not that i would ever smirch name by comparing him to trump meanwhile the st national trans visibility of march was held in washington trump has pitted the united states of america that's us against a gay teachers lawsuit over his firing by a catholic school couldn't they just leave well enough alone we'll hear from me stevens on videotape the trans plaintiffs in one of the three cases coming before the u s supreme court on october th this coming week a bisexual student in tennessee took his own life after being cyber bullied very very very sad teenager you know canadian student has found the high school she thought he actually i yeah all right well i guess we have to start with the trumpet ministration in washington sad as it is well nancy pelosi took a lovely picture from the balcony of her office of the capitol this week there trigger on impeachment this week and has been quite eloquent and i appreciated that i appreciated everything they're doing i worry of course that trump administration is pulling out all dismissive of the idea that we could get rid of him this way i figured yes the house being led by the democrats could impeach him but i thought the idea of the senate going along and convicting him and getting rid of him was impossible rats leaving a sinking ship and turning state's evidence with there are things happening as we sit here on wednesday where people are testifying in congress prime closed doors which could have a big impact on this well i still think the thing that would have the biggest impact just to theorize is if we saw some transcripts of phone calls between trump and putin oh yes where they plot the end of the united states only already been destroyed yes because he's not like nixon he would not preserve the tapes do you think his call for shooting immigrants in the legs and feeding them to alligators is going to raise his poll numbers yes they do yeah  and you know actually his administration has preserved the crane call because everything is digitized now and they can't get rid of things the way they might have in the past so they had they put it in this sort of secret stash place server but they could not get rid of it completely so there's more there and the question is how much more will come out i guess right and why do we want that wait at the height of irony what was the most ironic moment this this week in this context when the know his exposure for you know he just got over what he thinks he got free of the moment thing and then he just goes ahead and does it again and starts it all over again well he may think he got free but i don't quite buy that because in fact he's still sending barr around the world to investigate parts of that so i don't think he feels free of that i think he just keeps doing this stuff because i don't think he has a rational thought that oh i'm free now i can go do this i think this is just what he does all the way along when he  says he had a perfect phone call with ukraine and the president i think he believes that and i think he is i watched hannity for an hour just to get a sense of how they talk about these things and they are being fed a very different line all right but where were furious because to love to go over the trump crimes for the week the the so called justice department besides being implicated in the ukraine scandal has just said they have objected themselves into a lawsuit now we've been telling you about these catholic high school teachers in indianapolis one of whom got fired one of whom was retained by his jesuit run school catholic schools and we were following the story well some catholic archdiocese in indianapolis wanted to excommunicate the school that refused to fire they did the married gay teacher and the vatican is against if you're if you teach religion essentially that you know you you you have to line up with the religion but this guy is not a religion teacher i don't know what subject he taught and he was fired so he's going to the human rights commission and saying  comes to indiana and it comes to religious freedom and they are arguing they filed a statement of interest because they're interested in things like this they said the st amendment bars the courts from interfering with how a religious group applies its teachings well wait a minute i mean a lot of the holy books call for our death penalty for us i know that trump calls for the death penalty for a lot of things but these so this is a but the d o j getting involved in local lawsuits is a chilling precedent especially supporting the right of the catholic archdiocese to fire married gay teachers really ugly well pump aoe the secretary of state as a sideline from his nefarious activities within this whole ukraine scandal and he's quite of were piece of work is this christian behavior he's a big right wing christian lying you mean right i do not but here's what he's doing on the side he has barred mario and castro and family from visiting the you ass on the ground runs that cuba is a human rights abuse or and is directed human rights abuses in venezuela now this is a pot calling the kettle black situation i am not a fan of mariela castro has turned to tractors within the movement i am led to tractor but i really don't like any of this barring people from the country i don't care which administr e for the top human rights job at the state department is a gun a martial billingsley torture advocate under the bush administration the nd bush administration answer it's spelled differently oh good but you never know there's variations in spelling the human rights groups are very much opposed to this but the g o p is absolutely shameless i mean that's what's that here's what's going to happen when the  ou can they could be a motion to essential aid to dismiss it before chief justice roberts even get started with the trial and say a motion does smith dismiss is granted against this and it could be back to be done on a simple majority under the