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Here's a list of those hostile to equality who turned out to be lesbian, gay, or bisexual. Working together with Democrats, gay Republican groups started to sway public opinion against the Briggs Initiative. On August 2,a group of Republicans, both gay and straight, met in San Francisco to strategize.

Recording artist, Anita Bryant launched an ultimately successful campaign that she called, "Save Our Children," to repeal the law, making outrageous claims that gay people were trying to recruit children into homosexuality, and that granting them political rights was dangerous to the survival of traditional heterosexual families.

Broshears though, was known to be disorganized and erratic, and some of the gay Republicans who had initially joined his San Francisco organization didn't appreciate his tyrannical leadership style, which was one of the reasons that they were meeting in August,without Broshears, to make a plan to fight Briggs.

However, it wasn't the first time that gay Republicans in San Francisco had organized. The large gay population of California organized to fight back. Enter the world of gay Republicans and their often controversial political beliefs while gaining insight into what issues shape their views.

Gay Republican clubs in other parts of the state didn't receive such warm welcome from their local Republican committees. Rob Smith, a gay and Black conservative who was heckled and called racist and homophobic slurs while attending a MAGA event last year, said he is leaving the Republican Party.

Bynearly 30 cities had some kind of gay rights legislation on the books. I'll start each episode with a brief introduction to the topic, and then talk to someone who knows a lot more than I do. In Los Angeles, the Lincoln Republicans of Southern California, one of the groups inspired by Broshears, did not have the backing of the local GOP, and without a charter from the party, they had to drop Republican from their name, opting instead to be called the Log Cabin Club.

Joining me in this episode to discuss this story and the longer history of Gay Republicans is historian, writer, and podcaster Dr. Neil J. Kelly This is Unsung History, the podcast where we discuss people and events in American history that haven't always received a lot of attention.

I'm your host, Kelly Therese Pollock. During the s, in the wake of the Stonewall uprising, communities around the United States began to slowly and fairly quietly pass gay rights ordinances. In response, gay activists around California mobilized, including gay Republicans, who formed among the first gay Republican organizations.

Inseveral of those California groups, together with groups across the country, combined into the Log Cabin Federation, which by had grown to members across 26 chapters. As right-wing attacks on the LGBT community go into overdrive, some Republicans who have come out remain loyal to their conservative beliefs, from Peter Thiel to Caitlyn Jenner.

Log Cabin was small, with only 29 members innotably, only one of which was a woman. Of course, the Republican Party in San Francisco had good reason to support them. Be sure to subscribe to Unsung History on your favorite podcasting app, so you never miss an episode.

And please, tell your friends, family, neighbors, colleagues, maybe even strangers to listen too. When Broshears distributed pamphlets at the California Republican state convention that argued that Republicans could not ignore the 2. The opposition included gay Republicans.

Inspired by Bryant's success in repealing the Dade County Law in Florida, a conservative state legislator in California named John Briggs took to the steps of City Hall in San Francisco to announce a ballot initiative that would become California Proposition 6, more commonly known as the Briggs Initiative, that, if passed, would empower school boards to fire gay teachers based only on sexual orientation.

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When Dade County Commissioners passed a law inbanning housing and employment discrimination based on, "affectional or sexual preference," it wasn't greeted with the same quiet acceptance that similar laws elsewhere were.

The group that said they were Republican gays, or Republicans who happened to be gay, were much more conservative in their politics, and they didn’t believe in the notion of gay rights. Ina California state senator named John Briggs took to the steps of City Hall in San Francisco to announce a ballot initiative that would empower school boards to fire gay teachers based only on their sexual orientation.