Meanwhile in Oklahoma, state senate Republicans passed a bill that would ban both printed and digital material from the state’s public and school libraries “that the average person age 18 or older applying contemporary community standards would find has a predominant tendency to appeal to a prurient interest in sex.” It’s easy to guess which kinds of sex those “community standards” would censor. (The library has managed to stay open with more than $277,000 raised via GoFundMe, but some of its detractors have stepped up their efforts and are now calling for the removal of all books containing LGBTQ+ themes.) This March, conservative lawmakers in Mississippi advanced a bill aimed at combating so-called internet pornography that would in effect prohibit e-books depicting “homosexuality” or “lesbianism” (among other topics) from public schools and libraries. Targeted books included Gender Queer, a 2019 illustrated memoir that, as a concession to conservatives, was already shelved behind the checkout desk like a controlled substance. Tell Me Pretty Lies (Heartbreak Hill Series) Charleigh Rose on. Last year, the Patmos Library in Jamestown, Michigan, lost its taxpayer funding after staff refused to strip a handful of LGBTQ+ titles from the library’s collection. In some parts of the country, the hysteria is preventing even fully grown adults from accessing books-for themselves-that happen to have LGBTQ+ themes. (Although the challenges against both, against titles like And Tango Makes Three-the award-winning, completely unscandalous illustrated tale of two male penguins raising a chick-remain absurd.) It’s not just about parents being denied a say in what their kids can and cannot read. This isn’t just about Drag Story Hour or inclusive kids’ books anymore.
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