contradictory arkansas high court said localities under the law cannot protect people from discrimination even if they want to new jersey however is moving to boost l g b t inclusion in school curricula kentucky has an anti gay governor but he doesn't want to pay the legal bills for kim davis he says you pay them we're sorry to report the death of new york gay rights pioneer jim levon at seventy eight and in the first transgender member of the democratic national committee has died in new jersey jesse small left took the stage in l a despite his recent anti gay assault and talked a little about it opera star david daniels and his husband were arrested for a two thousand and nine sexual assault took them a while a gay leader in poland is found in a new progressive party and i'm going to review a new gay french film from christopher on a highway and an oldie but goodie on broadway from san shefford all right so we start out we had an old bad the president up grand central terminal thank you very much you were correct and they in the grand old tradition hoisted a banner to the ceiling with a bunch of balloons and as i hope you can see there it says arrest trump yes on that very famous ceiling and he should be arrested because you know how much they talk about us really hardly at all and that's a blessing but you know he did slip in a line which was much anticipated what you're going to do about a jimmy oh i'm going trophy in ten years and that's about it that's about only right before we get to a deconstruction of that which prepared to do at some length i found the part that really was stomach turning to me that guard and sheriffs in texas have said you know he came here to the border and he didn't talk to us he only talked to his ice agents he didn't talk to any of the locals about what's really going on but his his them his there at the beginning and said we all have to work together we have to stop division and work for the people blah blah blah and then he goes into this hateful discussed vicious spe that is very appealing to his base which is the whole sadness of the whole thing i mean you know this is a week where some democratic leaders were exposed for their horrible racist indiscretions and when they were younger yeah and they're paying a price for it absolutely no prize for any of this stuff well i have to say that i half expected him to look out at the audience of women in white and make some joke about it being a kook klux klan rally and i wanted his campaign start cheering themselves when he talks about increased female employment right here are going after you and i think i think nancy handled himself well yeah but then this whole thing about hiv leading up to the speech for the last week or two they've been bragging about the fact that one of the big things in his speech was going to be a promise to end the h i b epidemic by twenty thirty m thought we were ending it by twenty twenty in new york that was the big push these kinds of slogans have been rife for the last few years and there are a lot of things we can do to help but ending the epidemic what does that mean we're going to cure everyone who has  go we're going to stop transmissions well we can certainly cut them dramatically and them maybe not but they're talking about a functional and to the epidemic by creasy new mission absolutely action he is the president of the united states and he controls a lot of these agencies so let's tell you what he's done over the last you know what he's doing they have cut in his budget the c d c hiv prevention by one hundred forty nine million dollars that's nineteen percent cut the housing funds top one so that's what they've done and that's only going to one crease and they are be infections they also have cut medicaid and are trying to cut that further which forty percent i think of people living with hiv are on they have cut medicare i mean bamma care and are trying to eliminate that completely and they're trying to limit the number of the number and kinds of drugs for a charity that you can get on  protections for l g b t people it is instituting a racist policies and rhetoric that no handouts they really hate us none of this is going to make any progress against hiv be possible so where is this coming from and what is it this is supposedly coming out of health and human services and the c d c with new leaders who want to be committed to this strategy and what is their story energy their strategy is more testing making and testing routine which is a very good thing they should test everybody routinely to try to get a handle on who has a b and how do they need to be treated and how are we going to make everybody undetectible so we can stop it because if you get into treatment and you are adherent to the drugs with a within several months you will become undetectable and you will be unable to transmit it to someone else they also want to emphasize talks about cutting stigmatization trumpets all about stigmatization and none of this is really going to penetrate far enough to have a big enough effect so from trump's mouth it's a cynical l are many of the promises he made over the years he had a big press conference about cutting drug prices a months ago right then there was a big story in the times this week about about how you know how they were trying to go about that but then we learned and i was going to talk about this in aids news but it's even though it's not an aids drug something the catalyst pharmaceuticals is now charging three hundred seventy five thousand dollars a year for a drug that treats a very obscure syndrome called syndrome which affects one out of one hundred thousand people but now they're going to have to pay three hundred seventy five thousand dollars a year instead of what they were paying which was nothing under the previous company that owned it who just said compassionate use give it to them what the hell so these companies go around buying up these kinds of drugs soaking people for medicaid