Speaker 1: You're listening to Comedy Central.
Speaker 2: Now, Happy Pride Month, everyone, or as it's called at
Speaker 2: Mike Pence's house, June Pride is a celebration of queerness,
Speaker 2: acceptance and club remixes you can actually dance to. And
Speaker 2: today I'm here at Rue Paul's private pool to tell
Speaker 2: you how Pride Month came to be because just like
Speaker 2: all queer people, June has a coming out story of
Speaker 2: its own. You could say Pride's roots go back to
Speaker 2: the sixties with Billy's Reminder Day. Pickets. Reminder Day was
Speaker 2: like the precursor to what Pride is now, in the
Speaker 2: same way that Madonna was the precursor to Lady Gaga.
Speaker 2: And if you don't get that reference, you should probably
Speaker 2: stop watching now because this is a Pride segment and
Speaker 2: you're a terrible ally. The sixties also saw protests all
Speaker 2: over America, like the Black Cat Tavern riot in LA
Speaker 2: and a protest at the White House demanding equal employment
Speaker 2: opportunities for gay people. That's right. It used to be
Speaker 2: legal to fire people just for being gay, which makes
Speaker 2: no sense. Who you have sex swith should have no
Speaker 2: bearing on whether you get to keep your job unless
Speaker 2: you do it on the copy machine. Well known fact.
Speaker 2: That is how most paper jams get started.
Speaker 3: I learned the hard way.
Speaker 2: But then, of course, came Stonewall in sixty nine, when
Speaker 2: police raided a gay bar in New York City called
Speaker 2: the Stonewall In and the queer community fought back. It
Speaker 2: was such a significant moment in America's gay rights movement
Speaker 2: that to this day that whole block is now a
Speaker 2: historic site visited by people from all over the world.
Speaker 2: The only way that corner of Christopher Street would attract
Speaker 2: more gay people is if Britney had a residency there.
Speaker 2: Stonewall was the big turning point, though they still faced
Speaker 2: so much discrimination that LGBTQ community finally felt empowered enough
Speaker 2: to hold big public celebrations. The first ever official gay
Speaker 2: Pride parade was held in Chicago in nineteen seventy, but
Speaker 2: one day later, New York held an entire Pride Week.
Speaker 2: During this seven day celebration, the community marched from the
Speaker 2: village to Central Park with slogans like gay, Gay All
Speaker 2: the Way and gay power, which isn't just a good slogan,
Speaker 2: it's also the energy source that keeps the lights running
Speaker 2: on Broadway. Of course, we can't talk about Pride without
Speaker 2: talking about the symbol of it. No, not your grandparents
Speaker 2: googling what is scissoring. I'm talking about the rainbow flag,
Speaker 2: which was designed in nineteen seventy eight by Gilbert Baker.
Speaker 2: He called himself the gay Betsy Ross, which makes sense.
Speaker 2: Not only did they both design iconic flags, but they
Speaker 2: also belonged to communities where whigs were very popular. One
Speaker 2: of the coolest things about Gilbert Baker was that he
Speaker 2: refused to trademark the Pride flag. He wanted everyone to
Speaker 2: be able to share it and reinterpret it, which is
Speaker 2: why today the flag has become as fluid as sexuality itself.
Speaker 2: By the time we reached the eighties, the AIDS crisis
Speaker 2: came to the forefront, and Pride took on a new mission.
Speaker 2: It wasn't just about visibility and acceptance. It was about
Speaker 2: destigmatizing and promoting public health, which was especially important because
Speaker 2: the federal government pretty much just pretended AIDS didn't exist,
Speaker 2: like what Tom Hanks does with CHET. Once we made
Speaker 2: it to the nineties, Pride was e been more mainstream
Speaker 2: than ever before, and in nineteen ninety nine, President Bill
Speaker 2: Clinton signed the executive Order officially recognizing June as Pride
Speaker 2: Month for the first time. Yeah, if two people of
Speaker 2: the same gender wanted to have sexual relations, that was
Speaker 2: fine with him, even if he didn't totally understand the
Speaker 2: definition of sexual relations.
Speaker 4: I did not have.
Speaker 2: Clinton's executive order referred to June as Gay and Lesbian
Speaker 2: Pride Month. Then in two thousand and nine, President Obama
Speaker 2: changed it to Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Pride Month.
Speaker 2: Then President Trump dialed it back a little and just
Speaker 2: called it LGBT Pride Month, which makes sense, no big words,
Speaker 2: and it's less scary for Mike Pence. But these days
Speaker 2: the Biden administration extended the name again to Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual,
Speaker 2: Transgender and Queer Pride Month, making it as of now,
Speaker 2: the only thing that's been built back better. But whatever
Speaker 2: you call it, Pride has truly become a global phenomenon.
Speaker 2: It's celebrated everywhere Manila, South Africa, Brazil, Madrid. Pride's gone
Speaker 2: to so many places. If it had an Instagram, you'd
Speaker 2: have to mute their stories. We get it, Pride, you
Speaker 2: had fun in Spain. Stop making the rest of us
Speaker 2: feel so boring. So this month, don't forget where pride
Speaker 2: came from and all the people who fought to make
Speaker 2: it a reality. The LGBTQ community still faces many challenges,
Speaker 2: but it's also experienced a lot of progress, and if
Speaker 2: you ask me, that's worth celebrating.
Speaker 5: Hello, Hello, Hello, we pulls back from vacation.
Speaker 6: Early Vermont Supreme Court gives gay couples legal rights. New
Speaker 6: Hampshire makes a remark under its breath and scratches its ass.
Speaker 6: The Vermont Supreme Court, grateful for a case not involving
Speaker 6: SAP rights and tapping permits, made history yesterday when it
Speaker 6: ruled gay couples are entitled to the same benefits and
Speaker 6: protections as heterosexual couples. The ruling prompted jubilation among Upper
Speaker 6: New England's gay community, thousands of whom took to the
Speaker 6: streets chanting Yeah, here where quia get used to it? Yeah?
Speaker 6: Presidential candidate Steve Forbes added his two billion cents, calling
Speaker 6: the ruling a quote flagrant example of judicial activism. I
Speaker 6: believe in traditional marriage just like his dear old dad.
