now we want you to you know be watching your screens midway through the show because we're going to show you some photos and ask can you help solve the mystery of the one thousand nine hundred and fifty seven gay wedding photos my body knows who k prime minister boris johnson's cabinet includes zero l g b t ministers a florida man when he was sentenced to ten years because he was deemed quote a danger to the community way our free speech viewers understand we do have a new schedule from them we premiere these times are eastern on fridays and eight o'clock and they repeat the show at midnight eastern time and then on sundays we're on at seven a fighting we do we're here that's why we're here and that's why you're watching because you do want to fight and resist but but again a very dispiriting week i mean with the i mean look trucks that are racist from the get go he's better right i mean it's be so let's tell that story you know ronald reagan if you watch the show you know it was a monster who let aids hiv get out of control for six years before even talking about it and now thirty five million people are infected and thirty five million have already you ronald reagan monster but this was this was in one thousand nine hundred and seventy one and the united nations had just voted to let red china that's what they used to call the people's republic of china it to the u n and to expel at homophobic things on those tapes he was an awful awful person so this is nothing new we've got read ahead well the racism is nothing new but it is it's being deployed more forcefully and then we've seen i mean lately i mean i hate to have this new monster you know affect mood but it's dispiriting to live in this country not just because of him but to know that no rip virtually no republican will speak up to oppose him on any of this and that he's got this you know forty percent base that will never leave him fact this is why they like him well at but i think it's also important for us to know this because what it means is the point isn't so rising to the surface you know the know what we're facing can can can it can the genie ever bit be put back in the bottle i don't know if you want to put it back in the bottle i would like to i would like to would like to suppress a lot of it and people go back i mean people go back to being nice to each other even if there's some crap underneath the system people should know you should not express yourself this way you know i mean you hope that they're healed and that they have genuinely good feelings but you know and love why is he going after other forty nine percent of them looking at that that they don't see it well a lot of people who who are racist don't like to think of themselves that way i mean speaking for my own people but white people we often grapple with you know what internalized racism that we were not that i would say i was brought up with but it was just there in society and that we had to on learn  you know i mean it's not like i heard it at home like my parents would never tolerate that kind of thing anyway what else did he do this week he got rid of dan coats is the director of national intelligence and he's trying to install this totally yes you know one we taped last week the mother hearings had not finished we had heard the morning in front of the house judiciary committee did you watch it without i'm sure if i did watch it yes i thought that was better you know i don't know that it brought anything new to light but i think the democrats did a very good job of making their case and making their points you know based on the report so i thought that was you know but you know the republicans just going to grandstand i know i don't know that it changed he is basically let it be known he really wants to do impeach an impeachment inquiry and i think that's the only way they're going to get at this stuff that's the reason for doing it to me it doesn't matter of course it matters but it doesn't matter that they said it is not going to convict him this is a way of getting all the all the evidence out i made and i don't mean just you know whatever happened with russia and the election i mean everything all the criminality of this administration i think you should i mean i think he should be impeached just for what did this week on race so while we're talking about ways to get rid of him what is your takeaway from the democratic debate which at this time we've only seen the st half of the nd debate we saw th moderates who wanted to go after elizabeth warren and bernie sanders and i think she had a great line which and it's been repeated again and again and again why would you want to run for president and tell us what you're that you're not going to do is do something you can't do anything about this i mean we're here to change it and look we can all acknowledge how difficult it's going to be to to move the country towards universal health care and medicare for all but what would these people have said about medicare  but and all of that said they could nominate a horse this year and i will work my butt off to get that horse elected as the democratic nominee so i have said i don't have a horse and i have said that  the hearing he was cleared by the quote unquote investigation but she says it was a totally cursory thing and you know but they have a penchant there for sexual harassers right well and it's just been buried and in the past year and i watched the tape of congressman ted lou i wish i could show it to you if you google it you can find it this was a hearing where he was growing this was a little bit ago but he was growing the guy from homelands from border patrol and everything and he was saying i want you to watch this film of a mother separate who was a citizen separated from her child for forty seven days because the kid was put into some three year old is a tell us let me put it that way and it said well he said it very quietly and then he shows the film of the little boy being reunited with the mother and the little boy is doesn't want doesn't just want to get away from his mother doesn't want his mother to touch  obviously felt abandoned is going to feel this way for the rest of his life and this is what we are doing to these kids at the border i you know i don't know i watch the end of years and years the h b o series where people finally rebel against this kind of this kind of fascism and do something about it we really have to do something about it it can't just be complaining about it like well i mean that's where we get to draw some inspiration maybe friend