This is not the first time the High Plains Library District has been accused of discriminating against vulnerable communities and retaliating against employees who speak out.
Simone Perry performs as Simon Hyperion during the Greeley Does Drag event at the Syntax Distillery and Cocktail Bar in Greeley on May 13, 2023. Perry helped plan a new Pride event in Greeley last year after the High Plains Library District canceled its annual Pride celebration.
After a successful Pride in 2022, Granado said in her complaint that she and her colleagues were met with pushback from the library’s executive director, Matt Hortt, while planning the 2023 event. That included anti-LGBTQ statements from Hortt’s staff and a decision by Hortt late in the planning process to “ban drag” from the event, according to the lawsuit.“Mr. Hortt has a history of canceling events if the events involve causes or topics that he does not support,” Riley wrote in the lawsuit.
Granado had planned to host the library’s Pride celebration at the University of Northern Colorado, which had agreed to provide equipment needed for the event, the lawsuit said.Colorado library district to pay fired librarian $250,000, create more inclusive policies in settlement of civil rights probe
Twenty days after Granado submitted her letter to the library’s board of directors, she said she was terminated.
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