The president of an LA school board has gone viral for her response to anti-LGBT+ book ban protesters in California.
In a meeting on 6 June, Jackie Goldberg condemned a days-long protest that began after The Great Big Book of Families was read to elementary school children, which includes the line: “Some children have two mommies.”
Visibly emotional and slamming the table she confronted the protesters’ actions against the queer community.
“What do you think that did to them? It made them afraid. How dare you make them afraid because you are?”, she said.
“A lot of people I talk to say ‘I have a gay cousin...I can’t be homophobic’ ” Ms Goldberg said, incensed. “BS. You can be homophobic and have a gay friend”.
