Proposn 6, better known as the Briggs Iniative, was the first attempt to rtrict the rights of lbian and gay Amerins by popular referendum.
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.
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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.
CALIFORNIA PROPOSN 6, BAN ON LBIAN AND GAY TEACHERS INIATIVE (1978)
The people who helped feat the Briggs Iniative told Insir they fear a recent rise anti-gay rhetoric means history may be repeatg self. * prop 6 gay rights *
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.