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Good morning, everyone.

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So I just saw from
my feed yesterday,

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I was at the apartment,

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of Ed Buck, in West Hollywood.

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There is something a lot bigger

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than what we're focusing
on that's going on.

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Not to take away from the
death of the two individuals,

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but there's...

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There's something
that's going on.

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And there's a whole
language about crystal meth

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and what they're doing
when it comes to sex,

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and it can go --
it goes into HIV,

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it goes into self-love,
it goes to the love

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that we're not
getting as children

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and us trying to figure
out what is going on as adults.

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It's so layered, it's -- I'm,
like, getting emotional now.

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But we have to, like,
really open up our eyes,

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and figure out what is going on

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to our brothers and sisters
out there, 'cause it's bad.

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And me personally,
Jayce Baron Sadler,

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will do all that I can to
make sure that this is like,

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not something that
goes on forever.

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All right, be blessed, bye.

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All right.

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How much longer are you
guys gonna turn your head,

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and act like you
don't see anything?

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Till another dead Black
man is in here.

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This is ridic--
This has to stop.

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No more to Gemmel Moores.
No more Timothy Deans.

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I don't care what they did,
what their past was,

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what they agreed to.

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They didn't agree to get killed.
They didn't agree to that!

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He's a predator!
He is preying on Black men.

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These too young men
belonged to somebody.

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They're somebody's children,
they're somebody's brother,

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they're somebody's uncle.

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And the comments of, "Oh,
they should've just said no."

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Any one of us could have had
this card in life.

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Arrest Ed Buck!
Arrest Ed Buck!

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Arrest Ed Buck!
Arrest Ed Buck!

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Arrest Ed Buck!
Arrest Ed Buck!

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Gemmel Moore!
Gemmel Moore!

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Gemmel Moore!
Gemmel Moore!

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Gemmel Moore!
Gemmel Moore!

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Mysterious deaths sparking
protests in Los Angeles.

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Two gay Black men
died at his home.

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Two men have died
in that apartment

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in such a short amount of time.

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on methamphetamine.

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Found dead in the apartment

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of the political activist
and Democratic donor.

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tens of thousands of dollars

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to high-profile
Democratic candidates.

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Former governor Jerry Brown

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and Hillary Clinton.

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Whose name now is more
synonymous with the deaths

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of two men in his
West Hollywood apartment.

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A violent, dangerous
sexual predator.

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The Democratic Party donor
Ed Buck.

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Democratic donor Ed Buck.

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-Ed Buck.
-Ed Buck.

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-Ed Buck.
-Edward Buck.

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Who is Ed Buck?

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I will not claim to
know Ed Buck personally,

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because I don't
know him personally.

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But what he represents
and who he is,

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I don't want to
give him any power.

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What we need is...

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...for us to be able to identify
how we end up on doorsteps

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like men like Ed Buck.

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the excitations

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When I first met Ed,
he was very talkative.

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He had intelligence.

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I knew, or learned
shortly thereafter,

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he had run for governor
in the state of Arizona.

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I knew that he was a Republican,
and I'm not.

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I'm a Democrat.

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But the fact that
he'd run for office

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and almost took
Governor Mecham of Arizona out

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made him interesting to me.

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But he was out as a gay man,

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and if you move
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you're either gay or presumed
to be possibly gay.

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And so I think by
the time Ed got here,

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he intended this destination
to explore his sexuality.

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He was very involved with
the Democratic Party,

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the Democratic clubs,
the Stonewall Democratic Club.

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But his role
in West Hollywood government

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has been primarily
as a agitator.

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You know, he'd come to
council meetings on occasion

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and scream and yell
about development issues.

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That's what I recall.

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Now I'm wondering whether
some of those appearances

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before council were under
the influence of meth,

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because that sort of
anger and agitation

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and the sweaty brow,
the clenched fist,

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the teeth being gritted.

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I mean, now I recognize all
of that to be the symptoms

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of somebody under the
influence of amphetamine.

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Folks, a disturbing
story out of California,

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where pressure is now growing
on some Democratic politicians

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to return money from a
wealthy white party donor,

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following the death of a young
Black gay man at his home.

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26 year old Gemmel Moore
died on July 27th,

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at the West Hollywood apartment

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of prominent California donor
Ed Buck.

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Authorities rule that Moore died

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of an accidental
crystal meth overdose.

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But police are now
taking a closer look

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at what happened at Buck's
residence the night Moore died.

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And Moore's mother is openly
questioning whether Buck

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may have had something to
do with her son's death.

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Gemmel was scared.
He was scared of this man.

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He came and he laid
in my arms and he cried,

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and he was scared.

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He was scared that this man was
going to hurt him.

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And he went
to the police station,

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and they told him to go away.

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You know? They told --
They did not believe him.

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He called me in tears,

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crying that he didn't
want to be this person.

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He wrote a diary
saying that he did not,

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and he was scared
he was going to die.

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This man, he went
out there searching

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for other men that
were struggling

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and on the streets
and had no money, you know?

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And I mean, men who had never
experienced drugs before.

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There's a lot of things that
I would go out there and do

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for $600 and then another $600.

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Oh, you know, "I'll do it again.

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I'll give you $1,200
if you do it again."

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This is what Ed Buck
said to him,

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It's easy money.

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But it's not.

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It's not, and we are
allowing people in power

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to pay for our lives

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and to take them away
with their money.

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Ed Buck is a predator,

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that masqueraded around

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just to hunt down the bodies
of Black men.

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Someone that was
hiding in plain sight,

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masquerading under
the Democratic Party,

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masquerading around,
wanting to help people.

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Ed Buck was someone,

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and still in many ways
is likely someone,

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who still has money, access,
resources, and power.

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And even if he doesn't
necessarily have it,

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there's a transference of
his power to someone else.

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And so there wasn't
a doubt in my mind

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that America wasn't going
to hold him accountable

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because we have watched
America time and time again

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never hold their
own accountable

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for the things that they have
done to other groups of people

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who come from
communities that deal with

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the additional
marginalizations of race

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and queerness and any
other intersections,

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such as being poor.

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The indictment alleges
Buck solicited men

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through a recruiter

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or gay dating sites
like Adam4Adam

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to his apartment to
"party and play" --

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aka get high and have sex
and sometimes get paid.

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Seeking out men
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and providing them
food, shelter, and drugs

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are the signs of somebody
with a scheme in mind.

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It was only when
Timothy Dean happened,

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when there was a second death
in Ed Buck's apartment,

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where all of a sudden
everybody went, "Whoa, wait!"

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The news came on,

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and I seen it on the Internet.

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And so I text Tim,
and I was like, "Tim..."

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And his message went green.

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Investigators in California

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looking into the second death
of an African-American man

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in the home of Democratic
megadonor Ed Buck.

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The man now being identified
as 55-year-old Timothy Dean.

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He died of an apparent overdose.

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I miss that laugh.

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When he would come
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he'd tickle your sides or, you
know, give you this big hug,

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he'd smile at you.

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We used to call him
Too Much Drama.

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And he was, you know -- Tim Dean
was just larger than life.

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He had this personality that
you knew when he entered a room.

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You knew how he loved you
by the way that he treated you.

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I never knew that Tim was using

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until I started having
my battles with it.

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And you know, I talked to
Tim about that situation.

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And Tim in turn started
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things to look for, you know,

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his situations and things
that have gone on with him.

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That was Tim's way.

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He was always serving,
always honest, always open.

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About a month or so before,
we were at Gym Bar

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out here on Santa Monica.

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And, you know,
we had a conversation.

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We were just like,
"Can you believe

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that this
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and you know, there were
no repercussions from it?"

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And...

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He looked at me, and he said,

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"Promise me, don't you ever
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He's like, "I'm not
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and end up dead."

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All these people
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a second man dies in the
course of all of this.

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Was there ever a point --

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I mean,
if I found that you have this

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what could be used as
evidence, but now you can't,

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how does that make you feel?

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It's extremely frustrating,
because we as prosecutors,

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if we think someone is guilty,

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we want to do our
best to make sure

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that they're brought to justice.

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But our justice system is
based on testable evidence.

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-You know what I mean?
-Yeah.

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You can't bring
in a mob, a crowd,

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and say to the jury, "Well,
the mob says they're guilty,

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so you better convict."

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But the sad reality is that

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overdosing in West Hollywood,
tragically,

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I hate to tell people,
happens every month.

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I mean, every month
somebody O.D.s in an apartment

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in West Hollywood.

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So the fact that
somebody overdosed,

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I hate to say it,
is pretty common.

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There's just this
underlying messaging,

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like, "Overdosing happens.

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People use a lot
of drugs out here,

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people overdose,
it's just a thing that happens."

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I think, though,
that's very dismissive

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of what this
particular case was,

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especially because of
the power dynamics at play.

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You're talking about,
again, a rich white man,

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and a young, poor
Black queer man.

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I think that just speaks
volumes about where we are.

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And as long as we are Black,

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we are always going to
be harmed by a system.

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It is that additional
layer, though,

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of queerness that then puts
us in even more harm's way.

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It is not the person
who does not have.

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It is the person
who has everything

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and offers you everything with
this particular type of risk,

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i.e., the meth.

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And the sex.

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Those types of offers,

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a young, poor Black queer
person has to balance out,

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"Do I eat today?
Do I have shelter today?

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And do I engage in this
activity that may be dangerous,

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but at least I ate, at least
I had money in my pocket.

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At least I'm going to
be okay for a few days?"

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And that is why we
have to make sure

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that we are supportive
of the victim here.

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And even
at the community level,

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when we have community
interventions,

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it's about kind of
individuals coming together,

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to kind of try and change
bigger structures and systems.

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But that doesn't feel equitable,

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that doesn't speak
to the reasons

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why we see
disproportionate impacts,

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and it doesn't change
how all of these things

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are interconnected.

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So, we have to go
to the root of it.

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West Hollywood has
been a city since 1984.

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However, the place
known as West Hollywood,

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has been here for
a hundred years.

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And it's always been
a place for outliers,

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non-conforming people.

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All the speakeasies
and bathtub gin,

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and all the underground
nightclubs got formed up here

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on the Sunset Strip.

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And then during the 1940s,
the Rat Pack took over,

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Frank Sinatra
and Sammy Davis Jr.,

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and Don Rickles.

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In the 1950s,
communists and socialists

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and other social undesirables
began to flock here

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to be away from the patrol

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of the Los Angeles
Police Department.

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In the '60s,
it was the hippies

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and the Mamas and the Papas
and the flower children,

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and the anti-Vietnam War
protestors.

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And in the '70s, the gays
finally arrived in the '70s.

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This is the
face of Santa Monica Boulevard,

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that is familiar
to most outsiders.

