man north forever i'm feeling a little better and i'm really grateful for all the viewer suggestions for how i can stay healthier everything from get a flu shot to sock zinc to take out as to change your diet to move away from new york and it stirred the air in the rising temperatures of the ocean and we were really glad that you were i'm really glad you were a trooper last week and that you are back this week and  are proud to announce that we are finally living in a relatively progressive state we have a new democratic state senate and they immediately move to pass long delay you know g b d bills it's really amazing what you can when you have a different control of the legislature might even be able to stop the shutdown and there is progress in kansas virginia and eleanor by as well on the other hand  ballet star was fired don't mess with the gays unfortunately we have a report of more murderous anti gay attacks by the ch yes so new york state big way and no sixteen years ago they passed on the sexual orientation nondiscrimination act and purposely left out gender identity and expression which was an outrage at the time but they said no no don't worry we'll immediately get to work on it it's sixteen years later it's so long ago that one of the people in the original meetings with the legislature pushing for this was sylvia it's so that was a disgrace back then that we moved on without our transgender brothers and sisters but it did finally pass and went to penn state passed in the senate and the assembly has been passing it since twenty away but it finally passed forty two to nineteen it even got three republicans well this is a very a b c kind of story for all these years in our two house legislature the assembly in the senate the assembly has been dominated by democrats the senate has been controlled by republicans yes and they drew their own lines to make sure that their majorities were even bigger than they should have been and governors have not exactly gone to the mat for  gender identity in expression nondiscrimination either although a couple of years ago current democratic governor andrew cuomo issued an executive order to try to put some rules in place that were held knew they were they were taking cases and you know they did have some effect but what we have needed is a law and finally just moments after the democrats took control of the state senate after the elections last fall they put this says one of their highest priorities and they passed the gender identity and expression nondiscrimination act along with a bill to outlaw conversion therapy for minors by medical profession that's passed the senate of course these both passed the assembly overwhelmingly that passed the senate fifty seven before now so the bill's been held up all these years because the republicans were in power and when they finally allowed to the floor everybody votes for it i mean this is insane we need legislators legislatures around the world that vote on more things all the time put people on the spot let them vote well it's become this i would suggest parliamentary system where you know there is party vote and people are not free to cast their own votes because they get so punished by the party leaders said you know financing their campaigns and all sorts of to some groups including the mt bonus project and two democratic senators just around most enjoy yourselves are are raising they are going to try to put amendments to this to ensure that hate crimes for visions are not weaponized against people of color and that was one of the drawbacks of this bill is the hate crimes provision which is often used to further punish people who are arrested who are people of color and it's a problem well it's a problem because they have actual statistics that there is an equal prosecution of people of color for you hate crimes charges therefore that has to be yes straight now to in some way and congratulations to state senator bra holeman who has been a leader on these issues in the state senate and who will be here in a couple of weeks co hosting with a and they and talking about what i hope we have something left to talk about plenty to talk about because essentially these l g b to your shoes proved to be the low hanging fruit they were easy to pass well there are some other things too about election reforms for instance now we're going to have early voting and other things to make of the big things are going to minor tenants rights universal health care what else the there are a lot of big issues that are going to be fire as will tell us a couple of weeks but congratulations thank you to the new york state legislature and to the governor for going along with all this and it would be lovely if new york's legislature which has often been judged the worst in the contrary us finally is moving ahead yes well they're moving ahead in kansas the democratic governor there laura kelly as she said she would reinstatement protections for l g bt state employees governor decentest and florida did an executive order on discrimination but refused to ok all right and what were you saying about the other states well you know south dakota the state supreme court heard arguments this week this is a big case on whether a rapid city police officer is allowed to collect survivor benefits for her late wife but who they got married after same sex marriage became legal but after her spouse retired from the force so she was told she wasn't entitled to the to the pension they're basically trying to apply o'berg retroactively bunch of past police police chiefs testified on their behalf but the but the state says hey you know you could have gone and gotten married elsewhere but you didn't  wait a minute yeah and then and then they said we didn't get married because we swore to uphold the south dakota consul no you didn't have to do that but that wouldn't have been a violation but we'll say because some of these things have been applied retroactively and he has not yes and the other thing in south dakota is that the state legislature has a bill to override the state high school association people in the housing and public employment now this is still a republican led body but they have passed it three times they have but none of these