Maulik Pancholy. Photo by Larry D. Moore, CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
A Pennsylvania school board unanimously canceled 30 Rock actor Maulik Pancholy’s anti-bullying talk to middle school students because of the actor’s gay “lifestyle.” Some community members are petitioning for the board to reverse its decision, reports LGBTQ Nation.
Pancholy — a gay, Indian-American comedic actor and author whose 2022 book about standing up to homophobic bullying, Nikhil Out Loud, won the 2023 Lambda Literary Award for Middle Grade Literature — was scheduled to give a talk to Mountain View Middle School in Mechanicsburg. Pancholy, who served on President Barack Obama’s Advisory Commission on Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders, delivers public talks on “diversity and inclusion.”
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