LGBTQ history: Catholic opposition to the Briggs Initiative

The defense of gay teachers is an important part of American Catholic history.

Last night I watched Milk, a film about Harvey Milk, the first openly gay person to be elected to public office in California. The movie spent considerable time focusing on Milk’s opposition to the Briggs Initiative, a 1978 California ballot initiative to remove public school teachers, administrators, and counselors who engaged homosexual sex which was …