Report From Missouri: St. Charles County Libraries Ban LGBTQ Flags, Other ‘Personal Belief’ Decor
From the St. Louis Post-Dispatch:
Library employees here have been ordered to remove flags — including LGBTQ pride flags— and other decor that “promotes personal beliefs” from their workspaces, officials said on Tuesday.
St. Charles City-County Library CEO John Greifzu said the move is part of a push to make the library “welcoming to everyone.”
In a statement that Greifzu said was shared with library staff this week, employees were reminded that workspace displays should “not promote personal beliefs, social agendas, political affiliations, advocacy positions, social positions or personal identity expression.”
But some library employees, including some who identify as members or allies of the LGBTQ community, say they were targeted. Their pride flags had been up for years, but, in the recent warning, they were told they could be fired for not removing them.
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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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