Public Libraries Promote ‘LGBT’ Books to Children and Teens – Year Round
(Caution: Includes disturbing content and links to book reviews with graphic content.)
Public libraries across the nation celebrated “LGBT pride month” by promoting sexually confusing books with homosexual and “transgender” themes to children and teens.
But it’s not just June when LGBT identities and behaviors are pushed on children, as many libraries promote age-inappropriate books throughout the year.
This is especially the case as the American Library Association has become more radical and promotes sexualized books for children. But it’s also because LGBT folks and their allies claim more days, weeks and months to celebrate various sexual proclivities – from Bisexual Health Awareness Month in March to Transgender History Month in August, and from Aromantic Spectrum Awareness Week in February to Transgender Awareness Week in November.
Libraries also promote inappropriate material during so-called Banned Books Week, in October each year.
Parents should be aware that this happens across the country – even in conservative communities.
In North Carolina, John Murawski reported at Real Clear Investigations about Raliegh public libraries celebrating LGBT pride month:
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.
He notes that the books promote a variety of sexual fetishes, including “cross dressing, drag queens, kink, BDSM (bondage, domination, etc.), poppers (recreational drugs used at sex clubs), … [and] polyamory (consensual non-monogamy) … among other delectations of the flesh.”
While these books are especially featured during LGBT pride, parents should be aware that these books are available to children and teens all year long.
Libraries in Boston offer “We Are Pride Booklists” for children, teens and adults. That’s right, the staff-curated lists lump sexually explicit adult books together with LGBT books intended for children and teens. Hundreds of books are listed, such as:
- Who Are You? The Kid’s Guide to Gender Identity. The author is Brook Pessin-Whedbee, “a public school teacher and mama to three little ones who joyfully bend and break the gender boxes.” Written for children ages 5-8, the book introduces children to gender ideology, presenting “clear and direct language for understanding and talking about how we experience gender: our bodies, our expression and our identity.”
- Transphobia: Deal With It and Be a Gender Transcender, is written by J. Wallace Skelton, “an educator, activist and writer.” Written for children ages 9-15, the book explains “Transphobia is intolerance of any part of the range of gender identity.” Through “information, quizzes, comics and true-to-life scenarios,” Transphobia helps “kids better understand gender identity and determine what they can do to identify and counter transphobia in their schools, homes and communities.”
Colorado Springs, Colorado is a generally conservative city, but libraries offer a list of “LGBTQIA+” books to adolescents and teens. The list, placed in the teen section of the library all year long, includes many unsuitable books:
- Cool for the Summer, by Dahlia Adler, is about a teenage girl who “is conflicted about her sexuality while she has romantic relationships with another teenage girl and her long-time boy crush.” One summary of concerns with the book says: “This book contains alternate gender ideologies; profanity [dozens of incidents]; sexual activities; sexual nudity; and alternate sexualities.”
- Queer: A Graphic History, by Meg John Barker, has chapters like “Interrogating Heteronormativity,” “Open Non-monogamy,” “Polynormativity and Kinknormativity.” Rated Books says, “This book contains alternate sexualities; alternate gender ideologies; and controversial racial and social commentary.”
- The Black Flamingo, by Dean Atta, a “fierce coming-of-age verse novel about identity and the power of drag,” is about a “mixed-race gay teen growing up in London” who explores sex with men and discovers his identity as a drag performing – the Black Flamingo. According to one review, the book contains: alternate sexualities; inexplicit sexual nudity; sexual activities; drug and alcohol use; alternate gender ideologies; controversy racial commentary; and references to racism.
While many librarians are helpful and hold conservative values, the American Library Association is a radical organization that has promoted unsuitable books for children for decades. The association dishonestly calls any parents’ concerns about sexualized books for children “book banning” and “censorship.”
The American Library Association’s “Library Bill of Rights” includes the following articles, which demonstrate what the group believes about parental involvement in children’s book choices:
- Libraries should challenge censorship in the fulfillment of their responsibility to provide information and enlightenment.
- A person’s right to use a library should not be denied or abridged because of origin, age, background, or views.
- All people, regardless of origin, age, background, or views, possess a right to privacy and confidentiality in their library use. Libraries should advocate for, educate about, and protect people’s privacy, safeguarding all library use data, including personally identifiable information.
Basically, the association believes children should be able to check out whatever books they want, regardless of age, and that they deserve “privacy and confidentiality” – including from parents – in those decisions.
With libraries across the country promoting LGBT books throughout the year, it’s incumbent upon parents to give children a solid understanding of God’s good design for relationships, identity, sexuality and marriage.
In addition, parents should strive to maintain a healthy, open relationship with their children, so that when they do come across disturbing sexual content, they feel free to talk about these experiences.
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