work of the society is a testament to history itself, a testament to uncovering deleted histories of lg bt americans, a americans, a way of giving voice to individuals who did not have the opportunity to stand up for themselves, people like doctor frank hamm and he who was fired from his job with the federal government just about the same time eric jewell berg filed his writ for petition. never able to to get another paying job for the rest of his career but kept fighting. there are a lot of reasons why the work is particularly relevant. for those of you who followed the windsor case, you may recall that justice roberts made a remark in his dissent,, and he said that their were snippets of history, snippets, and snippets do not add up to animus and discrimination and bigotry. i am here to tell you that these are not snippets previously are uncovering critical evidence that shows a very lengthy and robust paper trail of animus and discrimination by the federal government to lg bt americans going as far back as the 1940s and 50s. with that i will stop, thank you for the courtesy, courtesy, a

the society is a testament a testament to history, a testament to uncovering deleted histories of lg bt americans,, giving voice to individuals who did not have the opportunity to stand up for themselves. fired from his job just about the same time the petition. fighting and was one of the founders. a lot of reasons why the work we are doing is particularly relevant, educational, accountability, and evidence year he. you may recall that the chief justice made a remark in his dissent. i believe it was in the windsor case where he said that their were snippets of history, snippets, and they do not add up to animals and discrimination and bigotry. i'm here to tell you these are not snippets. we are uncovering critical evidence that show a very lengthy and robust paper trail of animus and discrimination for going as far back as 1940s in the 1950s. with that, i will turn it over to my colleagues works i will step in for a moment. thinking as i do about how lucky we are. retaliating against its critics. they -- we sure got them with that one, didn't we. okay. >> thank you for the opportunity

lg if bt people are people. all of those contribute to a poor quality of life. >> that is for anyone, but for the lgbt community in particular, why is this state number one? >> south haven is one of the few cities in the country to get a perfect zero on the municipal quality index. in no factor whatsoever is it a good city for lgbt people to live in. it has no protections at any level and often times cities like that are openly hostile and it's rare to see any city rank that. it shows what it's like outside of the major city areas in mississippi. if you live in jackson things might be better, but anywhere else, it's going to be horrible. >> you talked about alabama, texas, louisiana. michigan is the only state outside the south that is on that list. why is michigan on the list some. >> michigan surprised me. my gut check reaction when i was compiling the list was to look for states like kentucky or somewhere like tennessee, states that you would think about being single. michigan was the one state that i heard o