or happy to have been away or whatever both but in the news we don't have to tell you but the trouble assault on human decency immigrants and our courts is intensifying so nothing has changed since i've been away and it's getting worse and but the democrat led house did condemn trumps racism and voted to end his ban on transgender service in the military what happens with that much well we we told you about those gay teachers at the catholic schools in indianapolis you know in their various faiths well there's a twist a couple twists in the story our ambassador to china is a former iowa governor and he is very homophobic and that is going to cost iowa taxpayers millions of dollars because of the governor of puerto rico and his circle this was a big story this week are exposed as ragi homophobes among other things we will look at the passing of a very ill and anti l g b tea bigot in congress the passing of an essential ally on the supreme court and a trance pioneer the big tech companies are funding the campaigns of fischel who oppose l g b t rights you may have seen the mature local press and there is now a new campaign to fight those corporations giving that money to the anti gay politicians will tell you about that we will also tell you about the suspects arrested in anti gay murders in detroit and in dekalb georgia i've been bullied gay teens in the bronx who fought back in the classroom and he was convicted this week ah band slaughter and assault for fighting back against that attack a legendary gay man will be on the money in britain and billy porter scores a st at the emmy nominations very exciting yeah all right well oh god well you know this is all a very specific strategy on his part the democrats were looking like they were splitting between the big group with palosi and the four congress women  seen as up to the left and trump wanted to pull a fast one on palosi so he starts all this race baiting of the four forcing polo sea and the other democrats to move to their side and now he's got the whole group to condemn as socialists and unpatriotic america haters throughout the campaign he's very happy communists according to l one long so the question is is this strategy going to work well here's what we've read in terms of polling is that it has somewhat intensified his support among republican racists which has become essentially a racist party at this point i mean you of forty five percent which is as high as high is about but this has hurt him among independents and his campaign staff is worried and they did were taping on wednesday get him to modify his language in the morning and course the there were a bunch of horrible things that were happening this week some people say this this was trump trying to distract from the jeffrey epstein scam you know he's being implicated in nice footage of the two of them tapping robert mueller next week right and he can't wait for next week's distraction and all though we know it's also distracting from his crackdown on asylum seekers absolutely why would he want to do that pan's goes to the border and just lock eyes about at what's in front of our faces they are so shameless and so relentless so this is silence seeking thing i mean of course the new policy that was announced this week is that if you are from a country and you go through another country you can't ask for asylum at the  not be sent back to mexico as other asylum seekers are and they're also afraid according to this story that others will claim to be not what they were trying to keep this quiet yes i guess now where they're what is going to say i'm gay international stories but in a lot of countries around the world you can't even be gay and assert you're gay and so i would i was very proud to see rise in resist new york based activist groups out there nd s treet and th avenue blocking traffic at rush hour i believe it was you know to protest what's going on with ice and show the next picture it's everybody we know from the queer liberation march and from  from gays against guns and rising rivers these folks and look at they're all smiling they were many of them were in jail until four o'clock in the morning before they could get out but they hurt totally dedicated to this and they just came through as you did  square liberation march which was such a triumph yes well that puts you in a good mood but yeah this was in reaction to the announcement by trump and the government that they were going to conduct these national  round ups of undocumented people to throw them out of the country so there was a lot of reaction that all over the country and that just happened to be one action in new york the the threat of course was  observed in the breach to some extent they did not do it as widely as possible you never know with trump which threats to believe in which not because he often just routinely makes threats and then doesn't follow thro said they wanted to do this there were people in the justice department now so they wanted to prosecute this officer but they were overruled by barr i mean they think they waited too long obviously well these cases often take a long time but the  explanation for why they weren't going to take this on is a federal case was certainly specious we can't prove that he that the officer meant to kill the guy a coroner welly he executed use the word advisedly an illegal chokehold and the coroner said that it was the illegal child so called that killed him not to mention that he was you know he's selling loose and they grabbed him they choke hold of him he he kept he said to levon times i can't breathe and they wouldn't let him go and now it's up to the new york police department which has a procedure against this officer who has been