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well it is also Pride month and while one local

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library in Peekskill prepared to put its display of L

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. G. B. T. Q. I

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A Plus books, one librarian noticed an odd trend

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news. Twelve's Angelica Torino explains, Rachel Mandel,

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the Children's librarian at the field library was doing her

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diligent job in putting together a new book display for

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Pride Month when suddenly she found a red flag as

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I was going through the list, I was saying

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that there was, there was a couple more than

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I would normally expect to not find on a search

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. What did these missing books all have in common

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? Well they were all L. G. B

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. T. Q I A. Plus books.

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So Rachel approached Jessica Brown, the library's executive director

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. What these books represent is the variety of families

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that are in our community in America in the world

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. And once they noticed it wasn't just one or

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two books missing but 30 they decided to take it

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online and speak up. I posted a picture of

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our display on our facebook page and then mentioned sadly

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after an overwhelming amount of positive feedback, the comments

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were, they couldn't believe this was happening in our

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library, what can they do to help one person

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suggested making an amazon wish list And so Jessica made

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one less than 24 hours. All of those books

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were purchased, although there may be someone in the

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community who doesn't want these books on the shelves positive

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support this battle. It's been really good to see

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that the community is behind us and wants us to

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be also supporting the LGBT community. Most of the

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books that were initially missing and repurchased are now on

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display, ready to be checked out in Peekskill,

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Angelica, True, No News 12 and the library

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will notify police, but in the meantime, they're

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looking into additional security on the Children's side.