Virginia Judge refuses to label LGBT books ‘obscene’

Book covers of “Gender Queer” by Maia Kobabe (left) and “A Court of Mist and Fury” by Sarah J. K. Maas (Photos: Simon and Schuster; Bloomsbury Publishing)

A circuit court judge in Virginia has rejected petitions to label two books — included the much-maligned Maia Kobabe graphic novel Gender Queer — as “obscene,” a designation which would have made it illegal to sell or lend the books in the…