i mean northrup and in many ways we have a lot of terrible things to tell you but we're going to start off with some good news because botswana and i have decriminalized homosexuality in various ways and san marino has added us to their constitution who could have imagined or predicted any of those things we'll give you some details and show you some charming video from butan but we'll also show you a picture of what happen at pride in washington c where there was a panic that sent the crowds running and truncated the event some of our diplomats and the state department are defying the ban on rainbow flags on their flag poles at the embassies and baron el stutzman is trying to defy the law in washington state and defend her refusal to sell flowers to a gay couple getting married well she's lost in a lot of court venues and she lost again g b two murders murders in detroit in georgia and in north carolina a trans inmate has died in custody in new york city and anti lesbian violence in london we're going to tell you all about it and that one got a lot of headlines well they put it out there now and the vatican is trying to wipe out trans people while they are under assault there and there was general rejoicing and we were so touched by the film of the people finding out that they had won this legislative victory that we wanted to bring it to you yet little   politicians so grateful this would not have happened without them so now miss america you have really changed and affected lives positively today it is beautiful and i read the  and it says they pioneered the concept of gross national happiness come on over here and help us with our maybe we're going over there i'm always touched by seeing these films from around the world because we're very you know us centric and we tend to think that everybody else's work that's just a brand we do cover that we do and we're always moved by seen the movement around the world seeing graduations to activists and butan clearly you've done a magnificent job of making your lives visible to parliament and moving them and we congratulate you and wish you the best and we're we're very excited about the african nation of botswana the high court there struck down the two colonial laws violated the right to privacy and the freedom from discrimination he cited in the is ruling legalizing gay sex and the activists call the whole thing life changing and by the way the president of the butts want to mock he has express support for the community and there and he is running for reelection the decision was three to nothing in the high court and they also pointed out that these laws are old british colonial laws is and  unconstitutional under the current botswana yeah constitution and the judge also said human dignity is harmed when minority groups are marginalized and you know before we move on to our national news and things  attack the fact that gender identities exists on a spectrum as they confuse concept of freedom in the realm of feelings and wants or momentary desires provoked by emotional lift paul study all this to come up with this crap they say that gender theory this is their phrase gender theory annihilates the concept of nature what are you running around the woods worshipping trees no i mean or you know i mean people while they're down devon we're going to talk about that the violence that has been perpetrated this this last week just this last week yes but we'll start with the events at several pr parades around the country st in washington d c well these are people running in the street to get away from what they thought were gunshots it's turned out some guy seven people were injured in this and they had to cancel the rest of the march knocked over barricades to get out of there charles blow the black bisexual columnist for the new york times wrote a column about how he was in his hotel room nearby and four young women came and pounded on his door and he let the man and what he send her and his his thoughts on where the fact that young people have a legitimate fear of  we have done that by not doing something about them that we have a legitimate fear of neo nazis in detroit they crashed the pride march there and the police are getting criticized for the way they handled this they were shouting  gay slurs not the police employed oh no but the but the nazis and the police said that well it was our job to protect these neo nazis and this big crowd of gays and they they said they scored them out of the festival yeah the criticism was that they've been training them to gently but the nazis were clearly they didn't just bring swastika flags there are guns they were wearing guns because michigan is an open carry state open it is madness because you know and i went and something happens like dallas a shooting a few years ago when people were shooting from all sides and how could you tell who is a problem so they these people where the deliberately to provoke another charlottesville in detroit and the police kept it calm and got them out of there so i appreciate that but in brooklyn new york our old friend kate barnhart was the grand marshal of the pride parade out there she runs to alternatives for homeless g b t youth were on the board and very proud to see that and then there's what happened in new york city the police commissioner james o'neill said actions taken so reclaim pride what did they have to go about we by which i mean i and others that we put out a statement saying that this was basically too little too late and that it to decide to make a statement like this in the middle of pride month when the pressure is on you is ridiculous you know why not decide in january that you're going to address grievances and apologize humiliated abused l g b t people people of color trans women in particular trans kids they just have such a history and current practice of that so our statement said look you want to apologize for stonewall fine we've all been asking that for a long time but really that is totally inadequate and not only do we want you to apologize for all these things we want systemic change we don't want you to just stand up and say oh that was terrible we