Few contentious social issues in recent American history have seen as rapid a change in public acceptance as same-sex marriage. Why did opinion change so quickly compared with some other hot-button issues and what does it say about the prospects for changing attitudes about newer queer issues like trans rights? Also we’re looking at what Americans think about the latest push in Congress to pass an infrastructure bill.
It’s LGBTQ+ Pride Month in much of the U.S. with the post-COVID return of the big annual parades in NYC and San Francisco. Seems like a good time to look back at how quickly Americans’ opinions moved on a key issue to the community -- same-sex marriage. Pollsters didn’t even ask about it until the mid-90s and two decades later, it was the law of the land. But does that mean similar acceptance will come at a similar trajectory on other concerns to the queer community such as trans rights?
And, Infrastructure Week is back! Well, not exactly, but the Senate seems closer than it’s been in at least a decade to cobbling together a bipartisan bill to rebuild some of America’s allegedly crumbling infrastructure. What do Americans think about the various proposals being discussed?
Then, we end with a Fun Fact near and dear to Lee’s heart: the NY Yankees. A question from the distant past raises some tough questions this year….
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