show will premiere on fridays that nine pm and repeat on saturdays at eight thirty pm and sundays at seven am and seven pm until the beginning of october these are all eastern times check your local listings in the headlines well mr trump is still running his should have again he has d decided to get rid of dhaka and about six months number one and number two he's nominated d someone who is opposed to civil rights to head the civil rights division of the justice department more foxes guarding the hen house you took the words right out of my mouth it may seem ridiculously early but the contest for the democratic nomination for president in two thousand and twenty is already in full swing and if we have time towards the end of the show we've been talking about this with each other will evaluate the hopefuls and say where we are so i'm lesbians in west virginia when the settlement against a county clerk who when she gave them their marriage license called them abominations and screamed in their face and there was a break for transgender people in indiana meanwhile richard simmons lawsuit for defamation has been dismissed and in a roundabout way that may turn out to be a win for trans people the poet john ashbery has died the age of ninety and in jamaica a leading gay activist dexter parton jer was brutally murdered and we'll tell you about that israel's wall street journal poll came out just as we were coming over here and it's mainly about do you accept all the social change that's going on in america and you know fifty five percent of people say they're comfortable with that and twenty four percent say that they're not but sixty percent say that their they support same sex marriage do we believe them which is up from fifty three percent in two thousand and thirteen and you know this is very important because we got to keep building that number because of trump gets another nominee the court anthony kennedy is set to retire at the end of the next term well there's rumors let's not let's not bring the words worst case down on our head so place told his clerks i suppose he could change his mind but that's what he's telling his clerks according to insiders that he's stepping down and then trump or pence or ryan or whoever's president gets to appoint somebody else unless we get very complicated in any way i'm just saying let's keep getting that number up there and you know what that means to that means to me we have to talk to our neighbors and you know keep moving things along and not just say oh we won we you know you know we've got to we've got to build on that well it's an extension of the lesson we hopefully learned from this past election which is that we can't rely on top down protections we've got a bill things up from the ground yes we've got to get people in local office who are good on our issues we've got to get local support on our issues and just keep building up rather than relying on a president we love yes you know bring these gifts to us most of you out there live in states where you have lost the state legislature to the conservatives that includes new york in terms of the state senate you know even though we would elected majority of democrats here the republicans control our state senate you've been on this case for a long time in new york but you know that that's what we have to do we have to take back our local governments and our state governments and then we will have more but now the president is absolutely and absolutely speechless well meanwhile coming out of this white house d the promise to repeal of dadt dacca standing for the deferred action for childhood arrivals now you've been hearing about this in the mainstream press all the time so  don't need to belabor it but there is supposed supposedly a six month faison during which time he sort of punted and said oh well congress will have to do something about this in the next six months if they wanted to stick around and then g but the encourage the gay groups are on this because a lot of these dreamers are gay not just because a certain percentage of them are but you know if you grew up from a far you're from a foreign nation where we're a lot less accepted and you're here and you group spent your entire life here and you've been able to come out and enjoy you know if you have to go back forget about it one of the things that came up was for example if you're here illegally i'm from el you know it's a it's a lot of other places but you know quite apart from that you don't have to have you know you don't have to pinpoint the individual gay people for for the reason that this is not a good thing to do you just need your common sense and a sense of human decency and sense of fair play now again republican and democratic administrations didn't do anything about this in congress for decades right which they should've but there is this positive trump effect that i that i've been noting and that is that republicans who would not otherwise come out for these things are coming out on the stock at thing and saying this shouldn't happen whether it's paul ryan orrin hatch dean heller dan donovan from staten island john mccain you know th they are speaking out if obama was president they'd be criticizing him right exactly you know all right so we mentioned that the president was in the white house there praying after the hurricane harvey  so and we also mentioned on the show that there is a good effort to help people who were impacted from the butt row center which is the l g b t center there and ruby rose an actress who was on oranges the new black donated ten thousand dollars to this campaign to help the survivors of harvey and she got blasted on social media what do you only care about gay people well no but i mean if we don't care about our own people who is going to care about them and a lot of the other funds are not going to get to you know help our centers which are serving tens of thousands of people in many cases so she is doing that while it's often re and you can you know if you want to learn more about this effort at the montrose