Helen Lovejoy Is Alive and Well and Living in Montana
The Lewis and Clark Public Library in Helena, Mont., has voted to keep on the shelves a book about gay sex.
The book is titled “The Joy of Gay Sex.” Board chairwoman Carole Byrnes acknowledges the book includes graphic pictures and descriptions but said she views it as an instructional, education manual that shouldn’t be censored.
Helena resident Paul Cohen requested that the book be removed. He described it as “pornographic” and said the library was negligent in providing a “safe place” for children and adolescents….
FoxNews.com, via Queerty
Unless it were wrapped in razor blades and poisoned scarves, I fail to understand how The Joy of Gay Sex could make a library “dangerous”. If anything, I think it’d make the place safer–especially for GLBT youth. It might also make things duller. (I mean, have you seen the book? It’s written by Snoozy Kurtz.)
And more importantly: since when do libraries have to be “safe places”? They’re not halfway houses (despite homeless folks’ fondness for free computers and restrooms). You want safe places? Funnel more government dollars into schools and the social service sector, bitch.
FYI, a fuller version of the story was posted at The Missoulian, but has since been taken down, leaving us with the mere slip-of-a-girl piece at Fox “News”. What gives?
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