pays perhaps insurance companies pay perhaps it's an outrage they're not really getting anything under control and we have the money sanders by the way is the one who i'm not pushing and i'm just saying he's the one who pointed this out and of course a year ago fired his entire aids advisory council and just now has appointed two new republican co heads of the council know other members of the council and who would serve well exactly you know i'm sure they'll round up some people but well again the h i b epidemic gray we all want that i mean and we want people who are living with hiv to be taken care of rather than just shunted aside while we worry about new infections but we have no faith in this he everything he has promised has not happened and this is just some cynical ploy to try to look like he compassionate and doing so held up again flag during the campaign and then has completely rolled back our rights i mean we talked last week about how he granted south carolina the right to discriminate in adoption agencies but he is able to find some people to take jobs in the interior department they've nominated a big oil lobbyist the big bird hurt to fill that position begin tarrier department all right so there were some responses to the state of the leo invited marco a former doctor recipient we told you this story earlier this year who was separated from his husband and left stranded in mexico for six months his marriage not being respected by the immigration authorities and then alexandria cortez had anna maria archie the one who confronted flake she's an out lesbian activist as well and that was and they were both on the news the two of them yes and about us whether she thought people were sinful and she refused to answer and then some of our people criticized him for putting it in religious terms and said he should have just asked whether she would up all the laws mandated nondiscrimination marriage equality or whatever but she wasn't talking in any case now there are some other presidential candidates wandering around and one of them is the newly heinous howard schultz the former head of starbucks and he got a near fall from our rising resistant reclaim pride activists and the rat out there with his hands figures out what he's going to say wait for the exact right moment it all gets on camera and around the world and it had a great effect i shall drop out of the race well i said before having got ned i would hope he would drop out of the she got one point eight million dollars well our side don't forget immediately genda whole playing to fund whatever was going to run against her but in the previous quarter she only raised two hundred forty thousand dollars in arkansas the state supreme court overruled the fayetteville ten or a city ordinance that included sexual orientation and gender identity and expression nondiscrimination because the state law does not have that provision and what the court said was that local laws cannot go beyond state laws now it is an ongoing our circuit court had over and over to said it was ok for them to keep protecting yes the high court said that they exceeded their jurisdiction they did not rule on the constitutionality of the law itself so our side is going to go back and try to make those arguments and see if they can get them before the court right our side was t the are in that because l g b t people are mentioned in some other obscure state law that therefore they could fantail is entitle to pass this but so far the state supreme court is not binding in florida a federal magistrate has recommended to the u s district court for the middle for middle district of florida to issue a preliminary injunction barring tampa from  forcing its ban on conversion therapy for minors on free speech grounds the liberty counsel is bringing this case and other federal courts of appeal bans on conversion therapy in philadelphia as there was a sco new jersey on the supreme court has denied review to those decisions well this is a local magistrate judge who did not pass judgment just made a recommendation for an injunction so we'll see whether anybody pays attention to that in mississippi  legislature has proposed a law the first one in the country to allow teachers to miss gender students to harass for bid any big money because i'm teachers they read about somebody read the paper probably watches the show for ideas yes and it was like a teacher got in trouble somewhere for refusing to use the pronouns that a transgender student wanted him to in south dakota where they beat back some anti for a long long time but who now we told you that he now says he's gay but he wouldn't renounce his past worth while now he finally said it should be stopped oh boy in about never get involved with anything  in utah the legislature is proposing an attack on trance people's rights to change their birth certificates and leave well enough alone in kentucky you know the legal fees for the people who su davis have got to be paid under a court order and the two hundred twenty five thousand dollars and the governor who's very anti gay bevan's is that it's now he says you're going to have to pay it yourself no i don't think she'll have any trouble raising that from her followers followers with their you know i'll be interesting be interesting to see whether the alliance defending freedom or the liberty council will put their money where their mouth is more important than not contributing to  in a little political note from new york city the local republican club has been having a fight over electing a new president they were in the news last year because the them and there was this whole thing so they had a presidential election for the club between a sort of standard older republican and a younger guy who supports the proud boys and then there was all club good but on the other hand i don't like the rise of fascism going back to new york and alexandria ocasio cortez she was giving in to if you would she said almost every