i'm so out of practice yeah all right yes kevin all the stuff we're going to show you some of the mob we had a huge win in romania of this week and we had a court win in hawaii big queens new york community however icon under tragic circumstances in new ganda very bravely held g b t activists have plans to open a community center much to the horror of the truvada as prevention has failed for the first time the united states in a particular case but it is still in the extremely rare occurrence for that to happen three times out of three hundred eighty seven thousand i think it's like six cases worldwide but there are usually six i only know of three little be filling me in on the other three and we have a special guest today legendary veteran broadway producer ted snowden he's got a new show called daniel's husband and you may know him from everything from producing the elephant and spring awakening buyer and seller with michael yuri and the roof like the latest revival of three tall women and made sure here between us october seventeenth is international pronouns day we're really to promote using people's preferred pronouns october eighteenth and you should get ready for this was posed to wear purple next week for spirit  mouth to start with the news said just so horrendous what the lying shameless relentless republican administration and their hand men are doing to us including that moderate susan coll sellout now he must president once the women who accused kavanaugh on to face legal liability he says that about are you ready i say bring it on because that's going to put everything before a judge and he supported the zero burger fell decision marriage equality settled yet wait till the next marriage case comes to the supreme court and see how he votes and masterpiece cake shop she totally distorted that and quoted from the opinion apologize for that one good because they didn't because it was an obvious lie yeah i've got tracked down so it's very discouraging and now we have all the discouraging polls about the midterms which are also you know i don't i will whoa that's cable i'm maybe i'm a pollyanna that is cable news let's keep the story going because all the generic ballot you also saw that democrats are leading like fifty four to forty on that something like that t it's a very small party i'm not interested in democratic i'm interested in what the majority does and that includes independents who are not surveyed on these enthusiasm scales well let's put it this way please vote when i message well it's everybody's message it's taylor swift's message and she's the most effective purveyor of that message and then a hundred thousand people registered to vote one hundred thousand yes repeat that please please please vote and if you happen to be in new york state the deadline to register is friday october twelfth so please make sure you're registered and you may think you don't have much of a contest to vote on here but there are  congressional districts that are need your vote and their state senate same senate yes so please please vote don't be like the bozos that cable news is showing us these days of young people who are saying there are plenty of right wing women out there fifty two percent of the white ones who voted for donald trump i am not happy about any what you must remember is that this was a total republican hit job yes they got joe mansion to heitkamp i think they're both terrific on this and i don't hate i have to be able to look myself in the mirror i think her husband said that about her but it was said well she said it wasn't a political vote at was a from the heart vote and i in his administration donald trump and of course all all the other guys have been talking about the mob rule this is their new tactic to describe the democrats and dangerous and violent  and as nothing but mob rule because they don't like people coming up into the into the hallways and confronting them about their bigotry and they don't like a reporter confronting them they don't like anybody confronting them they and they are out to kill anybody who republicans in power do not understand democracy did not understand freedom of assembly do not understand freedom of speech and have no interest in in having an open society they want they're the ones who want mob rule they are the mob they want to rule we say the we mean organized crime yes which is the like the trump right well and i don't want to go too far but  suspect i would have more respect for the actual mafia of these people be that as it may i could live to regret that statement so let me label it seventy facetious but let's get to donald trump and the tweet he put out in the midst of this the very rude elevator screamers and paid professionals only looking to make senators look bad don't fall for it also look at all of the perp rationally made identical sons pay for by soros and others these are not signs made in the basement from love well first of all but sounds like a rather anti semitic statement well of course but let us show you a mob of professional  makers making these professionally made signs now now just the picture will get back to this just show us the picture of lori in front of the white house there making the signs all by herself right so who doesn't like is that they're very effective messages yeah and that they are actually graphically appropriate warrior biter is an artist who used to be a contractor she in fact painted my living room twenty five years ago when i moved into my current apartment lori is a good friend to all of us and just a regular normal human being who makes these signs now she has distributed these signs widely so that next slide a you can see them all over