Why Gay Rights Are Under Attack – Again
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4.5 • 6K Ratings
🗓️ 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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| 1:09.5 | slates Christina Katerucci for a while now. Christina's thought about this question because she's a political reporter, |
| 1:18.1 | but it's also personal to her. |
| 1:19.8 | Christina's gay and she's watched with increasing alarm as her identity has become a |
| 1:26.1 | talking point for conservatives over the last few years. |
| 1:29.7 | Florida's so-called Don't Say Gay Bill is one step closer to becoming law today. |
| 1:35.0 | This as it makes its way to govern... |
| 1:37.0 | Christina watched as Florida passed its Parental Rights and Education Act, a bill that advocates called Don't Say Gay gay and the laws didn't stop there. |
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