{"id":17560,"date":"2026-01-11T17:22:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-11T17:22:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/trumps-return-chills-embattled-lgbtq-book-industry-theyre-stepping-back\/"},"modified":"2026-01-11T17:22:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T17:22:12","slug":"trumps-return-chills-embattled-lgbtq-book-industry-theyre-stepping-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/trumps-return-chills-embattled-lgbtq-book-industry-theyre-stepping-back\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump\u2019s return chills embattled LGBTQ book industry: \u2018They\u2019re stepping back\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President Trump&rsquo;s return to office has fueled the grassroots forces that have driven a spike in LGBTQ book bans in recent years, creating a notable chill in the market for queer stories, according to authors and others in the publishing industry.   The effect has been most keenly felt within children&rsquo;s book publishing&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/lgbtq\/5679251-trump-era-lgbtq-book-bans\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Trump&rsquo;s return to office has fueled the grassroots forces that have driven a spike in LGBTQ book bans in recent years, creating a notable chill in the market for queer stories, according to authors and others in the publishing industry. The effect has been most keenly felt within children&rsquo;s book publishing&#8230;Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17561,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17560","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17560","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17560"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17560\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17561"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}