these demonstrations people are holding up these signs and they do look professionally made but they're made by lori ar we can go to the video of laurie making t shirts with a couple of friends hanging around one by one making t shirts with these slogans not a big professional organization just document lori at a printing press making these as opposed to what i'm surprised that none of these cable networks have had her on the air to explain it to trial what's really going on so then this and she she said a few words we're going to a little bit a bit about that and then she introduces moring at the party who talks about what went down in washington and how she feels about it now but had them talked about that role that you know  protection and that's when they actually stole the election again so i just want to say there are people still in d c of course is not a good friend i just got word they're going to be at an early in the mornings and i'm even thinking i just oh my partner i'm just ready to maybe stay here a little bit and then you turn around to go back there you're going to meet him tomorrow morning seven am we're going to go there and try to be there when he tries to pull up and get into that supreme  the first the first step in taking back power is putting a check on trouble with taking back the house and even possibly the senate although it's a heavier left that is the first step but you're seeing these articles come out now about we've got to look at the way the courts are structured it's totally on balanced that you know the republicans stole the seat with american when they cut the court down to eight members well we could raise it to twelve when we get back power well though public officials are not wanting to embrace this idea because if it's seen as radical well it breaks norms but it's something that can be done and you can't just say to people oh we're lost for a generation and we're not going to have the protection of the courts will you have the power to change the  judiciary act which was written by oliver ellsworth and say ancestor in the seventeen hundreds which sets how judges are selected they didn't select the number nine for the supreme court it's not in the constitution they could put make any number they won it was six under supreme court has you know gets thousands of cases submitted to it every year it takes eighty that is not enough we need a bigger court so we can split it up and look at more cases handle more  more things and that as a rationale for a expanding the court i think has perhaps more of a political appeal not that anyone will be fooled but but i think that's real i think we do need a bigger court and i when i hear democrats palosi say well let's go back to the filibuster on supreme court so we can get more moderate people well you're going to give it give the robocup republicans veto power over your selections when you get power narrow so speaking i read something interesting this week of the oath keeper are a right wing militia group and they are trained to fight but laugh w they they are forming a national militia to have all these right like the people who are in charlotte no us to be prepared to defend the united states from the violent democrat you mean defend confederate statues yeah that too well of course the trump administration machine is making another assault on obamacare once again they're going to be taking health care dot gov offline during the has there they're making health care dot gov less available and also the republicans are not saying how they're going to protect preexisting conditions they're not saying how they're going to do that and there's a court case from the republicans working its way through the courts in texas and other places to end coverage for things like that let's spend a moment on nikki haley before she disappears you know everybody oh i'm a great nikki haley isn't she wonderful well you know where she was that night brett kavanaugh got elected to confirm to the supreme court she was at a party with a right wing even joe uncles who put his name forth in the first thinks is relatively moderate but she's pretty hard line conservative and then in second place on that list rick grinnell oh my god and why is it ok he's think a ambassador to germany but why is he second on you know trump saying i'm appointing a gay would still make a big deal about if he probably if he appoints grinnell back to health care the justice department just approved a sixty nine billion dollars merger of c v s and their insurance another blow to consumers and the senate this week is on the verge of confirming eric dry bed the nominee for a civil rights division of the justice department this is the guy who defended the north carolina bathroom bill who testified against civil rights legislation for people of color and was an expert witness against the lowly lead better fairer pay than the education department is going to step in and investigate whether there's a hostile environment at a elementary school in georgia because the parents of a five year old girl are claiming that she was sexually assaulted by a gender fluid other student the school had already and the state had already investigated and found that actually nothing happened but the parents complained to betsy to vos and now the department of education is going to launch an investigation about sex discrimination and this hostile environment and and whether the school had retaliated against the parents what are they going to do about this horrible situation in stafford county  virginia where it's a middle school they have a trance student and they were doing one of those drills where you're active shooter drills right so the boys went to