reaction although i can't say it was entirely thrilling that's the headline and trump faces impeachment that's a little more thrilling he has the nerve at the u n to speak about l g b t rights abroad speaking of nerve hud secretary ben carson worried at a meeting about big hairy men and women in shelters have to cya after that mattel has come out with gender or gender inclusive dolls just in time for the holiday season most shown to you in australia young gay man and his little brother were gay bash in australia and a teen  reveal review derren brown secret on broadway but we will not tell you the secret except the one he tells right at the top of the show ok all right well you know appeared one at a time with a series of different questioners because the question or something to be diverse yes and so it was said my interesting but i'm rundown sure go through these sure in order marianne williamson was the st that made me happy because she's always entertaining i thought you know i read something that said she was sort of stumbling but i found her very fluid on plus she got that right rolling off her tongue just fine she was challenge on her writings thirty years ago about supposedly healing h i v with basically positive thinking  said no no no no no i never said that i just said you know that was there a pew dick or whatever and besides there were no drugs then i thought that was a little defensive in off but she certainly is supportive general i think and again i don't have a candidate now a vote for anybody who runs against trump yes but i think biden and sanders who was not at this debate they they made me project anger oh yeah the things you know i think one of the things that sort of more appealing about warren and why she's jumping in the polls and it's because she's more of a happy warrior yes she's talking about some very serious horrible things that are happening in the world but she does a very upbeat well you know i think that's very appeal she's sincere she's not  sarcastic she's forthright and and thoughtful and energetic and all of that but i think the lack of resentment in her voice is yes it does make that they're going to the voters and bi only voted against it because he was running against bill weld who's running against trump now but he was running against him for senate and he didn't want to get outflanked on the gay stuff so biden keeps throwing in things about you know i was at the stonewall inn recently those are the brave biden forget about anita hill only they're right so i found his performance remarkably nasty and as you say he was nasty to the woman asking him questions because she was challenging him on this and he really resented be challenge and that was not what they say you know he voted for don't ask don't tell didn't barney frank i mean wasn't it like the thing was a compromise right booker and he wasn't he was just a politician at that time he didn't he hadn't been elected mayor and he was the only politician i was there i think he puts on a good show and i'm not sure how much substance there i don't think  challenged on being against trans people transitioning in prison and her her story there is she says well you know i was the attorney general of the state they are my clients i had to defend them and five seconds later she's talking about how she refused to defend prop eight and i thought it was a dud a minute my head is spinning that's a little situational ethics but a judge i thought was fine nothing you know i thought she was perfectly admirable in what she had to say and i was very moved by elizabeth warren started off by reading the names of the dead trans wayne contain trans women of color who were murdered this year and that was a hell of a thing to put out prison that was famous massachusetts case to go right away speaking of eighteen trans women who were murdered they don't we almost had one and dallas this week who was small got to the shot but i think elizabeth warren is being very well advised on these issues i do not know who she's talking to or who is working with there but she's been very present and sophisticated in her we've come a long way from ted kennedy meeting with a bunch of gay people and was about to give a speech and said what do you people want to be called now which is a good it's a good thing to ask behind the scenes before you go out there and find out what the latest terminology is and the last one was when castro who i thought was also strong and talked about educating people on issues which i thought was an excellent point to make when he talked about also being sure to bring in asylum seekers and that was also a good pentago to judge you know got the endorsement  and i also have a question i was want to ask of someone like biden is ok so you did these bad things and then you apologized but how are we to trust you in the future if you didn't have the judgment to do the right thing in the  place that apology is fine but it doesn't increase my my trust in you well we'll find out more at the october th town hall with c n n so far i think it's biden booker but a judge castro yeah yeah sanders and yang declined at seven pm to eleven thirty pm eastern well it's the same format it's this wanted to time for him but they're going to get more time each of the last half not to have to sit there for four and a half hours as i will for the c n n one but it was a little too quick with that anybody there was an opportunity for too much in depth question in speaking of h r c they're honoring ricky martin at their an visibility in d c i think that could be big and then