news the biggest game of the week for the world was the women's world cup it was the gayest event on the planet the house ways and means committee moves to clean up the tax code for same sex married couples and they did it you're not  number of l g b t q elected officials in the united states was up in the past year twenty five percent but a judge you may have heard of him out a presidential candidate raised more money than any other candidate in the nd quarter but most people still think he can't get elected that was an interesting poll the u s state department says chair of the human rights advisory board is a leading opponent of l more of the events commemorating the th anniversary of the stonewall rebellion that we couldn't get to last week same sex marriage has begun in ecuador and is closer to becoming reality in northern ireland finally michael johnson  who was sentenced to thirty years by missouri for hiv transmission has got now twenty five years early and he is going to tell us how obamacare also known as the affordable renewed peril in federal court but st lesbia victoria that's actually the scientific name of a hummingbird the blacktail train barrier that's found in ecuador and other central american countries but it an apt war cry the more the major parade that we just had a new york celebrating the american champion women's soccer team for those of you who don't know chris cooper is a famous murder bode well you're in the h b o movie about bird us one of your work so the women's world cup i mean i actually watched a soccer match i was i don't watch any soccer matches but this pulled pulled me in audience and give a new emphasis to the the women's cries for equal pay for equal work at the at the tickertape parade at the rally at city hall while the head of women's soccer for the united states was up there people were shouting equal pay he said we're going to have equitable pay but then there was a lot of pressure there's a lot of pressure on for that but it was so exciting this is it and there's a lot on this because megan repeat  oh we've got a picture of her with the team we've got them up there i know that that's the next picture that's of kelly go higher on the u s women's soccer team but there's megan repeat no with her lavender hair after their victory cheering cheering and that's not even them there that's only a howrah kissing her girlfriend on the stand and and just a very natural thing which anybody would do after a big victory would go up to their partner and give them a kiss but maybe we've been afraid to do that for years and this is a this is a group of women who are unafraid unafraid so when we repeat those scored two goals versus france in an earlier match and this took place in paris she said go gaze you can't win a championship that gaze on your team it's never been done before ever that's science right there well well she's also of course well known for her statement to mr trump where things used a bad word she didn't use a bad word but she basically said i'm not going to the white house because if they invite us because that man's no good and i don't think most of my teammates are going to want to go either and trump was like pushed into a corner because making repeat oh also has a tremendous she has a tremendous social consci about all that all that you know some of the terrible things about america she said this country was founded on a lot of good ideals and slavery and she talks about that and so so when the national anthem is played she was taking a knee for a while she was supposedly sing in long as talk about respect anyway so that they were sparring on twitter and she was getting the best of him so he shut up and when they finally won he just had a kind of a bland message of support good for him than good for he did and so you know it was just it was meant stall this stress on the har trump i mean bill bob and our social producer was telling us that new york magazine is having an issue announcing no mention of trump in this issue of our magazine and maybe that's what we need to get was sick of it but amidst all this it was a it was an it was a wonderful thing to have a wonderful unifying thing to have the nation magazine said this is true patriotism what they do what they do and somebody else said this is a parade without tanks all right maybe a little bit more on contrast all that good feeling with the with the jeffrey epstein scandal which trump father donald barr was the headmaster of the dalton school and hired jeffrey epstein without qualifications as a middle school teacher for girls only years ago reason why just a little back on the reason why new york can do this is because donald trump is files and taxes in new york and the same taxes that he files for the federal government has to file for the state government now the federal government is releasing them so we want the whole election to be over before you get a look at the ministers part of his criminality trump had a setback on the citizenship question and is causing a constitutional crisis on that saying is still trying to get it in i can't imagine that even a supreme court packed with his supporters would go for that they are going to be protective of their own authority i think as much as anybody else so i think have a feeling they fight back but will say the trump administration also has started its busy human rights commission that's going to look for natural law as a basis for human rights in international affairs this is raising alarm bells for a lot of people especially l g b change to groups but i think in particular that it's also  for pro choice groups it's a big problem because a lot of the language of rights has started to enter into women's rights and you have the women's right to choose and so this is all aimed at and undermining not only our protections but their protection the what's this woman's name again  let's say the woman who is the