the i am happy to be on medicare on a half price metro card in new york and i'm going to try to preserve all that for you and extended to all of humanity good luck with that it is the internet when you started i started a long time ago medicare for all it is international pronouns day and that's why i did that but we're here to talk about what's going on in the world and we are in the home stretch to take back some power in this country on november sixth we have good and bad signs that will tell you about meanwhile surprise surprise brett kavanaugh shows he's to the right of neil gorsuch and that means he's often a very small is also very right at the supreme court and of course they have confirmed fifteen more fifteen more right wing federal judges with more on the way of  course trump wants you to pay to protest in front of the white house literally he's monetizing everything maybe that'll make up for the money we lost on the corporate tax cuts welcomed we'll welcome to the new york republican club and then they went out and beat up anti fascist protestors not a pretty sight we are mourning the loss of two pioneering activists and a third pioneer yes the list this week this story is almost too much to bear a fourteen year old kid to death in iraq just for the suspicion that he was gay and there's been a surge in anti t violence in brazil as the far right presidential candidate is leading the race there on the other hand australia which has a conservative government is looking at banning private schools from discriminating against  politics and i have to say you know we read the feed from the human rights campaign and i am encouraged that they've got the all these people a thousand get out the vote events across sixty nine t house races the woman who does the voice of  simpson yardley smith donated two hundred fifty thousand dollars to the super pacs so i mean there was a big effort across the country we hope that you are a part of it to get out the vote get your friends to vote and turn this country around well certainly if you read h r sees daily newsletter and am a quality and i recommend all of you do and then you don't have to watch the show anymore because a lot of the nuances from there you will see that chad griffin is everywhere he is everywhere and i like that i like the fact that they do have people everywhere but i have to say the single most encouraging piece of news i heard this week because i have been scared about this midterm stuff and the republicans catching up in enthusias and surging ahead of democrats in senate races and stuff but the most encouraging piece of news i heard or the results from the first day of early voting in georgia yes and we should yes it was fantastic it's  them what it is three times as many people voted on the first day of early voting in georgia as voted four years ago in the last midterm election and this is despite every time and this is despite out about talk about the appointments and federal judges who are right winger yes but they don't they're not everybody now the the the voting rights act it was partially done by the supreme court but not entirely so they and they can't just do anything that they want they delayed they did not they opt any way by what they were but this brian kemp while while he's doing this stacey abrams the democratic candidate exciting candidate very she is marching in the atlanta pride parade the first time a candidate for governor has done that and she's she's very pro gay whereas kemp was very anti gay is running ads on bryant or did you read that the new i think by mistake well i mean i think they just i think they made as sort of generic  advani and some of them ended up on growing up errors yeah let me go into the mix of people's thinking and then what and then it's of course you know horrible what's happening in north dakota making it harder for native americans to vote a key constituency f heitkamp there this they've knocked off twenty percent of the voters off the rolls and the supreme court this week refused an appeal of that exactly why don't you by the way speaking of politics what do you think of this  revelation that lee atwater confessed on his deathbed that they set a trap for gary hart that the whole monkey business thing that surprised you do you remember lee atwater i remember atwater and i remember he was guilty of dirty tricks i thought very hard to got to himself by hanging out with samba nation because he's ninety eight he put himself in a position to be the subject of that kind of dirty trick and he was taken advantage of and that's how these things were and speaking of dirty tricks mike bloomberg who became a democrat he pledged one hundred million dollars one hundred million dollars to democrats in the midterms and it's not materializing has even come close to that and he still supporting republican congressman peter king of long island for ride that was some nine eleven connection or something politics yeah well let's go to the national  leader for a while ok he's doing some dirty politics by the way that interview on sixty minutes of trump what a waste of time lesley stahl didn't ask any follow up questions or really get to him at all i sat there doing my usual screaming at the t v not entirely literally but just sitting there thinking you could have said this you could have said that you could have asked this question but now you just let him get away with all this stuff they should have now he's going to avoid any real question but you have to put the information out there and your questions to at least try to inform the public instead of letting him get away with all this of course this this whole saudi situation i mean of course i look at the saudi situation and what happened to this reporter for the washington