rule certainly could be and could disappear very fast and as long as we're in the shameless category which actually could consume the show and beyond the trumpet ministration federal highway administration has told little ames iowa not so little it's a nice university town that it must change its crossing  cross walks thank you which they this is what crosswalk that they made into a rainbow colored cross walk including the black and brown stripes very nice and the federal government the u s department of transportation says these are no comply antenna danger to pedestrians they're a douglas avenue which is not a federal road and the city has decided to keep its rainbows yes there i mean their nose at the trumpet ministrat last republican in the house this week chris collins of upstate new york he's the st house member who endorsed trump has been indicted for insider trading but he was reelected upstate new york anyway this where it's very over to you know most of these people in washington d c this weekend was a big hit an estimate of attendance range from eighty million twenty three thousand people and you know only a few years ago there were very few visible transgendered people in this  country yeah i know that was a terrific thing and congratulations to everybody there it came off without a hitch and it was a big success now looking ahead in  washington to next week on tuesday october th we have a big big yes see day he says the supreme court is going to hear arguments on three cases related fired seven years ago for transition that's how long these cases take to get going but the basic question is you know there are nondiscrimination laws that cover sexual orientation and gender identity in less than half the states in this country in more advocates and more and more courts are saying wow you know you're really when you're discriminated against on that basis especially in transgender cases by the way earlier that's sex discrimination because you're being hired because of your gender and so this is been argued in the courts and it's gone back and forth we've had decisions both ways more positive than negatively yes so three cases with these issues have now worked their way up to the supreme court we're a little worried because we now have the very conservative court led by chief justice roberts he was is our great hope yes even though even though not all these people say there were all these five  originalists which is a lot of nonsense but as we keep pointing out even justice scalia back in the day said it's not just about you know what you have between your legs in terms of your sex it's how you express yourself with civil disobedience outside the supreme court if you're interested in going to washington and taking part in that go to the housing works org website and sign up for their bosses or get yourself there so we're going to show you amy stevens now her interview with someone from the a guy named jay kaplan of the a c l u of michigan which took up her case in the in the beginning and we're going the interview goes and at some length we'll put the whole thing in our shelling to the whole thing on our show no but we're going to show you just three minutes of amy talking about her situation as a trans woman  that kind of rig to get away and then two weeks later they came back in there and said that was not going to work for them and here we are we are such a great example of an individual deciding to stand up and do something and not you know necessarily knowing where to go and how to handle it and got some help and now the whole where she could take the chance of coming out to her employer with no support from anyone and now being at the supreme court it's amazing it's an amazing journey and we will put that whole interview which is much about seventeen or eighteen minutes  in our e mail if you'd like to listen to it and hear her whole story thank you and me yes until all the plaintiffs and all the lawyers who are working on this will we will keep you up to date on what's going on i fact we will have guests next week after the arguments have been made at the supreme court analyzing what happened and bringing you the latest bringing in arthur leonard who has been working on these cases for writing about them for decades this is not a new thing what's before the supreme court now but back in michigan a federal judge there in grand rapids blocked the attorney general  lesbian from barring faith based agencies that exclude l g b t couples from adoption issued a preliminary injunction the judge said the state was trying to stamp out the catholic agency's religious belief and replace it with the state's own oh and there is this little thing called the separation of church and state lee's and the judge said you know accuse nestle of being hostile to religion and i thought aha this is the implication of the masterpiece cake shop by case because even though we didn't lose that on the grounds that the cake shop had a right to discriminate what we lost it on was the idea that the state ha in the civil rights commission had been nasty to religion and this michigan judge is saying the attorney general is being nasty to religion all she did was broker a settlement that said you know if you're going to take state money you should be being sued and she settled the case by saying you can you know if you're going to have state money you cannot discriminate against anybody on the basis of religion in philadelphia  massachusetts places look you agencies nobody's stopping you from making them or adoption referrals and doing that well that you can't get state money to do it and the judge said we have a system here where this agency does not handle same sex couples or on its merits forever what's your problem they agency refers you to other agencies that are more friendly and that system is been working so let's not rock the boat here let's not sanders who did not show up at the one in iowa because he