kept on desk duty all these years well he may the officer may be fired that often happens in these cases too even if they're exonerated by the legal system and then there's what's happening to our courts we've got some statistics about the about  nineteen circuit court judges confirmed at the same point is administration trump has gotten forty one dollars so now trump controls forty or twenty two percent of the judges on the court of appeals and fourteen percent of the judiciary overall and they are seventy eight percent male and eighty seven percent white you know jimmy carter is really one of the ones who really accelerated diversity on the bench i mean yes lyndon johnson the point at thurgood marshall  and there were other federal judges who were african american and latino etc but carter did a lot for that he's the one who st appointed ruth bader ginsburg to the federal bench not to the supreme court so it's awful but then we have these stories right about pedants he is actually trying to stop a former indiana solicitor general thomas fischer from getting a seat on the th circuit court of appeals because he doesn't want his social conservative governorship to come under scrutiny at his hearing he knows that if this guy is nominated because he defended all of pence's anti  policies is going to be back in the headlines also pence's plan to block syrian refugees if you remember that crisis back in the day so i do and it seems like you know time ago tribe is making a lot of progress on the th circuit which used to be the most liberal circuit and now we get a decision from them refusing to block the title ten gag rule which is really something that is going to hurt all women's health of course but also people with aids and and other things there's just there's no end to this and it's i would have to say worse than we ever imagined as i always say that's the reason i went to the hospital with chest pains the day after the election that because none of the oh no no i celebrate the fact that the house passed the condemnation for its racist comments but where is that going to go it's even if it went to the senate they're not going to pass it well it's year now the other thing is that the house passed a defense authorization bill and included in it amendments that repealed the military trans and i at the direction i think are the insistence of the more progressive members of the house like the squad is there and evan i call in themselves about ten republican votes well you know this whole split started because the squad didn't want to vote for a nother funding bill that they thought was too mild and not progressive enough and that split them from palosi and that's why they were coming apart so they insisted on these amendments to the defense bill but will certainly the senate will pass a version without these amendments and then when it goes to conference who will prevail and will that stay in it highly unlikely and will even if it does will trump veto it because of those measures in it he's perfectly capable of doing that and weaken our defense yes because you know as somebody else pointed out he's made these threats before all this crap that he dishes out with these women they hate america he spent the whole tw sixteen campaign seeing how awful america what yes awful yes it was yes you know this well you don't expect consistency or truth from him do you i don't expect anything but lies yeah on the other hand the rd circuit court of appeals upheld an injunction against the enforcement of trying to drum up some regulations broadening the employers exemption from requirement under the c a a to provide contraception coverage very important that they said that trump went beyond the hobby lobby decision and he was trying to apply it to publicly traded corporations and let the coverage and they also wanted to let the coverage and without notice yeah and i don't think he's going to give up on that he'll keep trying that you know and that was the whole thing about the hobby lobby decision it was it was based on a privately owned company whose owners had a stab lish religious point of view but as that go approved we looked at it and said it'll never stop here this is just opening the door a crack and they'll be charging through with much more now more attempts to limit payment for reproductively talking about the u n more under international news but the senate is on the verge of part of approving andrew bird a policy director of the republican national committee and two thousand and sixteen that wrote the platform as ambassador to the office of the u n in geneva all right well let's give them a little semi good news and that is a new campaign against corporations that  the campaign it's called zero for a zeroes and it is about corporations that have one hundred percent ratings from the human rights campaign in their corporate and quality index meaning they have good policies for their old should be q employees they give benefits there they are progressive in those areas but as we have learned certainly recently they turn around and they give massive donations millions of dollars to right wing republican politicians almost all their campaign donations are based on keep my taxes low and regulations yeah that's it yeah i don't want to hear anything well there are a corporation well that's their goal yes but you know that's the point they may purport to have good values on us and on others but when the rubber hits the road their bottom line is their highest priority which i would expect from a corporation well and therefore they're looking at things like their tax load and like regulations but we are always trying to we should be trying to move them away from that and say this will be