generic version of true vodka on the market earlier and i guest here on the show today in china and beg nominated for two tony awards for the great music all the from this mix is some really broadway from talking to chad who wrote the book and alerts i had they're very clever ok so we start with donald trump they press the administration where do you stand on this bill and they're opposed to it they say because it doesn't have enough religious exemptions it's you know it's insane because donald trump gave an interview in two thousand to the advocate saying what we need to do in this country is to amend the civil rights act discriminated against in a statement from samrat kate ellis who says president strums opposition to the act a bill that would protect hardworking americans against discrimination showing an activists like the heritage foundation that have this administration so that's i'm sorry also have a statement from the human rights campaign who sentiments that about how this will be legal and how the trouble grati are opposing it and the mormon church is opposing it even though they went a little soft on what was going on in indiana scuse me and you were indiana that's the problem in new indiana doesn't have a state wide bell either but utah does and black caucus in the congress has been our most stalwart supporters in fact we have film from john lewis the famous civil rights activist and member of congress about his support for the bill equality is s want to just want to go through it's nice to read that the value of condos in trump tower is down or down to twenty percent and forty two thousand square feet of office space is vacant in ireland you might have read that they banned th say i don't think i have any more troops going to join finish on the trumpet i think we've got to talk about what's going on in the country because you know alabama essentially banned all abortions this week and ninety nine years in prison for a doctor who performs an abortion and we say all but what about roe v wade they want to take this to the supreme court and they want to get roe v wade overturned and then the states are going to be able to regulate abortion again and ban it in many places and that's the dream for the he definitely wants to be the guy at uniting all that sounds very much like what about the picture of obama who was an african american you know running and saying it was going to unite people and of course couldn't really work with republicans and even though he tried to so that's a line and it sounds somewhat appealing but you know when they start somewhat controversial what what would a judge is saying he said you know to get away from identity politics this is what divides us hey we have achieved a lot as who we are right and that's why we make our identities that same sex marriage would destroy america was still standing and also a lot and would be in terrible trouble after the game he's in i think it is the land is still standing pat is probably happy there was a big story i think of the washington post about how bible classes bible history in secular schools and public schools they're really catching on you're allowed to do it you're like teach the history of the bible if you don't really and try to indoctrinate people into religion and the religious right is thrilled they have all these classes but i think that's going to be their own doing you know the salvation of this country so to speak has you know you come from a country where they have a state religion and nobody goes to church right so we're talking about england but but here we have the separation of church and state that allowed religion to thrive in this country what some people go to church in this country though thank goodness thank god it's fewer and fewer but so you know they think they're winning by know of course his his big endorser was you talk about religious leaders jerry falwell jr of liberty university and we told you about this whole story about pool boy gian carlo granddad we got pictures of them there is jerry there  don't we don't know exactly what they are but michael cohen michael cohen your buddy was involved in getting these things destroyed but gian carlo wants us to stop calling him pool boy it's not like that says i have nothing to do who says that transgender people are delusional about who they are he fought transportations in the violence against women act he calls anti discrimination laws a bad idea in general and he's up for a federal judgeship for life now because i'm elderly but this was republican a democratic congressional staffers given talking points on how to oppose medicare for all after wining and dining you know they don't need about fixing the health care system the love act to redress the one thousand people purged from the state department for being gay in the fifty's and of course many others and many other places there was just a witch hunt in this country you know if you went through this in britain we did purging gay people dollars extremely diverse national international organizations are offended by the over policing of the annual pride parade that excludes many of the most marginal in our community we are been dead by the so we have come together we believe to fulfill the true spirit of stonewall to bring back the real pride march a political people to that communities in the street celebrating our victories mourning  committing to continue the struggle against discrimination against violent stigma hatred and racism sexism homophobia transfer and all of the things that keep us unsafe keep us divided and us surprised today we are officially announcing that on the th anniversary of the stonewall rebellion and in the midst of world pride in new york city we will be marching for clear liberation and liberate fifty years ago on this spot a movement started a movement demanding justice for the marginalized reclaiming pride for those of us who are known only  means and i still face constant assaults to police in the city from the police nationwide worldwide we're still struggling with rampant homelessness we're still suffering under discrimination lack of access to medical care as much as i would love to simply celebrate in a sea of rainbows this is not to be feeling like the time to celebrate or simply to celebrate fight for civil rights so that one day an individual's sexual orientation will no longer no longer be a barrier to flow and true equality nothing short of that is acceptable nothing short of that is acceptable sunday june th will be as story and memorable day and liberation i am proud to be the attorney for the rebel norman siegel amazing he was the head of the new york civil liberties union for many years is not a gay man himself but he's also the guy who got the alternative march going for the th anniversary of stonewall i mean he didn't organize it but he represented them and you know negotiated with the response notice the response and the other one either but it's going to take forever so if you