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But the street also
has a private side,

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perceived by outsiders
only if it dawns on them

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that almost all of the
people they see here are men.

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For this area of West Hollywood
has become a gay ghetto,

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a sociological phenomenon
of these times.

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And the main street of the
homosexual community here

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is Santa Monica Boulevard.

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And it's always been a place
where you could be anything,

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do anything, Bohemia.

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But the reality is that
the city of West Hollywood

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is not as diverse as other
parts of Los Angeles County.

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Looking at West Hollywood's
racial makeup today,

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it's about 4% Black,
about 4% Asian,

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about 12% Latino,

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and everything else, 80%,
is white.

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It's funny that you
asked me this

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because the most overt racism
that I have ever experienced

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has been at the hands
of West Hollywood.

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The most.

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I'm talking about
in-your-face, N-word-type racism

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has been in West Hollywood.

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People who have run their
fingers through my hair

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without my consent.

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There's been finger waving,

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"I got an inner Black woman
in me," without my consent.

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And at nighttime,

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I'm not going to
even discredit it

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because West Hollywood
gets really fun at night,

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but I also know what
comes with that.

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Like, I've seen white
drag queens in blackface.

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So West Hollywood,
it doesn't feel safe to me.

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It feels safe in the daytime,
so to speak.

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Santa Monica Boulevard
grew into its own identity,

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mostly around LGBT culture.

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You know, the
"Historic Boys Town" District.

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And the reason it's
called Boys Town --

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I know that's offensive
to some people today --

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is that West Hollywood is
40% LGBT, but of that 40%,

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90% identify as gay
or bisexual men.

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So it is a city of, you know,
LGBT,

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but predominantly
white gay and bisexual men.

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I have a lot of friends
that are gay Black men.

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So I've also witnessed extreme
fetishism, like, extreme.

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Might as well place them
on a proverbial auction box,

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if you know what I mean.

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You go into a bar and a
lot of people ignore you,

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you know,
until they start drinking.

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And then after they done had
about three or four drinks,

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they approach you and go,

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"Oh, you're pretty
cute for a Black guy."

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Bitch! Is that supposed to
make me feel attractive?

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I knew I was a fine piece
of chocolate ass

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before I left out the house!

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Tell me something original,
you know?

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And it's, "Oh, I want
some of that Black cock."

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Ugh! Cock?

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Ain't no chickens running
around nowhere on me.

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And it's just like this
is supposed to turn me on

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and make me feel special,
you know, being fetishized.

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White men just grab.

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Just grab.

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I have been, like, walked up on
and kissed

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in the mouth before
by a white gay man.

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I mean, it's happened
once in front of friends

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who actually had to --

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like, two friends who
were cishet Black women,

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who literally had to,
like, tell the guy, like,

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"You don't do that."

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And literally his response was,

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"Oh, y'all aren't
in our community.

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This is what we do."

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And I just remember
in that moment,

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like, "That is really sad,

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because that is what
most people think."

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"This is what we do
in our community,

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and, like, we have the
license to touch other people

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in a way and to grab people
in their private areas."

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I think it happens
a lot of times

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in primarily
white-queer-dominated spaces,

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where they really, really think
they have ownership over us.

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And that's like
Fetishization 101 almost.

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But it is a historical element
to where this is coming from.

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Mandingo!
Purebred Mandingo.

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4,000!

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I'll pay more!
500 more!

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It might be linked
to the fetishism

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around Black and brown bodies.

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And this is historical.
It goes back to slavery.

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It's about the control and
manipulation of Black people.

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People could be sold
from their families.

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Men, women, and children
could be sexualized,

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sexually abused.

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You attacked me.

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So now, lessen you do
what I want...

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...I'm gonna tell him
everything.

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It links to issues
around segregation

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and the control of Black people
moving in spaces

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and white-only spaces
and Black-only spaces.

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I have watched
people in this country,

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generation after generation,
have this ownership

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and have this power over
this particular race.

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A white woman lies about a young
Black boy whistling at her,

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and he gets murdered.

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Like, we have seen time
and time and time again,

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what the reverse of that
fetishization looks like,

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00:24:07,533 --> 00:24:09,448
what a rejection of the
fetishization looks like,

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00:24:09,491 --> 00:24:12,320
what a lie around
fetishization looks like.

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00:24:15,366 --> 00:24:17,543
And it looks like our death.

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00:24:21,634 --> 00:24:23,940
And so Black trauma in America

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00:24:23,984 --> 00:24:25,855
I think is very much linked to

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00:24:25,899 --> 00:24:28,031
Black people's history
in this country.

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00:24:28,075 --> 00:24:31,165
And people don't really have
conversations around that.

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00:24:31,208 --> 00:24:32,688
Most people think that,

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00:24:32,732 --> 00:24:35,474
"Well, slavery was like
several hundred years ago

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00:24:35,517 --> 00:24:37,867
and people aren't still
affected by that."

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00:24:37,911 --> 00:24:39,521
But there are
generational things

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00:24:39,565 --> 00:24:41,958
I think have been
passed on to people,

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00:24:42,002 --> 00:24:45,092
that have never been
addressed around that trauma.

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00:24:47,311 --> 00:24:48,791
Whatever you kind of look at,

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00:24:48,835 --> 00:24:51,751
you see how these kinds
of systems of racism,

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00:24:51,794 --> 00:24:54,405
show up today in
our everyday life.

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00:24:54,449 --> 00:24:59,802
And there's no stronger example
of racial inequity,

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00:24:59,846 --> 00:25:02,544
racism, anti-Blackness
than health outcomes.

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00:25:07,288 --> 00:25:09,290
And if we're talking
about West Hollywood,

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00:25:09,333 --> 00:25:13,990
then HIV in particular really
shows the intersectionality

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00:25:14,034 --> 00:25:15,252
of oppression.

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In Los Angeles,

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we have higher cases in
some pretty specific areas.

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00:25:38,667 --> 00:25:40,974
You see it more
in West Hollywood.

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00:25:43,846 --> 00:25:46,501
A lot of that is 'cause we see
a lot of same-gender loving

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00:25:46,545 --> 00:25:49,460
and queer people living
in West Hollywood,

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00:25:49,504 --> 00:25:55,554
and we have higher numbers
of HIV and STDs

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00:25:55,597 --> 00:25:57,164
in that community,

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00:25:57,207 --> 00:26:00,080
not because people
are having more sex,

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00:26:00,123 --> 00:26:02,256
but because this is what
oppression looks like, right?

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00:26:02,299 --> 00:26:03,953
You kind of group people up,

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00:26:03,997 --> 00:26:07,478
and push them in the margins
further, further, further,

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00:26:07,522 --> 00:26:09,568
you have a smaller
group of people

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00:26:09,611 --> 00:26:11,395
where infection kind of happens.

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00:26:13,746 --> 00:26:16,052
10,000 people in West Hollywood

427
00:26:16,096 --> 00:26:17,663
and the surrounding
neighborhoods

428
00:26:17,706 --> 00:26:19,621
were lost in a 15-year period.

429
00:26:22,798 --> 00:26:24,800
That's unbelievable,

430
00:26:24,844 --> 00:26:27,411
if you think about
losing 10,000 people

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00:26:27,455 --> 00:26:30,327
in a place
that's 1.9 square miles.

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00:26:30,371 --> 00:26:32,982
I mean, it's like
a bomb got dropped

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00:26:33,026 --> 00:26:35,115
in the middle of a community.

434
00:26:42,557 --> 00:26:45,516
And so West Hollywood
has been at the forefront

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00:26:45,560 --> 00:26:48,084
in doing a lot of the pioneering
work around HIV and AIDS

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00:26:48,128 --> 00:26:49,564
since it's inception.

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00:26:49,608 --> 00:26:52,262
City was created in 1984, right?

438
00:26:52,306 --> 00:26:55,483
And so even though HIV
had been around since '81,

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00:26:55,526 --> 00:26:58,225
all the development of
the response to HIV,

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00:26:58,268 --> 00:27:01,620
a lot of it was based and
centered around West Hollywood.

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00:27:07,756 --> 00:27:11,586
When you look at
the city of West Hollywood,

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00:27:11,630 --> 00:27:13,675
or, you know,
more affluent areas,

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00:27:13,719 --> 00:27:16,722
more areas that are,
let's just say, white,

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00:27:16,765 --> 00:27:19,028
you see that the money
is going there,

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00:27:19,072 --> 00:27:21,117
and you see that
the resources are there.

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00:27:25,252 --> 00:27:27,602
But when you go to
South Los Angeles,

447
00:27:27,646 --> 00:27:30,692
and you can have those
same kinds of hot zones,

448
00:27:30,736 --> 00:27:32,215
for lack of a better word,

449
00:27:32,259 --> 00:27:33,956
there is not the dollar there,

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00:27:34,000 --> 00:27:36,959
there is not the enthusiasm
to really combat it

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00:27:37,003 --> 00:27:38,657
like you see in West Hollywood.

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00:27:39,962 --> 00:27:42,269
And so even though
West Hollywood's a red spot

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00:27:42,312 --> 00:27:45,359
and South L.A. is a red spot,

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00:27:45,402 --> 00:27:47,666
the experience is
very different.

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00:27:54,673 --> 00:27:57,676
When you have more HIV or
any type of infectious disease

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00:27:57,719 --> 00:27:59,852
in a community,
it's more likely to spread.

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00:28:01,680 --> 00:28:04,378
And then when you think about
kind of Black communities,

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00:28:04,421 --> 00:28:06,946
you think about
communities of color,

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00:28:06,989 --> 00:28:08,904
we are smaller in proportion,

460
00:28:08,948 --> 00:28:13,692
and we tend to associate
ourselves in smaller circles.

461
00:28:13,735 --> 00:28:16,129
So, most of my friends
are Black, right?

462
00:28:16,172 --> 00:28:17,783
That's a smaller
number of people.

463
00:28:17,826 --> 00:28:20,350
And so when you take an
infectious disease like HIV

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00:28:20,394 --> 00:28:24,006
and put it in a smaller circle,
it's going to move faster.

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00:28:24,050 --> 00:28:28,228
And this is the bigger
kind of 50,000-foot picture

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00:28:28,271 --> 00:28:32,928
of what centuries and centuries
of oppression

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00:28:32,972 --> 00:28:34,364
have looked like
for Black people.

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00:28:37,846 --> 00:28:39,761
When you look at
the history of health care,

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00:28:39,805 --> 00:28:43,765
especially Black folks
in the United States,

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00:28:43,809 --> 00:28:47,464
there has been no reason
to ever trust

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00:28:47,508 --> 00:28:48,988
the health-care system here.

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00:28:50,163 --> 00:28:52,556
Experiments were done to slaves.

