Six young activists have deployed their first "Little Library" in Miami-Dade County, filled with banned books and works they hope will counteract academic censorship and the stigmatization of LGBTQ+ people under Florida's new public education regime. The Alliance for LGBTQ Youths unveiled a hand-crafted, weatherproof book hut on July 15 outside of the Allapattah YMCA — the first of three Little Libraries planned for the county. Vince Cuadra, a 19-year-old member of the alliance's "Changemakers" leadership program, explained that their mission is to provide the public with examples of books by and about people from marginalized groups whose stories have been shut out of school libraries amid the culture-war furor. #Queer Up Education