post is horrendous and now we have the tape on it him being dismembered and having his for anchors cut off in his head cut off and cetera at the behest of the saudi prince  but of course who knows nothing we're all doing that every day and you haven't the saudis and the united states to the of many people slaughtering people you know trump is always like oh those kids who got gassed in syria i have to drop the biggest bomb ever but what's happening in yemen we're doing well he brags about all the billions of dollars worth of military equipment which of course he is completely exaggerated but where is that equipment  drive and this anti gay crusader we have a picture of him got confirmed by the senate on a party line vote to head the justice department civil rights division he oversees enforcement of us civil rights laws on the voting rights act or what's left of it and he's the guy who defended h b to a north carolina the bathroom bill who fought for religious exemptions under the affordable care act etc this is just all foxes in the chicken coop and shall we talk about the fifteen judges well you know these include richard sullivan of the second circuit david porter in the third right most of them the ninth circuit these are so the most right wing judges possible and then i read about one who's on deck her name is allison rushing fourth circuit she graduated law school in two thousand and seven so you're supposed to have twenty years of experience on the bench or in the practicing law glee just know she's never been on the bench right right y but she actually worked for alliance defending freedom yes she did it was a summer associate job but she also worked for the federalist society or as a member of the federalist society she is described as an extremist she is described as comically inexperienced and she is pro she was pro the defense of marriage act she clerked for clarence thomas and neal gore search and here's what they're doing with her mcconnell made a deal that they would confirm fifteen judges and everybody could go home and and do their campaigning well meanwhile they're going to have a recess hearing for this allison  grassley is going to rush through her confirmation hearing when nobody is in town they'll have like two senators there who are up for reelection who will sit and conduct a hearing about her and then she'll get confirmed by the republican majority of the senate to the fourth circuit bent she'll be a united states court of appeals judge with no experience  for and this is why are her life another sixty years that is why i am calling for the expansion of the federal judiciary including the supreme court also calling for the indictment of jared pushed or when this article about him not paying income taxes a minute you know they say they do this legally and was let go but it is that it stinks to high heaven and they wrote the tack bill to get more real estate deductions i mean this is why they're going to now make up the tax cuts in revenues surprise surprise and this is so disappointing we'll have to go after medicare and social security are you upset about all that well you might want to go protest at the white house but you're going to have to pay for the privilege if interior secretary ryan zinke he has anything to do do about it they want to close off eighty percent of the sidewalks around the white house and charge that you know sometimes when you have a thing on the ball you have to put up a bond or something like that but th may for any spontaneous demonstration the park service you know they do recruit for special events but the part even got the park service doing this nixon tried to do this by the way during the vietnam war it to gore said she advises jeff sessions on your aids and organized crime he's an assistant u s attorney in l a he is a member of an l g b two law group but there it is we're  doubtful that the trump administration would let a non right winger slip through the fence something to jerry i read this was on a right wing site and they were kind of upset about a homosexual getting this job well have they talked to rick grinnell lately our next un ambassador i don't think so anymore i think they want a woman ok they're scared of women although if they drag it out another three weeks they won't care anymore because they'll be past the midterm governor once the state democratic party to make amends for their mailer accusing her falsely of anti semitism by spending an equal amount to help reelect deborah glick that would be nice don't hold your breath would be my answer to that however in california greg louganis selim pick champion diver is getting into the political game he is recommending a no vote on against same sex marriage when it passed the the supreme court so technically what she did she claims she was pro same sex marriage but she ruled that the court should not be involved in deciding marriage it should be for the localities around the country auclair wisconsin westchester county new york what did they do and lakewood county city council in ohio they have all been and fourteenth amendment yeah now there are plenty of arguments about gender markers and things like that but in most of this country you can if you are a trans person go into your state secretary of state office or whatever and change your gender marker on your birth certificate driver's licenses or even easier but you need a birth certificate that's accurate to your lived gender to get all sorts of things in this world and there are only three states in this country it turns out the bar that categorically ohio tennessee and kansas so let em to has now gone into court to represent a trance man and a few others who today it's probably because it's national coming out looking at you lindsey