we have allergies but i've taken some medicine so i hope i don't fall asleep during the show because we have a lot of news and in the l g b t q headlines president trump's department of housing and urban development wants to let homeless shelters discriminate against transgender people one might almost think they are encouraging them to discriminate as the health and human services department is encouraging health to discriminate by allowing that to happen in health care edge and cities all over the country are already challenging that in court yeah the supreme court however has rejected a challenge to a pennsylvania school district's accommodation of trend students shocking and a republican county commissioner in utah has come out and age forty we mourn the loss of baby jane dexter and this one took us by surprise this weekend a new discovery found the st well the st documented at this point gay activist in the united states who started his work in and six before we were born farrelly the world health organization has dropped gender identity disorder from its list of illnesses and we had a big court win in brazil calendars i love this movie i can't wait to tell you more about it and the amazing race on c b s showed a little clueless homophobia this week i'll tell you about that and i don't think we can start this week without talking what a horrendous week it has been for the republic we've just listened to muller talk about potential crimes that congress should investigate but even before that i made a list of the alarming things that have happened in this country i'm most alarmed about trump telling the attorney general to go ahead and investigate his political enemies and you know you have free reign on that at the cia and the f b i and to try them for treason ramping up of the dismantling of climate science siding with kim jong il and over our allies bringing charges against julian a songe that imperil press freedoms ramping up the war with a rare plans to par rebuttals in the armed services i mean it's true it's all day after day right it's terrible and that is why we should not hesitate about impeachment we cannot afford one extra day of the guy in this administration i thought when he got elected it was going to happen right away like on day two of the administration like surely we cannot live with the mistake the voters are made yeah well that would have been nice we could have maybe save some time and some agony but it just gets worse have dogs and it's getting worse specifically for our communities where so we start with have to be housed in urban development department and is promulgating new rules to say homeless shelters can and twelve that now this will permit discrimination in single sex or sex segregated facilities such as bathrooms or sleeping quarters where the transgender people supposed to go doris and then there's the denial of care rule from the department of health and human services which basically says if you've got a religious objection to something and not just people but you don't like jews you know for some reason or mormons or whatever and married mothers whatever you can discriminate and now this again is you know canceling nondiscrimination rules that were put into effect by the obama administration and just gratuitously and have to do this is just extra work piled on by the for a two of us cruelty i evidently become fond of that phrase this piled on by the cruelty of the trumpet administration and it just puts us to work having to defend against these blow is one after another after another and a trump ramped up again making it easier for adoption agencies to discriminate as well although we just won a case in new york in federal court where an adoption agency didn't want to comply with new york law that says if you get state money you can't discriminate when you're doing stuff so the alliance defending freedom lost that case are looking at appealing it for those wondering why it is that the alliance defending freedom keeps bringing these cases when they lose them all one after another the answer is they're good fund raisers for them as long as they keep going to court to make these claims people keep donating to them so it's a full employment program for them and they just are relentless and shameless and they think that one of these days they're going to win the abortion that's just what i was going to say as well these republicans passing all these anti abortion laws across the country hoping whether or not they think they'll succeed at the supreme court we should talk about the case that the court decided this week or not decided but well this is the indiana case and they said say the supreme court is very aware of politics and they do not want to come down with an anti abortion ruling before the election because they know that that will get in the way of trump being reelected women so if they wait until after the auntie networks build this is to guide women to abortion across the country when the states now we're learning that the only abortion clinic in missouri is closely well luckily abortion by chemicals by pills  a lot more common than it was in the old days but it still is not the answer to everything our friend judge carlton reeves federal judge in mississippi an african american obama appointee struck down the heartbeat law there in two thousand and eighteen he struck down t fifteen week abortion ban in this one is about six weeks right now he said your new law is in open defiance of the court yes it is and that is exactly what they have in mind open defiance so that they can force this up to the court again but with a different court than decided right the way this court the supreme court did decline to hear the challenge to the borders town area school district which had accommodated trend students and again was challenged by alliance defending freedom and the court this was two that they were appearing on behalf of kids who said i don't want to be in locker rooms with you know summer i know was born the other way or whatever because the school district made accommodations and said any student wants privacy can have a private fine with it and then the right wing came in and challenged and the parents challenged it and this was a shocker actually that the supreme court would refuse to hear that that win for