a virginia high school teacher has been fired for refusing to call a trance student by his proper pronouns my sexual peak shelly a buzzcocks has died at sixty three hiv treatment activists have decided to have their own international aid charity aids conference in mexico city in july while the established meets in san francisco unanimously confirmed by the judiciary committee back then well go ahead no i mean he's given many speeches condemning the permissiveness of the sexual revolution he's saying it's the reason for america's decline he condemns the separation of church and state yes well let's stop and repeat that condemns the separation of church and state that the main one of these theocrats that wants to give up civil law and have a very yes and he said he once of the meant to the homosexual movement is accorded such concern at what he called two percent of the population at the time while the catholic population of twenty five percent is given the back  and he says transcended into order flows from god's eternal law but the main reason that he was picked is because first trump wanted to be the white house counsel and said oh he's a good guy i got anothe of them put in guantanamo bay when we also you know he also condemned georgetown university's acceptance of its l g b t group under d c law i mean they got city funding so they had to comply with d c law the president while he's in office tell us about this job the research lab that's montel well we told you last week that there were threats to cut down the work of the funding for the university of california at san francisco research operation that is working on h i v cures or treatments but they were given like ninety days instead of a one year contract but you know it was also kind of up in the air when it's all about  use of fetal tissue research getting to the right so they have now dropped the hammer and said all right it's all over because these labs by fetal tissue supposedly from elective abortions and then they use that fetal tissue to turn mice to create mice with human immune systems and this is been going on for decades in hiv research because you want to try drugs on the human immune system and see reagan was for yeah that once ronnie was diagnosed but you want a model to try with the human immune system without actually endangering human beings peta people could certainly be upset about this but the idea that women would have abortions so that they could sell fetal tissue to a lab for research is so crazy and say well you know what else is crazy they've all been forbidden for space from speaking out about this and what one of them did tell the press with honestly this stops all of our research to discover a cure for h i will see what the new attorney general says about this assuming he's confirmed and why wouldn't he be buzz feed put in a four year request with the department of justice for information on their religious liberty task force and the justice department is refusing the foyer because they say it's about religious liberty so if the kansas louisiana where people are suing over the cutting off of funding for planned parenthood and clarence thomas was not happy with that this but he was only joined by only go in course that you need for to take the case and it's about whether medicaid recipients can challenge these cut offs to providers when parenthood because they cut offs have been discriminatory the states have said we're cutting off medicaid funding public funding to a particular organization and they don't have the right to do that that is discrimination and so they the funding has continued and the right wing wants to stop as it is no for there's no federal funding allowed for abortion anywhere that's been the policy in this country forever thank you henry hyde exactly right in california and eight year old girl is test to find in the case of the murder of her ten year old brother he anthony of all oss was murdered by his mother and stepfather they tortured him for octomom his head ten times because they thought because they thought he was gay beat him of going through violence i guess we should say that in detroit another black trans woman motel was found killed thirty five years old an active member of the ballroom scene there the twenty fifth recorded murder of a trans person this year in the united states recorded it's the same neighborhood where transgender amber moore was slain in august of two thousand and fifteen and kiana was an advocate for her and i was quite active politically as an advocate for the themed children's books and then went outside and dropped a man at all wells container and let them on fire and then videotaped himself doing it and bragging about it he is now being charged with  who are not married and also in kentucky the appeals court there has sort of almost overturned a decision that they used to have about people who are in on marriage relationships who are raising that get together lesbian co parent was denied parental rights and all about the they found that you had a chance to get married and you didn't so we're taking it we're taking away your parental rights the lower court in the original case said it was clear that they had planned to have a child together and they had done the work to have a child together they had gone to pick out the nerve semen together that had been at the insemination together and the people in charge of assessing it said it would be of the best interests of this child to have continue the co parenting relationship but they specifically did not want to look at the best interests of the child they just wanted to look at these facts and they said even though you had your own commitment ceremony  a month later the supreme court decided the burka felt decision and said you could get married and you didn't get married and here was the real killer on this anthony kennedy's decision which we discussed a week or two ago  all about married parents raising the children and how good this would be for the kids and so this appeals court in kentucky said the o'berg felt decision was so clearly about the need for parents to be married that we are not going to acknowledge this relationship and any any evidence about the relationship of the non biological mother to this child because the supreme court decision so heavily emphasized  the need to marry that's a warning to all couples basically all right in virginia and high school teacher was fired because he refused to use a student's