A bookstore in San Francisco is sending boxes of LGBTQ+ books to parts of the country where they are banned
An LGBTQ+ related book is seen on display at Fabulosa Books in the Castro District of San Francisco on Thursday, June 27, 2024."Books Not Bans" is a program initiated and sponsored by Fabulosa Books that sends boxes of LGBTQ+ books to LGBTQ+ organizations in conservative parts of America, places where bigoted politicians are demonizing and banning books with LGBTQ+ affirming content.
Beginning last May, she started raising money and looking for recipients. Her books have gone to places like a pride center in west Texas and an LGBTQ-friendly high school in Alabama. Among those topping banned lists have been Maia Kobabe’s “Gender Queer," George Johnson’s “All Boys Aren’t Blue” and Nobel laureate Toni Morrison’s “The Bluest Eye.”“Fiction teaches us how to dream,” Robbins said. “It teaches us how to connect with people who are not like ourselves, it teaches us how to listen and emphasize.
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