The people who helped feat the Briggs Iniative told Insir they fear a recent rise anti-gay rhetoric means history may be repeatg self.
Contents:
- CALIFORNIA TRIED TO BAN GAY TEACHERS 1978. EDUTORS AND ACTIVISTS WHO FOUGHT BACK FEAR HISTORY MAY BE REPEATG SELF.
- CALIFORNIA PROPOSN 6, BAN ON LBIAN AND GAY TEACHERS INIATIVE (1978)
CALIFORNIA TRIED TO BAN GAY TEACHERS 1978. EDUTORS AND ACTIVISTS WHO FOUGHT BACK FEAR HISTORY MAY BE REPEATG SELF.
Proposn 6, better known as the Briggs Iniative, was the first attempt to rtrict the rights of lbian and gay Amerins by popular referendum. * prop 6 gay rights *
Most recently, feral “Don’t Say Gay” legislatn was troduced by thirty-two Congrsnal members, a bill that “would affect all ferally fund facili and programs, which would clu public librari, ferally fund schools, ary bas and hospals. It was overwhelmgly succsful, and Bryant began to advote natnally agast lbian and gay rights.
The next year John Briggs, a California bsman and member of the state legislature, troduced what would be known as Proposn 6, or the Briggs Iniative: the first attempt to rtrict the rights of lbian and gay Amerins by popular referendum. If passed, teachers who were found to have taken part “public homosexual activy” or “public homosexual nduct” would be fired, where “public homosexual nduct” was fed as:. “the advotg, solicg, imposg, enuragg or promotg of private or public homosexual activy directed at, or likely to e to the attentn of schoolchildren and/or other employe.
Advertisement agast Proposn 6, an iative sponsored by State Senator John Briggs to expel gay and lbian teachers via JSTOR. For the reasons the state fds a pellg tert refg to employ and termatg the employment of a schoolteacher, teacher’s ai, school admistrator or unselor, subject to reasonable rtrictns and qualifitns, who engag public homosexual activy and/or public homosexual nduct directed at, or likely to e to the attentn of, schoolchildren or other school employe. 5 is to proscribe employment of a person whose homosexual activi or nduct are termed to renr him or her unf for service.
CALIFORNIA PROPOSN 6, BAN ON LBIAN AND GAY TEACHERS INIATIVE (1978)
* prop 6 gay rights *
6 (a) The erng board of a school district shall refe to hire as an employee any person who has engaged public homosexual activy or public homosexual nduct should the board terme that said activy or nduct renrs the person unf for service. (b) For the purpos of this sectn, (1) “public homosexual activy” means the missn of an act fed subdivisn (a) of 286 of the Penal Co, or subdivisn (a) of sectn 288a of the Penal Co, upon any other person of the same sex, which is not discreet and not practiced private, whether or not such act, at the time of s missn, nstuted a crime;. (2) “public homosexual nduct” means the advotg, solicg, imposg, enuragg or promotg of private or public homosexual activy directed at, or likely to e to the attentn of schoolchildren and/or other employe; and.
(c) In evaluatg the public homosexual activy and/or the public homosexual nduct qutn for the purpos of termg an applint’s unfns for service as an employee, a board shall nsir the factors leated Sectn 44933.
5 (a) In addn to the grounds specified Sectns 44932, 44948 and 44949, or any other provisn of law, the missn of “public homosexual activy” or “public homosexual nduct” by an employee shall subject the employee to dismissal upon termatn by the board that said activy or nduct renrs the employee unf for service.