star of t v s empire who was beaten in a racist and homophobic attack in chicago but before we get to that we're going to speak with our guest new york state assembly member danny o'donnell about all the radical changes that have gone on in albany the new york state capital since the republicans were booted from control of the state senate and replaced by democrats and about his run for the public advocate of the city of new york which is going to take place as a special election on february twenty sixth president trump this week came out for bible literacy being taught in schools and he prayed with a whole bunch of anti all g b t activists the city council speaker of new york an transgender bill and there's more turmoil in brazil as an out congress member has had to flee the country because of death threats equally shocking japan's high court has ruled that if you want to change officially running for public advocate of the city of new york in a special election on february twenty sixth to succeed james who is now our attorney general you are the only out gay candidate and the only i believe i was candidate that's correct ok but can we start with with a state issues absolutely all right so i have always said whenever i get the chance to come on the show i always talk about how you can't vote for republicans and state legislatures whether it's congress or whether it's your state legislature because control the thing that matters is the body count whether there are more republicans or more democrats and if there are more republicans it means everything we want doesn't get done it gets bottled up it gets killed before it can even come to a vote for the most part for the most part all of a sudden albany which for decades had a republican majority swept away in the last election replaced with a democratic majority and we get legislation after registrations after legislation that we have been waiting for for so about some of the things that you guys have gotten done since the now you're in the assembly but what this means is that the assembly which is long been democrat democratically controlled in new york now has a clear path to putting bills on the governor's desk so tell us some of those things that got passed it's been a wonderful feeling to have a functioning democratic progressive senate as a partner to get things done and usually we do nothing in the month of january we just sit around look at each other and wonder when we're going to start and now because of the breathtaking refreshing andrea stuart cousins we are willing to who is who is the majority leader of the state senate she represents yonkers she's been there for about a decade or more going to an african american woman and goddess and  a just extraordinary leader and she made a commitment that she was not going to play that game that she was going to do the things that the people want so we've finally passed the reproductive health act we finally passed genda we finally passed there is transgender rights finally passed the ban on conversion therapy we finally passed the dream act we finally passed voting reforms in the state in new york it's it's extraordinary what has happened in two weeks and how long in two weeks correct now let me ask you this how many of those things that passed the assembly previously and for how well they had all passed the assembly before and something like gender has passed the assembly for at least a decade at least today i mean in terms of your record i mean you were the senate side but but and was that was that a difficult or a close vote in the assembly well you know the world has changed i talk to young gay people who don't even know there was a time when you couldn't get married almost when i started in two assembly member of donald being married there by the former chief judge of the state of new york judith kaye with john van who you met in college in nineteen seventy eight catholic university of america they're very been together since one nine hundred eighty and so we were the plaintiffs in the marriage lawsuit here in new york robert kaplan was our lawyer and we lost there in the court of appeals and they said you have to go the legislature so in two thousand and seven i became the author and sponsor of the marriage equality bill in the new york state assembly and please remember at that point holding on the subject was in the mid to high thirty's when i got the bill in april of that year there were only twenty four yes votes in our house and god bless to do this and by the time we took the first vote in june we had eighty five votes for marriage and we held on to that for the entire time until the senate came along clarifying first out legislature legislator in new york over many oh i'm sorry  and also just to clarify these votes in new york were occurring before we got the supreme court ruling both of course opened up marriage to everyone of course this was when we finally passed marriage legislatively in new york it means a whole bunch of different things  the supreme court can't take it away because the legislature would have to take it away and it also led the way to the windsor case and the other cases and it was the straw that broke the camel's back other states had you know limitations somehow anyone in the world into new york and we had no residency requirement we had no anything if you came here you had a right to a marriage license of course we would have had this i think in twenty five or so just a star sling co head order of the mayor of new york to do rights act similarly where you said the supreme gentile supreme court can take away marriage now from new york state similarly bypassing the reproductive rights act doesn't that sort of the idea behind that because we have