of far colleagues from the reclaim pride coalition who we brought into the studio to just sit down and talk about things like their st pride in their experiences and pride and why they think it's appropriate to have people talking to the camera and it's really quite moving in fascinating so that that's a twenty eight minute piece that will live here after we do the news and history and history continues to be made  y a self described queer and latino and democratic socialist declared victory in the queen's county new york district attorney's race promising real reform well see  the human rights campaign has named gay civil rights attorney and black gay man alfonso david as their next president more apologies the american psycho and the and not is still up noxious as the cops anyway the archbishop of indianapolis is not apologizing he is cracking down on gay married teachers at catholic schools in indianapolis and read that story yet so well will do the new will do the video and then we'll come back and do entertainment news just so you know the line up today so i mean tiffany cup on this thirty one year old woman who describes they see us about the central park five who were exonerated and you know just through anyway so so congratulations to tiffany who comes out of the alexandria ocasio cortez movement of democratic socialists in new york city and was indorsed by alexandra yes cortez yes and eight hundred thousand dollars that was there and this was a breakthrough and another breakthrough is that the human rights campaign yes and therefore what forty year history or something they have a new president who was an african american someone we know well who's been a guest on the show used to work at lambda legal defense all funds so david in recent years so he was a civil rights lawyer but in recent years he's been the counsel the counsel to the governor of new york andrew cuomo a little disturbed  of by him talking about his life he comes from liberia well he was born here he moved to liberia with his family his uncle became the president of liberia but then there was a coup and  absolutely but he has become adept at legislative maneuvering and and has always been an effective lawyer and so he brings a lot of skills to this job will be very interesting flying over the stonewall national model and all that well you know it's been confirmed through e mails but his from his friends at fox and friends had a very different way of celebrating pride week they brought in a whole stack of way and this was their way of celebrating the fact that the texas legislature passed a bill that says you can't discriminate on the basis of religious beliefs of a company or the donations that they make when you're deciding on a news that he paid any attention or is doing anything about it i thought to me the great thing is that they were brave enough to go in there and confront him which tells me something about the level of anger among employees at the justice department know trump is supposed to care about the polls do you think he cares that the gallup poll though shows seventy one percent for trans people serving in the military no there is no why should he he's gotten away with everything no matter what the polls say why should he pay any attention to this they get away with everything it know slipping he knows he's slipping and he has plenty of defenses for that he does very adept at that all right the new york state legislature has been busy with various things they moved to a spill they they didn't legalize marijuana but they did they expand the decriminalization so up to two ounces is a violation now not a crime in illinois legislature legalized recreational marijuana you they restored state benefits for people kicked out of the military under don't ask don't tell they abolished cash bail for all but certain violent felonies which is ninety percent of those charged and that would have affected the case autopsy results a little strange that we don't have that much more extensive anti harassment laws sexual harassment laws in this state you know they've eliminated the severe or pervasive standard  proving harassment they also banned the gay or trans panic defense for those who attack us they want to claim that you know they were freaked out by a statute of limitations for nd degree rape was extended from five to thirty years watch out mr trump who was accused of another rape this week which happened twenty something years ago they also failed to pass some stuff we were interested in including  and pick them up for that sure the legislature had a bill to abolish that but they failed to pass that right they won't they they dismissed and attempt to limit solitary runoff for mayor of kansas city missouri and she lost that runoff quite largely but kansas will now allow trans people to change their birth certificates to reflect their gender identities under a legal settlement with now that they have democratic governor laura kelly in a federal lawsuit run run governor brownback republican horrible wouldn't even allow changes to your documents after transition well back to missouri they side and a guy jumped him started calling him the f you know faggot and everything and they got into a fight and he was given a concussion awful and in connecticut the our favorite alliance defending freedom has gotten three female high school students to file a suit with them against trans athletes they think that got it how would these girls going to feel don't think they've gotten to that point yet now and i'm sure the alliance defending freedom will find a way to hypocritically denounce that all in brooklyn new york a superintendent of a building you know the gay couple that was seen kissing in the building and  guy on you tube that right winger who has made very provocative and yelling at a gay guy who's on you tube and was really hideously mean and so everyone wanted google which owns you tube to do something about they ended up francisco pride and says you are not allowed to criticize google all during if you are marching with google in the pride why don't they just change the name of the come but they too big brother lot about the new york liberation march run by reclaim pride but on the same day if you can't make it in packs to milla boy a former town of four thousand people they're going to have a march on sunday organized by a guy who's two catholic high schools to get rid of their married gay teachers so one of them's a jesuit high school and they said no we love them because there's no problem and the bishop says ok you can't call yourself a catholic school anymore and they don't care because they don't get money from the archdiocese on the other hand and also in indianapolis high esteem through high school and are