had been nothing but trouble. she couldn t tell me what had, happen she was so upset. it was about to get much worse. my mom would say, if you find, the car you will find kathy. he did not want to be, dark because you wanted to keep looking. she had been stabbed multiple times, there was blood in the interior of the car. she was a targeted victim. who killed kathy? we had no witness, no confession, no dna. 20 years went by. they still had to keep looking for what i had lost. but, kathy had her, and she had him. i put a lot of faith in god. and the killer, he never had a chance. this was i fulfilled my promise. in the wee small hours of the morning, while it s a whole wild world is fast asleep, mary bennett is awake, not because she wants to be, but because something stay with you, whether you want them to or not. and for mary bennett, it is a 80 3:40 a.m.. every day i wake up around the time, it is embedded in my brain. for more than two
just to live. and yet, here we are. seeing the right of our community members diminish. their voices are silenced, they re very identities denied. our nation has made great strides with filling the fundamental promises of freedom and equality for lgbtq plus americans, but lately something has changed. the arc of progress is bending in ways we did not think possible just five years ago. unjust ways. so far this year, more than 520 anti lgbtq bills have been introduced in state legislatures. that is a record. more than 220 of those bills, specifically, targeted transgender and non-binary people. also a record. and an unprecedented 70 anti lgbtq laws have been enacted just this year. in the past, we have put together pride specials celebrating lgbtq+ individuals and their achievements, first in the white house and then on the stage and screen. achievements that deserve to be celebrated. but tonight, as that progress is threatened like never before, we are going to do something d
he was born in 1827, he was a minister in the church, he served as a chaplain for the union army during the american civil war. then in 1870, he was elected by the mississippi legislature to the united states senate believe it or not. the first ever black man stand to either body of congress in our country s history, was him. it is sort of hard to imagine that today, mississippi was the first day to actually send a black man to the, congress but they did. and they did it all the way back in 1870. and then believe it or not, an 1875, they did it again. the mississippi legislator said blanche k bruise to the united states senate. that s the second time ever a black man was elected to that chamber. and you re probably wondering why or how that happened. the reason mississippi was actually able to make history like that all the way back in the 1870s was because of reconstruction. after the civil war, mississippi was forced to adopt a bunch of new laws and franchising the states n
talking points from the 70s and 80s that was used to target gay people, we have to keep fighting because drag is a art form that celebrates our community and the different parts of our community, drag is amazing because there is no box to put it into. there is drag for kids, there is drag for adults, there is drag story our, there is drag at nightclubs. it is not a monolith, so we have to defend it because it is our first amendment right, we are artists, and when you start banning drug and banning books, what is the next art form that is going to be banned because the right does not like it? we have to keep fighting for it. marty gold cummings, thank you so much for your time. thank you for having me, happy pride. happy pride. ahead, trail blazing on television. raven simona and julianna joel are standing up to critics in promoting a safe, respectful,