want you to do something about it right so that was our well are really are we are we happy that the governor of wisconsin tony ever says fly him before we leave new york i want to point out that the puerto rican day parade might as well have time they did fly the rainbow flag one over the capitol this was from the new democratic governor tony evers and it's going to stay up there all through june and they did the same thing in new york state for the st time i don't know why it's only the st time in new said no rainbow busy flags on the official flag pole with the american flag you want to put something inside you could do it you want to have a pride thing a thing but you can't put it on the flagpole vice president pence said it's a great decision it's a patriotic decision and so some of the so embassies in israel germany brazil and lot for you they were the ones who has to be able to fly this time they were denied but the sole embassy put the rainbow banner on the side of the building as did one in india and in new delhi and some of them are just going ahead and doing it anyway yes they are and what not and germany well we've got to get a ambassador who wanted to do it but so the hypocrisy of saying that and then issuing this edict when the whole point of putting a rainbow flag on an embassy flagpole busy is to signal to the world that you support our human rights and want to assert them around the world it's mind boggling well fifteen members of congress have already signed a letter protesting to pump a zero but i don't know where that's going to go just fly the flag well meanwhile the democratic feel talking to a lot of reporters in the last few days who want to talk about reclaim pride and pride march is an act up and stuff and they've been asking me about techniques and particularly media techniques and i said well you know we would learn about an issue we try to talk to the people involved but if we couldn't get anywhere the next level was public humiliation and joe biden was the subject of public humiliation  dissension within the ranks of the trump administration the other thing was that the defense department military health system put out a statement that said the military health system covers the defense department of state military health system covers treatment and drugs for everyone after trump said his thing about we can't have trans members in the armed forces because they take tons of drugs and their operations cost two hundred and fifty thousand dollars and the lie well i know things seem bleak but especially in the courts now but progressive judges going back to the carter error are just not retiring and then h h s is now approving title mind funding for groups that do not provide contraception that's the whole point of title ten no and they won't give it to clinics that would even provide condoms and you know this is why the title ten was written in the st place folks as people like to say folks we don't have a lot of time to rescue this country from these mounts terrors and maniacs might pump am says if you're worried about climate recalculating the poverty line to throw people off medicaid and food stamps and you read that and now they're reducing it to like one thousand dollars whatever so that way control and legal aid so they can get that this is what they're doing right now and these conservatives they must sit around in conferences all day every day dreaming up this weekend which we need to do to when we get power back if we can all right well meanwhile we have some terrible incidents to morrow let's start in detroit three people murdered two gay men and one trans woman and their picture next couple of others injured young people yeah by you know the victims were prosecutors said the victims were targeted for their sexuality yeah and in no where are we going to in philadelphia yeah well this was a case of of an out deputy sheriff again and again activist dante austin taking his own twenty three years old found in a field miss gender didn't dead name but st by the media her mother said her mother said she was a gay man she's the th trans woman killed this year all african american the detectives say they have a great leads in the case you know i in the midst of these discussions i've been having it's a lot of it is talk about corporations sponsoring floats in the pride parades or putting us in their commercials or something and then claiming they're doing great things for us because they're for you well they're for themselves they're giving like ten percent of the profits of a t shirt sale or something to us and i look at this housing and some of them are successful in their communities that would get killed anyway so if you want to do something for us please the least of us you've heard that phrase some least of us and them by that i apparently the the there were two people one of them was the shooter but apparently had been approached the week before his partner said with with someone being anti gay so we don't know the entire story here guy just on his way to work and shot dead and tried to steal his backpack so it may have been just originally a fact but i think he talked back and they boom shot him dead and then and then in new york you know this is not an anti gay case that we know of but it's a guy and a gay couple and they winced and because i was out walking his dog in the evening he goes out after celebrating his th anniversary with his husband and he gets shot by a stray bullet in the leg and  i mean the gay angle here is that when the logger finally heard about it and came downstairs is his husband to take it off in an ambulance so they go oh mckay's dead you know that don't you miss the way the cop talked to him and he wasn't allowed to see the body for a in her cell at rikers island mean jail she had been picked up on a sort of minor scuffle arrest maybe drugs involved and she couldn't make the five hundred dollars bail five hundred dollars bail stuck in a cell and guys for two months done so in a cell so there's concern about why she died we don't know we don't know if it has anything to do with the d or the corrections officers she was in trans housing now