us at a lower level thanks to the a c l u who defended this all the way well absolutely thanks to the a c l u but thanks to the whatever justices refused to take the case that was stunning but one judge on the supreme court did come out with a quite a rant this way lax of the abortion cases yeah we skipped past that too fast yes in the midst of this indiana case and  abortion which we have to get rid of we also have to get rid of contraception because contraception is a plot for racial eugenics it is a plot to destroy the black race any body who it is it's unbelievable got a lot of anger meanwhile of course the trump reelection campaign is issuing l g b t for trump t shirts up to three x l just pause in size to let that sink in and said all of this we've just mentioned which of course is a tiny bit of what he's done to us l g b t for trump too much or he's not completely politically stupid he did get elected president and he is urging rory more not to run for the united states senate from alabama well over here it's him not to run for senate too and then changed his mind when he got nominated and went down a campaign about how you doesn't want to run in the primary i understand and i'm saying we've been through this dance before chris kodak do a big anti immigrant job and then he was too horrible for them so then they brought out cuccinelli and then they decided he was so horrible they were going to demote him down to a lower job which i guess this is that's what this is yeah you still won't testify but now they're really putting the heat on they're going to find her five hundred dollars a day after thirty days i had to thirty days and then it kicks up to one thousand dollars a day after sixty days it could add up to five hundred thousand dollars in penalties these are only usually assessed against corporations not people yes and the total indicates the length of the term of the current grand jury the new killed hundreds of people is investigating san antonio's airport for excluding chick fil a and i believe that this was that by the way the only bill bad bill that bill that they passed in texas  the worst in texas and the house resisted nineteen of the twenty bad bills down there i think that's great and the fact that they feel a need to protect chick fil a is that i'm tired of hearing the announcers golf tournaments say oh i just have to go get a chick fil a they're so delicious god maybe will be bailed out by getting rid of the electoral college maine voted to give its electoral votes to the winner of the national popular vote th state to do so we need to seventy votes we smith endorsed for the state senate he's a unitarian minister by the victory fund the primaries august th the and then he'd have to stand election in november be the st out bt official in the state other states never to have elected an out state legislature late or never alaska delaware louisiana and tennessee lascaux delaware wheezy and tennessee i'm surprised delaware has not yet and there are some that had them and don't have them now but that's that's never is that list right well for possibly a brighter light keep your eyes on columbus ohio this saturday h r c is having its annual dinner in there new out people to run for the new york city council so we're interested in that there are people out there who want to help you learn how to run how to raise money how to get votes there we could go from five to none on the new york city council is very likely don't have any problems here in new york the police said the there was a record eighty three percent rise in hate crimes in the in the st few months of two thousand and nineteen over the previous  terrible and in fact we had a nice big demo this week in new york rally called keep your hands off our trans bodies and knowledge in the recent murder is black trans women specifically including the famous one in dallas now that actually got national news coverage i was shocked by the dallas hundreds turned out for the funeral of malaysia booker twenty three years old the trans woman who was killed the one who had survived a previous attack in april by a bunch of thugs this was held in the cathedral of hope and the trends group down there is working with the there it was quite moving it was a good sized rally were under assault in new jersey a charter school a public school was ordered to cover up a mural of a rainbow heart and then a key fairing like mural that we have a picture of they just this is new to us had been assigned to do artwork that copied our mimicked a famous artist so the building was leased from a catholic church and the past said that the key pairing style mural was obscene and he has no idea he hasn't been to the to the one of the gay community center if you want but that's that's a little out there yes but new jersey schools are required to teach about l g b t q history so i don't know how they're handling all that they just passed that so i think i don't know if it's in effect yet they this catholic church which owns the school building also forced the school psychologist to take down a pro l g b t q poster that katy perry like art was made by a sixteen year old girl who was devastated at what happened but what's shocking to me is and we've talked about this years ago catholic schools are often sold but with a covenant and the covenant is that whoever buys that property has to continue to adhere to capital done for it no matter what they're doing with that property they've sold the property it no longer belongs to them but somehow they are allowed to pose this when they go and when they turned church in chelsea into a night club you know big i'm like a lime light even bishop more of a closeted gay man who was supportive of gay rights was so appalled by some of the stuff that was going on there he came in and do sanctified to speak out they feel when they turn it into a mall go after money changers in the temple well i of course was always amused by the restaurant across the street from our building that had such a terrible row reputation and he couldn't do business i think every time they put a new restaurant in there were nothing nobody and they brought in a priest a rabbi and a  neighborhood well all right good news from the international bistro leather contest for the nd time it has gone to a trans man jack thompson