[applause] please take your seats. The morning and welcome to 400th anniversary commemorative ceremony. It is my honor to welcome the lady, thend the First Lieutenant governor justin fairfax, the attorney general, senator mark warner, and senator tim kaine. Scottepresentative bobby and a representative from virginia. Bass andative karen from missouri. Speaker of the house of for thes, first counsel embassy of wanda. ,he former Virginia Governor the former Virginia Governor robert mcdonald, the former missouri governor greitens, former representatives james payne, members of the governors cabinet, members of the virginia General Assembly, including senate ,ajority leader Thomas Norment portsmouth mayor john wrote, the members of the 400 years African American history federal museum, Deputy Assistant secretary of fish and wildlife parks, National Parks service officials, including daniel lla,h and david ve members of the Hampton City Council and other special guests. On behalf of the mem
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Up next we hear from his for in an marc stein, editor of the stone wall riots. He spoke with us from greenwich village. Having to lie i feel is the saddest and the ugliest part of being a homosexual, when you have your first bad love experience, for instance, and you cant go to your brother or your sister and say im hurting. At first i was very guilty, and then i realized that all the things that are taught you not only by society, but by psychiatrists, are just to fit you in a mold. I just rejected the mold, and when i rejected the mold, i was happier. Independent organizations all across the country, there are somewhere between 60 and 75 independent groups across the United States, maybe more now. They keep growing up overnight and this is a unified effort on the part of some 20 or 30 organizations on the east coast. The differences primarily are approach. Certain groups, for example, tend to emphasize very militant confrontation tactics. Other groups will emphasize a more educationa