but what i found homophobia is systemic throughout our country.t is also systemic is people working against it, and people who are changing and evolving. it's both of these things happening at the same time. which is why we live in such an incredible time right now. >> michael: it's an amazing time. the new black debuts tomorrow at the film festival. thank you so much for being here and making this film. >> michael: coming up after the break, brett erlich joins me to compare chris christie and john boehner's singing careers. you can change the volume but you definitely can't change the channel. we'll be right back. >> if you believe in state's rights but still support the drug war you must be high. >> "viewpoint" digs deep into the issues of the day. >> do you think that there is any chance we'll see this president even say the words "carbon tax"? >> with an open mind... >> has the time finally come for real immigration reform? >> ...and a distinctly satirical point of view. >> but you mentioned "great leadership" so i want to talk about donald ru

i think we are deeply uncomfortable dealing with racism and homophobia and all those isms and that's what comes out of our mouth. >> the parents who are mad at the kids for not doing something about being victimized, so were some of the administrators, well, i reported this, i interviewed them. what do you say to that? you really focus on that. >> yeah, i think inherent in what -- the movie is all about what happens, like the minutia, the nitty-gritty. there's a scene in the movie, we'll show a clip but i would say for those of you that have seen the movie, the most explosive scene in the film is a conversation between two students and the assistant principal in this school where they emerge from recess and there's clearly some conflict that's going on and she says, whoa, whoa, what's going on here? the two start telling their own stories and, you know, she basically says, you go away to the one person that was a witness, then she proceeds to have the two students shake hands. and it becomes a very uncomfortable exchange where the boy who has been the target, the victim of bullying,

safe cpos for the lgbtq is not just about staff training and adjusting institutional and behavior homophobia but addressing other administrative barriers and work site issue and how do we make our bathrooms safe and accessible. and also, shelter facilities, a lot of lgbtq youth who access the youth shelters continue to have complaints around harassment, discrimination, and not feeling safe. we would also like to see expanded capacity building to make appropriate referals based on specific issues faced by lgbtq youth because we know that some people might not have the resources available to them to refer a transclient to a clinic to receive hormone treatment or other issues such as that. >> so, our focus for today are the city departments about existing training and the model programs for everything with the lgbtq youth and what their ongoing efforts have been to serve the lgbtq youth. so, we see this as a great first step in conversation with the departments and we want to hear the challenges that the departments have faced in implementing 12 n. and with that, we would like to continue asses

. >> on a day that's supposed to be celebrating our fighting back against homophobia he puts her up on stage. i don't know what the thinking was. >> the publisher of the "san francisco examiner" sf weekly and the guardian invited shocked to do a free concert so she can explain what happened when she made a homophobic rant at yoshi's. he is now trying to line up a venue. >>> a man who coached high school in richmond a facing charges of sex crimes against girls. 51-year-old barron edwards was arrested last month on 16 felony counts involving two allege victims. more charges were added yesterday involving a third girl. his bail was increased to $34 million because of the new charges. >>> suspected serial killer joseph naso cross-examined witnesses in a marin county courtroom yesterday. the 79-year-old is representing himself. he is accused of killing four women between 1977 and 1994. he faces the death penalty if he is convicted. >>> san jose is filing a lawsuit against major league baseball over mlb's refusal to decide whether the as can move to the city. the lawsuit challenges mlb90- ye

. >> there is no suggestion this attack was inspired by homophobia, but the issue of gay marriage has inflamed tensions between the two extremes here over the last three months. >> i think there is a kind of big issue like this in the whole of europe going on and there have always been these two extremists sides. >> the protesters against legalizing gay marriage have been marred, with activists on the extreme right provoking clashes with the police. emotions on the street here are still running high. al-jazeera, paris. >> prince phillip, the husband of britain's queen elizabeth, has been admitted to hospital for an operation on his abandon -- abdomen. buck many -- buckingham palace released a statement that it is i -- is an exploor tory procedure. >> and twins scaled the world's highest mountain last month. they are still waiting for official confirmation of the record. they were inspired after reaching the top of mount kilimanjaro four years ago the >> the best thing about the climb was my sister was with me and we both stepped on the top togs -- together. it in me there were a lot o

