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Contents:
- CALIFORNIA TRIED TO BAN GAY TEACHERS 1978. EDUTORS AND ACTIVISTS WHO FOUGHT BACK FEAR HISTORY MAY BE REPEATG SELF.
- GAY TEACHER: GERRY CRANE’S STORY
- WEBSE REVIEW
CALIFORNIA TRIED TO BAN GAY TEACHERS 1978. EDUTORS AND ACTIVISTS WHO FOUGHT BACK FEAR HISTORY MAY BE REPEATG SELF.
The people who helped feat the Briggs Iniative told Insir they fear a recent rise anti-gay rhetoric means history may be repeatg self. * old gay teacher *
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GAY TEACHER: GERRY CRANE’S STORY
A California ballot iative once sought to ban openly-gay tors the late 1970s.
But recent anti-gay legislatn, like Florida's "Don't Say Gay" bill, has them worried once aga.
WEBSE REVIEW
It was a simple enough goal to achieve, he figured — that is, if he kept secret an tegral part of his inty: He was gay.
But amid the creasgly-hostile natnal attu toward gay rights the late 1970s, an omo wrench was thrown to Allegre's refully-laid profsnal Sen. John Briggs, a nservative California lawmaker om Allegre's native Orange County, troduced a ballot iative 1977 to be put to a referendum the upg state electn that would bar gay men and lbian women om workg California's public schools.
The proposn, did, however, brg together a dited group of gay activists and advot who waged a hard-fought opposn mpaign agast the iative, which was formally known as California Proposn path to succs was not an easy one. Edutors and activists battled hatred, li, and homophobia om the nservative factn the state, sirs said. "The Briggs Iniative was the first effort to rtrict gay rights through a statewi ballot measure, but would not be the last.