and the home i man northrop and in the news this week the president of the united states had the nerve to tweet about l g b t pride while assaulting l g b t rights at the same time even defending his ban on trans troops with ally i consider this the new definition of chutzpah details to come meanwhile a bishop in rhode island tells catholics not to attend pri marches non gay cop has won a lawsuit for and time again harassment and the rd murder of an african american trans woman in dallas this year and another trans detaine building for the queer liberation march i'm now walking billboard on june th to mark the th anniversary of the stonewall rebellion tell us how the momentum is building an amazing everywhere we go we you know we talk to people about the queer liberation march and people say i know about it i'm coming up told my friends i'm coming from out of town i am going to be able to handle all these people yes we are we absolutely are going to do we're going to lead in the village at stonewall place like nine o'clock in the morning yeah i'm trying to kickoff by nine hundred and thirty and go up a little hook and then we're going to go up six that avenue all the way to central park just like the original christopher street liberation marchers in  you hardly even name me here it's all over your shirt it ends the police do not want to create some kind of gridlock with the heritage of pride march parade so well they are coming down th and do it now a little horseshoe pattern in front of the stone wall and back up th we are going to start earlier so that we can clear out of the way we're going to get to move and march no this is very serious y the group sends out e mails all the time why we march and of course if you watch this show you know why we march because the horrible things still happening in the united states in new york all over the world we need to march about yes and i had a new thought this week it's not a new thought but i sort of articulated it better to myself because i was thinking about the original marches and all the marches we've done over the years and the marches on washington that we've done on seventy n together to talk about these issues but to meet each other to have a sense of community which has been totally destroyed by the heart heritage of pride parade they don't even have their roundly connected as the drag march is coming across ten on that will be an interesting collision but heard by the years around it here's my point the heritage of pride parade and many parades all over the country and all over the world having become these corporate extravaganzas no longer allow busy six or invite individuals into the streets to march we're supposed to stand on the sidelines as spectators of the most thrilling more job or have is the st time you decide to get off the sidelines and jump into the march i think every one of them is thrilling because they are community events because there are individuals coming together in community to to participate in something together and what those marches did and what the marches on washington particularly did was whether you listen to the rally message or not what you knew was that there was a huge community out there who i cared about these issues cared about you cared about the community and people went home to their local communities and started a revolution i mean i'm from new york and you know we had a very vibrant movement nine hundred and seventy nine but to go to washington and see all these people from alaska and everywhere else just looking at it and of course that makes you feel encouraged that what you're doing is catching on or wellness or empowering and the corporate parades are not empowering they're disempowering so the importance of the queer liberation march and other more grassroots events like i was in maplewood new jersey this weekend at their little local pride parade these are empowering events and that's why they're so crucial because that is how the movement is going to grow and thrive well we're going to talk about as a guitar about it now as long as we're talking about pride there's that little girl in a side of chicago who organized the march in the suburbs and she's now going to be that one of the grand marshals of the chicago pride march well i hope that's not a corporate extravaganza that is going to disempower her but it is i was trying to think about why i was so compelled to get involved in organizing this a year ago and the answer is finally articulated to me that it is an event that empowers us and that's why i think it's so important for people to show up to have that experience and to reinforce everyone else so that when we leave there we go on to do the work that needs to be done with joy with anger all of it and you will meet people from all over the the st time and i've been to for forty five of these in new york straight so to speak this is the one of the st ones i'm looking forward to in a long time so to get details about this go to reclaim pride  if that's too early for you got to bryant park will pick you up at eleven we will now be accommodations for people with disabilities somebody have out that yes check it out on line and just let us know we have an accessibility committee and again especially in the that you know they're denying having anything to do with putting in the citizenship question into the census to suppress the latino vote etc and severe restrictions across the country look the only way look we already have a bad system in america in terms of governance it's not one person one vote but i mean the when they use it to they just try to hold on to power through gerrymandering and all that it's horrible and they're shameless about it now you know shameless absolutely shameless well speaking of shameless your president and mine tweeted this last week that he was celebrating pride month it was really grotesque yes thank you  of what's the latest with the state department is creating a commission on an inalienable rights