![]() ![]() Her teaching and writing focuses on gender and sexual orientation, and she has worked extensively with the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBTQ+) community. His action was primarily in protest of a Pride festival being held in Orange City, a town of about 6,000. Pitman, PhD, is a professor of psychology and women's studies at Sacramento City College. He made anti-LGBTQ comments as he was burning them. The books were Two Boys Kissing by David Levithan, This Day in June by Gayle Pitman, Morris Micklewhite and the Tangerine Dress by Christine Baldacchino, and Families, Families, Families! by Suzanne Lang. In October of last year, Dorr, who runs a right-wing Christian group called Rescue the Perishing, posted a video to social media that showed him burning four books he had checked out from the Orange City Public Library. Dorr was also ordered to pay a 35 percent criminal penalty surcharge and court costs. ![]() Magistrate Lisa Mazurek fined him $65, the minimum for the offense, even though the prosecutor, Sioux County Attorney Thomas Kunstle, requested that Dorr be fined the maximum of $625. Paul Dorr, 63, of the northwest Iowa town of Ocheyedan, was convicted of fifth-degree criminal mischief Tuesday in Sioux County District Court, Iowa Public Radio reports. A man who filmed himself burning four LGBTQ-themed children's and young-adult books belonging to an Iowa library last year has received the minimum penalty for his action. ![]()
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