chair of it is mary and glenn didn't former u s ambassador to the vatican she's a harvard law professor but she's an outspoken opponent of same sex marriages says only touched on it last week but the biggest gay news of last week was the fact that the supreme court is going to hear this case there are st week october th which is going to decide whether discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity there are three cases two gay one transgender is or is not sex discrimination right there there are code trying to cover the same they're going to determine whether it's covered under includes the skydiver who was openly gay and he was fired when his employer found out that he was an openly gay skydiver he's since died but the case continues and so everybody is weighing in on these cases all the amicus briefs are being filed including by by a bunch of republicans now ok full confession i have very little to no respect for gay republicans but it could potentially be important in swinging some opinion on the court that republicans provide a busy conservative or republican rationale for why we should be covered under the sex discrimination statutes but among the people filing or ken  ballot initiatives in many states as a ploy to get conservatives to the polls so that george bush would be in real life any elected two thousand and four with with the course with the strategy of karl rove as well so  one of our own who targeted us seven so that he could get rich and get his boy elected then he takes his ill gotten gains and buys himself a multimillion dollar condo in chelsea and lives high on the but i don't i don't have much i don't have much use for traders but about some people i know who had bad positions in the past who have changed i can remember a union leader getting up at the hearing on the gay rights bill in new york and saying you know used to bring them up we used to make fun of them and they were they well you know come up we've got to show respect times have changed and he was a labor leader yeah i don't think so much change for ken mehlman so much as the fact that he made his fortune and didn't have to support his blame any more so he can say oh no i've changed my mind you should give it all back well in my and you should have interesting should have hired him to lick envelopes for fifteen years and get all the result in paper cuts on his tongue and after that penance then we can think about reinventing   i don't understand why he stays in the party but you know a lot of people of left know i you know i always say folks that there's very little excuse for being a democrat and none for being a republican i mean that's sounds  partisan i mean come on look what's happened to that party it's just it's just sunk so low in fact there was a there's a book that's coming out i remember the access hollywood tape right sure trump said grabbed by the p word right we're not supposed to say here on free speech t v screens breach but right after that paul ryan who was the speaker of the house and other top republicans called up rance priebus who was running the campaign or running the republican party at the time and said get trump off the ticket put pence in and that's it and karen pence who is this devout christian anti gay activist said to mike you get off that ticket or i'm not appearing with you public for the rest of this campaign then trump goes after bill clinton started saying i'm going to lock him up as a rapist or something like that and this fight back from trouble is what turned these republicans around that he's not willing to back down on anything and we're going to stand behind it and they did and they one and since then they've all drunk the kool aid they've all fallen in line almost all of them they have it's very frightening well one finally mitch mcconnell is or tim self a strong opponent in kentucky there yes and  she's not the most liberal woman well you know what if we can flip enough seats in the senate yes control party control is the most important thing this is my montra the most important thing in the legislature is not any one particular legislators point affiliation it is one particular legislators stand on an issue it is his power or her party affiliation because it is in the aggregate and it is whether the republicans or the democrats control the legislature that makes all of the difference and what happens in the power of the division of power and what bills can pass if you don't believe it look at what happened what's happened in california now that they've had democratic control of both legislatures and the governorship for years and look how quickly things have happened here in new york now that we finally had a hold of the budget in democratic the supreme court said the gerrymandering is ok and we can't stop it some states have stopped it but we're stuck with this decision which makes it very very difficult to take back the state legislatures in places like north carolina and michigan and you know one of the states difficult but not impossible that means  was it means we have to play as dirty as the republicans that's what i mean well and that but this but the senate is still a profoundly anti democratic small d democratic body where you know two senators from north dakota two senators from south dakota which would you know which both together have fewer people than new york city and los angeles and you know and they get they get all this power and i don't see how we can go on this way you know it's interesting to me that when obama was elected he came in with sixty democratic senators that year because people were so done with the with the republican party after the financial collapse ok but that's what i'm talking about you say it's hard to flip the legislatures it's hard but it's not impossible it can be done but look what happened in north carolina and then you know in the lie they elected a democratic governor