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I'm sure many of you know that being gay used to be something that was incredibly

dangerous and that there's still prejudices and discrimination

of the LGBTQ plus community today. But decades ago, senators like Charlie Johns would literally

target the Floridian LGBTQ community, especially students and teachers.

A committee that stocks and intimidates gay people may sound like a dystopian nightmare,

but it did happen.

So let's talk about it.

So hello everyone and welcome back.

Today we're going to be talking about the Johns Committee,

a team whose mission it was to out and terrorize gay people in the 1950s.

This video will discuss extensively and at length topics around homophobia as well as racism.

So if intense detail of either of these discriminatory acts will upset you, then this is not

going to be your episode.

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