After the Lake County School Board prohibited elementary school students from accessing a book about a same-sex penguin family, the authors filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida.

And Tango Makes Three, written by Peter Parnell and Justin Richardson, depicts two male penguins named Roy and Silo who hatched and raised a baby penguin named Tango while residents at the New York City Central Park Zoo. 

“The Board barred access to Tango for all students in kindergarten through third grade, expressly stating that its decision was based on Florida’s 2022 House Bill 1557, a vague and overbroad statute that discriminates based on content and viewpoint by barring classroom instruction on sexual orientation or gender identity,” wrote attorney Faith E. Gay in the complaint.