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There's no like secret agenda.
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I just want to live, you know?
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I would like to be happy and live.
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Being queer in America right now feels like being caught on the wrong side of a pendulum swinging backwards.
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It's almost like every few years in this country, someone decides that the way to win an election is to make one group of people's lives a little less livable.
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The target changes, but the playbook doesn't.
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And one state that's seen this game played out repeatedly is Colorado.
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In 1992, Colorado voters passed an amendment that banned measures to protect gay people, earning Colorado a nickname, the hate state.
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If you're a certain kind of conservative, you believe that trans people are some kind of corrupt ideology or some temporary thing.
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But we're not.
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This is a story about Colorado, but it's also a story about Florida and Texas and Tennessee and Ohio and maybe wherever you're listening from right now.
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Because there's always another election around the corner.
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I'm Xandra McMahon.
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And I'm Anne Marie Owat.
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And this is Hate State, a three part miniseries produced by Oddbird Sound and Word and Lookout News, with editorial and production support from Pizza Shark.
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Catch the first episode October 20th, wherever you listen to podcasts and at lookoutnews.org.
00:00:00.560 --> 00:00:03.359
There's no like secret agenda.
00:00:04.000 --> 00:00:06.000
I just want to live, you know?
00:00:06.240 --> 00:00:08.160
I would like to be happy and live.
00:00:08.480 --> 00:00:15.279
Being queer in America right now feels like being caught on the wrong side of a pendulum swinging backwards.
00:00:15.599 --> 00:00:24.399
It's almost like every few years in this country, someone decides that the way to win an election is to make one group of people's lives a little less livable.
00:00:27.760 --> 00:00:30.640
The target changes, but the playbook doesn't.
00:00:30.960 --> 00:00:35.600
And one state that's seen this game played out repeatedly is Colorado.
00:00:35.840 --> 00:00:46.320
In 1992, Colorado voters passed an amendment that banned measures to protect gay people, earning Colorado a nickname, the hate state.
00:01:13.359 --> 00:01:23.040
If you're a certain kind of conservative, you believe that trans people are some kind of corrupt ideology or some temporary thing.
00:01:23.280 --> 00:01:24.319
But we're not.
00:01:27.200 --> 00:01:39.200
This is a story about Colorado, but it's also a story about Florida and Texas and Tennessee and Ohio and maybe wherever you're listening from right now.
00:01:39.519 --> 00:01:43.280
Because there's always another election around the corner.
00:01:44.719 --> 00:01:46.159
I'm Xandra McMahon.
00:01:46.319 --> 00:01:47.760
And I'm Anne Marie Owat.
00:01:47.920 --> 00:01:55.920
And this is Hate State, a three part miniseries produced by Oddbird Sound and Word and Lookout News, with editorial and production support from Pizza Shark.
00:01:56.159 --> 00:02:02.319
Catch the first episode October 20th, wherever you listen to podcasts and at lookoutnews.org.