under threat from the archbishop fire their gay teacher their gay married  and look and why the prosecutor dropped the charges but then again the american psychoanalytic association did issue a big apology for you know twenty years after the american psychiatric association dropped us from  they did it was just very very late and so what they said they said are we are role in the discrimination and trauma caused by our profession was inappropriate absolutely and i apologized o k in byron georgia a trans woman who was the fire chief was fired they said that she didn't stay certified as an arson investigator well if that let's see how you think that excuse holds up they had cops scored her out of the building immediately it was technicalities and she's obviously contesting it and she's the one to professional democratic primaries for city council the st official there in twenty years and congratulations to the u s women's soccer team which has a number of out lesbians on it and is doing very well at the world cup and there is the couple all when they are on the road with the team they do not room together but there are a couple but they're very professional about their soccer but trump criticize the u s women's soccer co captain megan oh for not singing the national anthem or putting your hand over her heart she has to stand all the association is going to stop they don't let people neal but you know put her hand over her heart trump doesn't even know where his heart is he wouldn't know where to put it and he doesn't know the words to the song interesting statistic from pew research center they say seventy five percent of gay and lesbian people are out although i wonder how they would know you know if people are not out how are you going to survey them well but they said only nineteen percent of bisexuals are out it's harder it's harder for folks we have to make it easier equality recently well now many even jellicoe also are protesting and are appealing the decision even though they cannot win and thirty couples have already registered to marry in georgia the country pride march was called off because of political tbilisi drama yes and then but in kiev in the ukraine eight thousand marched we have a picture of this under very tight security  aiwan where marriage for same sex couples was legalized on may th a month later one thousand one hundred and seventy three couples have married and to have divorce and prince william visited the gay charity that helps gay youth and was asked how he'd feel if his kids to one of his three kids were get your more and he said i'd be absolutely fine and i'd be worried about what might happen to them but i'd be absolutely fine fifty people in germany went memorial for six hundred and fifty people who wore the pink triangle in the concentration camp they brought a rainbow flag and laid flowers on the memorial and this is i believe it looks like it's in to good shape so i'm not sure whether it's a replica of the real thing but that is the pink triangle worn by gay men in german concentration camps lessons were assigned black triangles aides news yes like c'mon horace wants to cover prep without co pay and require insurance companies to cover tests to monitor your oh well you how about how about just you know covering all the pharmaceuticals and a public education campaign about new york state has authorized full regiment of prep for sexual assault victims through the office of victim services offering payment assistance ok and i think now no we're  so this year with pride coming out and we hate the corporate pride we started the reclaim pride coalition to produce the queer liberation marc people's political march just people in the streets  for reclaim pride we produced a twenty minute video that explains a lot of it from very personal perspective by the people who are among the organizers and we thought we would show you this video my st pride was brooklyn pride in twenty four t and it was incredible like so lovely community gathering they've got vendors and broods or you know information activism organizations vendors food and then at the end there's this parade and there are no floats no corporations and just family is and people of all walks of life all coming together to celebrate years before what i consider is actually my st pride because i went when i thought i was this hat and ally to a lot of my friends and then a couple years later i discovered oh no i am non binary and loved the long island i snuck into the city and didn't tell my parents or anybody where i was going and i watched this thing this amazing all these day people and i just took my st real public step and i  was am originally from denver and i came out in high school i remember going to some pride festivities in denver i was not a participant i was not a spectator in any way but i was trying to drive across town and the person who is driving the car a good frustrated those and at the time i fairly much in the closet but i had knowledge of all of my inner desires that were bubbling up and it was really it was disheartening and i sat in the seat and had issues with myself for not saying something but it is like what do i say anyway my early experiences with pride were less then on their well meaning that i just didn't enjoy it i felt very disconnected i didn't like standing on the sides and watching and i didn't have a real i came here from mexico and so i felt very disconnected and i didn't know how one could participate or how i could participate my st pride parade was here in new york city i was meeting up with a friend of mine down over by christopher street and we were really on opposite corners of each other but we didn't meet each other for about an hour and a half because of the barriers and the crazy traffic and the police all of the people the st time i ever attended a gay pride was in brooklyn the st brooklyn gay pride i guess in  iated my desire to act up if you will and it was an alternative to the least saturated march as it exists today so my  and seventeen i was at i went to new york city pride parade with my partner prior to that like i didn't even know i was a member of the community when i was that you know i went to them as an ally but not not not not for me in front of me i had their choice i could not hide in the closet any longer so i joined them in the streets and that movement of stepping out of the closet i took my st step or pride requires everyone in the parade to wear a respond and march with in the middle barricades this prevents people on the sidewalk from spontaneously joining the prude in the street g area honestly we almost left before we actually stepped off because it was super loud and we were waiting for hours just to get into the parade itself i had