The push for DC Statehood with guest Stasha Rhodes, out leader of the 51for51.org campaign. Chris Cooper on the LGBT Golden Globe nods. ∎ Our guest is Stasha Rhodes, campaign manager for 51 for 51 the group leading the effort to make DC Statehood happen this year. ∎ The United States has its first out gay Senate-confirmed cabinet member: Pete Buttigieg. ∎ Veteran lesbian activist Carmen Vazquez dies of COVID. ∎ Two more black trans women murdered--in Mississippi and in Georgia. ∎ One anti-trans bill stopped in Montana, another advances. ∎ Anti-LGBT brutality in Indonesia; crackdowns in Singapore, Malaysia, and Turkey, too.
