School board candidate checks out all LGBTQ books displayed at public library to make it "safe"

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In Frederick County, Maryland, Heather Fletcher, a candidate for the Board of Education, was dismayed by a display of LGBTQ books at the public library. So

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In Frederick County, Maryland, Heather Fletcher, a candidate for the Board of Education, was dismayed by a display of LGBTQ books at the public library. So she checked them all out in an effort to make the library a "safe place for children," she says. The titles Fletcher borrowed include How to Survive a Plague: The Inside Story of How Citizens and Scientists Tamed AIDS, We Are Everywhere: Protest, Power, and Pride in the History of Queer Liberation, and David Bowie Made Me Gay: 100 Years of LGBT Music, and more than a dozen others. One can only hope Fletcher reads the books and learns something. From {WTOP}:

[Frederick County Public Libraries spokesperson Samantha] Jones also said the display aimed to "raise awareness of diverse experience and perspectives."

[Fletcher] also removed a cup of pins with a variety of gender pronouns printed on them[…]

Fletcher says she'll no longer visit any county libraries, adding "this has nothing to do with the gay community. It has to do with the preservation of innocence," according to the News-Post.

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Frederick Co. school board candidate removes LGBTQ books from library by checking them out

Melissa Howell | [e-mail]

June 4, 2022, 2:54 PM

Heather Fletcher, a candidate for the Frederick County Board of Education, checked out all of the books on a display showcasing LGBTQ titles at the Brunswick Public Library in Maryland.

The Frederick News Post reports Fletcher walked out of the library with about 20 books after staff declined her request to move the display of books out of the lobby.

Frederick County Public Libraries spokesperson Samantha Jones told the News-Post that staff at the Brunswick branch reconfigured the display soon after Fletcher had checked out the books.

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