gay and proud. gay and proud. gay and proud. gay and proud. gay and proud. gay and proud.roud. gay and proud. gay and proud. gay and proud. say it outside. >> gay and proud. >> say it loud. >> gay and proud. >> what is the worst incident that has ever happened to you since you've been gay, as far as being gay? >> i guess my parents you know, them finding out was the worst. >> say it loud. >> we're gay and proud. >> what is the american -- >> devoted to the needs of gay people. >> you have to be accepted as a human being and as a woman, together, right? >> yes. >> equal basis? >> the two are combined. the two communities have come together and gone after common denominator which are very strong because most of the beliefs of heterosexual woman and homosexual women are the same. >> if nothing else but good for the population explosion. >> can you tell me what you feel about the homophile movement? >> it's great and the only way to achieve it is through marches like this. >> 2, 4, 6, 8. >> 2, 4, 6, 8. >> can you tell me what you thought about charlie brown carry the american

gay people could be arrested for showing affection in public, police prowled parks for -- to arrest gay people who were seeking there. it was a difficult time to be a gay american. this is when you see the rise of a few early lbgtq groups social groups, such as the society and the daughters of the -- when people are meeting in secret to talk about what it's like to be a gay man, a lesbian woman, to socialize, dance, to have fun and have fun. instead of simply seeking tolerance by the public they decided they want more than that and they wanted actual acceptance. here you see some artifacts from the society, a matchbook which would be passed on to people in public places, people they thought were like-minded people. again, a secret way to say are you gay, i am too, let's talk about it. here is a legal book that was published for gay people who were arrested by police who gave them advice about what their rights were when dealing with the police. you see some early pioneering lbgtq publications, put out by the daughters and one, one won a famous first amendment case in the supreme court w

man, a gay woman, to socialize, dance, have fun. but out of these social groups rose movements for social justice where instead of simply seeking tolerance by the public, they decided they wanted more than that. they wanted acceptance. you see artifacts from the mattachine society, a matchbook passed on to people, a secret way to say, are you gay? i am, too. let's talk about it. here is a legal book that was published for gay people who were arrested by police that gave them advice about what their rights were when dealing with police. over here some early pioneering lgtbq publications, mattachine review. one, it won a first amendment case in the supreme court when the post office was refusing to distribute it. ultimately the supreme court decided they did have the right to publish that magazine. next we're going to go down to the main gallery of this exhibit. right here before the main gallery, stonewall and lgtb rights movement. we decided pickup culture was a good place to start for people. popular culture place, important for sh

police prowled parks to arrest gay people. it was difficult to begin being gay in america. and people would talk what it was like to be a gay man or a lesbian woman. i love these social groups, rose illumines for social justice instead of just seeking tolerance by the public they wanted acceptance. here you see some artifacts from the medecine society, a matchbook that would be passed on people in public places. people i thought were of like-minded people and it's like are you gay i am to let's talk about it. over here you see some early pioneering lgbtq publications, such as the mattachine review, and "one." it was a magazine. next we go to the main gallery of the exhibits. right now we are in an area right before the main gallery of "rise up." we decided popular culture was a good place to start. popular culture played such an important role in shaping attitudes. early in 1961, the first images that you see of homosexuals, because that is what gay people were called back then was in a pbs documentary that aired in san francisco called "the rejected." a talked about homose

other gay men. to meet sexual partners, so they knew how to -- they would take their best looking police officers, you know, dress them in tight pants, and you know, dress them kind of like gay men dress and send them to those areas and entice them. that's really not a knowledge of, you know, gay culture or even a gay mentality. it's just a very surface thing. so i think that the -- i think with -- my impression is, and i haven't been involved in law enforcement, is probably law enforcement has been learning bit by bit as other institutions and society has also been learning. you know, whether it's the military, whether it's business, the church, schools. that's my impression. does that answer your question? >> yeah, it does. >> okay. >> if i could also. you know, there's this wonderful thing out there called the internet now. perhaps you have heard of it. and as big a neand rutholes we are as police officers, they know how to use it. sorry, bri. and what i mean by that is, sometimes in spite of a l

