Ohio public library cancels LGBTQ Pride week event amid pushback from GOP House Speaker

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Source: the Hill





By Owen Daugherty - 06/02/19 06:28 PM EDT


A public library in Ohio canceled an LGBTQ event for teenagers during Pride week after the state’s Republican House Speaker publicly demanded it be stopped.

Ohio House Speaker Larry Householder (R) on Twitter Friday posted a screenshot of a letter he sent to the Ohio Library Council writing that “libraries should not be a resource for teenage boys to learn how to dress in drag. I demand it stop now!!!”

The Licking County Library in Newark, Ohio, had been planning an LGBTQ event geared towards teenagers that featured a drag queen makeup tutorial and a safe-sex program, among other events, according to the Newark Advocate.

Householder asserted in his letter that the “joke is apparently on the taxpayers, who fund our libraries. This is a stunningly bizarre breach of the public trust. And it must stop."

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The news outlet reports the Newark Ohio Pride Coalition cited “pressure from state-wide elected officials” in deciding to cancel the event.......................................................

Read more: https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/446547-ohio-public-library-cancels-lgbtq-pride-week-event-amid-pushback-from

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I am becoming very fearful of fair life in America.

Link to tweet

Replying to @HouseholderOH

So, no free speech now in OHIO. #Shame on YOU
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Jessica Sullivan
? @Jessica731
Jun 1

Replying to @HouseholderOH

actually now that you mention it, as a taxpayer I request that all of my tax dollars that have been used to fund the “War on Terror” be reallocated to teaching teen boys to learn how to become drag queens. thank you.
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Max Littman
? @Juicewag
May 31

Replying to @HouseholderOH

“I’m for the first amendment”
“But not when it does something I don’t like.”
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MLB stands for Marxist-Leninist Baseball
? @blunted215
Jun 1

Replying to @HouseholderOH

Your family doesn't love you and they're right for it, Larry.
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Todd Munson
? @themunson
May 31

Replying to @HouseholderOH

Larry, there’s no need to put a space between your final sentence and the three (3) exclamation points.
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Remoaner Lisa

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? @lisafryer9
Jun 1
Replying to @HouseholderOH

Are there books on how to shoot guns, in these libraries where right and wrong must be distinguished?
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Mike - Free Kevin Logan!
? @The_NavigatorBR
Jun 1

As a resident of Ohio, I can confirm you can find tons of books on firearms and how to use them. Been in 13 public libraries in northern Ohio, some in major cities others in fairly rural towns.

They all have books on firearms.

[uriel1972]

1. Absolutely charming...

I bet he's so much fun at parties.

[dhill926]

2. fuck this shit....

they should tell him to shove it up his ass...would be great if the teenagers showed up anyway...

[RKP5637]

3. Jerks like this are taking the country down. They need to get out of other peoples lives. They are

full of so much bullshit. Man am I tired of their asshole authoritarianism. And the damn fool needs to know everyone does not dress in drag, and if so, so what. It's none of his fucken business.

[uriel1972]

4. get government out of the bedroom and into the boardroom!

[Blue_Tires]

9. +1

[Javaman]

5. It's time we stop backing down.

[Stargleamer]

6. Meanwhile in my City by the Bay. . .

this wondrous stuff goes on in the public libraries: https://www.sfgate.com/life/article/Drag-Queen-Story-Hour-San-Francisco-Public-Library-6856221.php


Won't you save me San Francisco?

[YOHABLO]

7. What a lovely couple.

[yardwork]

8. This is why young people are leaving rural areas and the communities are dying.

I grew up near Newark, OH. I don't live there now. This is why.

[luvs2sing]

10. One of several reasons why for me.

Scariest thing of all is I think I may be distantly related to that POS.