473
00:28:53,949 --> 00:28:56,952
Experiments to
test out surgeries,

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00:28:56,996 --> 00:29:00,434
to test out the
removal of body parts

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00:29:00,477 --> 00:29:01,783
and attaching them
in other places,

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00:29:01,827 --> 00:29:03,263
and how the body would respond.

477
00:29:03,306 --> 00:29:05,874
Like, there've been a lot
of heinous things done

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00:29:05,918 --> 00:29:08,790
to Black folks in
the health-care arena

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00:29:08,834 --> 00:29:12,489
to "create breakthroughs."

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00:29:12,533 --> 00:29:15,188
But we were the people
who were used

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00:29:15,231 --> 00:29:17,233
for those breakthroughs.

482
00:29:19,366 --> 00:29:22,021
In 1932, America's
Public Health Service

483
00:29:22,064 --> 00:29:24,458
set out to study syphilis,

484
00:29:24,501 --> 00:29:27,026
but it pursued this
worthy goal in a manner

485
00:29:27,069 --> 00:29:29,463
that was irredeemably cruel --

486
00:29:29,506 --> 00:29:32,205
the infamous project called
"The Tuskegee Study

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00:29:32,248 --> 00:29:35,295
of Untreated Syphilis
in the Negro Male."

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00:29:35,338 --> 00:29:38,124
Several hundred
African-American men,

489
00:29:38,167 --> 00:29:40,517
men the Public Health Service
recruited

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00:29:40,561 --> 00:29:44,478
at churches and clinics and
farms, were used in the study.

491
00:29:44,521 --> 00:29:46,175
Most of these men had syphilis.

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00:29:46,219 --> 00:29:49,700
None of them knew their
bodies harbored this disease.

493
00:29:49,744 --> 00:29:51,267
And then
the Public Health Service

494
00:29:51,311 --> 00:29:53,530
followed the men's lives,

495
00:29:53,574 --> 00:29:55,576
watched how the
disease developed,

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00:29:55,619 --> 00:29:59,014
all the while
withholding medicine,

497
00:29:59,058 --> 00:30:01,669
withholding treatment
of any kind

498
00:30:01,712 --> 00:30:04,106
for these innocent
American citizens.

499
00:30:04,150 --> 00:30:08,937
Medical professionals willingly,
intentionally,

500
00:30:08,981 --> 00:30:12,245
let human beings suffer
from a treatable,

501
00:30:12,288 --> 00:30:15,291
and then later
a curable illness.

502
00:30:16,727 --> 00:30:20,122
The major cases, of something
like the Tuskegee,

503
00:30:20,166 --> 00:30:22,864
that is the one case
where everybody is like,

504
00:30:22,908 --> 00:30:24,431
"This is why we don't
necessarily trust

505
00:30:24,474 --> 00:30:25,736
when the vaccine comes out.

506
00:30:25,780 --> 00:30:27,129
This is why we don't
necessarily trust

507
00:30:27,173 --> 00:30:30,567
when anything new comes out,

508
00:30:30,611 --> 00:30:32,221
any new medication,
any new drug,

509
00:30:32,265 --> 00:30:34,484
any new procedure,
any new treatment comes out."

510
00:30:34,528 --> 00:30:39,054
And it is truly because
we remember that,

511
00:30:39,098 --> 00:30:41,578
and we remember
what was done to us.

512
00:30:42,579 --> 00:30:45,060
We were treated unfairly,

513
00:30:45,104 --> 00:30:47,889
to some extent
like Guinea pigs.

514
00:30:49,456 --> 00:30:55,592
We were all hardworking men
and not boys

515
00:30:55,636 --> 00:30:58,508
and citizens of
the United States.

516
00:30:58,552 --> 00:31:05,254
The wounds that were inflicted
upon us cannot be undone.

517
00:31:05,298 --> 00:31:07,735
Even if you wanted to
invest in your health care,

518
00:31:07,778 --> 00:31:11,652
there's a fear there,
a very real fear,

519
00:31:11,695 --> 00:31:13,610
because it is based
on truthful events

520
00:31:13,654 --> 00:31:15,221
and things that have happened.

521
00:31:15,264 --> 00:31:18,877
Men who were poor
and African-American,

522
00:31:18,920 --> 00:31:21,923
without resources
and with few alternatives,

523
00:31:21,967 --> 00:31:23,490
they believed
they had found hope

524
00:31:23,533 --> 00:31:26,014
when they were offered
free medical care

525
00:31:26,058 --> 00:31:29,713
by the United States
Public Health Service.

526
00:31:30,845 --> 00:31:32,238
They were betrayed.

527
00:31:37,025 --> 00:31:39,332
It's just embedded
into our culture

528
00:31:39,375 --> 00:31:42,813
to not seek medical attention
until the necessary moment

529
00:31:42,857 --> 00:31:44,685
to have to seek
medical attention.

530
00:31:44,728 --> 00:31:47,688
And so you have
that playing a role,

531
00:31:47,731 --> 00:31:50,256
but then you also have the fact
that if you just look

532
00:31:50,299 --> 00:31:53,999
at our socioeconomic status
in this country,

533
00:31:54,042 --> 00:31:57,219
we don't have the resources
to have annual checkups

534
00:31:57,263 --> 00:31:58,568
and annual physicals.

535
00:31:58,612 --> 00:32:00,222
Some of us don't have
health insurance.

536
00:32:00,266 --> 00:32:02,964
Some of us don't have
primary care doctors.

537
00:32:03,008 --> 00:32:05,532
So it's not even just
as simple as saying,

538
00:32:05,575 --> 00:32:08,622
"Oh, we don't trust
the health-care system."

539
00:32:09,884 --> 00:32:12,756
Many of us don't even
have the finances

540
00:32:12,800 --> 00:32:14,758
to even invest in
our own health.

541
00:32:17,500 --> 00:32:19,546
So, we're asking people to try

542
00:32:19,589 --> 00:32:22,418
and go through this
piecemeal system,

543
00:32:22,462 --> 00:32:24,943
on top of potentially
having genetics

544
00:32:24,986 --> 00:32:27,771
that kind of make you
predisposed to addiction,

545
00:32:27,815 --> 00:32:30,339
without social services
and other support systems

546
00:32:30,383 --> 00:32:33,864
that really respond to
these outcomes that,

547
00:32:33,908 --> 00:32:36,519
you know, are traumatizing.

548
00:32:38,217 --> 00:32:42,264
And this is why we see
people who abuse substances,

549
00:32:42,308 --> 00:32:45,180
or people who use
substances as well.

550
00:32:45,224 --> 00:32:46,660
You know, because,
"The shit is hard,

551
00:32:46,703 --> 00:32:48,227
so why wouldn't I
try and get something

552
00:32:48,270 --> 00:32:49,445
to make me feel better?"

553
00:32:58,715 --> 00:33:00,587
Methamphetamine, methedrine,

554
00:33:00,630 --> 00:33:03,720
which is known among
drug users as speed.

555
00:33:04,634 --> 00:33:07,594
The person who is using
this drug as a drug user

556
00:33:07,637 --> 00:33:12,164
will smack or mainline --
that is, take intravenously --

557
00:33:12,207 --> 00:33:14,427
a thousand milligrams,

558
00:33:14,470 --> 00:33:19,388
100 times the dose that
any person would give

559
00:33:19,432 --> 00:33:22,522
in the medical use
of this kind of drug.

560
00:33:22,565 --> 00:33:27,135
Causes a fantastic
speeding up of the mind.

561
00:33:28,093 --> 00:33:29,442
At the same time,

562
00:33:29,485 --> 00:33:31,226
his heart is beating
at a fantastic rate,

563
00:33:31,270 --> 00:33:34,055
maybe in excess of
150 beats a minute,

564
00:33:34,099 --> 00:33:35,970
normal being 72.

565
00:33:36,014 --> 00:33:37,493
As this drug begins to wear off,

566
00:33:37,537 --> 00:33:39,756
there's a tremendous
psychic reaction,

567
00:33:39,800 --> 00:33:42,455
so the person becomes
markedly depressed,

568
00:33:42,498 --> 00:33:43,891
severely depressed,

569
00:33:43,934 --> 00:33:46,285
which in itself is
enough reason for him

570
00:33:46,328 --> 00:33:48,374
to want to take more drugs.

571
00:33:50,767 --> 00:33:52,552
Back then it was
called crank.

572
00:33:52,595 --> 00:33:56,643
It's associated in the gay
community as a sex drug.

573
00:33:56,686 --> 00:34:00,908
So if somebody is wanting to
party and play for days on end,

574
00:34:00,951 --> 00:34:03,345
notwithstanding the
fact nobody can maintain

575
00:34:03,389 --> 00:34:05,130
any sort of erection for days,

576
00:34:05,173 --> 00:34:08,176
but still the party and play
atmosphere of using that drug

577
00:34:08,220 --> 00:34:12,137
in those sexual scenarios
just feeds the beast.

578
00:34:15,923 --> 00:34:18,621
McInjecting drugs for
the purpose of having sex.

579
00:34:25,541 --> 00:34:29,458
You party, and you all
do different types of drugs

580
00:34:29,502 --> 00:34:30,677
like crystal meth.

581
00:34:31,852 --> 00:34:34,855
When you see the large "T"
for Tina.

582
00:34:34,898 --> 00:34:37,292
Sometimes you'll see, like
I said, like blue elephants,

583
00:34:37,336 --> 00:34:40,426
and you'll see things
that indicate Ecstasy,

584
00:34:40,469 --> 00:34:43,994
or things that indicate
Molly usage or pill usage.

585
00:34:44,038 --> 00:34:48,651
Getting high on any various
amounts of these drugs

586
00:34:48,695 --> 00:34:52,264
and having sex for hours.

587
00:35:13,981 --> 00:35:17,245
There's a high, there's
a moment that one chases.

588
00:35:19,204 --> 00:35:23,033
There's a moment when
I'm either high or drunk

589
00:35:23,077 --> 00:35:25,210
where the world seems
to suddenly make sense

590
00:35:25,253 --> 00:35:27,429
and everything falls into place.

591
00:35:27,473 --> 00:35:28,648
It's that one moment.

592
00:35:28,691 --> 00:35:29,953
It can be on a dance floor,

593
00:35:29,997 --> 00:35:31,651
it can be in the
middle of an orgy,

594
00:35:31,694 --> 00:35:33,957
it can be in the middle
of a sexual scenario.

595
00:35:35,698 --> 00:35:38,310
For me, when I used to get
drunk or high, was at Gay Pride.

596
00:35:38,353 --> 00:35:41,400
When I was out on the dance
floor with 2,000 people,

597
00:35:41,443 --> 00:35:44,359
LGBT of every stripe
in the community,

598
00:35:44,403 --> 00:35:45,795
and the bass was pounding

599
00:35:45,839 --> 00:35:48,668
and everybody was moving
like a tribe, right?