preferred programs the scribe peter v laming he says it was a matter of his religious faith you're trying to a poser if you want me this is at west point high school they banned discrimination there on the basis of gender identity they voted the school board voted five he says i'll use the male mame but i'm going to slip up because i know him as her you know and you can't make me do it here's the deal respect yeah especially era teacher in a school in a public school come on how much would it cost you now doesn't have to do with your religious faith and what do you care christ there is neither male nor female if you read your bible do we respect other people in this country or do we feel that we have to impose our judgments on remember you're celebrating his birthday later this year really annoying well the quincy mass city council in quincy is not known as a bastion of you know left wing crazies the city council approved sign this there's some question whether he will think it is necessary but i think the chances are he will sign this and they'll have a nice commission n l g b t q issues in columbia missouri in the middle school a parent education and it's also sexual harassment of my child to have to look at the words lesbian and transgender so you know the saddest thing was the daughter who said my father taught me all  about this and she went along with it no that was the kind of tragedy a school board said look we recognize this group we're going to put the posters up they're not pursuing charges against the and rage father but they're kind of ignoring him  victory fund which supports l g b t q candidates for office has come out with what i think is a very solid agenda for congress we'll see whether any of it gets passed they want congress to pass the equality act which everything up to date they want hiv aids advisory commission established so that they can talk about what it's going to take to get to zero no more new infections let's not and they want to be have the congress be cognisant of the people internationally both in terms of asylum claims for people coming here and for us foreign policy i think that's a good and well i hope the house passes out magazine who is a trans woman an activist rockwell willis she's been active in black lives matter and she is now the executive editor of out magazine she's a native of georgia paean tour she's played on several solheim cup she's played in the u s not quite as successful here yet she said she hesitated because of the male dominated sponsors who want to certain kind of image for the for the tour she said there's only one of you in the world in your so be the best version of yourself and be proud of who you are exactly and congratulations to tracy oh manuel a trans mailbox or the first trans ads they rant about trans bathroom predators well that was just to spread hatred and he says the bt lobby learned how to counter it so we're going to have to come up with something else yeah they made all that up because they couldn't win a religious establishment but they're beholden to the the kosher police who certified their kitchens and the kosher police found out the and was headlining this thing and they said we will take away your certification if you let her play and we'll appoint and even jellicoe preacher to head a new family values ministry he says it's time for the church to govern you see a pattern here also the supreme court in brazil is deciding this week and whether hate crimes law is legal in india an actor producer writer come all khan was booked for making disrespectful comments against the whole g b d community it was booked under laws covering obscenity and causing disharmony we don't have anything like this in america in costa rica where the constitutional court judges decided after a long wait in favor of same sex marriage but said it's going to take eighteen months for it to go into effect a lawyer has filed a criminal complaint against the judges saying that they lied they are breaching their duties spain the and the contest the miss universe twenty eighteen contest is going to be held december seventeenth in bangkok thailand for those of you still watching that now picture of angela there she is going to win trans woman from spain now of course travel the one thing i give him credit for is years ago when there was a trance contestant trying to get into one level of the miss universe pageant he said ye across africa trying to break the stigma most african countries as you know still criminalize homosexuality not too long ago and in fact in botswana the high court has announced it's going to hear case about sodomy union put out a resolution supporting l g b t equity in the digital area and hungary and poland objected to it and wanted to water it down and didn't want to do this and the other countries said  no we're not going to go along with you we're tired of you know watering dad what we're doing because you rightwing countries don't want to move ahead we're going to go ahead and do this let's talk about  homosapien with his love for men back in one thousand nine hundred one it was banned from the b b c but it became a hit and a gay anthem and exactly dead at sixty three much too young in australia the police are now offering a million dollars a strangely in million dollars i think it's seven hundred twenty thousand dollars u s reward for information on the killing of an american scott johnson hundred eighty eight thirty years ago he was one of these guys who was thrown off a cliff near sydney and that the top of the cliff was a gay cruising area and so there were these guys soon there were men maybe not  who would come and throw people off the cliff to their deaths and it would be wrong to suicide i think it was stereotypical a teenager earned twenty men who would allow that was what was perceived at the million dollar reward is trying to pry loose somebody because some of these people are likely still alive who did this maybe for a million bucks to go tell the truth and turn somebody in we're a little concerned about germany america all is going to remain president as it looks now for another two or three years but they've elected a new leader of her party the christian democratic union and it's her choice and a gret cramp interpreted in this as something that can be used to argue for certification of same sex marriage which they're still sort of dickering over because the new president of chile is not in favor of same sex marriage but they promised to