Speaker 6: Being both Vermont based in a highly regarded cultural barometer,
Speaker 6: Ben and Jerry's ice Cream celebrated the event by releasing
Speaker 6: new flavors, including apple Brown, Betty Free, Dan, maple Thorpe,
Speaker 6: and of course penis, geeks, losers, deweeds, simps, propeller heads.
Speaker 6: These are but a few of the labels that our
Speaker 6: society uses to describe the science fiction world. But as
Speaker 6: Steve Carell discovered, our collective intolerance hasn't spawned anger in return,
Speaker 6: but rather a spirit of inclusion that reflects the deepest
Speaker 6: meaning of turn the other cheek.
Speaker 7: The worlds of science fiction and fantasy have long presented
Speaker 7: positive images of gay characters.
Speaker 8: But I was going into Tashi Station to pick.
Speaker 3: Up some power converters.
Speaker 7: However, this on screen tolerance hasn't been reflected.
Speaker 3: Off screen until now.
Speaker 7: Welcome to gay Laxicon two thousand. What is gay Laxicon?
Speaker 3: Gay Lexicon two thousand is a science fiction convention for gay's, lesbians, bisexual, transgenders.
Speaker 3: They're friends and family.
Speaker 7: Is it hard to tell people you're a science fiction boff?
Speaker 3: Yes? Sometimes people have a harder time with that than
Speaker 3: the fact that I'm by You're bye? Yes cool.
Speaker 7: Is it time for gay science fiction fans to come
Speaker 7: out of the closet?
Speaker 3: Yes, it is.
Speaker 7: What would that closet of the future look like?
Speaker 3: I don't know, wouldn't it be cool if.
Speaker 7: The doors themselves didn't roll on little rollers, but have
Speaker 7: a and little air compressors underneath it. That's the kind
Speaker 7: of closet you want to come out of, am I right?
Speaker 7: No matter what form that closet of the future may take.
Speaker 7: Here at Gay Lexicon, two thousand people are already out
Speaker 7: donning new experimental personas, attending informative science fiction form, and
Speaker 7: admiring hundreds of fantasy based works of art. Are you
Speaker 7: telling me that if I look at one of these,
Speaker 7: I'm going to be seeing imaginary animals having sex.
Speaker 8: Yes, indeed anthropomorphic erotica.
Speaker 7: Explain that concept to me, Well, that depends on the artists.
Speaker 9: Some of these people are notorious for drawing sexy skunks,
Speaker 9: some for rabbits, suck for almost any species you can imagine.
Speaker 7: Could you describe what we're looking at here?
Speaker 10: What I'm looking at is based upon a lifetime of
Speaker 10: study observation.
Speaker 11: I'm trying to make a comment about our society.
Speaker 12: And the way we live today.
Speaker 7: It's a guy having anal sex with a fox. Clearly,
Speaker 7: there was something for everyone at Gay Lexicon, But as
Speaker 7: I soon found out, there was more, much more. If
Speaker 7: I were gay and a science fiction buff, which I
Speaker 7: am not either of them. What would you have for
Speaker 7: me to do here?
Speaker 3: The most exciting event? It would be the masquerade?
Speaker 7: What's so much fun about the masquerade.
Speaker 3: That you find out a little bit about the personality
Speaker 3: it brings.
Speaker 7: It brings out a different side to them.
Speaker 3: Yes, it shows a side that is usually hidden.
Speaker 7: Could not be dangerous. While Jack Frost denied that there
Speaker 7: was any danger in the masquerade process, I had my doubts.
Speaker 7: So I decided to conduct a little experiment of my own.
Speaker 7: How does one create a costume for themselves? I guess
Speaker 7: first of all, you have to know what you want
Speaker 7: to be. As I began to immerse myself in character
Speaker 7: after character, I realized that, in fact, there was no danger.
Speaker 7: By revealing my inner self, I found myself childlike, liberated, inspired,
Speaker 7: and very gay.
Speaker 6: Despite the Pope's presence, all is not well in Canada.
Speaker 6: In fact, many citizens are hoping the Pope can heal
Speaker 6: some very deep divisions that are threatening to tear Canadian
Speaker 6: nation apart. Our own Ed Helms.
Speaker 1: Reports Bill Watcott is a decent, hard working Canadian citizen
Speaker 1: who is being persecuted because of his sexuality.
Speaker 13: I'm Bill Watcott, and I'm definitely a heterosexual.
Speaker 1: I choose to live an openly straight lifestyle. Bill has
Speaker 1: become an object of ridicule. Is it fair to say
Speaker 1: that because of your sexuality you've suffered?
Speaker 13: Yes, that would be a fair.
Speaker 1: Statement, suffered because he lives in Canada, our gay neighbor
Speaker 1: to the north, where if you don't like gay music,
Speaker 1: gay sports, and gay cops, you're an outsider. And to
Speaker 1: make matters even worse for Bill Whatcot, he lives in
Speaker 1: Canada's gayest city, Regina. That's right, Regina, a hotbed of heterophobia,
Speaker 1: where local gay supremacist Duncan Campbell has this to say
Speaker 1: about Bill Whatcot.
Speaker 14: I don't think a lot of people like him ouch.
Speaker 1: Even in the face of straight bashing like that, Bill
Speaker 1: has nothing but kind words for the gay majority.
Speaker 13: Homosexual sex is a sin, doesn't matter what gender. That's
Speaker 13: disordered sex, and it's a disordered desire and attraction. It's filthy.
Speaker 13: What have you found to think about the damage they're
Speaker 13: going to do to each other? And when they're going
Speaker 13: down that path, they're going down a path that'll lead
Speaker 13: to a lot of disease and unhappiness.
Speaker 1: He's tolerant, he's well spoken, and he has a mustache,
Speaker 1: but the gays still refuse to accept Bill Watcot. So
Speaker 1: in a heroic act of defiance, Bill decided to stand
Speaker 1: up for his kind and organized a parade in the
Speaker 1: name of Straight Bride, a colossal demonstration that brought downtown
Speaker 1: Regina to its knees. It was Straight Canada's finest hour,
Speaker 1: but the gay majority continues to make Bill's life a
Speaker 1: living hell.
