{"id":312949,"date":"2026-05-13T02:16:25","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T02:16:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/312949\/"},"modified":"2026-05-13T02:16:25","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T02:16:25","slug":"fresno-county-votes-to-ban-pride-month-activities-at-local-libraries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/312949\/","title":{"rendered":"Fresno County Votes to Ban Pride Month Activities at Local Libraries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) \u2014\u00a0The Fresno County Board of Supervisors has blocked Fresno County libraries from participating in Pride Month activities.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The vote, brought forth by Supervisor Garry Bredefeld, passed on Tuesday morning with support from supervisors Nathan Magsig and Buddy Mendes. Supervisors Luis Chavez and Brian Pacheco voted against the motion.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">In a social media post made by Bredefeld last week, he wrote in part that \u201cthe Board of Supervisors will be asked by the Fresno County Library to approve and support their ongoing efforts to indoctrinate young children regarding the LGBTQ political agenda,\u201d adding that he \u201cwill fight against what the library is doing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The supervisor added that there is no plan to ban or remove Pride-themed books from county libraries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Bredefeld defended his position in an interview with Action News on Monday, saying children should be able to access library materials without exposure to what he described as political ideology.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">PREVIOUS COVERAGE:\u00a0<a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" href=\"https:\/\/abc30.com\/post\/fresno-county-board-supervisors-consider-pride-month-activities-local-libraries\/19084685\/\" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Fresno County Board of Supervisors to consider Pride Month activities at local libraries<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Advocates have pushed back on that characterization, calling it an \u201cattack on queer and transgender youth\u201d as well as \u201cbullying.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Last year, supervisors passed a policy requiring county departments to obtain board approval to sponsor events. The board also approved a motion requiring other celebrations or recognitions to receive approval.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) \u2014\u00a0The Fresno County Board of Supervisors has blocked Fresno County libraries from participating in Pride&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":312950,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[112,114,113],"class_list":["post-312949","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\/312949","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=312949"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312949\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/312950"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=312949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=312949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=312949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}