Somehow, for people who never seem to have set foot in a library in their lives, they understand this crucial truth: Destroying our history is the first step to destroying our present and future. Perhaps most troubling, Republican lawmakers and presidential hopefuls seem intent on driving queer content from the public sphere entirely-out of libraries and off school syllabuses. Librarians across the country have been attacked as groomers and pedophiles for simply allowing queer books on the shelves. My hometown of New York City is looking to cut $36 million from the library budget this year, a devastating blow to an already overburdened system. Unfortunately, these days public libraries are embattled spaces. Limited, sure-but still better than anything I’d gotten from school, or my family, or on television, or anywhere else. They gave me my first jobs, and were the first places I found information about queer history. They were my refuge as an isolated, nerdy queer kid in the 1980s.
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