he is also out about being a positive movie is also well also in california presumably across the nation starbucks is celebrating pride month with a rainbow colored cup but i'm not going to show you that cup because of what is going on a don't know he's still running for president by the way speaking of presidents there's a new book out that says harry reid had to put the screws to obama in two thousand and eleven the get don't ask don't tell repeal to be a priority he said that obama didn't want to do it he said you want your nuclear arms treaty you got to do this for slow obama thought it was a loser and he didn't want to lose his arms treaty and harry reid said yeah don't ask don't tell is harder that's why we're going to do it st and then you'll get your arms treaty and that worked out and he was a mormon too wow speaking of mormon politicians thank you for that segue in utah republican county commissioner nathan ivey came out at age forty just kind of struck me they were unashamed now he is a mormon and he said they were happy he said he's had attractions since the age of nine but felt it was wrong and right to kill himself he yes when he was twenty two but he  sticking with his church and his republican party for the moment he did last year take the step when the th of july parade in provo which is in utah county i think but he criticized them and they let the  groups in as a result of his criticism he's been married to a woman in their dissolving it lives in a small ranching community still friends with the wife and speaking of those marriages let's go to alabama where the legislature is voting to end the requirement for marriage licenses now st i thought they were just getting rid of all marriage licenses but i think what they're doing is giving local option to probate judge is which is people to judge you know he met his husband chasse than the one he inch and that seems to be responsible for a thirty percent increase in profiles on the site in the last two months pete said it is the site is not a side an undated with hookup yes a lot of straight couples meet online too well but if you go online to history dot org you can find the story of the week which is this discovery by jonathan katz who newspaper i think well this was nineteen no six when he and seven when he was speaking up for gay people in new orleans he was a german immigrant and he had been inspired by the work of magnus hirs in germany and the society in the scientific humanitarian committee and he didn't get terribly far i think you know who they shot they shot him down but you know and they but but he was apparently ga himself and he was sticking up for gay people back then they voted they voted down there to find him guilty of sin and fired him and he was also fired from the ministry of a prominent new york church probably for the same stuff but he was relentless out history dot org i'm sorry i forgot to give the control room that kyron but out history dot org is where you can find that and many many other fascinating story call schlegel one of course you know who the german movement  was but then was shut down by the nazis was a burned their books all right international news in israel and orthodox rabbi has ordained a gay shiva student well speaking of laws for the country and also religion in australia the newly elected prime minister scott morrison yes is prioritizing a religious freedom bill you know they have a way with like discrimination somehow in their eyes they're the same thing we told you about the breakthrough in taiwan of same sex marriage well listen past friday hundreds of same sex couples married on the st day that was legal we have pictures of some of them this is a famous writer taiwanese writer named chen who's sherie married her partner and then a guy named shane lin married his partner today i can tell i can openly tell everyone in front of so many people that we are getting married that we are gay i mean this is this is the way people are coming out embracing their rights five hundred and twenty six same sex couples registered to marry on the  st day of legal marriage in taiwan and meanwhile in china in mainland china whatever we're calling it these days hong kong activists are demonstrating for marriage but china the government is saying no marriage for same sex couples means marriage would no longer be special that's in the hong kong yes now it turns out though that of course pre colonial days busy china had a whole history of same sex relationships being recognized in illegal so a lot of this is about the british colonial area era and now us imperialist dick evangelists who are going around the world to destroy any respect for gay people well down trees everywhere we overcame it in taiwan and maybe in singapore the grandson of singapore's founding father who was hugh has married his male partner but in south africa where it's legal and because it's not legal in singapore more about that and the young man's father who is the son of the founder said i believe my father would have been thrilled to know about this and sex between men there is still a legal leader who was the founder questioned that in an interview before he died now we're burying the real leads which are the court cases in brazil and kenya yeah the good news is from brazil where the supreme federal tribunals has outlawed homophobia and transphobia it's interesting how they do it they have eleven justices six  with rules to fold homophobia and transphobia into the rules against racial racism was made a crime in nine hundred and eighty nine dollars with up to a five year penalty now this is all in the in the that goes both america is the stumbling block meanwhile and not so good a three judge high court rejected decriminalization of sodomy same sex relations and they said it's the same for everybody it doesn't discriminate what are you talking about how could they write a twenty page decision and say this well it does it really you know sodomy laws in the united states some apply to all people and some apply just to same sex role and they're very clear in the decision that marriage is between a man and a woman and that's part of the reason they did this yes so same sex couples or anyone practicing now homosexual relations still faces fourteen years in jail with this decision the court said that