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² Brian Grasso, “I'm a Duke Freshman. Here's Why I Refused to Read ‘Fun Home,’” Washington Post, Aug. 25, 2015, https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2015/08/25/im-a-duke-freshman-heres-why-i-refused-to-read-fun-home/?utm_term=.3f7aa2d0173f (accessed Sept. 1, 2017).

³ Grasso, “I'm a Duke Freshman.”

⁴ Oran Smith, cited in Jenna Lyons, “Two School's Budgets Altered Following Gay-Themed Assigned Reading Controversy,” USA Today College, July 9, 2014, http://college.usatoday.com/2014/07/09/two-s-c-schools-budgets-altered-following-gay-themed-assigned-reading-controversy/ (accessed Sept. 1, 2017).

⁵ Sarah McCammon, “Books with Gay Themes Put S.C. Colleges' Funding at Risk,” National Public Radio, May 9, 2014, http://www.npr.org/2014/05/09/310726247/gay-friendly-book-selections-put-college-funding-at-risk (accessed Sept. 1, 2017). The vote also came in opposition to a similar program at USC Upstate that chose Out Loud: The Best of Rainbow Radio, which describes South Carolina's first lesbian and gay radio show.

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¹⁴ Wojnarowicz v. American Family Association, 745 F. Supp 130 (1990).

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¹⁶ The often-cited line about pornography that “I know it when I see it” is from Jacobellis v. Ohio. 378 U.S., 197 (Stewart, J., concurring).

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