Introduction

This is the first episode for 1968. As you will see, there is a profound increase in the amount of upsetting and disturbing material covered. The story is going to be in a much darker place for the next 20 or 30 episodes. If you find discussion of any of these subjects upsetting, you may want to read the transcript. Also, I use the term queer freely in this episode. Because of a belief among some that queer is a slur, the following explanation will seem redundant to many of my listeners. In all those cases, the term has come from a term used as a self-identifier, to a slur, to a reclaimed slur and back again many times. There are at