everybody says they're concerned there was a big was a big rally hundreds of have milder stories of violence ok well there's a big yes i classify these as attacks and therefore in the same category but not quite as  bad for instance the conversion therapy group in new jersey that is continued relentlessly to practice conversion therapy and kids even though they were ordered by a court not to do so so they have now been  put out of business by the court and told to their originally fined three and a half one million dollars but they only had to pay half a one million busy pending future good works well now that they've been found to violate the order by just changing their name they have to pay the other three million this is joan erie council excuse me erie pennsylvania city council passed a ban on conversion therapy and the guy there says i'm going to take to court yeah well they were can i want to do it they were convicted of consumer fraud in new jersey which is a theory that started in california i think it's a way to go after people because they're doing something that is not what they claim they are doing including for adults most yeah these bans on conversion therapy are just for minors and they figure you would don'ts can handle it yourself maybe maybe not in san jose california the l g b t youth's face was vandalized doors and windows part of brooklyn there's a dust up over drag queens story hour the local residents complained and tried to get it canceled act as the activists went out there and defended it  so no actual violence but certainly a dispute can they give them some better news certainly well the big case in washington state oh yeah this was a case of a florist who didn't want to provide flowers for a wedding and so  so they lost their case again at the high court of washington state but they say they're going to go back to the supreme court and and by the way the supreme court still is you have to take us take the oregon gay wedding case  well what these cases show is the importance of state laws or local laws against discrimination sexual orientation busy or gender identity discrimination because what the washington courts have been deciding and i and the colorado court in the masterpiece cake shop case is that the state law against discrimination is not invalidated by so one of the rights to religious freedom and states that don't have nondiscrimination laws are much more likely busy to find in favor of the discriminate whores who assert a religious privilege so it's really important to keep passing those state laws and a federal law so we've told you about you nine million annually off in ads on you tube ted cruz defended them this guy who spews a lot of anti gay stuff he you know he sells t shirts that say social socialism is for frags things like that so they're cracking but he's a big trump for some good news from about gays the average age they just talked about straight couples on married lines i guess but it's the hidden agenda at the time was that this will busy help same sex couples and so now that it's been passed everybody  grand marshals of atlanta pride yes to reflect still hoping she might end up and taken the worst news the trevor project did a survey that says two thirds of people said someone tried to convince them to change their sexual orientation or gender identity  more than seventy six percent said that recent political the recent political climate has affected their mental health you know the twenty four percent don't read the papers good news from the american medical association convention in chicago where they adopted a new policy urging their members doctors to take action on behalf of trans people not just to acceptor i understand but to reach out proactively to help whether it's lobbying the legislature or standing up for transport people in other settings so that's a good on last week i said that there are four states that have yet to elect out l g b to legislators and that included she just wasn't elected a from the get go is out kevin spacey got some good news this week i guess you could say that currently the the prosecution you know how they stood up in court and you know and said we don't have that cellphone thing well they did have it yeah the of the of the guy accused of groping a young man who accused him of groping them and the young man apparently altered the phone to the lead messages to his girlfriend on the thing and it turns out that the mother who was sort of bringing this  state legislature coming to the end of its annual turn passed a couple of things gestational surrogacy passed in the senate this is andy cohen was in albany lobbying for this because this is how he got his son by having to hire someone in california to bear his child and new york is one of only three states that does not allow such because they see it as exploitation of women and that argument is still going on now in the assembly so it may or may not pass the assembly has even the national organization for would oppose the bill actually speaking of sexual harassment david mamet has a new comedy on harvey weinstein a comedy on his sexual harassment called bittersweet but it's starring john malkovich in london and it is getting planned across the board as it should he's become an awful person that david mamet maybe always was a black queer muslim player at mani she's an activist and quite well known and she's one of the people who's speaking for heritage of pride  their rally here just before the pride parade at the end of the month and she has spoken out about how offended she is that they are using her image on banners on light poles and stuff with corporate logos over it it milwaukee's pride fest with their twenty nine thousand valor award and they let him speak he said his parents still felt accepted for who he is and he was surrounded in school by students and teachers who perpetrated the culture of homophobia and voted to let voters decide whether to repeal the amendment to the constitution to ban same sex marriage it takes two votes by the legislature two votes by the people to change the constitution they did it against us years ago and now they're trying to undo