i hope i will be able to marry in the near future, but still, homophobia in france is back to where it was 20 years ago. >> they are all too aware of the openly homophobic propaganda now surfacing across the country. >> i am proud to be french. proud to have been part of the fight for same-sex marriage. i am lost for words. >> just how divisive the issue is in french society only became apparent recently. this year's film festival in can saw a lesbian love story scoop the top prize -- this year's film festival in cannes. "blue is the warmest color" is a product of the more liberal side of french culture. that same day, an estimated 150,000 anti-gay marriage protesters from across the country descended on paris. families came in specially chartered buses. catholics skits and services. conservative politicians marched with militant groups. while largely peaceful, by evening, violence broke out. by police arrested more than 200 protesters. known by her stage name, this cabaret performer has become a figurehead of the anti-gay marriage movement and spearheaded the demonstration. protesters

i hope i will be able to marry in the near future, but still, homophobia in france is back to where it was 20 years ago. >> they are all too aware of the openly homophobic propaganda now surfacing across the country. >> i am proud to be french. proud to have been part of the fight for same-sex marriage. i am lost for words. >> just how divisive the issue is in french society only became apparent recently. this year's film festival in can saw a lesbian love story scoop the top prize -- this year's film festival in cannes. "blue is the warmest color" is a product of the more liberal side of french culture. that same day, an estimated 150,000 anti-gay marriage protesters from across the country descended on paris. families came in specially chartered buses. catholics skits and services. conservative politicians marched with militant groups. while largely peaceful, by evening, violence broke out. by police arrested more than 200 protesters. known by her stage name, this cabaret performer has become a figurehead of the anti-gay marriage movement and spearheaded the demonstration. protesters

>> the media does have a double standard when it comes to homophobia and racism.are unpardonable mistakes. we all make mistakes. the public is much better at judging someone's heart and knowing if they are truly sorry. the media is never good at it because they just wanted to see things black and white. they want to make sure that you are either a race it or not a racist. >> jon: public is buying her books like crazy. >> it's funny that joe mentions bill maher because a black lady pointed out if maher was held to the same standards he would have been off the air a long time ago including al sharpton. >> jon: the trial of george sometimer man. media there in full force giving wall to wall coverage giving it to star witness. >> it was racial but it was because trayvon martin bus race in there. you don't that is racial comment? >> no. >> you don't think that creepy [ bleep ] is a racial comment? >> no. >> jon: 19-year-old rachel jon jeantel cross-examined by west. he is trying to poke holes in her testimony and trying to convince the jury that martin made the deadly

countries homophobia. is enormous issue of enormous proportions and if you're really concerned about the granting this people those rights then you have to work with the society rather than slapping that society in the face that's how those gay pride parades are perceived and russian another country that i agree that everybody should entertain responsibility. whether it is constructive and responsible to have a demonstration if it for instance it's obvious that it will harm human life. then one has to sit down and think about whether it should be done but. i'm a little bit amazed that you say that well what it's going on in greece is. a threat which i think it is i'm in the group grocery stimulus and there but what we have witnessed now in in georgia i'm not condoning it's all the same kind of extremism and what worries me is that when it comes to homosexuality for instance responsible mainstream politicians are playing on the feelings and attitudes the down on the ground how this is done in the usa this u

kickdown last four years challenging gender violence on college campuses or homophobia in communities then i think that people understand those kind of parallels so there are a lot of other communities who are facing strands of oppression and i think that building those kind of coalitions and intersections is crucially important so i think that you know five years ago you could see barely say the word palestine and on a college campus without hate being flung at you and today you have one hundred eighty students for justice in palestine chapters you have met which is a chicano organization with four hundred loosely linked chapters throughout the united states nationally signed on to b.d.s. regionally signed on more black student union square support so i think that it's expanding into building indigenous support you know standing in solidarity with idle no more talking about settler colonialism on this continent and linking it back to palestine so i think that the connections are happening the movement is going forward there's obviously a lot more to do but there is you know i'm a pas