bad for your bottom line if we expose the fact that you're doing exactly  that remember the target the company charge you are making all those horrible donations well that's what this campaign is about so lane hudson and other people in washington who are experienced to this kind of political  analysis have put together a campaign called zero prisoner zero s and the i idea is to pressure corporations by saying we are your consumers and we will impact your bottom line if you keep donating so much money to keep in power these republicans who are so heinous and are doing all these things that we've just been complaining about for the last twenty minutes or so here for example is one of their images representative steve king of r z e r o s dot org you can find their campaign find lots of images like that that tie these politicians to the corporations that are funding them was it wasn't steve king so bad that it was even the republicans were still in control of the house and they had to condemn him yes that's right exactly right but t mobile wanting help from a powerful republican member of congress not so powerful anymore but is funding him with lots of money as are other corporations so congratulations to those who are putting together this campaign and i'm glad to see you know that the whole census issue is not being dropped yes we won this you know trump has pulled back on the citizenship question but now that there are groups including the a c l u we're trying to bring those who committed fraud who lied in their testimony to justice  that case that would be nice while he's getting rid of wilbur ross who the commerce secretary write well and we've heard that several times i'll believe it when i see it when it suits him he will get rid of all right wilbur  ross poll a little political news we have a out a new candidate for congress in the bronx new york richie taurus a member of the new york city council only thirty one sr on the left there who's seventy six years old and very very popular among his wild angelical can stay he has a base but a congressional district is a lot larger than the council district that he has now or the state senate district he had before so you know whether whether he can win just on that basis i would think that could only happen if there was a big split the vote he has won i mean how big was he never lose assembly district yes well or senate whatever state he didn't get over fifty percent of the vote in a very mixed race but there are a lot of candidates know because there are a lot of candidates well we're rooting for richie taurus and in michigan the congressman republican all right iowa back to steve kin kings area terry branstad was the governor of iowa for a long time and while he was governor of iowa he was discriminating against the out gay commissioner of workers comp and this position was supposed to be something that you get for a set term and the governor could come in and for around with it so he went in i think like cut in salary or something like that to get rid of a when a guy well now terry branstad is the ambassador to china for the united states payoff by trial for help in iowa and but meanwhile the commissioner of workers comp has been suing branstad in the state for discrimination and he has now won that lawsuit and has been awarded by the court one and a half one million dollars of congress named denver riggleman but he this week performed a wedding for a gay couple this guy who opposed the equality act opposed transgender service the gay couple ballance here to his campaign there are log cabin  pennsylvania they were scheduled to raise a pride playa get city hall for l g b t q pride day or whatever but the mayor who would agree to this suddenly cancel that he said raising the flag would be a political event it was a political yeah how they talking about yeah and so he canceled the flag let's go to the catholic schools ok we've been telling you these stories out of indianapolis so you have one jesuit high school that had a gay teacher in the bishop said you've got to get rid of or i'm going to take away your catholic designation and they said all right you're going to take it away because we're going to stand by this guy the other school was a diocesan school and they didn't want to they had more diocese the school yes and by fire the gay teacher it turns out they're married to each other really yeah and they're both named n is still at the jesuit high school and joshua by the way has also filed with the e e o c over this oh and of course you know the school the the people in the school wanted to keep these guys you know and they are able to keep one of them well good luck on the house on the other catholic school thing notre dame high school in san bernardino they fired a gay principal back in april and the school prendes prince president has now resigned in protest other staff has quit over this and financial support for the school is dwindling and they and the principal is suing over this well speaking of married same sex couples congratulations to the native american legalize same sex marriage what is often overlooked is that when same sex marriage was legalized in this country a few years ago that did not apply to native american territory reservations because they  governing to some extent and certainly in this area so one by one various tribes have taken on the question and this is a new victory these women wanted to marry some years ago when it was legalized for the us and we're told that they that the tribe had not legalized it for their territory they did it legally they went off and got married elsewhere mount rushmore and then  worked on pursuing that tribe legalizing it and now they have so thank you for that