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A pink-to-red sign mounted on a dark stone wall below a red brick wall, above a white-framed window. White text reads: "THE "GUNS DON'T KILL PEOPLE" PEOPLE SURE SEEM TO THINK A BOOK CAN MAKE YOU GAY." Small text at bottom right: "@NoahGarfinkel".

Guns Don't Kill People, But Books Apparently Turn You Gay

A street sign flips the "guns don't kill people" slogan to mock book-banning fears that a book can make you gay. Political humor and LGBTQ rights commentary.

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A pink-to-red sign mounted on a dark stone wall below a red brick wall, above a white-framed window. White text reads: "THE "GUNS DON'T KILL PEOPLE" PEOPLE SURE SEEM TO THINK A BOOK CAN MAKE YOU GAY." Small text at bottom right: "@NoahGarfinkel".

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A blonde woman with glasses in a red t-shirt sits surrounded by enormous towering piles of books, reading a large open book. Top text: "SOME PEOPLE PREFER PLAYING VIDEO GAMES." Bottom text: "OTHERS PREFER STARING AT MARKED SLICES OF TREES AND HALLUCINATE VIVIDLY FOR HOURS ON END." A smiling young woman with short dark bangs and a teal headband glances at the camera while pointing at a big red button on a beige industrial control panel. She wears a rainbow wristwatch. The panel reads: "ESCHATRON 9000". Warning: "DO NOT OPERATE THE ESCHATRON 9000 UNLESS YOU'RE REALLY, REALLY SERIOUS ABOUT DESTROYING THE WORLD". Labels: "MAYHEM", "TEMPERATURE" with a display reading 113, "DESTRUCTION",… Illustrated row of colorful book spines on a wooden shelf, including To Kill a Mockingbird, The Kite Runner, Forever by Judy Blume, Huckleberry Finn, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, Bridge to Terabithia, Of Mice and Men, The Catcher in the Rye, The Giver, The Bluest Eye, The Handmaid's Tale, Harry Potter, The Color Purple, and A Wrinkle in Time. Below it reads: I'M WITH THE BANNED Vintage comic panel with a yellow background. A smiling girl with a black bowl haircut, a white bow and a red plaid dress holds an open book labeled "MAGIC". A crack in the wall behind her shows pink bricks. Her speech bubble reads: "I'D GIVE ANYTHING FOR SUCH POWER". Acrylic painting of a headless-looking figure in a red shirt and blue jeans sitting cross-legged, reading a large black book with yellow edges. A pale beam of light falls from above, and a black ink-like skull creature with white eyes drops into it. Red letters at the bottom read: AHHHH A light blue sticker on a gray metal pole with hand-lettered black text: "There are girls with dicks, guys with vaginas, and transphobes without teeth." A circled anarchist A combined with a transgender symbol appears at the left and right ends.

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