it but if the supreme court allows this again there are a lot of states with these laws on the books against c s what you need to know is that while the supreme court legalized same sex marriage which wiped out the effective those laws around the country states didn't repeal those laws says happen with sodomy laws too but only not only it would be easier for legislatures that this point say ok all right if they don't want it we'll let you do it but now they've got constitutional amendments that are harder to change if they've got the add a ball thanks to george bush so there's and karl rove yes exactly two thousand and four ok so check and see whether your state has a law or a constitutional amendment that forbids same sex marriage because you're going to want to get rid of that even though you think it's not an effect because they could go back into effect if the supreme court gives that decision back to the state we're sorry to upset you we're sorry night you know they're coming home and these kids come up and they see them holding hands and they're like come on they start to use can actually turn in their teenagers they're all thirteen to one hundred and eighty five have been arrested for this look at what they did these women put this out there and they said we want you to see what happens when there's this kind of violence so they put this picture out there and it has gotten it's been a whole the news well you know it's an attractive quite young lesbian couple where we have london we have talked about a lot of other people on show talking about us i'm talking about the mainstream news media picked this up very quickly and said look what had they had a good picture you know the person if i believe me i am horrified at what happened at these women and i'm i wouldn't think of not covering it but what i'm interested in what the mainstream news media one of them said violence has become a common thing that sometimes it's necessary it's necessary to see a war that woman blue reading after being pummeled to feel some kind of impact she's been unable to return to work with the police are rounding up suspects this was on the late bus to camden town i've been on of the often ok all right  jerusalem pride there had ten thousand high security due to the stabbing murder of a sixteen year old sure about a couple of years ago by the ultra orthodox extremist that was four years ago they had their st out minister in the ca protesting the pride parade in jerusalem or arrested one of them found to be carrying a knife they had two thousand five hundred cops protecting the ten thousand who were marching by the way the israeli government still prohibits same sex weddings in the country but if you get married outside the country they'll be recognized to an extent so twenty three dollars couples busy held a marriage event to protest that and to demonstrate in favor of legalizing same sex knee event in poland at warsaw fried fifty thousand people the largest in eastern europe huge diplomats from the united states participate in the  really striking down oh this is just like a you know days after they struck down seven criminal offenses as discriminatory versus gay men in sofia bulgaria six thousand people showed up at their have a production of the coffee story metamorphosis with it he cast they're going to have a conference and they're going to have a political march not a corporate march there been many threats from the right wing taishan of the constitution or read about some with these and i wonder you know i did kingdom sweden portugal malta bolivia ecuador new zealand mexico south africa and fiji things are great for gay people in some of these places yeah but pride is a great coalition that came together quite spontaneously to produce this community event because we don't like the corporate takeover of the pride parade it's disempowering to the community we want to our communities on june th and i know many of you are coming to new york you come to the village go to go to stonewall place before nine hundred and thirty dollars we're going to kick off there and we're going to march up th avenue to central park and you can join us at any point along the march included through a big group is going to join at bryant park on nd street so you know please do you get to meet us personally yeah if you can find us in what we expect to be a very large crowd but we are telling people if you don't want to get up early enough to start from sheridan square or that's too long a march for you come to bryant park at eleven am there will be lots of stuff going on there and there's a bus for the disabled yes said we will pick people up yeah if you need transportation go to reclaim pride n y c dot org our website and you will see in access our accessibility button you can click on to let us know what your needs are exactly a city the pride march was greeted by christians holding banners apologizing for the hurt caused by their coreligionists these were from an evangelical pentecostal church saying we're holding up big batters we're sorry and the minister said read the bible you know it doesn't really condemn this what are you talking about and we're sorry i heard the same thing from going to piss couple bishop a church in brooklyn last sunday where i was go thirty years ago now now there was they had a big stone wall event in the at st anne's in the holy trinity in brooklyn did you accept his apology his or her apology i didn't feel a need to comment on that but he gatt he got up and gave a very heartfelt apology and of course all the church officials there are completely l g b t and positive and it was quite wonderful and then i remember one bishop more st spoke to the integrity of the group the group and it was all very very everybody very thrilled the bishop is speaking to us and everything oh of course it was having an affair with the guy himself all the time in spite having two wives and nine the st episode of season two opposed last night which was very aids focused billy porter's character is dragged to an act up meeting when he gets angry by sandra bernhar action and got involved in that which you know something about having