After a group named Mom’s Liberal Happy Hour sent a Facebook invitation for a Drag Queen Story Hour on Feb. 17 at a public library in South Carolina, 1,500 people said they were interested.
But a petition opposing the event spread across the county and garnered over 5,000 signatures. Now, a librarian at the Five Forks Branch, Jonathan Newton, says in a lawsuit filed Monday that he was wrongfully terminated after 17 years because he facilitated the group's request to host the event.