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The ability to escape household relations that are homophobic and to create opportunity somewhere else is absolutely essential. thats why ive been so, you know, adamant that the lgbt movement needs to focus on economic issues as well. >> im skeptical that the progress so far tees off the economic justice movement. i think the earlier discussion threatened the money thats coming in is not threatening to corporate america, its not threatening to heterosexual familial america which is why the gay r...

Actually. but given that hes not and given the audience that hes talking to you, you dont see, as of yet, a lot of that kind of thing. the most manifestly bigoted reaction, the most manifestly anti-gay as opposed to anti-gay marriage or these couch terms, thats a sign of the progress. and the public opinion on this is shocking. this is something that you wrote a book about this. but theres very few things i can think of that have moved this quickly in terms of public opinion. >> it depends on wh...

Eight states. joining us now the tom doyne. good morning, tom, great to have you here. >> good morning, great to be here. >> youre someone who has witnessed part of this history. i dont want to overstate your age. >> thats okay. i think you already said i spoke in your high school or elementary school? >> no, i said high school. but i stipulated you were 7 years old at the time. >> yes. [ laughter ] >> so when you think about -- i guess the first question is your reaction to what happened this w...

Their economic power to try to get what they need from a society. so i actually admire that. it was very strategic and, particularly, for example, to mcgill and the people from the mcgill foundation have done a brilliant job. but at the end of the day, if youre in an arms race with the republican donors, youre going to lose. >> and i think its important to remember that, look, in new york, you saw a situation where republican donors got together with a democratic donor to push through the progre...

Supported, we see it within the islamic community is also moving towards not marginalizing discriminating against people who are lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender for that matter. we are seeing enormous transformation there, as well. there are are terrible problems in many countries and we all to what we can to try to help there as well while were working here in the united states. but the progress is rarely backwards. and even then its only one step back and two steps forwards. even the dis...

At stone wall to the president of the united states anousing his support for same sex civil marriage. the progress cant be underestimated. i mean, its incredibly powerful, what has happened. and his announcement is going to be i think one of the greatest boosts that we will ever see. it ea its not going to epode and alle battles that we still have to fight. its just monumental. we dont even know how huge the history of this is going to be. and i feel as if ive lived through -- you know, through ...

Last 50 jeyears of gay rights movement. one is the inevitability of moral progress and evolution. that all bigotries fall by the wayside as people are exposed to folks. just to sort of put a stake in the ground. i want to play this public service announcement that calls boys beware from 18961. >> take the case of jimmy barns. he played baseball all afternoon. he didnt feel like walking home so he decided to thumb a ride. what jimmy didnt know is that ralph was sick. not a visible sickness like s...