600
00:35:48,711 --> 00:35:51,366
Like a tribe of people,
and there was no difference.

601
00:35:51,410 --> 00:35:53,325
That's the moment for me,

602
00:35:53,368 --> 00:35:56,632
that connection
to a tribe of community.

603
00:35:59,548 --> 00:36:02,551
And, you know, you think
you're having fun with it,

604
00:36:02,595 --> 00:36:04,858
but you also didn't
want people to know

605
00:36:04,901 --> 00:36:08,383
that you're doing this
and that you're partying,

606
00:36:08,427 --> 00:36:11,560
you're having sex,
and you're into this world,

607
00:36:11,604 --> 00:36:14,215
because of everything
else going on around you.

608
00:36:21,091 --> 00:36:23,790
Crystal meth, to me,
was Middle America,

609
00:36:23,833 --> 00:36:25,270
"We ain't got nothing to do.

610
00:36:25,313 --> 00:36:26,880
And we're gonna hit this pipe,

611
00:36:26,923 --> 00:36:29,143
and carrying on with our lives."

612
00:36:29,187 --> 00:36:33,321
When I heard that it was
affecting my community,

613
00:36:33,365 --> 00:36:35,236
and even in the way it was,

614
00:36:35,280 --> 00:36:39,545
with sex work, even intimacy,

615
00:36:39,588 --> 00:36:44,071
it broke my heart
because I knew,

616
00:36:44,114 --> 00:36:47,248
coming from a place
who has had issues

617
00:36:47,292 --> 00:36:50,512
with dealing with family
and friends, with sexuality,

618
00:36:50,556 --> 00:36:53,123
that it was coming
from a place of hurt.

619
00:36:53,167 --> 00:36:55,430
And the fact that
sex was involved,

620
00:36:55,474 --> 00:36:57,780
some people are seeking
some type of intimacy

621
00:36:57,824 --> 00:37:00,261
they didn't get from
mommy and daddy.

622
00:37:00,305 --> 00:37:03,482
It's a myriad of factors just
relating back to surviving

623
00:37:03,525 --> 00:37:07,486
and relating to just trying to
get through their day-to-day

624
00:37:07,529 --> 00:37:10,924
and deal with the social factors
that come with being gay,

625
00:37:10,967 --> 00:37:12,447
with being Black in America.

626
00:37:17,017 --> 00:37:19,367
There are issues that
are not being processed

627
00:37:19,411 --> 00:37:21,326
around sexual orientation.

628
00:37:21,369 --> 00:37:23,415
And the Black
community historically

629
00:37:23,458 --> 00:37:25,678
has had problems with that.

630
00:37:25,721 --> 00:37:30,291
But before we get so
aggressive in our chastisements

631
00:37:30,335 --> 00:37:32,815
or, you know, put them in some
kind of program or whatever,

632
00:37:32,859 --> 00:37:36,819
we need to understand
the why, the root cause.

633
00:37:50,485 --> 00:37:52,835
Many people grow up
in the Black church.

634
00:37:52,879 --> 00:37:56,622
In the Black church, people
don't necessarily believe

635
00:37:56,665 --> 00:37:57,927
that that's condoned.

636
00:37:57,971 --> 00:37:59,538
They see that as two
different issues.

637
00:37:59,581 --> 00:38:02,280
They don't see
the LGBT community

638
00:38:02,323 --> 00:38:03,759
or people that are part of it

639
00:38:03,803 --> 00:38:06,196
as part of the Black community,
necessarily.

640
00:38:06,240 --> 00:38:08,155
That perverted
homosexual spirit

641
00:38:08,198 --> 00:38:10,766
is a spirit of delusion
and confusion

642
00:38:10,810 --> 00:38:13,291
and it has deceived
many men and women!

643
00:38:13,334 --> 00:38:15,945
And it's caused a stain
on the body of Christ.

644
00:38:15,989 --> 00:38:18,208
And those homosexual spirits
have been angry,

645
00:38:18,252 --> 00:38:19,558
and they come up
against you, saying,

646
00:38:19,601 --> 00:38:20,776
"You got to love everybody."

647
00:38:20,820 --> 00:38:22,430
Sit down, you serpent!

648
00:38:22,474 --> 00:38:24,867
Come on! Talk!

649
00:38:24,911 --> 00:38:27,696
And there's a lot of shame
and guilt around being gay,

650
00:38:27,740 --> 00:38:30,569
for many people who've
not processed that,

651
00:38:30,612 --> 00:38:32,179
because of family rejection,

652
00:38:32,222 --> 00:38:35,095
community rejection,
religious issues.

653
00:38:37,402 --> 00:38:39,882
And so they come into
these relationships,

654
00:38:39,926 --> 00:38:42,537
and in order to function,

655
00:38:42,581 --> 00:38:45,323
whether it's like a hookup
or a relationship,

656
00:38:45,366 --> 00:38:47,063
they have to be intoxicated

657
00:38:47,107 --> 00:38:48,587
in order to connect
to that person.

658
00:38:53,679 --> 00:38:54,897
When they use drugs,

659
00:38:54,941 --> 00:38:57,073
it helps them to
overcome that hump,

660
00:38:57,117 --> 00:38:59,206
overcome the shame
they may feel.

661
00:38:59,249 --> 00:39:01,513
So, I have seen
a huge correlation

662
00:39:01,556 --> 00:39:04,516
between drug use and sex work.

663
00:39:16,179 --> 00:39:19,313
I had an individual that
I mentored for years,

664
00:39:19,357 --> 00:39:22,229
and this person disappeared.

665
00:39:22,272 --> 00:39:24,405
And when the person resurfaced,
you know,

666
00:39:24,449 --> 00:39:25,928
they shared that they had been

667
00:39:25,972 --> 00:39:27,626
working the block
or working the street.

668
00:39:27,669 --> 00:39:30,106
And when I inquired,
"Well, what happened?"

669
00:39:30,150 --> 00:39:33,501
it was no judgment, they shared
that they engage in sex work

670
00:39:33,545 --> 00:39:35,373
because it makes
them feel loved.

671
00:39:38,158 --> 00:39:40,552
This person said that,
"When I'm on the street

672
00:39:40,595 --> 00:39:43,772
and when someone picks me up
and pays me and holds me

673
00:39:43,816 --> 00:39:45,644
and we have sex, I feel loved.

674
00:39:45,687 --> 00:39:47,646
I feel like I matter."

675
00:39:47,689 --> 00:39:51,519
And knowing that this
person grew up in a home

676
00:39:51,563 --> 00:39:54,827
that kicked them out because
of their sexual identity,

677
00:39:54,870 --> 00:39:56,350
that kind of shunned them,
you know,

678
00:39:56,394 --> 00:39:59,135
it was a religious background --
shocking --

679
00:39:59,179 --> 00:40:01,355
I thought that was
a huge statement,

680
00:40:01,399 --> 00:40:03,966
to know that someone
is engaging in sex work

681
00:40:04,010 --> 00:40:05,707
not because they
don't have money,

682
00:40:05,751 --> 00:40:08,057
not because they're
trying to survive,

683
00:40:08,101 --> 00:40:11,147
but because they want to
have some level of intimacy

684
00:40:11,191 --> 00:40:13,454
with an individual
that needs them.

685
00:40:26,772 --> 00:40:32,038
I was not aware of what
went on in West Hollywood.

686
00:40:34,867 --> 00:40:38,784
I was not aware of white gay men
using crystal meth

687
00:40:38,827 --> 00:40:41,177
to bait young Black gay men

688
00:40:41,221 --> 00:40:43,963
and use them as their
little toys or whatever.

689
00:40:44,006 --> 00:40:46,052
I was not aware of all of that.

690
00:40:49,098 --> 00:40:51,013
And it's just proof that,

691
00:40:51,057 --> 00:40:53,842
just because we say
we're in the fight

692
00:40:53,886 --> 00:40:56,584
or say that we're out there
being advocates,

693
00:40:56,628 --> 00:40:58,499
our eyes are not everywhere.

694
00:40:59,718 --> 00:41:04,505
And unfortunately with Gemmel,
he lost his life as a result.

695
00:41:04,549 --> 00:41:06,812
This is something that
shouldn't have happened.

696
00:41:11,469 --> 00:41:12,687
It just shouldn't have happened.

697
00:41:12,731 --> 00:41:15,081
My son filed police reports.

698
00:41:16,082 --> 00:41:18,606
He cried out to so many people,

699
00:41:18,650 --> 00:41:21,304
and we all failed him.

700
00:41:29,182 --> 00:41:31,750
There is no such thing
as a Black victim.

701
00:41:31,793 --> 00:41:35,057
So, you know, you kind of
got to start from there.

702
00:41:35,101 --> 00:41:37,712
Like, what is a Black
victim in this country?

703
00:41:39,888 --> 00:41:41,542
-- What do you want?
-- Justice!

704
00:41:41,586 --> 00:41:43,413
-- When do you want it?
-- Now!

705
00:41:43,457 --> 00:41:44,806
-- What do you want?
-- Justice!

706
00:41:44,850 --> 00:41:48,723
-- When do you want it?
-- Now!

707
00:41:48,767 --> 00:41:52,684
No justice, no peace!

708
00:41:52,727 --> 00:41:55,295
No racist police!

709
00:41:55,338 --> 00:41:57,819
Gemmel Moore! Gemmel Moore!

710
00:41:57,863 --> 00:42:00,648
Gemmel Moore!
Gemmel Moore!

711
00:42:00,692 --> 00:42:03,521
Gemmel Moore!
Gemmel Moore!

712
00:42:03,564 --> 00:42:06,349
Gemmel Moore!
Gemmel Moore!

713
00:42:06,393 --> 00:42:09,135
Gemmel Moore!
Gemmel Moore!

714
00:42:09,178 --> 00:42:13,139
Gemmel Moore!
Gemmel Moore!

715
00:42:13,182 --> 00:42:18,274
Society has never stood up for,
again, a Black victim.

716
00:42:18,318 --> 00:42:21,626
And so I think you
can just easily shift

717
00:42:21,669 --> 00:42:24,846
that whole framing to
this same situation.

718
00:42:24,890 --> 00:42:29,808
Had Ed Buck's victim had
been a white gay man,

719
00:42:29,851 --> 00:42:32,375
not only would you have had

720
00:42:32,419 --> 00:42:34,726
just people up in arms about it,

721
00:42:34,769 --> 00:42:36,728
but you probably would
have seen a lot of those

722
00:42:36,771 --> 00:42:42,168
white-centered LGBT orgs
have more statements about it.