the boys locker room the girls went to the girls locker room what are we going to do with the trend stud local l g b t group which is called stafford equality is what tonight is or last night went to the school board meeting i don't i don't have the results of that are we finished with the federal government for the moment thinks so let's go to massachusetts we showed you a couple of weeks ago a really hideous ad from an ad campaign by the right wing there's a ballot measure up for vote in november to repeal the law prohibiting discrimination on the basis of gender identity and expression gender a law that protects trans people in massachusetts the right wing wants to repeal that law they gathered enough signatures you don't need many in massachusetts to get it on the ballot so we showed you the really hideous scare tactic ad that the right wing is running it was a monster movie well the  supporting the law trying to keep it in place have now started their own online ad campaign and we want to show you a couple of their ads so let's start with the one with the young trans  since state law began protecting transgender people from discrimination there's been no increases in public safety incidents in places like restaurants laws already exist to prevent assault and hold offenders accountable dignity and join us vote yes on three oh yes on three and then the other one is that i want to get a trance kid but my kids and i do anything for me that includes taking care of my transgender son  just like other kids do expanding out with friends so i want to be protected from discrimination in public places like restaurants that's why i'm asking you to vote yes on question three let me live my life just like everyone else vote yes on three and protect massachusetts kids like me good so that they're using national trans young people to talk about this and the other one of course the first one was about reassuring the elect this law has not caused any assaults and that if there were any in bathrooms that the laws already exist to protect against that and i forgot to say that the international human rights arts festival  has dumped susan collins from there as the sponsor of their festival that's coming up in new york in november people saw her name with people like john lewis and everybody else on this thing and said what the hell is she doing there and they said they abandoned building by a man she was with they had an argument and he just went after her with a knife and that is the story of her murder and c n n reporter caitlin collins went after us with the what is it called the tucker carlson a daily caller web site that's where she worked right and she did a long article about barbara mikulski a mocking her short stature and her i mean you can't accuse c n n of liberal bias if you keep some of they keep somebody like this now i agree all right but thank you to the rest scene wisconsin common council which has adopted a gender identity and expression non discrimination law did you see how homeland security is protecting us from gay singers well this was pretty bad i mean the gay core gay men's chorus of mexico city showed up at the used that airport and they  gave them a very hard time about and they almost missed their engagement and they were they were threatened with an international incident before they relented it was about whether they were professionals trying to travel on a tourist visa that was something that the incident in california where two republicans running against each other for congress said and they had one of those primaries where everybody's in the primary and the top two vote getters run against each other so in this district it ended up with two republicans on top running against each other so one of them is conservative and one of them is a maniac and the maniac is tim donnelly who is gay and him but in that case and he stole a photo of a trans navy woman from thirty years ago not five years ago now thirty years ago thirty years ago and put it up on a billboard  that said that his opponent voted to allow our military funds to be used for sex change surgery thirty years ago no care from the v a no maybe ninety or ninety one and but the thing is cynthia nixon is on the ballot on the working families line for somebody they had to do that because she was running for governor and they need to get her off the line and put her and your hands in this stupid state you better news from hawaii where the supreme court there affirmed the ruling that same sex spouses must be treated as presumed parents born during a marriage with equal rights responsibilities in child lambda represented that the the the biological mother the not biological mother didn't want to pay child support so an old story that happens a lot well it's outrageous you know we pro l g b t governor probably anywhere in history yes thank you i got a yes vetoed a bill passed by the legislature on mandatory teacher training talked about that one last week and the fact is that that one well done a deep analysis ought to be something about flexibility with schools and local options he his real reason was it would cost too much and what he said is schools are already doing it and they have a right to do it the bill would have made it mandatory so in effect the schools that don't want to do it don't have to do it now so this bill would have made it mandatory for all schools so his not be able to discriminate and seventy five percent believe that you know the public accommodation should be open to everybody and you can't refuse people from you know service well that's what they say and polls and then they vote for these any republican  or minnesota is going to allow an x gender marker on