center we'll put it in our e mail you can sign up for our e mail by going to our website that's w w w dot gave us a t v dot o r g and you can sign up for a weekly e mail you'll get program announcements etc meanwhile back in the white house mr trump has been incredibly ineffectual in advancing a lot of his agenda but the one thing he's been dangerously effective in is in as we turned into the beginning of the show putting the foxes in charge of the hen house basically gutting regulations and gutting agencies that are supposed to uphold these regulations principally by putting people in charge of them who have worked their entire lives to undermine these agencies and undermine these causes and the latest latest example is this guy named eric dr band who's been nominated to head the civil rights division what's been termed the crown jewel of the justice department which is about enforcing civil rights laws and discrimination laws and d d now they're putting a guy in charge of they were dr band who has spent his entire life helping corporations fight against and i just women ation laws his hearing was today we don't know how that came out so we'll report on that next week but you know he opposed legislation that would prevent age discrimination in workplaces he filed was defending the university of north county when north carolina had their hannis i'll call it a bathroom bill d because that's how it came to be known but it did much more than that but specifically the university of north carolina was charged with enforcing those scientific information for the e p a which is you know useless agency at this point you know i mean it's just you want to just have these things keep happening these catastrophes you know keep it up that's what they're doing even rubio spoke out against this guys also he says he thinks it would be devastating for the space program to have someone like this running in marco rubio all right and the u n high commissioner for human rights zayid hussein condemned problems attacks on muslims minorities and transgender people calling them grossly irresponsible it is bolden those who think similarly to sharpen their assaults on these communities like donald trump is going to listen to the united nations any parent who is already in the process of defund big u s efforts at the u n as it is so maybe nikki haley our u n representative can talk him out of it yes she was very upset when she was  we talked a lot about that last week the trans military band more groups are suing a total of four at this point isn't it yeah i mean you've got equality california filing their own lawsuit against the trans military band but th news for the military westpoint has done right by a transgender graduate riley dosh whose name and correct pronouns were updated by west point it's alumni records  inclusion so this is in the midst of this band coming about well in the midst of trans news in indiana of there was a bit of good news for people who want to change their birth certificates and local judge had ruled that in order to change a birth certificate you had to publish the new name three times in a local newspaper or something like that in about a year changes their name right i had to do then but he wasn't in forcing it against a trans person and what the indiana court of appeals said was no you can't do that this was a unanimous three to zero ruling they said judge is a local judges can independently add extra provisions and add extra hurdles to changing the name they said as long as you fulfilled the requirement that the name change is in good faith and as you said this applies to transmute plan and i mean people changing their name then that ones that requirement is fulfilled the name change is ok and the plaintiff in this case was saying you know having all this be known having all this be public this way puts me at as a danger to a certain extent now because there's a lot of hostility towards transgender people although when we talk about the case of richard simmons which we will do now that were is this case well ok so richard simmons had filed a defamation lawsuit because the national enquirer and radar online had suggested that he was in the process of transitioning yes richard t quote he said while as a practical matter the characteristic may be held in contempt by a portion of the population the court will not validate those prejudices by legal legally recognizing that's great yeah well it's it isn't it isn't i mean we don't want francisco and the editors got very uptight at that the voice well what are you going to say is almost sexual and they said how do you know that richard said paraphrase i screwed  on grounds that likely is positive for a transplant yes it's the st time the question of whether being labeled as transgender is sufficiently harmful to one's reputation to be libelous so that's that's progress folks i bell sounds gay to me but you know this kind of stuff and oh no he's on this show and he said that he sounds gay and eric sees me he says why didn't you defend me against this i said well i heard there's nothing wrong with it i mean you know so quirk and gilmore county debbie allen not that not that debbie allen another one zero sure ached that they were an abomination and that god would deal with them and caused all kinds of a ruckus screaming in their face well so another clerk comes in and says well that's her religious right to say this this is where we're going folks with this religious freedom stuff watch out this is what they're talking about but well tori has a happy ending surprisingly the courts brooke over his mother called the call the office and said what the heck is going on in the county clerk jean butcher we're going to name these people said she knew about the interaction and she believes the couple got what they deserved so the next same sex couple that sort of marriage license she said would get the same or worse you know now they give these people the licenses but they basically whip it you merely gate you as they do it no why can't these things ever happen to me i