723
00:42:42,211 --> 00:42:43,909
When it comes to the death
of Gemmel Moore,

724
00:42:43,952 --> 00:42:45,606
and the media coverage,

725
00:42:45,650 --> 00:42:47,913
I think a lot of it had to
do with just his connections

726
00:42:47,956 --> 00:42:50,785
in the community
that Ed Buck was not aware of.

727
00:42:50,829 --> 00:42:52,874
Gemmel was known,
Gemmel was loved,

728
00:42:52,918 --> 00:42:56,704
and Gemmel had some very
influential people in his life

729
00:42:56,748 --> 00:42:58,227
that were going to do
what they had to do

730
00:42:58,271 --> 00:43:00,969
to make sure that his
death was not in vain.

731
00:43:01,013 --> 00:43:03,885
Had it not been for Gemmel
and his connections

732
00:43:03,929 --> 00:43:05,626
and who he knew,

733
00:43:05,670 --> 00:43:08,629
this whole situation would
have been swept under the rug,

734
00:43:08,673 --> 00:43:12,764
and it would have happened
again and again and again.

735
00:43:12,807 --> 00:43:15,636
Arrest Ed Buck!
Arrest Ed Buck!

736
00:43:15,680 --> 00:43:19,814
Arrest Ed Buck!
Arrest Ed Buck!

737
00:43:19,858 --> 00:43:21,642
Ed Buck is behind bars

738
00:43:21,686 --> 00:43:23,470
after his arrest overnight.

739
00:43:23,513 --> 00:43:26,168
Buck taken away in handcuffs,

740
00:43:26,212 --> 00:43:28,344
charged with
operating a drug den

741
00:43:28,388 --> 00:43:30,259
out of his West Hollywood home

742
00:43:30,303 --> 00:43:32,044
and providing methamphetamine.

743
00:43:32,087 --> 00:43:35,656
First off, I would like to thank
U.S. Attorney Nick Hanna

744
00:43:35,700 --> 00:43:38,354
and Sheriff Alex Villanueva

745
00:43:38,398 --> 00:43:40,661
for their interagency effort,

746
00:43:40,705 --> 00:43:43,272
which has now culminated
with the arrest

747
00:43:43,316 --> 00:43:47,276
and subsequent filing charges
against defendant Buck.

748
00:44:06,426 --> 00:44:09,385
Unfortunately we can't
bring those Black men back,

749
00:44:09,429 --> 00:44:12,562
but the reality of it is
they're getting the justice

750
00:44:12,606 --> 00:44:13,694
that they deserve.

751
00:44:15,130 --> 00:44:18,090
They are getting the justice
that needs to be served.

752
00:44:23,748 --> 00:44:26,664
The problem with
that is, though, is that

753
00:44:26,707 --> 00:44:28,927
we shouldn't only show up
in their death,

754
00:44:28,970 --> 00:44:31,538
and we shouldn't only
show up in their violence.

755
00:44:31,581 --> 00:44:33,496
We should be showing up
in their life.

756
00:44:36,761 --> 00:44:40,547
People were so fixated on
getting this man in jail,

757
00:44:40,590 --> 00:44:43,942
without addressing
the heap of issues

758
00:44:43,985 --> 00:44:45,813
that are also
involved in this case.

759
00:44:47,467 --> 00:44:50,557
The more further down on
the totem pole you are

760
00:44:50,600 --> 00:44:54,126
when it comes to
being marginalized,

761
00:44:54,169 --> 00:44:56,519
the less your body is valued.

762
00:44:56,563 --> 00:45:01,350
And this had so many components
when it came to sex work,

763
00:45:01,394 --> 00:45:04,658
when it came to drug addiction,
when it came to race,

764
00:45:04,702 --> 00:45:07,617
when it came to gender identity,
when it came to sexuality.

765
00:45:09,054 --> 00:45:11,186
This wasn't just a death.

766
00:45:12,231 --> 00:45:14,450
All of these issues
played a role,

767
00:45:14,494 --> 00:45:16,757
in Timothy and Gemmel's fate.

768
00:45:16,801 --> 00:45:19,238
And they're plaguing
our community,

769
00:45:19,281 --> 00:45:22,850
not just for gay men,
not just for Black gay men,

770
00:45:22,894 --> 00:45:26,506
but our transgender
brothers and sisters

771
00:45:26,549 --> 00:45:29,161
who are right in front of
our faces in our communities

772
00:45:29,204 --> 00:45:31,554
and in your community
all over the world.

773
00:45:32,468 --> 00:45:36,908
Transgender people are being
murdered, and nobody cares.

774
00:45:44,742 --> 00:45:48,571
Everybody needs someone
to make them feel superior.

775
00:45:48,615 --> 00:45:50,486
That line ends with us, though.

776
00:45:50,530 --> 00:45:53,098
The shit runs downhill,
past the women,

777
00:45:53,141 --> 00:45:55,317
the Blacks, Latins, gays,

778
00:45:55,361 --> 00:45:58,146
until it reaches the bottom
and lands on our kind.

779
00:45:59,974 --> 00:46:02,150
I have been to jail!

780
00:46:02,194 --> 00:46:06,807
I been raped and beaten
many times

781
00:46:06,851 --> 00:46:10,768
by men, heterosexual men!

782
00:46:10,811 --> 00:46:15,337
I have lost my job,
I have lost my apartment

783
00:46:15,381 --> 00:46:16,643
for gay liberation!

784
00:46:16,686 --> 00:46:19,167
And you all treat me this way?!

785
00:46:19,211 --> 00:46:21,779
What the fuck's wrong
with you all?

786
00:46:21,822 --> 00:46:23,998
Think about that!

787
00:46:24,042 --> 00:46:25,957
And investigators
are looking into a hate crime

788
00:46:26,000 --> 00:46:28,220
after three transgender women
were attacked,

789
00:46:28,263 --> 00:46:29,830
and one allegedly robbed.

790
00:46:29,874 --> 00:46:32,006
The victims say,
instead of helping them,

791
00:46:32,050 --> 00:46:33,529
witnesses mocked them.

792
00:46:33,573 --> 00:46:35,183
Hate crimes directed

793
00:46:35,227 --> 00:46:39,274
at transgender individuals
increased 42% in one year.

794
00:46:39,318 --> 00:46:41,581
Two men have been
arrested in the murders

795
00:46:41,624 --> 00:46:43,844
of two transgender women
this month.

796
00:46:43,888 --> 00:46:46,368
We're getting a first look
at one of the suspects.

797
00:46:46,412 --> 00:46:48,849
This is Dontarius Long.

798
00:46:48,893 --> 00:46:50,546
Jaida Peterson
was shot and killed

799
00:46:50,590 --> 00:46:53,114
outside this Quality Inn
on Queen City Drive.

800
00:46:53,158 --> 00:46:55,464
With the support of
the LBGT community,

801
00:46:55,508 --> 00:46:57,031
support of the
Richmond Police Department,

802
00:46:57,075 --> 00:46:58,685
as you can see out here
with the community,

803
00:46:58,728 --> 00:47:00,556
we're going to continue
to keep looking.

804
00:47:00,600 --> 00:47:02,863
And all those who love the Lord
would say amen!

805
00:47:02,907 --> 00:47:04,473
Amen!

806
00:47:25,973 --> 00:47:27,670
There was nothing
for me coming up.

807
00:47:28,802 --> 00:47:31,892
There was no sisterhood
of trans organizations.

808
00:47:31,936 --> 00:47:35,156
There were no clubs that
really catered to people

809
00:47:35,200 --> 00:47:37,898
that I identify with.

810
00:47:37,942 --> 00:47:40,727
And that in itself
speaks volumes.

811
00:47:40,770 --> 00:47:44,122
So it takes entertainment for
someone to take us seriously,

812
00:47:44,165 --> 00:47:46,124
but this subject matter
has been going on

813
00:47:46,167 --> 00:47:47,560
since the beginning of time.

814
00:47:47,603 --> 00:47:50,563
And to be honest with you,
it is, as we say,

815
00:47:50,606 --> 00:47:52,391
at the bottom of the totem pole.

816
00:47:52,434 --> 00:47:56,264
It is the community that needs
the most help, the most help.

817
00:47:56,308 --> 00:47:59,050
Any one of us could've
had this card in life.

818
00:47:59,093 --> 00:48:00,921
Any one of our family members
could have had

819
00:48:00,965 --> 00:48:02,531
this card in life.

820
00:48:02,575 --> 00:48:06,231
Any one of us can still
have this card in life.

821
00:48:06,274 --> 00:48:10,670
There should be just as
much energy from Black people

822
00:48:10,713 --> 00:48:12,541
from the LGBT community

823
00:48:12,585 --> 00:48:14,717
that are out there
protesting for Gemmel Moore,

824
00:48:14,761 --> 00:48:17,459
Timothy Dean,
all those people.

825
00:48:17,503 --> 00:48:21,550
And it seems to fall short
when it comes to

826
00:48:21,594 --> 00:48:23,030
the lower you are

827
00:48:23,074 --> 00:48:26,425
in the marginalized identities
that you hold.

828
00:48:28,427 --> 00:48:33,040
When it comes to
the Black community

829
00:48:33,084 --> 00:48:38,219
showing up for
the Black trans community...

830
00:48:40,787 --> 00:48:42,876
...do I believe that
they're showing up?

831
00:48:48,012 --> 00:48:51,058
No. No.

832
00:48:51,102 --> 00:48:52,364
I have a friend
who identifies,

833
00:48:52,407 --> 00:48:53,887
he's Puerto Rican and Black,

834
00:48:53,931 --> 00:48:57,325
a gay male, engaged to a man.

835
00:48:57,369 --> 00:48:59,414
And we've had conversations
around his support

836
00:48:59,458 --> 00:49:02,678
of the current
presidential administration

837
00:49:02,722 --> 00:49:05,464
and their war on LGBT people

838
00:49:05,507 --> 00:49:09,250
and their beginnings
with the trans community.

839
00:49:09,294 --> 00:49:10,860
And his response was,

840
00:49:10,904 --> 00:49:13,863
"Well, they're not part
of the LGBT community."

841
00:49:13,907 --> 00:49:15,517
Like, "What are you talking
about? They're the 'T.'"

842
00:49:15,561 --> 00:49:17,955
Like, that doesn't make
any kind of sense to me.

843
00:49:21,567 --> 00:49:24,178
Does the LGB community
support the "T"?

844
00:49:24,222 --> 00:49:25,353
No.

845
00:49:26,920 --> 00:49:28,139
That was the answer.

846
00:49:30,315 --> 00:49:32,186
As a Black gay man,

847
00:49:32,230 --> 00:49:36,538
I find it funny
that so many of us

848
00:49:36,582 --> 00:49:40,499
do not really get involved
in transgender issues.

849
00:49:40,542 --> 00:49:44,242
We don't really take the time
to understand the challenges,

850
00:49:44,285 --> 00:49:45,983
the struggles, the obstacles.

