baby, i will keep this fire burning


alexcat
@alexcat

All the library censorship stuff in the US right now re: queer books is reminding me when I was a kid in the '90s and I had to get Parental Permission to look up the word "homosexual" in the school library's copy of Encarta. The more things change, man...


alexcat
@alexcat

I was so desperate to find literally anything about queerness before I had access to the internet (and I didn't live in a town with a queer bookstore, those were all way way closer to LA and not the more conservative city we lived in, and I'd already read the only age-appropriate lesbian history books my mom had) that I got incredibly good at searching microfiche. I'd be in the main library scrolling through old newspapers looking up queer custody cases. Very Normal and Cool Thing for a 10 Year Old To Do.


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It's really not, and when kids are sort of kept from a lot of basic sex ed information they're gonna seek it out in places that might not be the most educational or correct or even good for them, it just makes sense unfortunately

When Apple sold computers to schools in the 90s, they used bundle it with an educational CD-ROM called Who Built America, but Apple temporarily suspended sales because a few parents got upset that it mentioned homosexuality! This shit has always been happening!