for same gun laws we know at this point that there was one gay male couple victims of this massacre one dead one more wounded d we'll tell you more about that meanwhile the united states is one of only thirteen countries and not in good company to vote against a u n resolution calling for the end of the death penalty for things like consensual same sex relations the u s says its vote was not about gay people mississippi's virulently anti gay law is set to go into effect on october th but it is still being challenged the u s supreme court heard what may be the most consequential knife killing one and injuring another is charged with murder are the in adequacy of anti bullying programmes in the schools are there by crackdowns on l g b t people in egypt virus and they said it flatly and in entertainment news andy and i will continue our lifelong disagreement about will and grace but of course the top of the news everywhere and for everyone is the massacre in las vegas horrifying disheartening and upsetting all of that what's a what's most upsetting is the is that we as a country can't deal with this stuff and can't get this thing under control the way other countries have got it not under control well i you know i certainly were worse than anyone i don't know if anyone has it under control australia had a mass shooting in one thousand nine hundred and six everybody hears this case and the conservative government of john howard said we are confiscating automatic weapons you can't have them yet this is a gun toting nation and they they were so horrified by what happened that the gun owners when along with it it would put into effect they have not had a mass shooting since and certainly australia is as much a cowboy nation as we are so one has to wonder what the difference is the n r a yes exactly and sadly as  look for in these situations there is a gay couple that have been identified as victims of the shooting on the right is cameron robinson who was killed by this gunman on the left is his boyfriend bobby eardley who held him as he died in who was hit by shrapnel himself and is recovering from his wounds there from utah yes and it's just you know one of many tragic stories and while the republican politicians were telling us not to politicize the thing i know this isn't the time to do that gays against guns went right out in the street that evening i was with them  to march from union square to times square we have some pictures from the demonstration and you know they are what they're doing doing is saying we're trying to bring the tactics of backed up to this public health crisis that we're in  and they and that's the message that they're trying to drive home and they have an ongoing campaign and they are they are confronting the gun owners they are going to gun shows in the metropolitan area here i think there are other chapters of agag is against guns for mean but they are willing there's they're a demonstration in times square with gilbert baker banner in the front and a lot of sonnets and a big crowd it looks like well i'll tell you you know it was it was only about two hundred people but they were willing to you know take that you know killed in orlando and they appear in these white costumes and are silent throughout the entire demonstration and more also marched all the way and it's a very moving image and i've done that been one of the human beings and it's very moving to do it and it's an image that resonates through all these horrible events and i kept saying because you read a lot of tourists on the way up when you're on this thing i say oh you know this is joining us you know the people were applauding some people were just amused but my god this is what could be more serious than this the absolute carnage that is inflicted on this country all d the time and more depressing and the inability to do anything about them you know and  said if it was if it had been somebody who was from isis or something like that they would have been world war three immediately from the white house but instead they just say oh no it's time for prayer it's time to come together let's come together and do something about it as we are taping on wednesday afternoon the president is in las vegas we haven't seen anything he's down there yet so if it's anything like his antics in puerto rico i'm sure you know  re was a big resolution on the death penalty which side of the way it is abused against a lot of people especially women and gays and gay people and the united states was was one of thirteen countries to vote against it  thirteen to seven but we joined china iraq saudi arabia all these reactionary lation now apparently the u s has a policy anything related to the death penalty we don't vote for in the obama administration i want to be held accountable for the fact that we  do and the obama administration apparently abstained on one of these resolutions years ago this particular resolution condemned discriminatory use of the death penalty against people with mental disabilities people under eighteen pregnant women you know people who are in consensual same sex relations yes and so there was an immediate condemnation of the u s for voting for this from the  community on the grounds that they were voting to you know refusing to vote against the death penalty for l g b people d the state department and you know talk back against them and well there we are but we did have a small victory with the trump administration the census bureau was set to eliminate a question about sexual orientation in their survey census barriers attitudes and motivation motivators survey this is not the large every ten years census survey but one of their interim ones and the national l g b t q task force kicked up a maybe you can help stop the confirmation of amy komi barrett to the th circuit as a federal judge this is what came out about her this week is that she belongs to a christian group called people of praise is a catholic but it's called people  shootings i was also fascinated to see that as we learn more about the russians using facebook i'm finally understanding this it's been a little d complex that what they did was put up