HIS 184 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Meese Report, Briggs Initiative, Gay Liberation
Document Summary
Aids epidemic, sexual politics, and the new right. New right: reaction to the gains of black civil rights movement, feminism, and gay liberation movement. It was home to the republican party: break down of the new deal democratic coalition, resurgence in the 1970s of evagenicalism, national success of the new right came to success in the election of ronald. New right in action: briggs initiative, 1981, tries to pass the family protection act but fails. Denied federal funds to public schools of all levels. Denied social security to any whose gay: shared agenda against organizing against sexuality, and pornography. Meese commission: edwin meese, attorney general, established a commission to look in the social harm that pornography causes: produce 2000 page report, which concluded that porn causes violence and damage. Among these experts that advocated for new right, there were also.