reproductive rights in new york we have it nationally from the supreme court well we haven't actually because of roe v wade and you know i come from an irish catholic family my mother was the president of the rosary altar society and she was pro choice pre roe v wade and so i know that she died shortly thereafter but i do remember that and it's absolutely important it's interesting to the gay rights movement to be quite frank it's the same thing it's about control of your of your own bodies and so with the troubling events in washington and what's happening the idea that someone could come along and say supreme court changes we're going to not have roe v wade we now will have that in new york because of what we did this week ok more legislation gender the gender expression nondiscrimination that again this is governor and the reality is one of the great failures of our movement has been our failure to include trans people in it and acknowledge their role in stonewall and all movements forward and so it was a shame that in two thousand  before i joined the body we passed on to without trains inclusion when i passed the dignity for all students act it was the first time ever trans people were acknowledged in state new york and that is the anti bullet hole in the law that i wrote that's correct and so it's a long time coming but i'm thrilled that we got there well will and we want to get to another big thing that happened this week the child i think it's called the child protection act child victims for trial victims protection occurrences for people who were sexually abused as children and have not been able to do anything about it because they didn't you know they didn't want to do anything about it as they got older because they were shamed and everything and this is what it what does this bill do it opens up this actual limitations to allow people who were previously victimized in their life who have the statue of limitations preventing them from seeking justice and allows them to seek justice and it changes the stature of limitations correct to have the details on the changes that to a very very big window i think it goes up to the age of fifty five right to be twenty three and so it's fifteen if you know anyone who has been in that circumstance who has fought hard to understand why they're in pain and it takes them a long time probably a lot of therapy for them to really be able to do that it's an absolute outrage that we prevented those people from seeking justice and  have always been a sponsor that bill when the previous but the person who's really responsible is march marquis and she was in the chamber a former member of the assembly she was in the chamber we took the vote and very moved and she took a lot she may have lost her seat because of it and so she took a lot of flak from the catholic church because the catholic church was so afraid of the financial implications of this law and but she refused to back down  fifteen years so fighting for it for fifteen years and then on the senate side when they finally vote on it it's sixty three to nothing well that was like the dignity bill the dignity bill was held up for years and it was held up the anti bullying bill because they came to me and said if you just take the trans language out we'll pass it tomorrow and i don't compromise on equality and justice well and so i hate crimes bill they want to take gays out so i said no and they delayed it been led the fight on the senate side right and we were supposed to be our co host this week but he stuck up at albany so we're going to show his speech from part of it from the floor of the of the senate on this talking about somebody who was a guest on gay  vote what took you so long but i'm very thankful that we have come as a body to recognize that we are gathered here for this historic opportunity to correct this longstanding and justice as you know madam president the survivors of child abuse have looked to albany for justice for years but their pleas have gone unanswered and near to the same thing frankly that other states had and other institutions did for years the senate postponed a reckoning and buried this legislation people in power across the state have told our constituents many of them abuse survivors that this wasn't a real issue that it was someone else's problem it happened somewhere else just not here but no longer can we deny the truth child sexual abuse happens sadly everywhere happens in homes and doctors offices schools and churches sports teams youth groups scout troops with trusted authority figures of all kinds and that's one of the most insidious things about this crisis that we're trying to confront today the trust that is often built between an abuser and the survivor we've spoken to many of the survivors here i know they've met with so many of us over the last several years and they tell us time and time again about how that trust was developed how the process of grooming contributes to that insidious and how can you blame a child who doesn't understand their sexuality who doesn't know what might be different or correct given their age and inexperience and we think about survivors like michael meehan who was abused by parish priest over the course of years the priest befriended his family officiated his older sister's wedding and baptized her children he also took michael out on dozens of overnight trips he plied michael with alcohol and he abused them the priest continued to serve as an exile or a bishop for decades until michael spoke out but that wasn't michael's only experience shortly after he graduated from high school he was at a party with some of his fellow students they went back to a student's home to sleep one of michael's teachers drove him to the party