Gay rights, marijuana legalization, and a cure for cancer: Slate’s new podcast delves deep into 1977.
In the beginning, the gay rights battle that changed America didn’t seem like much of a battle at all. In 1977, activists in Miami pushed for a nondiscrimination ordinance—a law that would protect gay people from losing their jobs or their homes simply for being themselves. Similar ordinances had been adopted in nearly 40 cities. A few years earlier, when a nondiscrimination bill had gone on the books in Seattle, the gay magazine the Advocate had celebrated what a nonevent it was.
That’s just one of seven episodes in the inaugural season of One Year, our new show on the people and struggles that changed America—one year at a time. Our first season—which premieres on Thursday, with new episodes debuting weekly—focuses on 1977, a year when the nation’s rules seemed on the verge of getting rewritten. In politics, culture, sports, religion, and so many other realms, change in America felt possible, but was far from assured. It was a year when the world we live in today was beginning to take shape.Read below for a preview of three more episodes from One Year: 1977.
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