I had started a D&D club at the town library a few months before this came out. The librarian had been a big help in promoting it & after "Tom Hanks' Unforgivable Sin" came out, she was happy to stand up to the Town Council when they discussed the club during a meeting. 

She explained (with stats even) how it had significantly increased the number of Jr. High & High School kids coming to the library and getting library cards, and how she had had to buy or borrow more Science Fiction & Fantasy books because the kids were actually checking them out & reading them (a Conan book may not have been a milestone in American literature, but they were like a gateway drug for getting more kids reading), so she was very happy to host the club, it gave kids something creative to do, and she was 100% behind it. I spoke too, just to debunk the Satanist thing & explain while it was hard to understand a game with no board, it was just a very complicated game of "Let's Pretend" with rules about what you could or couldn't do (plus I had a secret superpower - my Dad was the Town Manager, so the Council all knew me & that I was a good, church-going kid and top student, plus I babysat for a couple of them, so they genuinely were interested hearing what I had to say). The Council thanked us & after a short discussion basically said that if it gets kids reading & staying out of trouble, keep it up. The local paper ran a story about it & what was said at the meeting, and that was the end of the controversy. We had official small town approval now! 

A few months after that, I designed a tournament dungeon & characters (uh, "taking a lot of inspiration" from various early modules), my friends pitched in as playtesters & editors, and the Library hosted the club's first D&D tournament, with an entry fee of One Dollar, cash money. We only had three prizes, and those were all just sets of dice the Library bought at the "local" wargame store about 40 miles away. 

We were hoping for 25-30 people and got over 90 - the librarian grapevine was much larger than I knew. I drafted the whole club as emergency DMs since they all knew the dungeon from playtesting. The Librarian opened the other two conference rooms for more space, and we set up or used every table the library had (there was a D20 roll-off to decide who got to play on the short toddler-size table in the Kids' Section with the tiny chairs, and here I'd thought that would be the last pick!). The Librarian fired up the Xerox(tm) machine and printed additional copies of the dungeon (plus a bunch more, because we were selling copies for $3.50 once players had finished). The Librarian knew one of the reporters at the paper & made a call. The reporter showed up about halfway through, so we made the paper again. But this time with a very positive story about the club & tournament's success. We sold about 40 copies of the dungeon (Xerox machines were expensive to run back then, so the plan was always for the library to keep the sales & entry proceeds). A great time was had by all, we were happily exhausted, and it became the only day in its ~50-year history the library turned a profit. 😁

Fuck the haters, form ranks and press forward!