you i love being here though i miss in north europe but i'm only here when she's not here because you never take a day off i'd be happy to be fun well let's let's let's go right to the news will catch up yeah i'm not going to tell them what the headlines are first of all we're going to give you the gay and lesbian angles on the cabin or nomination the trump outrages continue including a trade bill that will spike your medical costs this congress actually got rid of an anti  conference on a bill and a record number of l g b candidates are running this november all across the country for office right now a gay man who had a commitment ceremony with a man in two thousand and three and broke up with him is told by the court b rates for young men to have sex with men increase three percent annually over the last eight years in the united states and we'll talk about all the implications of that but welcome corey johnson my council member yes in chelsea yes and since last then every speaker and it worked out and i really love the job because i get to help new yorkers every single day it is an honor and privilege to serve in this position in the city that i love and you know i see this all the time inside your example well you just mentioned in the final headline about hiv transmission rates across the country increasing but in new york city last year we had the lowest number ever recorded of new infections and that's because of a lot of really important work that the city council and the mayor's office and the governor and the state legislature have done innovative ways to really ensure that people don't get infected and to treat people who are infected so i'm the openly positive elected official in the state of new york and that makes me really proud that we're doing so much on that and then i think new york city has been a real leader on issues for the transgender community you know i passed a bill a few years ago allowing transgender people to i had a great time she's going to be our next attorney general our current public advocate and you know why she is the democratic nominee for public advocate and she was for attorney general for attorney general right she is the public advocate now yes you know what you know what i have learned in  you know almost five years in office is i think one of the most important things for an elected official and for anyone is be yourself just be yourself but i like to dance i'm going to dance right i like to lip sync to lady gaga sometimes i'm going to do that ok you have to be yourself and i think that there it's important in these times we're living in that there is a level of awesome authenticity that people get to see and not in the crazy manufactured way that the president right shows us every day but in a real way and i try to i try to do that as an elected official ok now you also spoke at dragon con ru paul's drag drag convention yes you're on the political engaged and what the audience was predominantly young people who are in their twenty's who many of whom not all but many of whom have not been involved in political campaigns and their memory doesn't date back to the  thousand and eight campaign when a lot of young people got activated ten years ago they were too young for that and so the real memory is now dealing with this presidency over two years and feeling angry in the message we tried to give is how to get active  engaged how citizens can make a difference and all of the important elections in new york state with the new york state senate and house races in the tri state area that we need to flip to have a congress and a state senate in albany that have a progressive democratic majority and maybe even a us if there was a real blue way ok and you've been very involved with knocking off these rogue democrats in the independent democratic conference who are betraying the party do you really make that move this year and did that i'm really proud you know yet eight democrats who are collaborating with the republicans for seven and a half years allowing them to stand power led by jeff kline who was the i d c leader in the bronx and i support all  am making a prediction here i could be wrong we need one seat to flip the democratic majority i'm calling here on gay usa thirty odd days out from the election we're going to flip five seats wow that's america last thursday when the testimony occurred with dr ford in the morning and then kavanagh in the afternoon evening i was watching him intermittently and i felt so sick they didn't like the way it was going i think it was a dark moment in america a bad moment in our history and i'm really scared that he's going to get confirmed i'm afraid that senators flake or cowskin collins are not going to step up and do the right well you know have to break some norms to the number nine is not in the constitution it's just says that they serve life terms they started off with six they added some they took some away in the one nine hundred century it's been nine since eight hundred sixty nine but it was eight in twenty sixteen so it could be ten it could be a lot and we could have a larger court were reflective of our country but democrats are going to have to step up and say we can change things too yeah and you know yes looking back i'm not sure that it was the right move to get rid of the  for judicial nominations at the circuit court i don't know if it was the right move well being that you got rid of them on the circuit courts this is where you're going for the supreme court they did it for the supreme and but we couldn't get anybody through you know i mean there were one hundred vacancies as it was when trump took power and he's stacking the courts with these right wing nuts but we couldn't rebalance the court i mean certainly the congress and the new president twenty twenty one or entitle to expand the judiciary have more circuits have more judges and rebalance things but they can do it to the supreme court to i just think it leaves people with despair to say there's nothing we can do for the next generation we're not