right as a reaction to all this but they kept the legislature because of gerrymandering in veto proof republican hands so what do you know it's very very tough we've got we've got i'm not denying that we don't have an uphill climb i urge you in the states to pass referenda in your states as they have in iowa and other places that ban gerrymandering never have non partisan winds iowa has that ten other states have that in your states pay attention to what's happening on the state level on th level of the state legislature and you got to pay attention to that it's more important than who's going to be elected president you know what i'm going to agree with humanity and it's more important on the other hand let's talk a little bit about the presidential race ok so lot of people said biden couldn't even bernie could or whatever but it gedge was like one percent of people thought he could actually be elected president so he's getting all this money he's getting a lot of gay support you said you saw it out on fire shore yeah i was i when i was on the pines that joe biden appears in seattle at a gay event and he said you know five years ago you'd be sitting in a business meeting and somebody made a crack about the gay waiter nobody would have said anything and somebody in the back  in seattle so anyway joe joe needs to know he's trying to get with the program ross perot died this week not so much of a gang go on that he is the guy who got bill clinton elected twice by being in anyway one of the things about him he wasn't he wasn't you know he was seen as relatively pro choice and things like that but his firm is big furry made these billions of dollars is one of the only companies to have given domestic partner benefits for the th of july it's a lot of fun i went to the annual reading this is going to sound so nerdy but the annual a reading of the declaration of independence and the constitution in riverside park by the statue of eleanor roosevelt led by norman march there what kind of an expert so thank you norman for doing that every year it's every year on the th of july at noon the at the foot of west nd street mark your calendar for next year the march was a tremendous success i mean more people than i think anybody imagine there's a lot of fun i can't say that i agreed with every sentiment expressed in the more i hope not but it was wonderful this to see this or allowed to express any any sentiment you want to it's actually what and that was the beauty of it is that it was a wonderful diversity of opinion and you know expressed as protest just as the original st march up to stonewall was so if there was any year when that had to happen it was this year at the th anniversary because later on you know the other march was so corporate it's been corporate for this for many years but this year more than ever and i was only there for literally three minutes because i was sleep deprived i was exhausted i was maybe a little bit drunk and i am in the here and i'm like i'm in dealing with the crowd and i saw the good cops go by and i always loved to cheer for the cops and then that that's one of the sentiments i didn't agree with was at the protest march was like there was one side that's of the bausch the n y p d and i'm like come on get serious six and a half miles automatically eight miles that day which i know is not a lot for you youngsters but i was tired yeah i was tired but i had a good time it was it was quite overwhelming the whole weekend but it was in this book the biggest party wonderful from twenty different communities spread participated in the event paxton and as long as we're talking about pride stuff you know we talk about all the exhibits that are still up in new york at the public library a big exhibit at the new york historical society at the museum of the city of new york all the museums have things but it detroit they have an exhibit at the detroit historical museum it's all summer till september th it's called invisible no longer l g b t q to mischief and interestingly enough our governor new york's governor andrew cuomo got involved which seems like overkill but we welcome his support yes the state police hate crimes task force to help the us get them by the way by the time you see the show you may know the verdict in the able sedan you know case that i've been covering up in the bronx this was a bullied gay student who came to school with a knife for the st time and brought it to school for around to attack him and he pulls out holds up a knife and the guy attacks them anyway any pierces is smart and slash is another kid who came up to to beat the hell out of him you know it's being heard by a judge in the bronx  what happened this week and you know it certainly traumatized the kids in that class to say this in front of them i don't recommend bringing a knife to school but you know we never you know people what do you what do you do when you're bullied your whole life this is what happened all right daimio passes his lawyers a screenshot of something on facebook that this witness posted that said we've got to kill this guy right after the incident so i don't know how it's you know by the time you say this you may have seen what happened but wow it's been a it's the whole thing is a tragedy for everybody if there's a moral to take away it's that far better to interview her only and stop the bullying yes rather than let it escalate to a point like this yes yes ok wells speaking as long as we're on crime stories kevin spacey you know i'm not a fan of his behavior but on the other hand this guy who said he was eighteen and was groped by him in nantucket right in the case is falling apart again may have fallen apart by the time you see this because the young man seems to have lost the cell phone that were he had some of what he said was evidence about this and may have deleted some tax and now starts to take the th amendment saying i know i don't