bills have ever even reached the floor of the house of delegates so we hope that can happen by the way going back to new york state for a second the courts there finally barred court employees from discriminating on the basis of gender identity and expression this past week right before they passed a statewide bill that said nobody can discriminate so that's where we are in new york doesn't hurt to say that should we talk about what's going on with trump yass and national politics well you know you saw the hearings on william barr who's slated to be the u s attorney general he gave a vase of answers even though he's getting some praise from some centrists he may get some democratic votes i didn't hear any questions about his anti l g b to record did anybody ask that i i well i dipped in and out so i haven't heard a lot but what he wrote he were owed a note four weeks ago saying that he supported religious exemptions quite broadly to overcome nondiscrimination laws i think he'll fit right in with the tru guy and in terms of the shutdown a couple of notes and i'm happy to say that news organizations noticed when florida representative matt gets said that he was against the president declaring a national emergency to fund the wall because then democratic presidents would be able to fund transgender bathroom so across the country well please define well the transgender joke well they didn't take away some of his committee assignments but i mean the apocrypha is unbelievable first of all trump was asked about it and says oh i have that i don't know what you're talking about and but of course the big question is why don't they condemn him for his racism and made a visit to egypt this week scott longo used to work at human rights much more watch called for a cutoff of funds for american funds to the military dictatorship there are sixty thousand political prisoners in egypt including l g b people and security officers recently raided the home of a gay man beat the hell out of him and then posted it on facebook i would suggest there are a lot of political prisoners in the united states of america a this is a school that denies admission to students who condone or participate in homosexual activity no gay or trans teachers allowed who violate wait for it the unique roles of male and female which was defeated and ronald reagan even opposed it that was going to fire anybody who was a gay teacher or anyone who supported gay teachers so there's that but all right so we're not we're coming down on  place that discriminates against gay people but so does people who have gay parents or any of those sort of catholic schools so do you know so do orthodox jewish schools soto islamic schools i mean it's not just  very bad well i remember when they second lady of the united states jill biden taught at a community college but karen pants is teaching at the orientation and gender identity discrimination with sex discrimination and the three trans military cases they have scheduled to discuss these again and again and again now it's up to january eighteenth when they're going to finally do it and if they don't do it on january eighteen it's too late for this term to to be discussed there's also another title nine sexual orientation case that they've scheduled to discuss on february fifteenth you need four votes to take a case you know i'm not optimistic about these i don't know that i'm not optimistic but maybe in the long run but i'm wailing to take a wait and see attitude but i am watching in the congress the lynching  says that this would get the gate camel nose in the tent and there would be no stopping us if we allow this to happen now he acts as if they've never passed a bill that includes us but of course we are included in the hate bill this bill this anti lynching bill with us in it was passed by a voice vote in the united states senate in december and i assume since that session ended they have to pass that in the senate again and then they have of course i don't think it will be any problem in the house should represent the views of the people not homosexual extremists now i will i'm two thousand and four and she was about twenty at the time all right while she was writing that there was siding with her father with her mother who were also anti g and religious cult members all right then she then she opposed a resolution against the anti gay bullying she gave a fierce speech against it saying teaching kids that homosexuality was normal and natural is wrong and now she says she regrets all that well nasty is in favor of same sex marriage and she signed on to make this brief in favor of eating windsor's case out while its latest twenty fifteen she was attacking  to you know what i say about all these people is there are a lot of quality people running give them a chance hear them out let's see how they fare on the campaign trail in the debates all those things they credited yes they credited his leadership with passing same sex marriage in the legislature in illinois yes and we were amazed women discuss this high oh no we have not well of course we told you that john case it or when he was leaving office finally did something for us after mostly gassing about all kinds of issues for years he finally signed an executive order for the last week protecting state employees from discrimination bahrain at the end of his term but mike de wine who is very conservative there it signed an executive order prohibiting entitled to be discrimination in state employment amazing bisexual pansexual the whole range and this is an amazing development in the texas state legislature and flix is standing up to the north carolina legislature they have polled their production of a series called o b which is a sat in north carolina from north carolina because of the anti l g b t laws in north carolina which say that they banned cities in the state it doesn't have that kind of a law there is a little potential out here said to north carolina if you change the law we will stay in north carolina we're not going to do it for godless people in hollywood we're just not going to do it finery but he is they originally when they started doing same sex marriages in the church they said ok if you don't want to do it locally you don't have