to expanding services to lesbian and transgender survivors of domestic violence and addressing homophobia starting with its lesbian services program which became the queer asian women's services in the late 1990s, and currently the queer asian women and transgender services that include all survivors of domestic violence and human trafficking. about 13 years ago aws launched a community building program to provide community education and grassroots mobilization to make sure that the broader community is aware of these challenges. a year later they launched a national pier to pier technical assistance program to work with antiviolence agencies around the country to really trade in the information and advice and counsel that they have been able to provide given the working experience they have and training and services in this area. in 2002-2003, aws created the first antitrafficking program in the bay area to provide advocacy and services to trafficking survivors. and then a few years ago asian women's shelter launched the multi-lingual digital storytelling project to help empower immigran

all proceeds will go to the nonprofit group athlete alley, building itself trying to fight homophobianew day with chris cuomo, kate bald win, starting at 6:00 a.m. eastern, so set your alarms and start your day with cnn. that's it for "the lead." i'll be back at 6:00 p.m. eastern to fill in for wolf. but now i turn you over to brianna keilar, filling in for wolf in the first half of "the situation room." >>> tens of millions could files powerful storms including the terrifies and high-speed winds known as a derecho. 10-year-old sarah is getting a new set of lungs. wolf blitzer is off today. i'm brianna keilar, you're in "the situation room." >>> a topbl

remarks about homophobia.u all over again. >> the republican party in congress have put their extremism and extremist agenda on steroids. they put at the top of their agenda not jobs not getting the economy turned around but voting to make sure we can reach into the personal lives of women just yesterday to prohibit them from making their own personal health care decisions. their ignorance and their extremism is shocking, and it's just going to don't give democrats an opportunity to show voters that we have their best interests at heart and that we fight for the middle class and working families and that's what president obama and congressional democrats will continue to do. >> thanks for make being time for me. coming up next our agenda panel will dig deeper on the border deal. president obama promising action on climate change but is it a change we can believe in? that and much more next. [ male announcer ] moving object detection. ♪ blind spot warning. ♪ lane departure warning. safety, down to an art. the n

and that reads in part as someone who flies and fights against homophobia, i apologize.100-million-dollar empire keeps falling apart. now valentine books the publisher of upcoming cookbook has just announced it will not publish it after all. number one in preorder sales on amazon.com. among the other companies that have severed ties with deen after the recent revelation she used racial slurs in the past. wal-mart, k-mart, walgreen's and sears there are still many fans coming to deen's defense including her friend former president jimmy carter. he had this to say today, quote: i advised her to let the dust settle and make apologies and to get some people who she is helping every day to speak out and show that she has changed in her relationship with african-american people in the last number of years, end quote. the space shuttle atlantis making its museum debut. sneak peek at all the cool space exhibits. >> 3, 2, 1, zero and liftoff. the final liftoff of atlantis on 00 soldiers of the space shuttle america will continue the dream. >> harris: that was the space shuttle at

baldwin said as someone who fights against homophobia, i apologize.twitter account at least for now. >>> it was a dramatic scene in austin as wendy davis waged an 11 hour filibuster to try to block the texas legislation includ from passing a stringent bill banning abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy. but as the lawmakers raced against a midnight deadline, all the cable networks went into taped program. so many flocked to twitter and youtube an more than 100,000 watched a live stream. as for wendy davis, much of the media tweeted her as a heroin. "washington post" called her a star. "new york times" praiseded her stamina and conviction. and she made the television rounds. sfwr by the time it was over, a lot of people knew the name wendy davis. >> reminder of the movie mr. smith and that exhausting fillingly buster. >> no leaning, no easing, no going to the bathroom for 11 straight hours. how did you do it physically? >> did you think you you you could stop it or did it you just simply want to make a you ppowe statement? >> if wendy davis had been con

intersection gives us tremendous power because if you poison the brand and get a brand associated with homophobia, racism, that becomes a toxic brand that sticks with people the rest of their lives or for a long time. we have a lot of freebie's when you enter college, free deodorant and this and that. why do they give you free stuff. and how many decades have you use the same detergent or so? and it lasts throughout their life. that is why there's so much programming on television and freebies for young people because your brand loyalties haven't been established and you hope to get some market share out of that. there are a lot of economic thoughts and if you combine it with social media, and that is -- a viral advocacy. it is a tremendously revolutionary forum, very democratizing. i worked on policy on my day job and i send out news feeds at 11:00 and 4:00 eastern time, a series of news articles every day space five minutes apart. maybe 2 dozen articles, and wire service following me and all these bureaucrats following me and activists but when they see this deluge of stories day after day, eve

