television well how about north carolina where the anti transgender law looks like it's going down some gay american parents are suing our state department to recognize the u s citizenship of their child well if they win that fight i hope they don't try to send their child to the christian daycare center that won't care for the child of lesbian parents we told you about that mayor who refused to raise the rainbow flag well he has reversed himself and we're going to tell you why and he thinks it's a cute story was very moved by it just as the mayor was nowhere near a pushover so we're going to mourn the passing of gay pioneers in atlanta and orlando and tell you about a nother trans woman murdered this time in north charleston south carolina all over stone what i go oh my god putin that russia's anti gay law was sensible and he had other things to say to meanwhile a lesbian activist in st petersburg russia was murdered after being listed on an anti l c b t website it's a kill list here in south korea pro students what a court case challenging them being disciplined by their presbyterian university religion a force for good in the world and the kennedy center honors for this year have been announced we hope without the attendance of the president but the honorees include a p flag mom who will be familiar to you and out gay conductor and what a week to be an american with the president so the words you know send her back ringing in our years what a week i mean one step away from just saying a racial slur on national television from the president of the united states and every stays stage it's shocking i hope people don't stop being shocked by it all because it is truly the worst of the worst i mean we can just we just throw up our hands and say oh you know that's what you're getting it's awful it has to be comatose now i think we've heard many racist slurs from him my concern is that the people talk about him dividing the country i really am concerned that we're divided into the haters and the more progressive people hours maybe lovers but here we have porous johnson this week we still have trump a bond in hungary we have putin in russia i worry that the human race is giving up though i mean you have long said that we are a failed species exactly and i tend to believe that said i why wouldn't i but no i don't believe everything i say but but i really worry that faced with climate change which we're now being told is going to end and life as we know it in the foreseeable future and everything else going on in the world that people have just given up as i like to say it was nice won't last and sometimes but we do go on and people are still fighting i mean puerto rico have not given up yes this is this is the this is obviously one of the biggest stories of the year and as i said every reporter gets on the air gets down there and says because of corruption of homophobia and sexism homophobia homophobia keeps getting said because he was so blatant about it which is why show that picture we had ricky barton in the demonstration of five hundred thousand people five hundred thousand people in puerto rico is the equivalent of fifty million being on the streets of  usual on wednesday afternoon is so right at this moment rosales has not resigned but as we predicted last week we think that's only moments away because it's growing because the people are demanding and that is the lesson for me out of this and the lesson we learn continually through our lives that when you can put a critical mass of people in the street who are demanding something and not stopping of it the government has to remind people of puerto rico a bit in dire straits because of the hurricane because of because of the corruption that is starving them and their public services and things i mean i guess you can say we haven't reached that stage here yet so out of this country while parts of this country have but sure people are not  to the people of puerto rico and so we are in this country fighting our own state department yes well st of all i should say well we're going to talk about two stories right what is the opposition to that flag this is what's so annoying that they keep coming up with these things to keep us busy signing letters one hundred catholic leaders signed a letter against it we have better things to do but pompei o ever badly christ representative at the state department has put together this nonsense about supporting human rights by discriminating against everyone and so we have to fight back we do have to get rid of these month other story is about well married gay couple of two men get married and they arrange for a surrogate in england there they are and there is their baby girl and a surrogate in england gave birth to their child one of them is the biological father of the child so they apply for the child to get papers as an american citizen because she is after all their child and they are both americans there's no m this girl is considered the child born out of wedlock the men are married but because only one of them is provably biologically related to the child they now suddenly their marriage disappears and there are parenting of the child and both their names are on the birth certificate by the way in england but the states partment will not recognize them as a married couple and the child as the child of both of them and therefore she's being tonight u s citizenship well being put through a much more quote unquote rigorous process of verification well so far denied yes they may or may not get is supposed to take care of all this by making everybody equally married but not in the eyes of the government that wants to discriminate against you so now this is another battle we have to fight that we shouldn't have to fight well we we have a little there's been a three year legal challenge of this by civil rights groups and finally they agreed ok transgender people can use whatever whatever facilities that are appropriate for the state own facilities yes this only covers state owned facilities but yes this compromise has been signed now there's another part of the law that says local towns and cities cannot pass nondiscrimination ordinances that go beyond what the state has this is something that they did in arkansas and in tennessee yes anywhere else i don't know i'm not keeping this list of our viewers can bring us up to date on that but but this is the other