been one of the six defendants and convicted on four counts i'm a convicted criminal and this was about busting up a church service to sa opposing condom availability condom education and not going to be ok and they were sitting on the advisory board for the city public schools there you go and when they finally stopped going to meetings we got condom availability in the schools and our outrage in nine thousand eight hundred and ninety one in act up was that the church had been invited into the public school system by the city of new york and we were furious at this because all their policies were murderous policies and so we decided we had to confront this and we see spent a good six months arguing among ourselves about whether to go into st patrick's cathedral very divided opinions within the act up here i was in the minority and criticized the good because i believe in the st amendment you don't but you don't interrupt a st amendment activity like that you protest from the outside but as far a crime or said about this action it made everybody scared of us they never knew what we were going to do next and it raised the issues worldwide because it was so outrageous and we did preplan going into the cathedral to do very dignified actions i was part of a group that was lined silently in the center aisle a small group was going to just stand up and read something it was all that kind of thing but then michael patroclus decided that just isn't go got up on appeal and started screaming and in the post episode there is a guy standing on a pew screaming you're killing us so i thought it was quite realistic it wasn't you couldn't recreate the monument talent and they didn't show the five thousand people outside in the streets there but i thought they did excellent job of really leading that line through it and understanding it and they started it at heart island shorter words by the way again they gave out so you didn't see it on the telecast with the game or much they gave special awards terrence mcnally and by the way his p b s special is on friday at nine o'clock eastern on american masters and judith light gave a wonderful speech they gave  to the tony awards with tony awards written right there was turned into a rainbow flag of flowers so that was in all the red carpet pictures and that was their acknowledgement of pride month and really was one of the presenters and academy award winner for his movie moonlight he was quite moving in discussing the themes of choirboy and it made me and that and the performance it was the one performance that made me sorry i missed that play the marchers as they come into the park along with machine dazzle who made that cost him a costume it is notorious for all of these over the top costumes so you can expect something really outrageous them just at the entrance to the park and you can expect something wonderful if you go to see hades town which was the best musical and the winner for best supporting actor in a musical was our old friend dishy olds who has been on the show who really lights up that show gave a wonderful speech there he's seventy three years old has been nominated three times and he finally won congratulations andre and then to arse i would say somewhat to our surprise that everyone's surprise nest revival was given to the boys in the band i wouldn't say it was my favorite revival of the year on the other hand mark crowley is there over there not in the blue but the next guy the little rat and murphy in the blue who produced it is making a movie out of the this production of the boys in the bed but more crowley dedicated the award to the original cast and he said every one of them had their agents tell them you will never work again if you take this role this is more than fifty years ago before stonewall and it was just very very very moving and a lot of those original cast members their dad died of a you know he described them as brave and he was exactly right yes but one of the most popular wins of the evening was allie stroke wheelchair i didn't you know she's in a wheelchair on the show i didn't know if she was disabled but she has to say but yes has a disability i'm sorry that's ok and i wonder whether anyone has ever won a major award in a well she said oh yeah producer of oklahoma best musical revival thank you jan for teaching me about law i don't want to fight about this too much for bryan cra for network for best actor in a play and he said he gets up and says archly finally a strange old white guy gets a break you know and i thought that was kind of funny i thought it was not i loved what  award after eleven pm when he gets up and he says if you're still watching this you're gay i thought that was funny and then but it was the lowest rated tone unease ever really because everybody is online doing things  to th for a couple of weeks and jenny will be there in person talking about the film on june th and nd they're open they're releasing the film about david hockney called a bigger splash which filmed him in the early seventy's where he was already an established artist and he's filming that and he's making that famous painting that you see part of in there that was sold for ninety million dollars last year the record at the  time for a living artist and it is it is a fascinating film it's not narrative it's not a documentary although it's real people i really liked it and then there's some fantasies that's peter slezak juror who was in that ends up being in that painting and it's very purges gay people from government jobs in the fifty's and sixty's tremendous fail and i and i watch stonewall again on american experience that's available online from p b s and i should say that a bigger splash about hockney is opening up and it's an import from britain it's been around for a long time it really deals with the destruction of government and the shift to the right in the in the eighty's that we're really paying the price for it now so i do recommend that at  nine and i just want to thank the producers of gentleman jack which just wrapped up its st season there will be a nd season it ended very romantically with this a sort of covert wedding between