always been participating in the macho as opposed to being a bystander and i did get the chance a couple of years ago to actually watch some of the march go by and it wasn't pretty well maybe they were pretty  was suddenly there were lots more of these french bike rack barricades all along th avenue suddenly the the west village became just a rabbit warren of all of these sort of barricades people could no longer step out of the street enjoy and join the march in the longer our movements became constrained the police presence in the west village after the march got higher and higher we would hear more about more and more arrests of young queer people of color in the west village in the during the weekend of private things just began to get harsher and harsher to oppose the idea of wearing wristbands in order to get in the march because with respect you know a kid like me in one thousand dollars before wouldn't have had a wristband and couldn't even bend in the march so this year instead of going to the regular pride parade i'm a part of a march that's supposed to be about rights it's about the trans people who are the reason why we have the pride parade who fought the police black brown lower income disabled those are the people that this march is about it's disingenuous for them to try and claim this march history and this march legacy and speaking for the people when that's not really what they're doing the simple idea of putting barricades down and having spectators and participants is an entertainment model that does not work for trying to give voice to people's problems to to oppression that exists in society to the stigma that we live with every single day that's what needs to be addressed there are so many different people organizations and groups that have been kind of left out and a lot of ways of  that heritage or pride organizes the annual pride parade which they try to call march but which is really a parade this rainbow party has nothing to do with people stories and i think in the dyke march there is a lot of companies give money to politicians and candidates who don't support q i eighty dollars s plus rights and it really frustrated me like the corporatization and all the floats when the rest of the year you don't hear them talk about pride you don't hear them promote teacher i s plus people from my understanding the goals of reclaim pride are to kind of band together a community and give ourselves a stronger voice together to fight for the things that our government is currently trying to take away from us and actually succeeding in taking away from us at the forefront of this march as well as honoring the history of the stonewall rebellion when you look back on what times were like when that st christopher street liberation day parade march happened it was incredibly dangerous to be identified as a gay person within our culture as a lesbian person at least progressed socially enough to include other marginalized people within our community but even to be a dinner fight is gay was cause for physical harm but certainly you were likely to lose your livelihood it was a lot harder back then out and to fight for those rights like now it's not super easy but it is a lot easier a became a teacher and often when i would bring up the history of the stonewall uprising  were able to walk out freely and we were able to say this is how it is because this is who we are and it wasn't fancy and it was a celebrity we want to have what we had in  folks who are the st march and certainly the stonewall uprising to include all aspects of our community which is broad and wide and america and the world that we are still vanguard's of our culture especially when it comes to issues around social justice and human rights the people who run it feel we need a lot of money to do what we do so we're going to involve a lot of corporations and take their movement which is what it's supposed to be about and assured the community groups of the groups that should be featured in this march isn't just about being proud but about seeking justice and making people aware of some of these problems that are happening everywhere else in the world to our community as a queer woman that's my that's my history those are the people shoulders i stand now the reason  for the life and the opportunities privileges some form of being as i live in a western democracy but those those it's the cool it's the foundation of gay liberation prive used to be a time of freedom in this city freedom for communities it used to be it was a time of community it was a time of freedom it was a time just sort of unfettered liberation and then as time went on it just became more corporate ties it became more constrained it became more police  black people do not feel included and don't go to the pride parade and that's something i've noticed and i want to be a part of this march because i feel included i feel highlighted as a member of this community pride is over policed in many ways it's become a celebration of an institution that harms black and brown people poor people so i got involved because i wanted to imagine a pride without institutions of violence and a pride that actually celebrated people all fighting back against these institutions and demanding their liberation we want no police at the march because the police are the ones that are the reason the stonewall riots happened because a black trans woman named marcia p johnson and sylvia rivera  the police are the reason why this march exists are the reason why we have this history so i think it is very dismissive that the police have never apologized to our community and the police right in the parade when some a lot of people in the community do not feel safe and especially as a black woman who has seen a lot of injustice against black people in in all of this country's history i don't think it's appropriate to have police at the parade what we do for the least in our community just has a benefit that trickles right if you have these corporations pay living wages to clear and transparent for that benefits the rest of society too and if you have the police stop harassing trans people and black and brown people that benefits also straight people people take for granted that you can get same sex couples get married now that could easily that could be reversed by the supreme court so the states could go back to not allowing it anymore because many of them have laws against it or they can just trim what benefits they have to give us if they want so that's just in the united states and of course there's a tremendous amount of anti gay violence that never stopped and that we still have to address and my god the rights of transgender people here in new york city we come down the street hand