from puerto rico street protests are good but political action behind the scenes is better but you know you and them are making very strong case for a sustained street problem asim street protests what they're doing in hong kong i mean they're getting the crap beat out of them now by the chinese but that's what they're doing and when i say the chinese they're all chinese but i mean i'm talking about you know the pressure from the mainland what you call it at this point it's all part of china it worked in puerto rico the question is what comes next down there but the question is could we ever pull something like that off here against trump and why don't you think i mean certainly all the you know millions of people turned out for the women's marches  for the for the for the last two years but we don't sustain that and elections aren't going to fix this i think it would take some kind of trigger and he's done so much already and none of it has been sufficient trigger to generate that kind of sustained protest the most inspiring protest i've seen or heard about i was near it was in california at the time unfortunately was when he st tried to institute the muslim bess and everyone spontaneously shut down to the airports that was suggestions for people doing bigger things bigger not just bigger protests but bigger fixes to our democracy we're not much of a democracy we have the senate that's highly on representative we have these you know all these government bodies that are on responsive to us i welcome your ideas write to us at the show and let us know all right and then by the way in terms of migrants t migrants now face the burden of proof of their identities when they're seeking asylum you know they're asked things like well when did you realise you were gay and how many sex partners have you had they're asked these things and it's all up to the individual judge to decide whether you've got an asylum claim and if they are prejudiced or don't like the idea it's not going to happen good to see governor new some in california passing that law that you got to turn in your taxes for the last five years if you want to get on the primary ballot you think it will pass constitutional muster and they'll probably keep it public bottled up with legal challenges until it doesn't matter for the upcoming election well yes i mean he would have to he would have to turn them over by the end of this year  to get on the primary ballot in california and they'll probably get a stay well before then allow him to say on the ballot even if he does going to doesn't get on the ballot he's not going to win california anyway well true well the primary i mean don't forget he will have a republican opponent in many states bill weld that will be a repository for votes and he's relatively pro gay not the former governor of massachusetts sure he's gone back and forth on a couple of gay issues but it's a repository for votes and if people want to cast a protest vote against trump they're going to have the chance with bill weld and in some way yes they say ninety percent of republican support him but independen the secretary of education and the center for american progress has found that she is failing to protect students civil rights they compared it to the obama and findings in various well they say they will investigate transgender harassment abuse bullying they say and gay but you know and that's if you fail to conform to sex based area types but the study says it's not happening right and that she is not doing his job what are we paying these people for well some of the statistics busy sixty four percent more likely to investigate sexual orientation orientation and gender identity complaints under the  the difference is in the percentage you have had of how these cases were either dealt with at all or it was all you have a bully for president and they support the bullies in the fight against you know basically they hate children look what they're doing at the border and look what they're doing in this going with under age you know people is the one thing that seems to be able to sink you in this country that's what happened to roy moore who was running again but that's what sank when i would buy i got a democrat elected so you're saying that might be the trigger trump i think it's the kind of that i will not predict anything is the trigger for trump if they go through that he was having sex with with abstains underage girls i mean you don't think that well like i think i'll just deny what will mother behind the scenes at the apprentice using the n word it's on tape but the guy the producer is a friend of his and well well not really do you think if that came out it would make any difference no it would not make any difference you know not to his supporters well i did read a story that says that they that the chair with the changing demographics that the that that ninety percent of the increase in the american population is among people of color and sixteen electorate and you know hillary got obviously just under the number of white people that she needed yet but the question is where or where the demographic change occurs because you've got to remember it's by the electoral college i'm not a state but it's all over corrupted home now of course we don't want him to come back to his corrupted old because that means the trump tower in new york and we don't want him by the way the trip the transgender delegate that was elected down there donica rome she attended this thing and she said she wanted to promote a narrative of inclusion well you could have stood with your brother there who was protesting that would have been nice as well well meanwhile in better happier news in san francisco they fin open terminal one renamed for harvey milk that's in san francisco international airport going to pick up about there and there it is and they wanted to name the whole airport form well years ago but that didn't go anywhere they thought it was going wanted to expand you wanted to expand medicaid you know to help their people and the trumpet ministrations said no that you can't they wanted to make it a more generous program lovely all right but the u s house did do something good this week i mean you don't read too much about these things because they're one house bills but that this passed overwhelmingly something called the pride act to give same sex couples a refund on taxes when inequality was built into the system before you know in the days of doma when our marriages weren't recognized and an estimated sixty seven million dollars in taxes was