WFSBBy Luke Hajdasz and Kaitlyn BurzinApril 3, 2025Police are investigating flyers that targeted a transgender activist and the LGBTQ+ community in Deep River.Multiple flyers were found across town. Most of them targeted a transgender woman who held an event at the library on Wednesday night.Many people called the flyers hateful.“It was loose right at my spot where I always park,” said Hilary Montenegro.Hilary and Aryana said they felt targeted by the flyer when they found it on the ground near their apartment with a rainbow flag in the window.One side of the notice had questionable statistics about homosexuals. The other side told people to keep children away from Jillian Celentano, a transgender woman.“We picked it up off the ground, read it, and felt extreme concern,” said Aryana Galbraith.
I here time and time again, "I don't believe in bias crimes" Well it all goes to motive. These flyers are to generate fear in the community, it is not just the an individual that they are targeting but a whole community!
Hartford CourantApril 3, 2025State and town leaders are condemning hate after flyers with transphobic and homophobic messaging were found littered across Deep River and surrounding towns.The flyers, which were found Wednesday morning, were apparently in response to a planned presentation at the Deep River Public Library by the Tri-Town Youth Service Bureau.Deep River First Selectman Carole Jones condemned the “messages of hate and intolerance” and thanked people who had gone around town removing the flyers. Messages of the flyers targeted both the LGBTQ+ community and the library presenter and included misinformation.The presentation was aimed at “confronting misunderstanding and misinformation.”“I am thankful to the community members who have taken the time to call, email, text or stop in to talk to me about the negative response and disturbing vitriol. The flyers when seen have been picked up and discarded. Thank you to the angels collecting and destroying this message of hate,” Jones said in a message to the community.
Back in November on the TDoR flyers were left in West Hartford,
CT PostBy Dan Haar,Nov 20, 2024Four days after a group known as the Nationalist Social Club left dozens, perhaps hundreds of flyers on West Hartford lawns attacking pediatricians for their work in gender affirming care with youths, police were still investigating. They were not calling the incident a hate crime.[...]The two-sided flyers, all or most in plastic bags with small stones, took aim at three physicians who are or were affiliated with Connecticut Children's, the Hartford-based pediatric medical center and network.
The flyers were designed to created fear in the doctors!
Sadly however, they do not constitute a bias crime because of the First Amendment, they don't cross the line and call for violence.
But it is not always flyers on front lawns, sometimes it is elected officials!
More than 200 callers waited to make their voices heard at a virtual meeting on Tuesday.Fox 61By Bridgette BjorloApril 8, 2025Controversy is growing in Suffield over a potential book ban involving LGBTQ+ material.The Kent Memorial Library Commission was supposed to consider the matter on March 20 but abruptly canceled the meeting when more than 70 people showed up for public comment.The next meeting was scheduled for Tuesday, and the commission decided to hold it over Zoom. More than 200 callers waited to make their voices heard."I can't help but wonder what the next subject will be that is too dangerous for youth in our community to have access to,” Amanda Steben said.[...]“It appears that this policy is primarily targeted toward LGBTQ+ issues and is largely driven by a primary unease with the reality of gender fluidity. Why? Because trans persons and gender dysphoria are to 2025. What gay persons were to the 1980s and millennia prior. LGBTQ+ folks have always existed and will always exist, and your efforts to discredit their knowledge of themselves will never erase them,” Ann Franczyk said.
The next quote is what got me...
“Parents have a right to be able to drop their kids off at the library or leave their kids in the children's section of the library while they go into the adult section, without having to worry about their kids being exposed to inappropriate sexual and other material,” Eric Harrington said.
Do you see anything wrong with this?
What I see wrong is... this woman want to control what your children can read because she can't stop her children from reading what she doesn't like!
The Hartford Courant writes...
Tuesday’s meeting was held on Zoom only over the objections of residents and advocates who said the public had the right to address the commission in person. Officials said the format was necessitated by a total lack of buildings in town that would allow for both a large crowd and internet streaming.[...]In public comment periods at both the beginning and end of the meeting, more than 60 people spoke against the proposed policy and four in favor. Though most of the speakers were Suffield residents intent on defending their library from the threat of censorship, some were from other towns and a few were transgender teens and parents speaking against the proposed erasure of material on gay and transgender people.The proposed “Youth Collection Acquisition and Retention Policy” states “materials and services presenting gender identity ideology are only permitted in the young adult section of the youth collection and only if balanced by other viewpoints regarding gender identity ideology directed to the same age group.” The policy also would ban sexually explicit materials.
And one speaker hit the nail on its head...
John Woods offered a painful hypothesis on the meaning of the policy to the town’s gay and transgender youth: “When we say to someone we don’t want books about you, aren’t we really saying ‘We don’t want you’?”
Exactly! And it gives the green light to the bullies.
I live in a very red community in a blue state. The best town over is famous because of its attempt to ban books in 1982. Island Trees Sch. Dist. v. Pico by Pico, 457 U.S. 853 (1982) It’s alarming.
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