In Slow Burn’s 10th season, host Josh Levin takes you back to a crucial inflection point in American
On election night in 1978, gays and lesbians in California braced themselves for the statewide vote
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In the 1970s, San Francisco became a welcoming home for tens of thousands of new gay residents—and a
In 1978, state senator John Briggs put a bold proposition on the California ballot. If it passed, th
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