Fun Home by Alison Bechdel

Fun Home1, published in 2006, has been challenged several times since its publication in public libraries, secondary schools, and even universities. In 2014, the state legislature in South Carolina attempted to enact punitive budget cuts against the College of Charleston for including Fun Home on their syllabus.2

“As with many other famous LGBTQ+ books, Fun Home face homophobic backlash upon publication. In 2006, the year it was published, a woman in Marshall, Missouri, denounced the book as “pornography” and demanded that her local library remove it from their shelves, arguing that children would be attracted to its comic book format. The book was removed temporarily, but was eventually reinstated.”3

1Bechdel, Alison. 2006. Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic. Boston New York Mariner Books.

2“Case Study: Fun Home – Comic Book Legal Defense Fund.” n.d. https://cbldf.org/banned-challenged-comics/case-study-fun-home/.

3Heyworth-Dunne, Victoria. Banned books: the world’s most controversial books, past and present. New York, NY: DK Publishing, 2022.