going to be protected by the courts well that's not true our congressman congressman  was on this week with george stephanopoulos on sunday and he may be the head of the judiciary committee if we congress which i think we will take the house and i think that he will be the chair the judiciary committee and george stephanopoulos asked him on sunday morning is confirmed and is an associate justice is supreme court or united states and these allegations are still out there and you don't believe the f b i has done a full some investigation to determine whether or not they're true and to get all the information that you need would the house judiciary committee investigate this even further and look into it and he said yes we would have to we can't have someone right who potentially committed multiple acts of sexual misconduct on the supreme court united states and perjured himself and is here to multiple times he lied so many times and they're not very good liars the washington post in the new york times outlined every single lie he told i guess that's what do you think do you think he gets confirmed you know i heard joe we're taping on wednesday i heard jeff like this morning on the today show and we're talk about that but he was you know he didn't sound too fur as he did maybe earlier where he said we can't have this kind of partisanship on the court that's already been demonstrated so we ought to vote against him jeff like doesn't come through for us on almost any of these votes on judges i don't know a single vote jeff flake has gone against  maria talking right there and she did a terrific job and after that i did say well we have to have some kind of investigation but it turns out not to be a thorough investigation you know what that moment really shows me even if it ends up that he gets confirmed i think more truth has come out in the intervening week since they were able to stop pushing him through the day when he chose to me is that activism matters and works maybe not every single time maybe not every single instance but it makes a difference and to see those two brave women standing there and go at jeff flake and tell their personal stories i loved it when that woman maria gallagher said look at me in the eye look at his turn to speak he waved them off and then chris coons the senator from delaware his friend makes a speech about how this is bad for the institution and he gets up and leaves the money comes back he says this is tearing the country apart and the senate apart which we knew but i that moment right there those two brave women really mean a difference that day if they had not done that if they had not ben chasing him out of his office to those elevators cavanagh might have been confirmed already are already and we have friends from new york a lot of them are aids activists and activists who would going down every week and getting arrested every week in washington i don't know about out of energy but you know  that bret did not clean up that was one of the angles this week of the story kellyanne conway comes out about having been sexually abused and yet still stands by this character well it's just  times exposed as his tax evasion all these years the whole family including the sisters a federal judge i mean what i have to say though korea as i read these stories these crimes have been going on for decades yes where was  in general whoever it was the manhattan whoever it was the new york tax department we're we're with these and why weren't they were they just too happy with the campaign contributions well the times said in the opening of this  gigantic story that they have worked on for eighteen months that reveals all the same said that even their own coverage over the years was sort of owning yes very fondling and they named journalists who weren't fawning like barrett and other folks ability yes who went after trump and talked about this for years you know it really shows i think in a much bigger way and we're seeing this with this criminal justice reform movement all across the country is that disenfranchised and vulnerable marginalized they're held to a different standard than the rich you know you look at what happens on rikers island in new york sydney the jail the jail you know more than eighty percent of the people there are held pretrial because they sets steps foot on rikers island gets out right away what this shows is that trump was able to game the system and during his campaign in two thousand and sixteen he talked about how the system was rigged against the american people and they should vote for him so you could drain the swamp and stand up for everyday americans we know that was a lie what really happened was the system was rigged for years and years and years in favor sure of president trump and his cronies and his family members who are absolutely declaration of love for kim jong il could you imagine if any democrat had said that you may or barack obama said when he said a dictator from north korea who has starved his people put them in  basically hard labor camps tortured them and is playing around with nukes and president obama or hillary clinton if they had said something like that about a dictator but this guy says it about  we need a whole new system in this country as the declaration of independence exhorts us to do i feel hopeful it's a little counterintuitive people one reason why i feel hopeful is i really really believe  all of the horrific terrible regressive things that are happening across the country and people are suffering and there has been basically incalculable suffering sensis been so go over i still believe that we are going to take back the house we're going to take back state legislator later years and you've seen people get involved in politics in a way they've never gotten von before and i think you have a movement and if you look i see this all the time if you look at every modern civil rights movement in american history whether it be the times this country somehow was able to make it through slavery which is the biggest stain in our