part of the law and that has not been dealt with viet because the court says they're going to wait to see what the supreme court of the united states does with the nondiscrimination cases before it that are going to decide whether or not laws against sex discrimination also covers sexual orientation and gender identity court the high court in the states going to hear those cases three cases two cases and a transgender case in october it's going to be in their st week and well of course the reason they say they're doing it early is because they're probably basis of say that was one case it was a narrow part of the law all right we may have to have another bet on this oh i hope it had a but i could bet a dollar ok you want to do that well we've done it before so why not i bet that we go to i think the transgender case transgender cases are easier lives for the court than the gay cases always happen you know so if they split where a wash but  and yes is the detention of migrants seeking asylum or just entry into this country and the separation of families and some of the people in custody as migrants seeking asylum are trance people twenty nine trans and non binary migrants who are being held in custody over the border these are not criminals often the externalized the government is persecuting people yes exactly so they wrote a letter public letter saying they're receiving no medical care for those who are hiv positive board seybold they are being abused and raped by guards and there is a result in the roxana hernandez autopsy she was the one who died in custody at the border turns out she died of blunt force trauma to her head deep tissue damage is very often reduce it which is why we need better legislatures in this country and you know we've told you about the zero for zeros campaign a little bit more about that this is about ok you're a corporation you have good policies you've got one hundred percent rating from the human rights campaign good policy for your employees basically yeah and and you know people will and and some of these corporations they're the ones who helped us in north carolina and indiana we're trying to get rid of these  however you know just as an example the same corporations that get one hundred percent ratings like google and american airlines and microsoft and amazon they're going to ted cruz they're giving to louie gohmert if you donations to help our businesses well i mean how is that helping your gay employees not to have civil rights which is what the end result of supporting all these began says yeah well it's interesting that this new campaign did get statements from these corporations they replied but they really stood up for their need to donate to right wing politicians who will diminish their regulatory demand maybe if they well they could certainly add to their scoring thing the fact of donations to right wing politicians if you give to a politician who has a zero percent h r c score that should count against you but this is a longstanding problem with h r c you may remember that they they did not score politicians on their votes for the defense of marriage act because that would have taken too many points away from too many politicians and they some folks have said to us always talk about why did you talk about marriage so much the big groups did not want to talk about marriage when it came up this issue it was done by the grassroots they were late late to the fair well and here you have bunch of ho republicans who are now calling on amazon to go back to selling joseph nicolo sees book on conversion therapy which amazon had the guts to take off its sales pages led by vicki hartzler the representative from missouri who brought you the trans ban in the military now hold on i mean this whole thing yes you know amazon is a marketplace i mean it's just i mean it's just transmitting line monster just dead well he was a line monster maybe that's the hitler analogy but they're both dead but the republicans the right wing republicans are the ones  sell niccolo in general i mean you know but by the way the person who you may have convinced the person who brought mine come to the united states and wanted it published here was former senator alan cranston when he was young he said he wanted to americans to see what this horrible book was so that they knew we were fighting if you want another reason to go after corporations facebook and google and others are tracking your activity on gay porn sites they are following you on the internet speaking of censorship mayor pete wood a judge he was interviewed on a country music station for a country music station cumulus media and in nashville and they spiked the interview because but you know there's no fairness doctrine for him but they censored it they censored it they didn't want it on the station what did they think there were any well again this is a guy who taped shows for them it was on the show then they said they're not going to the show yeah all he would say is a prominent woman's story coming out story she said when i told my mom that i was gay i said this is the lesbian saying this to a mother god must have made a mistake and the mother said your mother loves you your not a mistake i'll stand up for you where ever you go and the mayor said he was overcome with emotion and he read the rainbow right then and the story if they were still doing movies of the week that would be one of the it's a great story well i'm a little more interested in the mayor of holyoke mass yeah alex morris thirty years old he was elected mayor of polio when he was twenty two dollars now and he knocked on one be five percent of the doors in the town well that literally i've driven through holyoke many many times and so there is on the left here and he's running the currents against now you may not know this guy on the right originally because he's this the salt of the earth guy but p s this is the guy you know new york state passes a law of the you read about it this week new york state passed a law that will give you tax returns from the state ritchie is just not moving fast enough and we need some young blood morse is the st mayor to legalize marijuana he won't take pac money he made the city hall holyoke a site sure his city is the tooted needle exchange to fight the when all these progressive democrats are going to challenge the incumbents and the democratic party is very freaked