In late August 1992, Randy Weaver and his family were refusing to come down from the remote Idaho mountaintop where they lived.

Weaver, a fugitive on a federal firearms charge, has been hold up in a cabin near Naples for more than a year.

The government thought Randy Weaver was a dangerous, possibly violent extremist.

Randy and his wife Vicky thought the government

was an agent of Satan on earth. When it was all over, three people were dead, and the government

had spent millions of dollars to catch one man. We'll find out why the siege at Ruby Ridge

unfolded the way it did, and think about some of the questions it raises.

What should we do about white supremacists? Why has the story of Ruby Ridge become an enduring

myth for the far right? And whose fault was it anyway?

Subscribe to Standoff, what happened at Ruby Ridge Ridge in Apple Podcasts or wherever you listen. Hi, everybody, and welcome to Outward Slate's LGBTQ podcast.

I'm Brian Lauder, an editor at Slate.

And well, my fellow queers and allies, we have made it one more trip around the sun together. It is summer,

it is June, and it is pride. And given all we've been dealing with in the past year, I hope

you are taking some time to celebrate in whatever way makes you happy, whether that is

partying all night or volunteering all day, or watching the birdcage for the 57th time at home, which is my own

personal sacred tradition.

Speaking of celebrations, on this week's show, we're going to be taking a look not at the

big city periods and festivals that tend to dominate pride in the public imagination,

but at pride as it blooms more quietly and also maybe a little more bravely in conservative

small towns around the U.S., especially in this incredibly hostile political climate that we are

living in.

To get some on-the-ground color about what that really looks like, we'll be talking to an organizer

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