Books & nature

The library I'm working at is in a small town and I wouldn't necessarily say they are conservative, but they are not really used to queer stuff. For pride month I took a little table, put all queer books we had (and currently I'm buying a lot more) on it and decorated it with my pride flag. And no joke, the look on some teenagers (and some adults) faces... heartwarming 😭 Walked straight to the table and looked through the books. It makes me so happy.

Okay so I did this again for this year's pride month and today there was a boy who nearly made me cry... He was watching the pride table from afar for like 10 minutes before he slowly walked towards it and took a book with a gay couple on the cover. He had the book in his hands for like a solid minute and just looked at the cover. After a while I saw his mother approaching and was scared but the mother went to him and asked if he wanted to take the book home. They stood at the table for a very long time and he asked a lot of questions and she answered them very sweetly and it was just nice to see that some representative book covers can lead to an important talk like this because the boy was clearly discovering something important for him and idk why I'm typing all this it was just a very pure moment to witness

[the most low energy you have ever seen me] we’re about to go crazy mode