virginia's th district who officiated at the same sex wedding of some friends of his very conservative gay couple and yes i know i hate workers i actually want to say to them what are you done with why are you working for these people but that's not the point of the story the point of the star is that the virginia g o p tried to censure this this guy denver representative denver riggleman for having officiated to same sex marriage because it goes against the republican national platform they were not successful and the couple of people i know shocking a couple of people in the room republican party held this up as proof of how inclusive they are don't you for the proper respo inmate and rikers island lady lien hold cano twenty seven years old we do have a picture who died on june th in rikers island an autopsy has revealed that what happened is she had an epileptic seizure and condition she'd already spent time in the infirmary and she died there because she couldn't raise five hundred dollars bail by the way i've told you about the ablest the daimio case i'm not going to go into all the details now this is the kid in the bronx bullied gay teen he was convicted of manslaughter and assault in this fight that he had in the classroom with a knife but we are trying for youthful offender status for him and we're asking people to sign a petition to go to the judge so you say we who is the we well i mean those of us who supposed think that he deserves that i mean i don't think i mean i think he was defending himself in this case the judge didn't think so the judge did not buy a defense of self defense justification he brought a knife to school not supposed to have a knife in school but he was charged by two guys you know who jumped from the back of the room to the front even when seeing the knife still charge him and that that you know if he was in florida and they were at the i had a stand your ground law i mean he could have done anything i'm not saying out of his well he was latino the victims in this case were african american but it was a fight and he was you know he was you know look he had no experience carrying a knife they didn't know what to do with it so we just went like this and they ended up killing one kid and the other don't think he's a threat to anyone but you can read about the case and decide i've written about it extensively in the gay city news and if you get our e mails if you go to gave us a t v dot org and you sign up for our e mails i'll give you the link to this petition to the judge meryl also here in new york a pair of trans filmmakers were on a street corner in queens filming a something against of violence against people and as they were filming they were assaulted well one of the people in the assault has was captured on the scene immediately that was the woman in the assault and the man in the salt just turned himself in a man named david  they were making it but well unfortunately the perpetrators have been caught there were they were attacked and that they were sprayed with what they believe was pepper spray this isn't criminal activity but it's a pretty hairy story there is that there's something in new york called the center for hiv educational studies and training at the city university of new york or chest that's what it's for and the guy who read it professor geoffrey parsons the director  investigated for sexual but he's there on the right and he's there with his husband and more about him later he is now resigned after invest geishas that cost a half a one million dollars that substantiated extensive complaints of sexual harassment of employees and pushing out all of them were trying to get them to use alcohol and he used illegal drugs i mean the guy was making three hundred and sixty three thousand dollars a year he was the th highest well it's bad it's bad and you know we report it you know when we do it as well all right shifting gears completely yes but a sexuality is rising amongst black women yes it's fascinating what is going on though that's a very good question but twenty three percent of black women ages eighteen dollars to thirty four dollars now identify as bisexual say that again twenty three percent almost one in four black women in the eighteen to thirty four age group identify as bisexual and that's three times as many of those women as just ten years ago so what happened in the last ten years excellent question you  what well one theory was you know incarceration rates a black man a top and high forever exactly that has not increased over the last ten years and they've seen this number spike over ten busy for a ten year period so they're really a little bit at a loss as to explain what's going on maybe it's a matter of identification yes rather then in that your chain english because of the success of the movement and it's penetrating to you know all levels of society and everything but what's interesting is that it is particularly high amongst black women more than white women well yes the overall rate of identification of l g b t people has not changed much in the last and so the president is has changed because of this growth yes that's given our numbers in a good way well you know but you also read about young people around the world especially high school students a few very you know it's almost like half don't identify as completely str the younger very interesting and that's why they're not like us but they still don't like it in the catholic church we've told indianapolis seems to be firing gay people from school so we told you a while ago i don't know why they call it why don't they call it john the rd high school anyway this teacher lynn starkey is suing for getting fired for her sexual orientation she had worked there for forty years and she filed a complaint with the federal each o c which does take such complaints well the question is whether the federal will continue to advocate on our side when she the reason why she got called out all of a sudden after forty years is because she married a partner and a parishioner brought that notice of the marriage to the local priest and then that set off the chain of events now she is the nd guidance counselor in this wrong wrong cali high school  diocesan school he was fired then he couldn't get his job back the other one they kept at a jesuit high school right there refused to fire him and then therefore the high school got decommissioned as a catholic institution not catholic anymore they're just jesuit  well all right so puerto rico by the way in california governor newsome also signed a bill that