out about this and instead they want to get on board say time for new blood yes you know richie neal a seventy it's time for him to step not so good in the city of rest seen wisconsin where the city council i'm sorry not so good so yes that is i was reading one down good story rest seen wisconsin the city council has banned conversion therapy for minors a very good to be under eighteen in tennessee they are now implementing this law that prevents ministers ordained online from solomon izing weddings so those groups are suing and in federal court i mean whatever happened to religious freedom you know and governor believe you signed that law by the way a judge has already blocked that law ungovernability who signed that law also declared nat bedford forrest day to honor the civil war general and slave owner and the founder of the ku klux klan declared a day for even ted cruz six objected to this  far to offend ted cruz dust up in berkeley california where the city government has decided to neutralize gender in city code snow longer will the there be references to he or she can all be them at all be singular or plural them in all city codes and there are people who are offended by this and others who are in favor of them have sure which used to be a rock ribbed republican state and still has a lot of republicans who have republican governor sununu who vetoed the bill passed by the democrats to change desert designation on birth records more easily it would have allowed you to do it with a notarized statement from any health care about how care provider the that we've already got a reasonable process well but new hampshire is decided as of next year to offer non binary gender markers an x marker on driver's licenses to people who want that exactly oh by the way last week we talked about the passing of john paul stevens a great justice and he did vote with us a little on all the decisions of importance but it was harry blackmun who wrote the dissent and bowers we hardwicke upholding which upheld the sodomy court for the right to discriminate against us in adoption decisions this is basically revisiting the fia decision where philadelphia pennsylvania philadelphia not pennsylvania philadelphia has a non discrimination law and so they said if you are an adoption agency getting support from the city you cannot discriminate including against people or same sex couples who want to to review the decision they let it stand that the city could take money away from the catholic agency but now the back and fund is going back to court because it's a new supreme court while of course but they ha so say they're citing the overgrowth fell decision and say well you said there that you know religion's could do what they want in terms of marriage so why can't they do what they want in terms of adoption do it with our by exactly they're not getting the city money to perform those marriages so i mean that makes makes and every organization think they're entitled to you know state folks you heard the phrase a sense of entitlement outside he was attacked by a group of people who were mocking him using anti gay language he was knocked unconscious broken ankle broken nose damage teeth just a vicious meaningless attack but even worse in north charleston south carolina trans woman denali barry stuckey twenty nine years old shot dead becoming there's a picture over the motives are still being investigated lawfully yet another black trans woman dead that makes about a dozen this year that we know of for the right of students to use the facilities in accordance with their gender identity right here is the interesting thing about the case yeah he know and he now has a court ordered birth certificate declaring that he's male but the people and calling for an end to violence and discrimination against them see not everyone is against them calling for prevention and early detection of hiv infection and calling for a diversity training sensitivity he survived the witch hunt of one thousand nine hundred and fifty six to sixty five which was called the jones committee that targeted the gay and lesbian people in the university system in florida now this wasn't just it was professors but it was also stu since they wanted to root them out now when a friend of his was arrested by tampa police in sixty five he fled for new york and did not tell his parents where he was for five years this is what it was like before stonewall and it is in some parts of the world he is very active in dekalb democratic party including his chair he was the st out gay candidate for public office in georgia in eighty eight going to be held saturday august rd at two pm at the spiritual living center of atlanta dick rhodes and i was fascinated to read about joel stracke who just died at age fifty nine who was an amazing activist in orlando florida including one of those involved in creating the gay days in disney he was also involved in the creation of the community center there this is a guy who worked for three decades the orlando gay chorus and the gay and lesbian history museum that they have their own struck fifty nine his catchphrase was treat yourself right which is words to live by for all  of them there's a very firm famous writer and editor george hodgman the age of sixty took his own life in this case he's an out author and wrote the bestselling memoir recently called betty ville about moving into rural missouri from new york to start with egypt we'll start you there ok well a trans woman mock chef has been released from prison where she had been held for four months while in prison she was raped by a guard  e was protesting the government that's why she was in prison and there was an international campaign for her release and finally she is out let's go to russia a i read st was this one all over stone telling putin they did a sort of a joint interview russia's anti gay law propaganda law seems like maybe that's a sensible law he put down trans people in this interview to which putin said they live too well they have they are they have nothing to think about and oliver goes yeah but it's not a healthy culture and putin said integrity laws protect miners  there are no restrictions at all after that he has the nerve to say it sounded like being rounded up in chechnya except for not being able to have a pride parade anywhere in the country except not being able to demonstrate having your film