. >> the day we're supposedded to be celebrating back against homophobia lisa on a stage?ll she show up? >> from across the bay to around the world, the stories that matter on "kpix 5 news this morning. >> good morning, everyone. it's wednesday, june 19. i'm michelle griego. >> i'm brian hackney. frank hopefully is sleeping peacefully somewhere. it is 30 minutes after 6:00 this morning. >>> bart police officers are once again going under the microscope. >> a retired police chief is returning to take a hard look at his police force. kpix 5 reporter anne makovec is in san francisco with key issues in a new assessment of how bart police do their jobs. good morning. >> reporter: good morning. you know, bart police were under so much scrutiny after the killing of oscar grant, soon after they did a report, a 314-page report. it has been three years since this report came out so the question is, how much of it has been implemented in the system sense then? here's the man in charge of finding those answers. retired police chief patrick oliver. the audit will begin in july. oliver

i'm very encouraged by seeing it is young people who are convincing their parents homophobia is wrong and their science reports that climate change is real. can you stick around? >> sure. >> john: we'll give you a free "viewpoint" with eliot spitzer mug. we'll be back in a second with mr. michael moore. (vo) later tonight current tv is the place for compelling true stories. >> jack, how old are you? >> nine. >> this is what 27 tons of marijuana looks like. (vo) with award winning documentaries that take you inside the headlines, way inside. (vo) from the underworld, to the world of privilege. >> everyone in michael jackson's life was out to use him. (vo) no one brings you more gripping, current. cenk off air>>> alright in 15 minutes we're going to do the young turks! i think the number 1 thing than viewers like about the young turks is that were honest. they know that i'm not bsing them for some hidden agenda, actually supporting one party or the other. when the democrats are wrong, they know i'm going to be the first one to call them out. cenk on air>> what's unacceptable is how wash

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, they're going to do silly things, make bad mistakes, but are we seeing, cheryl, an entrenched homophobiaght, that they're not willing to recognize. there's a change in this country, the supreme court is considering doma and prop 8, should have that decision end of the month. are they just unwilling to look at how this country is changing? >> it is troubling to see that the gop isn't keeping up with americans. about ten years ago, most americans didn't favor gay marriage. now that has completely flipped around and majority of americans actually support gay marriage. nine out of ten americans actually think it is illegal already to discriminate against gays and lesbians. so it seems like there's a double whammy here where the gop seems willing to speak immigration, which is important to latinos and asian americans and at the same time alienate gays and lesbians which also alienates younger voters. >> you talk about younger voters, get back to kids of the elected leaders, the dads are in washington, d.c., everything trickles down. you would hope and think that they're having a better effect

the shame, as bad as it is for women, is even worse for men because it's all tied in with homophobia.ot gay. that's not the problem. they're worried about gays in the military. the gays are not the rapists. they're heterosexual men, for the most part. this is not an issue of sexual orientation. this is simply an issue of power and violence. male sexual predators for the large part have targeted whoever is there to prey upon, whether that's men or women. woman: whenever i see that there is evidence that another woman has been sexually assaulted, the question i keep asking myself is, when does this ever end? announcer: breaking news at this hour. the navy appears to be facing a huge sex scandal. details are still coming in. second announcer: from abc, this is "world news tonight" with peter jennings. peter jennings: good evening. we're going to begin tonight by putting a human face on the worst case of sexual harassment in the navy's history at an annual naval aviators' convention called the tailhook convention. senior officers have known since 1985 that the convention included the so-c

