kathleen writes “Meagan Albright, 24, a graduate student in library science at the University of South Florida, was astounded when her display led the Hillsborough County Commission [includes Tampa Florida] to adopt a policy stating, in effect, that the county would not recognize gay pride, period.
Albright, who is not gay, wants readers to find the books from her original display. Most authors and books have won significant awards. All are on library shelves.
Am I Blue? Coming Out from the Silence, Marion Diane Bauer
Weetzie Bat, Francesca Lia Block
Girl Goddess, #9, Francesca Lia Block
My Father’s Scar: A Novel, Michael Cart
Postcards from No Man’s Land, Aiden Chambers
Athletic Shorts, Chris Crutcher
Ironman, Chris Crutcher
Talk to Me: Stories and a Novella, Carol Dines
Eight Seconds, Jean Ferris
My Heartbeat, Garret Freymann-Weyr
Breaking Boxes, A.M. Jenkins
Hello, I Lied, M.E. Kerr
Alice on the Outside, Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
The Shell House, Linda Newberry
–for more see
Library display’s organizer wants the books to be found “
What hypocrisy
Is just me or is it that reactionary hatemongers who want to “protect children” from ideas never want to protect children from actual, physical harm?
I wonder if we asked Storm about that if she’d reply: Well, who cares about them, they’re only fags anyway. Let them die and thereby decrease the surplus population.