even though we have a constitution that guarantees equal rights and freedom and all of that this law criminalizing sodomy is not  constitutional because it is against traditional moral values to be gay activists will go to the court of appeal to try to fight this the un human rights chief michel the former president of chile calls this says it encourages violence against people to skip over this we did we did skip over honduras we're three hundred and fifty marched on idaho bit you know the international inter inter american court human rights so amazing to see that meanwhile in spain the rightwing vox party won ten percent of the vote in the recent national elections that's not good news  macedonia is going to hold its st pride parade on june th they say that it's a form of protest for affirmation support and protection of human rights which is exactly what marches like this should be and is why we're doing the where liberation march in new york on june th at nine thirty in the morning in style at stonewall place in the village we're marching up six the avenue to central park for join us anywhere along the way because like the heritage of pride parade which now excludes individuals stepping off the sidewalk into the parade everyone can join us and we hope they do we do but i'm very moved by these marches in honduras and north macedonia that's where people are really taking a chance and really opening themselves well you've obviously you had a situation in the united kingdom in birmingham where there were muslim parents protesting against the what they felt with the imposition of the lessons in school so there were a lot of big protests and spread in around the country but in birmingham l g b to muslims for the st time led the pride march in response to center they are a museum with everything oh my goodness how do you know there are plenty of war criminals with their names on building well over the world and chechnya a gay man who was tortured by the cops and is appealing to the european court of human rights saying that russia did not adequately investigate his case what do you think about this thing that popped up this week about russia a new poll shows support for equal rights for gay people at forty seven percent you have a funny way of showing it over event the u s doesn't do that that's going to say well they well any minute now in hungary the office of the mayor budapest was fined by the equal treatment authority for blocking l g b t websites ireland voted eighty two percent to legalize brought liberalize divorce and the irish prime minister is going to meet with trump but not of his damn golf course that's going to be at the airport right now he's going to our issues meanwhile the world health organization has canceled its gender identity disorder as a diagnosis and now some of this has been controversial because in some places trans people have wanted that diagnosis because it's the only way they could get insurance reimbursement for surgery or hormones or whatever but the more enlightened position is not to require such a disorder diagnosis to get that kind of talent so the world health organization says you should now be recognizing gender in congress who wins instead of labeling it a disorder that is a big deal because the world health organization sets the tone for people around the world it represents one hundred i'm tired of i'm just tired of hearing them all complain about it not do anything about they're the ones responsible if they're getting the money if you don't larry kramer broke tony found you and said release truvada and he said get real i don't have that power well you could be speaking up finally did a big article on the front page of the science times about the way research on h i v has over most women for ever and what they do really it's about thirty years out of date us but and they didn't mention act up in the caucus they are there finally highlighting it but you know obviously a few medications are tested on women even though women are now more and they don't have a but the barriers include restrictions on giving drugs to women of reproductive age well all right pakistan by the way had a big outbreak of h i v in a in a town called larcom four hundred and ninety four kids one hundred and thirteen adults and some quack doctor has been using dirty needles on them he's in prison this story never changes unless we sit here bringing it to you all right entertainment news sure well i want to bring you the amazing race update so they travel around the world have these couples who are all racing against each other and one is two gay men who are a couple who are racing and they win this leg of the race in uganda now st of all the fact that they're going to uganda at the beginning of the show they say we have to go to  uganda really are we going to be safe there this is terrible we we don't want to go to uganda but they say alright alright alright we'll just we'll buck up we will do it we'll go to uganda and they have the competition there and they win that leg of the and for being team number one you and zero expense paid trip to singapore out of the frying pan into the fire oh my god where homosexuality illegal well it was illegal here in thirteen states until twenty thousand the amazing race is that is going to uganda and then sending people to singapore thank you very much you know let's talk about the thing we're most starting with eisenhower in government but spreading throughout the land where everybody started to turn each other and so we're going to show you the trailer for the lavender scare which is coming to theaters right now mandriva lavenders we have your friend in the next room  to identify move all suspected gay men and lesbians from i was called to be f b i office they wouldn't allow me to representation i was scared they wouldn't reveal the evidence they said we have information you are homosexuals have any comment and they would threaten and women who were forced out of government yes and frank hammond he was is one of the features one of the central characters in this because he fought it as a whole right up to the supreme court and was before a congressional committee i had the honor of having him as a speaker at the university  over the world so we're going to show you in a nd the interview with the director