Like many libraries across the country, the Samuels Public Library in Warren County has found itself embroiled in conflict over books with LGBTQ themes.
Melody Hotek, president of the library’s board of trustees, and Eileen Grady, the library’s interim director, say the county’s action is the direct result of a small group of activists who deride any children’s book with gay, lesbian or transgender characters as “pornography.
Hundreds of complaints about specific books have now been filed, driven in part by a “Beer, Babysitting, and Cleaning Up the Samuels Library” party hosted by Clean Up Samuels in which attendees were encouraged to submit challenges.that contains explicit illustrations of oral sex and masturbation, to “Bathe the Cat,” a children’s book depicting a family with two dads getting mixed up as it conducts household chores.
“I really feel like they’re just using this kind of ‘taking care of children’ messaging to cover the fact that they they don’t want LGBTQ books in the library,” said Kelsey Lawrence, one of Save Samuels’ organizers.
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