all these tony facebook pages before the election and some of them were labeled as l g b t group pages and then they would put fake news on these pages there was fake news after the las vegas shooting of this attempt to manipulate reality so we've become victims of it the there may be some good news coming from the supreme court they heard a case about wisconsin gary mentorin justice kennedy seemed open to this because it is destroying our democracy it is it is putting people into districts that they can't lose and that they never have to answer to the voters because they pick their voters and it means that's part of the reason we don't have to deal with each other in this society and they're manipulating the system to do it and drawing only through we did it in california i'm not saying it's not who was in the court as one of the big proponents of bending this all politicians are out for their own survival and that's why they do that the case was argued by the power again case was argued for our side i say our side by the side of decency by paul smith who was co coun in the lawrence v texas case that eliminated the sodomy laws in the united states yeah the other side was represented by paul clement or clement who argued against marriage equality they just all said that's the same game it's a trap so really you know winning this would be a big step forward you know i don't know if there's enough time to affect the two thousand and eighteen alexion so i hope there is well it will come as no surprise to anyone paying attention that unions and their ability to you know reno collect dues from their members for all kinds of purposes and if we lose that that's one of the only forces we have against the hedge fund managers and everybody else and that's very very likely lose that kennedy is not sympathetic to that we must regained power in twenty eight but president trump did did somewhat distance himself from roy moore even though he's still indorsing and they actually they read out in the press conference with sarah huckabee sanders all of the horrible things that he said about gay people and and muslims and everybody else you know and then you know she said well you know i wouldn't see any parallel between the two of them on well perhaps one see we can win next year is the senate seat in arizona where kiersten cinema democrat and out bisexual the only out bisexual member of congress is now a has introduced a resolution calling for protection of transgender people and i believe there's going to be a march sure this week when is it in new york on friday at six pm there will be a gathering in union square a rally to protect trans youth and adults taking into consideration both a d kinds of bathroom bills the murders of trans women all the issues around the s over his corruption we don't know we're going to get in his place no confidence it'll be anyone better better the we're very worried about the you know the new f c c chairman that they take effect this allows anyone and any business owner in mississippi who objects to same sex marriage or sex outside of marriage or transgender people in general apologize but anyway roberta is arguing these mississippi cases and she says that you know she's doing everything that they can to try to get into the state going to the supreme court and the judge who originally declared this unconstitutional has now reopened sort of that robbie's same sex marriage case in mississippi and saying well if you're going to try to do this you know where you're saying there's all these exemptions all this kind of stuff we have to establish that same sex marriage in mississippi is totally solid and you can't be discriminating against same you can't accord same sex couples nd class status and treat them differently so he's reopened that case yeah he's not he's an african american  progressive judge in mississippi it's a big fight and complex and continuing and we want to fight in a federal court in missouri where the court says that the biological mother of a six year old son with her ex partner can see shared custody and visitation with her x say a lower court had said you know she's not the biological mother the other one is she has no rights blah blah blah and the federal court said no they had a relationship they planned this child together she was a full time mom of course she has the right to see some custody rights and visitation and there's a case like this in new york that is so complicated i'm not going to tell you about it try to read it and aren't letter changed the headline five times and i said forget it all right let's move on to the poor kid in the prison for allegedly killing his classmate matthew mcrae fifteen and critically well not critically injuring but he injured also with a knife or a little boy sixteen during their history class at a bronx school now there is dispute about the facts of this case because of course the families of the two boys who were stabbed are saying now they were good kids they were never bullying this kid maybe they threw a few spit balls at of them would carry knives for protection and were not allowed to have not inside the building i think they would hide them someplace when they came in but they were so terrified of being on the streets and the kinds of things that they had to put up with that they that they carried lives for protection now look we don't know all the facts of the case you know we're not we're not prejudging it but it's certainly what's come out about the school is that it was a nightmare yeah for all the kids that the bullies were running while the bullies were bullying the teachers and the teachers were afraid of them that the safety of the school gone down largely because it had gone through several changes and administration a lot and it was it was an absolute mess you know we had courage kids to get the hell out of these environments that they possibly can even just go for a ged go to the harvey milk school go somewhere well then i'm safe that's why the harvey milk school exists not for all gay kids but for kids who are not safe in regular schools like this but what we are sure of in our condemning is the lack of attention