host: our guest is kevin cathcart and are topic is discrimination battles ahead. billy is joining us from miami, florida on our line for lgbt viewers. good morning, billy. caller: hello, good morning. mr. cathcart, congratulations to you. i read many things -- an e-mail that you have said or read. i have three really fast questions for you. i lived with a partner for 23 years and we owned a home together, we paid a mortgage, we owned a business together, and we paid all these taxes and social security. he passed away in 1999 after 23 years together. i am wondering is there any movement about me collecting his survivors social security benefits? because i think that is where this country is sustaining itself by all the money it doesn't have to pay gay people. host: billy, hold on the line. we will get a response of an follow-up with you. guest: so, you raise a really important issue, which is what happens now that the law has changed -- what happens to people who do not have the ability to take advantage of this new law. and i can't give you an exact answer because

host: our guest is kevin cathcart and are topic is discrimination battles ahead. billy is joining us from miami, florida on our line for lgbt viewers. good morning, billy. caller: hello, good morning. mr. cathcart, congratulations to you. i read many things -- an e-mail that you have said or read. i have three really fast questions for you. i lived with a partner for 23 years and we owned a home together, we paid a mortgage, we owned a business together, and we paid all these taxes and social security. he passed away in 1999 after 23 years together. i am wondering is there any movement about me collecting his survivors social security benefits? because i think that is where this country is sustaining itself by all the money it doesn't have to pay gay people. host: billy, hold on the line. we will get a response of an follow-up with you. guest: so, you raise a really important issue, which is what happens now that the law has changed -- what happens to people who do not have the ability to take advantage of this new law. and i can't give you an exact answer because