851
00:49:47,897 --> 00:49:50,857
I oftentimes think about
my challenges, you know,

852
00:49:50,900 --> 00:49:53,338
with with cisgender
heterosexual men

853
00:49:53,381 --> 00:49:55,340
and them understanding
my gayness.

854
00:49:55,383 --> 00:49:59,387
The same grace should be
extended to transgender persons,

855
00:49:59,431 --> 00:50:01,476
especially transgender
persons of color.

856
00:50:03,478 --> 00:50:07,091
I was on set, and there
was a group of male dancers

857
00:50:07,134 --> 00:50:09,049
that didn't know my truth.

858
00:50:09,093 --> 00:50:11,965
They didn't know that I was
a woman of trans experience.

859
00:50:13,314 --> 00:50:15,403
And some of the other dancers
that were there

860
00:50:15,447 --> 00:50:17,840
that did identify as gay

861
00:50:17,884 --> 00:50:21,888
had basically disclosed
my truth to these people,

862
00:50:21,931 --> 00:50:23,411
which could have put me
in harm's way,

863
00:50:23,455 --> 00:50:25,457
which could have caused
me to be hurt,

864
00:50:25,500 --> 00:50:27,111
you know,
in the parking lot.

865
00:50:27,154 --> 00:50:31,158
At the end of lunch,
that entire room had shifted.

866
00:50:31,202 --> 00:50:32,768
No one was talking to me.

867
00:50:32,812 --> 00:50:34,814
People were saying
little remarks to me,

868
00:50:34,857 --> 00:50:37,425
and I saw those
gay men snickering.

869
00:50:41,429 --> 00:50:44,084
And I think that a lot
of cisgender people

870
00:50:44,128 --> 00:50:47,131
think there we're
all this happy family

871
00:50:47,174 --> 00:50:48,958
under this beautiful rainbow.

872
00:50:50,656 --> 00:50:53,050
And it's not -- it's not true.

873
00:51:01,841 --> 00:51:05,540
We weren't necessarily
raised to feel

874
00:51:05,584 --> 00:51:07,151
that we belonged
in this community.

875
00:51:07,194 --> 00:51:11,677
So a lot of times you learn
these tactics of survival

876
00:51:11,720 --> 00:51:14,549
that aren't necessarily healthy,

877
00:51:14,593 --> 00:51:18,075
for, you know,
the simple fact of surviving,

878
00:51:18,118 --> 00:51:20,425
for the simple fact of not being
able to be hired somewhere.

879
00:51:28,172 --> 00:51:30,304
So what are you going to do?

880
00:51:30,348 --> 00:51:33,655
If you're being discriminated
against because of who you are

881
00:51:33,699 --> 00:51:36,963
and no one will hire you,
but you still need to eat,

882
00:51:37,006 --> 00:51:39,792
your natural instinct
to survive will kick in.

883
00:51:39,835 --> 00:51:41,924
And what do you have?
You have your body.

884
00:51:43,187 --> 00:51:44,753
I'm a prostitute.

885
00:51:46,929 --> 00:51:50,150
And, but I'm taking
care of myself.

886
00:51:50,194 --> 00:51:52,500
We're all prostitutes.

887
00:51:52,544 --> 00:51:54,067
It's a fact.

888
00:51:54,111 --> 00:51:56,852
That's what mainly most
of these transsexuals --

889
00:51:56,896 --> 00:52:01,335
not most, all -- start off
prostituting, you know,

890
00:52:01,379 --> 00:52:05,078
making money out here
to support themselves.

891
00:52:05,122 --> 00:52:06,558
It's the truth.

892
00:52:06,601 --> 00:52:08,168
You know, you can joke
off of it here and there,

893
00:52:08,212 --> 00:52:09,648
and stuff like that,
but it's the truth,

894
00:52:09,691 --> 00:52:11,171
and you go through
a lot of danger,

895
00:52:11,215 --> 00:52:13,695
but it's just a fact of life

896
00:52:13,739 --> 00:52:18,091
being for the discrimination
out in the world.

897
00:52:18,135 --> 00:52:21,181
No matter how lovely you can
be, you know what I mean,

898
00:52:21,225 --> 00:52:24,141
how real, how beautiful
you can be,

899
00:52:24,184 --> 00:52:26,360
you will always be discriminated
for the simple fact

900
00:52:26,404 --> 00:52:28,145
that you're a transsexual.

901
00:52:29,798 --> 00:52:32,105
I felt like
I could not get a job

902
00:52:32,149 --> 00:52:33,715
because I was transgender,

903
00:52:33,759 --> 00:52:36,240
because there's a phobia
when it comes to transgenders.

904
00:52:37,328 --> 00:52:39,895
And it held me back
for a long time.

905
00:52:39,939 --> 00:52:42,768
I had surrendered to the
fact that, "You know what?

906
00:52:42,811 --> 00:52:47,773
I'm just going to
be a sex worker and just...

907
00:52:47,816 --> 00:52:49,209
Like, this is it."

908
00:52:49,253 --> 00:52:54,171
I really came to that
point of just surrender.

909
00:52:54,214 --> 00:52:56,303
"I'm going to do drugs,

910
00:52:56,347 --> 00:52:57,826
and I'm gonna prostitute.

911
00:52:57,870 --> 00:52:59,176
That's it."

912
00:53:03,267 --> 00:53:06,574
I filled out numerous
applications for places.

913
00:53:07,662 --> 00:53:10,448
And I had an interview
at Victoria's Secret.

914
00:53:12,101 --> 00:53:15,061
But Victoria's Secret
told me that

915
00:53:15,104 --> 00:53:17,019
they would not call
me by my girl name.

916
00:53:17,063 --> 00:53:19,500
They're going to call
me by the I.D. I had

917
00:53:19,544 --> 00:53:22,851
prior to the application.

918
00:53:24,288 --> 00:53:27,378
And I told them, "No,
you will not call me that."

919
00:53:27,421 --> 00:53:30,163
And I done did
this over and over,

920
00:53:30,207 --> 00:53:32,687
and ended up, like,
finding sex work.

921
00:53:32,731 --> 00:53:36,604
A friend told me about it,
and the money was great,

922
00:53:36,648 --> 00:53:37,953
and that's what I did.

923
00:53:45,004 --> 00:53:47,136
Being a Black trans woman
in the music industry,

924
00:53:47,180 --> 00:53:51,140
I've faced countless
examples of discrimination.

925
00:53:51,184 --> 00:53:53,099
One particular
was that I was invited

926
00:53:53,142 --> 00:53:55,406
into a producing-writing room,

927
00:53:55,449 --> 00:54:00,019
and it was just me and
this well-known producer

928
00:54:00,062 --> 00:54:01,281
at the time.

929
00:54:01,325 --> 00:54:03,196
I was just happy
to be in the space,

930
00:54:03,240 --> 00:54:06,460
to be presented
that opportunity.

931
00:54:06,504 --> 00:54:08,984
But then I realized
that that said producer

932
00:54:09,028 --> 00:54:12,727
did not know the fullness
of my existence,

933
00:54:12,771 --> 00:54:14,163
which means he did not know

934
00:54:14,207 --> 00:54:16,514
that I was a powerful
Black trans woman.

935
00:54:16,557 --> 00:54:19,865
And I saw the switch

936
00:54:19,908 --> 00:54:22,476
soon as I divulged
more of my truth.

937
00:54:22,520 --> 00:54:23,999
My talent went out the door,

938
00:54:24,043 --> 00:54:26,175
singing ability
went out the door.

939
00:54:26,219 --> 00:54:28,352
My production ability
went out the door,

940
00:54:28,395 --> 00:54:32,443
all on the notion
of understanding

941
00:54:32,486 --> 00:54:34,271
because I was
a Black trans woman.

942
00:54:41,147 --> 00:54:44,455
I had really hit a bottom
in downtown L.A.

943
00:54:47,240 --> 00:54:49,982
And I remember
sliding down the wall,

944
00:54:50,025 --> 00:54:52,245
and I was like, "Is this
where my life is going to go?"

945
00:54:54,465 --> 00:54:55,553
And...

946
00:54:58,207 --> 00:55:01,036
I was just like, "No, I just
can't be on the streets

947
00:55:01,080 --> 00:55:02,777
of downtown L.A."

948
00:55:02,821 --> 00:55:04,649
I wasn't gonna allow
that to happen.

949
00:55:05,780 --> 00:55:10,132
So I started going to
the streets of Hollywood.

950
00:55:11,656 --> 00:55:14,267
The girls, they were sassy
and they were funky,

951
00:55:14,311 --> 00:55:17,009
and I was attracted to that.

952
00:55:17,052 --> 00:55:21,100
And I started doing drugs,

953
00:55:21,143 --> 00:55:26,366
and I started getting into
this lifestyle of prostitution

954
00:55:26,410 --> 00:55:29,369
because it was only something
I can do with drugs.

955
00:55:29,413 --> 00:55:34,592
I remember I did
weed, I did shrooms,

956
00:55:34,635 --> 00:55:38,900
I did acid, I did PCP.

957
00:55:38,944 --> 00:55:40,293
I've done it all.

958
00:55:40,337 --> 00:55:42,991
But once I got to
crystal meth, it was...

959
00:55:44,210 --> 00:55:45,472
That was all it took.

960
00:55:52,392 --> 00:55:55,395
It made my transition
just a little bit easier.

961
00:55:55,439 --> 00:55:57,571
I didn't care so much
about being liked

962
00:55:57,615 --> 00:56:01,358
or whether it was okay to
walk down the street anymore,

963
00:56:01,401 --> 00:56:03,360
because it made it okay.

964
00:56:03,403 --> 00:56:07,929
I could hop into cars, I can
get paid for sex, you know?

965
00:56:07,973 --> 00:56:09,409
And after a while,

966
00:56:09,453 --> 00:56:13,239
I started to connect
prostitution with love.

967
00:56:13,282 --> 00:56:15,284
I felt like I can get
love through this.

968
00:56:15,328 --> 00:56:17,939
I felt like if a guy
was giving me money,

969
00:56:17,983 --> 00:56:20,551
he was showing me some
type of attention or love,

970
00:56:20,594 --> 00:56:23,641
which was something I was
lacking for many years.

971
00:56:25,077 --> 00:56:28,776
And that's kind of
how it started.

972
00:56:36,175 --> 00:56:37,350
Cindy-rella.

973
00:56:37,394 --> 00:56:38,395
Looks like someone
has a crush.

974
00:56:39,700 --> 00:56:40,832
Cindy's back on the block?

975
00:56:40,875 --> 00:56:42,094
Oh, yeah, she's back.

976
00:56:48,666 --> 00:56:50,015
How much?
Honey, thousands.

