{"id":313947,"date":"2026-05-13T17:42:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T17:42:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/313947\/"},"modified":"2026-05-13T17:42:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T17:42:09","slug":"fresno-co-libraries-will-not-be-allowed-to-have-booth-at-pride-parade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/313947\/","title":{"rendered":"Fresno Co libraries will not be allowed to have booth at Pride Parade"},"content":{"rendered":"

FRESNO CO, Calif. (FOX26) \u2014 A packed house, increased security, people getting thrown out.<\/p>\n

This describes the Fresno County Board of Supervisors meeting on Tuesday morning.<\/p>\n

Fresno Co libraries will not be allowed to have booth at Pride Parade (FOX26)<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

As we reported Monday night, the board planned to vote on two items that had to do with Gay Pride Month and the Fresno County Library’s participation.<\/a><\/p>\n

Information was first spread on social media that the board was considering banning LGBTIQ books, however, this was not the case.<\/p>\n

The board was deciding the appropriateness of the library’s involvement in gay pride month.<\/p>\n

At the center of the argument are bookmarks that a mother complained about to board chair Garry Bredefeld, that name books on LGBTIQ topics.<\/p>\n

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Fresno County librarian Sally Gomez explained the library uses a variety of decor and materials depending on the celebration, which in this case is Pride Month.<\/p>\n

With that, the Fresno County Board of Supervisors decided Fresno County libraries may not participate in the gay pride parade and denied the application for the library to have a booth there.<\/p>\n

Last year, there was also controversy with the board and gay pride, having to do with the health department’s involvement.<\/p>\n

The new Director of Public Health will be asking the Board of Supervisors for allowance to hand out medical information.<\/p>\n

Garry Bredefeld says he will support that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FRESNO CO, Calif. (FOX26) \u2014 A packed house, increased security, people getting thrown out. This describes the Fresno…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":313948,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[112,114,113],"class_list":["post-313947","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\/313947","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=313947"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313947\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/313948"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=313947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=313947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=313947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}