Hear This Tennessee Mom Catch FIRE Over Anti-LGBTQ Library Hate

She fears for her children if they grow up to be trans or gay, and the White House retweeted her

James Finn
Prism & Pen

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Screenshots of Jessee Graham speaking at a Maury County library board meeting. Photo of Jesse Graham with her children provided by Jessee Graham for use in this story.

Jessee Graham sounds like she’s HAD it. She turns her “mom voice” up to full blast and lectures a group of men like they were children in sore need of a time out. She looks disgusted as she lays into them:

These people [she points to a group of LGBTQ county residents at a library board meeting] have never done any of the vile, disgusting things that man and his weird cronies have leaked out of their mouth!

I have never been sexually assaulted at a drag show, but I have been in church. Twice! And I’ll tell you what, the men at that church told it me it was MY FAULT!

This whole thing should have stopped at the United States of America where we have free speech!

That’s just the beginning of Jessee’s impassioned defense of her transgender and gay neighbors — people she describes as friends, family, coworkers, trusted babysitters and otherwise ordinary residents of Maury County, Tennessee.

When I stumbled on a video of this straight mom shouting that she’s sick to death of an anti-LGBTQ backlash, I knew I had to talk to her.

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James Finn
Prism & Pen

James Finn is an LGBTQ columnist, a former Air Force intelligence analyst, an alumnus of Act Up NY, and an agented but unpublished novelist.