‘They’re Queer, They’re Here, They’re Coming for Your Children and Me’

Have you ever wondered what the plus (+) in LBGQT+ represents? Recently I learned on Tik Tok that (+) equals N.A.M.B.L.A. or The North American Man/Boy Love Association. You can’t make that up.

According to Wikipedia, N.A.M.B.L.A, is an underground organization that’s a political, civil rights, and educational association that defends the rights of men and boys in mutually consensual relationships. They oppose age-of-consent laws and other restrictions that deny their freedom and support the liberation of youth and adults from incarceration for sex offenses (Google it).

Also, please go to YouTube and search “We’re Queer We’re here”... You will find a video where thousands of queer people chanting, “We are queer. We are here. We are coming for your children. We are queer. We are here. We are coming for your children,” at the New York City Pride Parade last summer.

The late great Myra Angelou once said: “When someone tells you who they are, believe them.

This column is an update on my “Drag Queen Dilemma” article I wrote in a previous piece which dealt with my objecting to the B&ECPL (Buffalo and Erie County Public Library) and Buffalo Fillmore Councilman Nowakowski’s Drag Queen program that I believe is grooming, confusing and mentally molesting children. I’m not going to rehash the issue here because I have addressed it in previous columns. But I’ll wait for the U.S. Supreme Court to rule on the subject, which is on the docket after Texas outlawed the practice – you know those crazy rednecks on their high horses!

Imagine the disappointment I felt last week after receiving a disturbing call from a very reliable source telling me Mayor Brown received several personal phone calls; one from the B&ECPL Board Trustee Chairman (a Black woman). She is the second African American Chairman of the B&ECPL Board of Trustees, the first being her mother. In my opinion she has been the most feckless Chairman in my 25 years on the board. For example, soon after the Tops Massacre, which occurred a block from the Merriweather Library, at the first Board meeting after the attack, I suggested that a memorial be dedicated to Kat Massey, who was murdered in the massacre. I knew Ms. Massey was a frequent user of the Merriweather Library. In fact, the last time I spoke with Ms. Massey was in the Merriweather Library about a year prior to her murder. She always told me how much she enjoyed reading my column albeit she didn’t always agree with me. We would chuckle. She was a true social activist and friend to our community. And I thought a memorial in the library she loved would be a very nice tribute, especially considering there was an African American chairman who could leave her mark as an effective leader.

The Board Chairman agreed a memorial was a good idea; Never heard a word about it since. I guess she was too self-absorbed in snitching and cooning for her handlers while driving the bus to throw me under, to deal with a memorial for Ms. Massey. (Just trifling).

All these callers were demanding that I, Frank Gist, be immediately removed from the B&ECPL Board of Trustees after 25 years of dedicated service because I’m a homophobe and a menace to society based on my public objection to exposing unsuspecting children to Drag Storytime and saying that people who exploit children for carnal reasons are in my opinion “abominations.” I’ve been told the B&ECPL Director took offense, thinking I was personally referring to him. If the shoe fits. ... But he really wants me gone because he knows I understand he has a LBGQ+ agenda of transforming public libraries into repositories for LBGQ+ propaganda and programming to groom children to believe it perfectly moral and in the natural order of civilized societies.

I believe there’s a reason the parable of Sodom and Gomorrah is in the Bible. Call me crazy. The perfect example is drag queen story time. Why else would it exist?

Additionally, Mayor Brown was also told if he didn’t remove me from the Board, they will go over his head and override his appointment and, expel me on a bogus contrived Bylaws ethic violation.

I found that hilarious considering I have sat on the board for 25 years and had to endure countless racist comments about Mayor Brown and the intelligence of Black people in his administration. There have been board members who I deemed to be straight up undercover white supremist who considered libraries as social welfare programs and a waste of taxpayers’ money. Many of them were appointed by Mark Poloncarz.

I was the second Black man appointed to the B&ECPL Board of Trustees, and now I will be the first person in the entire history of the organization to be expelled, ironically over a freedom of speech issue.

I was told directly by a member of the LBGQ community that the local Queer leadership in Buffalo has a hard-on for me and they want to flog me with a bundle of sticks. (Pardon the pun). I was also essentially told that I would have to bend over and allow my ethics and religious convictions be gang banged by morally bankrupt people if I wanted to remain on the Board. That will not happen.

Many years ago, I was President of the Buffalo Fire Department’s Black Firefighters Union which brought a federal lawsuit against the City of Buffalo over racial discrimination, that made me a pariah on my own job. I am saying this to say I have a history of fighting white racists that despised me, for real. The difference is they were mostly real men with moral compasses who would give their lives for children, and not molest them.

Also, if there is a dispute between real men, there is the option to throw hands, which I have been known to do back in the day. Too old for that now.

In the spirit of transparency, I have been friends with Mayor Brown for over 35 years. He was a guest at my wedding and I was a guest at his. Our children played together. In fact, I wrote my first political endorsement in the Buffalo Criterion for him, which he lost. I’m saying that to say the mayor will not remove me. He told me the decision whether to resign from the Board is a decision between my wife and I. Also, I’m a part of a family that owned and operated businesses in Buffalo for 160 years between both sides of my family. The Merriweather Library is named after my father-in-law. Also, I am a syndicated columnist who has published thousands of columns and articles that are read across the country. I’m again saying that to say I’m not some insignificant Negro who can be dismissed and cancelled at a wave of racist white hands.

In conclusion, under no circumstance will I voluntarily resign from the Board. They will have to vote me off and let the chips fall where they may.

Library Board meetings are held on the third Thursday every month, at 4 p.m., at the Downtown Main Library. I would appreciate anyone who agrees with me to attend for moral support.