pass it so it's being delayed but they're hoping that this court decision is going to move it along even though it wasn't directly about it in newfoundland canada bought would high school  assaults reports that the school is in a civil war over this some students staying home and why because straight people don't feel included anymore did we talk already about alberta canada visibility and most responses have been very positive and we're trying to do you isolate people ok in sri lanka activists are demonstrating for l g b t q decriminalization and liberation and the movement continues around the world news yes so you know there's a lot of controversy over the international aids conference in san francisco in july two thousand and twenty because we're a country that discriminates against people with aids and  mexico city called h i b twenty twenty community reclaiming the global response reclaim there's an interesting or heard we could take a moment to say that we are still working very happily and successfully i think w wednesday night seven to nine pm or people's forum or plan a june thirtieth commemoration of stonewall fifty march in your hometown wherever you are in the world it was very being to see our lawyer legendary civil rights attorney norman siegel get up and say how moved he was by the meeting because he hungers for grassroots activism in this city and grassroots activism without rancor because we're all there for the same purpose working together and we're getting a lot of support and i think it's going to be big it's great all right meanwhile back to aids news new study out of northwestern university sixteen to twenty nine year old black men are sixteen times more at risk of eight hiv infection than their white counterparts this is very depressing news particularly because they have fewer sex partners they get tested more often and they have more safe sex so why is this happening access to drugs well it's they they're in a more dense interconnected social access to health care after infection so they're the people with a b are less likely to be undetectable and noninfectious but the real point is that they're not targeted for intervention they don't get the education they need they don't get the access to prep that they need they don't get access to treatment and so there are dire warnings that half half of young h  t well young men young african american men having sex with men half of them will end up age hiv infected even in this day and age with all the baritone when december nineteenth at the how happening gallery at six east first street tommy is a very well known artist and he was at the stonewall rebellion it was eighty years ago and this is a very well reviewed exhibit called ten amental prendes with size too deep for words and it looks just stunning so if you want to check out tommy lamb again schmidt's exhibit you can catch it quick in the next week at the howell gallery what's happening with the grammys well i thought we do other things before we get to all the awards good ellen is talking ellen has a new stand up comedy show coming out on netflix december eighteenth and she's just signed a new contract to extend her talk show but there's talk of her ending her talk show a couple show notes for you the other way is come back to broadway in the summer as kathryn we're going to get five it's not a new play but it's a new version i hope they've talked to scotty bowers and gotten some more information on that play we saw some shows and you saw one without me that was probably the best one well i mean i saw the network which is the play version of the moby now this is directed by ibo that whole day who is gay and is septa zuyder is gay but this is really bryan cranston show playing howard b o i bet is how and i'm not going to take it anymore and it is a tour de force and it is different from the academy award winning performance of peter finch the supporting cast i thought that the pace of the thing wasn't wasn't fast enough three count them three women playing cher you know media men older and they're onstage and they talk to each other and but the book  dance routine that that was a highlight but i really i cannot reckon on the show ok we saw a slave play yes we did at the new york theater workshop which we were not crazy this has gotten about race and it's about sex and it's about general enough i thing well you start off on a plantation ok so i don't want to tell you what happens after that i just think they should have done it straighter michael yuri's going to take it on the road himself in the fall starting in l a at the theater some movie notes first of all there is a movie now out on d v d and video on demand called a moment in the reeds from finland it's a romantic drama about a gay syrian refugee and the part is played by a gay syrian actor and it's suppose i haven't seen it but it's supposed to be sexually charged a moment in the reeds from finland if you're into getting those video on demand movies play was certainly sexually charged certainly was death in venice remember the d and then rachel vice and emma stone vying for her sexual favors and clearly we had seventeen children all of whom and that's why she had seventeen rabbits who are all in the movie it's very funny a lot of it is very funny and it sort of ends sadly but it's it's i thought that was well worth seeing i also saw a star is born which i didn't find quite so compelling but lady gaga is very good even though i think she's sort of mis please not going to kevin hart she would talk about him for yes i think so so kevin hart was selected to be the oscar host and then a lot of his old homophobic tweets started to come out well mostly from twenty zero nine twenty eleven he uses the word fag a lot said he is biggest fear in life was having a gay son just like the president of brazil well it is said that he said that several times and you know deal hugely has defended him like oh it's a joke if you can't take a joke what's wrong with you it was a joke to say my greatest fear is that my son is gay and if he were i would beat the hell out of him that's not funny it's not funny and he also made a number of movies that were just one long and of course you know we just went through this week with george bush who hated gay people so much they let one hundred thousand die and he was given a state funeral and i'm critical of coverage from the media including rachel m should know better who was an aids activist and who is one of the