Pink’s pride in her hometown for rejecting Moms for Liberty is utterly contagious

Pink has been a staunch opponent of right-wing efforts to ban books and demonize the LGBTQ+ community, going so far as to distribute thousands of banned books during tour dates in Florida.

But a recent tweet by the singer has been seen hundreds of thousands of times when she praised her hometown school board.

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Reacting to a photo of the newly installed board president taking her oath of office on a stack of banned books instead of a Bible, she tweeted, “Makes me proud of my hometown!”

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The pop star wasn’t the only local excited about the results of the recent election. Voters rejected all the candidates pushed by the rightwing hate group Moms For Liberty and installed a more reasonable school board, it only took the new members a couple of hours to undo all the hateful policies enacted by the previous board.

Residents were so excited by the anticipated reversals they tailgated outside the meeting like it was a football game.

The district’s old conservative-dominated board had persecuted LGBTQ+ youth from the beginning. They didn’t stop with banning books and forbidding teachers from using students’ preferred pronouns. They also denied a school the ability to perform the musical Rent because it includes queer couples.

They also hired a new superintendent with no experience who was intent on targeting trans students. When the new board won the election and made it clear they would oust him, he resigned after holding the position for only four months. The former board members gave him a $700,000 severance.

The new board halted four controversial policies passed by the previous board, including two related to library books, a ban on Pride flags, and another restricting transgender student athletes’ participation in school sports. The board also voted unanimously to challenge the severance package.