1 ene 1978 año - 1978: Briggs Initiative

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- proposal to ban gays and lesbians from teaching in California public schools
- Rep. state senator John Briggs, sponsor of the proposal, took part in the Dade County campaign
- spread misinformation:
> "San Francisco teaches a homosexual lifestyle class"
- Former governor Ronald Reagan came out against the proposal as an invasion on the "basic rights of privacy"
- failed by a margin of 1 mil votes in Nov. 1978

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