Speaker 13: One time in Toronto, I had a homosexual try to
Speaker 13: pick me up. I actually I didn't even know you
Speaker 13: was gay. I was just trying to help him. You know.
Speaker 13: We were at a YMCA and he wasn't using crack technique.
Speaker 8: I'm sorry you were aware.
Speaker 13: Okay, the YMCA? Do you have that in America? It's
Speaker 13: like a health club is it's a gay club? This
Speaker 13: one turned out to be a gay pickup spot because
Speaker 13: he asked me to go for coffee.
Speaker 15: And I did.
Speaker 1: Nothing else happened, we swear. But despite these brushes with gayness,
Speaker 1: Bill has remained impressively grounded in his masculinity. He showed
Speaker 1: me his gun collection.
Speaker 13: I am actually giving it a decent polish. Now, yeah,
Speaker 13: polish that thing up.
Speaker 1: And even indulged me in a frontyard tussle. Later, we
Speaker 1: enjoyed a relaxing moment together where Bill shared even more
Speaker 1: details about his life as a heterosexual, including the fact
Speaker 1: that he's a male nurse.
Speaker 13: Not many nurses are hunters and gun owners.
Speaker 1: When will gay Canada accept people like Bill what cut
Speaker 1: Probably never, and yet Bill what Cutt carries on fighting
Speaker 1: for the rights of all straight, parade loving Canadian male
Speaker 1: nurses who sometimes get coffee with people they meet at
Speaker 1: the y m c A.
Speaker 6: I know, excellent, really nice, really nice job.
Speaker 15: That's I have to say.
Speaker 6: Uh an in depth report is excellent reporting it well done, well, thank.
Speaker 8: You, thank you very much.
Speaker 1: You will it's really interesting. In doing this report, I uh,
Speaker 1: I realized something about myself.
Speaker 8: Yeah, I uh, I'm straight. I said it. I'm straight.
Speaker 1: It feels pretty good.
Speaker 6: And that's really not the bigg deal. I mean, like
Speaker 6: ninety percent of the country, I'm straight and I don't
Speaker 6: go announcing it. But you know, it's it's not.
Speaker 4: That you're straight too.
Speaker 8: Yeah yeah, ladies and Gentleman TV's Jon Stewart also straight.
Speaker 8: I had no idea you were. You should hang out yes, yes,
Speaker 8: because no we could. We could go to the YMCA.
Speaker 1: We help each other, work out, give each other massages.
Speaker 8: Do you slow dance because that's that's gay. That's that's.
Speaker 15: Right.
Speaker 1: I'm straight.
Speaker 8: At helms everybody.
Speaker 16: We'll be right back, you know.
Speaker 6: I had a crazy weekend yesterday, like every year in
Speaker 6: the end of June last week and dress up in
Speaker 6: glitter like a peacock, and and I marched down Fifth
Speaker 6: Avenue to raise awareness of exotic birds. And I gotta
Speaker 6: tell you, this year, almost more than any other year,
Speaker 6: it went really, really well. I couldn't believe this.
Speaker 17: Supported I was getting.
Speaker 6: People are like, this is a great day. It's been
Speaker 6: too long, you know, And I was like, yeah, exotic birds,
Speaker 6: you know what I mean. And then people are like,
Speaker 6: it wasn't Friday. Amazing, And I was like, why what
Speaker 6: happened Friday?
Speaker 3: It is a history making night.
Speaker 18: With a vote that just happened a short time ago,
Speaker 18: New York becomes a seventh jurisdiction in America to recognize
Speaker 18: marriage for same sex couples.
Speaker 6: Wow, that's a major civil rights victory. New York was
Speaker 6: so applauding. Finally, New York State's gay and lesbian community
Speaker 6: are free from the burden that was having to set
Speaker 6: foot in Connecticut.
Speaker 8: In order to get married.
Speaker 17: Really, the nupshows there in Stamford. Yes, it was last
Speaker 17: Friday night at ten thirty pm Eastern gay rights time.
Speaker 17: After a week of tense negotiations and dueling protests featuring
Speaker 17: brutal gay versus ju bullfighting, the Senate and already finally
Speaker 17: made an honest state of New York by a vote
Speaker 17: of thirty three to four, destroying society as we know
Speaker 17: it and twenty nine against.
Speaker 8: The vote was in doubt.
Speaker 6: Right up until the last minute. As of Thursday, the
Speaker 6: state Senate was deadlocked thirty one to thirty one. Marriage
Speaker 6: rights supporters had to find at least one more Republican
Speaker 6: to flip, and then upsteped Mark De Santi, state senator
Speaker 6: from Buffalo's who would run on a platform of banning
Speaker 6: gay marig Here's what he had to say, as.
Speaker 19: A CAFIC, I was raised to believe that marriage is
Speaker 19: between a man and a woman.
Speaker 6: All right, So we'll just move on from him, and
Speaker 6: maybe they'll find a vote from someone who doesn't appear
Speaker 6: to be on Elliott Ness's enemies list.
Speaker 19: I cannot leave come up with an argument against same
Speaker 19: sex marriage. Who am I to say that someone does
Speaker 19: not have the same rights that I have with my wife?
Speaker 19: Why love or they have the thirteen hundred plus rights
Speaker 19: that I share with her? I vote in the affirmative.
Speaker 8: Mister President, you know what I'm shows.
Speaker 6: I'm show impressed in honor of this man. In honor
Speaker 6: of this great man, I will no longer do my
Speaker 6: offensive Italian New Yorker voice.
Speaker 8: For his law because it's not off.
Speaker 6: And you see, it's son of a big of courage
Speaker 6: that his mother the bulls, the giant dagoons hanging off
Speaker 6: with his man.
Speaker 17: Like botching balls on a summer after.
Speaker 6: I can't. I'm sorry, it's very hard not to do
Speaker 6: the boys.
Speaker 8: It's a very fun voice.
Speaker 6: And so with support of Carassanti and his fellow Republican
Speaker 6: Stephen Salon, gay marriage pass and of course you know
Speaker 6: what that means.
