in my man north for and why are these people smiling well history was made across the united states in the elections as trump is trump ism was repudiated and transgender candidates made historic breakthrough unbelievable so we're going to spend a lot of time going through five a lot of the people who got elected some you know about some you may not we'll bring you up today and we'll give you links to all the others and we will remember one of the st out gay elected officials ed flanagan st elected to statewide office he has died at the age of sixty six in vermont and we also mourn the loss of the documentarian deborah chasse enough she was the st person to thank her same sex partner when she won an oscar and she was the producer of the great film it's elementary she's died at the age of sixty now and despite the election that you're really not going to like i'm sure more bad news yeah a trans woman who was murdered in georgia and in nevada a fourteen year old was killed by his father for being gay i want to give credit to andrew j who knew long before many of us just how bad kevin spacey was he is he kevin spacey is you now facing an avalanche of accusing him of sexual harassment and rape and we're going to review julie tabor's production of butterfly with clive owen play called joke at lincoln center about wall street corruption but we start with the elections yes we do i mean it was victories from coast to coast radio as we said republicans were on the right of this election and yet they're going to continue while they hold  power as much damage as they can and they don't seem chastened by this we can get into that i am not entirely convinced that this election won't change some of that st of all i'd like to think it will put a stiffer spine in democrats  and encourage them to to manifest progressive tendencies on the grounds that the election certainly supports that and maybe put a little fear into the heart of republicans who see that if they do go along with this wacko agenda of trump and steve bannon that maybe that's not a winning formula for them right so yes but you know and yesterday most of the news was you know the big races where the governorships in new jersey and virginia and other races down ballot but a lot of attention was given to donica rome who was one election to the house of delegates in virginia there she is while she is running and she defeated this guy robert marshall who is you know famous for proclaiming himself the chief homophobe in the house of delegates he introduced almost g b t legislation constantly that's him that's  because he said i've never flunked biology and i understand the laws of nature well there are some who was in politics the people running this guy was a twenty five year incumbent exactly so what a mile post  prance woman could win a seat in the state legislature nine against the most famously bigoted twenty five year incumbent in bridgend means you change your mind blah well things don't in politics the victory fund which a lot tries to elect openly l g b two candidates alone put two hundred one thousand dollars into this race so that's a that's a huge investment and that's what has to happen if we are to over come well and perhaps the other thing that has to happen is the way that danica ran her race which was laser focused on local issues and refusing namely traffic congestion on promised and has not followed through on and isn't even talking about so i certainly think just to get a go it was just to get away i think bringing us together look he's the builder who should understand that infrastructure is important but all he builds are fancy hotels and you know cheesy apartment buildings so maybe he doesn't understand roads one and bridges and tunnels but she ran a brilliant relentless race dollars or sixteen governorships in the whole country but they also elected in virginia and african american lieutenant governor just in fairfax now and he's not even the st african american the st of course was doug wilder and then in new jersey where phil murphy was elected democrat for governor an african american mayor sheila oliver was elected lieutenant governor so you don't want to breakthroughs across the board for all kinds of diversity well yes and not the only transgender person elected to office in the country this week right next up andrea jenkins and out trans woman african american elected to the minneapolis city council and they are saying this is the st out trans person of color elected to any office of the united states well then we got we're going to boston the woman in boston but she was not out when she was elected and i'm going to swear it was five years ago and when she was outed she then lost her next election so although she is still running for office and i did erie pennsylvania now we are you know pennsylvania is a state where we don't even have a statewide g b t rights bill but a guy named in flemington new jersey we don't have a picture here but we just heard that betsy driver want to the borough council the nd intersex person elected in the world she says we were following a couple of races in georgia yes did better than expected and very popular candidate alex one who we do have a picture of it isn't out gay man running for city council president in atlanta he little concerned about charlotte because of everything that's going gone on in north carolina in the last couple of years but the progressive candidate won and huge congratulations to our old friend sean strub who has won the mayor's race in milford pennsylvania sean as was the editor founder of posit a xeno long term survivor a bitch of a big hiv aids activist and political activist and he one this is a town of a population of a one thousand sean tells us a lot of trumpeters there but he won i don't know how he won while he won well because he owns a local business there he owns a bed and breakfast and he's been in the town for a long time he comes back and forth to new york some he ran for congress years ago in new york state came close in that race but didn't win but now he has been elected mayor of milford pennsylvania and a great result in maine where the people of overcame their opposition of the republican