The United States South Carolina House voted last month to cut $17,146 from University of South Carolina Upstate's budget—the exact cost of the institution’s reading program. Conservative representatives took issue with this year’s required book, “Out Loud:  The Best of Rainbow Radio,” a short story collection from South Carolina’s first gay radio show.

Republican state Sen. Mike Fair went so far as to state that the school is “recruiting” gay people. The University booked a show called "How to Become a Lesbian in 10 Days or Less."

“The title of ‘How to Become a Lesbian in 10 days or Less,’ while deliberately provocative, is satirical in nature but has not been received as such. The controversy surrounding this performance has become a distraction to the educational mission of USC upstate and the overall purpose of the bodies of knowledge symposium. As a result, we have canceled this segment of the symposium,” assistant vice chancellor for university communications Tammy E. Whaley  wrote.

The South Carolina legislature also cut funding for a College of Charleston reading program that had assigned a gay-themed book, the graphic novel "Fun Home."

So as you can see Hard Right wing 'Tea Party' Republicans in the United States are bringing back ,figuratively speaking, the old fashion practice of book-burning from the dark ages in relation to gay Educational materials in the United States  :blind: