(hamer) men tend to be either/or. they're gay or straight, without too many people in-between. women seem more flexible and diverse in their sexuality. there are more women who have had sexual experiences with both genders or thought about it or wouldn't be opposed to it at some point in the future. men also tend to be more rigid in terms of timing. once they decide on their sexuality, they stick with it. women are more likely to change at some point. when i first fell in love with a young woman, i was in my very early 30s, and it was like a thunderbolt. it was totally surprising and not wanted, not sought after, and incredibly powerful. (narrator) what, if any, role does environment play in such experiences? it's unlikely it's classical environmental factors-- the way parents raise the child or where they go to school, because there's no evidence from many studies that those factors are important. (golden) we used to think overinvolved mothers and distant or rigid fathers created male homosexuals. then we would see there were some families in which there might be two or three

um -- this is from forest hamer who is a bay area poet who wrote berkeley late spring. this is berkeley late fall. i have been browsing the peet ree section had come to lose the unconcern but persistant rain that followed me in as a trail of damp shoe prints and dripping conscientious hacompanied to a solitude. i ran my right index if anything are across each spine flesh going along volume and groove. imagine the book seller anding by to fold and flatten we down to on an oblong shape and reshelf me into an americay sandwich between the t's and v's stacked up along the unexpected and unknown. i notice that the pe ems i imagine crowding around you were the unquieted the unrequited. distant citizens far from the disposition of the safety of s's the determinant d's and resultant r's where the poems are make believe. unlike the bumpy organic one i find myself wandering into. this one is about the moon. mabel and maureen. the moon regrets it's father's avd vise, take the night shift. [laughter]. each evening he dressed his forehead in linseed oil and drying powerhouse the exp

tonight to find a woman and her daughter from greenbelt who are both missing. 25-year-old stephanie hameric and her 1-year-old daughter were last seen walking toward a bus stop last thursday. her family says she has no means of supporting herself or her child. right now, police do not believe there is anything suspicious about their disappearance. but if you see the pair, you are asked to call, the prince george's county police. >> an amazing story from snow-covered connecticut tonight. a pregnant woman goes into labor. but her neighborhood is under 3 feet of snow from the blizzard. it took a little creativity. elbow grease to get her to the hospital. they made it. the adventure caught on a cell phone camera with no plow in sight. lori wood' husband and four guys turned a luggage carrier into a sled. in ventive. they pulled her down the street to the plowed main road where a car took them to the hospital. and that's when little jimmy was born. >> hold on to the side. you know. and i'm flipping all over the place as they're trying to take a corner. i'm trying to go with them. >>> around the

w.e.b.bdubois, martin luther king, jr., eleanor roosevelt, fannie lou hamer, ella baker, bobby kennedytance rice, and perhaps most of all, paul robeson for me, paul robeson was the sparrow. he was an artist who made those of us in the arts understand the deaths of that calling when he said, artists are the gatekeepers of truth. we are the civilizations' radical voice. never in the history of black america has there ever been such a harvest of truly gifted and powerful artists, and yet our nation hunters -- hungers for the radical song. in the field of sports, our presence dominates. in the landscape of corporate power, we have more african- american president and leaders of industry then we have ever known. yet we still suffer from abject poverty and moral malnutrition. our only hope lies in the recall of the moment which has been referred to earlier here, and was my last meeting with dr. king just before he left to go off to meant this to join the strike was sanitation workers. he held a strategy meeting and dr. king -- the meeting was in my home. dr. king during the meeting appeared

. >> and fanny lou hamer was the great prophet of this because she was willing to come forward and saysterilized against her will with enormous courage. >> and it's one of the reasons to somehow look like women disagree on this topic because there has been a misunderstanding that reproductive freedom or choice meant that we were against women having children. >> right, right. >> or we looked down on women who wanted to have families. >> right, right. >> and that's been sort of a real touching point for all of us. i'm so glad that you brought that up. there reproductive freedom entails all of that. >> but that's an interesting point. i'm curious if you think this. it's like when you say there's a kind of belief that women disagree on that. they've been manipulated into disagreeing. it also seems that women disagree every these issues. they have different politics. it's not just false consness, right? >> thank goodness. >> right. >> but i would just say, you know, for a lot of women, as the importance of the reproductive rights movement and reproductive freedom is as important as economi