graham she had previously tweeted the jeff sessions is definitely a bottom so whatever you feel about that graham was confronted about this by t m c and he said number watching through an airport number one she knows zero about me and to the extent that it matters i'm not game ok lindsey that's your story can we talk about the new york city while the proud boys were doing this they were shouting things faggot see soccer and i like being in honor of judge kaplan off now did you see the video of them coming out of the republican club  they are with their white powder was an endless stream of them there were like fifty of them coming out of the republican are going mainstream this is who is taking over the republican party folks this is who your money yourself with if you're voting for them i i reported here a couple of weeks ago that they groups like this were organizing to attack the democratic party and were coming after us and we're going to  demonstration i did not go to the demonstration now i'm glad i didn't go to the demonstration but the night before people had written a couple spray painted a couple of symbols on the door broken window that i don't quite understand that screwed up the locks oh yeah glued the locks you know when i worked at c b s news and the union going to tell this on television yes the union was right yes they used to screw up the equipment and they did and they've built a plywo wall around the whole building you know around the whole block and the union guys went down the manholes outside the the wall to get under and get into the building and cut cable and they cut a cable on a jets football game and resigned but it goes into a great deal of great detail about how this group has had a hard transition from kevin cathcart was there for like twenty five years to rachel and the problems are over diversity problems over pay problems over benefits not funding certain transition related care in their health plan even though they're suing others for that and then they said they would pay for it out of their own pockets and then strategic questions about what cases to proud of it but there's another controversy in the community that is wider and that is playing out now and will go wider and that you could you could be a part of yes exactly and that is about the pride parade so andy and i as we have told you for months are working with a group called reclaim pride n y c we are fed up with the corporatization and privatization of the pride parades and i have heard from someone in a position to know that there's a lot of internal op set with the privatization of the parade process and the lack of democracy and the lack of community and in fact what the parade has become here in new york and i think  a lot of places around the country and around the world is a showcase for supportive corporations who like to put big floats and parades and have employees or other people in their corporate t shirts and gradually the community organizations and just plain people get squeezed out of this process and in new york have been told last year and next hear that a lot of them cannot march cannot join the parade it's too big sorry you can't join in we have room for the corporations who are paid to achieve a prominent spot at the head of the parade but you sorry no room for you doesn't cost a lot of money to have the civil rights march to have a human rights march just like the women's march is so what we're hoping people will do and we're asking you to do is to endorse this but  maybe you want to come to new york and be a part of our the marks that we're trying to organize here that will be a civil rights march or do it in your own hometown what we are doing is going back to the basic values of the s rebellion having a massive people's march like the women's marches of the last couple of years and they're having another one in january by the way and and the original stonewall marches and just people in the streets like the vietnam war demonstrations i was part of many decades ago all civil rights marches you just want people in the street women's rights and artists in themselves having their own voice having a critical mass of people in the streets not corporate flow and the reason is because yes it's fifty years and since stonewall and we certainly have a lot we've made a lot of progress and we have we have a lot to celebrate but we have a long way to go we about what we're fighting for in the future presumably we want to keep fighting for our civil rights and our liberation in our individual cities and towns in our states in our country and around the world and that is what we judy and endure this have your organization in dorset endorse it is an individual please do that do it right now go to just go to the website it's very easy to do you go to the you go to the page the word says get involved and then you say  you're in your individual sign up as a supporter that said and you sign up and you're part of it whether whether you're going to do it with us the york or you're going to do it in your hometown and so start thinking about that about organizing on the last sunday of june which is the you know the money you all have pride marches other times of the year but if everybody does that on that day it's going to make an impact and that's the point to make an impact with a values statement not live a corporate flo value statement which has been lost in the pride parades we put out a press release this week to formally announce our intention to produce this event and also noting that the heritage of pride here in new york has scheduled an opening ceremony at the barclay center in brooklyn which is managed by an organization own by philip anschutz the notoriously homophobic billionaire who also owns coachella and