This is why 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ Pride is important.
A positive Pride display would have made all the difference to a closeted kid in a working-class town (Waltham, MA) like me in the 1970s:
In my city library, there was a short book on the shelves that was an anti-gay manifesto (Dewey decimal 301.4).
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Roland Dunbrack 🏳️🌈
My day job is at a rural branch of a public library, and we have a Pride display. Yesterday I was at the desk when a man came in. Fifties, maybe, or sixties. Plaid shirt, mesh trucker cap, suspenders. He went up to the display and just stood there for a long moment. Then he came up to the desk. 🧵 1/