extends domestic partnerships to non gay couples now i know a lot a lot of places got rid of that sure once we had same sex marriage new york has not and seventy i think it's like seventy percent of the domestic partners in the city of new york are not gay well those of you who may be considering domestic partnerships keep in mind that federal tax law does not look kindly on it relative to marriage where it where your benefits are not taxed if you're married if you're getting health benefits for your and i for your marriage partner domestic partnership benefits are taxed if you get them for your partner so they're the largest now they're the largest municipality to do it and you know that nobody is ok we don't do it in new york we don't do it in new york we do not include l g b t on business is now but we may be moving towards that as a chicago which would knock los angeles on they have a lesbian mayor we have a gays speaker of the council we do other municipalities that are do the same thing with little or little lepto nashville baltimore seattle to the lumber ohio philadelphia and new york and hoboken new facebook they were violent coupled with violent thoughts coupled with racist and homophobic statements very hard to get rid of misbehaving police officers and what did they say can i speak freely for a  always this is in fact some of this is going out on free speech t v i get very frustrated when i see on the news all the hand wringing in the hand waving about people splashing kopassus with water which is meanwhile a cop who used an illegal chokehold to choke a black man to death there was caught on camera is still working on the police force and getting a paycheck in fact more money than he ever made before and  himself to you know fire the guy but the real problem is cops being splashed with want to anyway yes these cops are going to say i was in philadelphia all right what same sex secret wedding in philadelphia in the usa on secret wedding there were a lot of people of this party but they had the blinds drawn so did the yeah so that people couldn't say well why do we have these photos because they were dropped off to be lavender scare so why did they resurface because this same drug store had this policy of never getting rid of any photos and that any photos that were confiscated employees could do whatever they wanted with wait a minute i think it's my father well i mean seriously here's one that's not my father but i don't think but here's the thing somebody can see these pictures and say that that was my father because in those days we gave them a lesbians mostly married people of the other sex whatever else they did behind the scenes secretly certainly people who lead gay lives had gay lives had gay partners had committed relationships but somebody by find out that a parent or an uncle or whatever it was it was this was the scape also now more than sixty years later they're trying to figure out who these two men are they've been in their eighty's or ninety's and the people doing it on our filmmakers three filmmakers i think two producers and a writer and they may actually make a documentary are you sitting down i think i have your wedding photos all right we're ready for some international remember we got a lot international all right so you may have heard about poland in b i always stop and i don't know if i'm pronouncing any of this polish up they were met by thousands of right wing counter protesters of all ages including families gathered who threw fireworks prick stones rotting fruit from balconies they had to the cops came had to tear gas everyone to try our activist he has this relationship with poland going way back all right but it better to fry buddhist or justin trudeau stuff for a beer at the fountain head pub bar you know in new york we used to take politicians around to the gay bars when they were running for office and that's the way they could meet the gay constituency and once i was taking around a guy named judge bruce right you've heard of keith wright who but this was his father something and then we're walking along the street with these gays for bruce right flyers and these women go we're straight what are we supposed to do and he said in that case you should vote straight democratic ticket he was very clever he was a poet as well so justin trudeau but in other canadian bouzid you read about this the this is the vancouver pride society won't permit the vancouver public library to march in the pride parade library and they weren't satisfied with what the library came up with they cited the british columbia human rights law code that says public institutions have a moral obligation to protect people from discriminatory speech we have a st amendment in this country i'm not fond of this megan murphy character but you know what her mind's me of it reminds me of the center when the center kicked out some pro palestinian group know look you know we have been the victims of this what we're going to talk later about are a rock group in lebanon that can't perform because they're gay men is that you know we would like sort of not freedom an exchange of ideas and all that kind of thing well if you're done with canada we can go over to the u k where boris johnson is now prime minister oh boy oh boy he's a character that's for sure they've been saying he's trumping in sort of cut from the same flamboyant cloth but what he's done is he's appointed a cabinet full of questionable at best individuals who have a history of not supporting our community they do and there's just no gay ministers in the cabinet right where there used to be so some of the people he has appointed gavin williams an education secretary who twice voted against same sex marriage no other one andrea letson who also voted against same sex marriage and  was against children being exposed to information about gay liberation and you know six percent of the tory party in parliament is gay so they have plenty to choose from so yeah that's just a sample of some of the some of the cabinet ministers big gay activist over there in the u k and by the way we're losing a major out news outlet over there gay star news it's a major media site out of the united kingdom and they just shuttered this week after eight years they unable to turn a profit they blamed the uncertainty of breck's it meaning a lot of u k businesses are not investing in advertising and things like that because they don't know what their future is going to be they are going to their archives online it was a it was helpful source for this show but so gay star news is