, to meet other gay men. to meet sexual partners, they knew how to -- you know, they would take their best looking police officers, dress them in tight pants and dress them kind of like gay men dress and send them to those areas and entice them. that's really not a knowledge of gay culture or, you know, the -- or even a gaye mentality, it's a very surface thing. i think the is law enforcement learning bit by bit. society has also been learning, whether it's the military, the business, church, schools, that's my impression. does that answer your question? >> yeah, it does. >> if i could also, there's this wonderful thing out there called the internet, maybe you've heard of it. as big a neanderthals as we are, police officers, they know how to use it, what i mean by that is, sometimes in spite of a lack of training or a lack of experience, they have personal lives and personal interests. and they are exploring all of the things that everyone else in society is exploring sometimes. we're also doing a much better

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[chanting] > gay, gay, all the way!hanting] >> do you think the added stress of being a homosexual in a heterosexual society causes a lot of torment in the homosexual relationships of women? >> yes, it does. a lot of women seem to think that if they are with women because they have rejected men in that sense, but they come to realize they are with women because they want to be and they are rejecting a role, then they would no longer be guilty. >> as far as this thing today is concerned, it's all right to say what you feel as long as you keep it at an intellectual level. all of this orgy stuff and all of that i think it is kind of ridiculous. >> if straight people can do it, why can't we? >> it straight people can hold ands and kiss in the park, why can't we do it? they ain't no better than i am. >> i'm not talking about kissing and holding hands in the park. i'm talking about some guy dropping his pants, all right? >> i've seen people fuck in the park, men and women. >> that doesn't mean we have to do it. it gives us a

gay power.'m proud. >> during the early morning hours, the tactical police force began a sweep to clear christopher street of rioters. >> the riot police formed phalanxes and marched up and down christopher street. and in response to this, queens formed a rockettes kick line across christopher street. and they were singing, and they were kicking. ♪ we are the village girls we wear our hair in curls ♪ ♪ we wear our dungarees rolled up above our knees ♪ >> all the while the tpf, with their helmets and their shields and their clubs and their guns, kept getting closer and closer. and they kept kicking until that moment when the police were just a few feet from them. and then they took off. >> i think it was the bravest thing i have ever seen in before. >> the riots hit the new york papers, and for the next few nights, resistance continued in the streets around the stonewall. >> this was the rosa parks moment for gay people. this was the, i'm not getting up out of my seat. we're not going to take thi

she comes out as being gay. rock hudson, a famous celebrity, who reveals he is dies of aids, a huge earthquake in popular culture. then you saw in philadelphia tom hanks portraying a man with aids in an academy award-minutes movie. we have the script signed by all the cast members. and of course ellen degeneres who comes out on the cover of "time," the repercussions. her show was canceled after that, she was seen an death threats, but that was a powerful forward movement. and then you have more shows like "will & grace." even vice president joe biden talked about how "will & grace" got more americans used to the idea of same-sex relationships. we have movies like "brokeback mountain," "modern family," and then caitlyn jenner coming out on the cover of "vanity fair" as a transgender woman. it brought it understanding to the issues that the community was facing. next we walk into the main gallery and see what happened at the stonewall inn. we'll go back to a hot summer night in june of 1969 to greenwich village, t

to end police entrapment and to legalize gay bars. the speech so electrified the new york membership that the next year, they threw out the officers who supported the old education and research approach and elected a slate of militants to pursue a civil rights strategy. dick life became president and following kamany's advice, succeeded in ending the new york city police department entrapment of gay men and gradually made significant progress toward legalizing gay bars. pardon me. the stonewall inn club opened during this period of progress toward the legalization of gay bars. it became popular because it was the only gay club in new york city where dancing was allowed regularly. but more particularly, where slow dancing was allowed. it was also the city's largest gay club and was located just a block and a half from the very heart of the gay male social area, the intersection of christopher street and greenwich avenue. the club was broadly tolerant about who was admitted and thus became popular with a wide cross section of the commun

the gay activist alliance in contrast decided to focus more exclusive on gay rights.hat really then set the trend for what followed for the next several years. very influential, very powerful, very active organization in new york and similar organizations around the country. >> let mu ask you about two more recent moments in edie windsor, and her challenge of doma. why was her case so significant? >> well, over time the issues and priorities changed. they began prioritizing include in military, family life, religion, and that was contested in the movement. many thought that the radicals were anti-war, they didn't want inclusion in the military. we're opposed to monogamy and conventional family life. so there's that tension. nevertheless for many people the goal was broad acceptance, equality in all aspects of american life, and edie windsor and the struggle for same-sex marriage was that aspect of the movement. her role, and others, were absolutely essential in achieves this measure of the long-standing goal, which was for those people who want to marry, that they hav

