In the 1970s, an Anti-Gay Moral Panic Was Sweeping the Country. Then, It Reached California.

In the 1970s, San Francisco became a welcoming home for tens of thousands of new gay residents - and a modern-day Sodom for the American right. With a moral panic sweeping across the United States, a Florida orange juice spokeswoman inspired an ambitious California politician to launch his own campaign against lesbians and gays-one that would change the course of U.S. history.

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