Madison County Public Library administrators were asked to go over a list of potentially "sexually explicit" books to be moved from the children's and young adult section to the adult section. The majority of these books were about the LGBTQ community. At least one was added to the list because the author's last name is Gay.

Madison County Public Library administrators were asked to go over a list of potentially “sexually explicit” books to be moved from the children’s and young adult section to the adult section. The majority of these books were about the LGBTQ community. At least one was added to the list because the author’s last name is Gay.

  • Evie @lemmy.world
    166·
    9 months ago

    I may be off my rocker here but I will bet the author has a discrimination lawsuit, if he finds a cleaver enough lawyer to argue the semantics of it… also gay used to and still does mean happy and was used as late as the 80s in the USA… it only recently changed since the 90s to mean an orientation… so I bet this author could have an interesting day in court…

          • be_excellent_to_each_other@kbin.social
            72·
            9 months ago

            I don’t see how that detracts from the point being made about a lawsuit. “Your honor, my client was discriminated against and has potentially experienced damage to her career because defendants don’t enter libraries or read books except to see if they can find a reason to ban them, and they latched onto this book without realizing the word “Gay” can be a name, or can mean happy, and this ignorance exacerbated their homophobic bigotry, leading to this undesirable outcome.”

            Or some more sterile and legal way of pointing out what fantastic illiterate idiots these homophobes are.

          • orclev@lemmy.world
            32·
            9 months ago

            Yes… and? Still not understanding why you assume they didn’t look at the picture. The entire point is that the author potentially has a discrimination lawsuit because of their name, and I’m not seeing how the picture changes that in any way.

      • be_excellent_to_each_other@kbin.social
        63·
        9 months ago

        You couldn’t even be fucking bothered to look at the picture?

        Remember that time when we all thought folks would be a little nicer and a little less quick to rudeness and interpreting everything in the worst possible way on Lemmy and Kbin? (Like 3 months ago?)

        Pepperidge Farm Remembers.