Indeed. I live not far at all from Jamestown, Michigan, where voters decided last spring not to reapprove funding for the town library. They objected in particular to the acclaimed memoir Gender Queer, even though librarians had already acceded to their demands by removing the book from the adult library section where it was shelved, placing it behind a counter where patrons would have to specifically request it.

Oh, and the anti-library activists also opposed Alice Oseman's Heartstopper graphic novels, calling them pornography.

No, really. A series of sweet stories universally acclaimed as wholesome got charactarized as porn merely because they contain gay and transgender characters, despite containing zero depictions or descriptions of sexuality beyond innocent kissing.

Then the library funding came up again for a vote last Tuesday.

The library lost again.

They'll probably be closing their doors forever in about a year. Because certain people in that town believe they should be able to tell other adults what they're allowed to read or give their children to read.