. >> as we mark pride month today we also market people and visser. seven years since the shooting massacre at orlando's post-nightclub that left 49 dead including the shooter. is the second deadliest mass shooting in u.s. history the first being the las vegas route 91 harvest festival. since in the non-profit one pulse foundation was established with a memorial museum and educational programs and scholarships. >> we know the lgbtq+ committee is present with violence. i got to speak to a man who confronted -- >> people followed and beat you up on the bus going home from work. we got robbed and mugged and all of that. >> coming up tonight at 11:00 at what they did about that. a group called the butterfly per grade, they were part of helping protect people in the night. how their work still resonates in the community today. they used whistles, of all things to alert, i need help and people would come running in the night. that store is tonight at 11:00 p.m. >> history made at the tony awards in new york last night. alex new look of shocked and j harriso

robinson thank you visser chairman. >> thank you, senator welch? i think you mr. chairman.i want to thank all the witnesses are being here for you have been tremendous enemies every single one of you. we are done with issues that really affect people in a very personal way. mr. walker, thank you for your courage. thank you for coming forward and telling us your short story aensuring it. i want to say thank you to everyone of you. this whole challenge we have as a society and it is not unique to the u.s. society, defining people who are other as less title to be fully accepted as been an ongoing situation we face throughout our history. recently in vermont will be the first state to pass civil unions the incumbent governor sign that bill nearly lost hisrl reelecti. many of the arguments being made here about why that would be bad dissolved. once the law was passed in people work together then what before had been seen as wrong, we were allowed to see what love existed between this people got a civil union. in a few years later varanasi state to pass marriage. what senator wa