had a conflict has now decided he's showing up if he gets out of his hospital bed where he said a couple of stents to get over it is andrew yang have decline is it going to be like the environment debate were one correspondents going to be with each person that differences no this is all in l a though a yeah but they have not they have five different correspondents who are each going to take an hour some of whom are homosexual ok by the way we talked about the brush and arizona decision last week and we said that it was and sweeping and everything but maybe i didn't focus completely on it but it really was very limited yes it's you know it's like you don't exactly so what they what the judges in the arizona case said these are people who design wedding invitations things you don't have to make invitations that include the name of the couple or maybe a rainbow flag on the side but there's no from selling gay couples custom designed save the date notices menu table dubbers and welcome signs so photographers florus and photographers can be compelled to do custom work for same sex weddings under this i think the all those could have the couple's name on them particularly the save the date it's a little murky and i think it still it opens the door a crack in ways that are inappropriate  appeals but the judge in this case chosen now said that these quacks they can discuss it doris criticize or recommend conversion therapy by thank can't do it let's give a little credit to the human rights campaign having asked at them they are supporting stacy abrams fair fight operate in the attempt to stop suppression of the vote around the country they're making a six figure donation to that a very good speech at the dinner and thank you h r c for feeding us a lot of the news that we use on this program through your m a quality the daily newsletter which those of you who scared of listening can sign up for on why we're not going to be around forever doesn't have everything but it has a lot of good stuff every day all right in i think we should hit some we want to do the homecoming royalty let's do them ok so we have a couple of guys looking for the one i have a picture of  illinois and i need tennessee tennessee in memphis tennessee brandon allen was crowned homecoming royalty there no longer saying king or queen there is brandon with the new thing this was  white station high school yes laura gold yes in rural tennessee principal said that the school loves and supports everyone regardless of who they are or what t believe and in eastleigh in high school in franklin park illinois next to o'hare airport a hockey player came out and was crowned homecoming king his friends stood by and he hopes to study nor a science and u c l a and what the video showed him was that he was not not alone and that's a very important point because i think most people struggling with their sexual orientation or their gender identity do still feel they're alone the fact that he was able to take strength from watching a you tube video was pretty impressive new york state we're going to be the st in the nation to mandate that all veterans services on and robbing trans women the american medical association has now declared murders of black trans women to be an epidemic absolutely contemptuous heaped on them for doing that but in fact given the numbers i think there were right to do so it's in well in jackson heights queens the most diverse neighborhood in new york a gay couple was having a late night dinner there and and they're investigating it as a hate crime and a terrible story another attack in jacksonville florida a man beat up a trans woman a well actually they've been they've learned that this is a gay man not a tr blocks taken to the hospital with life threatening injuries the police surveillance video is too graphic to release to the public but a guy named eric shawn bridges was arrested for attempted murder in this case and we're very sorry to hear about the death of channing smith in tennessee years he was sixteen years old he came out to his classmates as bisexual kids shared this news online he had he had sent us a sexually explicit text to a guy and that that guy let it out and got out into the whole school he said i really hate how i can't trust anyone that was his last has denied that he failed to investigate this but this is a notoriously anti l g bt da and this is a guy who refused to prosecute domestic violence when it came to same sex couple yes so channing's brother joshua said his brother was the sweetest kid on earth it was a bad kid six with three you know just gone and a couple of sweet guys that we've lost in the last few weeks here in new york are there going to be memorial services for them coming up that we want to let you know about andy bell was a longtime act up member and member of every other activist group in between died i guess a couple of months ago this political activist one of the force one of the fathers of the of the gay political movement in brooklyn they're going to have his service on november the th that tour plock at the g b t community center and it's better to get street sunday afternoon keep an eye on that in georgia till death the transgender legal defense and education fund is suing houston county for excluding medically necessary trans health care in employee health plans they're suing on behalf of the deputy sheriff lang who was denied coverage and now how do we feel about the new york archdiocese and timothy cardinal timothy reporting that all of use of priests have been removed from ministry very few recent reports of any abuse and they're putting in place an annual dynamic what do you think about the bechdel test making it into the merriam webster dictionary do you know about that of course i do ok it's a new term name for the not that new but it sure isn't new but it's in the dictionary it's named for a cartoonist and graphic novelist alison bechdel it's a set of criteria as