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Jun 2024
55m 24s

Gay Republicans?

Sony Music Entertainment / Jonathan Van Ness
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Neil J. Young is here to answer all our burning questions about the history of gay people within the Republican party! Neil and Jonathan go back to the Mattachine Society in the 1950s and the beginnings of the Log Cabin Republicans in the late 1970s when neither political party accepted homosexuality. Then the two examine how gay Republicans were instrumenta ... Show More
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