just how I see her. 

I SWEAR I am gonna get some writing done this week.  Swear, swear, swear. 

xxox

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And Tango Makes Three

“And Tango Makes Three” by Justin Richardson and Peter Parnell tells the story of two male penguins who fall in love and become parents to an adopted baby penguin, Tango. This is a book I discussed in one of my education classes that deals with incorporating issues in the classrooms of diverse families. I think it is so important to introduce children to these topics, such as same sex parents, at a young age. The earlier children are exposed to these types of differences, the more they can accept it. Although it may be controversial to bring up these topics in a classroom, it’s important to note that not every child/family has to agree with what is going on in the book, but they can still be respectful. 

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Something to say Night-Night to:

“Gay penguins!​ This delightful book tells the true story of Roy and Silo, two penguins at the Central Park Zoo who fall in penguin love and are given an orphan egg to raise as their own. In the more than a decade since it's publication, a lot can be said for progress for queer life in America. Courageous books like Tango are an important part of that change. This book is still widely contested, and I'm happy to highlight this book for Banned Books Week.“ -- Cody ( @thecodystuart )

And Tango Makes Three by Justin Richardson, Peter Parnell and Henry Cole (Illustrator)

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Presenting Episode #20 of the Banned Library Podcast, And Tango Makes Three by Justin Richardson and Peter Parnell. Hosted by Evan Williamson, who discusses books that have been challenged or banned.

http://www.inthestacks.tv/2016/06/banned-library-20-and-tango-makes-three-by-justin-richardson-and-peter-parn

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DADA WOOF PAPA HOT (Off-Broadway: Lincoln Center Theater at the Mitzi E. Newhouse) review by David Levy

Most gay men of a certain age never envisioned a world in which they could get married and have children. At its surface, Dada Woof Papa Hot examines how two couples-with-toddlers adapt to this reality. But at its heart, Peter Parnell’s play considers whether relationships can survive when partners have radically different ideas of what their partnership should look like. Alan (John Benjamin Hickey) came of age in the pre-AIDS-crisis days of gay sexual liberation but was never much interested in partaking. By 2015, he’s married to Rob (Patrick Breen), who dotes on their daughter and relishes fatherhood – another activity in which Alan has only mild interest. They seek out friendship with younger dads Scott (Stephen Plunkett) and Jason (Alex Hurt), which goes well until Jason and Alan have a tête-à-tête, permitted in the Jason’s relationship but a clear violation on Alan’s part. Alan never wanted kids, Jason never wanted monogamy, and their partners who convinced them into their current arrangements feel betrayed.

As directed by Scott Ellis, the play feels more like a math problem than a drama, with a dose of armchair psychology sprinkled in for flavor. John Lee Beatty’s elaborately modular set is the most interesting thing on stage. Despite strong performances, particularly by Hickey and Plunkett, one gets the sense that neither the characters (beyond Jason) nor the playwright seriously considered that gay people might create and fit into relationships that don’t simply mimic heteronormativity, so the play becomes a straw man argument hardly worth engaging.

Production photo by Joan Marcus. Pictured (l-r): Alex Hurt, John Benjamin Hickey, Stephen Plunkett, and Patrick Breen.

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National Banned Book Week 2015

Banned Book Week runs 9/27 - 10/3 and each day we will highlight titles that held the distinction of Most Challenged in 2014. Do your part and support the freedom to read by grabbing one of these titles from your local library: Top 10 Banned Books of 2014.

Today we look at And Tango Makes Three by Justin Richardson and Peter Parnell.

In the zoo there are all kinds of animal families. But Tango's family is not like any of the others.

Roy and Silo are just like the other penguin couples at the zoo - they bow to each other, walk together and swim together. But Roy and Silo are a little bit different - they're both boys.Then, one day, when Mr Gramzay the zookeeper finds them trying to hatch astone, he realises that it may be time for Roy and Silo to become parents for real.