troy perry: i see these signs standing around that says we're not afraid anymore. fraid anymore. i'm not. troy: i was so out and open. all my members couldn't be and i knew that early on. but if i'm going out to demonstrate, you're going out with me, and they did. and i will be eternally grateful because i had no idea how quickly we would have to demonstrate. andrea segal: reverend perry was just a magnificent person, and taught us that the lord loves us anyway, no matter who we are. lorri jean: but he decided that he was going to creata chch that was especially for people like us, and be a place where people could still have a relationship with god and still feel worthy and whole. troy: i had found myself all at once, knowing that god loved me. just before that, i'd had a suicide attempt where cut both my wrists and ended up in the hospital and i tell people to this day god spoke to me in that still small voice in the mind's ear and said to me, "troy, i love you. you're my son. i don't have stepsons and daughters." and with that, i knew i was a christian, i knew my

troy perry: i kept trying to figure out where do you meet gay people?r. the first gay bar i went to was called the "red raven" in hollywood. it was so dark, i could not see my hand in front of my face. they had red lights throughout the bar. i--had signs that said, "do not talk to strangers." and i thought, "how do you meet anybody i--hhere if you can'td,talk t" "do not talk to strangers." they were trying to give u a clue about theolice. alexei: women could dance together and with no problems, but two men couldn't. and there was a club and it was called the canyon club. troy: the canyon club. the canyon club was located in topanga canyon. alexei: and there were two juke boxes in the place, one at either end of the dance floor. and when the county sheriffs would be coming in, the doorman would flip the switch. the other jukeox wouldgo one partners would separate and switch partners. troy: "grab one of the four lesbians," they told me. i thoalexei: the sheriffsird." would come in. they'd look around and when th left, he'd switch--hd switch e switch again

troy perry, the reverend, the lord is my shepherd and he certainly knows i am gay. together we celebrate, we recognize, we overcome. and we continue in the pursuit for gay rights in this country. thank you. i yield back. mr. cicilline: i thank the gentlelady for her words and her tremendous support of the lgbtq+ community. at this time, madam speaker, i yield to my friend from texas, a member of the equality caucus, a strong and consistent advocate for the lgbtq+ community, the lead sponsor of the house lgbtqia+ pride month resolution for many, many years, a great champion for our community, congressman al green. mr. green: thank you, madam speaker. for the time and i thank my friend and colleague, mr. cicilline, for the opportunity. i am a proud ally and member of the congressional lgbtq+ equality caucus. why? i'd like to share a brief vignette. when i was a much younger person i had a friend whose name was glenn. glenn was small in stature. he never bothered anybody. he was friendly. gri gairous -- gree gairous, very much outgoing d.d. gri gairous, very much outgo

perry, he leading the pack. god, look at all those names. philando. breonna taylor. aiyana jones. david matay. rashad brooks. tanya blanding. miriam carey. troyhis, there was a lot of love that poured out for perry. that poured out to the family. i don't know if i will ever in a lifetime see that type of love again. interview always sticks out in my head, like, a few weeks after george floyd, i sat down with a former city of minneapolis employee who's black. he just said that he gave all of his black friends, like, the advice, "hey, whatever you want to do in life, do it now, because in this moment in time, there's, like, a certain level of sympathy for your plight. people care about black people. but that's a small window in time, and eventually, you're gointo start being treated as, like, a second-class citizen again." >> now to a scathing report released today by the minnesota department of human rights, after a lengthy investigation into minneapolis police. >> a two-year investigation into the minneapolis police department finds a pattern of racial discrimination going back more than a decade. >> ...as well as regularly using racist and m