Welcome back, friends, to the Line of Fire broadcast, Michael Brown.

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We're going to do something unique today, but I want to go back to 2011.

That's when my book, A Queer Thing Happened to America, was published, subtitle,

What a Long Strange Trip, It's

been. I bounced that title off of different gay activists, lesbian folks that I met.

Different settings, interacted with them. They thought it was a great title. They thought it was

clever. Christian publishers were scandalized by it because they thought I was using the word in

the derogatory way,

queer, which of course I would not do. It was that the, the words become mainstream. I mean,

remember years back, queer eye for the straight guy, right? You know, the queer I cast throughout

the baseball at the opening ceremony at Fenley Park one day. You go back to like 2003 and read about queer being

mainstream and stuff like that so this is just the it was obviously a double entendre but it was

meant to be fun and clever and pointing things out so anyone could read it the book does not

presuppose religious background 700 pages 1500, 1,500, end notes.

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