country ever and we still have way too much racial injustice and i feel like the civil war is not even over i mean and they're winning now that that crowd is like in now well that's true a racist present absolutely i mean you will simply see every day again there's so much news to keep up on you see people that have been put in key positions in the country are people that use the n word  women in charlottesville a year ago well but they arrested four people for conspiracy and riot this yesterday and today actually as part of that you know case that's being brought about charlottesville but the consumer financial protection board of the united states the policy director is a guy named eric blanc and who wrote a blog calling hate crimes most hate crimes are hoaxes yes and he's in the n word he asked well yes is that word really inherently racist you know and then there's the gratuitous attack on gay diplomats which is now getting a lot of condemnation if you're a foreign debt diplomat here you've been allowed under secretary clinton since two thousand and nine you've been allowed to bring in your domestic partner on a visa now they're saying you've got to get married but for a lot of these people to get married it's a public thing they could get killed in their own countries for this we talked about the last week but at least it's getting a lot of attention and then the stuff with the microfilter at the border more was exposed about how can we even tolerate this is science and look ourselves in the mirror you would think our system of government was set up so that you would have an independent  legislative branch of congress that regardless of their their party was occupying the oval office they would meaningful inside and be a real check on the executive that's what the separation of powers are about that's what the judiciary is about and what we've seen as you said at the beginning is in a row zhen of democratic and societal norms and the way he speaks about the press the way he is stacking the courts with people who are ideologues the way that you have a congress that is completely and totally subservient to him mitch mcconnell and paul ryan basically do whatever he wants they're afraid they're afraid of his base yes all right well let's talk about it's not the grand old party it is the trump party show that now white men are going to be a minority of people running in the democratic party if it wasn't for house seats when you cross the country you have a huge number of women people of color people it is fantastic i think we're going to pick up a well because they were across the river and i saw they you know there you don't see this much here in new york they have lawn signs competing along yes most most us all were for tami you know and then of course scott walker is running for reelection i saw some of those as well but they are pouring thing in the schools you know that's the kind of people that we're talking about but they really are trying to knock off her now and i meant we followed in massachusetts that they've got this christian to rights all the law but the right wing put a ballot initiative on it no your mom's there in massachusetts what's the feeling that you're getting about this referendum in massachusetts whether we can hold on to that law there i think will hold on you know the polling was not good not that i believe all the polls but the polling was not going to earlier this year on the spot and i think april it showed very very close to most recent polling myself a few weeks ago showed it to be overwhelmingly people wanting to uphold and in discrimination statute protecting transgender people  gender identity and expression but these things you never know and it's why really civil rights should not be up for a vote and should be put on the ballot it's not allowed in washington d c you're not allowed to vote on human rights laws yet we shouldn't be able to we should be able to do know i mean we want marriage equality in certain places after losing for years and years and years when anti gay constitutional amendments in those states and we won because the public opinion had shifted in our direction but if if you have a vulnerable marginalized class of individuals and to put that on the ballot where you're going to have the majority saying what the minorities rights and protection should be and that doesn't make sense to me how many is going to be voting on this on friday and saturday of give these people the same rights as everybody else seems to rights same again so they had to do marriages so you had to give the same rights so it's conflicting and anyway who will get to that international news because it was nice to see the congress they had a appropriations bill and the right wing one of the put an amendment it that said you can let people discriminate and these childcare agencies write or child placement agencies and it was got rid of in conference because we still have forty nine  democratic senators who can say we're going to stop this and we're not going to let this go through you know it's not good when you take small victories like that oh well that's the thing we can stop some things but we can't do in the coda but north dakota is something that other states don't have you know no there's no voter registration you just show up you just show up can't we do that in new york jeff show up as no voter registration or so it's hard to poll there because the way people typically polls you look at the voter rolls you go through you find likely voters how often they vote and you wait in a certain way and screen it in a certain way and create a model in north dakota there's no voter registration you just show up well and you vote well it's a republican controlled state a republican governor republican super majorities in the state legislature and no one screaming about voter fraud and we do in the north dakota and we can we do these kinds of reforms here in new york that's what i think is going to the biggest things that we have to do if democrats take when they take the state senate