that is not one of my gay gay traits. struck. what has changed now is that we have an understanding, first of all, that this community exists. that was step one. unfortunately, it still exists in some parts of the country. if i go to a chief of police or lieutenant and i say, who are your lgbt community leaders? we do not have that here. if you've got a community where you do not even think you have lgbt cutie people, do you think you are treating them with dignity and respect? that is not happening. step one was to have our leaders. not just community leaders but our law enforcement leaders to acknowledge that this community exists. that they have rights, and that they have the right to speak up when they are not treated properly. that was step one. step two changing culture within the police department. ryan has spoken about how slow that is. we use we still have homophobes in law enforcement, racists, misogynist. i don't know that we will ever get rid of that, as long as human beings are allowed to be police officers, but what

as word got out that there were large numbers of gay people in greenwich village, more and more gay men and lesbians were drawn there. eventually, new york of the largest gay population in the united states and the village served as a center for the growing homosexual subculture. but new york was also the city that most aggressively and systematically targeted as demons and criminals. police vice squads, which new york city was the first to create, attempted to use decoys to entice and raid gay bars. new york created the state liquor authority and gave it back to goal total leeway in enforcing and administering these laws. they interpreted laws so even the presence of homosexuals, categorizes people who are lewd and dissolute, in a bar made that place disorderly and subject to closure. the result in new york city was the most vigorous investigation of homosexuals before world war ii, responding -- before world war ii. responding to right-wing pressure after the war, new york modernized its operations and continued to holland thousands of homosexuals, sometimes just for socializing at a

there were a lot of gay bars, and places that gay people had dinner and so forth, was right nearby. and people started walking over to see what was going on. and so what happened was, the cops busted gave ours, all the time. what typically happened was, people would come out of the bars, and they recover their faces and go into the paddywagon, and they didn't want to be recognized, people had jobs they work for banks or advertising firms and, and they thought they would lose their jobs or be exposed to their wives and if they were married or whatever. and that is what the police were used to. while they busted stonewall the stone wall was known for serving underage people. it had a sound system in the back room, and there was dancing. it was kind of a wild place. and the people that they busted in the stonewall, were like that. they didn't have jobs, they don't have anything to lose. a lot of them were 17, and 18 years old and when they came out of the bar, they were posing and waving to their friends and calling out and saying, come down in the can you get my bail post my bail. and

and the gay activists alliance in new york which was a little less radical than the initial gay liberation front. gabe ration front and the other innovations that i mentioned were very committed to alliances with the black panthers, with the anti war movement, with women's liberation, they participated in marches and demonstrations of those other groups. and they really were calling for radical restructuring of american society, the sexual restructuring of social restructuring and a political restructuring. the gay activists alliance in contrast decided to focus more exclusively on gear rights. and that really then set the trend for what followed for the next several years very influential very powerful very active organization around the country. let me >> ask you about two more equal moments in needy windsor in her role in challenging dome of the defensive marriage act. why was her participation why was her case of significant? >> over time the issues and priority of the lgbt movement changed and so the more mainstream aspect of the lgbt movement began prioritizing inclusion in the milit

village voice writer angered a gay population. the result was of the sixth and last night of the stonewall uprising was much more like the first two nights, a large crowd and much violence. when the uprising was over, those who witnessed it sense that nothing would ever be the same for the movement. there was much discussion about what should be done. a handful of people realized that something should be made of this event before they unleashed energy would dissipate. after series of meetings, a decision was made to form a new organization. the gay liberation -- the g l f was modeled in large part for the new left group of the 1960s. those who became the leaders of the g l f had extreme views. some were marxist and the organization wanted to take on all issues of oppression simultaneously. meetings tended to break down at long theoretical discussions and home and attacks. it was a lack of democratic process. soon, many of the founders and early members quit. some of these founded a new organization. the gay activist alliance orgy

