Welcome to Fearless with Jason Whitlock. I am Jason Whitlock your host. Happy Thursday.

Man, do we have an awesome show playing for you today. Guess who's in studio?

Bryson Gray and Simeca Michelle, round of applause for Volkowgim.

Delano Squires is going to join us from Washington DC at the top of the show. Steve Kim and Jordan Bulls will be here on the back end of the show.

We're going to start today with an unscripted fire starter, unscripted mono, where I just, I want to try to lead and set up a conversation about Pride Month.

Today is the first day of Pride Month. We've been talking about it all week and now it's here. I came into today very optimistic.

Yesterday, if you heard the show, I had some optimism about where things were headed, which direction I thought the wind was blowing.

And then this morning, I saw Jeremy Boring, the CEO of the Davey Wire. I saw his Twitter thread about what was transpiring between he and Elon Musk and the Davey Wire.

And they wanted to air what is a woman on Twitter? And I can't say it's Elon Musk, but Twitter basically refused to air it after agreeing to air it because they watched it and said, well, you've misgendered two people.

And so we're not, this is part of our hate speech and blah, blah, blah. And I just said, oh my God.

I thought Twitter was different now. I thought Twitter was moving in a completely different direction. And it's not. And it reminds me of the conversation we had yesterday, but I want to walk you through a tiny bit of history on why I think all of this is so important.

The fact that Twitter is still seemingly going to remain heaven for the LGBTQ movement. And that's what Twitter has been for the past decade. It is the gay matrix. It's where all gay dreams come true over Twitter.

The whole thing I've said for years. You can go back eight years ago, nine years ago, I was saying like black Twitter is really gay Twitter. They just call it black Twitter. But anyway, I want to walk you through a tiny bit of history.

And just so we have a foundation that we're talking about when we talk about Pride Month, how we got here. Just some of this is well known.

Other you can pick it up any place, but like Pride Month started because there was a gay riot in lower Manhattan, New York. I believe June 28, 1969 at some place called the Stonewall Inn.

It was a bar, a gay bar again in lower Manhattan owned by the mafia. They have a slew of riots in this place over a few days. And so out coming out of that, the gay lesbian community started placing a priority on a Pride Month, a celebration of them.

And then over the next 30 years, it kept growing and growing and growing until in 1999 Bill Clinton declared the month of June Pride Month for gays and lesbians.

He made this declaration kind of nationalized and gave it the official White House stamp of approval. June in remembrance of Stonewall Inn is now Pride Month for gays and lesbians.

And then a dozen years later in 2011, Barack Obama declared that it's not just for gays and lesbians, it's for bisexuals, transgenders, queers. All the Alphabet's got added to Pride Month because of Barack Obama in 2012.

And so it's easy for people to conclude that, hey, Bill Clinton and Barack Obama kickstarted, gave the whole Pride movement power and a jumpstart and they were very influential and they were.

But I don't think anything has been as powerful and as significant for the LGBTQ movement than the invention, the advent of Twitter in 2006.

Twitter put the LGBT alphabet mafia on steroids. Twitter became the place that penalized any public figure that stuck to or promoted biblical values in a public way.

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