ten days later as the supreme court hears arguments on october th on the three nondiscrimination cases there will demo and chase very briefly and very succinctly expressed what it was all about what the cases were all about what they're all about is deciding if sexual orientation and gender identity are covered under the civil rights act of one thousand nine hundred and sixty four under the category of sex that's what the supreme court's going to be deciding and we will be listening carefully cheney's actually said it better by just saying the court's going to decide whether you can fire gay and trans people yes was one of the women i took a picture of our future in in your hands and your hands you are hands but there were i mean it was a bliss moment there were so many young people out there and their signs were so inspiring so and you know i will say something about those young people they are never going to vote republican for the rest of their lives when it's locked in at that point when you're raising an issue when you're young and of course they're terrified of the future  terrified for them and i'm terrified for us and all of that but meanwhile this is all built around the u n general assembly meeting here in new york the last couple of weeks and i hate to say it president made a fool  n on many bases well he actually had the nerve to stand up there and i'm going to give his quote my administration and i he was really smart as words this week i something's going on there folks have you are not paying attention my administration is working with other nations to stop criminalization of homosexuality and we stand with own people who live in countries that punish j o and execute people based upon sexual orientation you get up and start lecturing other countries at the same time that they're saying that the future of the world is not global was it's patriot's  yes exactly and at the same time that you have half a mind a religious freedom of and act the u n during this only seems to want religious freedom from the saudis we're sending troops over there it's reminding me of vietnam all over again here we go and you know let's talk about other things that happened in the administration this week i mean betsy give us at the department of education threatening to pull hundreds of thousands of federal funds from the duke u n c consortium for middle east studies because they say it does not emphasize positive back specks of judaism in christianity and this could very well lead to polling grants from places that they think favor homosexuality we told you last week about a and labor and this is dr ben carson that hud he worried aloud at a meeting in san francisco about big hairy man trying to infiltrate women's homeless shelters he told the staff  credit the staff of the house office and say francisco was furious about this and one woman got up and walked out in the middle of this on the other hand that was kind of a good decision that at duke the students senate there unanimously denied funding to a christian group called young life which had bet on campus but not been funded because they exclude stay yeah foreign leadership who practice the homosexual lifestyle and i'm sure the religious right will go all crazy about that but you know these groups expect funding as well as being able to practice their bigotry brigham young university in provo utah the president of the mormon church russell nelson gave a speech and said god says that only man woman marriage is legitimate i have breakfast this week with the niece of mine who lives in utah and was celebrating the  but i will say that about tucker carlson this guy watches them to make to follow what the hell is their breath in alabama federal court says that the southern poverty law center has a free speech right to call the deed cheney james kennedy ministries at coral ridge presbyterian church i hate group he is dismissing the churches lawsuit against the s p l see that was a nice free speech was getting having is here confirmation hearing and all that a lot of democrats are asking m l g between questions so you know antonin they ask the question they ask the question and then he says something and they just move on they don't pin him down on any of this stuff i thought doug jones did a pretty good job trying to say what about this regular new regulation of the department of labor that you're contemplating about religious liberty and for contractors that's going to let them discriminate against gays and  basically say oh i think you know we're all against discrimination but he's going to women about that role they didn't put him down on anything and he left that hearing smiling most of the democrats are just not sophisticated enough to ask th and he appeared before congress and was running rings around them and senator kennedy from louisiana the republican mixed bag john kennedy yes he was being questioned  as a guest on m s n b c about this guy and he said you know he's very rude and he was terrible but i have made up my mind yeah yeah kennedy actually did stop some really horrible nobody ye profession and the judge said no it's too dangerous i've got all the scientific evidence here and you did not get to overturn the law banning conversion therapy lots to our sports round messy lionel messi was the male winner but she gave a very good speech about a lot of stuff including elsie beattie writes and i know long beach california they dedicated the billie jean king all library it's a fabulous looking place she was born and raised there she's seventy five years old now you can see