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At Stonewall, Lynch, Maddow Discuss Future of LGBT Rights

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The MSNBC journalist asks the outgoing attorney general whether we're now paying a price for our recent gains. 

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"History is on the side of marginalized people," Attorney General Loretta Lynch told out journalist Rachel Maddow on her MSNBC show Tuesday night. In an interview conducted at New York's Stonewall Inn -- the birthplace of the modern LGBT rights movement -- Maddow asked Lynch about equality in the age of Donald Trump and his potential AG, homophobic and possibly racist Alabama Sen. Jeff Sessions.

Lynch, who has loudly supported equality as the head of the Justice Department, struck a brave tone, saying history is bigger than one administration. Maddow also asked Lynch if Trump and his homophobic potential cabinet were a backlash to marriage equality, hate-crimes legislation, and open military service. Watch her answer below.

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Neal Broverman is the Editorial Director, Print of Pride Media, publishers of The Advocate, Out, Out Traveler, and Plus, spending more than 20 years in journalism. He indulges his interest in transportation and urban planning with regular contributions to Los Angeles magazine, and his work has also appeared in the Los Angeles Times and USA Today. He lives in the City of Angels with his husband, children, and their chiweenie.
Neal Broverman is the Editorial Director, Print of Pride Media, publishers of The Advocate, Out, Out Traveler, and Plus, spending more than 20 years in journalism. He indulges his interest in transportation and urban planning with regular contributions to Los Angeles magazine, and his work has also appeared in the Los Angeles Times and USA Today. He lives in the City of Angels with his husband, children, and their chiweenie.