 Good day and welcome to Letters and Politics. I'm Mitch Jezerich. In 1932, journalist John Pittman published in the radical black San Francisco newspaper called the spokesman a piece called Prejudice Against Homosexuals. In it, he writes this, quote, "...what Negroes and homosexuals both desire is to be regarded as human beings with the rights and liberties of human beings, including the right to be let alone, to enjoy life in the way most agreeable and pleasant, to live secure from interference and insult."