festivals male couple who adopted two boys in two thousand and ten and have been raising them one of the guys adopted the boys and is raising them with his partner they're now teenagers well the government now wants to take the boys away from these men and prosecute the workers who gave the boys to this guy but we don't do anything to people once that our children any more wouldn't talk about that's right there's no discrimination and rushing and he to it's against diversity and tolerance is also against her stepdaughter dede prospects are they film maker who didn't always have a great relationship with her but evidently georgette has come around probably at the parade but thousands and thousands of right wing protesters showed up and started throwing flash bombs were rocks bottles twenty five dollars were arrested but the interior minister said gas to drive away the protesters and then ended up arresting twenty five of them but this kind of thing is still going on all over the world and that's why we encourage people to stay tuned into the movie and god knows what's go beneath him to make a couple phobic attacks but you know any any any post dealing with school issues around be tuesday and he'll only get reinforcement from trump but meanwhile the house of lords in britain did pass agree to the same thing that the parliament had passed before which is the northern ireland will have legal same sex marriage if they don't reinstituted government by to get rid of the sodomy law there's a lot of bravery in these caribbean nations going after these british colonial laws and so this is another guy stepping forward to try to make change backlash you know and some people say well wait a bit we don't want labels on people isn't that what we're trying to get away from we don't need this why would we do that because we need to get through this stage and then there will be no mor that was not ok with their presbyterian university but they were punished for this but they went to court and the court has ruled that the students should not be punished for doing this and that they have the right to carry quietly and peacefully protest on that day to get legal for use to and one student said i hope this sentence will be a comfort to those who have been hurt and excommunicated by the korean church producing hatred we've told you about the enter american court of human rights which has ruled that central and south american countries must legalize same sex marriage they finally going to do it and one by one tiptoe in and ecuador was one that has agreed to this and the st to implement it well in their eyes the st lesbian couple to get married the st same sex couple the married michelle and alexandra showing off their marriage certificate in ecuador congratulations there are other lot next countries that did this on their own prior to this and a lesbian couple in serbia are suing for a civil partnership rights you think they might have them since an down yes i am st brigid's national school in county wicklow is introducing ireland gender gender neutral uniforms and restrooms for the gender nonconforming and the principal said says this acknowledges that we are here and he's predicting marriage will be legalized in japan in the next few years there is a lesbian in the lower house who is elected there who has also countries twenty three million are now receiving the enter retroviral treatments but there are fifteen million people with aids hiv be who are not fifty four percent of the new infections are among sex workers drug users m s m has met men to have sex with  transgender and prisoners you went seventy seven billion dollars short of the twenty six billion dollars needed by two thousand and twenty to keep up this fight and shouldn't be a headline because we've heard this over and over again but a new study from zambia and south africa of one million people has shown once again the universal testing and early treatment reduces new infections we have been begging for thirty years for there to be universal testing for it to be routine in every doctor's visit in every interaction with any health care and people just will not institute it and it could make such a hundred percent protective of your ability to transmit a hiv and prepuce among gay and bisexual men is ninety nine percent effective and they're still trying to make progress on making prevention easier the news this week was about the potential for an implantable rod like the contraceptive nor veer in that they would implant in your arm i guess and would be effective for a year and they're doing it with some new drug that is more powerful and therefore they think can be made to last over a length of time it's not available yet but that's just simply where it would hurt you to use a condom protection to avoid all those other guys that are now proliferating absolutely i was very sad to hear that diana diana bookman in charleston south carolina has gotten a brain injury during surgery and is not in good shape she was the star of the fabulous documentary years ago diana's hair eco which was about made by ellen spiro wonderful filmmaker it's all about how she decided in her hair salon in charleston to start doing aids education handing out condoms doing classes educating everyone who came in and all of the surrounding area and she was she's a hero for all the work she's done for all she's still doing of the horror of what happened to her career when she went after trump with the mask with the ketchup on it and then segue into her act which explains all that too and it's terrific i've always liked kathy griffin but i've also you know sometimes he's just not quite good enough but now that she's politicized she is so sharp and so angry what does she say about anderson she's very angry at anderson and at  cohen both of whom screwed her and rejected her after the trouble stuff as did ellen degenerates who said you know never get on my show i can't talk to you terrible stuff and who else anderson documentary which i assume will be released soon is kathy griffin a hell of a story so this was a part of a new little film festival that tina brown had put together for her women of the world busy thing and so tina interviewed kathy after discrete in there they were brown is an idiot and the new yorker well i don't know about that i still like the new yorker through all that but she is and she was terrible and even kathy