(Gay USA) Moves and Losses!

• The backlash against advances in LGBT rights is in full swing in some states.
• Arkansas is enacting a law to preclude localities from protecting LGBT rights.
• Activists fight back in Arkansas and Kansas, but where are the big LGBT groups?
• Murderous violence against LGBT people continues.
• Kate Brown is sworn in as Governor of Oregon and much note is made that she is the first open bisexual U.S. governor.
• Lesley Gore, pop singer, feminist and lesbian has died at 68.
• Jerry Hoose, Stonewall veteran and activist to the end, has died at 69.
• Big marriage moves in Mexico and Chile, but mixed result in Italy.
• Andy reviews Eugene O’Neill’s “The Iceman Cometh” starring Nathan Lane.