hold your breath for the senate but maybe it's going to be live stream a trans man was denied a hysterectomy on the operating table by a catholic hospital suite there has been progress in michigan  wisconsin but trouble in texas and ten to see an actress who was set to play a lesbian role was fired for past anti gay statements that sounds like something we should  debate and then we'll debate whether harvey firestein should be plain a female political icon as he is scheduled to do his writing the show and i'll review the new broadway revival of cole porter's kiss me kate with kall how all right do we have an opinion trumps the mahler report we haven't seen it well that is true we haven't you know there was a times op ed i read today about how we got sucked into this and i kept i have to say that now i say this i have to say given all the reporters who are on this story i know what broke and so many aspects of it kept getting a bad feeling that he wasn't going to come up with the smoking gun but the problem is it's all been out there in the open for so long and somebody said about trump if he had said privately on the phone tape recorded saying some of the things that he said in public they would have  well girl can dream yeah i mean no i get some point lost some interest in this as because i thought i was beginning to look like a gotcha thing and not that i don't think he hasn't committed any number of crimes real crime and i certainly want to see the report but i think the strategy is not to talk about the past it's to talk about the future and what the democrats have to focus on is  among other things but they have to focus on what they're going to do to make people's lives better and even if you call it trump in one thousand different crimes the fact is his supporters don't care they're not going to impeach him and they only care about what they think he is doing for them well they're deluded about that right or some of it but move on please let's move on to someone else who was who charges emanuel come out and called a manual called it a whitewash which was our one choice of mourning and he invoked matthew shepard as a real victim of hate violence and how that's controversial and not just now just did forfeit ten thousand dollars in court costs he didn't try to get his money alan bond well you forfeited it and they gave him credit for having served two days of community service by looking at all his sort of community involvement so the prosecutor said i don't have any problem with the evidence or the police investigation and he said this does not exonerate him but he just didn't see jesse as a threat  public safety so but federal law enforcement are still investigating the letter that he got which was full of racist and homophobic slur once again as we have been saying ever since this came up we don't know what really happened and no one is telling us what really happened we have we have just the saying he hasn't told laurie we have the other side saying oh he's totally guilty even though we're not prosecuting him because it wasn't a violent crime and we have better things to do i like the fact that what's her name on the view the the lawyer is sunny sunny hostin keeps saying you know the chicago police department does not have the best record i agree with you sunny they do not either for gay men or people of color well so i'm not counting on their analysis nor my and this whole thing about you know because he's a celebrity we wasted so much time and money on this way are the ones who chose to waste so much time and money because he was a celebrity and there were a lot of problems with the police leaking stuff with the hospital leaking stuff  talking about what is going on now and will go on the last injunction against the trans military ban has finally been lifted that's four out of four so now the department of defense is going to put this their house resolution passed because the democrats now control the house condemning the transplant in the military you know they had one hundred eighty seven co sponsors all democrats and an actual bill to prevent the ban to repeal it or to put into place a legal trans service in the military is pending not very hopeful about that the hopefully law is still in these four court cases that have been brought the each of them is still pending and will work its way up through the system all this fight has been about for the last few months is whether the trump administration gets to put the ban into effect while those cases are pending but those cases are pending and people could still win the right to serve in court and we will certainly continue to follow those cases and you probably noticed this week the president issued an executive order requiring colleges to protect free speech or lose federal funding and he's going to leave the enforcement to federal agencies that award grants but of course will gay and lesbian and transgender students be protected when they speak out of all these college speech liberty university now course private colleges are going to be held to a different standard on this they can get to set their own rules even though they feed on the public trough right but liberty university says they d own censorship well let me ask you something these are there either publicly funded universities and colleges or private colleges that get federal funding but it gets federal money hey there because their students get federal him they didn't show that in news clips but what they did show was him questioning her about