he's got two nominees to the ego see the employment opportunity commission who will not commit to upholding the agency's policy that discrimination is illegal and he's also nominated some happy because he is supporting the retention of transgender troops in the military so chelsea manning is the st transgender person ever named a fellow an ironic title of the kennedy school of government at harvard that we know of only to have the school jerk it away at the behest of the favor of some journalists is it really is the most disgusting story so we will  go into that a little leg and we'll tell you about eighty windsor's memorial service last week and it was there in person i was homesick but watching it on line and i will tell you how you can watch it online yeah leader was shot dead by police leading to a lot of unrest on campus it's a very complicated story we'll go into that and the latest developments from the australian campaign for same sex and read some of the speech it's really it was amazing and it's amazing to two things to note this week happy bisexual awareness week and it's the th anniversary of the repeal of don't ask don't tell and we're is threatening to destroy in north korea in his speech written by the demonstrably and stay sane steven miller and this is who controls our government and iran too so let's start with trump yes because we like to start with the big picture well let's let's talk about some of those let's talk about some of those nominees all right two nominees to the equal employment opportunity commission who had a senate hearing this week janet dillon and daniel  and they were pressed by senators you know when you were polled this interpretation of the current interpretation of the o c is that sex discrimination that entail g b t discrimination is covered under sex discrimination in the civil rights act and the just another example in fact i want to recommend to people that they take a look at the human rights campaign site for a new report from them called trump's administratively abuse and the l g b t q community and what it does for those of you who need the details and the list is run down all the ways in which he has changed by executive order just program regulations rules appointments policies that pertain to some of the most appalling thing is we can occasionally get some republican senators and house members to vote with us on protecting our rights but it's not important enough to them to g b t bigots from having lifetime appointments to rule over our lives for the rest of us it's not offensive enough to them right now they fear because they feel they would be punished by their party if they didn't dreads gender cases including h b to the north carolina law and he's only thirty four years old now st of all him you know he could be on the bench for another fifty years but he he doesn't have the what's usually required twelve years of experience practicing law before you sit for a lifetime on the federal bench so that's one of them that is you know they're not playing by the rules they don't want to play by the been nominated to the u s district court for the eastern district of texas now this guy is the current st assistant attorney general of texas and he he was serving as the general counsel of st liberty institute one of these right wing groups and he has described same sex marriage as leading to discussing new forms of matrimony transgender children are part of satan's plan compared same sex marriage to be well yes to what end is the answer and then we have some developments in the service of trans military members i've heard a lot commentary going both ways on this i hear people you know reporters say well you know we tweeted about this and then nothing happened scuse me some of it did he and other people say now it's  accompli they're not talking about whether to implement it they're talking about how to implement it how to implement to the except that they've got to and transgender service you know basically the certainly not allowing transgender people to sign up for the moment turn right now well they can but they're saying they can reopen list but they're going to be under a cloud well they don't know if they're going to get booted out and very confusing it's very confusing because the policy changes every day at  st it looked like his tweet was meaningless because it was a tweet and because there was a lot of pushback from republican politicians and the defense department everyone but then he went forward in demanding it and  then the line was we can't stop this it's only about implementation of kicking people out and not letting anyone new in list but now this past week a couple of things st of all the secretary of defense ma issued a memo that said trans service members currently serving and rian list and can get appropriate medical care for the cloud of course under a cloud that's what this whole thing is about it's not disappearing yet but the question is will it disappear at some point will six months from now the rationale be developed to lift the cloud and let people serve well everybody on their  is suing to stop this yammer many pending cases across the country and there's also a bill well of course they tried to put it into the defense authorization act and the senate republicans cut off debate and blocked the amendment from even getting a vote they did he might go one better yes because you know we won the vote in the house so while ago to to stop the attempt to ban medical care but the sponsors of the bill that would have stopped the ban jila brand and cohen's are submitting a freestanding bill and senator mccain has announced that he supports their effort to stop the millet lawsuits are proceeding the a c l u has asked for a preliminary injunction on the bay and while it's being adjudicated there are they have a case in maryland but as they asked for