governor and they voted to expand medicaid there for the for the entire state so that's a breakthrough so lots of good results shock across the nation and these results well we do this but this business of curbing prescription drug prices in ohio failed yes that was brought by the aids healthcare foundation from california was a little wary of their proposals well some of their stuff is great and some isn't you can get a full rundown of l g b t candidates and their races and results around the country there was another  running for city council minneapolis who barely lost so there are some mixed results but great wins across the board go to victory fund dot org that's the organization as i hope you know that support b t candidates around the country they have their results on most races and you can get an up to date picture there it was good to see what happened in washington state where a democrat  this was energized voters on the democratic side who may have set out two thousand and sixteen who are not you know who we thought and we can't lose i don't need to go to the polls our body tells me she's going to win whatever but they were energized and well  here is a different angle on that i think the selection well yes brought out more voters in virginia there were five to six percent more voters than there were i don't know if it was four years ago for the last governor's race maybe but women in particular sixty percent of women in virginia voted for ralph northam men forty eight percent for northam versus fifty percent for gillespie but women put it over the top women waited outside in the rain in long lines this is the women's march to the polls now and i think people are real relentlessly committed to this and the next one should you be keeping score is alabama in a month of december the th they have a special election to fill the seat of jefferson beauregard sessions w was that was the mass church shooting which you all know about taxes and gays against guns had already planned to go down to washington to the senate hart office building and protest so they they they went through with their protests that took on new meaning in light of this absolutely horrendous thing which is addictive that you know even when we have some halfway decent laws to protect people from these people getting guns they get them anyway against guns in the face of our experience which is that nothing beats a gun lobby on anything i have been a whole roic lee committed to this issue and to fighting for a long time  should have spent more than a year in jail also right but thank you to gaze against guns for doing a diane at the hart senate office building seven people arrested ok well we have couple of losses to talk about this week which are so sad about it flanagan has diety it was sixty six he was the st openly gay person elected to a statewide office in the country i guess he's from vermont he's the former auditor of accounts and was a state senator and had had a pretty terrible accident i guess it was a car two thousand and five car crash and this death at six thousand six hundred and twelve years later yes is attributed in part to the aftereffects of and he was a good guy and he did good things deborah chesnoff was a documentary filmmaker she made st of all a short documentary called deadly deception general electric  nuclear weapons or whatever and that won the academy award for about twenty years ago for best short documentary and she got up on stage and thanked explicitly her female and was the st person to do that at the oscars despite that parade of homosexuals over the years who were getting awards exactly as we noted the scottie bowers movie so she was stunning in her forthright courage and she made one of my all time favorite documentaries it's elementary seven years after that not that many years that she went and she went into the elementary schools  it's heart warming and if you're interested in this kind of war if you we want models for how to have this conversation in schools at home anywhere it's elementary she did that with our caller yes right and they you know they did other documentaries about diversity in the schools without a handle but and that's something we desperately need now yeah with all the bullying and going on and it's elementary is still relevant to that work today and can be used in any school well when they had the hearings against bullying at the new york city schools last week i mean did he drop was the gay chair of the education committee hammered home at least to the chancellor who is sitting there you need to get permission to the teachers to say lesbian gay bisexual transgender queer you know they have to know that they're not going to get punished if they do that they're going to get praised if they do we have to talk about it we can't talk about it we can't make any progress on this thirty years ago we were doing that in schools thirty years and having the kids chant lesbian and gay that's how long ago it was we were only having them chant lesbian and gay rights but it was thirty years ago governor chesnoff a great of atrocities from the administration sure well one of them is you know you know trump made a big deal i'm not i'm not getting rid of the executive order on gays although he's doing everything he can to undermine gay rights but the general services administration has taken off the fact that sexual orientation and gender identity are protected in the problems that you know we're going to bed for a long time they're just not going to say it any more on their website or in all those cuts or in informing their employees who are protected by right and this tax bill we'll see what happens with that i guess and you know with rand paul in the hospital and who knows what's going on in the senate after this election we'll see whether the tax bill about johnson isn't it yes it was passed a long time ago to say if you're a tax exempt church you know you could do issues you can do things but you can't do partisan politics but those two things that getting rid of it would do so yes preachers w be able to get up on the pope and say vote for so and so which then they're not supposed to now but many of them do well