My Library Problem – and Ours
/Over the summer of 2023, the library problem became too big to ignore. In July 2023, an irate mother appealed the St. Joseph County public library’s decision not to remove This Book is Gay from the library’s teen section. This Book is Gay introduces children to anal and oral sex, how to operate sex apps which would expose them to child molesters, and coprophagy.[i] Amy Drake was elected to the St. Joseph County Council on an anti-Covid lockdown platform, but soon found herself caught up in the library battle which succeeded the Covid lockdown as the main vehicle the Democrats used to ensure their lock on political power in the county. Both Drake and the irate mothers entered the debate over obscene library books under the assumption that Robert’s rules of order still held sway over public gatherings in South Bend, when in fact the culture wars had become the real paradigm for rules of engagement. Amy Drake realized too late that she had showed up for a gunfight wielding a butter knife:
It was clear when I walked into the library board meeting that the left had mobilized. I had seen a Nextdoor message desperately trying to get people to the meeting earlier in the day. Some wore masks; [some wore] t-shirts that proclaimed “Bans off Our Books,” and “My pronouns are they/them”; someone carried in a mug declaring: “Fighting Hate; Teaching Tolerance; Seeking Justice.” One person walked in and said, “This is so exciting.” Women behind me talked about how important it is to protect the library.[ii]
“Protect” is a crucial term. Led by South Bend’s homosexual mayor, Pete Buttigieg, a cabal of sexual revolutionaries had taken over key civic institutions, and they were not going to let them fall back into the hands of a group of concerned mothers who contested what the revolutionaries now considered their God-given (if they believed in God) right to corrupt the morals of other people’s children. The library board meeting lent a sense of order to a proceeding which was dominated by people who lived their lives in rebellion against the tenets of practical reason. People who live fundamentally irrational lives are not open to any “appeal to your reasonableness” as one mother found out during a meeting with the same library board in July. Exhibiting the same naivete Amy Drake would show at subsequent meetings, this mother attempted to meet the sexual revolutionaries halfway by announcing:
I do not come here with any sort of moral authority. My arguments are not political nor religious but meant to appeal to your reasonableness. Is it reasonable for instructions such as those I have just outlined to be distributed at will to children below the age of sexual consent? Or, for that matter, distributed to adults who are interested in reading, with great detail, about child-on-child sex acts? It may be perfectly legal for this sort of material to be handed out, but I doubt other legal materials stock your shelves… say: recipes for meth. Legal but slightly controversial, right?[iii]
The lesbians who had dedicated their lives to flouting the moral law, which is another word for practical reason, were not open to listening to appeals to their reasonableness. They were interested in defending the beachhead they had achieved for deviance at the local library, and they weren’t going to be whipped off by earnest mommies appealing to the Logos they had abandoned when they became lesbians.
After she submitted a Reconsideration Form asking that This Book is Gay be removed from library shelves, the same mother was told:
The collection contains materials that express a wide variety of views and are not suitable for all ages and abilities. It is, therefore, the responsibility of parents to monitor what their children use from our collections. Library personnel do not mark or identify controversial materials to show approval or disapproval of the contents. The library will designate no material, therefore, as harmful to minors. The responsibility for reading, listening to, viewing and using library materials and equipment rests with the parents or legal guardians.[iv]
Instead of admitting the obvious fact that the books’ presence on library shelves indicates approval, the library board turned the tables on the parents and held them responsible for the fact that the South Bend library was promoting a book which is legally obscene according to Indiana state law. After defining a minor as someone under the age of 18, Indiana obscenity law goes on to say that obscene material is harmful to minors if:
1) It describes or represents, in any form, nudity, sexual conduct, sexual excitement, or sado-masochistic abuse;
2) considered as a whole, it appeals to the prurient interest in sex of minors;
3) it is patently offensive to prevailing standards in the adult community as a whole with respect to what is suitable matter for or performance before minors; and
4) considered as a whole, it lacks serious literary, artistic, political, or scientific value for minors.