that  inary injunction madis did issue the memo saying people can continue to serve and can re enlist but not and list now but they were if that had never been allowed people but it's still up in the air no one's been kicked out yes it's all of mass but speaking of trance people in the military now let's talk about chelsea manning so you know they have these the kennedy school  people but then the cia establishment some who talk they're like this guy morel and others like started raising all these objections i have to think donors to harvard must have gotten involved because they rescinded that offer to be a fel disagree and that the institution was chilling marginalized voices under cia pressure and that is exactly right this is a real disgrace on harvard for doing  this she said this is what a military police intel state looks like the cia determines what is and is not taught at harvard and what the hell does sean spicer have to teach anybody i mean he's nothing but i mean he's nothing but a liar i mean  know well the right wing is very happy that harvard rescinded the invitation to chelsea and they're praising the dean there for writing a letter apologizing for having invited chelsea in the st place because of course she is a convicted revealed the sins of the u s military in iraq and served the longest prison sentence ever for a whistleblower in the history of the united states and you know i mean  people who were criticizing i mean even if you believe she was totally guilty she's the longest sentence ever are people like this supposed to be punished for the rest of the laws and made pariahs well at the same time  harvard turned down the accepted and then turned down the application for graduate work by the woman who had been a prisoner and i think illinois i could be wrong about that  yes michelle gross who had gone to prison as a teenager or a young twenty's had been convicted of murdering her four year old child in you know very murky circumstances served and a very lengthy sentence was completely really rehabilitated in prison became a history scholar wrote a very important paper about incarceration and was offered a place at harvard and then they took that back because she had been it was a convicted felon and she's now at n y u what is this about if you've been convicted of something you can have these jobs it's disgusting sort of thing so scout schultz twenty one years old bisexual non binary was the head of the pride alliance at georgia tech twenty one years old with your student popular energetic admired good with his with their excuse me non binary family who supported them but with some history of mental illness and h scott well st when asked to describe this person described themselves and was asked to give their name and gave their real name right and then went out and walked fitting that description holding something in their hand not a metal yeah no it would look like i one of those multi tool little things but without a knife blade open i've watched the actually which is what happened the american police just dumped in general seem to be trying to contain the mentally ill i have watched the videos of how this these things are handled in england and then out there they could be pretty rough of that they are on a lot of respects they had an empire but  they will throw one out over you than they will and they don't one of them don't even carry guns themselves but it just looks like an execution well they're obviously two questions here one  was scout trying to commit suicide by cop and this certainly the evidence is there for something like that yes but then the other question which has nothing to do with that is how did the cops handle this exactly and how do you handle the mentally ill and in general so there was there were major protests on the campus and they turned violent protesters we have a picture of protesters set fire to a campus police car two police officers received minor injuries three people were arrested during this melee it's a very sad situation and the campus is very upset sure you know and and we're still upset at the passing of eighty when sarah who was of course a hero to all of us and a companion activist yes they held a memorial for her last week a spur of the moment was the one who brought her up to canada to get married and that is why she appreciated these grassroots activists because these are the people who helped her when no one else would rob i climb out of the blue shirt in the middle is you know was presided over the service did and they became fast friends for the rest of their lives and socialize together and right next to them is blanche wesen cook and her her wife claire cost right across the way and on the far right there is rose walton and marjorie sure when who  read i shall rise from biology and you know so it was and these are the kinds of people who came to this service who felt connected to some of these people have known her since the seventy's so it was a there's a very moving it was there was a great speech but roberta robbie kaplan who was her lawyer you know told a lot of great stories about e t and working with her including the you know the famous story about the fact that i'm only going to ask one thing if you eat you can't talk about sex while you're my client wait till the case is settled and even say i disagree with your strategy and she agreed to it and then at the press conference as soon as the thing passed she started talking about sex  we talked a little about this on the radio last week she has been compared to rosa parks now clearly they were both important figures in their movements and we have great admiration and love cuts not throw some parks was a long time and place the worker who had been sent to the hylander center in tennessee for training for civil disobedience and lots of people did the same not moving on the bus action