can use ten thousand dollars i mean come on this was my whole thing when they were going to pass them on the bathrooms that you know trans and you would get a reward if you turned in a trail right and i was like yes i'm going to get my trans friends i'm going to send them into the bathroom i'm going to go in there i'm going to wrap them out on and then we're going to  were issued an apology there's no word on disciplining any of these people for what they did you know what nothing speaks like hemorrhaging money well you know it would really hurt if it came out of the pockets of the people who committed the crime but it ends up coming out of the pockets of the taxpayers we end up paying for this but that gives them an incentive to make sure employees told the line another good story out of buffalo new york  you be too but we have a we have a gay rights law and the governor has forbidden discrimination against transgender people but the buff mckinley high school in the buffalo city school district w even allow a gay student union when i've been out here so the new york civil liberties union sued them as they would anywhere in the country not just in states where even have these laws and they won so now the school has agreed to two years of reporting on l g b does discrimination and harassment training for all staff but this should be happening anyway ok but andy you're you're missing the best part of the story i go that's why you're here chris amazing  youth and action specifically the plaintiffs a young man named bishop elliott who collected the signatures from the g s a who wouldn't take no for an answer who kept at him who pointed out that hey you told us our application came in too late but another club that applied at the same time you were proved there and so what's going on here and he just would not give up he and this is this is the great hope for all of us because no matter what trump does no matter what happens in the supreme court we have a generation now that has grown up believing understanding to the core that they are equal and they will not put up for a nd with any of this nonsense how many of us did up for ourselves in high school in you know in utah where ever you are if you are they would allow you to have a gay student union you're entitle to have one and the a c l u or lambda legal or one of these groups will defend you and they will w because there is a federal law about clubs that says you've got to accommodate all clubs and you can't discriminate against gays i mean i'm surprised this principal quite honestly at mckinley high school still has a job but you know very well what about what happened in atlanta this week so now we we've brought you the good news right now we bring you the ugly news so woodlands is black gay pride was this past labor day monday and everyone was having a swell time apparently lots of people out and then all of a sudden the atlanta police show up with paddy wagons and ordered all the big doors closed even though if they had a permit to be open until two thirty in the morning but normal closing time on mondays is twelve thirty in the morning ad nothing to do with the gay or the black it had to do with too many people on the street and we worried about things but you know some people are saying that only the gay bars were closed not the other bars  it's interesting so there's a couple of points here number one you know how many people were spilling out onto the street because it was so the people were having so much fun there were so many people there nothing is more menacing to a largely d white police force than a gathering of black man well it's like what happens on some of the the they do the spring break weekends right and some of this kind of stuff happens as well and there's a racist element there so ok so that's one aspect then there was also the aspect that you're correct there was a gay man in charge of that particular police zone at the time so that makes it all the more interesting and also raises the fact that maybe it was more about race than it was a bass being gay though i'm sure both played a factor but then the other thing to note is that atlanta back in two thousand and nine about the same time actually in two thousand and nine the police raided the eagle in atlanta of the gay bar down there called the eagle in one of the most atrocious raids in recent memory where they threw elderly people down onto the ground and patrons in the bar and it was supposed to lead to a lot of reforms and i think to some extent it did but now they've got a problem again this was to gave us a viewer winston for getting us some of the details on this yes i think urging story from minneapolis speaking of bars this is not gay specific but there's a there's a bar there called the clubhouse jager bar a nd the employees found that the that the older a mister had donated five hundred dollars to the u s senate campaign of klan leader david duke it down the river in louisiana so the entire staff was so appalled including one who had a jewish star tattooed behind her rear they all quit they said i we cannot work for the profitability of a business like this even though he was a somewhat absentee owner so like he was the guy on the premises they said we can't work we can't work for him we don't care if we don't have our jobs we're not working here any more so they close the bar good for them for standing on principle and i hope all those folks find new jobs or already have found new jobs and better  jobs meanwhile some good news let's go back to good news in sports this season there's going to be a record breaking six openly gay college football players d d taking to the field  look at the university of st francis in illinois daria mcallister at marion university in indiana and why it perturbs capital university in ohio it sounds like we're everywhere well you know it's funny because they asked my king johnson you know people see was a pioneer how do you see yourself and he said as a kid who plays football he's been out for a long time and he said being open is not new for