the ribbon cutting there and there was a that's a big big j k sign outside the library just for you j k stand for mommy well she talked about how this was so meaningful to her because it was her hometown sure and all the legends about billie jean and when she was at the height of her career were about her growing up on these cement courts or concrete courts in long beach and learning how to play on the public courts with free lessons from the town and all of that so i think it was a great celebration so it's lesbians and sportsweek at gay usa and then there was the rice baylor game and football oh yes ok so this is at baylor and rice university has a marching band the marching band and because very right wing that latest yes gay school they tweet not ok they tweet them anti gay school they tweak them at the half time by waving rainbow flags over around and then spelling out p e at halftime there and they're playing the village people's y m c a now this is a protest a baylor denying recognition to the l g b t student group gamma alpha epsilon get it exactly well in fact a five sad story out of texas you referred to earlier in dallas and currently on name trans woman shot by a guy driving by in a pickup  yelling slurs at her americal she survived she was shot several times in los angeles we learn more about this buck ace this is this major democratic donor a guy there's a to know what twenty two page federal complaint against him ten men who he subjected to that he picks up the guy's injects them with drugs some of them died dresses them and skip the underwear for his sexual delegation and harish got on a flight from boston to atlanta on delta and when she got off her flight in atlanta and picked up her luggage she found that her rainbow luggage tag had been defaced by someone writing sa certainly vetted harassment certainly one would assume that physical violence is on the menu at some point it is better news in temporarily at least in indianapolis indiana we have told you about the catholic high school th e refused to fire a gay employee who was married to a so not a teacher at another catholic school yes so the local archdiocese had told the school they could no longer call themselves catholic and this meant they couldn't play football games against some of them are not so sure well the vatican congregation for catholic education has call the halt to this temporarily while they look into it temporarily is the operative word was so see we shall see they have suspended that judgment they are not allowing the high school to be excommunicated they are looking into it we will in as the holiday season is coming up has been paying attention to discussion of gender and non binary roles and all that kind of stop so they have put out a line of gender inclusive  point is that you can make choices about clothing and hair and switch it up and and create dolls in any kind of form that you would like somebody from mattel gave out this quote thank you bill they said there were d a couple of gender create they called them gender creative kids who told us that they dreaded christmas day because they knew whatever they got out of the christmas tree it wasn't made for them yes so why not and now people are really happy about it and they also found that more traditionally gendered kids also like these dolls and liked the creative possibilities of them and were much more open than people our age were at that age to the idea  of difference and and last rigid definitions we've been talking about places that you might not expect to support us but in kansas the shawnee mission school district voted to add  solution to this and how about fort lauderdale how about it well i mean the city commission unanimously passed an ordinance that bans discrimination of the best of basis of sexual orientation and gender identity you know obs housing public combinations and also established some kind of domestic partner protections that i couldn't figure out what work as we have marriage now and they banned convect version therapy for minors all at once after holding this up for decades my only question is what took them so i well that's what always well some bad news to start with to make the pride organizers have canceled their festival because they think it's going to be too dangerous the mayor of monte kobe has been saying nasty visiting from melbourne with his sixteen year old brother on a bus going to the mall and a group of ten cowards teenagers started shouting slurs at them f ing faggots and all that kind of stuff and then attack and then but joshua said i feel like me being gay i just put my brother in danger no it's their fault not your fault or i'm in nigeria some anti l g t q protesters showed up to demand even harsher laws of the government you can't get fourteen years there for prison for having a same sex marriage not enough evidently they are particularly upset that a popular drag performer was now coming out as trans and that just freaked them out and so they want to nip down all those who are involved in lesbian ism and gay activities they said and in the ukraine we have been telling you about the pride parade held in the nd largest city car key but we now have some video and sort of post march of then and this is the kid who were they went know a teenager and then if we can show the video yeah don't talk about it i mean they look they're cowards they some room this kid he's like you know leave me alone he's trying to walk off with them with a woman friend of is and they just i mean these big thugs chase them stomp him beat him run after him i