[cheers and applause] larry please, please. Welcome to the nightly show. I am larry wilmore. Thank you very much. Please have a seat. Thank you. So kind. Youre so kind. Last night we just did that the whole show. [laughter] i didnt even get the. It was good but i think we did all the work. I dont know. June has always been a proud month for the Lgbt Community. This week alone, Marriage Equality turned a year old. Obama named the Stonewall Inn a national monument, and at new york pride, Hillary Clinton marched among rainbow flags, which if you think about it, hold as many different colors as hillary has held different positions on gay rights. So with this outpowering of love for the Lgbt Community, i was surprised to see this on social media. Yes, hashtag heterosexual pride day was trending on twitter. Seriously . I mean ive heard of other offensive attempts to co opt a minority experience, like mens rights or all lives matter or panda express. But look, let me just say this to anybody
Whole show. [laughter] i didnt even get the. It was good but i think we did all the work. I dont know. June has always been a proud month for the Lgbt Community. This week alone, Marriage Equality turned a year old. Obama named the Stonewall Inn a national monument, and at new york pride, Hillary Clinton marched among rainbow flags, which if you think about it, hold as many different colors as hillary has held different positions on gay rights. So with this outpowering of love for the Lgbt Community, i was surprised to see this on social media. Yes, hashtag heterosexual pride day was trending on twitter. Seriously . I mean ive heard of other offensive attempts to co opt a minority experience, like mens rights or all lives matter or panda express. But look, let me just say this to anybody who genuinely celebrates heterosexual pride day. Hashtag shut the [bleep] up. And speaking of gay issues, the pope made news this week when he weighed in on the churchs attitude towards homosexuality.
Specifically their military intel, and that raises new questions about long time Trump Advisor Roger stone was in touch with that same hacker, though at the time there were no public reports about this link. Even if you stipulate there was no collusion, this putin link alone would put more pressure on any logical president to stand up to putins interference. The u. S. Now has the russisian indictment on interference. The indictment said russia a lot, it never said putin. In the most brazen part of this whole story, consider the most suspicious behavior that we think any security advisor would advise the president not to do, but he keeps suspiciously assisting putin to deny these types of allegations. I believe that president putin really feels and he feels strongly that he did not meddle in our election. What he believes is what he believes. Translator they do not represent the government, i could care less, they do not represent the interests of the russian state. Maybe theyre not eve
Theyll tell the story of tonight oh no matter what they tell you tomorrow theyll be more of us telling the story of tonight the story of tonight [ cheers and applause ] wow. Okay. When it comes to star power, its hard to find bigger stars, at least for broad way, than n li linmanuel of course from hamilton and that was ben plat from dear evan hanson. A beautiful song. Everyone in the crowd seemed to love. Theres been all sorts of performances here that are punctuated by the speeches of students who have come here from parkland. They have been giving the most passionate speeches. Theyre calling on lawmakers to listen to them. And then of course youre hearing all these beautiful performances as well. Im Alisyn Camerota here in washington at the march for our lives. There are marches going on around the world today. Trying to stop gun violence. Obviously there have been massacres before, but something about the Stoneman Douglas High School Massacre has galvanized all of these teenagers ar