want to testify in this case and has dropped his own civil suit so it's not it's on that case it's not looking bad for what do you think his motivation for what for bringing it no for dropping it for losing the phone because he had texts on there apparently exchanges with his girlfriend or something that were that might have been mitigating to the to  speccy and now spacey is being investigated in six for six cases of sexual assault and london but no charges have been filed there either some other news around the nation oh i'm sure  cranston the former senator of california is the one who published mine comfits was book in the united states because he wanted people to see what hitler was saying i get nervous about banning books but now i can see that there was a lot of gay pressure on adopt his own biological son because he do surrogacy we don't have surrogacy in new york but he had used a volunteer not a paid surrogate and so some judge said oh you can't do this and i'm not going to give you adopt another adoption of thousand dollars from the city of san diego because he was basically harassed on religious grounds by is then supervisor a woman named sheila beale on the kid and the reason why this has a gay angle is because the st came up when  i think people should be able to marry whoever they want and deal said you're not a child of god was her response to that and after that she actually once and for us to tell other employees not to follow johnson's order orders because he was a nonbeliever so he can i was covering this trial in the bronx and i went to the supermarket across the street from the courthouse and didn't this woman comes up to me and says she says loves you you know i'm just a woman pushing a car go along you know i said well he seems like a nice fellow but i'm a theist so you know take it easy when she said moved on she moved on to her hey we didn't there was some better news from the united states h representatives and i was kind of surprised to read this this is the house ways and means committee the most powerful committee they passed a bill to clean up the tax code to accommodate same sex couples and use the word spouse instead of husband and wife and things like that but also to you know what you claim this is important folks if you got in a relationship a while ago to strike down if you want to claim refunds  which you were in title but you were denied because doma the defense of marriage act didn't let you you may be able to recover some of this under this revision in the code that's why this is important yeah but i think the fed knows is it's yes that the house controlled by democrats it passed unanimously in the committee nobody objected to it maybe it was a voice vote i don't know if it means mitch mcconnell is going to allow it on the floor in the senate but not to sound like a broken record but this is why i say party institute has increased by almost twenty five percent in the past year that's pretty impressive but what percentage does that give us officials zero point one three percent and we're supposed to be at least four percent of the population maybe six percent of the population if you include everybody who's doing stuff out there maybe you know a lot more but we have a total of six hundred and eighty nine dollars known l g b g q officials but they do say that people of color by and trans people and sister under women are among those increasing at the fastest rate and i think oppressed people are more motivated to run for office seeing what's happening in this country yes that would be especially  women somebody who wants to get back in the game is mark foley remember him this i had to look it up he resigned in two thousand and six in a page scandal is hitting on male pages he's a he was a conservative well  conservative republican he's a big powell of trumps down the down there in florida and he wants to get back in night back to help scotching some of the states in tennessee a new bathroom bill just went into effect on monday and some very brave teenagers were speaking out against it so you know how it's off to them but what are they doing about it well basically they're telling about how it will impact their lives and how it puts them at risk as transgendered students law in tennessee that only priests ministers rabbi and rabbis people designated by a temple or a church can perform weddings as a poet and justices of the peace so if you've got a on line ordination you can't do one rico lots of l g b teaching spaces are closed and closing the thirty three of the main ones in the center on wanda and we have closed and this is all of course in the aftermath of hurricane maria they're still trying to recover from that do not forget in orlando how this rose and as the guy who sort of built up most of the hotels in orlando is and he came to an l g b d journalist conference that i was at he shows up in sneakers and dress down you know a golf shirt or something like that but talks about all the philanthropy does a lot of it is an education and they have contributed one million dollars in tax credits to school vouchers this is a system i'm not necessarily in favor of where you can sort of designate your money to go to the state to help charter schools and all these other schools but he realized that a lot of these charter schools are these are these private schools that get these vouchers right are anti gay and discriminate against gay friend was and say no gays here so he said i don't want any of our money going to this stuff anymore and that's a terrific good quick personalities rose a quick personal on the same same theme when i was working for marvel comics i used to have like dozens of boxes and boxes dozens of boxes of comics and you had to get rid of eventually so i was looking for a place to give them to and there was a foundling hospital longer on th avenue six th avenue than i took them down to and someone said oh sister