Speaker 2: The city estimates the new law will bring more than
Speaker 2: one hundred and eighty million dollars to the state in
Speaker 2: the next three years.
Speaker 8: Yes, ex.
Speaker 6: Ladies and gentlemen, I also am cashing in. It's a
Speaker 6: perfect time to roll out my new John Stewart brand tuxpedos.
Speaker 6: All the elegance and finash of a tuxedo, but with
Speaker 6: the ball flattering physique.
Speaker 20: Yes.
Speaker 6: Indeed, while Friday's decision brings the total number of states
Speaker 6: permitting gay marriage and districts to seven forty one, other
Speaker 6: states still have laws on the books explicitly banning same
Speaker 6: sex marriage. It's why many gay activists are looking for
Speaker 6: federal action to achieve national marriage equality. Last Thursday, Barack
Speaker 6: Obama addressed that very question.
Speaker 21: I have long believed that the so called Defense of
Speaker 21: Marriage Act ought to be repealed.
Speaker 9: Huzza here here yay.
Speaker 6: I assume the President's problem with the Defensive Marriage Act
Speaker 6: is that should be a federal law in support of
Speaker 6: gay marriage.
Speaker 21: Part of the reason that DOMA doesn't make sense is
Speaker 21: that traditionally marriage has been decided by the states.
Speaker 6: Really, the gentleman with mixed race parents playing the states
Speaker 6: no best card.
Speaker 8: You know, when I was born, I was born. When
Speaker 8: I was born, my.
Speaker 6: Parents' marriage would have been illegal in Barden, Virginia, So
Speaker 6: different strokes. Of course, the implications of legalizing gay marriage
Speaker 6: can be hard to fully understand, unless perhaps you have
Speaker 6: a correspondent who works in musical theater. We sent our
Speaker 6: own Josh Gadd from Book of Mormon out to make
Speaker 6: sense of this landmark legislation.
Speaker 9: Legalization of gay marriage means one thing, best put by
Speaker 9: Super Bowl hero David Tyree.
Speaker 22: This will be the beginning of our country sliding toward
Speaker 22: you know, it's a strong word, but anarchy.
Speaker 9: Now everyone from Albany to Rochester will have to deal
Speaker 9: with what people here in the city have long had
Speaker 9: to accept as part of their daily lives. Leather daddies
Speaker 9: creating traffic snarls and sailors gone a wall, just like
Speaker 9: an average day in the gay community.
Speaker 8: Isn't it. Uh No, this is a very special day
Speaker 8: that we Oh yeah, tonight's bet Awards.
Speaker 17: I forgot.
Speaker 8: That's not why I worried, Archie, Sir.
Speaker 5: Sir man, I asked you a quick question. How is
Speaker 5: this not like the apocalypse?
Speaker 8: This is a parade, dude.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it reminds me a bit of that passage from
Speaker 5: Revelations And behold, I saw a pale horse and its
Speaker 5: rider was wearing a chock strap, and health followed.
Speaker 8: I don't read the it's in there page forty two.
Speaker 8: What kind of parade is in store for tomorrow?
Speaker 11: I don't think any other parades because we have Pride
Speaker 11: only once a year.
Speaker 5: You're saying, there's all for the parade, yes, But in reality,
Speaker 5: the Saint Patrick's State Parade is a very accurate portrayal
Speaker 5: of how Irish people behave every day.
Speaker 8: I wouldn't say that at all. Oh, I mean because
Speaker 8: some of the people who are out making a mess
Speaker 8: on Saint Patrick's Day aren't even Irish.
Speaker 23: Yeah, but Irish people are always getting drunk and vomiting
Speaker 23: inside subway stations. Take a good look up state, normal,
Speaker 23: respectable people like this will.
Speaker 9: Have nowhere to turn. Are you worried about the repercussions
Speaker 9: of gay marriage?
Speaker 13: Yeah, I'm one of those people.
Speaker 15: Are you gay? I'm gay.
Speaker 8: I fish with guys like you.
Speaker 13: Oh thanks, yep, we look like other people.
Speaker 8: You're not okay, that's gay. You're not gay.
Speaker 1: They're gay, and I'm gay.
Speaker 5: Really, David's David Tyne. That was David Tyree, super Bowl hero,
Speaker 5: bravely showing in face here at day Pride parade.
Speaker 17: Unbelievable.
Speaker 5: It's become clear to me now that you're not actually
Speaker 5: David Tyree.
Speaker 9: Even though I was on Broadway. Once they found out
Speaker 9: I was a breeder, the knives came out.
Speaker 8: I loved you in the Book of arm Here too bad.
Speaker 10: You didn't win.
Speaker 8: Are you from the Book of Mormon?
Speaker 13: Oh my god, you didn't beat the towny.
Speaker 9: I hope you guys have fun with yourselves. As the
Speaker 9: day were on, it became clear that no one, not
Speaker 9: even this intrepid reporter, was immune from their takeover.
Speaker 11: I think the New York is a part of the
Speaker 11: world now, and then New York is gonna still be
Speaker 11: in New York, you know, and just be a part
Speaker 11: of everything else.
Speaker 15: That's really yes.
Speaker 8: Then, how did this happen? What? Three minutes ago? I
Speaker 8: was wearing a suit.
Speaker 23: I have no idea how I even got in these
Speaker 23: Good luck Buffalo.
Speaker 3: Energy.
Speaker 24: It's Pride months, right which America has been celebrating with
Speaker 24: huge pride parades around the country from right here in
Speaker 24: New York all the way to Buford, Wyoming. Now there
Speaker 24: it was just two guys walking to CVS. But they
Speaker 24: were having a good time, so it counts as a parade.
Speaker 24: But but yesterday's Supreme Court news has dimmed the celebration
Speaker 24: because Justice Kennedy was the swing vote supporting gay rights,
Speaker 24: and there's widespread concern that Trump's next pick won't be right.
Speaker 24: It's a harsh way to end Pride Month, you know.
Speaker 24: It's kind of like ending your birthday party with a
Speaker 24: cancer doctor popping out of a cake like surprise, Happy
Speaker 24: last birthday to you.