me it's just new for everybody else another reminder that  cory johnson who is now a single city council member here in new york city and in maneuvering to possibly become the next city council speaker was a and openly gay high school football player if it was on the front page of the times that it was covered by two thousand and twenty on a b c yes calling in fact someone saying that that is what launched his political career well it certainly lost him as an activist and he got very involved in politics and  he does not have a primary ok the primary in new york by the way for new york viewers is tuesday there was a democratic and republican primary in new york back to college state let's stay in college for a minute wellesley college and spelman college these are women schools and they are going to join all women schools in accepting transgender applicants you like to mention names so not scola will be the st openly transgender woman to attend wellesley and spelman is going to do this next year the other women colleges that except transgender women are mills smith bread for at barnard and you go ok scotching a bit over yes you can run through ok we have to look forward to well there is the can no school district in wisconsin which has asked the supreme court to review a ruling d which allowed a transgender high school senior to use the bathroom of that with which he sort of you know i think gavin graham case right and the interesting thing is that they're looking for clarification because a lot of the school districts feel like they're sort of caught between a rock and a hard place and that d they get sued if they don't let trans student use the bathroom with which they identify but then they get sued if they do by the haters whom want to keep the bathrooms traditional so i don't like a lot of the things that traditionally go on and bathrooms whether kids get beat up that i thought you were talking about so i heard that other stuff yes but anyway anyway the high school they're hoping for  clarity many of these school districts so it's unlikely the supreme court will take one of these cases and they haven't got graham case has been resurrected in some form they are trying to do that so these are some of the cases that are likely to come up on the supreme court along with the actually the existing case of the bakery and there's another case of a florist that's working its way through the system and these are the tough ones because you know again we're trying to just up whole d bust civil rights laws that say you must if you run a public business you've got to do business with whoever comes in the door without regard to race religion sexual orientation gender identity all of those things that's what the law says but these bakers and florists wan say this is my creative expression my st amendment right and i don't want to create something for something i don't support i e a same sex marriage which goes against my religion and you know the problem is even anthony kennedy when he wrote the marriage decisions said something about wanting to respect religious rights and things like that now but that most of us mean no we're not going to make a catholic church or a or a mosque or a synagogue do with same sex wedding they don't want to do it or even host one if they don't want to host the ceremony but this is these are public businesses these are public accommodations and and this could undermine the public accommodations laws entirely if people start saying i have a religious reason for discriminating against you because the religious that teach that the races aren't equal exactly you know of that there are there that race mixing is bad you know we shouldn't think it takes for an interracial marriage bob jones university cited for that so this is what we're worried about and it's very dicey going into this term we will find out but the lower courts have a have upheld the right to be free of discrimination yeah it's funny it's after the hobby lobby case it's not the lower courts i'm worried about it's the supreme court yes right because well and if and if and if trump gets another nomin that's that's that's the other problem well that's why it's actually good that these cases are coming before the court now because if we do lose another supreme court justice who votes our way we're going to be in big trouble so better to get these course these cases decided when we have the best possible chance of a positive but this country has been so divided and you know again you've got this whole group of religious people who feel person acting like they feel persecuted at this point manning to have anything to do with us you know whether it's giving us a marriage license or you know selling us a cake change is hard all right now and then there are we read about a ha rable incidents of domestic violence in the community were trans man cash meyer aware that this is a problem in the community and it's and it's a higher problem in the community because we're more stressed community so they would get at no of course you all know about the pulse massacre in in orlando they are now talking about they're having a big town meeting to decide what kind of a memorial they're going to have but the bar owner says i'm going to reopen the bar elsewhere so andy is this a sign of  affront to the memory i would you know what i'm going to leave that up to the people of orlando to to decide of course they will decide with their patronage whether they want to go back to a bar a gay bar named the pulse  whether that's a sign of rising look i'm the one who won the world trade center came down i said just grass it over you know and make it a quiet place of contemplation whatever they do they stuck this enormous tower up there one also i mean you've got to worry a little bit that maybe something called the pulse might attract you know crazies who but who knows you know well it brooklyn this is a this is a custody case that coupled seated jewish couple the mothers lesbian so they got a divorce but the husband got an agreement you're still going to raise