absence of women men sexually abuse each other it also happens in the military but the shame and the homophobia of was too profound for them to come forward now that women have been coming forward they've been coming forward to it's one of the. great examples if one group wins we all win because now the truth is coming out but you know there's an example of how we don't yet look at the women's movement as part of everything we don't understand that the presence of sexual predators in our military who actually in some cases join because they know it's easy pickings there is one of the reasons that other countries don't want to have bases us bases we haven't talked about that yet you know we we need to understand that all these things are linked it's all it's all interrelated it's all the same stuff gloria steinem it's been wonderful talking with you thank you so much for dropping by i'm sure in the us thank you so much. to see this and other conversations with great minds go to our website had conversations with great minds dot com. and that's the way it is tonight friday june twenty thirteen fo

this won't do away with homophobia in this country. melissa harris-perry, thank you for being on.s been an epic hour. >> it has. >> to close it out with you is like dessert. thank you so much. we can always see melissa on her own show, melissa harris-perry every saturday and sunday morning right here on msnbc. nerd land all the way. that's going to wrap things up for me. thanks so much for your time. this has been an incredible hour. at 11:00 a.m. tomorrow will be wisconsin senator tammy baldwin. "now" with alex baldwin is coming up next. joanne week will be hosting. my name is mike and i quit smoking. chantix... it's a non-nicotine pill. i didn't want nicotine to give up nicotine. [ male announcer ] along with support, chantix (varenicline) is proven to help people quit smoking. [ mike ] when i was taking the chantix, it reduced the urge to smoke. [ male announcer ] some people had changes in behavior, thinking or mood, hostility, agitation, depressed mood and suicidal thoughts or actions while taking or after stopping chantix. if you notice any of these, stop taking chantix and

"homophobia is vile and destructive and something i've fought against for the entirety of my career, including being a vocal supporter of gay marriage since 1998. i admonished the woman and by no means believe that anything about her comment was appropriate. if the impression is that i did, i apologize because behavior like this absolutely will not be tolerated in my administration." joe? >> john meacham, this is -- we can actually expand this conversation beyond anthony weiner. this happens time and time again on campaign trails, and it reminds you of that old saying we've all heard, character is what happens when nobody is watching. i'm reminded -- you're working on the biography of george h.w. bush, "the last gentlemen." i remember 1988 when bush was getting hammered for being a wimp, a friend started talking about what he saw when he campaigned with george bush when nobody was looking back in the 1960s. said he went to a west texas donor who would have been an absolute coup for him, and the guy let a racial slur out in a small office outside of an oil field where nobody was watch

for fighting homophobia, for taking a powerful bully and saying, no, sir, no, you will not be rewardedrguard is our foot soldier of the week. and this is our show for today. thanks to you at home for watching. i will see you tomorrow morning at 10:00 a.m. eastern. we're going to break apart the myths on drugs in america and have a look at summer movies. black folks are coming to the big screen near you. now it is time for a preview of weekends with alex witt. hi, alex. >> thanks so much for that. >>> a new book with a fascinating look at some of the twists and turns of the 2012 campaign. >>> the trial of george zimmerman begins monday. it's all about whose voice is heard on the 911 tapes. a live report ahead. >>> flash flooding and torrential rains, the remnants of tropical storm andrea, up and down the east coast. in minutes a live update. >>> plus, a fascinating new look at the founder of wikileaks and how he picked up his bombshell information from one american in the military. don't go anywhere, i'll be right back. humans. even when we cross our "ts" and dot our "i's", we still run

institution of marriage, all while by the way, ryan, repudiated all vess to my knowledges -- vetiges of homophobia. we understand that with a posture of complacency today will result in a position of captivity tomorrow. as people of faith, for the sake of our children and our children's children, we gather today to issue a clareon call that this nation remove from the womb of religious liberty. our founding fathers relinquished the political endony by declaring we are oued by our creator -- endowed by our creator certain inalienable rights. we de-- they declared with malice toward none and charity toward all. dr. martin luther king jr. brought an end to segregation and laid out a vision where in america we would be judged not by the color of our skin but rather by the content of our character. you see, my friends, faith is the silence, the moral conscience of our nation. to obstruct religious liberty is o obstruct the fishes with the bread. it is to grant amnesty to the pathetic. our founding fathers, whether dias or christian, insubscribed d aaith narrative -- inscribe faith narrative which canno