runs facilities around the country and a million other businesses and he's a long time supporter of the alliance defending freedom the family research council right wing  us exactly so sign up as a supporter at reap claim pride n y c dot org if you want to come to our meetings and get involved please do in new york we need wednesday nights now at seven pm at the whole big town meeting to decide bigger bigger issues around this on december i believe it's the fifth some at five at seven pm at the people's forum at three twenty west thirty seven i don't know about my column on december fifth and  get involved then really we encourage you wherever you are hearing or seeing this to get together with people in your local area and put together your own civil rights march on of the old per a every he would just come together you'd see people you knew you'd meet new people but you were part of a crowd of people of human beings and you know frankly you know i don't want  is leading the parade that they are not our leaders i want everybody to have an equal place in the march yes we want everybody to march politicians we want groups to march but we but everybody march bring a sign that says what you want to say on that day the way we did in the women's march yes all right i think we've convinced them well i hope so because they're going to hear about this for the next nine months on this program because we're not going away  some of the things that are going on in wisconsin this when we do have things to march about they denied health care into two trans women there was a suit from the a c l u state employees yes and they have been awarded one got four hundred seventy nine thousand dollars in damages and the other three hundred one thousand so their wisconsin ok well some would say since they won we don't need to march but clearly we do because they shouldn't be in that position to begin with right here in  minnesota a straight couple who are filmmakers and avid christians have filed a pre enforced challenge to a non discrimination law they've decided with at the behest of the alliance defending freedom to go to court and say we are filmmakers and we want to make films about weddings and promoting marriage and you know christian straight marriage but the law says that if we open a business doing that we're going to have to film same sex weddings so we're going into court to argue against that now we haven't opened our business no one has asked us to do a same sex wedding but we have the alliance defending freedom behind us so that we're going to court to our you know i think the judge cavanagh might be sympathetic we've got to talk about him i mean he's the reason that we know he's to the right of course it's that we're hearing this immigration case about detaining people who might have committed some infraction fifty years ago without a hearing and the other justices are going to you serious fifty years ago you could still do it and to again spouse who is a permanent resident since coming to the united states from mexico in two thousand and two the united states citizenship and immigration services sent a letter accusing them of a sham barr there is no proof that you were married for anything other than immigration rights so nicholas summers says that jose hernandez his spouse is the other half of a heart and you better stop this yeah that would be nice if washington d c this on the twenty sixth that would be next week they're going to inter matthew shepard's cremated remains at the national cathedral this personal effects are being donated to the smithsonian and bishop gene robinson is going to conduct the service for the in term and here's what shocked me looking at this it's twenty years since matthew shepard twenty years he died three years before nine eleven that somehow that juxtaposition struck me that that was before nine eleven long term ago when it was just today and we all got beat up by the cops here  trying to march in his memory here's a cautionary tale for you in short a kansas teacher and city council member justin adrian was busted for having sex with a male student in the classroom during school hours they met on grindr and continue chatting on snap chat the student was eighteen and i've aged but cadmus has a law against teachers having sex with students so he's up on a count one count of unlawful sexual sexual relations and faces two and a half years don't do it with students we told you about the young trans student in virginia who had been not sheltered during a terrorism drill spaces boys locker room girls locker room they've been keeping her out of them for four years the school board met about this after all the national publicity about this drill and the superintendent expressed some sympathy to her but they came up with no solution they have not decided to let her into bigger roles locker room on the other hand in fairfax virginia a sixteen year old boy was found to have sexually assaulted an arrest girls and he was transferred to an alternative school they investigated but the boy and his father are suing for gender discrimination saying this is worse than a criminal conviction on his record in the bronx new york you know i've told you about the the kid in the bronx a year ago who defended himself against that attack and up slashing two people killing one of them well the one who survived the slashing is suing him now for damages along with the school system and  up and chats managed arena for years we've been telling you about the assault on a guy named patterson in brooklyn and twenty thirteen african american gay man he was assaulted by a group of us men who were on a patrol in that neighborhood four of them pled guilty or had their case is dismissed dismissed but he got a minor herskowitz went