Happy Pride Month from Essex, Conn.

I mean that especially for the anonymous twit who visited a local library recently.

Essex Library is the sister library of Ivoryton Library, where I’m on the board. Essex has a modern facility and lots of meeting rooms. Ivoryton is in its original funky Victorian building. We’re small, but scrappy.

On Sunday, one of the other Ivoryton board members sent an email chain that included this Facebook post from our sister organization:

It’s always an anonymous twit, isn’t it? I help run my library’s social media accounts, and all of us who have a hand in posting responded. I was classy, though I didn’t feel very classy.

What I wanted to say was far meaner and it had bad words on it. I do not understand why someone would think removing books from a display would be an effective way of chilling…well, anything. The items were found, the display was rebuilt and we all took to social media to show support. Was that a successful means of chilling…well, anything? It was not. There’s a certain inevitability to these skirmishes. It may have been teenagers. It may have been a real, live homophobe. I hope we find out. I’d like to talk to that person.