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Hi, I'm Chow Too, and I'm here to give you a preview of some of the Slate Plus episodes we did this season for one year.

So with these episodes, we wanted to expand a bit and explore more of 1977. So we got some Slapsters to dive in into the culture of the year. So with these episodes, we want to expand a bit and explore more of 1977. So we got some

Slate series to dive in into the culture of the year and talk about stuff that we couldn't get

into in the main episodes. That's what we try to do here at Slate Plus. We want to give you more

of your favorite people talking about the topics that they know, and you can get a fuller sense

of the story at hand.

So first off, we had June Thomas talking about gay culture in 1977 with Madeline Dusharm, expanding upon the Anita Bryant episode at the beginning of this season.

So June was a main consultant on the main episode, and it just felt right to have her come on

and talk more about the history that she knows a lot about.

But there also are some very basic challenges with queer history,

which is that we weren't really talked about in the media.

Our struggles were not covered in the paper.

You know, the New York Times is now very supportive and, for the most part,

and full of queer journalists.

I'm going to say. For the most part,

yeah. There's some op-eds that might challenge that. But, you know, certainly compared to,

again, even 10 years ago, certainly 20 years ago and certainly 45 years ago. But I think that

there was something about Anita Bryant specifically, which we can talk about later,

that made this a more of a national story. But so many of the gay rights struggles were effectively

local stories. And so, as again, the episode mentions, there were fights in Eugene, Oregon,

and in Colorado later, and in, you know, St. Paul, Minnesota, there were a lot of these local

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