My business partners and I bought that bar 20 years ago so something like this would never happen. We worked with the Obama administration in 2016 to make this park the first ever national monument and LGBTQ national monument of the United States of America because LGBTQ history is AMERICAN HISTORY. TO SIT here at this park and to see that flag removed because they say it's a political symbol is just a flat out attack on our community.That flag is not political. It's historical fact of what happened on this ...

[Applause] I want to tell you a story, but more importantly, you want to hear a story. I know this because I've been writing and researching stories for a long time, and I've come to the conclusion that stories are a fundamental part of who we are. Stories offer two things that the human brain desires.The first of these is empathy. We are social creatures. We want to know and understand each other. And stories give us this opportunity with characters that we can get to know and understand.But more than this ...