or action about bullying in the schools or the only reason they have even a on paper of an anti bullying program is to cover their ass on this kind of stuff they don't do it you have to work hard to create environments in the school that are safe and it's you know you have to dedicate yourself you have to make it a priority here just as you have to make you know we have a story this week about textbooks in california they passed a law that textbooks in california have to include l g b t history and it's been a fight to get them to fulfill that you have to start this education at the very beginning of school and you have to make it a priority you have to do comprehensive education on certainly l g b t people on race and civil rights on all these things and they just don't make it a priority and bullying is something that must be addressed from the very beginning yes so you know the result is cases like this and then there's a terrible case in newark new jersey us who are a young trans girl kylie pereira's fourteen years old viciously d attacked at school she's been bullied for years there's the tranny they would shout at her yeah well she turns and started transitioning when she was eight and she is just a hero for going through this she  go back to school but we have a local news report on her her and her mother and the whole story carly perot never saw it coming but i heard on there that's her walking away from the which has officially classified the attack as a bias incident and notify the essex county prosecutor's office but they say as far as they know since tuesday's attack newark school officials have yet to hold any kind of anti bullied program or intervention an issue at the eastside high school to address what happened in that hallway when my daughter girls school i expect her to be safe in school twenty four hours after those students jump kiley in newark new jersey another bullying incident ended in tragedy across the hudson river in the bronx that's where eighteen year old high school student abel city stabbed two students one of them fatally after he snapped as he put it the result of weeks of being bullied fact that all the students are being intimidated from coming forward and talking about what they saw in terms of the bullying and how teachers are being intimidated about it it's like a mob situation i talked to the lawyer all right teacher chloe breasts act who identifies as non binary and asked her th grade students to address her as they are them has been removed from the classroom and reassigned to teach adults because parents of the kids complained that she was d and they scuse me was asking for non binary pronouns yes in arkansas the attorney way in california where they have been having this textbook fight the commission that reviews textbooks approved ten inclusive textbooks but they now have to go before the state board of education which will review them in november we'll let you know what happens when you need to do more of that across the country philadelphia they're going to dedicate in historical marker for dr john fryer and you will not recognize him in this photo but you may recognize the picture he's on the right he's wearing a mask this is for nine hundred and seventy two at a conference of the american psychiatric classification of homosexuality from the american psychiatric association and it was you know it's funny that they were you know it was a very hard thing to do but when it happened it just happened like immediately seventy three it becomes a mediately apparent that that was a crazy thing to have but he had to hide his face the stock who is the only psychiatry as to who was a member of the a p a who was willing to talk about it and couldn't talk about it  you know publicly without disguise and there were others in those days who did show their faces and speak out and would go back to their hospitals or whatever and lose their jobs so they're going to have this dedication of an historical marker now forty five years later and the keynote speaker at the dedication is the current c e o of the american psychiatric association out gay dr saul levon no we were going to talk much about you have good campaign and in the playboy forum well he would have never was given credit for being d a civil rights supporter and pro gay but the way he treated the women who were his reading and we're going to move on to international news now have a couple of things to tell people about next wednesday october th here in new york city then we will have a dedication ceremony for the raising of the rainbow flag opposite the stonewall inn which is now a national monument this is the st appearance of the rainbow flag on any national property i guess don't try it in egypt when we get to  about something called mobilizing our brothers and they should have this is a conference for black gay men that they're holding in the various boroughs of new york and this coming saturday they're doing one in the bronx at the bronx museum of the arts from ten am to four thirty pm and then two weeks later on october st they're doing one in harlem you can find out more about this by going to their web site v and there's a place to sign up on our website you put yourself on the list they send you an e mail asking you to confirm it it's all very easy and then you're going to weekly e mail with a lot of this extra information yes so you don't have to take you know he's going to find out what shows i'm recommending in new york you can find out what movies chris cooper is recommending yes all right well international well let's start out with the good news they got same sex marriage underway in germany and we have a picture from homburg ordered by the court to pay the cost to the couple who sued for marriage rights they're still arguing about it their right wing is still trying to stop it but the core of it legalized marriage there last year people are getting married and now the  government to pay the costs of the couple of sued but the bad news is we are the scapegoats for every right wing government in the world it seems including ours so in egypt the crackdown that we've been telling you about  gay