cutting funds for the special olympics which would be the funds they want to cut for of course this is the trump budget which is absurd but the the  amount of money spent on the special olympics would be covered by four trips to it's not necessary because he wants everything that obama ever did to be wiped off the face of the earth well i hope people hold him accountable for coming up with something better which i have no expectation he will do now comedy act and if you want to support that go to i didn't sorry i'll get this in the email but it's saved us a dot org backslash still hyphen out i think i did get that control but anyway i'll get that it will be in the mail you can see how you can support happen the new rule from karen will be you may not have your alone with a woman and you may not be alone with gay men and how about how about that donna brazil you know she was fired from c n n and now she's joining fox news saying she's excited to join the honest and passionate debate at fox who's about our future and she was confronted in an interview about about moving on by the new yorker on the racism of the lies mexico there is an ice facility holding people seeking asylum and letter has come out to the administration saying that ice is abusing gay and transgender migrants in that city and i don't expect action from the trumpet ministration on that but the conditions sound pretty horrible an interesting statistic about hate crimes which you know are on the rise but they pointed out this week that there has been an increase of two hundred twenty six percent in the places where trump held campaign rallies and twenty sixteen nice write some notes about the democratic presidential candidates ok i was going to mention the supreme dispositions a meaning that they don't make a formal big long decision or write a big opinion about it but they also have a grave but they have slightly different views on it and they put it out that way that he does we just don't know it's a gas right and that  those cases are good are still on the calendar to be considered as is the case of the guy in south dakota well get to that ok first on the democrats first  know literally i mean other words under point five percent and now is at eleven percent but that's just in iowa and nationally he's still at one percent along with a lot of the other candidates but he is what they say about the showing in iowa is that it shows the public is more open minded now that having elected trump as an outsider in an on predictable candidate that they are more open to someone like booted judges openly gay as a mayor of a relatively small city and that his performance is giving him that boost and they're open to that now we're a little disappointed in a couple of things that buddha gedge did this week action of releasing classified information and he was talking he was saying i'm talking as a soldier who was out there with the stuff was being released a moment i was he was a soldier look we've we've been down with chelsea on this  show and he also was asked about chick fil a and he tried to walk up the middle of the set i don't like their politics but i like their chicken and so that means you're eating there and he says can i be a bridge between the gay community hand is now talking about his part as chairman of the judiciary committee for the clarence thomas hearings where needed a hill was so run over by several buses sagal teeniest well they wouldn't he wouldn't allow a lot of people to testify on her behalf on the story and he was at the table he was always very angry during it and it was weird he did vote against clarence thomas but he's trying to you look he's running for president is trying to clear the decks on his past sins of which look we all have passed since all of us certainly included but here's what i don't understand about these guys they come out and they say well it was a different time i regret it blah blah if they act as if they were operating in a vacuum and no one knew it that no one could have known at that time that they should have treated need to hill better meanwhile millions of us were screaming at the senate judiciary committee let the other people testify listen to i don't need a hill he was the chair and he didn't do it and that is what kills me and and voting for the iraq or whatever and i want to say to these people you say that you learned your lesson you say that you were great what you did but what evidence do we have that you who didn't listen to millions of people trying to tell you this at the time are going to listen to people in the field or you know jennifer this is not a diversion jennifer lawrence did a twelve minute tape on television to somebody maybe said you got to watch this and she she talks about the fact that all these issues where eighty percent of the country want this but no matter what we want whether it's medicare for all or you know or stop the nondenominational all that the congress or the legislature is always vote for me be thirty percent of what we want but never all the things that we want it's just the way of the world in this and politics it's outrageous well there it is and when you don't reflect a lot about his money a lot of that is the lobbyists who are and the people who they think are going to get them reelected and that's really all they're paying attention to i mean they are going to realize new york is making a lot of reforms now that we have both houses of the legislature but now they're stalling on on some things and you saw what happened