that is all about empowering religious right bigots to discriminate and they want to redefine human rights not as the way the un does but is based on not sure law and natural rights what if you get that from the vatican they are there so they're doing this and the head of it is going to be this right wing princeton professor robert george yeah who is setting it up he's a co founder of the national organization for marriage which is an anti and you know that these are the kind of monsters and look this is what they know they're also cutting travel to cuba for god's sakes and that's just going to hurt the cuban people and i they think it's going to help them win florida i don't think so and then this whole tariff thing which is just going to take money out of your pockets drain because they're canceling these contretemps ambassador to china terry branstad is going to have to come home one day this month to face a trial for under for using his power to pressure an official to quit because he was gay he's going to have to testify at this trial there was a gay guy who was on the iowa workman's compensation board and he was supposed to have a six year term and he was pressured to get out by the governor but three cheers to beatty employees in various government departments and agencies they they are going to have on their own with pride celebrations at their not apartments they're not letting trump's example lead them and the secretaries of these departments and agencies may not show up for these celebrations as they used to in previous administrations but the employees are going to go ahead and do it so state department and defense department justice all these places then piers morgan of all people over there in england  press trump in an interview about a bunch of issues i thought he was actually pretty hard hitting on some things although i don't like him even though he won the apprentice well so they're all buddies you throwing trans people out of the military he says although they they take massive amounts of drugs and nobody's allowed to take drugs in the military and then he said the robber all their operations cost two hundred and fifty thousand dollars but you know i'm proud of them one priority but then i read he supports the hyde amendment which forbids any federal funds for poor women to get abortions i'm very uncomfortable when people say we are the civil rights movement of the time or anyone's number one priority have you seen how many black men are still being shown by cops of course well we don't want to get us but we just want you to be for everybody i did like the charles blow column he's the out bisexual columnist for the new up dead after spending time in ice custody giovanna medina yes refugee from el salvador five years old from h i v complications and she's a nurse and she said doing everything it can to support right wing religious bigots and one of the things it did was give south carolina a waiver from nondiscrimination rules that in there are adoption and foster denied the ability to apply for a foster care child from a religiously based agency in the state i guess that's in philadelphia you know the city has won the right to not give government bowl ten packs and the attorney general is suing the city of san antonio for denying the lease to chick fil a at the airport which is you know he's of he's very good he said it violates their religious freedom to sell fried chicken  won catholics not to quote support or attempt q you've got that most of that right pride month in quotation marks events held in june saying they promote a culture and encourage activities that are contrary to catholic faith and and and and a catholic pastor in the in the town there said i beg you to cat you gays to stay well you're not performing marriages for them are you but he begged them to stay and they had a big demonstration yeah and a big picture of the d banner of welcomes and then finally the bishop said oh i understand why people took offense but i got along support on facebook and that and there were a lot of people who wrote to him and said he was doing the right thing you know you have always said that you  like it when they're overtly sticking to their rules as that may bring them down faster yes yes there was one sign of the demonstration that said queens outr out rank bishops and then the u s bishops expressed grave disappointment at the equality act being passed by the house i think they call the definitions of sex and gender identity in the law and the bill unsound oh you know better they said they would have to close their childcare centers they always say this last one i would like were a danger to children of some sort and they praise trumps assault on transgender rights that h h s allowing denial of health care is this your god speaking because i think you're worshipping  we'll get off the catholics and move to the lutheran this hey so now worth was the valedictorian of his high school the highest performing kid at the school various so he was supposed to give the graduation speech as is what happens at high school graduations but the school got a hold of the draft of his speech in which he talked about coming to terms with being gay said i have trekked through the depths of depression and found that god's love is and months and embrace the fact that i'm gay absolutely no one should have to go through what i've gone through but only to come to the conclusion that homosexuality is not a sin unfortunately too many people still do have to go through that track while they did their ministry has denied it stopping them had nothing to do with the sexuality oh i didn't have to do it we tribes have already legalized same sex marriage within their tribal laws and you know the tribes have some independence from u s law so they do have to make their own decisions about this yes because even though it were forced onto baron lands they have some autonomy or should have bob my favorite proud of and here's my nominee for pride event of the