single person can acknowledge some privilege of some type i'm a sist r and she said that that was her privilege and no matter how poor my family was when i was born in new jersey the governor murphy democratic governor has signed a school year two thousand and twenty one by the way to i didn't realize this two state legislature is for the first time have women in the majority in the data and colorado and colorado house yet you know that i did of extraterrestrial life buzzing around jupiter oh ok and they are there was another did they also say that one of the most landed here yeah maybe ok i'm going to look at you a little more closely ok you never know  crowned homecoming queen at the fourth side that's charlie with her mom at the forsyth central high school overcoming death threats and plenty of public humiliation at school the honor made her feel like a normal girl not an oddity or an outcast that was in the national concern with a just doing this as a goof you know like carrier something or attacked for a long time show she was amazing carried herself off as a queen and she did very well psych county is not exactly a liberal territory but we have the proud voice in new york city one of my sane and jesse small that has been in the news after his attack on the streets of chicago there was a rally here in new york city on a very cold night that about one hundred of us went to clued in you yeah i was there by the plaza hotel just because it was a central location in the par there he and then he he showed up in l a at a club performing singing something that was pretty scheduled that he decided to show up for because i couldn't let them win well he also said i was not an isolated incident this happens to a lot of people and hate crimes are up across all categories so are certainly sympathies and support go footage that shows potential persons of interest in this case and a woman in his building said she saw a suspicious person outside their apartment building holding what looked like a rope at one point so some pieces of the puzzle are coming california thousands of gay jumbos squid are getting it on or off the coast now i am not going to i read the details and this is a family show and i am not going to explain how they were doing it but it's very  prove it in austin texas two hundred marks to the state capital on saturday night to rally against hate crimes after an attack on a gay couple last month on january nineteenth congratulations to trans woman je news organization he said i kind of knew i'd made it as a woman when people started talking over me and meeting not funny but ac researched companies and their chief technology officer is when they are hiring and they found there were certainly no trans chief technology officer is a maybe no women this is a first yes so that's a big hire con and he was living in austin texas one and retirement he decided he was gay and law school at columbia in the sixty's taught one of the first gay signs and over realized well he said he decided ok he taught one of the first gay studies courses in the country he was the national president of something called the gay academic union for scholars which was a very big way of people getting together back in the early seventy's and he was a spokesperson for the co gay rights with me the past the rights scuse me the gay and lesbian rights bill and bisexual and a sexual rights bill in new york but he was a city human rights commissioner at the time and what he did was he was on a commission and they weren't allowed to take complaints from gays because you know it wasn't part of the law he said well we'll just take them and write a report and they come into the city council since these are complaints that we're not allowed to deal with don't tell us this doesn't happen very classy the other thing that he did was he there was no this i'm supporting seabird and mason against you in the next election chris lynn was in the meeting my friend who is also a lawyer and it cuts the mayor calls up chris lynn and says what's leavens phone number i don't know he says he says he has got to thought went along with all these arrests of gay men and right yes most of which were phony cops used to just go in the restroom at penn station if somebody looked you know they arrested them you know who's going to believe they got that happened a lot in new york in those days you know and jim was always taking though he was a lawyer he took those cases well yes and what that all those stories tell us is that he was an activist in the literal sense of the term he acted a lot of people sit around and talk but he did things and he was very assertive about acting on what needed to be done yes and very effective and clearly all right so also very active and very  leaving three kids and her partner dorothy she she was a veteran and the new jersey governor has ordered that the flags be flown at half staff both state and federal flags in her honor and she was the first trans member of the demick radek national committee serving from two thousand and eleven to twenty seventeen so only recently well i think actually she started her in two thousand and nine but she was put on the executive committee in two thousand and eleven she was again a very effective activist within the system to get things done and beloved and the tributes that i've seen flow in about how she was so open and generous about helping anyone who came to her for advice or help she really reached out to people and lives in vailable beloved in the downtown scene in new york was brian butterick a k a the way beloved fixture in the downtown club scene and back going back to the punk and sort of was one of the founders of the modern drag scene creative director of the pyramid club where bill baldwin used to work back from eighty one day  six a member of the legendary band three teens killed four and how to quote if you don't use your magic for justice don't call yourself a witch among his fellow bus boys at the first dance