gay?s my i guess my parents funding it was the worst. >> you have to be accepted as a human, being accepted as a woman right. on an equal basis. >> the two communities movement. >> i think it's great, and i think that the only way to achieve it is through marches like this. >> can you tell me what you thought about the saw them and get more guy walking around. >> he's a closet clean. >> do you recommend. this >> absolutely. >> what do you think about gay people here. >> great man great. >> so where are you stationed. ? >> gay power gave power. >> >> so what do you think? >> i think it's disgusting, and it separates the people. they've done it with the jewish movement, and now the game movement. you are all frustrated homosexual. >> since you are not homosexual obviously, why are you in the parade today? what is your motivation? >> a lot of people here they convince me to go. >> do you think that homosexuality should be legalized? >> definitely definitely. >> would you ever marry a girl who

what made you decide to do gay history and gay movement history. >> it's a good question. i did not start my academic career wanting to be historian, i started undergrad thinking is going to go to law school and get involved in politics or something and it was not until i watched the film milk as 18 or 19 then i realized, how did i not know the story earlier, how did i not learn about harvey in the important figure as a high school student who is interested in american history and took several classes on it and even in my first year at harvard i had noisy of his name so then the realization, how did i not know his name, the next step was what other names joy not know. as you know so much of writing history is excavating what knowledge has not yet been introduced to the academia or to the public yet. so i soon stumbled upon the name who historians know, everyone within the queer history part of academia knows his name but the general public does not and even though there was an acknowledgment that he was the grandfather of the gay rights movement, there had been an in-depth

the case of a black gay man who said he was treated worse than gay white men. it wasn't even a sexual discrimination case per the second was a straight man who was denied a job because he said his hobby was sewing, and the employer said, that is an effeminate hobby so i bet you are gay. if you look at the reasoning in these cases you would realize it was not until hinesly that any court did in interpretation and since then a majority of judges have held sexual orientation is a subset of sex discrimination. >> justice breyer characterize what i said earlier, is that conceding sexual orientation discrimination for the words of title vii, but that we should take a broader view of what congress had in mind, but that was not the premise of my argument. have in their briefs, all of these comparisons, and they will make your heads spin if you try to figure them all out. let me go to your core one, which you began with today. a man is attracted to other men, he is fired, let's say. a woman is attracted to men. she is not fired. you say that is all you need to look at.

that idea came from the case where a gay, black man was being treated worse than a gay, white man.he second one came from a straight man who was denied a job because he said his hobby was going and the employer said that is an effeminate hobby so i bet you are gay. if you look at those reasons, that is the court did a careful reading of the statute using contemporaneous methods. and since then, the majority of judges have upheld that actual orientation is a subset of sexual discrimination. >> conceding that sexual orientation discrimination -- it fits the words of title vii. broader view of what congress had in mind. but that was not the premise of my argument. briefsties have in their all of these comparisons and they will make your head spin if you try to figure them all out what let me just go to your core one which he began with today. amy man is attracted to another man, he is fired. to aa woman is attracted man, she is not fired. you say that is not -- you say that is all you have to look at. that is not correct. there are two possible explanations that it could be based on s

but at that time was called the gay movement , were often very alienated from the feminists . and the feminists notoriously had lesbian purges and i experienced at lesbian purge in an organization called carranza in 1982 although it wasn't called that . so there was always a lot of tension and ultimately, i think one of the failures of traditional feminism or straight feminism is that heterosexual men never really got involved so heterosexual men never got involved in the abortion rights movement and one of the advantages of the queer movement is that we are people meet each other for love and sex so they're always going to have to try to find each other but if you construct a movement where we are asking heterosexualwomen to put themselves in a situation where love and sex are not available it's very hard to create that kind of counterculture . to sustain it. so those positions and those antagonisms, they play out even in the roe versus wade case itself. ultimately hurt the feminist movement. >> and it's heartbreaking also especially with the people i interviewed who were les

he was the first gay person to testify in congress about gay people that blows your mind.e court trying to get them to take this up. i mean, he actually even got the first demonstration in front of the white house in the late 50s, which at the time was, i mean, you can't even over estimate how startling that was to america. >> i'm glad you mentioned the fbi because of course, if you were protesting for your rights as a gay or field employee, there were a very good likelihood photographers would be there taking your photograph at the demonstration and then calling up the state department, calling up your private employer and saying did you know that your employee is a sexual devia deviant? he was the first to fight back and more directly today the first to persuade the american civil liberties union that gay rights, queer rights were a valid issue until frank that was not a concept widely regarded in the legal community. so with aclu as an important figure in this case, we have to thank him and all the attorneys who are so heroic. >> and also, at the time, i mean, gay peopl