to bishops can have exam but they changed that in twenty fifty and this guy is a hold out he says i'm forbidding it in my diocese because he said satan is having a heyday bringing division into the church with this issue and the episcopal church says you have to allow it in your di pretrial motions well now the lawyers for him who are gay are asking if the kid is gay or asking for a special prosecutor because the district attorney in the case will not release the names of the witnesses to the twenty five students who saw what happened and they also mishandled a prosecution they say of the brother of the deceased who was threatening witness tampering with the witnesses so you know i go up there and cover this in the bronx but it is quite the crap show in chicago illinois trim tramon hill seventeen years old has been arrested for the murder trans woman  yes there is he is she was twenty four when she was killed last year in august he says that he killed her because he was suicidal after sex with her in new york a jury convicted a former model named david had a forty three manslaughter in the death of james johnson forty one they met on the you know the jet in april twenty seventeen they went drinking and drugging then they going to a fight and hayes says johnson tried to inject him with a hypodermic needle prompting him to stab him seventeen times he faces twelve years but he's appealing his conviction in montgomery alabama trance dana martin thirty one years old was shot dead she is believed to be the first trans woman killed in twenty nineteen they were at least twenty six in two thousand and eighteen those are just the publicized cases that we know about in puerto rico ok rapper kevin fret twenty four we have a picture of him fatally shot he was known for his hit single which in english is i am this way which is standing up for himself as a as a  gay he was shot he was out riding a motorcycle near san juan there were two murders a day on the island and they've increased a lot since hurricane maria they attribute this to high absenteeism by police and the drug trafficking that's donor who has now had two black gay men found dead in his apartment so now there's a lot of pressure on politicians who received his donations to get rid of them and own in texas we were unhappy last week nasa and rice university had invited the extremely homophobic russian dimitry were  gosan to speak there they invited him also in texas two men were arrested for using the dating app grindr to these are warning to everybody to lure a band to an empty apartment beat them and rob know jenkins and michael africans preyed on men nineteen to fifty seven years old this went on for a while using fake profiles on grindr one victim was sexually assaulted at gunpoint these are federal charges the u s attorney called the crimes based on sexual orientation despicable while hate crimes is covered under federal law even one who was the last attorney general  people were the victims because he said that is the law well we'll see what the law is in phoenix arizona where the a c l u has filed an eco see complaint against the chili's restaurant there because a lesbian named megan hunter who works for them was told to dress more appropriate to her gender she said you mean like having my breasts hanging out with a gun why can't i just wear a chef's jacket because she's  chef and they said that's for men in tacoma a man was arrested at a game at the seahawks carolina's game this is back in december i think his name was j d harper thirty four he got drunk and he started calling these women who were together woman and or wife that we're not naming them and started calling them dykes he grabbed one of the women's breasts some of the fans tried to intervene and then he threw a punch california a local church pastor from the trinity bible presbyterian church up a sign outside that is not a sign of me i can read it hold well not in now well we'll see what god thinks similarly there's a big protest in the methodist church ninety three presidents of methodist colleges urged full inclusion in the church for all sexual orientations and gender identities the leaders in the church are considering an end to the ban on the phrase for us cellphone vowed practicing homosexuals i haven't heard that a long time  from ministry and they also forbid pastors from marrying same sex couples but all these things are up for debate in the methodist church and i hope they make progress and you know university presidents are under a lot of pressure to work with young people who want none of don't know the state will appeal a court order it says they have to provide surgery to a trans inmate or any medically necessary care and that's really the so but there are it's disgraceful that they're appealing it he is made to self castration attempts but you know this is only happened once before the state has actually gone through with providing surgery california a couple of years ago you know we report as much as we can about how various school districts have made progress on l g b t inclusion this is an issue and i have worked on for ever and it's always been slow and there's always a lot of resistance because you're dealing with kids i think the kids make more progress than the adults do for sure but glisten now says that progress towards this around the country has slowed it time to get in gear everybody source of information is eric marcus's great making gay history podcast yeah and he has a new one out this month that you know mostly it's interviews he did twenty thirty years ago for his book yes and he is now but he taped them all so now he's turned them into a podcast but he has dug up tape that he didn't do that's an interview done by our old friend journalist p people for years have been looking for material where he talks about being gay and how he was treated by his contemporaries around the march on washington was condemned during the right before the march on washington on the floor of the senate by using that word strom thurmond so this is an interview that was done by two rape is made when he was a kid by peg for the washington blade in one thousand nine hundred eighty six and buyer its partner walter nagel taped all the interviews that people did with