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Slack.com slash DHQ. Hi, this is Josh Levine, the host of one year. You may have heard

about a new law in Florida. Advanced public school teachers from discussing sexual orientation

or gender identity with young students. Opponents have named the bill and others like

it. Don't say gay laws. The press secretary for Florida Governor Ron DeSantis called it

an anti-grooming bill. All of this reminded us of another moment in Florida, something from

45 years ago. Anita Bryant's Save Our Children campaign against gay rights. So today, we're

reposting that episode from our one year season on 1977. Here it is.

Most of the time, nobody in Miami cared to watch the Dade County Commission go about its

business. But the public hearing on January 18, 1977, that was different. It was impossible

to get a seat. There were hordes of people waiting to get into the building. Ruth Shack

was on the Dade County Commission. Those hordes of people, they traveled from all over South

Florida on chartered church buses because they were angry about a bill sheet sponsored.

I had a knot in my stomach and a real fear of what was coming.

The bill had issued was an amendment to Dade County's nondiscrimination ordinance. If

it passed, it would shore up gay rights in Miami, though in a limited way. Homosexual acts

will remain illegal and barred by law. This ordinance merely says that there shall be no

discrimination in so far as housing accommodation and jobs are concerned by persons who have

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