This previous weekend, Jessie Graham, a lady from Columbia, TN, passionately defended the queer neighborhood throughout a Maury county board of trustees assembly.
The speech was in response to Zachary Fox, the Maury county’s former public library director, resigning at a earlier assembly. The resignation got here after months of complaints in regards to the library’s Prime Month Display and a family-friendly drag brunch he hosted at a brewery final yr.
During her speech, Graham described the homophobia used to ban books as “vile and disgusting.” She additionally used her personal experiences to denounce the accusations which have been lobbied in opposition to the queer neighborhood: “I’ve never been sexually assaulted at a drag show, but I have been in church, twice. The men in that church told me it was my fault.”
Others on the assembly applauded Graham’s speech and its video has amassed greater than one million views on social media.
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