a test to evaluate a work of fiction such as a film on the basis of inclusion and representation of female characters here's the test and has to have at least two women in it who to talk to each other about three something besides a man she credits her friend liz wahl us with coming up with this and she put it into a comic strip dykes to watch out for in virginia a one of the recipients of the macarthur grant sometimes called the genius grant all of the macarthur foundation money for the national book award for his very very popular and well reviewed book on earth were briefly gorgeous statewide fairness campaign and th city and kentucky we're making progress are getting covered but we still want the supreme court to protect us and we do but now we're going to move to international news yes all right intent of that study of gay straight alliance is yes showed that they benefit everyone at such schools if you have a g s a at your school heterosexual boys were half as likely to attempt suicide and suicidal thoughts were also cut in half or lesbian gay bisexual students and the longer the g s a is better around the lower the rates however they evidently don't have enough of them in toronto because hundreds of christian evangelists did a march into a gay area demanding civil rights for christian evangelists mayor john tory joined the counter protesters yeah but it closed the downtown area for over hours well they were offended by cops who had to separate the gays and the evangelists they've had previous incursions into the village which is the gay area which provoked fights only and stopping you from practicing you look at that that is the cops protecting the marchers there are as often happens in these instances probably more cops than marchers a big phallic suppose least there were no injuries but the police detained at least thirty right wing attackers were throwing bottles in eggs and the cops were using tear gas and water cannons on the marriage movement tried to ban the parade but the but to its credit the polish court appeal allowed it in budapest hungary they were screaming a little l g b t anti bullying phil and a far right bunch of thugs called our nation burst into the theater and  with signs saying stop l g b t propaganda zero tolerance and this is all being promoted of course by the far right president of hungary victor orbn horrible guy yeah buddy ye then brazil the state run theater dropped a trans theme stage show it's the whole sonar zero effect and you know back in august the culture secretary there resigned after being ordered essentially to drop for  forced the cancellation of pride events including a concert really beirut which is a very liberal city a july concert had also been canceled by the band that has they ga leader and that had been canceled as anti christian so it's across the board but all the news isn't bad for the middle east wait a minute i've got one more bad news story and then we can do the good news story more bad news i think we're going to do all the bad news terrorize l g b t people you get it you get a little picture in the mail of some mutilated bodies and they say your next and they call themselves saw after the u s still saw god and they're th this the police would do nothing there were these guys were hanging out outside his home so we fled the country in indonesia and their family members were threatened yes and they a gay couple who had the kids who were attacked by the indonesia more protests growing protest against the bad bills that are both anti l g b t and a lot of other bad stuff so we're trying to get some news on whether though whether the situation document changes for trance papal they're right they're suing in jamaica over the banning of the month to go gay pride they are going to court about that in france move in didn't good news now unless you have any more bad the well there you go the bad news is a from the united kingdom that actress who was set to play the lead in the color purple and she posted her homophobic tweets were were found so other actors said are you still owning  this you're going to play a lesbian in the color purple elite and she said this is my religion gays are you know it wrong i don't hate anybody but i just quoted the bible and i still want the money so now she is suing for religious discrimination i well in france the national assembly has approved assisted reproduction for lesbians and unmarried women the senate still has to ok it the right is freaking out about fatherless kids there may be a big demonstration by the right on october th this is routinely available elsewhere in europe this is not unique to france also in france there's a pushback against the crackdown on football what we call soccer games where there's homophobia being chanted because they're starting to find people and stop games and people were so fans are now holding up banners with anti gay slurs charming so the pope met privately with that jesuit james martin who was the author of building a bridge a book about getting you know the church to move a little bit along the gay stuff he's not an o people around the world and he felt very coverage by the meeting with the pope probably because you didn't try to pin him down i'm getting rid of that bigoted teaching true denmark this week years our friend rex walking or who provides us with a lot of the news that we get he feeds it to was he went over there to photograph and do stories about at the time because it was such a big deal they finally did this and look where we are now nine hundred and eighty nine and i remember that was in the middle of when you and i were working had martin and going out and talking in the school and i remember being asked by a th grader about marriage rights for same sex couple he said why and i said well the only place in the world where it's legal is denmark and she got up and said well i think that's stupid i think be able to marry anyone even an elephant so