work right in puerto rico well let's go to puerto rico to talk about them him and members of his administration in casual talk about a number of subjects and one of the things they did is disparage everyone in sight using richard nixon's favorite word that we can't say on the show begins with c cruz who was running for governor next year so some of his people have resigned including the secretary of state but he said as of this taping said he won't there have been massive demonstrations down there ship from landing in san juan royal caribbean is stopping having its cruise ships stop in in san juan so solow is not saying if he's going to run for reelection but he says he won't resign because there's so much work to do all right so we have a little side bet i bet he resigns trump i'm actually thinking he will at some point that without a battle escape something but anyway well it just seems t raditional that people say they won't resign i'll two days later they did i left out a religious story well let me get to the other governor story and that is that jared polis the openly gay governor of colorado there's a campaign to recall him but these people they have their thing approved that they can go collect signatures they need six hundred and thirty one thousand signatures to put it on the ballot and to be the st time that ever happened in colorado they're upset about the oil and gas industry gun control things like that but  usually just goes home and just doesn't go to school which is why he was left back so this day not recommending this kids he brings in i his friend says how about a knife on you as many kids in the school do have and i find you and then  they will leave you alone so in this case he he's there and he's after he's getting tortured people are throwing things at his had the d a treated this as oh the kids were just having fun that's the way they set it so  he says who's doing to this to me y'all and he used he said pussy you all plus the d a said these are fighting words and this prompts two kids to get up from the back to charge him and at st he doesn't pull out the knife but then he sees that the guy pushed the teacher out of the way to get him so he holds up the knife in his right hand he's not right handed he wants to stop him and the guy charges him and starts beating his face this tape of this and he starts you know he's not experienced with a knife so he starts going like this he this is him on the stand i just went like this and he's got a knife in his hand right through the heart of one guy dead and the other guy gets slashed so the judge now they they they rejected so much evidence in this trial of the fact that he knew these kids to be gang members and he was worried about them having knives and weapons judge found a can of the harassment the judge and they wouldn't let that in either  so the judge he was able to talk about it on him self on the stand but it was all the evidence of all the reports of how he was mistreated over the years were not allowed in so he was found guilty of manslaughter guilty of assault and that weapons possession he faces five to fifty years on these charges now they're going to try for youthfulness offender status he was eighteen years old when it happened back and go either way that could go either way so it would be much shorter so it's a tragedy for everybody now everybody is suing the school system for not have to deal with well not having metal detector he's on the stand then he keeps saying they kept calling me a bit bitchy and a faggot all the time in class and this is in previous years and they said what did the teacher do about it oh oh come on everybody quiet down not deal with it and eleven dollars teacher said why don't i get you two together the bully and you and you know you know or will kids need to know what their options are oh he tried for a transfer he was turned down anyway all right other crime stories in in arizona yeah i can't a nine year old trans boy foster child for a four day stay at the camp on the grounds that they would have to do too much training of the camp staff yeah well that's why we have a harvey milk school yeah because the schools don't want to deal with the issue in detroit a man was charged with shooting two men because they were gay malcolm drake twenty six was and was is in critical condition and brian anderson thirty one died florida home ventura pulled out a gun and threatened a couple of guys who were defending the ex she was booked on the players union is appealing the suspension but that's fairly routine for major league sports players unions appealing any kind of suspension like that doesn't sound good and then there's the presbyterian pastor in elizabeth new jersey william weaver he's accused of sexually abusing numerous men over the years he this is going back decades he would do an elaborate ceremony that involved purging evil spirits from their bodies by performing oral sex on them and he told the victims he learned from native american tribes and then he would put his tongue to their mouth to see if evil spirits were hiding there my body has not been indicted he's retired and he has not been disciplined by the church they say they're investigating involved in the in the early get activists alliance worked with sylvia rivera and street transvestite action revolutionaries the queens liberation front was on the original board of the national gay task force and active in planning the st christopher street liberation that yes that was like her last parents just a week ago or two weeks ago in the march by the way if you're wondering what comes next for reclaim pride and the queer liberation march we are wondering that ourselves so we are having a community meeting on