before rosa parks she just happened to be the one who got noticed at the right time in the right place and the windsors case she was an activist long before this  long time decades but you know she might not have been the case because robbie robbie kaplan who took the case took it independently the lambda legal turned her down they just didn't think it was the right case to bring up a legitimate as in a lot of other organizations and at the same time there were a number of cases competing to go to the supreme court to challenge the defense of marriage act and this was just the one that happened to make it no of course i will say that she certainly didn't but marriage movement people have been working on that for forty years i will say that i did talk to jim oberg a fellow at the service afterwards and he was there the guy who won the two thousand and fifteen case that got same sex marriage country and i said what about you i mean when you were very active in the movement before this no not at all oh it's a combination but the point is there is a whole movement and there are people of various experiences who have made all this happen jim was of course moved by his dying partner yeah and wanting to do something out of love for him and for the you know for their respect for their relationship and this movement that had built up these cases that he could join and i that became the thing yeah come on her and sat on a nice quote that she posted from e t if you really care about the quality of somebodies life as much as you care about the equality of your own you have it made i like e d s quote at the press conference after she won where she was talking about how she had been somewhat scornful of gay people d as you know silly queens until stonewall at which point she gained some respect and and that she had not come out until she was in her forty's and the quote i love is her saying internalized homophobia is a bitch i would highly recommend that people look at the website constructed about her life easy windsor dot com it's got a fantastic a ray of pictures of her at all ages looking gorgeous and lots of information i also want to acknowledge  you sign up for email list i will post the link from temple the man you well for the entire service the entire hour and a half service and there are some there were some great speakers there speaking of history it was you know i saw well you brought up california let's hopscotch through the california legislature is work at the last well they well one big thing they did this week at the behest of groups was make modification to the sex offender registry they have one of these for ever sex offender registries that has a one hundred thousand people on it and your life is over if you're on this registry as many as some of you may know and you know you could have done something is innocent they say in this you could have done something as innocent as get arrested for you know sodomy you know back way back when or something and you're just on this list in some form for consensual sex in a park or whatever that kind of stuff so that so they modified it now i've talked to bill d thinks this doesn't go anywhere near enough to what they need to accomplish and he thinks it was a back door come back room compromise but so to speak the l g b t groups are hailing it as progress the legislature also passed a law that prisons must recognize the name changes by transgender inmates the assembly passed a and l g b t senior long term care bill of rights they've created non binary gender people in the since one thousand nine hundred and eight mostly women and mostly people of color the current law is not as bad as some in other states because it requires proof of intent to infect but it discrimination practices of michigan because michigan allows adoption agencies to discriminate on the basis of their religious opinions so they produced the nad called kids pay the price and they wanted to draw our side produced in that yes the a c l u and they tried to put it on fox news channel and show this to reach the audience that they want to reach with it fox said it was too powerful to powerful powerful for fox who powerful in the michigan civil rights commission we want of them to declare that discrimination against people in employment in public accommodations was on lawful under state law existing state law that's what equality michigan wanted and they said we need to think about it so they put it off a michigan attorney general bill shooty is against that interpretation so the civil rights commission is i think you and i want to form an opinion from him and then there is the you know more about the east lansing case which we told you about last week about the guy selling out he sells apples and he's not allowed to selling apples and he's lansing out there farmer's market the city farmer's market because he runs a farm where the land is sometimes used for weddings and he doesn't like gay weddings there so this is a murky case because he's not discriminating in the selling of apples of these lancing they lost the case the eastlands lost the case  they are of armor one looking out of the feel that it is murky not so murky is a decision in arizona where the state supreme court in a case brought by the national center for lesbian rights says that a non biological mother of a child she had with her ex partner who was the one who gave birth that they are both full mothers and that they the same sex marriage ruling by the supreme court says that same sex couples must be treated the same as opposite sex couples and therefore the bio mother after they separated has equal rights to problem with same sex marriage how is that i think he's a moron and i can't imagine why after all the moron celebrities that have been elected michigan would want to elect another one her just one woman's opinion is in texas houston is