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Gay Rights Ordinance,

just like the one that Anita

shot down in Dade County.

What do you think,

Lotus Blossom?

I think it's good.

It's not great.

Okay, so make it brilliant. We want

Anita's attention here in San Francisco.

I want her to bring

her fight to us.

We need a unanimous

vote, we need headlines.

Dan White is not

gonna vote for this.

Dan White will be fine.

Dan White is just

uneducated. We'll teach him.

Hey, Harv,

committee meets at 9:30.

Hey, you guys.

Say, did you get the invitation

to my son's christening?

I invited a few of

the other Supes, too.

Oh, I'll be there.

Great! Thanks.

Did he hear you?

- What the f***!

Are you going?

I would let him christen me if it means

he's gonna vote for the Gay Rights Ordinance.

We need allies.

We need everyone.

I don't think

he heard you.

Is it just me

or is he cute?

Jack?

Welcome home, Harvey.

I hope you're hungry.

I just know how to cook one

thing, but I make it good.

Come.

Jack,

did you break in?

No, no, no. I asked the little

boy downstairs to let me in.

Danny?

- Yeah.

He wouldn't let me,

so I came in this way.

You know, your friends aren't

very nice to me, Harvey.

I have a Town Hall

meeting tonight.

Sit down. Come, five minutes.

That's it. Come, please.

There you go.

I watched TV here

today, all day.

I saw All My Children.

And they killed Margo.

But I knew it was going to happen.

You know, they always try and

trick you but it never works.

You always

see it coming.

What? Killing the blonde?

Yeah, I'm good with that.

Jack.

- What?

If I make you a key,

will you promise never

to break in again?

That's right.

Is it your will that Charles should

be baptized in the faith of the church

which we have all

professed with you?

It is.

- It is.

Charles, I baptize you

in the name of the Father

and of the Son and

of the Holy Spirit.

God, the father of our Lord Jesus

Christ has freed you from sin...

I'm proposing

a citywide ordinance

which would ensure that any

person who already has a job

cannot be fired on the

basis of sexual orientation.

I don't think my constituents

would favor that, Harvey.

Is there anyone else here

from the board today, Dan?

You're the only one

who showed, I think.

Were you

christened here?

I was. Right here, same parish.

My grandma immigrated here when

this was an Irish Catholic city,

the City of Saint Francis.

But a lot's changed here

since then, you know.

You're more like one

of us now, an outsider.

You're not like most

homosexuals, are you, Harvey?

Do you know a lot

of homosexuals, Dan?

Hey, where do you stand

on the Psychiatric Center

that the city's been

pushing into my district?

Well, I'd have

to study it...

It was a key piece on my platform.

Getting it out of my district.

It only attracts arsonists, rapists,

that sort of thing, you know.

A campaign promise.

A big one.

- Sure.

What do you say we watch out for each

other's interests? I would really like that.

I'd like that too, Dan.

- Good.

Sorry, hon, we just

slipped into some shop talk.

The Gay Rights Ordinance.

My fault.

Seems like an inappropriate

subject, don't you think?

Oh, don't knock it

till you've tried it.

Hello. Oh, oh, but you had

such a beautiful christening.

Supervisors Silver and

Lau are asking you to vote

to keep this Psychiatric

Center in Dan's district.

It'll go down six to five

if you vote to get rid of it.

It's a youth campus, Harvey.

And these are kids that would

be displaced from families.

I can't just dump Dan.

He's got nothing going for him.

No friends...

Oh, God, oh, God! Here we go, here we go.

Harvey to the rescue.

Isn't it enough that we

have to put up with Jack?

All right, lay off. He

registered 120 voters last week.

Okay, so do any

of your volunteers,

but you don't go and

make them all first lady.

Harvey, what does

Dan White do for you?

Really, politically.

He intrigues me.

I think he may be one of us.

No, no.

It's just a theory.

You just think he's cute.

No, no. I know what it's

like to live that life.

That lie. I can see it in Dan's eyes.

That fear, the pressure.

Good or bad?

- Not great.

State Senator John Briggs is Anita Bryant's

go-to guy in California for sure.

He filed a petition for

a statewide referendum

to fire all gay teachers

and anyone who supports them.

How many signatures does

he need to get on the ballot?

Oh, whatever. He can get them in two

Sundays at church in Orange f***ing County.

So, this means that

the fight is coming here,

where we can do

something about it.

The issue in California

is whether school boards

should be allowed to fire teachers

who are known homosexuals.

The courts have

ruled they cannot.

Boards must prove a teacher's

homosexuality adversely affects children

and makes them unfit

for the classroom.

State Senator John Briggs

wants to change that.

My proposition promises to protect our

children from these gay perverts and...

These gay perverts and pedophiles

who recruit our children

to participate in their

deviant lifestyle,

including the ones who do

it in our public schools.

The time has come

for us to root them out.

How are you going to

determine who's homosexual?

I'm sorry, sir, what?

How are you going to

determine who's homosexual?

Sir, my bill has procedures

for identifying homosexuals.

Oh, yeah, how?

Will you be sucking them off, Briggs?

Excuse me. You know what,

you can argue with me,

you cannot

argue with God.

Harvey, I can't believe it.

No, he wants my job.

You want my job, you prick!

Sir, you were here when

State Senator Briggs was on the steps.

What do you

think about that?

Well, I think what you saw, you saw some

very committed opposition to his proposition.

And I think that's

only going to continue.

People have very

emotional reactions to this.

This is their lives

that are on the line.

What's going to happen?

Well, look what

happened in Germany.

I mean, Anita Bryant has already said that

the Jews and Muslims are going to hell.

So, you know she

has a shopping list.

And we are not going to let

the John Briggs' or the Anita Bryants

legislate bigotry

in this state.

Hello, Harvey,

running late?

Your boyfriend

is in the closet.

Excuse me, David.

The Latino has locked himself

in the closet upstairs.

Harvey, Harvey,

Phil Burton is here.

He's likely the next

Speaker of the House

and a very important ally

against Proposition 6.

So, please,

no scenes, all right?

You're right.

I was late by 20 minutes.

So come on out, Jack.

Who were you with? Scott?

Or with a new boy you were trying to save?

I was at work.

Come on out, sweet pea.

You embarrassed me,

Harvey.

I didn't know anyone down

there and they're bad people.

I just want to go, okay?

Then you should go home.

No, I want to stay.

I want to stay here.

So, you go away, okay?

Go away!

The Briggs initiative is

polling at 75% for approval statewide.

80% in other polls. Some even

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