The library shot after refusing to discrimination of Censor 2slggbt + books winning $ 700k US

Tater Lesley has never expected to become an important factor in a free debate about free speech and banning library for the US and Canada. And he certainly did not expect dismissal.

Now, more than two years have passed since his position as Director of the Campbell County, Wester, now.

“I am free to have this effect, and I believe it will help my community continue,” said Lesley told As it happened Host Nl kӧksal.

“People who want to continue to oppress the agenda is to accompany these materials of literature and the first amendment [right to free speech]I hope they see this, and I hope it is a prevention. “

In His army, Lesley says he was expelled from his job after nearly 20 years because he refused to delete or limit literature by 2CheeksLGBTQ + Poetics and Sexual Content from MThare’s shelves in the Gillette, WYO.

County has denied Seley’s claims. In the Scriptures in the court, Lesley was expelled for his work – not controversial.

Campbell County pointed to CBC in a statement from its Insurance Corporate Adversary Adversary “is not the rage of any suspicions.”

“No person is won or lost,” the statement said. “Instead, it shows a trial agreement before the cost of amazing cost began.”

Under the resolution agreement, Lesley drops his case, even though a different case has proven three people with competitions and books to continue.

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For many decades Shesley’s Public Service in Wyoming County, he says book challenges were very rare.

That they all changed in 2021, where the writer of the library of the library made a Facebook post to find a month of pride that highlighted their 2slbgtq collection.

Suddenly, complaints began to come up. Three Challenges of the book in Augusti were hit by about 30 at the end of the year, According to the American Library Association (Ala).

“We have never been anything like this,” Lesley said. “I was completely arrested.”

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The complainants forbid the sexual form of the books, many of which were intended for old adult students and appeared in the ancient library.

But Lesley says it is impossible that most qualifications that are challenged shows 2slbbt + content.

“It was clear to me that there was an anti-LGBTQ mindset,” he said.

“Members of the community speak at public meetings with their feelings so it was easy to understand where they came from and that the books should be found by the youth because of LGBTQ content.”

Kesley’s work is to deal with the community, not against them, so he took the way in the debate.

“I tried to perform education so that the community helped them to understand how public libraries work, how important this type of publications is to some members of our society,” how.

In 2022, Ala gave Lesley John Phillip Memorial Memorial, who respected “the courage of the human being defended freedom of speech.”

The award was Balm at a time when faced with a part of negligence, saying, including allegations that were in the head.

“It has been an important factor to help and continue,” he said. “I felt that I was going forward to something that people care about and whether they appreciate that I could resist.”

But in 2023, Lesley was expelled.

The books mentioned, says, have moved quietly to the adult plames, and This page Cry is very reduced.

Libraries becomes a place to fight

Lesley’s shooting came behind the same battles throughout the US, and in Canada.

In 2023, Ala recorded the challenges of 9,021 book in the US, from 233 in 2015, with its third largest number in 1990. Lelo nani ligibela laya ku-5,813 ngo-2024 ngonyaka we-5,813 ngo-2024 ngo-2024 ngo-2024 ngo-2024 ngonyaka ka-2024.

The Ala claims that most, 72 percent, wanted by the Censor or just in the school or public libraries from formal movement.

“The most common reasons to fight against the complainants offered by false claims of illegal disgust was not crazy in illegal objects; letters or ethnic elements;

Rathod Mohamedbai, Denver-Based Firm who told Sley’s case, supported the gunmen to be shot in recent years, including the case Texas teacher who was expelled Reading his class roles from Anne Frank’s Diary novels appear.

Similar wars They played in Canadian cities and schools.

In February, CBC’s The fifth legacy It has been analyzed for more than ten hours of Video Footage, Challenge Details, Communication Services and Privacy Records related to challenges of books. Follow the movement in Canada to the Interactive Web Influence in the United States, where the anti-2slgbt campaign has led to the Scriptures in the Republican.

Recently, the government of Albetta’s integrated group The “sex specified” from the library library is blocked in this summer.

Travel motivated Edmonton Public School to collect a 226 booklist to remove the shelves and swear, including known activities such as Tal’s tale, Color purplebesides I know why the bird is singing.

After a public baclash, Province temporarily stop new restrictionsThen emit the revised directions to pull books containing clear pictures of sexual actsBut not the same written definitions.

Lesley says he struggled to keep the challenges challenged the shelves because he believed in the right to a learning citizen, and the parent’s right to decide that it is appropriate for their children, except prescription Access to other people Children in green.

“It is not a disagreement of books to try to limit access to children in need,” he said.

His lawyer, Iis Halperin, said he hoped that his client’s payment has a broader impact.

“We hope at least we send a message to other libraries, some provinces, some regions, that the first amendment is alive and strong,” said Halperin.

“These are social structures. They are government officials. They need to remember their battles of the Constitution.”