977
00:56:50,058 --> 00:56:51,059
Sorry?

978
00:56:56,195 --> 00:56:58,066
Do you want to say that
in a complete sentence?

979
00:56:58,110 --> 00:56:59,764
Yeah, the money was like

980
00:56:59,807 --> 00:57:03,028
over thousands and thousands
of dollars.

981
00:57:03,071 --> 00:57:04,812
Nonstop.

982
00:57:04,856 --> 00:57:06,248
Day and night.

983
00:57:08,207 --> 00:57:11,515
I used the money for my mother
and my sister.

984
00:57:11,558 --> 00:57:14,822
For drugs, hotel room,

985
00:57:14,866 --> 00:57:19,174
the money was reused
for food and drugs.

986
00:57:23,875 --> 00:57:28,183
The girls would just be
wearing their Daisy Dukes.

987
00:57:28,227 --> 00:57:31,143
You could just be out there
at00 in the morning.

988
00:57:33,232 --> 00:57:38,063
I mean, it was just a setup
for prostitution.

989
00:57:38,106 --> 00:57:39,847
There was the adult bookstore,

990
00:57:39,891 --> 00:57:43,982
there was a Donut Time where
all the girls would hang out.

991
00:57:44,025 --> 00:57:46,985
There's Benito's.

992
00:57:47,028 --> 00:57:48,595
And when I was out there,

993
00:57:48,639 --> 00:57:52,251
there was Del Taco across
the street, there was Arena.

994
00:57:52,294 --> 00:57:57,474
Like, it was just
the hub of everything.

995
00:57:59,432 --> 00:58:04,481
Prostitution, drugs,
the party life, the fast life.

996
00:58:06,831 --> 00:58:09,137
It took me places I never
thought I would go.

997
00:58:13,315 --> 00:58:15,622
And then it just
stopped working for me.

998
00:58:22,455 --> 00:58:23,891
Hello?

999
00:58:25,284 --> 00:58:28,069
You want to see me?
I'm available now.

1000
00:58:28,113 --> 00:58:31,159
Darling, my minimum is $150.

1001
00:58:31,203 --> 00:58:32,857
Is that a problem?

1002
00:58:32,900 --> 00:58:36,077
Well, how generous can
you be on negotiable?

1003
00:58:36,121 --> 00:58:38,123
You're really horny?

1004
00:58:38,166 --> 00:58:39,777
So am I.

1005
00:58:40,821 --> 00:58:45,696
You want to be raped? I don't
have a problem with doing that.

1006
00:58:48,133 --> 00:58:50,744
You've been with hundreds of
women and seven transsexuals,

1007
00:58:50,788 --> 00:58:53,747
and the transsexuals turn
you on more than women?

1008
00:58:53,791 --> 00:58:55,967
Okay, are you ready
to come see me now?

1009
00:58:56,010 --> 00:58:57,925
Okay, great.

1010
00:58:57,969 --> 00:58:59,274
So I'm gonna run in the house

1011
00:58:59,318 --> 00:59:00,841
and put on something
real sexy, honey.

1012
00:59:00,885 --> 00:59:03,191
Yes, I got whips,

1013
00:59:03,235 --> 00:59:06,064
paddles, dildos, handcuffs,
all of that.

1014
00:59:07,413 --> 00:59:09,284
All right, baby, well,
come and get it.

1015
00:59:09,328 --> 00:59:10,372
Bye-bye.

1016
00:59:12,157 --> 00:59:14,115
Oh, duty calls.

1017
00:59:14,942 --> 00:59:16,683
It's a job.
It's a living, honey.

1018
00:59:16,727 --> 00:59:18,032
Pays the bills.

1019
00:59:24,125 --> 00:59:26,040
You're literally
in the world alone.

1020
00:59:27,999 --> 00:59:31,655
And so if you're
constantly getting fed that

1021
00:59:31,698 --> 00:59:34,962
by the notions of
what society gives you,

1022
00:59:35,006 --> 00:59:37,095
you then sometimes believe that,

1023
00:59:37,138 --> 00:59:41,316
and then you go into a certain
space of the negative,

1024
00:59:41,360 --> 00:59:44,406
and that can lead you
into so many things

1025
00:59:44,450 --> 00:59:46,234
that are detrimental
to your life.

1026
00:59:47,801 --> 00:59:52,458
When you have to wake up
every single day, okay,

1027
00:59:52,501 --> 00:59:55,809
and take about
20 to 30 clients a day --

1028
00:59:55,853 --> 00:59:58,507
sex work, not something
you wanted to do --

1029
00:59:58,551 --> 00:59:59,900
when you have to
do that every day

1030
00:59:59,944 --> 01:00:02,294
just to keep a dirty motel
over your head

1031
01:00:02,337 --> 01:00:05,166
and you have to succumb
to sex work to survive...

1032
01:00:05,819 --> 01:00:08,996
...your only coping is drugs.

1033
01:00:09,040 --> 01:00:12,826
I know that some gay-identified
individuals do drugs

1034
01:00:12,870 --> 01:00:15,089
to cope with depression,

1035
01:00:15,133 --> 01:00:16,874
so I don't want to exclude that,

1036
01:00:16,917 --> 01:00:20,051
but I do want to emphasize
that there's a great difference

1037
01:00:20,094 --> 01:00:23,968
in the usage of drugs when it
comes to the trans community

1038
01:00:24,011 --> 01:00:25,186
and the gay community.

1039
01:00:25,230 --> 01:00:27,275
And I think that
that says a lot,

1040
01:00:27,319 --> 01:00:29,495
that here we have a lot of
gay individuals

1041
01:00:29,538 --> 01:00:31,540
who do drugs for
the thrill of it,

1042
01:00:31,584 --> 01:00:33,717
so that they feel
a little bit more sexual,

1043
01:00:33,760 --> 01:00:35,109
so they enjoy their sex.

1044
01:00:37,721 --> 01:00:41,202
But the girls, every single day,

1045
01:00:41,246 --> 01:00:42,900
they are giving their
body to someone,

1046
01:00:42,943 --> 01:00:44,684
they're giving a piece
of their soul to someone,

1047
01:00:44,728 --> 01:00:46,512
just to live.

1048
01:00:46,555 --> 01:00:53,127
And so you're setting
human beings up for failure.

1049
01:00:58,002 --> 01:01:00,439
It was Monday morning, and I...

1050
01:01:02,615 --> 01:01:04,443
I didn't have anything to eat.

1051
01:01:06,184 --> 01:01:09,230
And I would have done anything
just to get something to eat.

1052
01:01:11,102 --> 01:01:13,408
And it was just a really
dark moment in my life,

1053
01:01:13,452 --> 01:01:14,975
and I got into this car...

1054
01:01:16,498 --> 01:01:21,416
And I, like any good prostitute,

1055
01:01:21,460 --> 01:01:23,157
you always get your money first.

1056
01:01:24,289 --> 01:01:26,291
And this was one of those times

1057
01:01:26,334 --> 01:01:28,162
where I thought I was
gonna get my money first,

1058
01:01:28,206 --> 01:01:29,642
and this guy told me,

1059
01:01:29,686 --> 01:01:32,558
"You get out of my car
before I beat you down."

1060
01:01:32,601 --> 01:01:34,821
And as I tried to
get out of the car,

1061
01:01:34,865 --> 01:01:39,608
he proceeded to
sexually assault me

1062
01:01:39,652 --> 01:01:41,654
and beat me up.

1063
01:01:41,698 --> 01:01:45,484
And it was a very
traumatic situation.

1064
01:01:45,527 --> 01:01:46,833
And then after he was done,

1065
01:01:46,877 --> 01:01:48,792
he tried to run me over
with his car.

1066
01:01:50,576 --> 01:01:53,057
And I called the police.

1067
01:01:54,319 --> 01:01:56,364
And when it comes to safety...

1068
01:01:58,149 --> 01:02:00,064
...it seemed like they
were just kind of just,

1069
01:02:00,107 --> 01:02:02,109
"This is just what happens."

1070
01:02:02,153 --> 01:02:04,242
They didn't do a rape kit.

1071
01:02:04,285 --> 01:02:05,896
They didn't do anything.

1072
01:02:05,939 --> 01:02:09,595
They were just, "Well,
we'll stay here by your side."

1073
01:02:09,638 --> 01:02:12,946
But I think that they had
kind of, you know --

1074
01:02:12,990 --> 01:02:16,297
'cause after that was done, I
had to get back on the streets

1075
01:02:16,341 --> 01:02:17,603
'cause that's all I knew.

1076
01:02:19,474 --> 01:02:21,085
A lot of people
who I grew up with

1077
01:02:21,128 --> 01:02:23,304
are not alive today.

1078
01:02:23,348 --> 01:02:26,133
They have either died from
alcoholism and drug addiction,

1079
01:02:26,177 --> 01:02:29,746
overdoses, or died,
or killed by...

1080
01:02:31,182 --> 01:02:32,574
In the streets.

1081
01:02:34,402 --> 01:02:38,015
Violently sometimes.
Or you know, died of AIDS.

1082
01:02:38,058 --> 01:02:40,104
Tell them,
because I don't want to die.

1083
01:02:40,147 --> 01:02:41,540
You know?

1084
01:02:41,583 --> 01:02:43,629
Look, you seen
"Paris Is Burning"? Venus?

1085
01:02:43,672 --> 01:02:45,370
She got killed.

1086
01:02:45,413 --> 01:02:47,415
I don't want to be that way,
you know?

1087
01:02:47,459 --> 01:02:48,721
That's my fear.

1088
01:02:48,765 --> 01:02:50,418
It's absolutely crazy.

1089
01:02:50,462 --> 01:02:51,811
You won't hire the girls,

1090
01:02:51,855 --> 01:02:53,900
but they're not supposed
to escort either.

1091
01:02:53,944 --> 01:02:55,728
So what are they
supposed to do, die?

1092
01:02:55,772 --> 01:02:57,991
Because that's what
the message gives to me.

1093
01:03:01,560 --> 01:03:03,605
We've seen that as a fact,

1094
01:03:03,649 --> 01:03:06,826
in the hate crimes
and discrimination,

1095
01:03:06,870 --> 01:03:08,088
in the murders.

1096
01:03:08,132 --> 01:03:09,655
And that saddens me.

1097
01:03:09,698 --> 01:03:12,701
It saddens me that,
as a community,

1098
01:03:12,745 --> 01:03:15,487
we still in 2021, don't know how
to come together.

1099
01:03:24,626 --> 01:03:27,542
I needed to talk about
Iyanna Dior.

1100
01:03:33,635 --> 01:03:37,857
Black transgender
that was assaulted

1101
01:03:37,901 --> 01:03:40,860
by over 30 men
in a convenience store

1102
01:03:40,904 --> 01:03:44,516
where we're protesting
for "Black Lives Matter"

1103
01:03:44,559 --> 01:03:46,997
because a Black man
was shot by the police.