the kids orthodox you're not going to tell him about this lesbianism stuff all this other kind of stuff so she was she agreed to this to get out of the marriage he married somebody else he doesn't even show up for the kids for eighteen months so he's not fulfilling his end of the bargain of taking care of the kids so she goes back to court and says look i'm tired of living under all these restrictions i'm not to see that anymore i want them to be reformed i want them to meet my my partner's and everything else and finally she got sole custody of the kids and agreement to these things she still has to keep kosher in the house according to the settlement keep going and you know i have international no right now let's talk about some of the people who passed away this week and we get their pictures up the pulitzer prize winning poet john ashbury has died at the age of ninety in the arms of his husband david kirmani there he is he published twenty eight individual collections of poetry in one thousand nine hundred and seventy six he was the only writer ever to win the pulitzer prize the national book award and the national book critics circle award d in the same year and harold bloom once said of him no one writing poems in the english language is likelier than ashbury to survive the severe judgment of time so mr ashbury in political circles rick stafford he was only sixty five he was getting our issues into the platform and all those kinds of things it wasn't he was a guy who worked from the inside his st convention was back in seventy two when he kept his orientation private but after that it was after that he was out in nashville rodney lyle bragg has died he was a suicide he'd been suffering from depression he was a former pastor of the m c c church there went on to work at mental health services m c c metropolitan community church again oriented church thank you very much and he was active in organizing the boycott which we supported of cracker barrel which used to discriminate against gay employees the rest chain of restaurants this was back in the early ninety's and he was he was very involved in that this year cracker barrel was one of the sponsors of pride in nashville that's pretty shocking he was the st openly gay man to be a foster parent in the state of tennessee and later became t openly gay man permitted to adopt an infant to tennessee so a trailblazer rod was and then here in new york one of the founders of the parents and friends of lesbians and gays in queens mark bonus has died at the age of ninety i knew it was you know he was there from the beginning for his son glenn and great ok all right advantage for national news well unfortunately more deaths are reported in this violent by violent means and that is the death of jamaican gay activist dexter patent or he was stabbed to death in his home people heard the screams but no one reported it they found his decomposing body later dexter partner was a fashion with j flag the jamaican form of lesbians also actuals and gave his quote last year standing up for pride and jay flag was i hope that my participation will show members of j flag that it's ok to come out and that is fear with there is no violence realize that it's your time to be part of the change not just for the week but permanently as a part of the community now a suspect has been arrested we don't know anything more than that at this time but at least that's promising that the police or doing something about this case so because a lot of times in jamaica nothing is done when a gay man is murdered right right right by the time you see this show you will know more than we do at the moment about what's going on in australia because the high court there heard the case of our challenge to this post poll ballot this non binding postal ballot on marriage which the government is trying to force through so seven judges are going to rule on the validity of that and we'll find out what happens in the campaign is heating up it's got very ugly also the other side has put out those ads again that basically say you know they're coming for your children they want to you know recruit the children that they're going to make your children learn about all these sexual things that all this kind of stuff and where we're just answering with their ads that say no no we're not instead of running ads that say we want to get married you know here we are here is who we are here's what it's about a little worried about that well and also it's been exposed that at least one of the mothers who made some outrageous claim that oh my son will be forced to wear d a dress at school or the principal said that this would happen was exposed as a lawyer because they talk to the principal they talk to all the teachers at the school and they all said no that never happened well you know we had a guy here in the united states of america who told just one lie after another and still does that he was elected president of the united states you know this this mother may go far she may be the next pm of australia meanwhile in the streets of canberra there was a huge rally thout sins of people in support of same sex marriage on the heels of twenty thousand people d in support of same sex marriage in melbourne so there's a lot of the support on the ground in the streets and as we told you last week lots of people registered to vote in order to get these ballots and signed up and are you know and and that's great and if and if  again if we win the postal vote that doesn't mean that the parliament is going to pass the marriage bill correct so but if we lose it movie that's not and we have we have more to lose than to gain through all of this which is probably one of the main reasons why there to recognize same sex marriage and they said no they said it's up to the marriages control whoever you know marriage over there it's been trolled by the by the rabbi there is there is no civil marriage in israel and they said if the if the government wants to change this it can change this which is basically what the decision was in new york