him and walter has now turned over this tape to eric so if you go to making history making gay history dot com you can hear this interview with fired it's funny about fired because he was known as gay most of his life because he got arrested once and l a in a car and it was condemned by strom thurmond and it was a little dicey within the movement but he was a mentor to dr martin luther king  n nonviolence because he was a nonviolent activist but he didn't really do public public gay activism and walter nine hundred eighty six reached out to me actually and said he'd like to talk about what he'd like to do and i said i'm not going to that meeting alone because i'm a white guy i took phil reed african american activist to become a city council member and bards idea was that we have to fight for the right to privacy i said well yeah we do and we didn't we haven't gotten rid of the sodomy laws of that point and that was true  but he played and he played an absolutely critical role in new york city we passed the gay rights bill right you know was just a gay rights but we didn't have gender identity in those days even as a category and you know we passed it and they immediately passed an amendment to it exempting for family houses to family houses are exempted from human rights laws they want to stick it to us make it an equal rights bill and it was outrageous we passed this thing and then we and he went to the hearing before the mayor who decides whether to sign it and cuts was in on the deal for the for family houses and because of buyer ruston who was you know he vetoed the bill back and then the council did could have overridden him but didn't and so that was a great contribution that he made really at the very end of his life thank you for that story all right well not such great history the movie vice which i just saw a new me to say t career and what he's going to do and he tells bush i'm not going to come out against same sex marriage during the campaign but then he gives the non it's almost like the godfather to liz cheney running a political campaign against same sex marriage and what charles francis points out is that mary cheney was complicit in her father's run for vice president with bush in an anti molded like a cheap suit to sure did and it took a long time for but it's chilling absolutely chilling about what this man did to this country on this world who watched it with a group of people and one guy said i can't stand it i have to leave i think it's too depressing but then i know you think this is movie was directed and i thought he was inspired by the same movie it was directed by adam mckay you know who made the snake short which i thought was a much better movie and much very good more in depth about the financial crisis and this i thought and it had its moments but i thought this was a little too jokey and a little too soon i think it's going to bring a lot of history to people and in an entertaining fashion  about how dick cheney's life disrupted the middle the entire middle east let to all the you know turnovers them etc well i i wanted it to be even stronger what i did think was that steve corral to a great job donald rumsfeld i thought that was really spot on but at what i objected to was that cheney was made got off easy in his early years you know too much of a too much of a mild mannered guy but it was bush at first because they endowment for the humanities she was a monster right in the national endowment they did that as well i mean it was an hour and a half over come on well i would like a i would like i would like award to have on i would like a war crimes trial for these people it's not the statute of limitations is not up but now michael war crimes trial for henry kissinger but when this was and there had been another countries when that was proposed to obama he said we need to move on and i think and i'm saying this i think our failure to prosecute bush and cheney over their murderous illegal war in iraq has led to total disrespect for law the inability to go after trump well i think that's the basis of a lot of public servant and the longest serving council member first elected in one thousand nine hundred four from complications from gastric bypass surgery he was five foot ten two hundred eighty pounds felt he had to have this but he had complications the operation was about a year ago but he was a good guy he was the first president of the southern california association of governments and he voted to make his city a sanctuary city he was credit is really advocating social justice for all and then it's good bye dollie you all heard about carol channing a true legend a broadway star there she is with the gay men's chorus of los angeles in one nine hundred ninety four and that's not her only gay appearance i remember her actually in one thousand nine hundred four when she was a speaker at stonewall twenty five within northridge i didn't mean i don't mean this in a bad way when she got up there i thought oh that's a  that's an old story and for so many but how important the gay community had been to her and she did and nor miss number of aids fund raisers and gay events and was really you know i read the new york the women's marches and i say that in the plural because not only are they all over the country but here in new york there's a split at least three at least three the circle on saturday at noon or whatever there are the national organizers new york version who are meeting in foley square at ten am and then there is a gathering of women with disabilities and those who support people with disabilities inside grand so they call two pm that's when we're going to be because we'll be indoors i'm not it's not a reason that we support what the people with disability do i think simply say and you can find out around the country at women's march dot com where the thing is in your area i just say go outside day with no sign and you will be a part of it you will run into  march somewhere we also have a few more details on pride in june here in new york city heritage of pride the main or going to the the organizers of prayer that they're not calling a march  which really has always been a parade but there they are going to do the same route approximately that