an agenda item<\/a> that would allow Fresno County Library to recognize and celebrate Pride Month for the next five years and give approval of $125 for the library to set up a booth during a local Pride event next month.<\/p>\nBredefeld said the dispute is not about removing books from library shelves.<\/p>\n
\u201cNobody’s banning books, nobody’s excluding people from seeking out these books, they are in the library and they can have it. This is not about books. This is about an agenda that’s being promoted and being requested to promote in June,\u201d Bredefeld said.<\/p>\n
Bredefeld said a library should be a safe enviornment for kids and they should not have “this thrown down their throats.” during the month of June. <\/p>\n
“It’s happened in the past. It should not happen anymore,” Bredefeld said. <\/p>\n
Community leaders met to advocate on behalf of the LGBTQ+ community. Fresno City Council Member Annalisa Perea, the first openly out councilmember, said the debate is being politicized and called the moment defining for Fresno County.<\/p>\n
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Community leaders met to advocate on behalf of the LGBTQ+ community. Fresno City Council Member Annalisa Perea, the first openly out councilmember, said the debate is being politicized and called the moment defining for Fresno County (PHOTO: PHOTOJOURNALIST JOHN DWELLE).<\/p>\n
\u201cOur libraries exist for everyone,” Perea said. “They are among the few remaining public spaces where everyone Regardless of background income identity or belief can walk through the doors and know they belong. Libraries are not political battle battlegrounds.”<\/p>\n
Bredefeld said his concerns go beyond LGBTQ+ bookmarks and Pride celebrations.<\/p>\n
\u201cHaving men dressed up as women, shaking their (butts) in front of little children, why would any man want to do that?\u201d Bredefeld said. \u201cSame thing with the promotion of transgenderism. They promoted that as something that’s courageous. It’s not courageous. It’s a mental illness.\u201d<\/p>\n
Tracie Cisneros of Fresno Rainbow Pride said representation in books can be critical for young people.<\/p>\n
\u201cSeeing themselves reflected in a variety of roles and experiences can mean the difference between our kids finding validation and self-worth or falling into confusion and isolation,\u201d Cisneros said.<\/p>\n
Bredefeld was also asked about libraries being approved to celebrate other dedicated months, such as Black History Month. He said he supports those because he does not believe they are pushing a political agenda.<\/p>\n
The Board of Supervisors meeting is set for Tuesday, May 12 at 9:30 a.m<\/a>., where supervisors are expected to vote on the library Pride Month agenda item.<\/p>\nIn response to Bredefeld\u2019s post about the issue, Diane Pearce, Clovis mayor pro tem, wrote: \u201cThank you for keeping a spotlight on this problem. I have been fighting this issue for years here in Clovis and will be with you every step of the way to ensure children are protected and parents are truly informed about the appalling indoctrination happening in our County libraries.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FRESNO COUNTY, Calif. (FOX26) \u2014 As Pride Month begins in June, Fresno County supervisors are debating on whether…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":311613,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[112,114,113],"class_list":["post-311612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fresno","tag-fresno","tag-fresno-headlines","tag-fresno-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311612","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=311612"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311612\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/311613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=311612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=311612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=311612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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