1104
01:03:47,040 --> 01:03:50,000
But meanwhile,
we're in a convenience store

1105
01:03:50,043 --> 01:03:53,351
beating down
a Black transgender female.

1106
01:03:53,394 --> 01:03:55,788
They tried to justify it,

1107
01:03:55,832 --> 01:03:58,791
that is justified that
a Black transgender

1108
01:03:58,835 --> 01:04:03,230
gets beat down by men that
are three times her size?

1109
01:04:04,101 --> 01:04:06,277
Black people.
This is Black people.

1110
01:04:08,670 --> 01:04:11,195
And when I saw that, I was...

1111
01:04:12,674 --> 01:04:14,328
I was like, "That could be me."

1112
01:04:19,159 --> 01:04:20,944
The thing that
hurts me the most

1113
01:04:20,987 --> 01:04:27,341
is that I got to face white
supremacy from the white men.

1114
01:04:27,385 --> 01:04:30,736
Then I got to turn
around and face...

1115
01:04:32,694 --> 01:04:35,001
...hatred from my own Black,
you know?

1116
01:04:35,045 --> 01:04:38,178
So, I think what people don't
understand with trans women

1117
01:04:38,222 --> 01:04:41,225
is that it's hard.

1118
01:04:41,268 --> 01:04:43,923
With me, not even
feeling included,

1119
01:04:43,967 --> 01:04:47,318
I know that it is my duty
to still stand up

1120
01:04:47,361 --> 01:04:52,279
for Black lives, Black lives
protests and movements

1121
01:04:52,323 --> 01:04:54,847
because I'm Black first.

1122
01:04:58,503 --> 01:05:00,940
But the ways that
Black cis women

1123
01:05:00,984 --> 01:05:03,247
have showed up for trans women,

1124
01:05:03,290 --> 01:05:06,032
doesn't align with
the spirit of womanhood

1125
01:05:06,076 --> 01:05:07,947
that I think we have
as Black women,

1126
01:05:07,991 --> 01:05:12,038
the experience of
oppression that we have.

1127
01:05:13,431 --> 01:05:16,738
It's been adversarial,

1128
01:05:16,782 --> 01:05:21,918
that Black trans women somehow
take away our womanhood.

1129
01:05:40,371 --> 01:05:42,808
It's a reciprocation thing

1130
01:05:42,851 --> 01:05:44,766
that I specifically don't get

1131
01:05:44,810 --> 01:05:47,508
from certain members
within my own community.

1132
01:05:51,164 --> 01:05:54,820
It feels sometimes as if,
"Oh, Black liberation,"

1133
01:05:54,863 --> 01:05:58,258
but you're still other,
like I'm still othered.

1134
01:05:58,302 --> 01:06:02,480
And so it gets very
challenging to, you know,

1135
01:06:02,523 --> 01:06:04,743
to get out there and march
and things

1136
01:06:04,786 --> 01:06:06,527
when you know,

1137
01:06:06,571 --> 01:06:09,487
I know inherently that if the
shoe were on the other foot,

1138
01:06:09,530 --> 01:06:11,402
no one would bat an eyelash.

1139
01:06:17,451 --> 01:06:20,019
I'm so sorry, I don't want to
take this away from you,

1140
01:06:20,063 --> 01:06:21,716
but let me tell you something,

1141
01:06:21,760 --> 01:06:23,675
Black trans women are being
killed in this country.

1142
01:06:23,718 --> 01:06:26,765
And CNN, you have erased
Black trans women,

1143
01:06:26,808 --> 01:06:27,984
for the last time!

1144
01:06:28,027 --> 01:06:29,420
Let me tell you something.

1145
01:06:29,463 --> 01:06:33,076
Black trans women are dying!
Our lives matter!

1146
01:06:33,119 --> 01:06:35,904
I'm an extraordinary
Black trans woman,

1147
01:06:35,948 --> 01:06:37,689
and I deserve to be here!

1148
01:06:37,732 --> 01:06:39,908
My Black trans sisters
that are here,

1149
01:06:39,952 --> 01:06:41,040
I am tired!

1150
01:06:41,084 --> 01:06:42,433
I am so tired!

1151
01:06:42,476 --> 01:06:43,738
-I was just sitting there.
-Ma'am.

1152
01:06:43,782 --> 01:06:45,827
It's not just my Black trans
women.

1153
01:06:45,871 --> 01:06:47,916
With my Black trans brothers
too!

1154
01:06:47,960 --> 01:06:50,180
And I'm gonna say
what I'm gonna say!

1155
01:07:32,309 --> 01:07:34,311
LT.The early morning
hours of June 13th,

1156
01:07:34,354 --> 01:07:38,184
essentially our officers, right
before00 a.m. on June 13th,

1157
01:07:38,228 --> 01:07:39,881
they get a call for a man down.

1158
01:07:39,925 --> 01:07:42,101
Officer responds to that area,

1159
01:07:42,145 --> 01:07:44,582
which is essentially in
this east Akron area

1160
01:07:44,625 --> 01:07:46,540
near the University of Akron.

1161
01:07:46,584 --> 01:07:48,020
And the officer got there,

1162
01:07:48,064 --> 01:07:50,979
and they found Mr. Powers
down on the ground,

1163
01:07:51,023 --> 01:07:53,330
unresponsive,
with apparent gunshot wounds,

1164
01:07:53,373 --> 01:07:54,722
and he was deceased.

1165
01:08:21,619 --> 01:08:23,621
I told you I did a deep dive
last night

1166
01:08:23,664 --> 01:08:25,013
trying to figure out --

1167
01:08:25,057 --> 01:08:26,580
"Now, of course
this has been solved."

1168
01:08:26,624 --> 01:08:28,452
You know, it's a big city.

1169
01:08:31,063 --> 01:08:33,718
I'm just amazed, and I'm just...

1170
01:08:33,761 --> 01:08:36,677
There's no suspect,
there's no arrest.

1171
01:08:40,159 --> 01:08:44,511
Maybe I shouldn't be, like,
shocked, but...

1172
01:09:06,229 --> 01:09:08,056
He would light up a room
when he came in.

1173
01:09:08,100 --> 01:09:12,322
He was very loud, very
boisterous, very colorful.

1174
01:09:12,365 --> 01:09:15,281
And you couldn't be sad
around him, you know?

1175
01:09:15,325 --> 01:09:17,065
Even if he was sad and
going through something,

1176
01:09:17,109 --> 01:09:19,416
he wanted to make sure you
were feeling good and happy.

1177
01:09:19,459 --> 01:09:21,766
You know, he was very strong.

1178
01:09:23,246 --> 01:09:25,639
And I told him I was
proud of him for that,

1179
01:09:25,683 --> 01:09:27,250
because I know it
had to be hard,

1180
01:09:27,293 --> 01:09:31,993
to be who he was in
the '80s and the '90s

1181
01:09:32,037 --> 01:09:33,473
and even the 2000s.

1182
01:09:33,517 --> 01:09:37,085
He was, you know --
he was a gay Black man,

1183
01:09:37,129 --> 01:09:39,087
gay Black transgender man,

1184
01:09:39,131 --> 01:09:42,090
that was 6'2" from South Akron.

1185
01:09:42,134 --> 01:09:44,745
And you know,
that's a rougher side of town.

1186
01:09:44,789 --> 01:09:47,400
You know, you tough when
you come from South Akron,

1187
01:09:47,444 --> 01:09:49,707
so he thought
he had to be tough,

1188
01:09:49,750 --> 01:09:52,013
but he was the sweetest person.

1189
01:09:59,804 --> 01:10:02,154
The first big thing
I remember is Brian --

1190
01:10:02,198 --> 01:10:03,851
my dad was like, "Come on, guys.
We only got 20 minutes.

1191
01:10:03,895 --> 01:10:06,071
Pick your toy.
We got to get to this movie."

1192
01:10:06,114 --> 01:10:07,768
And Brian was standing
in front of these trucks,

1193
01:10:07,812 --> 01:10:10,554
and he was like, "I don't
want a truck, Vivian."

1194
01:10:10,597 --> 01:10:13,774
I said, "Okay, what do you want?

1195
01:10:13,818 --> 01:10:15,254
We've got 20 minutes,
you got to come on."

1196
01:10:15,298 --> 01:10:17,430
"I don't want a truck.
I want a My Little Pony.

1197
01:10:17,474 --> 01:10:21,260
So why don't you tell dad
that you want My Little Pony?"

1198
01:10:21,304 --> 01:10:23,001
He got the toy,
he put it on the counter,

1199
01:10:23,044 --> 01:10:24,959
he said, "Dad,
I don't want a truck."

1200
01:10:25,003 --> 01:10:26,787
He said, "Okay," while he's
going through his wallet.

1201
01:10:26,831 --> 01:10:28,267
He said, "I want
My Little Pony."

1202
01:10:28,311 --> 01:10:29,573
He said, "Well, Brian,
pick the one you want.

1203
01:10:29,616 --> 01:10:31,052
Come on, we got to go!"

1204
01:10:32,228 --> 01:10:34,665
At first he was Brian,
and he was Pocahontas.

1205
01:10:34,708 --> 01:10:36,275
He wanted Pocahontas hair.

1206
01:10:36,319 --> 01:10:38,756
Then he was Brian,
the boy Beyoncé.

1207
01:10:38,799 --> 01:10:40,410
Then he was Egypt.

1208
01:10:40,453 --> 01:10:42,890
You know, it just depended
on how he felt as he grew.

1209
01:10:42,934 --> 01:10:44,283
And then later in years
he would say,

1210
01:10:44,327 --> 01:10:45,545
"Okay, I'm gay.
I'm transgender, honey.

1211
01:10:45,589 --> 01:10:47,286
I'm everything. I'm everything.

1212
01:10:47,330 --> 01:10:48,896
I'm mother, honey.
I'm just everything."

1213
01:10:48,940 --> 01:10:51,072
That's how
he would talk.

1214
01:10:52,160 --> 01:10:53,553
I didn't know he was Egypt

1215
01:10:53,597 --> 01:10:55,120
until I was passing
flyers around

1216
01:10:55,163 --> 01:10:56,991
and someone said,
"Is that Egypt?"

1217
01:10:57,035 --> 01:10:59,298
I'm like, "Egypt?"
Said, "Yeah, that's Egypt."

1218
01:10:59,342 --> 01:11:00,995
So, that's how I knew.

1219
01:11:06,000 --> 01:11:10,266
He had all of our staff
and half of the security guards

1220
01:11:10,309 --> 01:11:11,702
in laughter and tears

1221
01:11:11,745 --> 01:11:14,357
because he was like
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