After citing state law, Drake concludes that:
if someone on the street were to hand this book to a child, that person could be charged with a felony. However, Indiana law allows an exception for libraries, and that is why libraries are permitted to share or display obscene materials with children.[v]
This isn’t just a South Bend problem. As Amy Drake pointed out: “This trend of libraries exposing children to porn without apology is everywhere.”[vi] Republican State Sen. Jim Tomes of Indiana agreed. Books like This Book is Gay and Gender Queer, copies of which Tomes keeps in his office as examples of pornography in schools, are “not just a local problem.”[vii] Complaints from parents across the state of Indiana led Tomes to work on legislation criminalizing the sexualization of libraries and making them compliant with state obscenity laws. The Hamilton East Public Library in Fishers, Indiana was embroiled in a similar controversy over a new policy to shelve these and similar “teen” books in the adult section of the library. This Book is Gay wasn’t the only book libraries used to promote deviant sexual behavior among children. St. Joseph County public library promoted a homosexual memoir which promoted underaged sex when it selected Flamer as its 2023 choice for One Book One Michiana, a book club which encouraged the whole library system to read the book. It wasn’t Flamer’s non-existent literary merits which drew the library selection committee’s attention. Instead, “The committee unanimously agreed to select a book that centers on the LGBTQ experience of teens.”[viii]
Drag Queen Story Hour
Turmoil at local libraries was symptomatic of an issue which was not local. By July 2023, legislators across the country who had singled out local libraries as a threat to children decided to cut off funds to the American Library Association, as the source of the problem. According to an article in The Federalist:
Missouri became the first to cut ties with the 147-year-old umbrella association. Missouri Secretary of State John Ashcroft sent the ALA a letter terminating the relationship on July 7. The Montana State Library Commission voted to follow suit four days later. Lawmakers in eight more states have now signaled they are preparing to sever the relationship between the ALA and their local library commissions.[ix]
Texas then followed Missouri’s example by severing all ties with the ALA. State Representative Brian Harrison, who led the effort, rebuffed charges that severing ties with the ALA involved a “pro-censorship ‘book ban,’” by explaining the difference between allocating state money “to buy pornography to put in taxpayer-funded elementary schools and give them to second graders” and banning books. “If you’re an adult,” Harrison said, “there is not a book or video you cannot purchase today in the United States of America.”[x]
On August 10, 2023, The Daily Mail exposed the president of the American Library Association, Emily Drabinski, who began her term in July, as a Marxist lesbian.[xi] Drabinski’s public admission of her beliefs catalyzed long-standing suspicion on the part of state legislatures and added fuel to the drive to cut off state funding for the ALA. After Montana cut ties with the ALA in July, conservative lawmakers in Arizona, Idaho, Illinois, Georgia, Louisiana, South Carolina and Wyoming soon followed suit by introducing bills which encouraged their states’ libraries to withdraw support from the ALA because it is “pushing a sexual agenda on children.”[xii] Republican lawmakers in Washington have also called for a halt in federal funding for the ALA, which received $211 million in grants from the Institute of Museum and Library Services for the fiscal year of 2023.[xiii] That call was seconded by Senators Marco Rubio of Florida, Kevin Cramer of North Dakota, and Mike Braun of Indiana, who also demanded the end of federal funding for the ALA.
Emily Drabinski, president of the ALA, is “a self-described lesbian Marxist,” who routinely attacks parents who object to having their children exposed to obscene material in public libraries as “far right, white supremacist, fascist,” an “angry white mob,” and the “Christo-fascist right.”[xiv] Drabinski is an ardent supporter of Drag Queen Story Hour, which uses libraries as its main venue to allow transvestites, some of whom are child molesters, to sexualize children under the pretext of reading to them. In 2013, Drabinski complained of bias in the Dewey Decimal System because it catalogues religious books which are “overwhelmingly Christian” and presents heterosexuality as normative. Drabinski herself was sexualized as a 14-year-old when she checked out a “magical” library book that described “fantastic queer sex in a field.”[xv] Drabinski failed to mention the title of the library book which turned her into a lesbian, but she is determined now to impose that experience on the children of other people by promoting books like Gender Queer by Maia Kobabe, which:
includes graphic descriptions and illustrations of oral sex, masturbation, sex toys, orgasms, and transgender fantasies. In 2020, the book won the ALA’s Alex Award, which is for books that are “written for adults that have special appeal to young adults ages 12 through 18.” Gender Queer has been the subject of much backlash over its pornographic content.[xvi]
The ALA has suffered conservative backlash as a result of Drabinski’s candor: “Leaders from more than a dozen conservative organizations have called for states to disaffiliate from the ALA, resulting in officials publicly disavowing the group and even cutting funding.”[xvii] Drabinski, however, is not backing down. “We need to be as organized as they are when we push back,” she said of the ALA’s ideological crusade against the right.