mean this is this is nazi stuff yeah definitely crane in much of the news yes for many reasons but that's one to step out from his role as a journalist and rescue this kid from being killed mob mentality better news and more rishis the young queer alliance is challenging the anti t laws they're almost inspired when people step up and unlikely places and i hear that i had never would have believed i'd have anything approaching good news from indonesia if there is a proposal there for some new in tokyo they're hosting the rugby world cup and a private house has popped up there and i was interested to read a tidbit from the autobiography of former british prime minister david cameron who says that in two thousand and thirteen who told him that he had passed the no promo homo law because he was one worried about the diminishing population in russia really that i'm sure he said it but maybe it's some rationalization it's about propping up propping him self up in a failing regime more than one reason can exist at the same time i mean even if that's the reason he's giving to be population of russia it's astonishing lee stupid reason but interesting that it would show up in this book in brazil encouraging news with even th fifteen he was helped by new york law schools asylum clinic local prosecutors would not prosecute his attackers there and we're keeping a close eye on the gospel singer in rwanda who we told you about last week who came out when you come out and were one day or taken a chance but he is alive and well a week later and is getting widely rejected by family and friends and a lot of complying lost his job yeah but he is sticking to his guns and says he's happy about having come out and my intention he said is to tell the truth if only that were universally because extend the high court ruled that two women will receive compensation from a facebook user who posted a video of them kissing without their permission their privacy rights were violated  and we missed a note another note of the year when history was made the prime minister of lacson bar xavier battell was the st out head of government to speak about algae b t i issues at the general assembly he said being gay is not a choice he said but not accepting it is a choice yes he focused on me as a jew i wanted to and hate speech now that was a special little meeting it wasn't a speech to the whole general assembly go back and read and then in canada an appeals court in british columbia in this case ruled eight to nothing for a transgendered teen who at fourteen told judges he would be left stranded between genders if his father's legal efforts to halt his whole load treatment the kid started identifying at eleven guy has the support of his mom the court also ordered the father to use the child's chosen pronouns or you'll be guilty of sort of abuse the father calls this totalitarian interference canada they have something called the infants infants act that allows minors to consent to their own health care we yes jonathan van ness is one of the stars of the new version of queer eye for the straight guy which airs on netflix now thirty two years old yes and he has written an autobiography called over the top he's a very popular cast member of this show and it's rather grim story of having been sexually abused as a child having gone through a lot of addiction and  be possible but i mean knows that he's going to be he feels very scared and vulnerable about telling you all this but he has known that he's a chevy positive since he was twenty five and he felt he needed to be open because of the trump administration stigma for how many years and how painful and terrified he was and what he did go through in terms of sexual addiction drug addiction acting out it's a  week about apologizing for having let himself get hoodwinked by iliad and other pharmaceutical companies and believing them and not looking into their stories more closely when they sponsor a chevy organizations and and research and stuff and he told a valve how he discovered through a little more research that these companies really manipulate the market around these drugs and recommend some drugs when they are in a position to make money off them and then trash them when they aren't when they're about to turn out new versions that are less toxic because they want to use up the patent on the other one we have that kind of stuff so thank you to mark for having the guts to do that and read that column on my fabulous disease it's very enlightening mark king yes entertainment news well we have a watch talk about with the emmys should we start there yes why not st of all i have to say although the ratings are going right in the toilet and people complained about the show all over the place  paul and i was thrilled to see him when i think he's absolutely terrific he just commands the screen he's so charismatic you know and pose who is a wonderful show a little simplistic but  actor by the way before we get to some of the others i was really thrilled to see jerome jerome win for playing corey wise and when they see is about the exonerated five as he said the central park case there was a it was terrific it was a very and who else do we have i'm thrilled to see jodie comber win best actress in a drama for killing me which has been one of my favorite shows for the last couple of years very  homoerotic between her and sandra oh and poor sandro has been nominated about ten times without winning anything but the two of them together are just magical and jodie comber was wonderful and i haven't yet to see divided the reality