in abused michael while he slept i shared that story because i had met michael when i first took up this bill and in our discussion i tried to console him and he said senator that's not the worst part of my story and i said how could what could be worse somebody violating your trust your the trust of your family he said senator that teacher is still at my high school thirty three years later and that's what we seek to address with the child victims act not only are we flinging open the courthouse doors for survivors to finally be heard before a jury of their peers but thanks to their persistence and activism thanks to the year there are to kill that description of this pervasive problem they will help  five predators like michael steele cheech or who still may be in contact with children if you don't mind put michael's picture up he was a guest on the show and he was one of the leaders he was one of the faces of let me ask you won't things things that happened in the last to last two weeks i understand also just were passed were gun control wrecked so gun control a reproductive rights agenda protecting trans people the child now that is made all this up i just want to do one point we have an active progressive democratic senate that wants to do the right thing for the people and how do you get a democratic senate you elect them you don't think you work to elect a democrat elected democrat so even if there's like a die who's a republican and he supports all of our issues if you vote for him that's not going to do it now because the republicans who hid behind their leaders there are some very decent republicans in the senate some of my friends but the reality is when push came to shove they do what their leader tells while we see what happens in the united states senate where there were dominated by republicans mostly from small states it's not democratic in that small d and r all of our stuff is bottled up and we had to shut down let's get to the fact that you're running for the public advocate of the city of new york that's this is the number two spot in new york this is the successor to the mayor if the  the ballot that's hard to explain how i mean somebody could win with ten percent of the vote that's true so how you know and then whoever runs has to has to run again in the fall but but talk office what do you want to do for the city well i never wanted this office but in the last two years we have seen encroaching executive power at all levels of government and in the city of new york we have somebody a public advocate whose job is to keep an eye on what's happening in the city and be the advocate for the people and so i've been an advocate my whole life i was a public defender for seven years in brooklyn then i went to enjoying community board nine west harlem and fought over development there then i became up member of the new york state assembly becoming the first openly gay man elected there and i've served there for sixteen years so i'm running on my record not on rhetoric i'm writing on with the commitment to not run for mayor because one of the problems with the job is that everyone does it as a stepping stone and if you're doing it as a stepping stone you lose credibility for what you're doing people say although he's just doing that to try to get attention so i've committed to not running for mayor and i'm committed to make sure that we have an independent person running because i have no ties to the mayor i have no ties to the governor i didn't endorse the governor for reelection i do not serve as a party official i don't not a member of the d n c i'm not a district the city of new york i mean we have an anti bullying law but bullying in the schools the atmosphere in the schools still hard for l g b to you homeless l g b to you do you have any big ideas about addressing some of these things yes i have a number of big ideas about these things first of all i think that fifty years after stonewall it's about time that we have either a borough wide or city wide openly gay elect official we've not had one and some people of the closet while that's true i can't speak to them i've not been there in a long time and i saw a lot that's not me secondly for example the governor in the state claims that we are going to be in twenty twentieth's free that's what they claim and yet we really don't know whether or not we're on target to do that so one of the first task forces i intend to set up is aids twenty twenty test force to bring all the treatment and testing organizations together and say is this really on track and if there is a spike of infection someplace why is that in who is best able to address that in the community remember the days are very different in terms of how we provide those services and are all those organizations getting the full amount of funding they are entitled to from the city state and federal government somebody has to look at that if we're going to be aids free in a year the second thing is the trans community is the most oppressed community in our society i intend to hire a trans person to be shipped with that community to make sure that we are protecting them and set up a task force on hate crimes so that we can look at that from the citywide perspective when you look at what happened to my friend jesse in chicago jesse if you're listening i love you get better the reality is that we don't do enough to protect our community and because of the level of hatred and want out of washington d c we see that my family was subject to a death threat last summer my home and my sister's  home and it was all because we're gay and so in a way that that was not tolerated five years ago that somebody would call someone's private home phone number and say horrible things about