year newark airport at newark airport on june th at ten am united airlines is sponsoring a drag brunch with a  hall drag race contestant kennedy davenport terminal c at the global bizarre they're raising funds for the trevor project and you can go to a drag brunch at newark airport on june th well by the way the trevor project seems to be the beneficiary of ninety percent of the profit events every press project not controversial exactly i hope the united will fly in the drag queens from ohio where two public libraries canceled l g b do the vents after public backlash in delaware county and new newark  they were doing an ohio in ohio drag performers and and one of them was going to be a drag makeup editorial but some politician objected and they caved all right well let us also congratulate kenneth hey go yes now where is ken at the zoo new jersey to use a cop and seagirt new jersey this is the new jersey portion of our program yes i cannot take all is a heterosexual man but he  you think were one of gotten out that this kind of behavior costs a lot of money in new jersey where they have the law on their side especially those still going after chelsea manning who i just want to as long as we were in new jersey before we get to chelsea so i was invited to give the keynote speech at the maplewood south orange what was your message pride parade on the last weekend that there is joy to be found in activism sure that it's not graham thing that people are you know should feel they have to do that in fact you meet the greatest people you have a great time you feel great about what you're doing and there are a lot of young people there and they went around in introduce themselves just by name and said i'm a freshman at the local high school i'm a junior and this is who i am i am bisexual i'm trans b and whatever and it was just the most for a fresh sheen little local event and i had a great time thank you to maplewood south orange shirt and it felt so much more real and important already charged him with you know sons with eighteen counts under the espionage act so you know but they're saying no we want more evidence from you yeah and we're not going to we're going to keep you in prison and fine you until you break but yeah yeah another murder of a black trans woman this is the th in the in this country this year the rd we know i'm down was alone shy now lindsay twenty six years old it was a violent homicide the body was found at white rock lake the police say they have no evidence linking these three but they're now looking into it since they have all how well and so close together certainly the mayor the police chief i mean they're all over it but you know i mean look this stuff is going to keep happening if you keep marginalizing transgender people and forcing them into sex work and drug selling i'm not saying object to jail is a home health care worker and i know i'm just saying you know but you know all right  so in clayton georgia i hate group called the rural american a private committee which is a group l g b t q plus people were holding a meeting and they booked rooms at the best value in in clayton georgia and nancy there thought oh they have pride in being rural and fine and then and she found out what it was and she said we do not support or sponsor i saw it has a happy ending yeah not so from the mayor of carbon hill about mark chambers he recommended killing gay people in a deleted facebook post we live in a society where homosexuals lecture us on morals transvestites lecture lured on line brutalized and robbed gay men ok but it was never arrested them new york city is opening up an office for the prevention of hate crimes which are up sixty four percent from last year sixty percent of the increase they say is semitic crimes they say they're going to use law enforcement turns public education community safety models diversion program they couldn't even stop people from burning pride flag outside a gay bar in harlem but they won't be able to burn these statues the mayor de blasio and his wife charlayne mcrae they're on this they have this commission to get more statues for women and others who have been excluded over the years and they are they announced that they're going to be statues we have pictures of these of our activists marsha page johnson and sylvia rivera that those were the pictures that were put up of them at the ceremony of the l g b t community thought this was more fun and now it's not i want to see the writing but i mean i sat through this whole i have to say i came to this like statues so how about doing something for drugs gender people but but people i was very moved by it and certainly transgender folks were very chuffed about this and i thought that the mayor's wife sharon lane mccrae who was a lesbian activist in her youth was very very articulate about the need for all this so here's shoreline mccrae the wife of mayor but they were great activists and then when they were on the streets long before stonewall they cracked and practically lived on the streets i mean sylvia was only get two years older than i am and died of aids some years ago but was out on the street since she was ten years old  having to engage in sex work so that they lead very rough lives and their being on it and there was a there was a lot of acknowledgment of that in this ceremony by the transgender speakers especially and we heard from angelica  ross one of the big stars of poza let's hear what she had to say is our house have to sell themselves and their own time in order under nonprofits in your advocacy work because we're competing with our system for funding resulting in situations where it is a less b and  has actually the most believable story of having started the stonewall rebellion by punching a cop and yelling that everyone should join in is not given more  notice in all this they were all heroes they all thought for years but i'd like to see a little more attention to her to ok well jared polis the governor of colorado was given