Gays Against Briggs | 3. Harvey Milk vs. the Machine

Slow Burn

Slate Podcasts

News, Society & Culture, History, Documentary, Politics

4.6 • 25.1K Ratings

🗓️ 5 June 2024

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

After decades of wandering and job-hopping, Harvey Milk found his purpose as a gay community leader with growing political ambitions. But his historic election was just the beginning. As John Briggs’ gay teacher ban gained momentum, it was up to Supervisor Milk and his allies to figure out how to stop him. Subscribe to Slate Plus to immediately unlock all episodes of Slow Burn: Gays Against Briggs. Your subscription also gets you ad-free access to all your favorite Slate podcasts, plus other member exclusive content. Join now on Apple Podcasts by clicking “Subscribe” at the top of our show page. Or, visit slate.com/slowburnplus to get access wherever you listen. Season 9 of Slow Burn was written and produced by Christina Cauterucci. Slow Burn is produced by Joel Meyer, Sophie Summergrad, and Kelly Jones. Josh Levin is the editorial director of Slow Burn. Derek John is Slate’s executive producer of narrative podcasts. Susan Matthews is Slate’s executive editor. Merritt Jacob is our senior technical director. We had engineering help from Patrick Fort and Madeline Ducharme. Our theme music is composed by Alexis Cuadrado. Artwork by Ivylise Simones, based on an image of Silvana Nova and a poster designed by Larry Hermsen and the Too Much Graphics Collective. Join host Christina Cauterucci and special guests as they record a special, live episode of Slow Burn at the Tribeca Film Festival on June 13. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey Slowburn listeners, the Slowburn team and I have some exciting news to share with you.
0:07.2	Sloburn is hosting an exclusive taping at the Tribeca Film Festival in New York City on June 13th, and I want to personally invite you. the activist and Black Lives Matter organizer De Ray McKesson, comedian and singer Esther
0:25.0	Falick, Eric Marcus, the host of Making Gay History, and Sam Fader, director of
0:30.0	the Netflix documentary Disclosure about the depiction of trans people in film and television.
0:35.0	We'll dive deeper into this season and talk about the lasting impact of the Briggs Initiative
0:39.5	and the continued fight over LGBT rights in schools.
0:43.0	It'll be the perfect way to celebrate Pride month
0:45.0	this June with LGBTQ stories and voices
0:47.9	across generations.
0:49.4	You won't want to miss it.
0:50.7	Again, that's June 13th at the Tribeca Film Festival in New York.
0:54.6	You can get tickets now at Tribeca Film.com slash Sloburn, or by clicking the link in our
0:59.3	show notes.
1:00.3	We're so excited to see you there.
1:11.0	Castro Camera was the kind of small business that wasn't very good at being a business. It barely, if if ever turned a profit.
1:14.0	But in the 1970s, it was a community hub for Gay San Francisco.
1:18.8	A sign in the front window said, yes, we are very open. There would just be people hanging out there all day
1:27.5	along shooting the ship basically. Ann Cronenberg spent a lot of time at the store.
1:33.0	The Kodak Kodak film
1:36.0	hanging from the walls and the big purple red velvet couch.
1:40.0	Talk about bare bones.
1:42.0	I mean, this was not some upscale camera shop. The term
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