Report: South Carolina Resident Files Criminal Complaint Against Public Library for Having LGBTQ-Themed Books
From The State:
A Travelers Rest man filed a report with the Travelers Rest Police Department, saying the local Greenville County library branch was committing a crime for distributing sexually explicit content.
Albert Hill, in his late 30s, wrote an email to police earlier this week saying books listed on the LGBTQ and Banned Books list had “graphic cartoon illustrations and exploitations for gay sex, hand jobs, anal, oral, and how to use sex apps,” according to the incident report.
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It is the second time this month LGBTQ books in the Greenville County public library system have been questioned. The Greenville County GOP has asked the library to remove LGBTQ children’s books from children’s sections.
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Gary Price (gprice@gmail.com) is a librarian, writer, consultant, and frequent conference speaker based in the Washington D.C. metro area. He earned his MLIS degree from Wayne State University in Detroit. Price has won several awards including the SLA Innovations in Technology Award and Alumnus of the Year from the Wayne St. University Library and Information Science Program. From 2006-2009 he was Director of Online Information Services at Ask.com.
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