Drabinski then doubled down by claiming that the furor which her imprudent self-revelations created was the result of “organized pro-censorship efforts by individuals” who “want to erode support for public institutions that enable access to information for everyone.”[xviii] Drabinski added that “My own personal political viewpoint is a target right now, but my personal agenda doesn’t drive the association. It’s the agenda of all of us together,” prompting some to wonder whom she had in mind as co-conspirators in the ALA’s campaign to impose sexual deviance on the nation’s children. The fact that Drabinski expressed shock over the reaction her remarks caused indicates the long-standing nature of revolutionary control over the ALA.
On June 27, a local branch of the Proud Boys showed up at what was supposed to be a Drag Queen Story Hour at the Virginia M. Tutt branch of the St. Joseph County Public Library. WVPE, the local NPR affiliate, gave a tendentious account of the incident which incorporated all of the usual epithets about “the growth of hateful right-wing rhetoric against LGBTQ people” at the hands of the Proud Boys “and other far-right groups” which “have turned up at Pride parades and events like drag queen story hours.”[xix]
Like the ALA under Drabinski, the sexual revolutionaries doubled down when faced with criticism. “The bottom line is that the library will continue to offer inclusive programming,” according to library system communications manager Marissa Gebhard. “The library is a place of belonging, and it’s a place for everyone.” Everyone, that is, who is content to allow the sexual revolutionaries who have taken over the ALA to sexualize other people’s children.[xx]
As we have come to expect, NPR and its government proxies ignored the outrage which Drag Queen Story Hour has ignited across the nation. As Kay Elle Lothbrook pointed out:
Drag Queen Story Hour is a troubling phenomenon that has swept the nation, starting in approximately 2016. Libraries all over the country, from rural Iowa to downtown NYC have hosted men, dressed as flamboyant caricatures of women, in tight sequined dresses, sky high heels and garish makeup, to promote gender bending, homosexuality and cross-dressing to minors.
There have been a series of damning videos smuggled out of a number of these events, depicting the drag queens engaged in lewd acts such as stripping in front of children, prancing down catwalks as children hold out dollar bills as if they’re in a strip club, and one such set of photos from The Ames Iowa Public Library shows a drag queen lying on the ground as pre-school and toddler aged children climb on top of him, where they grope his “breasts” as he grins. These events began with the performer merely reading a story to children in a traditional “story time” format, but in the wake of June 2019, the Pride month that gave even the most dedicated accelerationists whiplash, many of these events have become less about literacy and more about simply performing drag fetish shows for children.
On the surface, Drag Queen Story Time is presented as a great way for little kids to learn about tolerance, dress up, acceptance and play; never mind that there are a plethora of other ways to teach those same lessons to children that don’t involve exposing impressionable and often vulnerable young people to sexually deviant grown men dressed in slutty women’s clothing.
In fact, many of the critic’s worst assumptions about this program are well-founded. It has been well publicized that The Houston Texas Public Library hosted two registered sex offenders at their children’s program. All public servants who work professionally with children, from nurses, to teachers, to coaches and bus drivers go through a rigorous screening process prior to interacting with children, including an FBI background check, fingerprinting, drug screenings and child abuse trainings.
