E183 - 183. Disco Demolition Night aka "The Night Disco was Murdered for being Gay"

A stadium packed with thousands… and a bomb waiting at center field.

They came to destroy disco but what erupted that night exposed something far deeper.

On July 12, 1979, what started as a cheap baseball promotion at Chicago’s Comiskey Park spiraled into chaos now known as Disco Demolition Night. Fans were promised discounted tickets if they brought disco records—records that would be blown up between games. But when the explosion hit, the crowd surged, the field was overtaken, and the night descended into a full-scale riot that forced a forfeited game. Beneath the surfac...