What Missouri officials didn’t explain about an LGBTQ+ library story time

By: Jason Hancock

Outlets: Missouri Independent

Published: July 30, 2026

Words: 615

Last Updated: 4 days, 9 hours ago

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Denny Hoskins wants to cut a library’s funding over two books he has not read.

He Googled them, saw excerpts and looked at some pictures. For Missouri’s secretary of state, that was enough.

The books are “Rainbowsaurus,” the tale of a family searching for a rainbow dinosaur, and “Big Wig,” about a child who wins a costume contest in drag. Staff at a Columbia library read them aloud to toddlers and preschoolers during a “rainbow …

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