Speaker 15: And although.
Speaker 24: You guys sound like you were at the birthday for real,
Speaker 24: And although many are worried about the future of LGBTQ rights,
Speaker 24: let's take a moment to celebrate how much progress has
Speaker 24: been made, and not just in America but around the world.
Speaker 25: Taiwan will become the first Asian nation to legalize same
Speaker 25: sex marriage history.
Speaker 12: Tonight down Under, Australia's parliament has voted to legalize gay marriage.
Speaker 18: Germany's parliament voted to legalize same sex marriage in a
Speaker 18: historic vote.
Speaker 4: Bermuda has now legalized same sex marriage for a second time.
Speaker 4: The island Supreme Court overturned a gay marriage ban that
Speaker 4: was signed in the largest four months ago. The Supreme
Speaker 4: Court first legalized same sex marriage last May. Then in February,
Speaker 4: from Ua became the first national territory in the world
Speaker 4: to repeal its gay marriage legislation.
Speaker 24: Yeah, that's right. Bermuda legalized same sex marriage twice. Yeah,
Speaker 24: and I know that seems weird, but that's just how
Speaker 24: legislation works in Bermuda. You see what happens is you
Speaker 24: past it in parliament and then it goes to the
Speaker 24: triangle where it's lost. Then a deep sea diver finds
Speaker 24: it and takes it to parliament. And it's not just
Speaker 24: marriage or quality. Around the world, LGBTQ rights were moving
Speaker 24: forward in different ways. Pakistan past transgender rights, Botswana's High
Speaker 24: Court recognized the trans woman's identity for the first time,
Speaker 24: and all of Georgia is now gay. Yeah, yeah, you don't.
Speaker 24: Even those queer eye guys do not mess around. And
Speaker 24: even though and even though the Trump administration has eroded
Speaker 24: LGBTQ rights by rolling back anti discrimination laws and banning
Speaker 24: trans people from the military, they're going to find it
Speaker 24: a lot harder to reverse the public's views on gay rights.
Speaker 24: The most recent ABC News poll found that eighty one
Speaker 24: percent of Americans said companies should not be allowed to
Speaker 24: refuse service to gaze and lesbians.
Speaker 18: Sixty seven percent now say the same sex marriages should
Speaker 18: be legal.
Speaker 8: That's the highest we've ever seen.
Speaker 18: This is one of the most remarkable changes that we
Speaker 18: have seen in our history.
Speaker 25: As the country heads toward mid term elections this fall,
Speaker 25: some history is being made. An unprecedented number of candidates
Speaker 25: who are openly lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender are running
Speaker 25: for office.
Speaker 24: That's an incredible story. It's incredible all around. Right, think
Speaker 24: of how perceptions are shifted.
Speaker 8: And it wasn't easy.
Speaker 24: Don't ever forget it wasn't easy. It took marches, it
Speaker 24: took protests, it took lawsuits and two different will and
Speaker 24: graces to get America here, but it got here all
Speaker 24: the same. So happy Pride Month everyone, We'll be right back.
Speaker 8: As you know.
Speaker 24: June is Pride Months, a time when the LGBTQ community
Speaker 24: celebrates the rights to be seen and recognized. But our
Speaker 24: corporations part of that community. Where we send Jabuki Young
Speaker 24: White to Pittsburgh to find out.
Speaker 11: Hi, I'm Jabuki young White, the Daily Show's senior Rustboll
Speaker 11: correspondent JK.
Speaker 8: I'm gay, and so is Pittsburgh.
Speaker 11: It's Pride Month and Equality March is the original Pittsburgh Pride.
Speaker 11: It has bikers, pups, pups, furries, queens, twunks, drunks, cops, bears,
Speaker 11: and fish creatures. But there's one group that not everyone
Speaker 11: is happy about a.
Speaker 6: Lot of corporations are capitalizing off pride and off LGBTQI
Speaker 6: plus like merch.
Speaker 15: I don't know if they're just making a lot of
Speaker 15: money off this.
Speaker 26: That's what the Q and LGBTQQIA stands for corporations.
Speaker 11: Okay, yeah, but surely discriminating against our pride loving corporations
Speaker 11: can't be the answer.
Speaker 8: Pittsburgh Pride Quality March is for everybody.
Speaker 19: It doesn't matter who you are, where you work, or
Speaker 19: who you love.
Speaker 11: And just so you know, we love corporations. Viacom, You're great,
Speaker 11: keep doing what you do. We're really big fans here
Speaker 11: at the Daily Show.
Speaker 4: Viacom love you.
Speaker 11: So the answer is obviously to hug these corporations. Close
Speaker 11: operations are hugging right that Google, KPMG, Eetna, Lyft, not
Speaker 11: Chick fil A. And here comes the truthlay queen. Walmart
Speaker 11: is Walmart gay.
Speaker 13: Walmart does take pride and their gay associates as a company.
Speaker 18: I don't think you can label a company with a
Speaker 18: sexual orientation.
Speaker 11: Walmart seems like a top to me.
Speaker 8: I would I would agree with that.
Speaker 26: Yeah, And I think it's amazing that so many people
Speaker 26: could come out and just live their truth as a
Speaker 26: marketable demographic for sure, and the really made it like
Speaker 26: a safe place for everybody, I think for us to yay.
Speaker 27: Yeah.
Speaker 11: One, It's like here, I am, I'm queer, I have
Speaker 11: a debit cross and gays love money bitch right right,
Speaker 11: So queer capitalism is totally chill. Actually, there is a
Speaker 11: specific issue with corporate sponsorship in Pittsburgh, and it involves
Speaker 11: the F word. No, not that fracking.
Speaker 3: There's a lot of corporations that are seemingly buying.
Speaker 11: Last year, this march was called the EQT Equality March.
Speaker 11: EQT doesn't stand for equality, it stands for are a
Speaker 11: fracking company? Do you think that it's appropriate that a
Speaker 11: franking company is a sponsor for Pittsburgh Pride law. I
Speaker 11: think that is completely inappropriate that a fracking company is
Speaker 11: a sponsor for anything. EQT doesn't just shoot hot liquid
Speaker 11: deep into holes in the ground. They also swing both
Speaker 11: ways by supporting pride and various anti gay politicians. So
Speaker 11: what are people supposed to do have a separate pride
Speaker 11: without corporate sponsors? Some say, frak Yes, this.