participate in this one you can just pay the other one dollar to later on of the day if you want to but we're going to be marching up th avenue to central park for a rally it'll you know we told you that the brazilian fashions president was afraid to come to new york to receive an honor from the brazilian american friendship society at the marriott marquis and there was a demonstration there anyway even though we didn't show up and he says  more welcome so he's going to dallas for some world economic forum or something like that and we're not going to be protested it was supposed to be open protests the on a couple of days later may th by queer bob dallas transgender pride and others  a great guy from he joined he was in the community center the day that larry kramer was screaming at us to start what became act up and he heard this screaming and he went there and he realized he had he  lived in the village for a long time he's volved in the gay community realized he had to get involved in that and he became an absolute stalwart of act up a demonstration was not complete without the presence of the lead as he w for many publications about aids and especially in the latino community where he was from and he wrote liner notes for doris dad i saw that and made the comment for those who believe in an afterlife j s so does that have passed away at a ripe old age of ninety seven year old stood up full gay rights well her ballad secret love and there she is pictured with rock on and that's when he when it was announced that he had and she had just done this press conference with him and that kind of came up on the screen and she got involved in names and things like that you remember her from the man who knew too much ok so ross to run her love extraordinary very very private later on in her life a recluse not really doing interviews well i told a vice that's the academy awards a couple of times she did not in fact the last statement she put out was supporting gay right signatures and then they change that plans and not he will be called his name which is why well that you know they had some official policy about your legal name and why it was working on that change and why it had been called why it for years pramod to we love this so we all family has hosted a queen from for this team beasties in the community it is free open to same sex couples you are allowed to wear what you want the reason they were doing this is that these kids were not allowed to attend that prom so that's good news there ticket senate has passed a bill against g b t q panic defense the panic defense when you say they owe i had to kill them they were gay south orange new jersey has openly gay not brendan dealy who's a proud supporter of trump an apparently you tube is claiming that he does not believe brian sims is gay and in order for him to convince him that he is gay conversion therapy speaking of bigots and that that is now going to the senate where also we in california they've approved l g b t inclusive sex education guidelines for all grades  he came out on instagram writing that finally he's comfortable with his sexuality he was scad how it would affect his friendships he's teammates and his family not he's happy that he is completely open well it's a tougher thing to try and  hundred or hundreds of people tried to have an on authorized l g b t parade that had been prohibited by the cuban government and ivana who called it subversive and they were stopped by security guards three people were arrested they were all ordered to disperse castro who sort of moment of the government inner circle she's the niece of fredo said she called this group that did the rogue demonstration up starts that were try to undermine the government well yeah i mean we're trying to undermine our government which oppresses us but anyway this the fact that they were able to go forward with this demonstration one hundred mossad showed that there's power in the social networks despite all that government repression down there they killed a guy past has been march in ankara and it was violently broken up twenty five people were arrested using pepper spray pepper spray plastic bullets tear gas the march was organized by students at the middle east technical university there a very brave the truck body there you know for the sport of track running they are pursuing an appeal of the ruling against caster semenya on testosterone which basically says if you're a woman and you have too much testosterone you're going to  was speculation that people were really concerned oh the u s was concerned that u s soldiers stationed overseas could be talking it's of blackmail so the chinese company is selling to grind if only we were as concerned about russian and  taiwan they're going to finally vote on a same sex marriage equality bill on friday we don't know exactly what it's going to be the right wing is demonstrating the gays are demonstrating you know for it's you know they were ordered to equalize ruled that same sex mums who had a kid assisted reproduction can't register the child with both of them as a parent's they did not want a lower court but the high court said no that's they're covering an ira thing and they were about to begin gauging they were going to come to new york and they were you know same sex marriage polls at seventy eight percent in northern ireland and they still won't do it because of a bunch of painting and we got a picture of them and ten years ago ten years ago and then they got a knock at the door from homeland security said that was nazi loot and you got to give it back so they didn't give a task but they decided to visit the painting in poland and they were foll gay rights these days and they wanted to share their joy with the polish ladies doing just a great guy in italy the high court there will not recognize a gay couple as the parents to sort of get babies they had children in canada only the a father who's going to be recognized as the legal parent because they don't have surrogacy in italy right and so they said they would do this to heterosexuals as well and it's not really a gay thing but tough on that couple so now they're going to go through an adoption process tough reactionary brazil he says i want people to know that i'm gay and i'm not ashamed of it this is a guy who won world championships won the gold in twenty million fifty two thousand and seven he is out and a hero he is many problems with this story they're retaining the exclusive rights to travolta for another fifteen months a company named ted will be the only generic manufacturer to be able to do the generic and so there's little likelihood of a much lower affordable for everyone they want to create a new customer for their new prep prep drug desk of a at the full price so that's why they're willing to sort of move aside on this one disk of the sort of has fewer side effects apparently so that's that's that's encouraging but they just want to now sitting charge them two thousand dollars a month to