josh howard but this movie the lavender scare is going to play in new york and l a starting june th at cinema village in new york for a week must see the lapierre scare it is stunning this is our history and this is a little interview that josh howard the director did talking about making this story i came across the book eleven to scare completely by accident and i was stunned as i was reading it i thought i had a pretty good understanding of america in the one thousand nine hundred and fifty s the cold war the mccarthy era the red scare as it was known but what was remarkable to me was reading the story of the eleven to scare and finding out there was a whole aspect of this time period that i knew nothing about well one of the st things president eisenhower did when he took office in one thousand nine hundred and fifty three was sign an executive order officially prohibiting gays and lesbians from working for the federal government the rationale was you're in the closet you're leading a hidden life you're susceptible to blackmail this began an effort by the federal government to try to identify and fire any employee it believed was i don't know if you want them to say i don't care how much they scream and squeal if anyone wants to come in and remove them some day and you fashion they're welcome to it but in the absence of that lumberjack tactics are the only carrying tactics that crowd understands and take my word forward those are the kind of tactics we're going to use on as long as there is one of them in danger in the life more than ten thousand federal employees lost their jobs question the most widespread and longest lasting witchhunt in american history and it was just amazing to me that such a important part of our history had been completely overlooked this story is a classic tale of both tragedy and triumph tragedy because thousands of lives were ruined during the one thousand nine hundred and fifty s and sixty's by this policy the u s government but there was triumph too because that heartache ignited a sense of outrage in the gay community that really helped spark the early days of the gay rights movement and i really think that's an important reason to make this film to understand the struggles and sacrifices of prior generations and to also see how commitment and activism can make a real difference this was front page news across the country it was on the front pages the new york times regularly referred to us as perverts perverts move perverts the word was that we were they didn't put it in quotes only just referred to as perverts and people were turning in their neighbors yes because i think he's one and i think you should get rid of him because because well they were getting the message that we are this danger i mean i listen how or when i was a janitor when he was a general and conducted a purge in the military until his aide who was a lesbian said you know you're going to get to the list but you got to start with me but then as president he went on did this and they had joe mccarthy up there a closet case classic case and talking about working with a light cone another closet case terrible so very painful barry very painful and as you say it goes on around the world still does and i just can't say enough about how much i love this movie and how powerful it is and how i think it really gives frank due in a deep and multilayered way i really appreciate it yes yes so thank you josh and i hope all of a watch that if you want more history i mean every museum in or  around the country seems to be having an exhibit on the new york historical society opened up there stonewall fifty i'm wearing a stone wall fifty button from that exhibit at the new york historical society and it's terrific it's on the nd floor it's got a whole  timeline right there on the wall was a picture in the middle there and even my as we just lost when he was younger activist he died at the age of eighty just a couple of weeks ago and then we have a picture of rome arena in front of the roll arena exhibit and that's her in the flesh rome arena who is still around was doing and then the revolting lesbians gathering around the revolting lesbians posted on the wall and mcguire and others you will recognize and so it was just to see it there wasn't any guard there and there was no there was no doubt is that there was an advisory of some kind but it was really wasn't i somebody said to me it really doesn't deal with sex it deals with the movement but in the end of been a very good way  about forty who are you know giving i've given up on love and are trying to find it and well well speaking of nudity i'm so looking forward to the terrence mcnally american masters ok did is back on the stars network this is the show that started last year just six episodes last year ten this year two sisters go back to their home in east los angeles  basically barrio neighborhood and their mum there is died leaving much to their surprise a wife and they're taking over the bar which is barely surviving and it's all about relationships in that neighborhood and the st year was fantastic so it came back and now they've got all ten episodes on demand available for viewing i watched the whole thing in about two days there are a half hour episodes so you go because right there and there is a lot of sex and don't want to get up that early go to bryant park at eleven and we'll pick you up along the way that will be fun there and protest this is a political march it will be a little bit of everything but it will be people in the streets we've singer with a booming contralto she was very close to vito russo and she was on the emerald city the gay cable show in one hundred and seventy seven she wrote a song  about being raped back in one thousand nine hundred and seventy eight as well so she dealt with controversial things but she was a mainstay of aids benefits before anybody in show business was doing this kind of stuff before it became fashionable and she was just  one of our greatest supporters then started losing at the age of seventy two dollars yes much too young and so we're going to go out today with some video of baby jane dexter performing at and she appeared to help the fund raising for the foundation so good bye till next week and here is baby jane dexter with one of her signature performances