in hand which was something you know the people were fighting f in days but can a transgender individual walk down the street holding someone stand not so much i'm on the board of new alternatives for homeless all g b to you our kids the transgender kids they are constantly getting arrested in the city of new york by the police just for walking down the street it's an easy arrest for the place they say you were prostituting yourself when they have no relationship to that children little children are in our country are killing themselves because of anti i l g b t q i eighty s plus bullying by other little children there are trans women who are being beaten and murdered at beyond alarming rates in this country and abroad their families receiving their sons bones after being tortured and murdered for being gay homo sexual acts are punishable by death in many countries and trans people are being beaten and killed just for daring to be themselves if you can sit quietly or sit through a rainbow colored party through all of this how can you even sit through that how can you not stand up and say  something my name is collin patrick ashley i'm an activist an organizer with people's power assemblies i'm also a graduate student at the killing graduate center and an adjunct professor at hunter i my name's amanda log she and i identify as a queer woman of the missionary order of sisters of perpetual indulgence when i'm not dressed like this most people know me as huckleberry though we know that marginalized people people of color on a daily basis are far more likely to be harassed arrested and imprisoned continues today trans people it's a similar kind of scenario if you're outside of the you must look you know normal if you're outside of that you're a target you're a target by general population to be discriminated against and in many parts of the world in the country it's legal pride says they need their money so they allow corporate floats and corporate contingents in huge numbers bigger numbers even in the gay community groups numbers to march and it takes up a tremendous amount of space they're just doing it for advertising i mean if they want to if the corporations want to stand on the sidelines holding a banner saying t d bank we support you are going to be nice and they can support us but they're taking up a lot of space time and we don't even get to a march that we can enjoy that day  i'm francesca i'm a twenty three year old bisexual black girl i live in new york city i'm an accountant go up and my preferred pro what we're really here to do with reclaim pride is to honor this history with a march that starts in the west village and goes up to the park just as they did fifty years ago that has space for our most marginalized members o community who might not be able to see themselves in this other city sponsored parade and has without barriers on the street so that anybody can enter off the sidewalks at any time this is a march for everyone with minimal with no police presence which would in danger many of our community members and with no corporate floats because pride is not about the corporations pride is about the liberation of the people i am gabriel  broad coalition by pronouns or he him pride needs to be about people continuing to demand and equality and demand freedom demand liberation and that from those demands there is also of course love and celebration but the world needs to change and it's clear and transparent ball are a part of that change because it's the th anniversary you know we're going to celebrate it once and we're going to celebrate it with a huge bang but i'd like to see that just be just be just be around more than it is a stead of just a tourist destination you know taking your photo outside stonewall in i'm excited about making a scene i'm excited about doing something that hasn't been done in many many years because what started in the seventy's has turned into a corporate parade and while that's nice to be like celebratory and like good to be mainstream like i don't want to be mainstream i want to fight we have a reason to be joyful we're alive right if we're not respected then we have a reason to march and i didn't believe that i would have to sit here thirty two years later and basically bitch about the bad day have become so capital this is no longer my problem i gave them their pride but they have not given me my people and entertainment news the canadian actor connor jessup twenty five years old of american crime has come out he says he's known since he was thirteen he said my shame took the form of  projects on under represented people the st couple of things on her plate are a half hour drama and a college series now i must say what i turn on poses and i see you know see us i finally got netflix this is eva do verne a's series about the you know devastating indictment of the criminal justice system the they were called the central park five now that the exonerated five this was produced by oprah winfrey and it does i won't tell you you have to watch it i won't tell you the but there is a transgender character in this series ok and i think we're also recommending stonewall the opera  which got a great new york times review but what i liked in the review maybe this is why i remember it well as the the guy i wrote the review talked about seeing this and remembering seen the which i also saw and he remembered the same thing from it which was the gay men lined up outside carnegie hall in one thousand nine hundred and sixty five this being interviewed by local t v and so obviously gay trans singer lives about great controversy going on about taylor swift's new single you need to calm down which is a pride themed  video that includes cameos by katy perry ellen degenerates jesse tyler ferguson the queer eye guys and there's some talk of this this is a little too celebrity a little to bounce the not really serious enough but they you need to calm down i think is a reference to sylvia rivera which i can't remember whether it was in that video we didn't but that was close korean actress as a gay and frank and doing an asian reboot of gone with the wind it's to he's just become known as dial he's run out of things to say so perhaps now he can mexican v has a new tello novella coming along that stars a gay couple this is the st time they've had a gay couple as stars but it is a spinoff from a previous soap opera so we're going to see you  rally in central park from one to four pm on the th of july i'll be without a lawyer norman see go west nd nd street in riverside for the reading of the declaration of independence at noon and next week's show will be a recap of all the events around the parades and marches on sunday will be out there thanks for watching i copy happy