Speaker 19: Pride event represents the people.
Speaker 11: Non corporational pride, something that centers RTLGBTQ communities the Pittsburgh.
Speaker 26: Do you think corporations can be gay people.
Speaker 8: No, corporations cannot be gay people.
Speaker 11: The people's pride is non corporate has more color in
Speaker 11: its rainbow. And I found someone who can keep up
Speaker 11: with my moves. But are they turning their back on progress?
Speaker 26: Don't you think it's beautiful that queer people have been
Speaker 26: able to come out and live their truth as a marketable,
Speaker 26: capitalizing demographic.
Speaker 22: No, I would think it would be beautiful if those
Speaker 22: actions were genuine. They want to be a part of
Speaker 22: what's trending right now, right now, being gay as trendy.
Speaker 22: You know, pos is out and there are lots of
Speaker 22: gay celebrities.
Speaker 11: Now did you name a couple so on the top
Speaker 11: of my head right now, Big Freida.
Speaker 22: Hider's Dayshaun Wesley and Laomi Maldonado.
Speaker 11: They don't even want my brand. This is where I
Speaker 11: draw the line. There has to be some way for
Speaker 11: corporations like EQT to prove that they're really committed and
Speaker 11: not just experimenting. Like maybe they just need to show
Speaker 11: that they're really about queer subculture in like a more inventive,
Speaker 11: creative way.
Speaker 8: So I'm afraid where you're going with this.
Speaker 26: I thought that maybe this could really get across the
Speaker 26: message of what EQUT stands for.
Speaker 11: It's like drilling, but also with a.
Speaker 8: But just slow it down. Maybe that that's right.
Speaker 11: Progress takes time. Fifty years ago corporations wouldn't touch the
Speaker 11: gay community, and now they can't wait to show their
Speaker 11: love in public. And what better way to reciprocate that
Speaker 11: love than.
Speaker 1: With the EQT Very speed.
Speaker 11: Deep Cracking, Drill Deep brought to you by EQT.
Speaker 24: Let's kick it off with the Supreme Court, America's highest
Speaker 24: courts and the place Ruth Beteginsburg goes in between workouts. Yesterday,
Speaker 24: the Court heard oral arguments in a big case that
Speaker 24: could have major impacts on the workplace.
Speaker 12: The Supreme Court is back at work this week, and
Speaker 12: today it heard arguments and one of the most important
Speaker 12: cases of its new term. Does existing law protect LGBTQ
Speaker 12: employees on the job.
Speaker 18: The Justice has heard the case of Gerald Bostock, fired
Speaker 18: from a county job in Georgia after joining a gay
Speaker 18: softball league. He sued, but lower courts threw his case out.
Speaker 18: They ruled at the nineteen sixty four Civil Rights Act
Speaker 18: signed by President Johnson, which bans job discrimination on the
Speaker 18: basis of race and x, among other factors, does not
Speaker 18: cover sexual orientation. Vostok's lawyer says firing someone for being
Speaker 18: gay is discrimination based on sex.
Speaker 24: Man, this is gonna be a huge case and we're
Speaker 24: gonna have to wait to see what the court decides.
Speaker 24: But if you ask me, it's crazy that you can
Speaker 24: fire someone for being gay.
Speaker 8: You know.
Speaker 24: I mean, like, if you're fired at work, it should
Speaker 24: only be for work reasons, like stealing or not showing
Speaker 24: up or saying you like the final episode of Game.
Speaker 8: Of Thrones, you should be fired. It's like a big deal.
Speaker 24: Also, I've always wondered this, like how do you fire
Speaker 24: someone for being gay? You can't tell who's gay, Like
Speaker 24: if people haven't come out, you don't know, you don't
Speaker 24: even know what gay is. Well, you're just gonna have
Speaker 24: bosses walking up to employees like Bob, you're fired for
Speaker 24: being gay, and he's like, I'm not gay, I'm just Southern. Like, oh, oh,
Speaker 24: I'm sorry, I got confused.
Speaker 8: I'm sorry.
Speaker 24: You realize this ruling could also affect everyone, not just
Speaker 24: gay people, right, Because by this logic, if you extend
Speaker 24: the logic, anything you do in your sex life can
Speaker 24: be grounds for losing your job, right your sexual preference,
Speaker 24: that's what they're saying. Yeah, if you want of those
Speaker 24: people who's really quiet during sex, Yeah, you could lose
Speaker 24: your job at the mall.
Speaker 8: Huh yeah.
Speaker 24: If you're into doomination and humiliating people, you could lose
Speaker 24: your job at Verizon customer service huh yeah. And if
Speaker 24: you're the type of person who doesn't believe in the
Speaker 24: female orgasm, you could use your job as Vice president
Speaker 24: of the United States.
Speaker 1: It could be really bad.
Speaker 8: You don't know.
Speaker 24: I don't want that to happen to him. But actually,
Speaker 24: I'll be honest, I'm looking forward to this decision because
Speaker 24: the people who get mad about other people having sex
Speaker 24: are always the ones who aren't getting any themselves. So
Speaker 24: we're gonna know by the way they vote who on
Speaker 24: the Supreme Court.
Speaker 15: You is Pride month or I was called in a
Speaker 15: State of Florida.
Speaker 24: Sh But while you're out there celebrating pride, don't forget
Speaker 24: that some of its biggest supporters weren't always on its side.
Speaker 24: For more, we turn to Dulce Sloan for another installment
Speaker 24: of Dulcean.
