please welcome him debbie cenziper. [applause] foreign policy magazine has named him one of the global thinkers. out magazine included hand and its annual power 100. he's been named plaintiff in last year's supreme court, marriage equality case. he became the face of the movement and the legal groundbreaker and he is the co-author of "love wins," ithaca's national lunch we celebrate tonight. please spoke on jim obergefell. [applause] [inaudible] -- the mayor and possibly the governor won't be here. from here, down there. and they know that what happens in landover, peter and their inner conversation. i don't want to be afraid it, but i do want to start out talking about this and that journey together. let's begin, shall we? [inaudible] [laughter] one of the first things that comes up is that up is that they give our president struggling to pronounce her last name. you weren't there. i [inaudible] >> i got that phone call and heard everything about it. he avoided propounding her last name we are doing this one instead. s