Christina Cauterucci spent six months digging into the archives in SF and elsewhere to put together a podcast series for Slate’s Slow Burn. It’s about the Briggs Initiative in 1970s California, an anti-gay ballot initiative that would have forced Californians to ban out gay & lesbian teachers from public schools, and fired any pro-gay teachers as well.
Gwenn Craig and Harvey Milk were major players in the anti-Briggs movement, which ended up causing a generation of queers to come out to their friends and families. The Briggs Initiative ended up failing. Three weeks after that election, Dan White assassinated Milk and Mayor George Moscone in City Hall.
This article by Cauterucci is a pretty good explanation of why she felt it was important to tell this story 45 years later.