more us more attention he signed two bills a ban on conversion therapy for minors and created a system of hassle free document changes for trans people and the governor of maine janet mills says signs and signed a bill for no conversion therapy for minors two i'm actually impressed by how that whole movement has advanced pretty quickly in more good news in alabama the st methodist church and we've heard about the problems in the methodist church but they're going to air the gay wedding episode there of arthur the kids show  hand in tennessee in coffee county d a craig north caught said that those convicted of domestic abuse in same sex relationships should not face the same penalties as they don't really have marriages i don't recognize them  said and last year he said non christians have no constitutional rights i mean this person is still in office and he is the attorney general right he's a d a district attorney even better in iowa  the state has passed a law that's about to take a fact that allows refusal of one health care to trans people the a c l u is now suing to block that from going in iowa folks i mean i know voted democrat and a number of presidential elections of the last two decades i believe you but they have a very conservative streak in her eye all right the human rights campaign came out for the d c legislation decriminalizing sex work consensual sex work of course all right and you tube is going to remove hate videos any any alleging that any alleging that a group is superior in order to justify discrimination segregation or exclusion and they just refuse to remove videos of crowder yeah who has a right wing crazies got four million subscribers yes and he got he trolls this gay guy by calling him all sorts of names old the owner of it has been making deeply anti semitic posts on social media against you know really really horrible stuff against jews and there's going to be a rally on june st outside the site of the bar all right a couple of small a strange good news stories in kansas a local weather man who is gay and who is also a tornado chaser decided to propose to his boyfriend in front of a tornado outside here's the picture and there is the proposal there is the tornado bearing six down on rod area me that is quite a picture  for you and then in d c the local n b c station has an anchor name megan fitzgerald and she chose this pride month to not only come out on the air but to announce that she is engaged to her girlfriend kelly who is who is a former basketball player and medical device sales woman and then we're going to put this in our show no because i'm not sure we have the right to want to know in our state attorney general james leticia james came out in a party article in the new york times some hamptons party and she says and she was asked by the times and who was her posse for this beach weekend and she said i'm got a girl posse i've got a gay posse i've got a black posse all in my body did you just come out to show i mean we've been adding you on this show for y just report the news about her to the news well i mean the new york times failed to report the news about their the woman who was their sports editor for a while the only time they've had a woman leading the sports department l shriver who just died of lung cancer and she you know no immediate survivors no mention of her being a lesbian she was at my house for the ellen coming out party when i didn't know she was there and when she was extreme anti abortion ban and to governor mike parson who signed it this is why corporate sponsorship of these parades is problematic because they're actually pink washing themselves by being in these parades because a lot of the stuff they do not in the parades is not so estimated this guy is not doing it because he's opposes abortion he's done does it because he he supports charter schools which is a big right wing cause well and many of them do it just so they'll get legislat pen out ok with international news you have to in canada prime minister trudeau as a policy mandating that groups that apply for youth employment grants for the summer you know employment things support abortion rights reproductive rights and also have to support all g b t rights he also from bits anti abortion candidates from running from his liberal party for office nice will that ever happen here who know well they're having a contract agencies who election support to support insurgent candidates live or they'll stop using them it's terrible we've told you a lot of the last few weeks about taiwan legalizing same sex marriage but one part of that is that if you  taiwanese and you want to marry someone who is not taiwanese your marriage can only be legal if the person you marry comes from a country where same sex marriage is legal well where it is not legal is in mainland china but in fact what they are now doing because so many taiwanese people have relationships with people from mainland china as they're going to make an exception they're going to have a partnership scheme that allows taiwanese to have a legal partnership with people from mainland china and this is seen as a step towards fully legalize ancona a court there declared the ban on gay male sex unconstitutional the yeah that was pretty amazing and also amazing a court in switzerland has told carter some menu caster semenya this that she does not have to abide by the new rule about testosterone diminution treatment  thousand seven hundred people in poverty and i say that right south of milan there has been a quota lawyer for twenty years he's left leaning and he's appeared on two a t v show called love me gender a dating show for trance people interested in we don't have one here person he knows told that his archrival is gay based on how he moves and he says when he met his wife he became a man again and all seems entirely is that he's a hero show he is elton love and they hired to highlight it about twenty l g b de groups fighting for justice this is very own royle so she