wednesday the th of july this coming wednesday at seven pm at the people's forum where we conduct our weekly meetings at dad is eighty nine yeah he read excerpts from describing gay sex acts and the congressional record to you know to get us somehow and then he called for quarantining p w ways return return of anti sodomy laws he said that p w a z mitt airborne spores that can give a job be to those around them he later recanted that representative henry waxman that was one of our heroes was the chair of the house  committee said he was a me that hateful man and he had no sense of humor and later in life he married dr moraine day oh it cost and i are yeah he was relentless he was one of was remembered for nothing else than the appointment of john paul stevens he would be very proud and happy and i placed william o douglas the great the greatest liberal who was the longest serving justice and he was the nd longest serving justice and according to starting a fire here is a didn't like to be reminded of that but but he turned it into a great liberal and was certainly with us on all the cases he was appointed the court i think in seventy nine v gore decision could only lead cretans credence to the most cynical appraisal of the work of judges throughout the land that it really hurt the judiciary to step in there and essentially make a political decision he was not always a liberal but he insisted on strict separation of church and state and i learned by reading as a bit sure that he served in world war two and parole harbor working on breaking japanese codes for which he was awarded the bronze star more on that later yes and finally well you know i think they gained a toehold they st came in with one place by n y u and the world didn't blow up and now i noticed there was a chick fil a on th avenue that we marched past that people stopped and yelled  international news in brazil glenn greenwald the journalist who was famous for breaking the edward snowden leaks and criticized for you know right for criticizing russia gate he lives in brazil with his miranda was a set of states that are down there and he's been doing stories about the press that about the corruption in the prosecution of the former president lula and of pave the way for the anti gay fascist bals and now they're after him he's got bodyguards all over the place he expects that they're going to try to put him in jail for this and he says it or you know they making death threats they're going after his husband calling him a girl the wrong with that but  anyway it's just scary there he says put me in prison but it's all going to come out because he puts the information where everybody can get it that's right well he is kind of  better or worse sweden rejected a gay iranian teen who's there asking for asylum they took his transistor a couple of years ago but the this is one of these cases where they refuse to believe that he's gay well he had to get an early interview where he's having a bad interpreter and it all went badly and now they're saying well you know there was nothing wrong with that that procedure so we don't want to hear anything new and he's afraid of dying if he has to go back to iran where they do in fact kill people he does have a twenty three year old italian partner and he's being but i've been together for eighteen months anyway so but that's  was you know his post be out in three weeks israel has a little dust up going because the new education minister says that not only does he support conversion therapy he has  it works he done an orthodox rabbi he's the head of an ultra nationalist united right party and this is the problem with coalition governments because then these tiny minority extremists who  give other people a majority to put together a government have control is will has never had a majority government ever so they've always had to cobble together these groups this guy also said you've got to convert the government's position says oh i'm not for conversion therapy post them on facebook come on well here's what i'm talking about the rabbi yeah exactly so here is what i've noticed was  note in a couple of years and two thousand and twenty one he was chosen from a one thousand nominations because they want to broaden the diversity of it this is the guy who essentially invented computers and broke the nazi code in the war and saved hundreds of thousands of lives but he was show but i didn't retain that you know how the british parliament is forcing northern ireland to leave same sex marriage maybe but the little bit of the little scandal in this is that theresa may on her way out of power has been saying and i i will be with the l g b t q cried community yes exactly for the rest my wife i may be leaving power but i'll be with you for the rest of my life trying to tell us something and then didn't forty one thousand dollars but this has to do with the olympics and all that though because they and russia argued in court this will destroy the moral values of society and undermine russian sovereignty by decreasing our population that's been their position for many years the united nations the united nations has extended the term nd three year term for their expert on sexual orientation and gender identity violence and discrimination and they got a bigger vote this time around i'm not sure what this guy is actually doing but it's considered a positive but the us didn't vote and why because trump took us off the human rights council at the un early in his term so we no longer have a vote on and abstained india's legislature is also revising the trends writes bill we got some bad thing out of that you know made you have to go through a screening panel to get certified that you're trans but the