in new jersey on marijuana yeah all of a sudden there's a drum well and just the specific thing of why people think we should give them credit for were grabbing their past when they have shown no evidence that they are willing to listen to the people is astonishing to me as you know if you run into any of these candidates who have said things  next week hold a hearing on the equality act it has sponsors in the house five we have to get some republican votes in the senate and we want to pass this thing not to mention talking donald trump into it and circle your circle april second on your calendar for a variety of reasons and you can bet that hearing will be live stream but if you live in chicago you got to vote for mayor and you've got a lesbian candidate laurie lightfoot versus this other woman perk when called to african americans in wisconsin you've got to vote on the supreme court of the state and there is a progressive candidate neubauer versus a right winger and i'm not sure this qualifies as news but the family right the democratic national convention he has the in milwaukee and the executive director of that is going to be joe solmonese remember him he was the former head of the human rights campaign up until about twenty twelve he has been the chief executive of emily's list in the past and he was the transition chair of planned parenthood after cecile richards left there last year when there's another indication of the democrats wanting to hold onto a place at their airport because they are anti l g b t q but the state remains rather backward republicans are advancing a bill to let state licensed professionals refuse to serve l g b t q people if they have a news to office you may remember that we elected dana nestle lesbian attorney as attorney general of michigan well she has proceeded to settle a case that the a c l u bought brought about adoption agencies serving all people including same sex couples well the legislature passed a law saying that these these religious groups could discriminate and still get money and it was an a c l u case so she agencies that have state contracts yes thank you dana the shameless roman catholic church is not giving up on this they intend to continue to pursue it so that they can both discriminate and get your money  all right let's talk about the well the other how i mean there is another positive development is what happened in wisconsin this past week they governor tom evers what a court case and he was able to remove eighty two appointments of scott walker that were last wow it runs the the judge in the case said that the december session about the legislature had violated the constitution now republicans are still in charge there so  legislature so they may try to come back at this but heat he immediately got rid of these eighty two people well also good in maine where we have a new governor having got rid of what's his name all so paul anyway a right wing we just republican you know we're trying to forget only don't feel you have to flood us with these e mails will catch up and i mean it goes so goes the nation yeah and they banned abortion after eighteen weeks setting up a legal challenge oh that's another national global health care issues argue that the policy of not funding leads to more pregnancies among rural women because this of course outlaws contraceptives to researchers have found that funding cuts affect groups that promote contraception news and other pregnancy prevention methods mr pompei also they're just wrong on science and i says the answer for everything  alabama you know probate judge is recognized and aborted fetus as a person giving the fetus the rights to sue the formerly pregnant woman and the abortion clinic after the would be father sued the fetus is bad also in alabama the senate by a vote of twenty six to zero zero proved to a lawyer outlawing marriage licenses or ceremonies performed by probate judges want to be part of it but now what you do is you do whatever you do privately you bring a letter to the probate judge saying we are now married and you marriage recognized somewhere is this going to be good enough for other states or the federal government or anybody to recognize these i mean there was a time they didn't recognize boston marriages those were between two women to live together in the nineteenth it's johnson high school in georgia decks fryer have a picture of the next dry air tran's man was nominated for prom king and the school said no you cannot run for  prom king because you are trans and we will not recognize you as a man or a boy so they be good news is they change the system they just have election among a group of people of all gender to be pro superintendent of the school one of the super first mixed decks doing this said i don't want any controversy so you can't do it you can't run for prom king and then of course it became an international controversy in indiana i think we've told you that they were moving towards gender neutral i d s in fact they decided to do that yeah but that's we've done that in the last couple of weeks but the republicans are now trying to block that in the legislature and they're trying to pass a law to phorbin that or would they do that do they hate us yes all right in california you can call overnight sure overnight is a trans man who was scheduled for surgery at st joseph's hospital to have a hysterectomy but at the last minute when on the operating table there's all over they came to him and said no we're not going to do your  hysterectomy