not every gay person in america gets married, most gay adults want or need a job, and as of just a few minutes ago, it was possible to get married on sunday and legally fired on monday, but no more. >> all right. so we want to pick up right now. you're watching breaking news there. that was our justice correspondent pete williams giving us a sin on sus of a supreme court ruling, 6-3, a landmark case. i want to bring in supreme court analyst tom goldstein. mr. goldstein, good to have you with us. this is obviously as i was saying and pete williams was describing ciquite the historic desichlgts let's talk about what we know. the case of bostak. what was the case with this decision? >> it's an incredibly important decision when it comes to employment discrimination law particularly after kennedy left the supreme court. this is the single most important civil rights law when it comes to employment. the court had been expected not to hold that gays and lesbians were protected. there's a second case involving transgender individuals that we should get a ruling any second in to see whether or

i would say for 50 years the right not to be fired for being gay has been at the center of the gay rightsy here in the united states. and, yet, this right has proved completely elusive until now. so it's really hard to overstate the importance of the decision today. >> and, jeffrey, was a 6-3 opinion written by neil gorsuch joined by chief justice roberts. roberts voted against the court's gay marriage decision in 2015. how do you make sense of that, and how significant is it, i think, that gorsuch and roberts supported this ruling? >> well, roberts, i think chief justice roberts' vote is a bigger surprise than neil gorsuch. gorsuch gave a hint at how he feels about this. and this whole case was about one word in the civil rights act title vii discrimination on the basis of sex. well, what did sex mean? does it mean just i won't hire you because you're a woman? or does it mean also people who are gay and transgender? and the court said sex also means discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and being transgender. that was something that neil gorsuch, you know, he just came at it

he was the first gay person to testify in front of congress about gay people, which is just -- blow youre actually wrote his own brief to the supreme court, trying to get them to take this up. and i -- and he actually even got the first demonstration in front of the white house, in the late '50s which, at the time, was -- i mean, you can't even overestimate how startling that was to -- to america. >> uh-huh. and i'm glad you mentioned fbi because, of course, if you were protesting for your rights as a gay poor federal employee, ther were very good likelihood that photographers would be there, taking your photograph at the demonstration. and then, calling up the state department, calling up your private employer and saying, did you know that your employee is a sexual deviant? so he was, as you said, really e the first to fight back. and more directly to today was the first to persuade the american civil liberties union that gay rights, that queer rights, were a valid civil liberties issue because until frank cameny, that was not a concept widely regarded in the legal community. so with ac

it is a massive victory for transgender and gay individuals. justice gorsuch writing in this opinion saying, let's see, congress outlawed discrimination in the workplace on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, and national origin. today we decide whether an employer can fire someone simply for being homosexual or transgender and the answer is clear. an employer who fires an individual for being homosexual or transgender fires that person for traits that would would not have been questioned by members of a different sex. this court saying for first time ever that employers who discrimination against individuals simply for their sexual orientation or for their transgender status are in fact violating the law. this was the civil rights act of 1964, title 7. these justices now saying employers, you can not discriminate. poppy, this is a huge win for more than 7 million transgender and gay individuals throughout this country. again, this decision coming from conservative justice neil gorsuch writing this decision in a 6-3 opinion. >> it is huge,

it's ruled that employers who fire workers for being gay or transgender are breaking the country's civil's a major win for lgbtq workers and their allies. the court ruled 6—3 that federal law, which prohibits discrimination based on sex, should be understood to include sexual orientation. and all this comes even though many thought the supreme court had grown more conservative. that's because of the new appointees made by president trump. this is one of them — judge neil gorsuch. but it wasjudge gorsuch who wrote the majority opinion. he wrote "an employer who fires an individualfor being homosexual or transgender fires that person for traits or actions it would not have questioned in members of a different sex." we've haven't yet had any reaction from president trump. but his democratic rival for the presidenchoe biden tweeted this: "today's decision is another step in our march toward equality for all. the supreme court has confirmed the simple but profoundly american idea that every human being should be treated with respect. but we're not done." anthony zurcher has been covering this