would love to thank you personally i'm like sister turns out it was a catholic institutions because catholic church and you know our kind don't always blend right they think we're intrinsically disordered precise most of the nuns don't think that but never get it's a struggle it's there i have to them again it's a struggle well they're trying to help l g b t q youth in california that you all right let me explain ok if you have use some words here they're not bad words but if you had penile badge and all sex with someone fourteen to seventeen years old and you were within ten years of them that's statutory rape if you're older right but a judge is allowed to decide whether you go on the sex offender registry if you are within ten years had like a romeo and juliet yes only for a badge and sex so what the change in the law to say hey that means that you automatically go on the sex offender registry if it's oral sex or if it's to better support trans non binary and gender nonconforming students and they also passed a bill in california in the assembly to protect sex workers from arrest when they report violent crimes against them and it bans the use of condoms as a basis to arrest sex workers that's good that's why they did it in jacksonville florida they canceled the story book pride problem for l g b teens at the local library after a backlash so who picked  know if we can because i got i'm out of order ok sounds good he's a comedian and actor and has come out and i don't know much about him i have to confess i don't watch the show so i feel a little out of things but he came out on something called the breakfast club in an interview with charlemagne the god i don't know her either him i don't know him either but yeah it's a big deal i mean anytime any sort of african american celebrity comes out it's a big deal and he did an h b o home video special where he hinted at his sexuality that was the name of it home video home videos and then little mass acts a singer has come out  who did a song called old town road now again ok you know i don't know i don't know the song i didn't know this on to read about this but it's a catchy little too and i have to admit it's really kind of fun in the end he ended up cutting a version with billy ray cyrus that shot to the top of the charts and actually was about to hit the top of the country charts when country music iranians when they are said oh this is a country enough so we're taking it off charts country music has not been too kind to gay people now well apparently then like this that was even before you came out so this is a guy who has one of the biggest songs in the country an african american a rapper where you know they are notoriously there's a lot of homophobia in that community and he has come out and he's like you know what if it cost me fans that's what it cost me but i'm going to come out ok and good for him we have some sad news someone  very beloved in the aids community especially douglas crimp an artist story and an art professor has died at the age of seventy four he was a professor at the university of rochester is an essayist has his big  philosophy was not what a picture portrayed but what it did when it was released on the world but he wrote an essay called aids cultural analysis cultural activism about art and aids and became an active member of act up he encouraged activists are excuse me artists to be more activist and he took on people who blamed aids on people who got in a big way apparently in the thought is that you can't write about going to cervical essays in the nd half of the th century without mentioning his name so he was a big deal in art historians it was douglas crip dead at the age of seventy four and then we got some sad news out of the death but of a stroke on the miss major griffen gracie at the age of seventy eight dollars has had a stroke miss major as as she is known was a stonewall participant people for which they have selected a location i mean if you're going to open up a center for people you may wonder why you go to places like little rock it's a lot cheaper than it is to do in san francisco or oakland or whatever just so that you're asking when they say a central  act i want to catch up a little but i think we have enough time to talk about you know we did some interviews during the garden party of the community center and one of the people i ran into was katherine linton who used to be one of the hosts on in the life and we were asking people what are your thoughts on stonewall fifty what are your thoughts about the movement going forward so if we can pull up she's now she produced this she produced the wonderful briefly to the speaker of the city council cory johnson and we're going to run his tape on the next mayor of new york city he's running for mayor of new york he's out gay out hiv positive and his and his partner know and they were with three women from australia who were part of the stonewall rebellion in australia in one thousand nine hundred and seventy eight i didn't i didn't know about this when they started the what's now the mardi gras those those women were at th fifty three people were arrested for trying to have a pride celebration and people were beaten by the cops the cops of subs when we had to apologize so a lot of history going on so let's get into international issues and maybe we start we segue into london pride where peter tatchell who was here for stonewall fifty was back in london and he's there with his partner and with you recognize them in mccallum there in london pride ok other international news well bad news from  botswana we had good news from just one and recently when their report legalized same sex marriage and rejected the prohibitions on same sex marriage well unfortunately their president has decided to feel that decision so now that the pro prohibitions on same sex same sex marriage may be reinstated so it's all going to work