final draft is not ready yet but there were african countries and others that busy stepped up and voted for this expert this time around and that that kind of thing is probably  new policy speaking of soccer referees can shut down games and these are soccer games or what they call football if anti gay chances are extend to the stadium and mexico is apparently the worst r just this month and this is the kind of stuff that people are fleeing from central america and coming through mexico exactly like that here but that doesn't impress trump because he just doesn't think and nor and at the same time he's cutting off any kind of funding for honduras guatemala ecuador what's the other one el salvador because he doesn't want to fund them anymore but it's that kind of funding that can make busy a a better society that would have people less attacked but he's he's taken it away from each and for a number of stories from canada the anglican church of canada has been process and the lay people approved same sex marriage the clergy approved same sex marriage but the bishops have just fallen one vote short of the two thirds ov two thirds and this must mean that they passed at the last time a couple of years ago and that they didn't this time but the churches say look we're going to keep doing this the ones that want to do it are going to keep doing ok and there was a rather violent clash at the pride march or pride parade in hamilton ontario because there is a vicious right wing group that came out to attack the parade and that led to come about they've had terrorist attacks in canada  apologized and agreed that seven hundred and eighteen people who they busy have identified have been the victims of these purges have lost their jobs had been followed interrogated abused  fired harassed so now they're going to pay reparations anywhere from five thousand dollars to one hundred and seventy five thousand dollars depending on the level of abuse some people are afraid to claim the money because they are still so affected by what happened to them decades ago that they are afraid to step forward and egg knowledge themselves as having been victims and they're having to work to get people to come forward and get the money and who's afraid of the united states sort of moving into aids news from international lose the global gag rule that bans abortion referrals it's really severely impacting a services and prevention abroad and it leads to much higher abortion rates but in mozambique the agency that deals with all kinds of health they they can't stop talking a big mentioning abortion to people they've lost sixty percent of their funding so what they're doing is just making golf outcomes worse for everybody especially i don't care especially people with aids that's the whole point that it leads to more abortion if that's what you care about now they don't care i don't care about anything but themselves some years ago street theater was one of their famous productions the nice are revival of that during pride month that they did at the stonewall inn well they decided their next revival should be something about lesbians and there's this play called bar dykes written by a woman named meryl mushroom yes that is her name yes here is the cast of bar di it was written in the eighty's but it's about was we have our life i believe in the fifty's yes and it's playing at the flea and it raises all those issues and it's it's really only a little over an hour and afterwards of the performance i was at they had a panel discussion including with meryl mushroom on the phone from west virginia where he's living monumental busy but it is absolutely charming and if you want to be entertained by looking at lesbians at a bar in the fifty's i remember that movie my beautiful l british in the movie that brought daniel day lewis in a very uncharacteristic role to the fore gay role at that time it's being turned into a play with music by the pet shop boys and it's opening in leicester united kingdom september t we'll see if it makes it over here coming to a theater near you soon is a remake of the lion king with various big voices like beyond say star and singing no big deal so they had an it doing team on which is a historically gay role nathan lane did in the last version so oh yeah i've been writing about hanging with beyond say meeting megan mark owen it's all nominations and the fact that billy porter is the st african american gay man to be nominated as lead actor in a drama for paulo's but there is so so much l g b well impose itself was nominated but a lot of the women the supporting characters the trans woman were not nominated and that's a shame but that's a huge nomination for billy bulger but killing he was nominated yes when they see us a limited series not good well there  jack i'm sorry oh my god that it's not it's not up this year i don't know i assume if these jane lynch was nominated as you said i'm just looking around i can't say the name of that show probably get us in trouble allen was nominated for a of maple for material this time the next six months is going to be six artists influenced by mablethorpe and i assume compared to his vocal and katherine the guggenheim so we're going to survive all this you know well i'm not optimistic at this point well i'm certainly not optimistic about what's going to happen to the country in the next year and a half before we have a real chance to get rid of him i don't think we're going to impeach him i don't think for a long time i thought he bridge zein that would be able to drive him out of office but i no longer think about new york state is giving you a chance to look at his taxes take a look would you and kellyanne conway why does your ethnicity oh my