John, It’s happening in Wyoming, Tennessee, Iowa, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and across the country: anti-LGBTQ+ extremists are working to ban LGBTQ+ books and resources from libraries. - A school district in Texas pulled more than 400 books -- including LGBTQ+ resources -- from libraries to “protect students from inappropriate content.”
- The Lieutenant Governor of North Carolina called books with transgender characters “filth.”
- The Governor of South Carolina is actively working to stop access to LGBTQ+ books, specifically targeting the award-winning book Gender Queer: A Memoir by nonbinary author -- and recent Something to Talk About LIVE guest -- Maia Kobabe.
Our friends at the American Library Association are reporting widespread attempts to censor and ban LGBTQ- and race-related content -- and these efforts are just the tip of this dangerous iceberg. Education and representation are critical, life-saving resources for LGBTQ+ people, especially vulnerable youth. Now, we need you to join us in fighting back. Make a donation today to ensure that LGBTQ+ people and their families have access to the resources they need, and to combat these unrelenting attacks on inclusion. Your gift will strengthen our partnership with organizations like the American Library Association and others, to ensure anyone who wants or needs books can access them. It will allow us to continue having important educational conversations like our most recent one with Gender Queer: A Memoir author Maia Kobabe; Malinda Lo, author of Last Night at the Telegraph Club, and Deborah Caldwell-Stone, director of the American Library Association’s Office for Intellectual Freedom. Whether it’s $10, $25, or $100, every dollar will help us equip PFLAG chapters and grassroots advocates with messaging tools to speak out at school board meetings, library meetings, and to speak with local media about these issues. Your support also ensures that we can take timely action, like joining more than 400 organizations and individuals in the #BooksNotBans coalition to raise awareness about this growing threat. Your gift of $10 will send 5 PFLAG publications to libraries to support LGBTQ+ youth and their families. Your gift of $25 will provide tools and resources to local advocates across the country who are fighting back against book bans and legislation that supports those efforts. Your gift of $100 will broadcast timely conversations like Something To Talk About LIVE to educate the public and create conversations about critical issues. Make no mistake: This is a well-funded coordinated effort attacking books that LGBTQ+ people and their families not only cherish but look to, to see themselves reflected. Please make your gift now and fight back against anti-LGBTQ+ censorship. | 
