Librarians Didn’t Sign Up to Be Queer Activists—but This Year, They Are | The New Republic

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Anti-LGBTQ activists are increasingly targeting public reading spaces—and librarians are our best defenders.

Maybe it was inevitable that anti-LGBTQ groups would target the public library in Ferndale—nestled between the police station and a few blocks from the cute cafés peppered around this Detroit suburb. But “ Hide the Pride ,” a national campaign coordinated by the group CatholicVote, hit Ferndale one day back in early June. The campaign’s mission is to eliminate books by and for queer and trans people from public libraries. They are not secretive about this. The Hide the Pride activists claimed credit soon after their action in Ferndale, posting before-and-after photos showing off how they had r

Librarians Didn’t Sign Up to Be Queer Activists—but This Year, They Are | The New Republic

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