Drag Queen Story Time “performers” are not subject to any of this scrutiny before they are left alone with kids. There have been multiple cases in recent years of teachers being fired for overly risqué social media posts, yet the drag queens’ social media accounts are rife with profanity, nudity, drug references and sadomasochistic sexual imagery. In no objective sense can these individuals be considered positive role models. The transparency of Drag Queen Story Hour as a vehicle for the indoctrination of children and as a campaign against family values has not been lost on the general public. A recent poll conducted by Sonia Poulton found that 88 percent of respondents were opposed to Drag Queen Story Hour. The vast majority of Americans find the idea of drag queens reading to children in public libraries somewhere between morally repugnant and absurd.[xxi]
During one of the local TV accounts of the Proud Boys incident in South Bend, a representative of the Anti-Defamation League was called in to give commentary supporting the transvestites and defaming the protestors. The ADL endorsement, however, was deleted in later broadcasts. The ADL evidently considered their endorsement imprudent because it exposed the fact that Drag Queen Story Hour has been a Jewish operation almost from its inception, as Tyler Durden pointed out on Zero Hedge.[xxii] Wikipedia tells us that “the idea for a drag queen story hour was started in San Francisco by author Michelle Tea (nee Tomasik) who was born to a Polish father and Irish mother. After realizing that her girlfriend made more money as a “sex worker” than Tea did by supporting herself with two minimum wage jobs, Tea “decided to go into sex work as well.” Not long thereafter, Tea “broke up with her girlfriend and moved to San Francisco.”[xxiii] In 2015, Tea, in conjunction with Radar, a nonprofit organization which “produced events to showcase the work of queer writers and artists,” created Drag Queen Story Hour in San Francisco.[xxiv]
Within months of its inception, Drag Queen Story Hour became the beneficiary of Jewish largesse as Jewish foundations controlled by the Pritzger family and George Soros’s Open Society Foundation showered money on the lesbian attempt to corrupt the morals of other people’s children.[xxv] The main source of local San Francisco private funding for Radar is also provided by two Jewish foundations--The Walter and Elise Haas Foundation, and The Zellerbach foundation—who see sexual subversion as an essential part of their mission…
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(Endnotes)
[i] Amy Drake, Unmask Tyranny Fight the Mandate, Unmasktyrrany.com, email subject “Putting Out Flames,” Aug. 27, 2023. [ii] Amy Drake, Unmask Tyranny Fight the Mandate, Unmasktyrrany.com, email subject “Tax Payer Porn,” Aug. 29, 2023. [iii] Clifton French, “Library promotes book to kids about anal sex, adult sex apps, eating poop, more,” Real News Michiana, Aug. 23, 2023, https://realnewsmichiana.com/2023/08/23/library-promotes-book-to-kids-about-anal-sex-adult-sex-apps-eating-poop-more/ [iv] French, “Library promotes” Real News Michiana. [v] Drake, Unmask Tyranny Fight the Mandate, Unmasktyrrany.com, email subject “Putting Out Flames.” [vi] Drake, Unmask Tyranny Fight the Mandate, Unmasktyrrany.com, email subject “Putting Out Flames.” [vii] Drake, Unmask Tyranny Fight the Mandate, Unmasktyrrany.com, email subject “Putting Out Flames.” [viii] Drake, Unmask Tyranny Fight the Mandate, Unmasktyrrany.com, email subject “Putting Out Flames.” [ix] Rebeka Zeljko, “Report: Library Association’s President Wants to Stock Kids’ Shelves with LGBT Propaganda and Porn,” the Federalist, Aug. 26, 2023, https://thefederalist.com/2023/08/26/report-library-associations-president-wants-to-stock-kids-shelves-with-lgbt-propaganda-and-porn/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=report-library-associations-president-wants-to-stock-kids-shelves-with-lgbt-propaganda-and-porn&utm_term=2023-08-26 [x] Zeljko, “Report” the Federalist. [xi] Sophie Mann, “Emily Drabinski, president of the American Library Association doubles down on tweet admitting