many candidates campaign in churches including a lot of democratic candidate yes but campaign in churches but that is the do but when the when the church devotes itself to electing someone and that's the key so what the koch brothers and already of these other horrible people are going to be able to do now is they're going to be able to give money to these religious organizations  and get a tax benefit for doing it and the money can be used to undermine democracy by having the preachers become the shills for all the koch brothers candidates and policy it is insane and they're just slipping added to this way last week i was trying to remember whole lot of my age addled brain what it was that i had read about rudy giuliani recently and his bad acts and i remembered it was in the new yorker article about purdue pharmaceuticals the is the sackler brothers who law relentlessly that's my new favorite word about the addictive properties of oxycontin and why blah blah to the federal government said all this isn't addictive please approve this please recommand this guy gregory cats this was probably the worst because he's the one who's been picking all these other judges and now they want him to be a judge the u s court of appeals for the district of columbia a very important seat and  t t record and enormous anti we're going to record i mean i have all these things i mean it's so bad look look the guy got k a t s a s i mean i'm so horrified to read this record and he's up talking about your what's going to happen to your rights when these judges become a majority exactly if they're republicans who are supporting our rights we would be supporting and you know we look back at some of the reagan appointments some of the bush appointments by comparison not so bad paradise all right well it's time to move on to some terrible again news about violence around the country macon georgia candace tone say trans woman thirty years old murdered the th reported killing of a transgender person in the united states this year and that it had her said which is outside of las vegas a kid called giovanni melton fourteen years old shot and killed by his father for being gay this is a kid it was basically raised by his grandmother who was practically living alone at this point begging for food in the neighborhood and things like that the father was still living so he hated the fact that the kid was gay and shot him to death woman has filed a lawsuit because she was sexually abused while incarcerated with male inmates there she is her name is jules williams yes and in oswego county new york  two brothers have been charged with assaulting a trans person one thousand years old just randomly on the story driving by stopping going back assaulting her but i just want to read one of the quotes from the jules williams situation terrorism where one of the guards said when she was trying to get help screaming for help you know i have to order guys here i have to answer to when i can't stop and answer your questions you're going to have to grow up and suck it from louisiana where a state appeals court has ruled that the governor of louisiana cannot issue an executive order banning discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity for government workers and government contractors the attorney general had opposed the executive order has been in a fight with the governor over this for a long time now the question is will the governor of appeal this  decision by the state court a member of the campaign michael mansoor twenty one of the university of michigan he came out and his roommate started harassing him they threw his belongings out the window and so you know he tried to get action on this bathrooms contrary to their birth gender or wearing clothes similarly and so they they have very strict bans on this well the students of the school their parents and think about the harvey milk memorial severed cisco they want to redo the whole plaza they're going to build some stairs there or would you're going to have history things about harvey given the fact of the crash is coming in may i want to say but money for something like human seeing some pictures from different angles i realize that the ramp up you know is on top of the entrance to a subway station so there's a reason for it to be elevated and they also say that they wanted to be a gathering place for he was has been out of the closet longer than that exactly and we celebrated his coming out as a major league soccer player and we're sorry to see him go but we're not sorry to see kevin spacey go you know so you know again you know you were this all started thirty something years ago but we the story that came out last week was that anthony rapp the actor out going after some sick of seeing you know seeing spacey continue to abuse people spoke out and said he tried you know he tried to you know got on top of me when i was fourteen years old cornered me into his bedroom but cetera and this was horrifying to people and i wrote at the time that he was finished the that he will never work again and people said oh but this is something that happened thirty years ago what are you talking i was one drunken episode oh yeah and i said no it's been going on for years people have been telling me over the years are going to happen and i said one don't want to star loses power that's what people can come out as with with bill cosby as with all of them so now all these people come out when spacey was working as the director of the old vic theatre in london for eleven years did a nice job artistically but he would go to the bar there all the time and just grab you came forward who said i'm going to the guy come forward as forty's and said he had a relation to a woman ship with me when i was fourteen and he tried to rape me when i was fifteen that's the last time i saw him so one thing that is mystified me about all these stories starting with harvey weinstein and all these cases that we're now talking about whether it's the british parliament or hollywood or politics or whatever it is that these guys keep denying it they keep saying i never engaged in anything that wasn't consensual and that's why the one thing there are a lot