ones in the show we have coming up who was in new hampshire criticizing gore for his aids policies anyway the oscars are february twenty fourth and the made up to host the we'll see but i you know i think kevin hart ultimately gave what sounded like a sincere apology but he could have done that at the beginning it's not that people can't be redeemed and how you know we've all made mistakes and certainly i'm sure there are other her hosts who we've also been critical of and who have committed their own sins all right so let's get to the nominations ok let's start with the grammys  coming up on february tenth the big news here is the lovely gentle monet has been nominated for album of the year for her album dirty computer now she came out as bisexual pansexual whatever this year and is in a relationship supposedly with tessa thompson now compare what kevin hart has just done to what jenelle monet said about her album and about being nominated she said it's not about me it's about a munity of dirty computers of marginalized voices being a young black queer woman in america there was something i had to say a group of people i wanted to celebrate and i'm happy to be representing them i hope they feel seen i hope they feel heard i hope they feel love i hope they feel celebrated it's about a community of voices that i hear and see when i look out in the crowd you know there's something going on in this country and there are a lot of people's voices being pushed to the margins of society because of who they love and what god they choose to serve i wanted this album to be for them to be a community and a church for their lives now could kevin dated for the favorite for the golden globes there they are there and all their splendor well and i think rachel weiss is actually the most splendid of them all there in the middle i really enjoyed her and ended up being most sympathetic to her screenplay was also nominated and that was nominated for best movie in the music musical comedy category it is not a gate gary gary and it's really hot these days and he and it was nominated for best dramatic t v series too he is fantastic and pose he he he would be sort of the house no well he's the baldwin book gay off there if not gay shit you know movie has been nominated for best dramatic movie and supporting actress and screenplay and how about catch up with because that is wonderful also nominated for best foreign language film is a very controversial movie called girl from belgium it's about a trans  girl who's a ballerina is trying to be a prima ballerina but the problem is that the part is played by a system and her boy who is somewhat feminine in those stereotypical ways but this is coming under a lot of criticism for not casting a trans actor we just talked about a lot of gay roles played by not gay actors there is  also criticism now this movie was a big hit at cannes it won a lot of awards it can but the criticism is that it's voyeuristic about the genitals of the star and that it's kind of a scare story that it's not anything positive and the male straight director is getting some of the blame for this so girl watch out for that  now before we end the show we have a few minutes we want to tell you about a couple of very special shows were airing in the next couple of weeks because we're going to be we're not going to be here doing regular new shows for the next two exactly reviewing theatre in london so we have prepared a couple of very special shows for you the first that we're going to air next week is a show starting our stonewall fifty coverage would that be fair to say yes ok well we've always done it yes well this is special so i think for the next six or seven months we will be looking taking a look at the movement of this you know we did this we taped the show already it's a really great panel martin boys who was a stonewall ranger in charge of the national stonewall monument and sharon square will be here in uniform in uniform now and what's interesting is she's younger and so for her to be sitting well i'm sure she'll appreciate that for heard of me sitting here with martin the stone wall veteran and carla jay legendary author an activist and professor and she was quite all odd by forceful about talking about her experience as a lesbian feminist in those days so that's next week on gay usa our stonewall fifty show and then the week after the week between christmas and new years we're going to on the show that i did for logo they ran a very good documentary called quiet heroes about a lesbian doctor in salt lake city in the early eighty's who was one of the first to take on people w patients and who talks about stigma and lack of treatments and everything in the quiet heroes documentary which you can still find on line and logo asked me to come in with some lesbian and aids activists to t her lesbian exactly very much better and and and so i brought in maxine wolff and amanda logons stacey smith and we sat around for almost an hour talking about where we had each come from very different backgrounds how we got into activism and how we got specifically into aids activism and some of our favorite actions and what all this has meant to our only histories which was fascinating you know areas and some cases a lot of it is hilarious amanda talking about being a chef is pretty hilarious so those are the next two weeks sunday usa and then we'll be back with the first week of january with a regular news show so we have to say happy holidays  meanwhile we have developed a tradition here over the years that amuses ottis we hope it amuses you and it's a video of certainly a show that gets me bad sit in my chair every year all i and this is done a few years ago but it's such a crowd pleaser tradition as you know but we're a different kind of tradition as you'll see as you watch this video so we'll come back to say goodbye but let's let you enjoy a few minutes of h m s ocean screw lips sink into all i want for christmas sweet that never gets old not for me though as you know my holiday i love that song i mean the mariah carey i want for christmas so we do have a couple more minutes so we wanted to in fact and with something else because i'm totally smitten with jenelle monet which isn't also nominated in addition to the album was her single from the album pink which is a very so we thought we would treat you to some of that i don't think we have time for the whole thing but let us run the most you next week and next year all of the about