it must have been eighty nine or later and why not yes but in ecuador where they have legalize same sex marriage the lesbians who were the st married and had been together for ten years two months after their marriage have filed for divorce we give them the nice story from australia with the stamps  marriage equality it's only two years after marriage equality there but they're celebrating it with commemorative commemorative stamps one says love is love with a rainbow and the other says married equality yes with rainbow and gay and lesbian couples actually at the scene of the announcement of the vote celebrating now of course of the united states you have to be dead for five years to get a stamp but we may get ours on same sex marriage and are you suggesting gets rid of that  moving on it all right answers i really was impressed by what i read about dr shu ping sunshine when who died at the age of fifty nine of a heart attack while on a hike in utah where she had moved where she had been in central china and on china she probably two thousand five hundred and thirty years ago yes nine hundred and ninety one yes she blew the whistle speaking of whistle blowers on hiv infected blood being passed around and infecting thousands and thousands of people in central china there was a there was also appetite a separate demick and there i mean half a one million people were infected she was when she tried to talk about it because people would donate blood to make money and then they would they would take some of the product out and then they would return blood to people after i put it all together and sharing it and i'm examines it wasn't testing it for each of you have been tired is too expensive and and they rejected all her claims and they they fired her she lost her is turned clinic and then they they went in there with a baseball bat and broke over baker is that everything she lost her husband in the midst of this she had to flee the country there there is a plenty that just opened in london cold the king of hell's palace this is all about this and that describes her as a public health hero and it's going to be running until about a woman for a couple of weeks now at the hampstead theater there in london she ended up finding a new husband and moving to the united states and and going back to work here and evidently having a very happy life and she had a very optimistic l which is why she adopted the nickname of sunshine she really none of this destroyed her she kept fighting she kept moving on and she's just an amazing hero and it's really sad to lose her at fifty sex with men and it studies their use of prep and it finds that most know about it but only half a rd are using it and they have no health insurance no this is one of the reasons they're not using are some of the reasons they have no available h i b testing they are poor it here insta caking if they have mental health issues because of their stigma a lot of substance abuse and they are ignored in the in the country in the medical system so transmission in particular are at risk for h i v infection because of their situation and society it's a very sad study also going to our website about look up resources that are there for you around these things as well because there are some resources out there all right and a segue to entertainment news l are a gay couple st for sure a lot of people picked up on some of their effect before hand disney says we're proud of that and it was nominated for an emmy for outstanding children's program the  day has a trans male son isaac theo do we learned a couple of years ago about his existence and the fact that he's trans while he is now announcing that he has he is recovering from bottom surgery six months recovery from bottom surgery was riding on line about why a lot of his if it is it's a lot but he's home and that's a lovely picture of him with his mother ok what do we have next while we have alexandra billings transactor i saw alexandra in the nap trans gangster and she was hilarious she's done a lot of theater and she's also chicago off broadway new microarray from transparent where she is a star there and she's going to join the broadway cast of wicked as few words she's here is a singer and she's out about being a chevy positive she's an activist yeah welcome to broadway and please come to gay usa and speaking of broadway i did so i saw two of my one of the other ripon maybe dead one of the other group who may have alzheimer's yeah i didn't buy it here i mean but i love them i still love them well i was very excited about going to see the spectacle of the japanese version of antigone's at park avenue armory i like spectacles i like things that are different and rich you want to be a me i do i want to be swept away by beauty and depth and i have to say i found it tedious and i recognize that i am a minority of one on that because it's gotten great reviews so a lot of people have enjoyed it i don't want to you know shout and get people away from it ever seen mostly rich kids in santa barbara with some from the other side of the tracks ben platt from dear evan henson openly wants to be president that's him on the right and there he is with david corn sweat who  and darren criss is going to be one of the executive producers and the kid who was in the other picture there this guy corrine sweat is in it jeremy pope from choir boy on broadway and what's the other one so sorry i missed choir boy anyway  picture he's going to play a real live person or rock hudson he doesn't look like rock to me well you have to have maybe an make up holland taylor send it to this one i had no no no that was my little arrow here the st what the supreme court does on our case it was tuesday and whether the president remains the president or whether he's blown up the rest of the congress everything else well and if the civil war has a starter the everything else that's happening in this wacky world thanks for watching by