America’s public libraries were already feeling the heat for hosting drag queen story hours and feuding with Christian actor Kirk Cameron, and then word broke that the American Library Association’s newly installed president calls herself a “Marxist lesbian.”
as saying that her “queerness includes the subversion of those kind of normal family types,” criticizing the “Christo-fascist right,” defending drag-queen story hours and reimagining libraries as a “space based on an ideology that centered notions of queerness and difference rather than democracy and citizenship.”
In a 2019 article, she said libraries after the election of President Donald Trump can play a role by creating “research guides that help people understand how to resist authoritarian regimes.”called it a “principle of librarianship” that “every reader has a right to decide for themselves what they read. And that includes children.”
“The question becomes: Is this an organization that should have such a leadership role in our local libraries? The answer for most of America is no,” Mr. Jones said. “New York, San Francisco, Chicago, the answer’s probably yes, but for the rest of America, these are not the people we want influencing the purchasing list at our small local library. Unfortunately, they are.
Conservatives say examples of leftist bias abound. Last week, for example, a librarian in Davis, California, shut down a forum on “safe sport for girls” over “misgendering” after a speaker referred to male-born athletes who identify as women as “men.”
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