asking the supreme court of the united states to review a decision by the texas supreme court that they court refused to order local governments to give benefits to same sex married couple they do provide spousal benefits to all married couples in houston and they want the supreme court to overturn the texas supreme court order birmingham alabama city council next week will vote on a non discrimination law including sexual orientation and gender identity and a contractor's nondiscrimination of the news is that this will be the st in the state to be protected from  discrimination and alabama and but in arkansas lucy's place and l g b t organization canceled a hearing for a shelter for homeless youth because they were getting a lot of threats about it  you're in a committed same sex relationship and you're not allowed to watch porn either you also have to believe in the literal interpretation of the bible that adamant about adam and eve in order to keep your job  but guy and you know let's talk about it also in illinois did you read about the retirement of richard posner that yes i did you know i was fascinated by this because  the public can judge whose son would lead us almost all the time he's volved over the years from being quite conservative to be much more liberal and he's very funny and he's very smart and he's quitting the court because he says you know i've had enough of this i want to go work for the indigent and for prisoner the incarcerated who are not getting adequate representation you think we should do that right now but here's the other side bar to this he talks about his judicial philosophy and how he decided cases may said well basically you know i think the constitution is overrated i would figure out what i thought was right and then you know i'd buy the justification for it at the mariah there we want to alert you to a relief fund set up called the trans disaster relief fund because in fact france people often have needs that are not adequately addressed by regular  and this was set up in specifically because of hurricanes harvey and herb but i'm sure it will be extended the trans disaster relief fund our fund us another transgender murder to tell you about murder armed robbery and shooting into an occupied vehicle she was described as a playful spirit and go getter who enjoyed life the th known case of a transgender person killed this year but that is not the only news from the woman very successful model currently but felt a need to speak out for the community portland tennessee wants to modify its adult copyright law to ban drag acts as adult and he kind of cross dressing or anything like that so it's terrible in utah a male gay couple is challenging the surrogacy law which only allows mothers to access surrogates mothers unable to conceive the state attorney general agrees that the law should be gender neutral and is supporting the gay men in their suit against the law catholic university is  james martin has written this he's a priest has written this book on gay stuff you don't actually come out and say embrace everything about gayness and yet that's enough for him to get banned in some places and san diego bishop robert macomo i said that the roman catholic church the church know was mentioning how we're not such a liberal place to anti gay bigots have been elected to the city council crusaders reverend ruben de as of the bronson reverend fernando could burn the bronx elected to the city council and the only silver lining there is that they won't have as much power in the city council as they did in did in the state senate that's true and then also in new york this is an exe another example want to give new york and how you can get involved some young guy who's a direct performer in new york is in his marty gould comics yet you know he was upset about the trump lectionary so i'm going to get involved he formed a new club and hell's kitchen which is a pretty good neighborhood in new york right above us in chelsea and they formed a power base that challenged this over one hundred year old club the macmanus club run by a gay guy at this point a conservative gay guy jim mcmanus and they defeated them at the polls for the local elections for district leader it's a great story is doing things like putting christmas lights on their fences of their home saying yes we have a picture of yes and we've told you that the guy running the yes campaign is the same guy who ran the ireland yes on same sex marriage campaign so he's brought several techniques from there including this lovely spot of a dead australian girl calling her grandmother to ask her to vote for same sex marriage now we've also shown you some of the horrible stuff that has been written and things posted and graffitied so the australian parliament passed an emerging say bill fining threats and intimidation and till the postal vote is over on november th and the far right is having a street lives matter rally well i think that's great because it just shows what they're about but this is disturbing people mental help calls  so mean well isn't that the question that hasn't changed in your party while speaking of mean in israel and ultra orthodox member of parliament has resigned his seat because he went to the same sex wedding of his nephew in two thousand and fifteen even though he told his children he's against same sex marriage but for the family and family love he went to the wedding well his fellow orthodox p for when they found out about this and so he has resigned his seat ok to quote chris cooper let's hopscotch around the rest of the world into my leader there says the margin call is going to exhibit was closed by the sponsoring santander bank after attacks from the right wing it may open in another city and also in brazil a court there okayed couldn't you don't hear too much good news from indonesia these days the new pup the