like i didn't know you could be fired for being gay inn some of thth states.o reiterate that inin a way to say that we cann no longer be fired in the majority of states because all states have to abide by federal law a a federal law says our civil rigights are protected by title vii. it is an historic moment for ssi community. brent: how do you explain to people, particularly from outside of the u.s., how is it possible for it to be legal so long in the united states for someone to be fired b because he or she is gay or lesbian? paul: it's shocking, actually. it's etched on the supreme court of the united s states, equal justice ununder law. inin this case, we talk about oppression, w we talk about beig prohibited the same rights as other people,e, and some people are shocked a at these laws actually exist. therere is a burden u upon us as well to make sure that we are informing people, that we are fighting for our equal rights. unfortunate, some the plaintiffs are no longer with us, but in their memory, we understandhat we standnd on the shouldersrs of giants

landmark decision: the supreme court says employees cannot be fired for being gay or transgender.ight the conservative justice who played a pivotal role. rallying cry: the president says he won't be covid shamed into canceling his tulsa rally this weekend as the health director there pleads with the white house to postpone it. as coronavirus cases spike, the new warning tonight from major airlines about wearing a mask. plus several n.f.l. players test positive for the virus. political theater: a former u.s. marine is sentenced to 16 years in a russian prison for espionage. why american officials are calling the trial a mockery of justice. cyber-stalking charges. six employees from ebay allegedly harassed a couple, sending threats and a bloody pig mask after they posted an online newsletter criticizing the company. and virtual visits. with nursing homes locked down, facetimeing with family never been mor>> s the "cbs evel cal.rtinoms >> o'don: r views in the west, d thank you for joining us. we are going to begin tonight with anger and outrage after the death of another black man i

in the covid-19 crisis, much easier to fire a gay person than someone who is not gay.that is something that needs work but it is also true that when i did some work with the silicon valley company that was extremely hostile to working parents, it is not just supporting parenting but it is perhaps being tolerant of highchairs in the cafeteria. both are open to people to celebrate and be supportive of other choices as well as being part of pressure groups that allow human rights to hold sway across the country. >> host: another question we can answer, helping them tackle the challenges. abroad and locally, examples of organizations you have seen from the me too movement. >> guest: i take two examples, a committee at fox news which has been driving some change in that company and 50% is female in the wake of the crises and scandals a few years ago and there is an impressive presence of people of color in that company. more fundamentally, a small washington law firm in ibm is really a risky moment to up their game. it is not that ibm had a problem. it was always seen on th

community in the united states supreme court rules of the 1964 civil rights act protect gay and transgender people from discrimination at work we'll give reactions we'll speak with an activist who led the way 1st same sex marriage in the u.s. also coming up a report thanks to 86 and i have. so many countries around the world. but never this kind of. going to have to work. on the site. in the philippines she says the ruling is meant to silence critics of president. and funding the vaccine the german government is a 23 percent stake in the german. it's the same company that the u.s. government reportedly tried to acquire when the pandemic began. good to have you with us we start tonight in the u.s. with a big victory for the community the u.s. supreme court has ruled that it's illegal to fire workers for their sexual orientation or. identity the court said that the u.s. is landmark $964.00 civil rights act which bars workplace discrimination based on sex also protects gay and transgender people the vote was $63.00 with 2 of the court's conservative justices joining with the court's 4 liberal

in the united states being gay was enough to get you fired but not anymore the u.s. supreme court today ruled that in the workplace sexual orientation and gender identity are off limits just like your age race and religion they cannot be used against you today's decision puts more people under the protective umbrella of civil rights a defeat for the trumpet ministration with an extra sting the court's decision was delivered by one of 2 conservative judges appointed by president trump i'm regatta berlin this is the day. when i lost my job it was my dream job so imagine having that that you do every day and you enjoy doing that it's suddenly taken away because you decided to join the gay recreational softball league you know i did nothing wrong. now at some validation in the. day. for me the journey continues. also coming up in the philippines a legal victory that has presidential approval maria ressa the journalist who dares to question president do tear takes policies has been found guilty of cyber libel russia says it's an attempt to intimidate a free press. so what