we need to do automatic voting registration no excuse absentee voting all sorts of voting reforms early voting i'm a lifelong democrat yet i've never seen democrat democrats too interested in this because you know a lot of politicians in new york but how do you think we're doing about i think we need to do better we just voted last week in the city council to appoint or confirm the mayor's appointment to a landmark preservation commission chair and it's woman named sarah carroll and i had conversations with her about identifying more algae because the cultural side if you look at one of the oldest bars in the city where the famous sippin took place yes julius it's not protected as an individual cultural landmark it's in the other places and other places we had to protect more of these places and i'm glad san francisco's doing it i think two of the cities with the largest cultural history in the united states are san francisco and new york because of what happened in the early days of the movement i love the way  o preserve lots of lots of what they call heritage sites like a local pub so that a neighborhood still has an anchor and we've we've never been able to do that in new york maybe we have to spend a day all right  gay marriage statute was declared unconstitutional you're married to get a divorce and he had to pay a settlement the guy wanted two thirds of his was he didn't get that much wow i'm not sure i mean the guy never thought he was help him with an appeal now we are trying some retro things we talked about on the show last week a woman who wants spousal social security benefits for her partner who died several years who died before you could get married so you know the truth things are going to have to be worked out some same sex marriage photos on facebook they brought about they fired him and he wasn't out at the time but this was enough to get him fire was this clean as was cleveland oh terrible be careful what you like but you know any is now out but and then but there was another case so find it later oh oh in chicago there was this organist who was sued because he was fired because he was gay but they said he can't do that because they have a ministerial exception for that but they do seem to have violated the d n a of the americans with disabilities act because they went after you because you're overweight so he's allowed to pursue the case on that basis  the manager there was caught texting that don't send that flyer out people will think it's black knight it's terrible and you spoke out against this while they find they fired the guy in you know  one of the people who was trying to promote a night at the monster put these men i don't was african american was like you know maybe a mole to them or african american i don't know they looked handsome like handsome men to me and the general manager said in a series of text messages i don't want this to be black in one thousand not what this is about and then when the when the guy went to the owner and said bad for business there on acceptable and and i'm glad they fired him but he didn't want to at first but they did they realize and this is literally and you really are new york city this is a stone's throw away from the stone wall well  know you know these things never even here in new york and we're always ready to fight if we're but in texas governor abbott the republican tried to soft pedal his support for a bathroom bill there so it's not my iraq i really want to do you really want to win and we have a we had a court victory in north carolina they had the horrible bathroom bill right h b two they got rid of that they put in the substitute one which was bad and the federal court just ruled that you can't bar state legislature said they said the state legislature said you can't pass any kind of law in the state protecting us and the court and the supreme court said you are making gay people strangers to the political process they had at least have to be able to go to the legislature and say this is what we want and be able to try to do this seems similar to me and said that it has elements of it but you know all these you know it's a room back to calvin i'm so disappointed anthony kennedy for it but you know all these cases that we're talking about all these important laws we're talking about could all be in jeopardy if you have judge brett kavanaugh an associate justice supreme court unless we expand the court expand the court that's  drum someone who you know my colleague in the city council this represents a district in queens i jokingly affectionately call him the queen from queens and he is a city councilman who now chairs our finance committee but before i chaired the education committee and you know he was a teacher who came out of him big controversy and he has dedicated the last ten years of his time in the council to protecting our students as a former teacher and so danny on the back of this is the name of the gentleman great guy jared fox who works at a partner cation dan he's the one that got the funding right from the city council to create the position for fox to do all of this work right so i think any actually ground breaking series on o t t people called first person as a teacher's guide and early grades early grades guide gay straight alliance check list because any school in new york or anywhere in the country that wants to have a g s a can have them you know but you've got you got was a court case too yes when you put some resources into new york to fund these but apparently we only have about fifteen percent g s a is in our high schools for whatever reason may because the whole city is going to that's i don't know but that's what jared foxx who is doing this work he's working to get more g  s in schools across the city if you want to see this toolkit sign up for our email go to get us a t v dot org sign up for our e mail i'll send you the link all right or you can google around for it but the u r l is too long for us to put in our right  maybe we just want to see what else university of california berkeley