what they intend to do to me that it's become part of what how do you plan to differentiate yourself without pena belies each other and tearing each other up and i ask because we're going to be facing the same thing in the presidential election come twenty twenty one we're going to have does a dozen democrats likely or something close to that running for the presidency more and how are they how are they going to you know distinguish themselves without tearing each other apart how do you plan to do that in the public advocate one i don't intend to cannibalize anyone or speak ill of anyone on the campaign trail to i'm running on a record of accomplishment sixteen years in the state assembly i've accomplished great things including pass in the marriage equality act i like to joke i'm the only member of the state legislature ever to have his picture on the cover of the new york times not in handcuffs which is true and  i had experience doing the work that the advocate would need to do so for example if you don't lopez was a sexual harasser in a sexually harassed his female student staff members i was the chair of the ethics committee and i was appointed to investigate that i c ducted investigation within six weeks in full compliance with the e e o c i used the subpoena power that i had to get to the bottom of it and then we threw the book if you know lopez so i'm unwilling to stay even one people said we will never do that to a fellow colleague if it's the right thing to do i have a record of doing it and i'm going to talk about my record i'm going to talk about what i've done i come from a loud mouth family i should all know that the job should be allowed mouth and that's me ok at the election is on february twenty sixth a tuesday correct ok anybody can vote matter what party you're and everybody votes it's an open open election to finish this off want to distinguish your self why don't you tell me like who is the most surprising supporter you've got this race i have supporters in all five boroughs with almost none of my colleagues who are running can claim i have charlie rangle isn't dorsey me and keith wright is indorsing me from harlem and assembly member i know as dickens by constituent so i'm very proud of that so i have roots in all five boroughs i was born in queens even though i was raised on long island and i am going out and telling my story and new york city saved my life because they opened a law school in  percent of americans say transgender people should be able to serve and only twenty two percent oppose that that's that's something but let's get let's go to this story this horrible story we were very sorry to be able to say that anti gay anti black hate crimes now has a celebrity face in the face of just the small of who many of you may know if you watch empire the sort of dynasty with black people is like is  neck right they poured in an identified liquid over his head might have been he might have been bleach there's a lot of confusion about some of the details of the reports like were they wearing maggot hats when they did this that's one of the rumors we don't know for sure i mean jesse himself came out in two thousand and fifteen on the ellen show officially he said he'd always been out but he's the son of a jewish father an african american mother who were both civil rights activists themselves cory booker decried the attack and called for passage of the federal anti lynching bill which is being held up because it includes well g b t people at this point we were taping on a wednesday afternoon we don't have any sort of update on what his condition is though he did take himself to the hospital so that is hopefully a good sign and then over the weekend in philadelphia for a man i know one woman jumped out of a car and beat a fifty year old customer coming out of a some place called the roasted walnut in the gayborhood in philadelphia they were shouting anti gay slurs and other people from the restaurant came to the aid of this man and the assailants fled well continuing the unfortunate crime news last thursday twenty year old twenty four year old black trans woman known as pinkie in texas in houston was shot dead point blank range in front of a gas station the chevron station at eleven am in the morning in a busy intersection i didn't realize that she died no no in well let's let's let's go back to mr trump by the way we're on the second anniversary of his muslim ban and one of the things we've learned about that is that you know the supreme court said oh it's ok people can still apply for waivers and things virtually no waivers have been granted on this ninety eight percent have been denied people who need waivers to get in the country for asylum and everything else it's just or even just to visit the country they're not they're just not doing it it's a discuss are and this was the week that he called for bible literacy classes that this should be taught of the schools i mean you know what i'm for that teach people about the vengeful god of the bible teach people you know about all the nonsense that isn't there if you actually teach it as an academic subject well meanwhile you know trump is meeting with an extreme hard right group led by as if this isn't a conflict of interest ginni thomas the wife of supreme court justice or as we like to to talk about basically this group is extremely anti gay and they're having meeting with trump and this is the wife of the sitting supreme court justice and apparently they start of the meeting off with a prayer and this made him very uncomfortable  and this probably gave him hives or something like that my god you can't make this stuff up it is so grotesque what we're living through i know woods very painful for all of you thank you