doesn't seem very messy to me not at all not at all no i don't know what trump was thinking well given what he does i'm sure he has and the for this he is like under house arrest basically hearing a lot you know and and and by the way they're reminding us even though they dropped the death then that didn't drop the death penalty but they said they're not going to do it lesbians still face forty lashes  doing what they do all right aids news and medical news i was happy to see the university of california at san francisco has decided not to affiliate with the catholic health system that they were considering please because specifically the catholic hospital rules about reproductive freedom trans health care and u c s f said no we can't do it but they were considering it for a long time and it was only because they were a lot of protests and petitions that said don't you dare we have we have no catholic hospitals left in new york city used to have a ton in california thanks to let lambda legal defense a court ruled for n h every positive man it was denied a haircut and l a l a barber shop so not only did they win this case but they've started a nationwide program called cut the stigma for people from before especially for african american barbershops where they want to do some education it needs to be done everywhere i look i'm thrilled that he pursued this he could easily have just decided this was not a big deal his name was nicko brighter ramos and he got seventy going to run out in the near future and so now they're touting this other drug but you know this is all scheduling by the drug companies to get the most profits know while you were all watching scandals and royal coverage and all that stuff the republicans in the u s senate voted to cut medicare and medicaid in half now i hope in reconciliation with the house democrats that that will come out but that's what they want to do to you folks they want to cut medicaid and medicare in half we're not happy about this no and yes circuses to distract us from this all right entertainment news have you got a pen and a piece of paper because we're going to tell you some things come you know do it and on paper all right on this friday for those of you seen it before this there is a chelsea manning documentary on showtime it be available after that i'm sure in on demand x y chelsea there's so much stuff on public television i saw the list and w one hundred and eighty in new york that you should go to their web sites of your local public television station they're doing a lot of pride month uprising which is the great documentary about that based on david carter's book yeah we go i also was broke sort of my attention by a long time viewer and andrew tains white in the water it's a documentary  about hollywood the hollywood gay swim team make it's been making the rounds of the film festivals and we're going to we're going to show you the trailer now i think you have that yes we do and i remember going to the blocks and the guys next to say that's the fag and i turned to the relay and i said we're going to crush them we started in response to a certain amount of homophobia and the empowerment that comes from athletics and especially gay men not being seen as athletes back in one thousand nine hundred and two and the whole idea back then is if you were gay you  very feminine and you didn't like to do sports so this changed the norm i mean no one could imagine there were athletes that were gay by going to these straight one point in time there was a funeral i believe they thought if you were gay you probably had eight and if you had age you were going to infect everybody we couldn't even get a swimming pool people were afraid that if you swam in the pool that you could get it when they found out it was a gay teen and they started breaking in to our cars at the gay games in new york they put so much chlorine in the water that was actually painful swimming helped because in a way it was a distraction it was you knew you could swim if you could swim you could live or at least you were alive for that moment there's always a group from every generation that sticks it is solid that way and the teams here has a purpose for different reasons for different people so i'm looking forward to watching this because i can watch it online logo online if you subscribe to any one of the i guess the big cable systems then you just click in there and you can watch logo online and i'm going to watch the film there yeah it's also at film exhibit at how all at six east st street from june five to fifteen it's called mourn the dead fight for the living i'm going to be going down there for that and i'll put that in our e mail along with a lot of these other things if you well you know the the attitude a lot of them take is oh come on we need a party we need a celebration once a year you know you know your tunes you know your vote we don't want those activist up remember in the movie pride where this was in the early eighty's where the activist were helping the coal miners were told no no no no you're in the back you know we want to find up front we have to we're just we are hurting with aids and everything and we want to celebrate and then all those coal miners showed up and they put everybody in the front well and it's not like we're going to not going to be celebrating in the choir liberation my i haven't hit e mails every day from the radical fairies who are creating a incredible art projects to carry in this march and rally you know i know some of them we have we booked about a dozen and we have more to go five but it's going to be brief it's going to be a very tight rally for two or three hours that's it well the whole thing will be done by liberation front they've been made grand marshals of the heritage of pride parade but half of them are jumping ship and coming over to us because we embody their values so you hope to see you there yeah so we'll be there on june on gay usa next week and we will see you then thank you