opened up a large scale universal locker room that the students voluntarily paid their fees for one hundred forty six dollars a piece so they could open this facility where you can shower and private and the transgender people are comfortable where people with disabilities are comfortable it's a fantastic that's great meridian idaho passed a nondiscrimination ordinance forty two it's the fourteenth city and i don't know to do so many in idaho well it took us hundred six to do whatever york we were the first city to have a bill and one of the last big cities to pass it because as you know this can be a kind of conservative city in some respects that is right although you're getting votes on algae beating issues about you know you only get about five all right speaking of schools indiana university a federal court ruled that the first amendment does not protect a tenured professor who has been making sexist racist homophobic and islamophobia classroom comments  the northwest chapter and thought that he was protected but they said this is a bit much and you're gone let's see i told you about the organist were we in chicago go to very disturbing murders at rogers park in chicago one was of a seventy three year old game ban double swat seventy three and the other was to a very visibly jewish guy who worked in the city there  something like that wow it was very late somebody will correct me their candidate is going to let college athletes play on teams consistent with their gender identities and singapore forty five thousand people signed  petition saying that they want to get rid of the criminalization of gay sex and the government said we don't have any plans to do that and india court ruled that a lesbian couple could live together this woman's allege that her partner had been held hostage by your family and the court said no they could they can live together you got to stop that oh we got a picture of these rival hockey olympians who got married megan dugan from team usa oh wow and julie gillian apps from team canada they played you know the they played for different teams but they married i mean they're not the first rivals on hockey teams to marry a limpy and when they get married in maine they got married in main the maine is a hockey state the first ones were former u captain julie chu married former canadian captain carolyn let all right the secretary general of the u n spoke out for gay rights this week that was good to see the first time that secretary general had spoken to the gay group  then they held it up and the current government is trying to block it even though a majority of the parliament is for the executive branch is against it so the inter merican commission there which has been ordering everybody to do this in latin next america is saying come on what are you doing or you're holding things up ok in rome a i told you about romania in beijing a gay kindergarten teacher is suing over his firing it's a lead mark suit and the court has accepted the  partnerships for straight people which they didn't yeah all right and but but a conservative m p there says if you really want to make things equal what about covering elderly siblings who live together support each other and then one of them dies and they got to sell the house because the got to pay all these state taxes it's something to think of i'm not opposed to that you know you have to protect people and people aren't saying they're married they're basically saying they're and the president said that he is we wants the government to change the law all right in zimbabwe there is a thing this teacher at the elite st john's college it's a prep school right areas all right his name is dr neil meyer and he came out because he was speaking to an assembly to tackle homophobic bullying it was a form for parents right and he said look i'm gay this fights broke out in the audience over this parents got furious the administration backed him and said you know i mean we think it's very brave what he's doing because he started getting death threats i mean resigned that's because well you know it's always been hard for teachers to be out in classrooms even in new york and to some extent still i think teachers in new york are out to their colleagues they're pretty but protected before we had a gay rights bill the board had protected them but nobody came out any when danny drum came out that was a big deal in the nin they're they're mainly afraid of the power it's going to give the students over them if they come out of the going to be snickering in the background so the lot of them don't get into it as teachers it's hard i don't know what we could do to you know it would be great if we could have more out teachers in classrooms but i think it's happening ok honorable the government agrees that laws targeting gay men are incompatible with basic law but they said please don't declare them unconstitutional we don't want to get rid of them  entirely in russia l g b t q people are saying crackdowns are worsening now in russia under putin sixty three percent of russians believe that gay propaganda is being used to try to destroy the country's spiritual values  in south korea in a place called the jew city do you know what i don't know all right you heard in there with these right wing christian activists who try to these are that the police trying to stop them from stopping the gay pride march here and then they sat down on the street to block the gay pride march and everything and there were two thousand people of the cultural festival and thousands more from this christian group doing this is  have time about this aids to out of that's come out from the c d c this week the number of men who have sex with men thirteen to twenty nine who were diagnosed has been still increasing three percent annually between two thousand and eight and two thousand and of money behind it has been a big success i don't know if the other places where the incident rates are higher if they're doing the same thing that we're doing mostly in the south nine out of the top ten states