for watching this show and putting up with it and then and then i read this week that the united states has once again pulled out of unesco which is the united nations education scientific and cultural organization they protect heritage sites but they you know they're all dedicated to world peace and all these things but no we're out of it again i think the last time we c put out a report about how nearly two percent of high school students identify as transgender and twenty seven percent of them feel unsafe at the school or traveling to and from school thirty five percent are bullied at school and thirty five percent attempt suicide well none of this is i think it's particularly shocking to us but it's good to have this coming from a respected organization government organization the c d c so good and bad news on that front in south dakota south dakota a committee in the legislature killed a bill that would have barred students from participating in sports consistent with their gender identity killed in committee five to two but sadly in north dakota they killed a bill that would have get a granted employment nondiscrimination protect ns to l g b t well i don't know about the t but l g b people in north dakota and what's interesting about the law and we'll talk about this in florida as well is that it seems not to have included public accommodations from the get go and that i think is going to be the new sort of frontier in our fighting for nondiscrimination laws is people fighting over whether public accommodations are included or not because that's what's happening in florida because they're nervous about like bakers and and all this kind of stuff and then it is controversial i mean you know there's a printer who where was that that doesn't want to do printing of a gay brochure for a for an organization right and actually printers have never had to print what they don't want to print obviously you come to the with a porno book and you said like it or print this and they say i don't do that you're allowed to say i don't want to do that so it's harder to prove discrimination they have sort of a right to discriminate on the basis of content we've always tried to distinguish that with the wedding cakes because you sell what it takes to not gay people you got to someone to gay people well i think that ambiguity is what is what is allowed this issue to gain some traction with you know the popul and put public accommodations in this difficult position the thing is that you know public accommodations if you go into a restaurant you don't want to be refused service because you say you're trans but that is what transmittal in particular are afraid of the omission of public accommodations these laws and that's what's happening in florida where two different laws have been introduced and one of them equality florida you know their main rights group for us opposes vehemently because there are myths public accommodation public accommodations that was introduced by republican state legislator who thinks that after ten years of introducing the full monte of protections that this is the way to go now to get some progress and equality florida and other groups like h r c n n g o t f are totally opposed to the exclusion of public ahmed ations i got to say i agree with them and one of the arguments is that it particularly hurts trans people and it's very hard to get these things passed if you wait and say well what will go for that later when people have calmed down because in new know by the way in maine susan collins has a trans opponent for twenty twenty danielle van helsing thirty six who was the second to announce against susan collins who got brett kavanaugh on the bench this trans candidate says it is a horrifying time for trans people ok in iowa the state supreme court is going to decide on whether iowa medicaid ban on transition related care is constitutional the case was heard this weekend will and a lower court judge ruled with us meanwhile lenda legal is condemned the trumpet ministrations attempt to allow discrimination in foster care they've been trying to get religious objections do conversion therapy so he's suing new york now in new york city i'm like the state we don't just ban it for minors for children we ban it for everybody we call it consumer fraud if if you're paying for it if you're paying for it so this guy wants to be able to get reimbursed for doing as well as hateful work and he says well you know i'm a religious counselor i have to be it's my free speech rights or something to be able to do this well go ahead and do it if you're a religious counselor but don't ask to be reimbursed by insurance or by the state outrageous outrageous and are allowed to discriminate against us without a tax oh well back in new york city for a moment cory johnson a some time co host on this show we have where we've corey's picture there that we can show i think there are various is he went there recently did the show as the co host is the speaker of the city council and now he's formed an exploratory committee for mayor and the big thing is he says only take two hundred fifty dollars contributions at the most even though you can do two thousand not taking any real estate money i'm not taking any lobbyist money that's bowl ok but full disclosure the a matching funds that the city gives you only match if you take donations up to two hundred fifty dollars all right but you know it's if danny o'donnell our our guest was just here does not win the public advocate role though you know we wish him all the best then if cory johnson were to win he would become the first city white elected openly gay officially almost had one w rand that's true and of course at cox never came out and deny what he was although