Critique of Judicial Overreach and Political Motives in Same-Sex Marriage

Moira and Adrian tackle the longstanding conservative fixation on the city of San Francisco, its people and its mores. From demographic anxieties, via Joan Didion's hippie-hate, to disaster movies, doom loops, and progressive prosecutors -- the history of SF-hate is a history of US politics.

Books and media cited in this episode:

Joseph Plaster, Kids on the Street: Queer Kinship and Religion in San Francisco's Tenderloin (2023)

Susan Stryker, Victor Silverman (dirs.), Screaming Queens (2005)

Thom Andersen, Los Angeles Plays Itself (2003)

David Talbot, Season of the Witch: Enchantment, Terror, and Deliverance in the City of Love (2013)

Joan Didion, Slouching Towards Bethlehem (1968)

Eve Babitz, Eve's Hollywood (1974)

Mike Davis, City of Quartz (1990)