griffin says to her at one point when you please cut the crap she could not ask an interesting question she was just set on her own and she's reading car it's you don't you don't you don't seem too concerned about making friends and six now i've given up on tina brown is nuts grandfather they're very active and glad the l a center and the the debt the foundation so i'm more interested in the updates on the  l word now they're calling what they're going to do a sequel rather than a you know revisit and i think they're renaming a generation key issue they're going to do eight episodes on showtime this fall i think they are having three of the major characters come back jennifer beals catherine manning lisa haley i know a lot of new young people which worries me because i like the ol but we'll keep you up to date on this can we want young people on the show we do but i am confused about whether it's still the l word or now generation q i suspect it's been renamed generation q big news in the comic book movie world in the out besides sesame street they're honoring the flag sally field she has a gay son she talks about that all the time and out again conductor michael tilson thomas of the san francisco symphony look at him and tell him a while to come out in life oh yeah he was sort of late bloomer but he is out now and that's a great thing and it's great that he's getting this honor the other hon who you know i've been touring for years and sesame street as you said and earth wind and fire so it should be a good performance but i really hope the president does not show up that he has a perfect track record of not coming to them so i mean  i don't think those kind of folks could get through it without making some sort of comment and probably will i know now you know how people clam up when the person is in the room it's you know we're in the midst of this we're in the midst of a crisis of this country i don't think people would take it seriously enough i mean i think people are hurting over it and i feel awful about it but i don't think people are taking it seriously enough like the people of puerto rico who you know and i'd love to think they would speak up i'd love to think they'd speak up whether he's there or not but i just have heard too many people say things like why calendar generous and al franken and anderson cooper and andy cohen about it kathy griffin you know what they caught andy cohen on camera in this documentary he's walking along and some camera crew comes along and says so what do you think about kathy griffin and trump and he says who and they say you can't get a grip and he doesn't talk about talk about it and he makes occasional little political comments but but not to the extent of standing up for someone who would innocent cooper speaks out about that once in a while about kathy  that's impolite you know it's ungracious i wouldn't say anything in that setting i have no problem with the tony awards or the oscars people speaking up about what's going on in the country i have to be michael more and more more i want more have to get out the streets and you have to stay there and we all have this great feeling during the women's marches of being surrounded by essentially millions of people around the world and yet this all of you know that's what it has to be sustained to stop it and then people get the idea ok the elections coming up we can take care of it but we have such a bad system in this country whether it's the electoral college or the senate these are hard things to win it's not hard to win an election it's so hard to get a majority in this country for the right thing  or for the good thing but it is hard with with that kind of a system if we don't get new systems are not go to and i'm not willing to concede that it's so easy to win especially with the electoral college system but who are we put in office people who are you know we weren't thinking that obama was a hero for a lot of the stuff he did and certainly not bill clinton so who are we going to like now who is going to have the guts to do more it all requires a much more engaged that democracy is not a spectator sport you know i got it i learned many decades ago watching the civil rights movement on t v participate in an anti vietnam war demonstrations watching millions of people coming to washington people into the streets to demand change and that's what we're trying to do well act up was not a mass movement it was more a targeted zapp movement but with reclaim pride what we did by bringing forty five thousand people into the story a few weeks ago in a protest march and i'm planting the seed of that happening all over the world and that it is an attempt to get back to mass movements in the street that protest and that have values and that have an agenda and given all that's going on what is even the point of having a celebratory parade while everything is being taken away from us one wonders and when that celebration that parade is all about marching behind corporate floats one really has to wonder what the point is people need to be i mean you know it's hard watching the show sometimes i realize it has been trying to tell you the truth but with the supreme maybe people should invent a drinking game but i mean i remember going up to jim fellow years ago and i said aren't you worried with what's coming happening that you know now he said he said michael my lawyer said they don't usually take things away that they've given you  majority for any of this can be reversed i'm waiting for when they reverse brown v board of education or they could reverse anything because there is no you know they talk a such solemn terms about precedent but the fact is there is no rule that precedent place they can do anything they want all the lower federal courts are bound by what the supreme court was talking about that no longer has a show you will see all kinds of decisions affirmed for a long time until it gets back to the supreme court and then and here's the real secret it's great work you meet the best people and you have a good time you go out to dinner you enjoy yourselves in the story and you get to express yourself whether you're angry or celebrating or whatever yes but i got convicted on four counts and so now after that when i got arrested they wanted to really throw the book i was not down for that but i know pluto been arrested much more than me and they're fine