all the way along and in maryland they have now and we have a picture over and out lesbian police chief her name is  awad twenty seven year veteran of the force and she is committed to community policing how about some nationalists how about that howard schultz don't get me started the guy from starbucks  you know if we had a reasonable taxation in this country these people would not have a billion dollars like bloomberg and this guy to spend on a political campaign because they'd be taxed at a reasonable rate and we would have reasonable public services et but that's not the issue with his running the issue with his running is that he's he has a strong potential to split the anti trust vote thereby allowing trump to waltz into the presidency ari i can tell you that the our people out there are smart enough to know that one of two people is going to be president it's either going to be a democrat or republican unless this guy does fantastically well in the polls but by the time you go to the polls you're going to know it's going to be one of two people make a choice yeah i think he can siphon off just enough in t states because that's what happened in florida cavalia harris declared this week certainly integrated l g b t she's a senator from california integrated l g b t issues into her announcement meanwhile there was said she was for medicare for all it was a very hard left speech coming from someone who we know was not you know didn't have a whole history on that but all that this is why howard schultz says he's running because he's thinks the democrats are to our left but we have never had a progressive real leftist government and in america ever heart felt apology it was nice to see that the vice chair of the house oversight committee is the out bisexual katie hill of california and she's married to a man she's out about being bisexual and she will be a big force in the investigations of donald trump and then there's a trump nominee for the federal district court of texas we should not overlook these things david has moroccan history of opposing l g b to rights and questions the very existence of tran and you can you tell us something about this well i mean and northrop and i are working very hard on this with the many many many other people who are trying to have we're trying to have a civil rights march on june thirtieth which is the commemoration of so all the  heritage of pride is still going to have their parade which will take nine hours ours will take about two and a half three we're going to march from the village through the traditional route going up sixth avenue is the first route up to central park have a rally listen to some speakers and  pride group is having a meeting to organize for stonewall fifty right after i leave here and i'm going to tell them you know yeah i think it's nice that you have in your corporate much but i'm sorry i'll be in the reclaim pride or they can bargain with anybody could march with us you can't have the venue for their wedding celebration there is no law protecting them down there from this kind of discrimination this is a place north of dallas and virginia now you said republicans never do anything but the but the bill protecting l g b t rights and housing and public employment passed the senate and now has cleared the house of delegates rules committee for the for us to as i understand it there were three different l g b t bills of which three were forwarded one was ditched because it was repetitive and some of the others but unfortunately i don't think there's a lot of hope for them to actually really that's that's the analysis all right well the commonwealth of virginia i went to the university ridge and it is a very backward state but it's making progress  anti israel protests there as there as there has been for the last couple of years by a group called cancel pink washing this was held january twenty third to the twenty seventh in detroit and people you know it's a long story you could read about it online  and there was that mention the print shop story ok so we get to international well i want to i want to mention the death of bobby swan eighty eight a transgender pioneer in dron technology bobbie died at the age of eighty eight didn't didn't go fully didn't have confirmation surgery until the age of seventy doing dial and call she called her is a slow transition but she lived in plantain township michigan she is survived by two sons and five grandchildren but she initiated a lot of the drone technology and in war time to you know do surveillance during the vietnam war and other other times you mentioned district this is where the comptons cafeteria rebellion happened in one thousand nine hundred sixty six mostly by trans people so that's there and in indiana they have a build a bar students from using the restroom aligned with their gender identity come on mike pence a smart international international japan supreme court what were you thinking they decided that you have to actually be sterilized if you want to change officially your gender identity update your documents yeah there it was a unanimous decision on their part and basically they said that the law of law one one one is designed to prevent problems quote unquote in relationships between parents and children it requires a trans person to be single and have no children under twenty in order to accomplish this full transition they fear it could result in confusion quote unquote and abrupt changes across japanese society and one ray of light in this decision was that they also a bill being pushed by brett holman in the senate in melbourne a gay activist tony pitman plans to boo the liberal party now the liberal party there is the conservative party in the midst pride march