∎ Our guest is out NY Assembly Member Daniel O’Donnell on the advances in LGBT rights in Albany and his run for Public Advocate of the City of New York.

∎ Jussie Smollett, out star of TV’s “Empire,” beaten in racist and homophobic attack in Chicago.

∎ Out NYC Council Speaker Corey Johnson exploring run for mayor and Hyattsville, MD gets an out lesbian police chief.

∎ South Dakota kills anti-transgender bill.

∎ More turmoil in Brazil as out Congress Member flees for his life.

∎ Japan’s high court upholds sterilization requirement for transgender people who want to update their documents.

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