The good people of San Diego made sure that an anti-gay protest totally backfired

This sunny Sunday morning we are sending our thanks and love to the good citizens of San Diego who ensured that a petty anti-gay act totally backfired on the two homophobic matrons who thought they were being so clever. Last month Adrianne Peterson, the branch director of the Rancho Peñasquitos branch of the San Diego Public Library. got a very smug email from two local women. They informed her that they had gotten nearly all of the books in the Pride display checked out and would not return them unless the library permanently removed what they considered “inappropriate content.”

An email from two library patrons informs two San Diego library officials that the Pride display has been cleared out. The patrons say the content is inappropriate and that they will keep the books until the library permanently removes them from the collection.

However, after The San Diego Union-Tribunereported on the protest. stacks of Amazon boxes containing new copies of the books the protesters checked out started to arrive at the library. Plus roughly 180 people, mostly San Diegans, gave more than $15,000 to the library system, which after a city match will provide over $30,000 toward more L.G.B.T.Q.-themed materials and programming, including an expansion of the system’s already popular drag queen story hours.

THANK YOU 

To Adrianne Peterson for putting a selection of LGBTQ + Books in the Library 
To The San Diego Union-Tribune for covering the story
To The New York Times for giving it national coverage
BUT mainly to the good folks of San Diego who know how to deal with bullies