Interesting. I will say that youre saying the end of the year between the end of the year and the actual election itself as many would hope that this is all done before that. Thank you also very much. Thank you all for joining us. Our special with the 2020 town hall begins now. [ cheers and applause ] good evening and welcome to the cnn democratic president ial town hall equality in america. I want to welcome our viewers in the United States and around the world from the novo in los angeles. Im dana bash. It has been 50 years since the riots had stonewalled and the riots against Police Oppression that became the Turning Point in
the lgbtq Civil Rights Movement in america, but for advocates, the fight for equality is far from over. Tonight were partnering with the Human Rights Campaign for the largest ever town hall on these issues. In the audience are members are members of the lgbtq communities, and allies from the los angeles areas and across the country who are eager to ask the memb
challenge people, to have a more courageous empathy, to create a more revival of civic grace. that s why even on this campaign i ve gone out and been tested for hiv, trying to get rid of the kind of stigmas that still undermine this society. we have a whole lot of truth telling to do in this country, and we ve got a lot of work to do to pull pull out of the shadows people who are often relegated, their struggles, their injustices. we ve just seen yet another black transgender american murdered in this country just last month. this makes the 19th this year. the suffering of so many people in the lgbtq community, the truth about them is shrouded in the ignorance and hate that we see in this world. so not only am i going to change policies, change laws, get an activist department of justice, but i m going to be using my platform every day to tell the truth, to heal, to bring the truth forward to solve that we can be a nation that is far more progressive on these. thank you, senator. t