It was in an e-mail to the library management and the municipality that Steven Jörsäter (SD), a member of the cultural and leisure committee in Täby, invited the library to cancel the author interview with Moa-Lina Olsber Croall.

“We criticize the norms or question the obvious relationship between man and woman and our gender identities as destructive. This is not how Täby Municipality should contribute to this, ”writes Steven Jörsäter in the e-mail.

Åsa Lindhagen has followed the reporting and is very critical of Steven Jörsäter's call.

"It's completely unacceptable and it doesn't belong in an open democratic society," she says.

"Clearly homophobic position"

The author interview was about, among other things, LGBTQ issues and Åsa Lindhagen believes that Steven Jörsäter's call to suspend the conversation is a clear homophobic position.

- This is a concrete example of when human rights are being attacked in various ways, in this case LGBTQ rights. This is a scary and dangerous development, says Åsa Lindhagen.

Criticism from the Swedish Writers' Association

Steven Jörsäter also writes in his e-mail that he believes that the libraries will in the future flag for "controversial points" in the program.

The Swedish Writers' Association writes in a press release that they condemn the attempt to stop the author conversation and "not least the proposal to have the municipal politicians preview the library's program points."

The author talk happened as scheduled last Monday despite Steven Jörsäter's call to cancel it.

The cultural news seeks out the Swedish Democrats for a comment. Steven Jörsäters has declined an interview with the Culture News about the event.