get that it's terrible by the way a class action suit was filed against tuesday by aids activists including peter staley and some in and some  you know pension funds and things charging restraining competition anti competitive practices monopoly coersion stop stopping competition for not for fear long after the pat patent expired we have got to crack down on these drug companies sixty minutes did it this weekend and nothing happens nothing happens these drug companies don't even sixty minutes take something on not only they took it on they didn't tell the connecticut attorney general and so you know the drug company for you know york all right it british academy television awards the lesbian themed killing easy for him out on top for drama series there's a picture there because jody comber there one for leading actress  rs i'm not sure if up to speed with the story but he got into a fight with totty westbrook who is a youtube herself sort of his mentor she went on to allege that he had some very bad habits with straight guys fourteen million people have watched gay sions charles has released his own video now saying that he has been involved in some very unique and strange situations that left people confused or upset he's learned the hard way how to interact with bullies that he is interested in the video she says her famous catch phrase get those kooky as conservatives are not happy and richard has not done a very handsome chap who's in rocket man the elton john movie is talking to the sun newspaper in britain saying that with chad baghlan who wrote the book and is tony nominated for that and also wrote the is nominated for best original score you did the lyrics of yourself and you were you hand and so they don't know what to do to get good press so they're like let's find a cause will be celebrity and so just on twitter they find this young girl emma who wants to take her girlfriend to the prom and is banned from taking her so they decided we're going to go down it takes place in indiana we're going to go down to indiana and we're going to have a rally and we're going to change minds and they're because they're you know buffoons they were and i think so that's basically the upshot and we're going to show you a clip from the show and then we're going to talk about it with you started in atlanta tension new york when did you know well the funny thing was we always thought you know this is a comedy so when we did the show out of town in atlanta we you know we knew it had a heart to it but after the st few performances people started coming up to us sobbing and you know it really occurred to us this is more than just a comedy this is this has a message and it was we had one performance where we do a talk back with the audience and there was an old straight white man who raised his hand and he said you know if i would have known what this show was about i never would have come but i'm a tell you something i'm glad i came and i'm glad those two girls got together at the end and so we were like this is that's pretty good up saying you know we've this happened several times that somebody has said i'm in the closet and my mom is over there and i'm going to come out to her and this show just made it easier to do that and you know i it's you know it's well really an emotional thing and i have to say you know i mean we cover a lot of broadway shows and many are very formulaic and they start with stereotypes and they stay with terry and that but this this up and it's all that and it's so know this way of telling the story that was so different well it's it was a crazy really unorthodox way for a show to start a producer actually had the idea and he had just the one line you know idea he brought it to our director case was it about that idea it was it i knew it had the heart because of you know this girl you know when i was in high school no one would ever dream of taking a same sex partner and we should say that you are a winner of the  things that the principal says about the small town are true of my small town too which is you know the economic trouble and factories closing in and we should say michael potts as the principal again not you know totally defies the stereotype of what you might expect the principal to be saying in a show like this exactly he's one of the most humane characters we've seen on broadway and yes he's and he's wonderful in the role and how did the two different story lines together so you have this wonderful young they were just hilarious so the idea was to sort of let them do the big broad comedy but then develop them so that they change throughout the show and so bad character of course is a complete narcissist who has to be taught how to be a human being and brooks the surprising thing about brooks was that his energy his chemistry with emma was so great that we started going deeper in deeper and it became this really touching story of these two people national controversy on thanksgiving day when you do perform your number at the thanksgiving day parade for macy's and you and in the case was that a conscious decision well we're going to do that the crazy thing is it didn't really occur to us because that's what we do in the show and the two girls kiss no big deal i mean that's what we're working towards and then macy's came along and you know we thought oh i wonder if they're going to say anything and they just hug and they were like oh no he started to blow up when you like yes we're terrified i was i was told i have to say you know they're worse there were some haters and you know unfortunately a couple people in the cast got some very ugly ugly messages to save lives so i'm going to make this into a movie it's going to be it's netflix but it's going to be released in theaters it's going to be a major motion picture and we're just thrilled we're we're halfway through working on the screenplay with him and he couldn't i was there one night said jessica parker was that yes and she told me it was the nd time so you could just go into the box office find a ticket and then falling in love with the problem it's crazy and it's just you know when you do it original musical that doesn't have a brand  and based on anything you have to do the work of trying to get the word out there it's not you know latin is very easy for everybody knows what that is but the problem you know people don't know the whole story so it's gratifying the less you know made into another movie  know i've seen some of the other shows they're great but it does it's funny once the nominations came out i was i said to my husband tom i'm like i just let's just wait until everything is over and said and done because i don't think i could sit there and we were down to our last forty seconds but tell us what else you want people to know about the show so that we can get them to go and have a great time just that i think it's a show where you'll walk in and it's original so you won't know what's going to happen next and you'll laugh and about this show