Gay theme OK, but no casual sex.

Students at Curtis Junior High School and Curtis Senior High School in University Place, Wash., will no longer be able to find the gay-themed novel Geography Club in their school libraries. But it's not because officials there are antigay. It's because they want to protect students from engaging in "high-risk behavior."

Superintendent Patti Banks said she was alarmed by the book's "romanticized" portrayal of a gay teen hooking up with a stranger he met in an Internet chat room. "We want to send a strong consistent message to all our students that meeting individuals via the Internet is extremely high-risk behavior," Banks wrote in a letter to two parents who complained about the book's "casual and loose approach to sex." "To the extent that this book might contradict that message, I have determined it should not be in our libraries in spite of [its positive theme]."

In the 2003 book by Brent Hartinger, a teenager thinks he's the only gay student in his high school until he learns that his gay online chat room buddy is a popular school athlete. The teen meets other gay students, and they form the Geography Club, thinking the name is so boring no one else will join.