man and singer so they saw people were holding up rainbow flags that this and and this got on to the media and to listen to the to the news commentators talking about this like this is worse than terrorism they said that kind of stuff and they immediately started arresting people at the concert from the concert people being entrapped through using apps we told you a bit about that last week they were beating people charging with the immorality of blasphemy because homosexuality itself was not a crime in egypt but they treated like one annulling torture exactly these these the that's how they that's how they tell if the man are homosexual they do an anal exam and that's how they think forced exam which is which amounts to torture i mean it's absolutely heartbreaking what's happening there and the same thing is now happening in azerbaijan we told you about that last week it is continuing more arrests more violence gay men and trans women are the objects of these arrests and torture well back to egypt t e supreme council for media regulation has issued an order saying that the media can only depict l g b t q people repenting for their unacceptable behavior from the media well what does that fox news would be mild indonesia is considering passing a law that will ban all represent haitians of l g b people or issues on t v or in the media same kind of blackout and  censorship that's just horrifying it is and you know the communities there are small and under siege and now they just want to make them afraid to be in public in any way shape or form but there are people there who are saying they're going to try to fight back about this and again the world is very divided on this and the united states expressed concern over u n human rights office published guidelines  for people around the world businesses in particular on how to treat l g b employees suppliers customer is unless they have religious objections and how to advocate for elves people with their local governments a court is allowing trance people to change their gender on their documents although homosexuality is still illegal in botswana now we told you this fantastic story coming out of the philippines where the congress voted unanimously for a very far reaching l g b d q rights bill and we were kind of like where did this come to territory is the dictator there and all but kind of stuff right well so they did do it but they also voted at the same time to defund the commission on human rights almost entirely i think they left the forty nine dollars twenty two cents it makes you wonder about the legitimacy and reality of the philippine parliament does meanwhile speaking of bodies of whatever the anglican church is holding its conference in the united kingdom and they are controversy over this well because that idiot tony abbott who is the former prime minister who is very unlikely anti gay and anti same sex marriage even though the whole rest of his family has been talking publicly about  this but he continues to lambaste the idea of same sex marriage and lambastes the national rugby league for inviting macklemore to say well michael moore said i'm getting a lot of tweets from angry old white dude's  years old is now number one in australia and the they were a t v ad by the no campaign was banned from airing during the game and you know he didn't reference the same sex marriage campaign fifteen five percent who had voted no i know that doesn't add up to one hundred percent no and it's up to the eighty percent who have voted yes eighty percent of the population says they have voted in this so you know voting is usually compulsory this is not compulsory this is an advisory postal vote which they may or may not abide by but what happens are our friend tony pitman over there in australia keeps track of this and he said marriage equality is now reaching fifteen fifteen percent of the world's population but they would add what is about twenty four million and australia if that happens so we've got about half a one billion now meanwhile in nearby taiwan activists are getting upset because the court there ruled that marriage equality has to happen within two year but the government is dragging its feet and the premier says it's not going to be dealt with in the current session o parliament so the other things are heating up there the other story i love her most brilliant was that the sydney symphony off orchestra the or the board went neutral on them on the merits referendum and the the they rebelled the  the way the orchestra issued their own statement said no no we support it and they about the board had to reverse itself and come out for it and remember a few years ago incur a sour was in the news because they homosexuality and he was asked about whether homosexuality was sinful and he said you know very well that is a question i can't give a straight answer to it was sorry badly phrased that he said i should have thought that one through meanwhile a rd of young brits say they experience same sex attraction and of this rd nine percent of the young respondents identify as bisexual the people are also much more concerned about racism and homophobia than the older counterparts there is too late brooks said and until late because london is seen the opening of a new branch office of the alliance defending freedom foes here wait till london gets a load of be a d ath put up the picture of the lover of the man who commissioned the king james bible king james the st we knew was homosexual and they just discovered this portrait of let's see can we please start telling these republican politicians when they quote the bible and talk about it you know it was commissioned by the translation from the original greek and ara was commissioned by a gay king it is a gay plot the bible was a gay plot ots find out what version of the bible being read and quotes the most it's the most literary version  may talk about the king james version all right so big news out of the centers for disease control this week they have finally issued an official statement that if your virus if you're  positive and your virus is so suppressed that it is undetectible because you're on the right