to trial was convicted because his d n a was found on patterson sneaker and he was sentenced to four years but he's been out on bail and now the court of appeals and said we question the old he he became an activist in one thousand nine hundred sixty three when he was a student at emory university he was a founder of the georgia gay liberation front and he  expelled from emory in sixty three for being gay well for hosting a man in his dorm room well i think that's the analysis to all it takes yes so in as six years later in october of sixty nine he formed the georgia gay liberation front right after the stonewall rebellion here in seventy one he was the first grand marshal of the first pride parade a hundred twenty five marchers relentless activist all his life thank you burl for all your work tell us about jinx be yours the jing spears was in l a she was eighty four years old there she is with her little dogg primary source for news of the lesbian community and still is and she was a wonderful activist she had been a cheap in the air force she quit the air force  superiors and she certainly was concerned that she would be thrown out but she left because she was protesting she was a member of the l g b t q journalists hall of fame because of her founding of news and then there was gina ashworth eighteen years old a pioneering speed skating champion the first american to win a medal in it in one nine hundred sixty which was the first year they let women compete in speed skating at the olympics her long time partner was christine the feverel she worked as a high school teacher in the adirondacks in wilmington new york and was also a town supervisor pioneer is every one of them and thank you for your december they're allowed to get married now everybody else january first and then the government announced it is accepting the court ruling for same sex marriage nice of them which is why they were able to get married so happy new year in poland a court says a lesbian couple can register as parents of their son and on the other hand we told you that you know a court there was a court ruling that said that they could have an equality parade  luban the mayor said he's worried about violence and believe me that they they had to use tear gas to protect against the anti gay protesters against this but they didn't have their march there the mayor said he does respect freedom of expression and freedom of gathering on like donald trump fifteen hundred of a us marched in the first pride parade in lieu blen three hundred protesters showed up to attack with bottles bricks stones and flares the cops had to use tear gas water cannons and arrest people to stop the anti bt they protected them in australia they have an evangelical prime minister now scott morrison but the government is urging a ban on private schools expelling students over sexuality labor wants to repeal exemptions that let religious schools discriminate  entirely because the government pushed this religious freedom one of the reasons the the if there's a by election of october twentieth which is why he may be softening up things and are we at how do we feel about the vatican being so nice to cardinal donald wuerl who resigned as archbishop of washington d c no discipline you know you have to ask what they don't get it obviously they did discipline to chile an twelfth the hitler pope you know when it comes to making anybody a saint in brazil we've been following the presidential campaign and the first round winner what's his name bo  close to the evangelical christian crowd that has become very prominent in brazil that have been eroding exponentially but in brazil in particular evangelical christians have become tremendously power from all over the layers a swastika carved into someone's back injuries to people all over terrible violence breaking out not unlike what's happening in this country around from sweater rick saluted and in iraq a really heartbreaking story of a fourteen year old boy who was accused of being feminine was murdered by a homophobic mob on the street in baghdad name is how moody sorry it is just a heartbreaking story it could be there's a tape of this which we're not showing you he can be heard calling for his mother as he lay dying in the street there's a fourteen year old and a little kid stabbed repeatedly stabbed the killers joking as they tormented him terrible not quiet is a dire note in bali indonesia a beauty pageant was cancelled they had been play any they had trained all the contestants on hiv education facts and they were going to make this an event that really talked about age hiv aids education well right  wingers got hold of this information and started harassing the venue where they were going to hold the beauty pageant and got the venue to back out and so the whole event was canceled a couple american tour and couple of barge notes in thailand they're sent to approve s unions that's far short of equal rights in taiwan the pro quo of the same sex marriage referendum has been cleared and there so you can have a civil union thing by the right wing because they can't stop relationship recognition entirely based on the court decision on november twenty fourth and you can have the pro same sex marriage thing on the ballot at the same time one of both of them passed in honduras opponents of same sex marriage with the high court to express their displeasure with going ahead with same sex marriage they're on the court decision the enter american court of human rights is coming down hard on any egg country there that does not want to go along with their ruling for same sex marriage in the czech republic the european committee of social rights says that the czech policy for sterilization for those who want to change their gender violates