driver's license the mayor said new york city sees you transgender non binary neighbors and we have your back of course it would be nice if we got the police department off the backs of  people walking down the street and you haven't you haven't done yet to the l g b t community for decades of harassment congratulations to richard burr and the long time executive director of the new york city have a friend an ex partner jim it was an mc c minister and his he was a seven cisco for many many years but his job now is to go to congregations christian liberal congregations around the country when they're in trouble and just be there for a couple of years to get them to talk south thirteenth street at locust you have a picture of her wife judith caisson windsor who was there with with the some kids and they had a wonderful time they are celebrating eighty windsor very nice and i just want to say i don't know if you have any other national or local news go ahead i think i did watch last week's show and i did think corey was terrific and what i really appreciated was  endorsed reclaim pride's plan for a big human rights march for stonewall fifty next year yes and he talked about how he's fed up with the corporate nature of the current pride parade you can you can join reclaim pride as well and you c endorse what we're doing and reclaim pride too to make it a civil rights march as opposed to a corporate parade e s you can either go to the reclaim pride n y c facebook page or go to reclaim pride n y c dot that sign on as a supporter and if you're interested in coming to our meetings they've changed we used to meet on saturday afternoons we're now going to start meeting wednesday evenings at seven pm and a new place called the people's forum which has been created as a meeting space for community organizations at three twenty west thirty seventh street that's wednesdays at seven pm at the people's forum reclaimed do go online your group can endorse status and you know you as an individual can endorse and the other thing we're talking about is hey stop all fifty of us for everybody around the world we want this to be like the women's march we want every city and w do a march on that day yeah because we have a lot of march and fight for what you know we've got we've got some things to celebrate over the fifty years but we have a long way to go well then let's move on to the international knows though and i just wanted to congratulate jim oberg a fellow he was inducted into the ohio civil rights her all of fame international news the huge would romania whole book by people that you know even though three million people signed a petition to get this on the ballot to ban same sex marriage  no new that was an advertisement by the right wingers well but they lost and then where that they lost is our side took a chance and said if they need thirty percent of the people show up at the polls the best way to beat this is don't go to the polls and  shows them that there is more support in the country for this than they might have suspected then and then you have you know tokyo take action the metropolitan government they're pestered l g b to rights law and this is the olympics in two thousand and twenty well and that's because of where nation because in two thousand and fourteen when the winter olympics were in sochi and queer nation and others got off in arms about the fact that they were holding the olympics  an anti gay country russia and made a huge international stink about it the u s and the international olympic committee passed a rule that said that any future country holding the olympics had to have nondiscrimination rules in place and as a result tokyo which is holding the two thousand and twenty summer olympics has adopted a nondiscrimination law for sexual orientation and gender identity and human rights watch also work with them on crafting this and the japanese government is now moving towards doing this as well tokyo leading the way other cities and they're going to head on haitian on these issues too we must hurry along ok the united kingdom is opening  partnerships to straight couples as a result of a supreme court mandate we've asked for equal access to civil partnerships for gay and straight couples and they're going to do it but there was a ruling from the u k high court that a baker did not have to right support same sex marriage on a cake and a lot of the gay groups are condemning this is discrimination peter tatchell our gay activist friend said no that's freedom of expression you can't compel them to write a message it's different from selling a wedding cake princes the right wing presidential candidate in brazil he wants to whip and kill gay people to know what he would whip his son if he found out he was gay to whip it out of him he arrest them all if they do you know for the first time elected to ok politicians and their elections in taiwan in november they will hold two referenda on marriage one pro one anti if the anti one wins that will end up china is suing because he says he goes to scrimmage against an aids news we do have this failure of prep for the first time in the united states it was a drug resistant strain in san francisco as i said there's only been about six cases you said there are fewer but you know the only ones i know are this one in san francisco one in toronto and one in amsterdam three hundred fifty six thousand seven hundred people are now on truvada is proper around the world three cases  gonzales long time act up member who is now at yale doing epidemiology he just want to macarthur grant and in china a hundred thousand new cases of hiv in the last so that was a great show a club coming and thank thank you michael for