a teary or were david one your ro which and keith herring well david ivana which was a lover of his one of his main partners hugo and he died at sixty two of lung cancer who were very sad all right other news still a little stone wall fifty news heritage pride and world pride head of announce their opening event at the barclays center in brooklyn we're not thrilled with that because it is managed by the organization of philip anschutz who is a notorious right wing anti gay billionaire who gives a lot of money to right wing causes now everybody appears at the barclay center events coming up this month the next and why you check their calendar for stonewall fifty or just check the calendar of the stonewall fifty consortium they have a combo calendar of two hundred organizations and all there are events if you go to stonewall fifty consortium dot org you can just go day by day through all the months of the year and find out what's happening connected door in honor of stonewall fifty it's a great and important anniversary but i'm with the whole year and we're still working every day very hard and constructing the reclaim pride stonewall fifty alternate march if you want to sign on as a supporter or get involved going to reclaim pride n but well we will endorse this as well i thought that was a brilliant idea and we've always said you can march with us because we're part of this and you can still go downtown if you want to have the mardi gras parade yeah it'll be going on for nine hours but we think  judgments but but seriously major organizations have been holding back have signed on as they tradition only deal with heritage and pride and we've been urging them to support our march to and for c b s he to take the lead in  is i think excellent model i am calling their decision solomonic yes well i was going to but then i didn't want to split the baby was not a good idea all right california has a bill this is gotten a lot of attention to prohibit medically unnecessary surgery for intersex babies no one to two percent are born with variations in sex characteristics and people born that way are now going to have the right to informed consent before undergoing potentially harmful general surgery in other words the doctors and the parents are not to be able to decide the the person can decide what they want to happen with their genitals down the line often what carolina child welfare agency being given the right to discriminate religiously in adoption and foster care adopted a resolution supporting l g b t parents and said that was mandated by the supreme court's a burger fell decision that said all married couples should be treated equally these kids in south carolina going to grow up and say i had the chance to be put with a nice couple and you put me with these other people anyway but so much for allowing homosexuality leading to allowing these geology because they hold the line in virginia well not on a lot of hard to follow that story so i think we ought to talk about david daniel exactly but some years ago he was performing in texas and it was daniel's on the right by the way that was there my scott walters on the left so this guy scott up naked bleeding from the rectum so he charged them with rape and now they have finally ten years later been arrested and charged they were arrested in michigan and he taught at michigan  riding the b to wave and they don't say things like that if you're their lawyer just shut your mouth and let it play out in hugh said he is by the way daniel being sued by another student for groping so it's not the first time this he denies wrongdoing three chart three members are charging him and they say the leadership did not follow up whatever in houston doc green a right wing radio broadcaster  did from a library because he had a gun and he seemed to be going after drag queens story hour right he said homosexuals are molesting children he was  because for many many years else you bt people have just taken over disney parks declaring gay day at disney everybody shows up in a red t shirt and they just they just take it over without any gender identity to the federal nondiscrimination law the council of christian colleges and universities than the national association of evangelicals because they say we're trying to protect our religious freedom so we want to go along with this and make sure we get these religious protections the calling of the and then when reporters started calling them they can't get anybody to talk about it you see if you work at the university area even in the even joe cool thing they're young people they don't want you to be anti gay right and that's why they're stepping out of this but the baptist southern baptist convention called it counterproductive don't do this it's the you know why the devil is getting inside the tent when the highly compromised utah law was passed some years ago there was a great brouhaha about whether we should get behind it because it was seen as so friendly to religious discrimination and a lot of people warned that if we supported this this was going to become the model down the road and we would lose a lot of protection they're go if the republicans were smart they would have passed it with all that crap and it course well meanwhile the heritage foundation held a meeting in washington with so called feminists but then limits well if you're in fact quite conservative in the end but meanwhile i'm sometimes conservative about everything else say but meanwhile congress was holding hearings with parents of  trans kids and hearing them quite sympathetically of course there were all the sympathetic congress members know the group called usa powerlifting has banned trans path leads and this is in contrast to most other major sports organizations and in north carolina the department of motor vehicles is making it easier for people to change their genders on their driver's license and their id cards and  c well we've told you about the christian school in virginia