their right to health  the russian group has evacuated one hundred thirty sexual minorities from chechnya and most of them have not just left chechnya they've left the whole country because it's part of russia you know we did win for them for getting out yes well it's just become impossible all right news well nice to see that kind of is the first major world economy to legalize marijuana for recreational use and it will make it easier to get pardons for those who have pot convictions is a big issue for people with aids who have or have or have had issues around being able to eat definitely i was in baltimore for a day last week  on a panel that was looking at the demonstration thirty years ago seize control of the f d a we should pull out our old footage of that gate cable network was down there my god what a scene about it was it was thousands of us from all over the crimes very there to surround the f d a building and demand a change in their process for approving drugs the idea was that they were very very very slow and we didn't like their procedures for how they examined drugs either peter stanley got up on the balcony overlooking the entrance to the canopy over the front and right there was a lot of banging on the window well cops pushed some of the act up members through a window that was very scary and dangerous my favorite part of the demonstration was the media part where a few of us were speakers to the national media but meanwhile because we were from all over the country we had organized a long line of people from almost every state in the union lined up next to the main podium where we were speaking and the whole national media was there and everybody was holding a sign of where they were from and when we finished doing the short remarks we turn to the national media and we said over there are people from every state you represent with your news organizations and you can go talk to someone who is a hometown person for your newspaper and there was this moment of yes you do you have to give them what they need and cover your pride march on june thirtieth twenty nine thirty and so the johns hopkins hopkins school of social worker or social policy social whatever convened a bunch of us who'd been at the demonstration and some others a former f d a commissioner who turned out to be an idiot dr david kessler he was not there at the time but he he said said lifestream did i think and it was just very interesting to look at these issues and look at all of us thirty years later and considerate a very important moment well thirty years i also received this week this book put together by an act of photographer bill bites it's called the aids activist project and it says it's a collection of photographs of members and other aids activists with writing from many of them and i have to say i didn't expect a lot and i sat down with this and i opened it up and i could not stop reading now i just read it cover to cover every word and it was fascinating and of course very movies and those who i am in there but there are just an amazing number of people some of whom i knew some of whom i didn't from all over the world and if you want to know more about this you can go to the aids activist project dot org and see some of these pictures and read about it in find out about the book i would like to borrow it at some point you certainly you can borrow it right now and i don't have to carry  home again the great carrier put it in that sleeve i will protect it ok it's a beautiful book well the aids crisis is not over either and that will be another thing that we will be talking about at the stonewall fifty human rights and social justice march next june and it's going to end in between and it's going to get worse when they start cutting medicaid medicare and social security yes it is all right well from there on to entertainment news of course well i want to make sure everyone knows that new fast starts next week here in new york the q film festival has an incredible range of films in clue being an hour a feat the canyon film i'm going to see that next week and also something called dykes camera action which is a documentary that should be swell boy or raced with nicole kidman and this and that tomorrow bill good you can tell us about it next week there are running milk the channing she's about seventy five i think splayed sixty and she does terrific and then i have to say hugh dancy there right next to her plays her son and then he and then another son comes on the scene in another scene and  and stockard channing plays an old leftist radical and who's an art art historian and so it's a clash of values i thought some of it was a little too heavy handed and she was a little too nasty about some of her things we like to be nice to people when we argue with them believe it or not but i think it's still a very stimulating evening of theatre all right we congratulate cello man nineteen years old time not would have been nice without it taken off i don't know how much the rufus wainwright gets into that but is certainly going into the hot and heavy relationship it's probably one of the most homo erotic operas ever some guy yeah yeah this what is this crap about it states is the leader of the free world we have to stop saying that if we keep trump in office we will happily stop saying that because he is destroying our standing in the world no one can own your freedom all right so if you want to be on our email list to get notices to show each week and links to things we've talked about in a few extra links  trouble accessing it on your television and start organizing your human rights march for the last sunday in june to celebrate stonewall fifty thank you for the birthday wishes for my secret admirer in seattle happy birthday g