of other super who are saying this too i never did anything that wasn't consensual people are now being charged with rape they're being sued and they keep saying i never did anything that wasn't consensual so i've been trying to figure this out and couple of things one the stories are often about people who were raped were assaulted but didn't feel powerful enough to get away at that moment i'm with these people they thought their careers would be over and i don't also it always hard to go this is not absolutely i'm not blaming the victim but what i'm saying is that the attackers in their own twisted minds interpret this for themselves as consent you're you know when you're a big star they let you do it exactly as the quote predators show david of the out of david brooks op ed columnist for the new york times who i don't like at all he's not very bright and quite conservative but he took on this subject and he talked about different levels of attack relationship whatever and he said you know one key element in any relationship is how well you see the other person in the st group people see each other deeply in the nd group they see each other in a degraded way in the rd group the harasser doesn't see his victim at all the men who have recently been exposed say they had no idea how much pain they were caus i believe that these guys really have the most distorted vision of what they're doing you're seeing is the success of the women's movement finally asked which has which has been lobbying about this debate is that for decades i don't believe assault has changed this is just finally ripping the cover and it is a tipping point and pause and make them stop well if they understand what they're doing grounds and what i was just talking about the hey may really still not understand what they're doing oh bill cosby didn't embrace his own identity ok all right that's international news well so the someone australia the postal plebiscite is finished but we're not going to know the results and to november the th t v but as we told you the right wing is gearing up to fight the expected build legalize same sex marriage by proposing scores of amendments that would undermine it and the question is what will happen with those amendments i don't know the senate over there is going to go along with those amendments i certainly hope not  nondiscrimination clause out of the a limp dick truce yes to my great shock and amazement the us our people plus france and brazil have stopped that effort have have stopped them from putting that amendment in the olympic truce but the truce itself comes up for a vote next week on november th so we'll see whether the clean with the non discrimination clause truce gets passed well and wonder of wonders staying over that part of the world a russian human rights bird bugs person an official there  shouting anti gay slogans well let it go flares and smoke bombs and they burned a rainbow flag they have no respect for the plot flag but the fund news comes from africa but why the the georgia president supported kasha and he says everyone has a right to freedom of expression and should respect human beings and liberties so that's good and actually let me go to uganda st a famous female rapper named is now she is very very famous and popular in uganda she sponsored by pepsi and mountain dew i hope it will change she was named the female artist of the year last year at the vanden hip hop awards because attitudes sexually active with each other that's not the news those are two male lion that's not the new because we've seen this every species and everything but the but the god there are books written about homosexuality long and good guy who's head of the know film classification board said these animals need counseling because they probably have been influenced by gays would go into parks and bay badly i know they have it he says i don't know they must have copied it men get arrested for cruising in parks in the united states because they are going to warp the squirrels terrible also reading all about the kenya lions i heard a story that i hadn't heard before which was about the the gay polar bears in san diego at the zoo they got separated the same one off to pittsburgh and the one who stayed in san diego died of a broken heart who damaged terrible but they've been together for twenty years or did we talk about what bermuda is lesbian polar bears and i already talk about what happened with bermuda now they have a very old domestic partner they have same sex marriage they were court ordered to do it but they the domestic partners bill and they say if you're already got married you can still be married but we want to give you less rights but we want to make domestic partnerships available for all couples straight or gay but this is just you know the court ruled that they had to make marriage open to all same sex couples have been getting married in bermuda and the right wing is just desperate and they're just throwing everything at it to try to stop it has has some very repressive policies going on will appeal the ruling there that recognize the lesbian couple for benefits of the government expressed no know but i'm hoping that as the process you know i'm in favor of taking the gay games to places that need a little education and liberalization having been part of the games organizing for ninety four in new york and seen that it really had a major effect on new york even at that time you bring tens of thousands of celebrating gay people to a city and it's it's going to happen yes i would right wingers who tried to stop the gay gay have easily said it was going to bring full force of the law i don't think those lions are going to get a t v show and what are we going to get out of the of the congress in terms of health care you know we're all of the period of those of us who are on the affordable care act and try to reapply and it's that's daunting but bernie sanders points out that congress did not renew the funding for the community health center program at the end of the fiscal year community health centers i mean there are thousands of them across the country this is where people get their health care and they've been touted