wear a cap like hospital and the archdiocese has told us that we cannot do your hysterectomy that's right just kind of devastating for oliver got the operation of eventually but a boat but on a far away place yes had to go much farther yes the good news is that he eventually got the surgery well the thing about this is that you know this is a hospital system that has a lot of hospitals around the country and a lot of  hospitals around the country are catholic hospitals that operate by these religious rules and they can be the only alternative for health care in a community that outraged it is an outrage speaking of catholic outrage is that wrong cali high school this is a place that had fired a lesbian teacher before for getting married to a woman with a fab in indiana they fired a guidance counselor because she's of a same sex marriage lynn starkey she has filed a discrimination suit she's been a teacher for thirty nine years she was teacher of the year but god forbid she should say i do and i love you to another woman well i think that's exactly what they're being good and then i well should we talk well take your pick let's go back to california palm springs at two kids nightclub a gay bar sunday morning there was a double shooting and they had turned their injuries turned out not to be life threatening and it's not being investigated as a head hate crime it stemmed from an argument shots were fired in the parking lot and for those of you interested the bar is open in also in california they are proposing a bill that would make the state the first in the nation to ban involuntary intersex surgery to give people a chance to grow to adulthood or some age of consent before surgery is performed on them because traditionally what happens is the parents are told there's something wrong with your baby we need to do corrective surgery no matter what their d n a says or or what their eventual gender identity is we're going to automatically make them you know their penis is too short so we're just going to cut it off and and and make them a girl no matter what and then they grow up and they say where is my penis but the people who are objecting to this bill are a lot of doctors because they say parents should have the ability because otherwise you know they're trying to do something good for their child i think you ought to think about that i guess i have another catholic story and another leo varadkar story ok there's a catholic leader in new york named father george romney he's the pastor on the his partner do you think that will satisfy the catholic leader well this guy was asked i don't think so this guy was asked well what about the drop of worshippers in our one doesn't that due to the priest scandal is he said no that was peripheral that was biggest l g b t chief executive now there's a lesbian who's the head of land a lakes and right another was being as the head of something else but this is considered big but now everyone said oh a pink washing dow chemical napalm well some justice in west virginia we told you about i guess it was last year the assistant principal who made a transgender sophomore trans man sophomore use a year ago in front of him he's out of a job this guy in harrison county the board of education there voted not to renew his name was leave live in goods contract he had followed michael critchfield into the boy's room at this institute that everybody everybody in the country supports l g b t mormons muslims independents southerners and seniors have been on the rise increasing steadily but there is an outlier there is young seventy three percent so the analysis of why support is dropping among republicans under thirty is that more progressive republicans are leaving the party sure so the ones that are left are less so but still sixty four percent of them support us they also found in doing this survey that seattle reported the most people ten percent of the population and right behind them at nine percent were portland oregon and austin texas and that the u s number of people sell for portie as the plus is five percent i always think that is a very low number because of the people who don't want to report themselves to telephone the survey also found that we're up to now sixty two percent of americans supporting same sex marriage the the highest ethnic group supporting us i know the answer you go ahead asian pacific islanders at seventy story in kansas less good news the house of representatives there rejected a sexual orientation gender identity and expression nondiscrimination lost sixty one to eight cans i have that's that's great that we got that close and that they had a vote so we know where everybody stands yes another survey this is i am announcing that i am nun people claiming no religious affiliation are called nuns now and now an un name that is now twenty three percent of the population up from twenty one and a half percent twenty sixteen are twenty one point six catholics are twenty three so the people are saying they have no affiliation or above those nuns are not necessarily they skew young and liberal but they don't they don't note in the same timothy dean the second person found dead in the home of ed bach the democratic donor in l a and timothy as suspected died of a meth overdose and so unclear whether they're going to bring any charges against  therefore he's not responsible now this is many people have been found with drug paraphernalia at ed box house certainly the families of the two guys who died there are suing him  progress but