Illinois Parents Fight to Ban Sexually Explicit Book From Schools

Terry Newsome, dressed in a Downers Grove South High School spirit wear, sits in the school auditorium where he spoke up about the book "Gender Queer" last month, in Downers Grove, Ill., on Dec. 13, 2021. Cara Ding/The Epoch Times

DOWNERS GROVE, Ill.—Terry Newsome, a father of two high school freshmen in a Democratic-leaning Chicago suburb, was never into local school board meetings. That is, until five months ago.

Newsome was busy working as an associate vice president at a global information services provider. He was also fighting two cancers, one being stage-four prostate cancer.