drugs consistently that you cannot transmit hiv they said across three different studies sending thousands thousand and seven among gay and bisexual men but it was a twenty percent twenty one percent drop in cases from two thousand and fifteen to last year so they have her madras too much wider testing much better and wider treatment because the rates are of transmission and a late diagnoses is still going up or among straight men and women who are in this english study and you know this is a phenomenon we used to talk about thirty years ago this late diagnosis business and the idea that people don't consider themselves at risk and don't get tested old know just because the the world does not teach us that everybody is at know there was a period in the ninety's when the schools were teaching about aids and it still required and they don't do it now i'm lucky i think we've talked about and supposedly mandated universal testing for people of a sexually active age i have no confidence that that's been carried out i have not been you know i had no wacky doctor years ago who when i had some my office looking for your records you know i don't want them to be able to find them he retired but i don't you know i have never since been offered or be routinely offered to the people who are sexually active or engaging in other respects i was a said it was about getting tested what i was very sexually active in college and the doctor once lectured me about that it wasn't is because the one of the st times was when i was still living with my parents on long island and i went to the doctor the local clinic there and this old guy comes up to really goes you're a b or this this poor man obviously worships a false god all right so it's our opinion anyway we're in favor of universal testing if you really want to stop the epidemic if you really want to teach people you know take care of people to carry yourself you have to have universal testing you have to assume that everyone is at risk and you have to two find out where the virus and treat it and stop it and that's the way to d stop the epidemic some people are nervous about getting tested because of the h i b criminalization laws and that's that that's a legitimate concern so they're trying to and treat people in a more reasonably well the house of representatives is not treating women reasonably nor have i guess they ever they just passed legislation to ban abortions after twenty weeks and any doctors that violate the law could face five years in prison and there are already three democrats in the senate who support this so you know that fight is far from over i mean i remember when that would have  is also warning about another proposed bill in congress that they're calling faults hope the compassionate freedom of choice act of two thousand and seventeen is what the congress is calling it but they are very good at coming up with phony language this is and the senate has already passed their version of it's now up in the house they're having a hearing in the house this allows the pharmaceutical companies to sell drugs that have not been fully tested at any of course prices they want to sell and they end up holding them liable for any ill effects of these and it aban data collection from the effects of these drugs it's and it's ironic because of course all our work in the late eighty's and ninety's was about making it easier to get access to drugs that were in the pipeline for a child b but now the right wing is gone way too far on this and it's really irresponsibly trying to pass legislation that would loosen any kind of f d a oversight these drugs and just make it a free for all and this is very very day don't they do regulate cars and not require brakes and see who the real good drivers are that's an old expression when you get to this ridiculous level but we are in an interior department meets only with industry representatives from coal and well that's because obama only met with the other side that's why we do that and that's not true either and no it's not true but they just wanted to regulate everything really follows the story of a woman named victoria cruz a trans woman who worked at the end to violence project and pursued this case assiduously that's what you see in the movie trying to get history trying to get justice for marcia it's tell you what happens with the film but you know go well what's fascinating we went to a screen with you know open minds but not a lot of expectations and we loved this film it was really compelling and what was astonishing about it because david and victoria have appeared and spoke a little afterwards was that when david st tried to talk to victoria knowing she had done some of this research  investigated the case who were not cops anymore who say don't stick your nose where it doesn't belong that kind of stuff wow i want more of an investigation than this i want but it's and it's not just about justice for marshall p johnson who has been dead for more than twenty years it is about it is about all the transgender woman who are being attacked yes killed around the country and there and we are not getting justice for them that's about the long knives and you know there's a big portion on sylvia rivera in this too who was  colleague of marshes about the way they were forced to live and how they were treated by the community and one of the most startling moments is when sylvie is on the stage at one of the st private marches not like gudrid quids about on the stage and you know leary was one of the persons who took her off at the time that was part of that was part of the thing that was part of the thing in the community on wednesday i that you know i would say it was pretty universal booing and it was and we both saw i saw the st episode of will and grace and i enjoyed it and he walked out of it i'm not a sitcom different man and the more i guess i don't think you are the moon i thought it was better than i expected we'll canceled i couldn't raise the money but i agree with you about the laugh track that is the price of an awful lot of will and grace but the show itself i thought were yes indeed yes indeed i thought that he did