i am told by a viewer in florida that it is now gone i hope so right charles wrong on the death row in south dakota ga horrible killing it was a horrible killing and no one's arguing with his conviction but he was given the death penalty and it was not a premeditated murder which is usually where the distinction between death penalty and not and so he's been appealing his death penalty sentence because the jurors it turns out have lengthy conversation about the fact that they knew it was a gay man and they didn't want to give him a life sentence in prison because they didn't want to give him the pleasure of being locked up with other men this is the way people think this was when you read the transcript of some of these comments it is mind blowing that they would sit there and discuss how they would be doing him a favor if they gave him a life sentence because jail would be such a playground him or prison so that's why they condemned him to death so he has been appealing this he has not had any success yet but his appeal is now going to the supreme court and april twelfth april twelfth they're going to c lambda legal the national center for lesbian rights and the a c l u they have a powerful phalanx of people defending charles rons because this is so outrageous but we'll see whether the supreme court will take the exposed for being an almost all white group at the top even though it's posed to be doing racial justice stuff and turning a blind eye to sexual harassment you know to me they were always more about fund raising than they were about work you got so many solicitations if you gave them ten dollars well i would say they were certainly expert at fund raising but they also did a lot of work they were founded but by by somebody essentially who did direct mail and oh yeah but they won some huge judgments against both the ku klux klan and the posse come a tada scroope in idaho and essentially put a lot of people out of business on the far right wing well they're not going to be out of business they have more than a half a billion in assets  center has some controversy too they had and they ran out rooms to all sorts of people and groups and stuff and you purport to be fairly neutral about that with some exceptions but they rented a room recently to a group called hash tag walk away and this group advertised itself as republicans who were asking gay democrats to walk away from the democratic party on the grounds that the democratic party was racist and violent and used to live in the nineteenth century well come on so people got up in arms about this and said that walk away group they're all right they're like the charlottesville marchers they're proud boy types they are just out to bring violence and chaos and and we object to your reading in the room to them they don't meet your standards and the center defended themselves for a while and said you know we are content neutral we are we're not discriminating but finally things just started to collapse around them groups were canceling their meetings their groups were saying they felt unsafe there and the center changed its mind and canceled the walkway center is not covered by the trump executive order on free speech and i don't know that they get federal funds but i don't know that they don't so all check that  but i also want to say that the reclaim pride group of which i am active member is by the time you see this will already have had our meeting tonight are open community meeting but one thing we're going to talk about and i can't give you an answer now but we are close to making an agreement with me and wife he about a march route for june thirtieth i hope to have a final answer for you next week it's exciting so that means if you come to new york for all the festivities you don't have to get involved you can go to the of course to the to the quote unquote big parade with all the corporation floats and everything that's going to take fifteen probably literally fifteen hours well we are at a meeting last night where they said they said  it's a nine hour mark usually but we're going to have more people next year this year so it's going to be lost her we're going to we're going to meet in the village some place we're going to figure it out march uptown to the park if we can and if it's all said that looks good it's just th and he reveals in this that when he went to confession now when you go to confession in the modern world these days it's not through the screen you sit there with the priest and the priest jump father dominic for jumped him and forced his tongue down his throat and this was not the only time this happened this is back in nebraska this he also father dominic also did it to andrew on graduation day and he thought is this guy doing this to all the kids i mean you know brought it up i was going to say this for entertainment news but i saw a movie that opened in new york this week and is going to open in l a shortly called working woman it's an israeli film it's not l g b t but it's as the press agent said to me it's intersectional well it's woman who goes to work for a real estate company in near telling me and her boss forces himself on her  repeatedly starting with a kiss and escalating and i look at this so i think i don't these guys you know why do they persist when they've been pushed away rejected you know and they just oblivious you states the canadian armed forces are welcoming transcripts and just issued updated guidelines about how to welcome and support trans troops thank you canada ok in