Speaker 28: Hello friends, it's June, which means this is the first
Speaker 28: month of the year where it's just hot enough outside
Speaker 28: to not be sexy. But in America, we know June
Speaker 28: also means gay bride. Mind, so I want to wish
Speaker 28: everyone abby bride, and I'm not the only one. This year,
Speaker 28: it feels like every damn company with the logo is
Speaker 28: going full rainbow. You've probably seen these ads like Burger
Speaker 28: King offering whoppers with two top buns and two bottom buns. Listen,
Speaker 28: it's still bread, and every gay band I know is
Speaker 28: not eating bread in the summer. They're doing keto and
Speaker 28: crunches until I told for But don't forget. Companies weren't
Speaker 28: always jumping on the pride flop looking like a Lisa
Speaker 28: Frank trapper keeper. When the gay rights movement first began
Speaker 28: in nineteen sixty nine, most companies were too afraid to
Speaker 28: advertise to gay people. They didn't want to offend the
Speaker 28: rest of America, especially religious conservatives. They were so uptight
Speaker 28: they thought pretzels are too sexy, all those twis Oh,
Speaker 28: it's so sinful, So companies kept their distance, except for
Speaker 28: Absolute Vodka. Absolute was one of the first big companies
Speaker 28: to market to the clear community, because those sweetes don't
Speaker 28: give a shit about the religious right. They were like,
Speaker 28: who cares if the right doesn't like us? Ah, they
Speaker 28: drink is milk. So thanks to Absolute for being a
Speaker 28: true ally.
Speaker 8: It's a good year.
Speaker 28: I didn't drink the whole day because I got a
Speaker 28: work meaning after this, and they said, I gotta be
Speaker 28: sober this time.
Speaker 29: Wow.
Speaker 28: Anyway, as gay people became more visible in society, some
Speaker 28: advertisers slowly started reaching out into the community, until the
Speaker 28: AIDS epidemic blew up that sick company's flame for the
Speaker 28: hills again. Oh no, what if the gay is looking
Speaker 28: at our edge?
Speaker 8: Does that how you get eggs?
Speaker 28: But you know what company doubled down on their advertising
Speaker 28: during the AIDS crisis? That's right, Absolute Vocal. Hmm, the
Speaker 28: second half got a kick.
Speaker 8: Damn all right?
Speaker 28: Where was I right? By the nineteen nineties, the queer
Speaker 28: community had once again fought its way into greater acceptance,
Speaker 28: so brands once again tried to dip their toes into
Speaker 28: the pool party, but they were still too nervous to
Speaker 28: jump all the way in so American advertising into the
Speaker 28: phase now known as gay they, which sounds a lot
Speaker 28: like being in a fraternity. Basically, it was companies hinting
Speaker 28: at possible homosexuality, like this Volkswagon ad where two dudes
Speaker 28: are driving in a car and then pick up this
Speaker 28: dirty ash heir off the sidewalk. So the ad leaves
Speaker 28: it open to interpretation. Are they roommates? Are they lovers?
Speaker 28: Are they roommate lovers? Because that's the worst kind of hookup.
Speaker 28: You gotta wait for them to text you back and
Speaker 28: finished up in the bathroom.
Speaker 3: Now.
Speaker 28: A few times during this era a brand tried to
Speaker 28: make an outright gay ad, like Benetton and Nikia, and
Speaker 28: the ad completely won over the religious right and they
Speaker 28: apologized for everything. Psych one Ikea and Long Island even
Speaker 28: got a bomb threat. What is wrong with these religious fanatics?
Speaker 28: They know the furniture isn't gay, right. Plus, if there's
Speaker 28: one place that can reassemble after a bombing.
Speaker 8: It's an Ikea.
Speaker 28: Unfortunately for the religious right, but luckily for everyone else,
Speaker 28: their time was ending. Over the next two decades, Americans
Speaker 28: started to realize that gay people were just the same
Speaker 28: as everyone else, except with better ads, and as popular
Speaker 28: opinion improved, companies finally felt it was safe enough to
Speaker 28: take gay money.
Speaker 8: And this time it was major brands.
Speaker 28: Amazon started advertising the gay people Coca Cola airor commercial
Speaker 28: with two dads during the Super Bowl, and just Slid
Speaker 28: even had a big gay s which come on that
Speaker 28: was just a regular salad. At least saw some glitter
Speaker 28: in it. And that brings us to today when practically
Speaker 28: every company does Pride Month marketing. But just because every
Speaker 28: June a business acts like their auditioning for Joseph and
Speaker 28: the Amazing Technicolor dream Coat, it doesn't mean their values
Speaker 28: line up with their tweets. Take AT and T for example,
Speaker 28: they love to show everyone how much they support Pride
Speaker 28: while also giving one million dollars to anti LGBTQ politicians
Speaker 28: and packs. Or how retailers like H and M are
Speaker 28: launching Pride collections with items made in countries that criminalize homosexuality,
Speaker 28: which is another reason whereing this ugly ass top should.
Speaker 8: Be a crime.
Speaker 28: And they aren't the only hypocrites donating to anti queer causes,
Speaker 28: but hey, why go through all the trouble of listing
Speaker 28: them here?
Speaker 8: I'm no hater?
Speaker 28: Oh from that one too? Okay, are we done?
Speaker 8: Let's make a mesay.
Speaker 28: The point is enjoy all those gay whoppers and paint toyotas,
Speaker 28: but don't forget what this month is about. Pride is
Speaker 28: the time to celebrate the right to love who you
Speaker 28: want and to honor the people who fought to give
Speaker 28: us that right back when no brand was on their
Speaker 28: side except for absolute m You know what, what are
Speaker 28: those gay whoppers?
Speaker 9: Sounds real good about maw.
Speaker 28: I'm dizzy.
Speaker 10: This is June, which means it's time to celebrate the holiday.
Speaker 10: Jojo Cy invented Pride Month. Pride Months started as an
Speaker 10: anti establishment protest, but over the last few decades it's
Speaker 10: gone main stream. They are parades in every city, Pizza
Speaker 10: Hut puts out gay boxes, and even Exxon changes all
Speaker 10: these oil spills to a rainbow color hashtag al. But
Speaker 10: recently the conservative backlash has been growing, and this year
Speaker 10: some Pride traditions are coming under fire.
Speaker 27: In Florida, Ron DeSantis administration has forbidden cities across the
Speaker 27: state from displaying colorful lights on their bridges during Pride Month,
Speaker 27: limiting bridge coloration to red, white, and blue. Bridges across
Speaker 27: the state that normally illuminate in colorful arrays of light
Speaker 27: to mark holidays won't be able to use any other colors.
