33 year old Robert Hillsborough was a gardner for the City of San Francisco, Caliornia in 1977. Robert was also gay. At that same time in Florida, celebrity Anita Bryant was beginning a campaign called "Save Our Children" against the LGBTQ community declaring gays were recruiting kids. Listen to how the two lives intermingled without ever meeting.
True Crime Quickie is from the U.K. in 2018. The Murder of black trans woman Naomi Hersi.
Our sunshine this episode is a little different and based upon the episode's title, Stupid is as Stupid Does...
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Promo for: Autumn's Oddities
Intro: Shire Girl by David Fesilyan
Outro: Beating Heart by David Renda
Resources:
https://www.wikiwand.com/en/articles/Murder_of_Robert_Hillsborough
https://www.facebook.com/story.php/?story_fbid=866205962216563&id=100064815007563
https://www.tumblr.com/lgbt-history-archive/146304210307/robert-hillsborough-why-why-why-why-we
https://allthatsinteresting.com/anita-bryant#:~:text=In%20a%20different%20world%2C%20Anita,16%2C%202024%20at%20age%2084.
https://www.pbs.org/outofthepast/past/p5/1977.html
https://www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/out-news/1970s-christian-crusader-anita-bryant-helped-spawn-floridas-lgbtq-cult-rcna24215
https://bcrw.barnard.edu/archive/lesbian/Out.pdf
http://www.glbtqarchive.com/ssh/bryant_anita_S.pdf
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-london-45625789
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/nov/01/man-jailed-for-murder-transgender-woman-after-drugs-binge
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