-Laverne Cox!
-Hi!
[ Cheers and applause ]
Oh, my God.
-Hello.
-I want to have my date come up.
-Hi.
-Hi.
-This is my date for the night.
-How are you? I´m Giuliana.
-I´m Chase. Hi.
-Good to meet you.
-Chase Strangio. He´s a staff attorney for the ACLU.
How are you doing, girl?
-I am fantastic. How are you doing?
-I am fantastic.
Mansouri, Edie Parker clutch,
Lorraine Schwartz.
Oh, my God, I literally had heart palpitations
when I put these on.
-Those are gorgeous.
-Thank you, Lorraine.
So, I brought Chase because of this.
October 8th, Title VII, Supreme Court. You have...
Can you tell them a little bit about it?
-Yeah, so, October 8th -- everyone should be aware
that the administration is asking the Supreme Court
to make it legal to fire workers just because they´re LGBTQ.
And this is actually going to transform
the lives of LGBTQ people and people who are not LGBTQ.
Anyone who departs from sex stereotypes,
like all the fabulous people here, for example.
So we really need to show up, October 8th,
and pay attention ´cause our lives are really on the line.
-Yeah, we want everyone to tell their friends and family
about this case, #RiseUpOctober8.
Go to my Instagram for more information.
The court is now on my Instagram page now,
where Chase explains it all in lovely detail.
-I have to tell you,
that´s one of the best parts of this job.
And I have to think it´s one of the best parts of your job,
to be able to use this platform -- right? --
to get the word out about things that really matter,
that are of importance to so many people.
-It´s an incredible blessing.
When I got my Emmy nomination this year, my third one,
I was like, "This is weird."
I thought, "There has to be a bigger reason."
And I thought, "Okay, maybe it´s about this case.
Maybe it´s about raising awareness
so that everyone knows that our lives are in danger."
And a lot of people aren´t talking about this case,
and it has implications for the LGBTQ community.
But it has implications for women
and anyone who doesn´t conform to someone else´s idea
of, like, how you should be a man or a woman
or both or neither.
-Well, Laverne, that is why I have to tell you,
if you don´t follow Laverne on Instagram, do it immediately,
because you are so inspiring.
-Thank you.
-And you do it all. You really do it all.
She does do it all.
-It´s not all political.
Like, I dance around in my underwear in Instagram, too.
-And I have to say, we saw the footage -- Fenty.
-Oh!
-Let´s just talk about that right now.
We have it.
-Oh, my God. Are we -- Can we see the footage?
-Can we show? Let´s do this.
Okay, tell me everything.
Tell me how this happened, how it came about.
-So, apparently, the invite came,
and I was shooting a film in Bulgaria.
But then I finished early, and my publicist was like, "Well,
this invite came and you weren´t gonna be able to do it."
And I´m like -- I literally thought
I was gonna have three days off.
I was like, "That´s awesome.
But then Rihanna asked you to do her show.
And I´m like, ´Okay, hello. How you doing?´
And so Rihanna asked you to do her show.
So I´m like, "I´m gonna go to New York and do her show."
And I thank you, Rihanna.
Rihanna is a revolution happening right now.
And it happened at the Savage X Fenty Show.
Can I tell you, being backstage with women who were
size double-zero to size 24, bunch of trans people,
nonbinary people, drag queens, amputees --
like, everybody is welcome at the Savage X Fenty Show.
It´s brilliant, brilliant.
-I love it. Love it.
Thank you both for being here tonight. So wonderful.
-Fantastic.
-You always look beautiful. Nice to meet you.
-Thank you. Mwah.