state correct two thousand and five correct would that delayed same sex marriage for many years correct about the problem the positive side of israel do you have that story a government reversed its position on same sex adoption so they have been opposing it now they're not and that's good all right hopscotching over to bolivia and i have a couple of latin american stories but in bolivia  the older population of quote unquote diverse sexual orientation and gender identity held its st meeting d d big meeting to try to get their issues on the agenda and get an action plan going so hats off to police to bolivia for dealing not only just with the l g b t q issues but with an eye toward seniors who are very often neglected and the supreme court india is likely to hear the pleas against the ban on gay sex on september  as we sit here tomorrow and i'm going to jump back to latin america where we have a bunch of stories from mexico where a new code of conduct for the ministry of health or issued by the ministry of health is being   there's been a bill introduced in sonora state there is an effort in a state to get same sex marriage legal but the legislators don't want to take their law d off the books against it  meanwhile activists have been complaining in to the human rights commission in the state of chop is the reason why this is also patchwork in mexico is because their situation is a little bit strange in mexico same sex marriage is legal has to be recognized across the country but there's only some states that have legalized it and those other states which haven't officially legalized it you've got to actually pick chicken individually to the court  yeah to in order to get married so gradually this is changing gradually more and more states are in acting laws d that will legalize we had kind of a patchwork in this country for a long time as well so we are no strangers to this wish they'd get it over with because the supreme court always seems to uphold d the right to do it though you know meanwhile some trans transgender people were able to get the birth the birth certificates they deserve in mexico eighteen trans women in mexico does get it they had zero state have got new birth certificates and malta they've introduced an x gender marker in official documents there malta it is like on the cutting edge cheer they're getting over their d conservative catholicism more about which later well it's fascinating to me how catholic countries seem to be the st ones to legalize same sex marriage you know i mean a lot of these a lot of it has to do with education levels i mean in terms of who comes along you know st on this that's w scandinavia i think was the leader i think you could probably correlate it with the test scores kids get in st grade or something when malta if you may remember is the legal recently legalized same sex marriage by a nearly unanimous vote only one person voted against it in the maltese parliament so they're really doing wonderful things and i hear it's a very pretty beautiful place so i have to go there now i just said something nice about scandinavia but i'm going to have to take some of the back to finland has kept the trans sterilization requirement they require the trans people want to go sterilization before legally changing their gender that's just bizarre that's like they've got to you've got to mutilate your reproductive organs or is like a misunderstanding of what's going on it's not good on the other hand icons those big tom of finland figures with the large areas yes that's their submission to the academy awards this year see no i was saving that for entertainment news but before we go to that we do have some news about gay issues from places you wouldn't necessarily imagine you've got well in mongolia yes they just kicked off their pride week and they had for that my huge parade we got not mongolian who are there all right and then also in mongolia related because the mongolian l g b t center has been very active in getting this parade organized they've been lobbying the mongolian parliament and actually made some progress in getting police officers trained for an anti discrimination effort so the st initiative is going to train a one hundred police officers from police officers from across mongolia in a project they're calling a tolerant and hate f but long before we had gay rights and in new york we had a lot of meetings with the police because to end police arrest meant we would meet with them in small groups and try to train them now the training is done at the academy but it's good now while we're on the while we're on the central asian steppes cure just stand ministry of health has approved a manual for transgender health so you know i mean to just stand i hope i'm pronouncing that right for crying out loud meanwhile we are being  marginalised in jordan they were there doing a real crackdown their crackdown on the on the l g b t publication over there so it's becoming it's becoming a tough atmosphere there in jordan and in samoa d unfortunately it doesn't look like there's going to be any movement there while the current prime minister is in power boy because he has ruled out not just same sex marriage but any change to their abortion laws so you know they're all maybe a little bit behind the progressive time are already is this prime minister is speaking of catholics monaco is looking at civil unions and then there's the pope he's he gave a series of interviews which were being put out in the new book the headlines a bit about the fact that he went to with a woman jewish psychiatrist when he was forty two years old when he was having trouble coping with being the head of the jesuits down there during the you know the military junta that was news but he also came out for civil unions now it's really not the st time he's done that when he was when he was the archbishop in argentina and they were going for marriage she said that that would be the work of the devil he said how about civil unions and they said now we're doing the marriage thing well it seems to be his fall