show competition into i think three separate categories now and this was a competition reality as opposed to different kinds of reality shows so he won that and he had already won best host which he's now won at least twice maybe three times and peter dinklage won for game of thrones expressed his gratitude for being in a profession dedicated to tolerance and diversity and he said a bad word and they bleep them and another of the reality categories was structured reality whatever that may be but queer eye one that so drag race one reality competition queer eye  one reality structured and i'm not sure what the rd one was by the way we didn't quote billy porter and his james baldwin quote that he also did that we should do he said as james baldwin said it took many years up all the filth that i had been taught about myself and half way believed before i could walk around the earth like i have a right to be here i have the right and then billy said i have the right you have the right we and cherry jones that won the award for guest actress in a drama for the handmaid's tale ok we told you about the we saw the broadway show boys in the band it's being made into a movie by ryan keith how milton cobb he's a middle aged african american actor and this is down at the cherry lane and getting a lot of buzz and and he is auditioned to be in a fellow with a white director who's somebody sitting in the audience is doing this thing and it is all his anger and rage over the way you're treated in show business essentially and he says you know like you know come on i know and when you get to angry and and he's and he's a guy self and who has is deeply rooted in shakespeare and knows him you know but he and he hates things like director saying well you know what shakespeare is trying to say it well it's magic and mantillas and higher brow more sophisticated and very well done magic act we're not allowed to tell voss secret now although there are many that many of these routines you were a little more amazed than i was but i was entertained i sat through the whole two and a half hours with one intermission and length of the show but it's not spilling the beans too much to tell d us the st thing that he tells us right at the top of the show is life lessons so don't worry about it but that's course that's part of the destruction because it kind of sucks you in to these things that he's done with these magic shows are all about his distraction and he certainly practices a lot of it throughout and there's a lot of audience participation you could end up on stage very easily and i came out of thinking you know there's nothing deep about this there's nothing emotionally moving about it but it is certainly entertaining and i realize that i do like to be moved in the theater and the times i walk out of the times when i'm not feeling moved but this was well done enough that i could really appreciate it and stick with  stuff but i would say it's certainly an entertaining evening in the theater and how often do i say that yeah i also snapped i mean we need that we need we need relief i mean speaking of which that we do have a few minutes here i mean to where we are we're burying the the president of ukraine like a mafia bosses out of shasta l a but the question is who cares and the answer is not enough people none of the people in the country yeah that when they hear this and they themselves so they're not surprised by this sudden they don't like biden anyway and what are you talking about every democrat matched head to head against him although you heard trump this week he goes you know you don't do very well in but i'm really ten points higher because most people most of the people who think oh my supporters they don't want to talk to the pollsters and that's true the polls have always undercounted the right wing and we are constantly for decades surprised by republicans winning when we don't expect them don't forget a lot of people came of age in the last four years and they don't they don't like this guy and they will vote in higher numbers than they used to i'm not saying he's going to win i'm just saying i don't think and i think at home the house may indeed impeach him but i certainly don't think the senate's going to turn around and i think this is going to sink under the way like everything else remember how this is one thing make it one thing people can focus on one thing well sure they can and as i say they nailed him it's very clear but i suspect that not enough people care about it even the people who hate him may hate him for doing this but they in the end they don't care enough it's not big enough what was i mean what would be that's out there you know down on america by betraying it well you are still working on this it reclaim pride too and we're starting to meet again to talk about next year and whether we're going to have another march which i think most people want to do and how that would be focused and themed and how do we bring the election year yes and i thought even i thought even this year by about a good idea to march on a trip to our or something well the thing is there's been a lot of marching on trump tower can we be more creative can we do something that has some real impact can we refine our mission and describe it in a way that does resonate with people and that's what we're in the process of figuring out and having other actions how you know how broadly or narrow we define our missions so we would be very happy to have you join us by the way there's something else happening on october th and that's a moral service for