as you know places that are alternatives to planned parenthood yes but we don't just want everybody to die on the other hand at notre dame university employees and likely joan and i'd like to volunteer should tell people who she was at one point she heard they needed a new copy machine and the guy running the office and we can afford it she said his a check for four hundred and twenty five dollars the guy says who's this is this check good she said  volunteer i mean stuffing envelopes helping people who were sick all that kind of stuff where you know what judy peabody yes and of course some of our favorite volunteers are the activists who've been working on these issues for decades now  the women who will and a it's about the women involved in aids activism and we have a clip from that movie that we would like to show you scientists at the national centers for disease disease that was only affecting the white men which was completely and totally inaccurate women were dying faster women were sick and still being ostracized and isolate it without the benefit of women specific resources and support there was a saying kind of in the early days of the epidemic women don't get aids we just die from it that perception continues to be true and people who could afford drugs were getting them from europe and from the us and it was moving average person who goes to church believes that they are exempt from me they think they can pray it away and i am a living testimony that prayer doesn't stop you from becoming  think well you can get a lot of shock value you can guess that i only saw half of it it's because i found it kind of empty and cheesy but i was trying to be more explicit about how a band could go out with another ban for mary and not understand that this was a band that was that's the plot based on the cost for us well if you want to see something a little more progressive in that area there is a documentary that's going to be released next week generation of transvestite performers singers dancers comedians made by an actress whose grandfather owned a theater where they performed and it's  interesting i found a little too long but it's a great group of people now living as women some now living as men and but clearly self described as transvestite performers divine road company in when i was d in college but it was a place it opened before stonewall i believe six play right sixty eight but do we need a big production of the boys in the band again  rattles i'll be curious to see what they do they're great actors i think it made rewrite and it would be but it's not don't know this is by far he won the pulitzer prize for disgraced on broadway and i just even though it's a lively play and there's a lot of information about how the the awful stuff that goes on on wall street it's like we this it's a fascinating subject but we do know it and again i didn't feel a need to stick around to for the nd act to find out what i already know you know i'm not going to but i you know i read michael lewis books about wall street i like the made off movies i do i am compelled by this but we have a couple of minutes should we show the film or do you want to talk you want to chat go ahead show you know i want to just get you ready for two thousand and eighteen and i'm going to show you how hard it is to make things happen politics in new york we are up against something that we're going to tell you about in a video that we're going to run right now about who controls the new york legislative and rats in the senate who vote with the republicans on our attempt to get rid of them hi i'm e d falco after the two thousand and sixteen election new york state acted fast to pass these measures to resist trump's agenda universal single payer health care fully funded public schools strong environmental safeguards and sanctuary state legislation to protect all immigrants just kidding that didn't happen but it could have and it probably would have if not for the independent democratic conference new yorkers reaching the vote democrat at both state and national levels and there is currently a majority of democrats in the state senate but since two thousand and eleven a small group of so called democratic senators called the independent democratic conference have refused to caucus with the democrats candy in control of the senate to republicans they do this in exchange for what they call loose bigger salaries nicer offices and committee chairmanships in fact some i d c members are literally getting paid by the republican senate leadership in legally questionable ways that are making headlines in both local and national  members also get tons of campaign money from real estate charter schools and health care lobbyists some of whom are republicans with connections to i d c members say that they're getting things done but because they hand senate control the republicans hardly any progressive legislation comes up for a vote and when it does it is heavily watered down like the two thousand and thirteen minimum wage law remember all those awesome things from the beginning they have all passed the assembly in the last two years but thanks to the i were all blocked by the senate by d c members insist that the fault really lies with another rogue democrat votes with republicans the truth is they are both at fault and they use each other as scapegoats to shift blame for their treason against the people who voted for them are you pissed off yet great let's fight back if we can raise enough awareness in these eight i d c districts we can vote the fake dems out making new york a real blue state like california and inspiring other states of the union to resists trump too so share this video widely find out if your state senator is in the i d c and join one of these groups to help us fight back fight in new york because we have traitorous democrats here and possibly in the u s senate we have to worry about that and i just want to appreciate my old art history professor linda knock one who died a week ago who was a fabulous role model for being a revolutionary and had a great influence on me she was the st feminist art historian and a fantastic human being thank you for being with us