Is “librarian” a gay profession, like “hair dresser”, “interior decorator”, and “journalist”?
I know two librarians. One is straight, married to a veteran. One is lesbian. Both have kids. Never seen them express an opinion about drag queens.
Y’know I’d never even considered it being a “gay profession,” but come to think of it . . . I clearly remember the one male employee at my small hometown library, a very effeminate fellow named Kent. Odd that I should remember him so clearly after half a century! Even as naïve as we were about such things, we knew instinctively that he wasn’t quite right and we made fun of him — behind his back, of course, never to his face. But librarianship has traditionally been an almost entirely female occupation, like nursing and elementary-school education. How things change!