In Dallas, the 1st Gay Little Library. Repurposing Little…
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In Dallas, the 1st Gay Little Library. Repurposing Little Libraries to fight censorship.
**I installed the first, I believe, Gay Little Library in the nation.** I registered it with the Little Free Library organization. So I think in this new concept and Dallas is the first to have one. Let me know if I am wrong.
**To combat censorship**, we can **repurpose** Little Libraries as ways to bypass censorship. I call upon people to consider getting a Little Free Library to help bypass censorship.
Given the current environment of censorship in Texas, with Gay books being pulled out of school libraries and LGBT classes being shutdown in Texas, I decided to have a Gay Little Library installed on my property. It will be Gay since I am going to put Gay books in it. It will be PG. I am going to have the poems of Constantine Cavafy, but not Mutsuo Takahashi. I don't want to give homophobes a pretext to denounce it.
I have other books on order and they will arrive Monday, May 15th.
The Gay Little Library is made of recycled plastic. I was going to paint it rainbow colors, but I like the cobalt blue color. I will likely put a sign next to it when the books come in.
To be able to resist vandalism, it is supported by two steel tubes going into concrete. The tubes are surrounded by the wood to look nice.
When I was growing up in the 1950s and 60s and during college in the early 1970s, I existed in an absolute information vaccum. Regardless of what happens, I hope to resist to the end that situation doesn't arise.
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**I installed the first, I believe, Gay Little Library in the nation.** I registered it with the Little Free Library organization. So I think in this new concept and Dallas is the first to have one. Let me know if I am wrong.
**To combat censorship**, we can **repurpose** Little Libraries as ways to bypass censorship. I call upon people to consider getting a Little Free Library to help bypass censorship.
Given the current environment of censorship in Texas, with Gay books being pulled out of school libraries and LGBT classes being shutdown in Texas, I decided to have a Gay Little Library installed on my property. It will be Gay since I am going to put Gay books in it. It will be PG. I am going to have the poems of Constantine Cavafy, but not Mutsuo Takahashi. I don't want to give homophobes a pretext to denounce it.
I have other books on order and they will arrive Monday, May 15th.
The Gay Little Library is made of recycled plastic. I was going to paint it rainbow colors, but I like the cobalt blue color. I will likely put a sign next to it when the books come in.
To be able to resist vandalism, it is supported by two steel tubes going into concrete. The tubes are surrounded by the wood to look nice.
When I was growing up in the 1950s and 60s and during college in the early 1970s, I existed in an absolute information vaccum. Regardless of what happens, I hope to resist to the end that situation doesn't arise.
#local
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