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Gays Against Briggs | The Story Behind Our Cover Art
Season 9 · Episode 9

Gays Against Briggs | The Story Behind Our Cover Art

Host Christina Cauterucci interviews the activists who inspired this season's cover art.

Slow Burn · Slate Audio

July 26, 202427m 50sbonus

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Show Notes

In this special bonus episode host Christina Cauterucci interviews Silvana Nova and Larry Hermsen. Silvana is the person you see raising a fist on this season’s cover art — and Larry is the one who made the photo in 1978. We hear about how they turned it into a poster to raise money to fight the Briggs Initiative, and how gender non-conforming gays like Silvana and Larry (aka "street queens") had their own flourishing culture in San Francisco outside the mainstream gay scene.


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