White, were all irish today. Reporter call it luck of the day. About 20 minutes after the parade stopped, the rain started pouring down and it just let up right before we went on the air. There. Ernie very nice. Joe, tell us about the special visitor that lavender and green got today before the parade. Edie windsor, Whose Supreme Court case forced the federal government to legalize samesex marriage across the country, she stopped by to wish brendon luck today. Its an historic day on all accounts. Ernie thank you for that report. All right. Lets talk about some of the other headlines making news. Newarks mayor claims that state officials knew about elevated levels of lead in Public School Drinking Water for more than a decade but did nothing about it. Earlier today voluntarily blood testing began for students at some of the 30 schools that lead lead. As a mom, you send your daughter to school to study and, you know, you heard something in the school. Its not good. Ernie lead has not bee
A probe to figure out if city housing agencies filed false claims when they requested federal money to fix unhealthy conditions in the shelters and some projects. A judge has ordered the City Health Department to begin turning over those records. Steve there was extra reason to celebrate about todays st. Patricks day parade. Dari without a doubt. This year marks the first time that l gbt groups and others were allowed to march under their banners. Joe has more on the festivities. A good day for that. You see folks streaming out of the parade on fifth avenue. There were bagpipes and bands, but this parade, there was more to celebrate. The spirit of inclusion was in the air. Members of the Irish American lgbt were able to march. Up the parade for gay americans. For 25 years, we have been denied that gift. This year the parade board sfend extended a welcome to us. Were so happy. Reporter mayor de blasio boycotted the event the first two years. Today he marched for the first time highlight
Homosexuals were easily blackmailed to be spies or become comrades or communists. For fear that we would somehow be exposed. So, all of that in the 1950s and 60s, two of long and bitter struggle to become almost firstclass american citizens today. The story of this change in the hearts and minds of america played itself out over about 65 years. To tell the story i interviewed more than 150 people. I went to archives over the country. I i finally ended up using about 20 archives. What i wanted to do here, i wanted to present the historical back. I wanted to present figures, but even more than that i wanted to look at the individuals who created those facts. The individuals who are behind the figures. To give you an example of the kind of thing i do, and, i discuss how in the 1950s homosexuals and all of us were called home a strolls whether we are lesbian, gay, or transgender or those who call themselves queer today. We are all considered mentally ill. I then zoom in on a story of a wom
Eudora saved everything she ever wrote, so she have every draft at the museum of history. Which is wonderful for researchers, they can go back and say, lets see, why did she decide to change this word in but, of course, its a night mare because all these loose things are hand sewn in. But unlike today when writers, you know, they do it on a computer, and they to the next version, and the first version is gone. But we have all the edits, and these are copies of just a here sampling. I cant say what her legacy is, but to me, just her mastery of the short story form uhhuh. Particularly as it relates to, um, dealing with the internal life that people often dont talk about, but its there. She really, her powers of description are amazing. Not only the physical description of nature, but also just the interior dramas that are going on within the individual but also between close individuals. Its extraordinary. But i think the southerner is a talker by nature. But not only a talker, were used
Well, now you have triplets. They do so much for coming. We will be outside signing a book. Im sorry. Right over here signing a book. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] coming up next on book tv, jo becker writes about the fight to legalize samesex marriage in her book forcing the spring. Then edward klein. And former washington d. C. Merit to the mayor talks about his new autobiography mayor for life. Cspan2 providing live coverage of the Senate Floor Proceedings and keep Public Policy events and every weekend book tv now for 15 years the only Television Network devoted to nonfiction books and authors. Cspan2, created by the cabletv industry and brought to you as a Public Service by your local cable satellite provider. Watch in hd, like us on facebook, follow us on twitter. Pulitzer prizewinning reporter jo becker wrote a book forcing the spring chronicling the political and legal fight overseeing samesex marriage paris she recently discussed her book and Marriage Equ