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
attested to the fbi that all the records that he had were being kept in a storage room in mar-a-lago. now ourably the most alarming detail in this newly released inventory list. a box found in his office contains, quote, 43 empty folders with classified banners raising big questions about what happened to the classified documents that were at one time inside those folders. in a notice filed with the inventory the justice department says it has already reviewed every item. they add this, quote, all evidence pertaining to the seized items including, but not limited to the nature and manner in which they were stored as well as any evidence with respect to particular documents or items of interest will inform the government s investigation. another key focus today of the investigation how these records which include more than 10,000 non-classified government documents ended up at mar-a-lago, and why these particular records were kept by trump. some of them for more than a year an
am deserving of, and that is what i hope kids seeing it will watch to know that they are valid and their experiences valid. you know, raven-symoné, you said a moment ago that representation in the right of ramadan borton. can talk about the importance of queer visibility in the media, especially for a younger audience like yours and especially when we are seeing a tax on the lgbt q plus a community in the classroom, libraries, state legislatures, and elsewhere. yeah, the cool thing about the entertainment industry is that it is supposed to reflect life. it is supposed to reflect what you are dealing with every day and if we do not show all kinds of people that we are not doing our job. because of the weather temperature around the lgbtq+ community and government and legislature at all of that, i think it is even more important that we present ourselves in a
than 1.8% of the population what people know about, us what people learn about us as what they see in media. so, it is important representation matters for that exact reason because it is how it is unfortunately how society gauges how they will treat us, respect, us except, us it is what they watch on the television. raven how can the entertainment industry improve or continue to improve in terms of diversity and representation? well, they can continue to create characters that are strong, that are multifaceted, and then higher all kinds of people to play those characters. you don t have to walk into the writers room like i will write a transgender character who is because at the end of the day everyone has triggers issues, and all kinds of mental problems and it doesn t matter what your gender expression, is what your sexuality is, it is
nika s each week, this session right, we saw more and more chance two-spirit nonbinary gender nonconforming folks come down to the capital. and, it is apparent with the facebook, instagram, twitter, that folks are excited to have a presentation even if it is not the do not physically live in house district 88. i remember back in i got dms from folks who did not even live in america about how important this representation is. so it is a very humbling honor, it will be the greatest honor of my life to be able to serve the people of house district 88, but also in ways very heavy because it means that oftentimes we are in these spaces, with a fifth vitriol. representative talking about the comments, the phone, calls the, voicemails the real threat to our everyday, lives it is also very real as