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‘So to Speak’ podcast: ‘The First Amendment created gay America’

WATCH: "The First Amendment created gay America" with author James Kirchick.
“Every advance gay people have made in this country has been the result of the exercise of free expression,” argues writer James Kirchick, author of the New York Times bestseller, “.” Read a transcript of the podcast.
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