its way through the court and we'll have to see what happened in the case the original case was brought by a university student i'm not even going to attempt to pronounce is ok but education minister has been forced to resign for a lot of reasons but part of the reasons is his approach on issues including allowing transgender students to use the bathroom of their choice they actually blockaded a coastal region caribbean port to try to get this guy to resign and it worked in bogota and out the out lesbian candidate for mayor claudia lopez of the green alliance is now the overwhelming favorite in the polls and she's a big to be the mayor there the electoral council there in ecuador has blocked a referendum to overturn it excellent not such excellent news in another part of latin american central american one hundred us yeah where three trans women have been killed and a single week within the same week and under us so they're having a hard time down there in el salvador three police were charged with the murder of a trans woman camilla diaz cordoba she had come here to ask for asylum and been denied in tw well what's going on you know the fact that we let this go on for another day in this country without storming the borders and stopping it it's just you know you know makes us ashamed to be an american war and i think it also points out to the intersectionality that you know you guys are always talking about on the show you and and about how you know the issues are not separate how you know immigration a lot of the immigrants are us fleeing persecution in places where we can't so that's really important mean i'm not down at the border oh as i said i'm here but you know what the wonderful thing was i was stuck in california at the time unfortunately but when trump st proposed his muslim ban and people got out there in the shop they had j f k that was i was reading about that i'm like northern ireland the the united kingdom then how about a legislature and that's functioning in northern ireland right so the u k parliament is controlling and they have said you have the deuce same sex marriage october st or we're going to do it and this is important because northern ireland is the only part of the new united kingdom without same sex marriage right now it's in wales it's in england it's in scotland but it's not in northern ireland it's the only hold but there are there blocking grindr in lebanon in istanbul police used tear gas to disperse the banned pride march in saudi arabia dickey monologist though pulled out of a concert when she got a lot of pressure from women's groups cancelled due to threats but activists held a small gay pride anyway on july the a and they ran away of course when the you know the right wing got wind of it and they were going to go storm them so you know whatever you've got to give the hats off to all these brave activists who to undertake these things in these places and the brave guy in the l g b t campaign or move near bator in tunisia is running for president he's an out gay candidate for president he knows he's not going to win but prosecuted and persecuted under the law about hiv transmission if you don't tell your partner and they gave him a thirty years and longer sentence then you would get them the state average for a nd the picture in there that steven thrasher on the left there was the journalist who really dogged this story and that's that's michael there on the right and then show a picture of michael on the left there happy michael out of prison twenty five years early and this thirty year sentence is longer than the they seem to be succeeding in overturning the affordable care act so there's a we lost a lower court decision on this which said that the whole act is unconstitutional this appellate court looks like they're going to uphold the same we're not sure then it'll go to the supreme court next year in the middle of the am praying i don't think the word is that republicans are terrified that the op fordable care act is going to be completely destroyed i was a bend the middle of the campaign i was about to say if there is one silver lining it is that destroyed the middle of the campaign i suspect that is going to be a tremendous boost to the democrats and may help us get rid of that man in the white house and trump did one good thing right he said let's put the prices of prescription drugs on television ads and a court said you can't do that but i think it is this whole approach is you know i'm going to do what i want to do it without regard to the law well well but i'd like to see know my rights and i'm not saying i'm not saying i'm i'm against having prescription drug prices on t v i'm just saying you know you can't just sort of say let's that has to be done the suit against the pharmaceutical company for stopping a say for effective treatment for hiv from going into effect that they held back for ten years because they wanted to make more causes you know that trying to cover their tracks you bet what else the the california assembly passed a bill to increase access to prep but i mean for god's sakes again let's get this out there at a very cheap rate the way they do in australia and work cost next to nothing so that everybody can have it and you know everybody can live in peace i don't you know what we do about pharmaceutical drugs in this country i mean trump claims to care about it but the democrats claim to care about it but who's doing anything about it well in particular with profit because prop the for the studies that created the prep treatment were funded by the government but it was government you know what the show is it's an ongoing discussion about everything that's going it's been great to have it with  winding down from an exhausting pride month we're kind of glad it's over but we hope you will use that strength to fight for everything you need to do with the future inspired by the women's soccer team