struggle, setbacks, and activisms, a gay rights triumph, the supreme court declaring gay marriage is constitutionally protected and legal in all 50 states. 46 years ago in front of the stonewall inn in greenwich village in new york city, a riot ushered in the modern gay rights movement. today in that spot, a celebration. >> congratulations, everyone. >> gay couples and same-sex couples and the lgbt community are finally being treated as equals. >> reporter: the president calling the man who started it all, lead plaintiff in the case jim obergefell, who challenged ohio's ban on same-sex marriage. >> i just want to say congratulations. >> thank you so much, sir. >> reporter: across the country, excitement. in san francisco. in michigan, tears of joy. in nashville, these women some of the first to be married on this historic day in tennessee. but the fight for gay rights is far from over. >> there are still quite a number of policy issues still up for discussion. >> reporter: the supreme court decision is binding on state officials, but some states so far still not providing same-sex ma

if i never told anybody i was gay, nobody would ever ask.g it's different for you. >> it's different, but there are similarities. you can only look one way, being hypermasculine. and you can have a couple of emotions, lust or anger. anything outside of that will call into question your masculinity or manhood. when people get threatened by you presenting yourself as a different type of man, being a man proud of his softness, gentleness, or his emotions, people can be threatened by that. that's why i say i need to be cautious. and sometimes it's performative. do i have to put on certain performances around certain people in order to preserve my life? the answer is yes. >> angelica, do you have anything to add? i saw you nodding? >> well, first, thank you for having me. and these people on the panel are my friends, these are the voices people should be hearing from. as a black trans woman who has gained a certain level of privilege with my access to hollywood and being on television, there have come certain privileges with that. but we've come

if your boss thought that you were gay or trans and didn't like that, you could be fired. that was legal in most states as of today. while today's surprise supreme court ruling means from here on out, henceforth, if that happens to you in your state and you get fired for that reason, you can now file suit in federal court, and the federal law should protect you because as neil gorsuch wrote in today's ruling, quote, an employer who fires an individual merely for being gay or transgender defies the law. today's ruling is the most important ruling on lgbt civil rights issues since the supreme court's decision affirming the legal right for same-sex couples to get married. today's decision is also the first big lgbt civil rights case since justice anthony kennedy volunteered to leave the bench, apparently to make room for his former law clerk, brett kavanaugh. there had been a bunch of hollow, facile, wishful thinking that justice kennedy being pro-gay rights meant he wouldn't give up his seat for kavanaugh unless kavanaugh was secretly pro-gay rights too. justice kavanaugh vo

in the united states being gay was enough to get you fired but not anymore the u.s. supreme court today ruled that in the workplace sexual orientation and gender identity are off limits just like your age race and religion they cannot be used against you today's decision puts more people under the protective umbrella of civil rights a diff.

uk's pride events move online today, some are still planning to march — including veterans of london's gayfront. hello and welcome to audiences in the uk and around the world. we're covering all the latest coronavirus developments here in britain and globally. the british government is set to announce a major change to its quarantine rules which will make it easier for tourists to go on holiday to much of europe this summer. from july 6th, anyone arriving in the uk from a country considered to be at low risk from coronavirus will no longer have to isolate for m days. the changes will pave the way for thousands of people to go on holiday to countries including france, spain, italy, greece and turkey. america's top infectious disease expert, dr anthony fauci, has warned the country faces a serious problem after a record 40,000 new cases of coronavirus were confirmed in 2a hours. the number of coronavirus cases in india has passed half a million, and the rate of infection is still accelerating. and president trump has signed an executive order to protect statues and monuments from attack, aft

when they found out that he had joined a gay softball team. oh, the horror. definitely can't be a social worker anymore if you're on a team like that. president trump told the supreme court that your boss should be able to fire you anywhere in america if you join a gay fricking softball team. but he lost in court today. that said, he's still the president and he and his administration are still doing everything they can to make the lives of lgbt people as miserable and dangerous and unprotected as possible. today's monday morning ruling in this land mark set of cases comes after the friday night move by president trump to make it explicitly okay for health care providers to refuse to provide services to transgender people or to otherwise discriminate against transgender people. like this was a problem that urgently needed solving, especially in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic with 115,000 americans dead and hospitalization numbers spiking all over the country. oh, no, serious problem, the real serious problem in america that they needed to act to solve