kenya of court of appeal has affirmed a high court order that an l g b t group can register as a government sanctioned non governmental organization that's huge yes it is  and it was a three to decision the judge said the group exists and we can no longer deny that in thailand we have the first person elected to the parliament name of golf suck hop is  says it doesn't like conversion therapy but they're not going to pass a national law it's local options so if you want to outlaw conversion therapy you have to do it territory by territory i mean how can you say the capital of the country of called is opening up a cafe a gay bar and they're making moves they're going to stage now here's what they're going to do for pride they're going to stage their march of dignity not a festive event because they feel well g b t people have little to celebrate in georgia today yeah well and in fact that's part of the impetus behind reclaim pride square liberation march it's not that we don't have things to celebrate but we have a lot to be concerned about and we want to keep those issues in the forefront and not just have a party it's meaningless you know and the justice ministry in a good move has canceled a deportation order for a gay taiwanese man who has been in a long term relationship of twenty five years with a japanese man but because they have no legal standing as a couple the taiwanese man was going to deported but now the government has changed its mind it's going to recognize the relationship and cancel the deportation right in we have bad news from japan they have decided that trans people must to be recognized as changing their gender marker remove their reproductive organs surgically change their genitals be single and have no no children no children yeah it's a no minor children it's a very conservative society in the united kingdom there was an actress set to play silly and the color purple musical she was fired for an old for old facebook post saying homosexuality as a natural and not right interferes in local affairs and he's acting like an occupying power like a fascist there's something called the world happiness report that found that nine of the ten happiest countries in the world have legal tractions for all g b d q people there are places like denmark norway iceland holland switzerland sweden new zealand canada and austria but switzerland is the one that doesn't have such great protections for us we have told to long ago they're not i was talking a their laws where and what are they going to pass next week april third they are expected to pass a law allowing for the whipping and stoning to death of l g b t q people stoning to death it's going to take effect next death yeah i know it happens other places more but not many places are instituting those laws but now is one of the well it's usually a leader you know trying to shore up support among a crazy populace sort of like what goes on in the united states these days in coastal rica the president is promising to institute legal same sex marriage before the may twenty twenty deadline thank you china lesbian who's a soccer player on the national soccer team there she is your model has come out she said once you share your feelings with the company you keep sports will become even more fun encounters and it got infected and some people are questioning whether it was a god here and enough in doing this but it did raise some questions about using this prep on demand system yeah probably constant and use condoms anyway because one reason gilly it is now promoting disco the instead the us owns the patent we're not and we're not bringing the price down all right all right entertainment news have kelly o'hare and will chase you know i mean look this is is set in her ill fated one nine hundred seventy six run for u s senate when she lost a morning hand by like a point somebody at the manhattan theatre club october first two gay icons on april second on the smithsonian channel america's hidden secrets the general wispy male this is about general casimir paul lasky george washington's general polish cavalry commander was he cross dressing intersex was he what they've done on earth is skeleton and so has his general in charge of training the troops was one who was gay was thrown out of germany because he was guy smithsonian channel april eighth so right nathan wessling once the supermodel metal the west wing for more jacobs louis vuitton versace all those has come out as transgender it was a tough transition he says but i always felt that modeling was cool because you got to play a character and now is getting jobs as is being accepted by the old sponsors you and rob last week mentioned the contestant georgie on american idol in spain so flamboyantly stonewall activist rosie o'donnell is revealed in an interview about a book for the the view that she was sexually abused by her father as a child she said you feel completely powerless and stuck because the person you need to tell is the person doing it or dad died in  you got to be kidding and in and next weekend april first monday a celebration of the life of brian butterworth also known as hattie hathaway starts with a drag march and tompkins square park moves alive they got married it didn't hurt yeah they got married and they're normal you know whatever i'm going to tell you about a new netflix series next week about a gay man with cerebral palsy all right well we've crammed it all in this week that's all the time we have we will see you next week thank you for joining us