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Hendrik Gerrits of the United States pauses on the Pulaski Bridge on his way into the Queens borough of New York during the New York City Marathon on Sunday, Nov. 3, 2013. New York. (AP Photo/Kathy Kmonicek)Two Republican North Dakota legislators criticized a local library for having the audacity to display and promote books acknowledging that LGBTQ people exist without putting hateful propaganda alongside of it.

West Fargo Public Library shared a display of the LGBT books, along with one of books by prominent writers of color, to its Facebook page earlier this month, in anticipation of the Fargo-Moorhead Pride celebration, held Aug. 10-13, Infoforum reports.

Republican Reps. Christopher Olsen and Ben Koppelman weren’t having it.

The books included Eminent Outlaws: The Gay Writers Who Changed America, Beyond Trans: Does Gender Matter?, Mick: The Wild Life and Mad Genius of Mick Jagger, and Mind of an Outlaw, an essay collection by Norman Mailer.

“I find it very surprising that the West Fargo Public Library would choose to showcase