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https://www.vice.com/en/article/wxdpen/mississippi-furry-book-banning

So, Mayor Gene McGee of Ridgeland, Mississippi is withholding funds from the Madison Country Library System.

"Library officials told the Mississippi Free Press that the mayor had demanded they purge their collection of LGBTQ+ books, which he called “homosexual materials,” before his office would release the money."

However...

"After the mayor’s announcement, the library began an online fundraiser. The goal was set at $2,500.

Soatok[, a furry,] said that when he first came across it, the fundraiser had yet to raise a single dollar. So, he tweeted out a link to the fundraising site, encouraging his community to donate. To kick things off, he included a screenshot of his inaugural donation of $500."

"Though Soatok doesn’t have a large Twitter following, his post was quickly amplified by popular furry accounts. Within hours, the goal of $2,500 had been reached. The next morning, Soatok tweeted a new screenshot: The library’s fundraising page had reached just over $9,000. And over the weekend, the donations continued to pour in.

At the time of writing, the fundraiser is at just over $44,000— slowly creeping toward the halfway point of the $110,000 that McGee is denying the library."

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