that and i also saw a bill irwin in a show called on beckett irish rep beautiful show meditation on bet beckons language this is the tony award winning actor and it's do a lot of work but it's not funny congratulations to be the one who married his partner of eight years rick karr nor who's the director of digital media at the new york public library and i saw the movie lizzie which has chloe seventy a as lizzie borden killing her parents in part because they were being mean to her girl friend the mate kristen stewart i found it wildly romantic the friend i went with found it too brutal but for the gays bad for the good i thought it was good i thought it was great whatever new fast new york october twenty fourth the thirtieth think losing her feet be the photographs of diane got soul donna sorry there's a self portrait of her wonderful wonderful exhibition donna down there and try becca and let's get to our guest and we are so pleased to finally have on our show ted snow who is a veteran theater producer multiple tony award winner and an accomplished philanthropist as well but you are welcome ted thank you for having a cow now you and i have many much throws you are here to talk about your new show daniel's husband which is going to have a new run at the westside theater for zero seven west forty third street starting october eighteenth and running through february this is a show that sort of about the fight about same sex marriage but not with the right way no it's between two two characters in the play daniel and daniel and it much more than the other character and it sort of breezes alone as is almost like a kind of a gay play that we've all seen before or so we might think and then something major happens halfway through that moves the play in many directions it does not even really begin to focus much on gay issues by the time it's over we have a picture of most of the get good yeah we're playing at least through february and hopefully well beyond and we are very thrilled to be at what i would call the premier off broadway theater the west side it is the perfect intimate house for this for this love story this kind of twist kind of looks at the post to be t marriage same sex marriage issue it looks at things as they are is quite is very concerned i mean we can all rush through some really dramatic or melodramatic fantasies about what might happen with the courts with issues coming up i mean i think new york state very safe place for us to to be n but i'm concerned i actually only we got married myself my wonderful husband three twenty yet twenty it means a great deal to actually one of the groups i've supported over the years is freedom to marry which was run by evan wolfson evan was the official in our wedding our great friend and all that and i'm now working with the number two man  also my concerns i know i'm not alone in these concerns and i just hope and pray that people want to come see something i think they're going to want to come see daniel because i think people genuinely want to be moved and want to feel it's getting a little hard to laugh right now a lot on the climate and then though you want stood the little dog left which gave us a lot of laughs yeah with julie white and others in about how gay rights gay a man's gayness could be stripped from him you know in order to get a movie made yes hollywood i mean people should know something or other credentials you lived with the revival of three toll women just recently spring awakening master class gentleman's guide to love and murder but also a lot of gay shows early on byron summer with michael yuri which ran for ever well it ran a year a little about fourteen months here in new york it had an instantly a national tour which is very  while the relationship disintegrates in a little tiny apartment nobody can escape and yeah and it was the very play john writes very timely things things of their time and then i did a beautiful one called secrets of the trade that he wrote he's a great writer and you know i'm glad he finally got the approval and success that he got from buyer and seller now you that a clear way it's gone through all these credits have been doing this for decades and that i'm just interested in your observations about how things have changed specifically around l g b t themes in that they're well of course we used to be outliers we were  outlaws in a kind of sense and so the theater we did was thrilling and exciting in the late sixty's the plays that came along we just had the revival which i wasn't a part of but it was beautiful the boys in the band and it reminded where we were fifty years ago and and i remember that when that was on i was actually in college and coming to do york to see plays on weekends and i was actually close that's where i was then and i was not out and when we did come out in those days it usually meant having furtive liaisons with strangers in the dark for many of us i mean it was just a whole different world and the  assimilation is that audiences can get used to it might have lost a certain sense of its adventure and i mean it's talking about our issues i think daniel takes another twist therefore it's valid as something something different but yeah i mean maybe one doesn't want people to get completely used to what was once bold and daring and shocking and you want them to still feel invigorated but mostly what i feel now when i go to films and plays is oh dear lord please let me be moved let me feel some can't really always feel from t v or the little box i want things that are bigger than life that's why my love for the opera i suppose are the things that are live speaking of which you have another show on in this week called my parcel p