no more well staying in the u k but crossing over to the irish island in northern ireland it looks like they're finally one way or another getting same sex marriage now northern ireland of course is the only part of the united kingdom that currently does not have same sex marriage and you can thank shannon fame for that jeff ain is the party of the used to be the you know  party of the ira but should feign said we are not going to enter into an agreement to form a they don't have a northern ireland assembly a correct one because they don't have a northern ireland assembly the  k parliament is in charge of making the laws and they have said ok then there's going to be same sex marriage and the only way you're not going to have same sex marriage now in northern ireland is if you form a government by shin fein saying we're not forming a government and unless and explicitly includ sorts sex marriage it means that same sex marriage in the in the northern ireland is now a done deal on the on the other hand the going back to boris johnson he's basically saying i don't care about a bax i don't care about brazil you know preserving the open border go with the northern ireland and the republic of ireland and if we have to leave and you know shatter that that's fine i mean this is an undermining of the peace agreement he could easily bring sectarian violence back to northern ireland through what he's doing well do you think scotland will step i would think that with boris johnson at the helm of the united kingdom at this point i think that's that would be enough reason for them to leave and they have one vote  johnson says he doesn't want to give them another vote and i will just ask our director when he gets a chance to give me the time based on how much we have left i would appreciate that going back to london we told you about those two that young lesbian couple  you meanwhile in russia they caught another murderer this is the guy who murdered the russian activist and now they're saying you know mind you this is the russian police so you know take it with a grain of salt they're saying it was a domestic dispute that the two of them knew each other and that they were fighting scene fighting and that the man stabbed her eight times the woman who was stabbed elaina greg grigori leyva was forty when she had been put on a website people to be targeted lesser degree of homophobia but homophobia nonetheless you know to viet nam yeah hand cream right it's a it's a german company you know toes they parted ways with their ad agency which they called f c b as denying it you know that it was sad but well there goes that's and they said these allegations do not reflect our values if they've had them for a one hundred years it must be that they must be that company they came up with your germany is really safe for tuesday travelers the berlin travel guide spartacus which used to be very well known i don't know in this internet era how much people use it these days but they've downgraded germany as a better than in the united states because they have guaranteed national protections that we don't have the state even kenya does things the united states doesn't do their census is going to include male female and intersex citizens that's the st country in africa to collect finance the fight in bermuda to keep same sex marriage now to recap a little bit in bermuda their high court said you must have same sex marriage then the government pushed through now a law that said no partnerships then the courts said actually the parts that say higher court or higher court said that the higher above the high court has said that no actually the parts i got rid of same sex marriage are illegal the government appealed they put a stay on that and so it's been back and being sued over their ban on gay sex no less marriage following and on the heels of jason jones successful challenge in trinidad and tobago my ancestral homeland and a similar challenge filed in dominica so the caribbean slowly but surely is being dragged into the rest of the modern day with the rest of the americans we thought levanon was a relative always in the middle east it's the home country of the rock band mushroom  so called christian groups and a threat of violence and the government is refusing to protect them and they've been banned of course in egypt and other places but not in their hometown back in the americas and the yucatan mexico they are still fighting senior high school and they have a whole week where male teachers and male students were skirts to blast gender stereotypes terrific all right in japan the federation of bar associations has demanding  that they bring in marriage equality immediately and in india they are hesitating or they have deferred action on the nomination of an openly gay judge to the have legalized same sex marriage decriminalize a site in the spoke that decriminalized homosexuality they have not legalized same sex marriage but they're not sure if they're ready for it and openly gay and they have thirty one judges on their high court cast some of the you've read about the the runner the woman runner once again ordered to lower her testosterone levels artificially if she wants to compete with other women meanwhile if i can find it there is  a new zealand weightlifter hiroshi this moral hubbard who is causing quite a star even now weeks after her competition in her win transwoman comp of competing in weightlifting with other women and i have to be absolutely honest i'm not sure how i feel about this well you have to think about it yeah there's got to be a way to to make this fair and still be inclusive of everyone but you know if you were you know as someone who works out if you are a man and then you know you transition you're still going to have physiological advantages as a former man in the competition over any woman you compete against and yet that was the the trans well trans man right who was who was a wrestler who went who had you know been a girl and but was forced by their high school to compete with other girls and was beating all of them because he lived as a board now been at the top of billboard's one hundred chart hot one hundred chart for seventeen consecutive weeks a new all time record that is fantabulous that the gays have taken the record and it's all because he came out we have they've canceled will and grace both of the going to have one more season on the air and that's all the time we have i think it is thanks for being with us and be back next week and we'll be back next no no no no those she won't  will be allison co