they did last year which is a sort of cross town horseshoe route to nowhere starting on seventh avenue at like seven pm because the thing takes nine or ten hours downtown but in the meantime we're going to be more a but now it's a less sad three ages their first big name for that i'm sure they'll have more big name we're going to be marching from the village at around eleven o'clock gathering around ten o'clock and we're going to march straight up down not straight up down up sixth avenue the traditional route route from nine hundred seventy at the first march into central park where we don't quite know what we're going to do yet but we'll figure it out it'll be a big rally on the great lawn details to come but it will be a no corporate floats married just people who will be kept out of the pride parade by hop and if you don't  if you kind of like the parade and you want to be a part of it you can march with us i'm going to out of town and it will be going on for another six hours and you can go to our rally from three to six six in central park and then go to times square make it a big gay day people are questioning his mental health yes there have been questions about that but it also raises the questions of where do you draw the line between people's artistry i don't go to no gibson movie now ok told you the marriage question was moving forward because the senate committee was holding a hearing but the government representative walked out of that hearing and the discussion was postponed to march in the meantime a new lawsuit is being brought for same sex marriage in chill a well since we just talked about cirque de plume the praise for putin let's look at what's happening in chechnya the violent persecution continues against l g b t people police tortured and killed to according to reports detained forty according to the russian l g b t network there in st petersburg they say men and women were abducted families were threatened if they g b t refugees from other countries in a refugee camp were being attacked and that the un was moving them out of that camp the bt refugees are now saying that the un is not the story it said they're facing death threats from other l g b t refugees i don't know where i say out on it's but it's a it's a literal crap show and they're planning a hunger strike to protest at the u n says they'll move them again the vast majority of the people we hear from are people suffering in these countries where they're they're asking for asylum help they're asking for you know boyfriends or girlfriends to people to take the man around the world because they're desperate well a couple more stories in god gays as in texas are being a lured on hook up backs aps robbed photographed down the their office this all g b t rights group they had and they'd already been told they had a six year lease on the place and that they were not going to be renewed so they had to cancel their big pride thing in northern ireland in belfast  some more yellow vest protesters now it's getting confusing with these yellow vests protesters in france they're right wing on the left it's very strange but in northern ireland they appear to be left wing and they appeal he had a woman appeal to legally adopt his biological son he paid a woman in the united states to carry his child but the government opposes family units led by homosexual parents in china  activists hired three trucks with slogans on the side against conversion therapy for gay people and drove them from shanghai didn't then jean in india we told you the big decision the last year was that they got rid of the sodomy laws that were declared unconstitutional but the chief of the army says that gay sex will not be tolerated in lithuania the constitutional court has ordered that foreign the underground london underground the subway two boyfriends about a third guy on the train they pled guilty they were filmed doing this and they managed to do this between three stops on the train charged with public in curfew and suspended jail sentences in israel the israeli medical association has barred its members member doctors from practicing gay conversion therapy to youth referring them to free speech of students in oxford they want this professor john finn is barred from teaching because he called homosexual conduct evil and big compared compared to the copulation of humans with animals he also argued for conversion therapy and compared sexual orientation to so you know some people say academic freedom but he says don't talk about that of the students i just wrote that in the paper all right aides news it's not news but anthony found cheese outfit did us internationally did it looked at twelve studies about each of the people who were undetectible they looked at seventy seven thousand examples of condom list sex and no one transmitted h i v now to do this when they were on drugs that suppress the inside here of the drug regimen it can take six months of medication to reach the undetectable level the viral load should be tested every three to four months for the first two years and then every six months and so these are the keys to this you've got to make sure you're not detectable before you he was given a medical discharge the state department of health and hiv aids division says this is a chronic problem in a local county jails and doesn't necessarily help anyone else but at least he got out a victory over mutual of omaha which will now cover truvada for the prevent prevention they faced legal action and they were denied insurance to people on prevention and crap on the grounds odd and silly in the boston celtics finally held their first pride night and they honor and local local gay man who competes in the gay games in basketball and helps k you and i had seen choir boy singer who's good who's struggling with his sexuality and with the homophobia of fellow students these are all worthy subjects and i would say that the acting is great and you really believe that these are high school students which rarely happens in a broadway show like gillette's new ad on toxic masculinity and jamie lee curtis has bought the rights to the story of sara cunningham of oklahoma she's the one who does free mom hugs if you are holding your wedding and your parents