Speaker 3: The goal of Ron's order.
Speaker 27: Is clearly to shut down any celebration of Pride month.
Speaker 10: Yo, what is up with Roddy Sanders? I mean, I
Speaker 10: can't believe a guy who rocks three inch heels is
Speaker 10: such a dick to the gay community. But by the way,
Speaker 10: by the way, red white and blue lights on crumbling
Speaker 10: infrastructure perfect metaphor for America. And it's so sad because
Speaker 10: having pride colors on bridges also prevent a lost straight
Speaker 10: people from killing themselves. Guys would be like, hey, I
Speaker 10: can't jump off this bridge.
Speaker 8: That's gay.
Speaker 10: But if you think it can't get any pettier than
Speaker 10: a ban on rainbow ridges. As a bide, Idaho saying
Speaker 10: hold my heterosexual beer.
Speaker 20: And Idaho Barr is offering a break from the pride
Speaker 20: push that's being forest on Americans by declaring June to
Speaker 20: be Heterosexual Awesomeness Month. The Old State Saloon offering deals
Speaker 20: all month long, including hetero mail Monday when any heterosexual
Speaker 20: male get this who must be dressed like a heterosexual
Speaker 20: male gets a free pint of beer.
Speaker 10: You must be dressed like a heterosexual male. So this
Speaker 10: straight bar is going to be critiquing everyone's outfits as
Speaker 10: soon as they walk in the drawna. It sounds super
Speaker 10: straight to me. What what if that actually hadn't even
Speaker 10: saying here like our bar is so straight, I will
Speaker 10: offering special deals to pack it entirely with dudes. I mean,
Speaker 10: you're basically one brick away from being stonewall. Okay, so now,
Speaker 10: I guess someone could argue that none of this stuff
Speaker 10: is explicitly anti gay, But just check out how Colorado
Speaker 10: Republicans are celebrating pride.
Speaker 14: The Colorado Republican Party is calling on people to burn
Speaker 14: all gay pride flags, proclaiming in a mass email to
Speaker 14: supporters that quote God hates pride. The Republican Party's message
Speaker 14: attack so called godless groomers, and it echoes the anti
Speaker 14: gay slur used by Westboro Baptist Church protesters.
Speaker 10: Okay, awful story, but hang on, did wait? Did Jesus
Speaker 10: have laser eyes? Was that in the Bible? I mean
Speaker 10: I knew he had powers, I didn't know he was
Speaker 10: in the X men. I don't get how anyone can
Speaker 10: be so angry about rainbow flags. I mean, it must
Speaker 10: be exhausting being that homophobic, you know, just eating a
Speaker 10: bag of Skittles like no homo, no no no, no
Speaker 10: homo no homo. So there's back last of Pride Month
Speaker 10: all around the country. And guess what some of the
Speaker 10: those corporate allies are turning out to be fair weather friends.
Speaker 16: Target says it will no longer sell its Pride Month
Speaker 16: collection in all of its stores. The decision comes after
Speaker 16: conservative groups came upset over the chain's decision to sell
Speaker 16: LGBTQ themed merchandise last June. The company says the backlash
Speaker 16: harm sales.
Speaker 10: Are you kidding me? Target stops selling gay stuff? But
Speaker 10: the logo is literally a butthole. Well, you know that's it.
Speaker 10: From now on, I will be going somewhere else to
Speaker 10: pretend to shop so I can poop in the bathroom.
Speaker 10: For more on the story, we go live to Targo.
Speaker 10: If our senior lesbian correspondent Grace Coolansmith, Right, Greg, Greg?
Speaker 11: What's her feeling at Target?
Speaker 29: It's pretty amazing. Did you know if you use the
Speaker 29: self checkout machine you don't have to pay?
Speaker 8: Yeah?
Speaker 10: Okay, I don't think that's right, but that's not what
Speaker 10: I'm talking about. How do people feel about Target banging
Speaker 10: gay merchandise?
Speaker 24: Oh?
Speaker 29: Yeah, it's so disappointing. Gay people just want equality. If
Speaker 29: Target wants to ban gay items, fine, but if they
Speaker 29: want to be equal, then they also need to ban
Speaker 29: all the straight items like golf clubs or cargo shorts
Speaker 29: are two and one shampoos?
Speaker 10: Wait, no, that's that's that's a shampoo I use I
Speaker 10: mean it saves time and my head looks great. Yes,
Speaker 10: all right, So anyway, so straight items items that straight
Speaker 10: people use.
Speaker 29: No, it's more of a vibe. Every product has a
Speaker 29: clear orientation.
Speaker 10: Every product. Okay, what about like water bottles gay cell
Speaker 10: phone cases?
Speaker 3: Great?
Speaker 10: Okay, I think I get it. So a slotted spoon
Speaker 10: that feels gay?
Speaker 29: Slotted spoons are so straight they're serving nothing.
Speaker 10: Okay, okay.
Speaker 15: What about what about sweaters?
Speaker 1: Straight sweaters?
Speaker 10: Electrical sockets gay?
Speaker 29: Obviously they're power bottoms. Okay, about calculators, so that one's interesting.
Speaker 29: Standard calculators are straight, but graphing calculators are gay because
Speaker 29: they're doing way too much.
Speaker 10: Okay, Okay, I think I'm getting it. Print does us
Speaker 10: straight and humidify as a gay.
Speaker 3: Ronnie, don't out them.
Speaker 29: They haven't told their family yet.
Speaker 10: Okay, wait, I'm okay, I'm sorry, I don't know what.
Speaker 29: Look, Hey, that's besides the point. Okay, Pride isn't about
Speaker 29: rainbow tank tops at Target. It's a way for the
Speaker 29: queer community to remember how far we've come from the
Speaker 29: violence and discrimination we once faced. And most importantly, it's
Speaker 29: about me hooking up with my ex girlfriend's ex girlfriend
Speaker 29: and a cabin in Vermont. Let's just say that I'm
Speaker 29: the electrical socket, Okay.
Speaker 7: Good.
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