where this is increasing are in the south so it's mostly among people of color and it's a failure of political leadership because if you do the right thing from a budgetary and political perspective governmentally and you show some leadership and fund the things you need to fund and get people the access things that they need the rates will go down but one of the course big costs here is truvada which is the key to us for prep and pap and for people with aids eighteen thousand dollars a year it's breaking the budgets of a lot of these places your supply overseas is seventy dollars not eighteen thousand dollars seventy dollars overseas the british high court said you got to give them a generic and cut this gilliatt forget it you can't you know we're going to do the generic here why i mean you know trouble acted like he was going to bring costs down this new trade the new now it's got all kinds of protections for pharmaceutical patents that are going to drive the cost of your drugs up even higher who's going to stand stand up to the pharmaceutical company well i think that if we take the house and maybe the senate you're gonna see a lot of pushback on positive for adoption appointment and got the news and i was shocked i was twenty two years old and it turned my world upside down i was filled with shame and remorse for a long time and that's what kicked off my drinking and drug use in a serious way i'm now sober over nine years thank you but for for me it was very very painful in and i was  community health organization called up to china which is based in chinatown in new york city was there for me in this wonderful woman named schiff ali roche one became a caseworker and got me in rolled in the aids drugs assistance program which got me access to care and medicine and that's what everyone really deserves today i do not live in shame for years that eat me alive yes so i mean i think a lot of people can sympathize with in a way it's harder to come out now about having hiv because the drugs are available and you can take care of yourself and a lot of people don't want to be defined by a disease you know or a condition so they don't tell me body you know you are only as sick as your secrets try not to have it all right so where do you stand on this big movement to get the aids conference out of the united states in two thousand and twenty the international aids conference you know a lot of people are saying and american activists are signing this thing and saying this is a country that discriminates against people they chevy against muslims against all kinds of people and we shouldn't be having it here until we get our house in order i don't disagree with that but i think that if you want to stand up for human rights you want to be in a place and that's what most people of that conference  and you need to be in a place that really protects people and right now in our country we aren't doing that we aren't living up to the values that we should be on the other hand we're having stonewall fifty here in new york pride here text  some people are raising the same issue i mean that's why a lot of us and i don't know where you are on this but we want to have a civil rights march that not a parade because and we really can honestly invite the world we sort of want to have a woman's march like the women's march which will take place all over the world at the end of june around stonewall because there's a lot to protest at this point there's certainly things to celebrate over fifty years we've all worked hard but that's you know we don't really deserve to be the host of world pride if this is a country which is keeping a lot of people out in all that i understand that and i actually think that it would be a lot more powerful to have something for stonewall fifty in line with the march for our lives the gun control mind the women's marches that took place let's do it i'm open to that ok i don't like all the corporations having the big floats and being put up at the front of the parade ahead of everyone else and this past year there are strict couple in new york who the son goes by home to singapore to visit his family and the woman who goes back with him is not accepted by his traditional very rich family her name's rachel chu and she is amazing and fights through it i want to be rachel chu but i need to find my nick young nick young was the very handsome asian guy in the film it's so good you have to see it more like it ok go see it i will still grossing really well at the box office well we also want to talk about an out actor we have a picture of his name is jade choi he's on the a b c sitcom single parents he's twenty six he's come out as sexually fluid ok he said he played a gay man in a twenty fifteen film called front cover he identified as straight at the time but he started to think i'm attracted to everything so he's out and wants us to rip she's seen it she wants to remind us about the studio fifty four documentary which is opening in new york city on october fifth in los angeles on october the twelfth she call it says there were amazing historical footage and still i was not into that scene  and george bush was elected the senior was elected president and this was in the midst of the aids crisis and i was despondent i said things are not going to get any better i'm going to have a drink and so that's all i drink is a little wine that's only do you know that's it for me  right ok well corey it's been it's been wonderful having you we're down to our last forty three seconds any final messages for the people you know the final message is if you're angry if you're depressed of your despondent if you're going on a news diet if you don't want to look at the t or the newspaper or get out there don't just vote voting is not enough door knock phone bank get involved we have about thirty days to change the course of this country let's do it and we're going to do it thank you for being with us don't run away don't run off we have a couple  getting an allowance for two hundred thousand a year when you were three