to the next line item, i do want to report that on monday night i was privileged to attend the alice b. toklus club where chief and members of the command staff addressed the membership of the club and they started off with a discussion about the perspective between the police department and the lbgt community and discussed various aspects of how the relationship has changed and some of the current events that happened during the calendar year which police presence is required for some of the events and how the cooperation and relationship had grown and changed over the year. it was an informative evening. i have to tell you that it was much appreciated to see how the relationship between the police and the lbgt community has flourished in a very positive way and i want to commend the chief and members of the command staff that were present there and they enlightened the crowd about procedure, about the history of the events and as a police department and they made sure that people walked away from that meeting understanding that the police department has a great deal of respect for the lbgt c

. >> reporter: one friend she did keep was her companion, alice b. toklus. >> gertrude and alice fell in love. eventually alice moved into the apartment of leo and gertrude. it was gertrude who continued to bring artists into the home. >> reporter: but gertrude stein wanted to be more than a collector. >> she liked collecting but after a while, her public image as a patron and a collector bothered her. she wanted to be known the same way picasso was known, for her creative work, not just the collecting of others. >> reporter: stein thought of herself as a writer, whose work, corn contends, has come back into fashion. >> she was outside the mainstream until really feminism rediscovered her and began to look at her through a completely different lens. >> reporter: in addition to writing several books including the bestselling autobiography, stein composed the la brett toe for a cutting edge opera converged by virgil thompson. three acts with an all black cast produced in 1934. both museums are showing excerpts. as a writer and a collector, gertrude was a very