What Next - Why Gay Rights Are Under Attack – Again
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🗓️ 8 July 2024
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
What the fight against the “Briggs Initiative” in 1970s California tells us about the fight for gay rights—and the fight to keep those victories in place.
Guest: Christina Cauterucci, senior writer at Slate and host of Slow Burn Season 9: Gays Against Briggs.
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| 0:00.0 | How do you win a political fight? This is a question that is intrigued Slates Christina Katerucci for a while now. |
| 0:15.0 | Christina's thought about this question because she's a political reporter, |
| 0:20.0 | but it's also personal to her. |
| 0:22.0 | Christina's gay and she's watched with... border, but it's also personal to her. |
| 0:23.2 | Christina's gay and she's watched with increasing alarm as her identity has become a talking |
| 0:29.1 | point for conservatives over the last few years. |
| 0:33.0 | Florida so-called Don't Say Gay Bill is one step closer to becoming law today. |
| 0:38.0 | This as it makes its way to govern. Christina watched as Florida passed its Parental Rights and Education Act, a bill that advocates called |
| 0:44.4 | Don't Say Gay. And the laws didn't stop there. |
| 0:48.0 | A controversial vote tonight over whether or not school officials are obligated to tell parents if their children identify as |
| 0:55.0 | transgender. Then there were the grim consequences of these laws. |
| 1:00.3 | LGBT advocates are seeing a spike in the number of teens calling suicide |
| 1:06.2 | hotlines. They say the increase comes... All of which returned Christina to |
| 1:11.2 | that same question, how do you win a political fight? |
| 1:16.0 | It turns out when it comes to gay rights, there is an answer to that question. |
| 1:27.9 | There's even a playbook. |
| 1:29.8 | It starts with something called the Briggs Initiative, and in the latest season of the slate |
| 1:34.0 | podcast Slowburn Christina learns all about it. I actually almost felt ashamed |
| 1:40.4 | when I started reading about the Briggs Initiative at how little I knew about it |
| 1:45.8 | because obviously I'm 36 I've had plenty of time to educate myself about queer |
| 1:50.9 | history but I think I really only knew sort of the broad strokes of |
| 1:55.2 | this particular political fight which made it really exciting for me and felt like |
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