policy pre court ok that will change as to gender on official documents you don't have to prove anything you just have to request it on the other hand  and the police arrested twenty suspected people of being gay they were at a conference on a charity aids and in mali big story about internet stalking of gay men to promote violence against them you know names named pictures shown on hunt for homosexuals and in russia and l g b t activists is being prosecuted for posting links to homosexual propaganda and we've told you that you know of a has been quietly accepting refugees from chechnya gay male refugees who are being persecuted that they are persecuted and beat up and and brutalized well one of them was lured by some chechens into a car and they in canada yes in canada through a dating app and you know when they told him his identity as a gay man as a disgrace to his motherland before they did release him on harm but that's got to be pretty chilling there in  belgrade serbia they held a pride parade they have held relatively peacefully in the last few years but under heavy heavy security but the out lesbian prime minister  parade took place peacefully with the heavy arts ates new hong kong has gotten on the bandwagon of the modification of gay men donating blood you can do if you haven't had sex with another will know by the end of the month whether they were able to accomplish this it is very scary so we hope if you live in areas where you have senators who are moderate to conservative to moderate republicans not crazy you can get them on this right shall we move to entertainment news well i didn't really want to watch the emmys this year they're not my favorite thing to watch i recorded it just in case something would happen but i started watching it you know half an hour in so that i could skip through the commercials and i found myself watching every minute of it because it was really well paced and they didn't have song and dance was so controversial i mean he did call him but king of wind so something i mean sean spicer it was heinous in his role as press secretary but it's not like he was making policy and he was there to make fun of one it was the story of an older black woman an older white woman having a romance and had a happy ending and everyone seems to think that was just a spectacular episode stuff on that and evidently a lot of gay stuff in the handmaid's tale which i haven't seen but evidently you know it's about an authoritarian society and some of that has to do with how gay people are treated  winning for handmaid's tale when really she should have won for top of the like to watch season two of that now i did because i don't have netflix but i do have sundance but really the big news at the emmys was was telling him just in their daily chatting about he asked her about her coming out story because she is the now lesbian in real life and so she was telling him about her conversations with her mother specifically  over a series of thanksgiving said he said that is a fantastic story we've got to make that into an episode and so they did this episode called thanksgiving of five thanksgiving these family dinners angela bassett played her mother and she won for best comedy writer they won together for best comedy writer and she is the st african american woman to win for writing a comedy series that's history yeah and she and she starred in the episode and she gave this fantastic speech and she did let's talk but st of all she's got to thank god so you know but then she said to you the things that make us different those are our superpowers every day when you walk out the door put on your imaginary cape and go out there and conquer the world because the world would not be as beautiful as it is if you were in it i wish we could have her saying this but you couldn't look it up on line well ok and then right and then she ended by saying thank you for bracing little indian born from south carolina a little queer black girl from the south side of chicago it really means she delivered it beautifully and powerfully it was a surprise to everybody it was a huge energy from her and it provoked great energy in the room it was clearly the highlight of the night when you get an award be prepared like not just your mother right it's an opportunity to speak to the nation it is all right a couple of things coming up next thursday will and grace comes back to n b c after eleven years off it started twenty years ago it ran for eight or nine years and now it's coming back now well they're not going to do any perfect but it's going to be interesting to see if they can pull this off i did not like the political thing they did last year i thought that was bad but you know the show a i mean i disagree i thought the show was hilarious he emma stone as billie jean king and steve correll as bobby riggs the one thousand nine hundred and seventy three battle of the sexes tennis match but i watched i know a couple people who've seen it and thought it was kind of it's hard for me to imagine as billie jean but i liked the trailer well i watched something that's available on h b o on demand that was made in two thousand and six billie jean king portrait of a pioneer which is really good and only an hour and you can watch it at jean and the other thing to watch out for in a couple of weeks october th on netflix and in theaters the death and life of marcia p johnson should be johnson was transgender woman who lived on the streets of new york and was a pioneer in stonewall that was still more participant pioneer we always saw marcia out there she would always say no no my and this is the newest documentary by david france who made the oscar nominated how to survive a plague and we have the trailer of the death and life but more because marcia died under mysterious circumstances that have not been resolved so the movie is really about