that's brazilian congressman i'm going to mangle a lot of the names here i'm sorry i'll apologize in advance because i don't know the portuguese pronunciations ok but the congressman is named joel willis w y l l y and yes and he is so afraid for his life because he by another day man this gay man is david miranda who is the husband of glenn greenberg the very very much irene walsh glenn greenwald the very first famous reporter hole they're the ones who broke it with david miranda they stand up and become an out gay member of congress because you know another of his colleagues in the rio city council we told you about last year mary how franco was murdered in the streets by the bus a narrow crowd i mean as bad as things are getting here on the trump things are getting bad there in brazil and they're both so nobody at the russian embassy in london because of all the crap with chechnya they wrapped it in a rainbow flag look at that this was to stand up for the people in chechnya over the  weekend about one hundred people showed up including peter tatchell called on the u k government to raise the issue at the highest levels because what's happening in chechnya is outrageous this st petersburg work submitted a complaint to that what's the f of russia saying you've got to look into this now some people think that's naive you know but they've got to start somewhere and they're trying now i think this under international news because they are a sovereign nation just to mention really quickly but it's a lovely story if you can look it up it's from  and support them and so that's that inch interesting leapfrog of generations and connecting so it's just a lovely n p r story look it up if you can find it and give it to me and they were getting down here the in the united kingdom the house of lords is going to debate a bill february first for same sex marriage in northern ireland northern ireland hasn't had essentially a government convening for the last two years because they can't make a deal on how they're going to run things so the lords are moving forward and then you have to pass it in the house of commons t call the clause in the lords would make it legal if within six months there wasn't a government constituted within northern ireland right to decide otherwise because northern ireland the only part of the united kingdom a part of the united kingdom that doesn't have same sex marriage still in a rathe probably hang the guy being gay thirty one year old they said and it's very hard to know the truth of these stories a journalist can't get at them can't find out what really how they say it's on charges of sexual intercourse with another man but then they also accused him of kidnapping two fifteen year olds but there but again you can't know the facts i think they tack on some of these other charges to make it more palatable to west to westerners you know seeing you know these horrible hangings that they  right well too quick notes from asia in singapore they're gay sex band is facing a legal challenge based on the legalization of gay rights in india so using that rationale because they're all part of the commonwealth  able to tap into their their share of legal precedence the commonwealth is good for something exactly and then there's going to be an agent conference of the international lesbian gay bisexual trans and intersex association in seoul south korea in august color it's a it's only an idea they have a hat but that they want to prise forward while all the kinks have not been worked out meanwhile in california state senator has introduced a bill that would make prep pre exposure prophylaxis available if you've had an exposure here is available at pharmacies and your emergency dose of that as well ok entertainment news entertainment news supergirl i am an old comic book and i used to work at marvel comics supergirl is d c comics the other company the distinguished competition ok but the bottom line is that supergirl introduced the first transgender superhero of for television and it was awesome i love watch it last night i thought it was prime problems with bryan singer the director who was up on all these charges big was a where was it written anyway on the on of all of his sexual misconduct with underage guys which he which he continues to deny earch awful lot of story which is unfortunate because i'm a big fan of his x men movies and he was the director of superman the now in skating first of all you had the first out bisexual and gay dancing team that competed but they the couple mom and joe johnson they finished seventh but at the national pairs title was won by an out gay name timothy look brooke whose partner is former falcon player to wallow a guy hosted earlier a hate is wrong inclusion panel for l g b t q athletes coaches and allies and it's part of his hate is wrong nonprofit group and you know he's still continuing that kind of work and of course is the organization athlete ally which is all about athletes standing up for gays and lesbians rights and i think we have another another minute speaking of black panther which you know won for best ensemble at the sag after awards michael b jordan who plays the heavy yes and the movie yes he does he kill monger he got what are brothers to an act of inclusion rider for every department said we need to holding up and then we have we have twenty five seconds how are you are you holding up through all this nonsense that we're all living through oh you know i just need a lot of popcorn and chocolate that medicates me i have i have turned to carbohydrates and the occasional glass of wine to do it  but i don't recommend it for everybody but there seems to be some hope on the horizon don't you think i think so yes so we'll see you next week