By John Murawski

Written by John Murawski

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Editors’ Note:  Censorship should not be equated with fiscal regulation. Those with varied sexual views should be free to purchase, publish, and read what they wish to, but the public is under no obligation to sponsor their ideas or movements. We are not for banning books. However, regulation of content at public facilities is essential. If what is described herein is going on in conservative North Carolina, then it likely is taking place at a public library near you. Find out if it is. The easy fix is first to complain, and if that is not successful, to lobby for defunding the library, firing the staff, and reforming the library. Find out if your local library is a member of the American Library Association and ask them to reconsider their membership. Privately funded bookstores and private libraries are free to do as they please. But public money should not be used to promote these revolutionary movements to brainwash our children. As described by the author, much of the literature is explicitly targeted at children. Similar action by an adult in the private sphere would likely lead to criminal prosecution or, at a minimum, a restraining order. It is a shame we must now all be suspicious of our local library, but like our schools, these institutions have been infiltrated, and citizens and parents need to fight back. The libraries belong to the public, for the public good, not a tiny minority of people with confused sexual development. Children should not be the sexual targets of book publishers or librarians. If some parents wish their children to read such material, they should provide it. 

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RALEIGH, N.C. – Like public libraries across the country, branches in North Carolina’s capital city turn rainbow-hued each June in celebration of Pride Month. Festive book displays featuring “queer-themed” titles written for all ages – from toddlers to teens and adults – are set out for the public as innocently as if the subject in question were cooking, gardening, or personal finance.

The colorful Pride books set out by Wake County civil servants are not just a benign celebration of gay dignity, hugging couples, and gay families. RealClearInvestigation’s visits to eight of Wake County’s 23 libraries reveal that Pride Month has matured into a national political event that celebrates cross dressing, drag queens, kink, BDSM (bondage, domination, etc.), poppers (recreational drugs used at sex clubs), maschalagnia (armpit fetish), polyamory (consensual non-monogamy) and solo polyamory (don’t even ask), among other delectations of the flesh.

While librarians and their supporters consistently decry critiques of their LGBTQ advocacy as censorship, less attention has been paid to the actual content of the books the librarians promote. RCI’s review of dozens of titles on display, lots of them heavy on pictures and graphics, found some gender identity books aimed at children as young as 2 years old, and others that put LGBTQ in the vanguard of a political revolution against the capitalist patriarchy.

Among the queer histories, biographies and teen fiction, some books are written for queer-affirming families to support youngsters whose sexual interests span nonbinary pronouns, transgenderism and pansexuality. A recurring trope in these books is the glamorization of medicalized sex changes as brave and heroic, with several books featuring children proudly discussing their chest binders and displaying chest scars from top surgery.

For elementary schoolers, there’s “Gender Identity for Kids: A Book About Finding Yourself, Understanding Others, and Respecting Everybody!” This 98-page primer recommended for children ages 7-10 introduces young readers to such concepts as sex assigned at birth, intersex, transgender, agender, bigender, pangender, polygender, misgender, genderfluid, genderqueer, genderflux, neutrois, androgyne transphobia, as well as overtly leftwing political concepts including patriarchy, colonization, intersectionality, safe spaces, and allyship.

“Their gender is fluid,” the book says of a child named Finn, “which means it can change direction over time, just like the wind or the clouds in the sky!”

Teens can find fantasy novels such as “Whiskey When We’re Dry,” which is set in 1885 and tells the story of a female homesteader who cuts her hair and binds her chest, and “Rainbow Rainbow,” which features a nonbinary writer “on the eve of top surgery,” a sperm donor, and a “sex-addicted librarian.”

A surprising number of books expressly criticize heterosexuality, the nuclear family, and the gender binary as obstacles to liberating humanity from capitalism, racism, colonialism, and other forms of oppression purportedly produced by white, male, Christian, Eurocentric cultural norms. A nonfiction work on display, “The Tragedy of Heterosexuality,” describes straight culture as oppressive, repellent, repulsive, and pitiable – in short: “a sick and boring life.” 

The books consistently define queerness as anything and everything that’s not heterosexual and “cisgender,” an expansive understanding of the gay pride movement also affirmed by several of the libraries that display identity flags or bookmarks celebrating an omnium-gatherum of sexual identities that constitute the movement’s pantheon: Demisexual, Bisexual, Intersex, Asexual, Agender, Nonbinary, Genderfluid, Pangender, Polyamory, Polysexual, and Two-Spirit.

Although wokeness is in retreat in some quarters – corporations are scaling back DEI programs and 24 states have moved to block medicalized sex changes for minors – librarians have emerged as the unlikely shock troops of the queer resistance. Their version of what the movement stands for and what should be celebrated during Pride Month offers a more militant crusade against conventional society than many Americans may realize.

Queer books and activism are heavily promoted by the national trade group, the American Library Association, which says that LGBTQ+-themed books are among the most challenged in libraries, typically by conservatives. The ever-present threat of rightwing book “banning” is a key theme at this year’s ALA conference, scheduled in late June, where queering childhood is now an organizational priority.

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