about 15 years later, it legalized gay marriage across the country, so you can see this progression inhe supreme court a expanded interpretation of gay rights, but that was aco different, and as you mentioned, there were two new conservative judges on court, replacing one of them, thony kennedy,ho is the author of those landmark day rightecisions, so there was lot of concern among the lgbtq folks that this wouldce be a chor the courts to start to pare back the expansive reading, particularly looking at justice gorsuch's, and justice kavanaugh, although kavanaugh did vote wit the three justices who voted against this. anchor: a clearly for people is the outcome they were looking for, but has tre been a lot of heat around this, another side to the argument, where people wanted to stop this. what reasons could they give for trying to stop it? anthony: i think this was essentially an argument ovea readin of a 1964 law, the protections in the 1964 law that re imminent with employment,na discrion based on religion, based on race, based on creed,ndased on sex, and what they were saying, their

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neil gores such said that you can't differentiate sex from transgender or gay status. he put it this way. he said it's impossible to discriminate a person for being homosexual or transgender but the discriminating against the individual based on sex. it's also notable that chief justice roberts joined this opinion. chief justice roberts was the one in to is a in that reeling that legalized gay marriage across the country. justice roberts read his digs sent from the bench and now justice roberts siding with the gay and transgender community. this is a huge victory. there were three plans who brought this case. amy stevens, i spoke with her back in the fall when oral argots was being held here. she was a transgender female who told her boss, a funeral director owner, a funeral homeowner, i should say. she told her boss years ago he was transitioning to female. he then was fired and unfortunately, john, she passed away one month ago but this massive victory not being enjoyed by her but her wife. there are is.8 million americans who transgender or gay and they are now prot

and he says when you fire someone because they're gay, that's sex discrimination, just as if you fire someone if they're transgender, because if it was -- the sexes reverpr reversed you wouldn't have fired. a victory for jared boss stalk, bosstock after his employer found out he was on a gay baseball team. he sued. sorry, doesn't protect you. today the supreme court said that's not right and reversed that decision. the three descenters wrote a blistering dissent. alito says preposterous not making legal decisions noting congress repeatedly debated whether to add explicit orientation and said it's imporp aimporp -- improper to do it. the other trump appointee joined dissenters. a splis amot among the trump appointees. and replacing anthony kennedy writing up a rulings or rights and neil gorsuch replainsed antonin scalia one of the court's strongest opponents of a ruling of this kind. >> and reinforces what you have always taught us, pete. don't expect anything to be absolutely predictable from the high court. people change, and people listen to their colleagues during conference. one.

because you decided to join a gay recreational thought you know i did nothing wrong. now at some validation in that it was given today and. for me the journey. also coming up in the philippines a legal victory that has presidential approval maria ressa the journalist who dares to question president do tear takes policies has been found guilty of cyber libel russia says it's an attempt to intimidate a free press. so when i listen to read i just i tried to get angry and get out how do we continue doing our jobs better. to our viewers on p.b.s. in the united states and all around the world welcome we begin the day with a legal victory for equality made possible by a modern read of a 56 year old law today in the united states the supreme court handed down the decision that will allow people to sue if they are fired from their job for being gay lesbian or transgender in a landmark ruling the court pointed to the 19 $164.00 civil rights act which bars discrimination at work based on race religion national origin and sex a majority of judges liberal and conservative agreed t

of the gay and lesbian victory fund and dan baer with the karate endowment and former u.s. ambassador to the oh aceee to both of you thank you very much we appreciate your insights and your time tonight thank you. cornell to another legal decision but this one will definitely meet the approval of a president a court in the philippines has convicted the prominent journalist maria ressa of the crime of cyber liable she faces up to 6 years in prison and has valid to appeal reza is a vocal critic of president rodriguez policies and media watchdogs say that the case represents a serious erosion of press freedom in the philippines. award winning journalist maria ressa arriving in court in manila to learn her fate. the verdict guilty of cyber libel 482012 article her website rappler published linking a businessman to human trafficking and drug smuggling. ressa once worked for c.n.n. and holds dual u.s. philippine citizenship she says she's been devastated by the verdict which she sees as a part of a government campaign against her and her publication. next year will be my 35th yea