back position to of as as a as a backstop against marriage i don't know too many bishops who ever came out for any any gay relationship laws over the years and that he might be nice if he would tell catholic institutions to respect our relationships and not fire us when we get married you know anyway good luck with that and then the chechnya situation the news this week a couple of things david france the filmmaker who just made a film about marcia p johnson the famous transgender leader is over there now filming and will be back soon filming specifically about the oppression of gay men over there right and there was a protest at the you know you know how the  russian consulate in well yeah this is a this is the protest in san francisco that's michael patrollers holding up a sign that says russia stop killing gay chechens they were having that you know they were closing down the russian consulate their big right because we're retaliating and the smoke was coming out they're burning everything so michael always goes to show up whenever there's going on when i slack subways they don't make your point with the press and it's seems that canada is quietly helping a lot of refugees from chechnya they're trying to do it quietly because if this gets exposed people get killed all these other guy d we're talking about it no no no we're not we're not talking about who  bought the it's there but they're running an underground railroad for these people but the a russian official war that of canada violated russian law by bringing homosexuals chechens stick out of that as refugees there will be was a very big she's one of these self help gurus you know basically you love yourself she's ninety years old she just passed away if you love yourself you cure yourself and all this kind of stuff and people were desperate and the issues mainly based on i believe in los angeles people were desperate and she attracted hundreds of people with aids to come to these things so were you know they felt like they had no hope you know she was telling them things like you can cure yourself with just self love which is a lie you know yes you should love yourself and that will help you take care of yourself but i mean as as bill baldwin our associate producer said she basically was murdered people by telling them that this is what was going to cure them when it wasn't  anyway she was very very controversial figure but she had quite a following at one time there in west hollywood all right and there's a new study that says that giving truvada to teenage and bisexual adolescent boys is effective i mean it's not approved for use by teenagers for you know underage teenagers but this study that was done finds that it is and they hope that the f d a will go along with that ok entertainment news well reese witherspoon is going to produce a film about the westboro baptist church now that's the church you may recall that shows up all over the place in very inappropriate places usually fruit funerals of d people often who have nothing to do with l g b t issues and hold up god hates fags sign and hernan hells i haven't seen them as much lately and wondering what's going on but anyway well anyway reese witherspoon has decided to d make a film titled this above all which will focus on the life of actually one of the granddaughters of westboro baptist church founder fred phelps  a great screenwriter is writing the writing this he says it says so much about so many things in contemporary america so look out for that it's just getting started so it'll be a while before it hits the hey congratulations to al and i didn't realize she'd been doing this talk show for fifteen years now you're catching up with us al and we've been doing this for thirty two years it makes me feel really old because i remember when she was doing the ellen show know what that  was called el al and you know and she did the whole coming out thing when the speaking into the microphone i'm gay and it was a huge thing and now she's been on t v doing her talk show for fifteen years now you are our gotten a lot of critical acclaim but it's also now out to cause a lot of controversy and it's baffling to me why there's a picture i guess that's the promotional still from the film so that these kids in south brooklyn  you know not so great neighborhood not the hip part of brooklyn basically for kids who end up tricking a gay man into meeting one of them so that they can rob him and end up beating him in the film you don't know how what his fate ultimately is going to be a life well and that's the controversy is because it is clearly based on actual events that occurred in brooklyn in the michael sandy case michael said he was murdered by these kids and they don't show that in the mobile they base they even shoot shoot it in some of the places where michael said he was assaulted and the source of the controversy is why the writer director allies the hitmen won't fess up to using this is her source is there some reason why she doesn't want to talk about this is you afraid she'll get sued or that she doesn't own the rights to the story but for whatever the reason she's not willing to talk about the fact that she based it on this even though it's blatantly obvious so that's the controversial clients patton who was at the  have exactly one minute who have been for the next president of the united states who have one minute to tell us is going to be the next president united states like i asked you st i keep saying and we maybe we can talk more about this next week i keep saying the person who's going to be the democratic nominee and who could beat trump or pants is going to be somebody we're not talking about now it's going to be an outsider the way obama came up it's going to be a fresh face because the democratic brand the republican brand are spoiled in this country you know if it happened you know people of left left are leaving the parties they don't trust institutions so it's going to we're going to need some kind of an outsider i think so that's why even though i like people like joe biden and