she's a 'Marxist lesbian,' leading states such as Montana to cut ties with group,” DailyMail.com, Aug. 10, 2023, https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12381361/Emily-Drabinski-president-American-Library-Association-doubles-tweet-admitting-shes-Marxist-lesbian-leading-states-Montana-cut-ties-group.html [xii] Mann, “Emily Drabinski,” DailyMail.com. [xiii] Mann, “Emily Drabinski,” DailyMail.com. [xiv] Zeljko, “Report” the Federalist. [xv] Zeljko, “Report” the Federalist. [xvi] Zeljko, “Report” the Federalist. [xvii] Zeljko, “Report” the Federalist. [xviii] 'organized pro-censorship efforts' by individuals who 'want to erode support for public institutions that enable access to information for everyone. [xix] Jakob Lazzaro, “Far-right Proud Boys disrupt Pride Month children’s storytime event at South Bend’s Tutt Library,” 88.1 WVPE, June 29, 2022, https://www.wvpe.org/wvpe-news/2022-06-29/far-right-proud-boys-disrupt-pride-month-childrens-storytime-event-at-south-bends-tutt-library [xx] Jakob Lazzaro, “Far-right Proud Boys,” 88.1 WVPE. [xxi] Nemeth Debs, “The Money and Masterminds Behind Drag Queen Story Hour,” Debarelli.com, May 18, 2021, https://www.debarelli.com/post/the-money-and-masterminds-behind-drag-queen-story-hour [xxii] Tyler Durden, “Who is Funding ‘Drag Story Hours’ At California Public Libraries?” Zerohedge, July 8, 2023, https://www.zerohedge.com/political/who-funding-drag-story-hours-california-public-libraries [xxiii] “Michelle Tea,” Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michelle_Tea [xxiv] “Michelle Tea,” Wikipedia. [xxv] Durden, “Who is Funding,” Zerohedge. [xxvi] Debs, “The Money and Masterminds Behind Drag Queen Story Hour,” Debarelli.com. [xxvii] Debs, “The Money and Masterminds Behind Drag Queen Story Hour,” Debarelli.com. [xxviii] Margaret Fosmoe, “Longtime St. Joseph County Public Library director retires,” South Bend Tribune, June 29, 2015, https://www.southbendtribune.com/story/news/local/2015/06/29/longtime-st-joseph-county-public-library-director-retires/45861787/ [xxix] Margaret Fosmoe, “Longtime,” South Bend Tribune. [xxx] Margaret Fosmoe, “Longtime,” South Bend Tribune. [xxxi] “81 Words: The story of how the American Psychiatric Association decided in 1973 that homosexuality was no longer a mental illness,” This American Life, January 18, 2002, https://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/204/transcript [xxxii] “81 Words: The story of how the American Psychiatric Association decided in 1973 that homosexuality was no longer a mental illness,” This American Life. [xxxiii] “Alix Spiegel,” Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alix_Spiegel [xxxiv] Amy Dean, “How Jews Brought America to the Tipping Point on Marriage Equality: Lessons for the Next Social Justice Issues,” Tikkun.org, March 10, 2014, http://www.tikkun.org/nextgen/how-jews-brought-america-to-the-tipping-point-on-marriage-equality-lessons-for-the-next-social-justice-issues [xxxv] Debs, “The Money and Masterminds Behind Drag Queen Story Hour,” Debarelli.com. [xxxvi] Debs, “The Money and Masterminds Behind Drag Queen Story Hour,” Debarelli.com. [xxxvii] Andrew Joyce, “TEAM Westport: A Case Study in anti-White Activism,” Occidental Observer, Feb. 22, 2017, https://www.theoccidentalobserver.net/2017/02/22/team-westport-a-case-study-in-anti-white-activism/ [xxxviii] Joyce, “TEAM Westport,” Occidental Observer. [xxxix] Kevin MacDonald, “Jews prominent defenders of Drag Story Hour,” Occidental Observer, Jan. 7, 2023, https://www.theoccidentalobserver.net/2023/01/07/jews-prominent-defenders-of-drag-story-hour/ [xl] MacDonald, “Jews prominent defenders of Drag Story Hour,” Occidental Observer. [xli] MacDonald, “Jews prominent defenders of Drag Story Hour,” Occidental Observer. [xlii] Amy Drake, “Enter at Your Own Risk – Part 2,” Unmasktyrrany.com, Aug. 28, 2023, https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/?pli=1#search/unmasktyranny/FMfcgzGtwqJkVdZVLMtXQlfPHjVgfNWT [xliii] Drake, “Enter at Your Own Risk – Part 2,” Unmasktyrrany.com. [xliv] Drake, “Tax Payer Porn,” Aug. 29, 2023. [xlv] Drake, “Tax Payer Porn,” Aug. 29, 2023.