where mrs mike pence is teaching you're not allowed to work there if you're gay or be a kid there or if you're gay or be a parent of a gay parent of a kid then your kid can't go there and if you are a parent who supports l g b t rights forget your kids not going to that school head tell you the number of people who are signing it on facebook last night and talking about the glances that mike pence was shooting to some of the pages and think that they were well meanwhile as k through eight elementary school in and middle school in d c which used to have athletic contests against emanuel christian th that have passed laws that you have the right to discriminate businesses for them the vast majority of businesses don't want to go there and they want your money all right international news yes ok the film boy raised which we've talked about here i favorably they didn't do anything they didn't investigate it he well he you know he is now pleaded guilty to murdering eight gay men mostly south asian or middle eastern and the pictures of there are there any better than them and planters around town because he was a gar a landscaper just a horrific story but the fact that he's pleaded guilty to murdering a leads people to believe there may be more somewhere may be whatever and there is a continuing controversy about toronto pride the leaders have had to resign because they invited the police back into the parade after they had been disinvited for some years the gay community of toronto is angry at the police not only for not pursuing bruce macarthur and all these missing gay men who turned out murder but because in one thousand nine hundred eighty one they raided four bath houses and arrested three hundred people which essentially was the stonewall of toronto and now the gay movement take off there you know so a lot so the leaders of toronto pride of now resigned because they invited the police back in the parade right and of course reclaim pride has decided that they would prefer not to have turned up for a while neighbors didn't want to give their names to the reporters not because they were ashamed about the murder they were shamed about having a gay couple living among them a twenty three year old was arrested and he is using a gay panic defense made a pass at me in turkey three garbage men had been fired for having sex with another garbage man they went to court on this and the court ruled in the first case that they had  been the one guy in the first case had been illegally fired it's an ongoing case in turkey in london we told you about the frisky gay threesome having sex on the subway on the tube there on the northern line and they had been given is the first city to hold a ceremony recognizing same sex couples and their partnerships not marriage but partnerships they get a certificate that will convey some benefits like the right to apply for on the x mayor of a city there he's openly gay is forty two years old and he's starting a new progressive party called spring and it focuses on rights for women and l g b t people among many other things and bishops he mentioned india africa and italy he did not however go on to ban heterosexuals from the priesthood there is a new president in el salvador which we thought meant good news but it turns out that he has been quoted quite clearly as supporting only man woman marriage now since all the central and south american countries are under orders to legalize same sex marriage this is not looking good  the you know they have a monument honoring the victims of the holocaust and it was vandalized with black paint this week in australia the conservative government wants to give four billion billion dollars over ten years to catholic schools that kick out l g b t teachers and students the l t v t organization in australia just equal is very freaked out about this in new york we give hundreds of millions of dollars and aid to catholic and jewish slavic organizations which are anti gay which you regularly there's no use out rageous meant chester england they doubled the price of a ticket to provide up to ninety two u s dollars so you got to pay to get in and in cuba the evangelical push back on same sex marriage is on whatever you know i read this and i say whatever happened to godless communism all right entertainment news yes did you have any other you didn't have any other aids news we covered that i did fold that into our commentary on mr trump we've talked endlessly on this show about the same sex ballroom dancing documentary hot to trot it is now available on i tunes amazon and on d v d if anyone is still buying d v d s the pet shop boys have a new video called give stupidity a chance it's a response to the current community doing shows i thought it was a little flat but they're really pushing this movie it opens here this weekend gene robinson the bishop edition of being robinson is going to be here with the directors of the movie after the seven fifteen show on friday at the quad if you're interested in that well i was at the quad because that's where sorry is going to be playing starting on february fourteenth in a sneak preview and then on the fifteenth this is a new one from director krzysztof on  a movie but this is a story set in paris and britney in one nine hundred ninety three so aids plays a role and it has almost every combination of love and desire being played out by her tractor and compelling cast led by their is life is more surprising than film the stupor bowl which it really was this year stupor bowl was horrible i only have it on the back it was dark it was horrible the halftime show is horrible the commercials weren't very good but we do have one gay angle on the superbowl and that is a c b s camera man and who is an out gay man and puts rainbow flags on his cameras and  air about ten years ago they're filming eight episodes beginning which will premiere this fall i love harry belafonte and the harry belafonte story is going to be coming to broadway as a new musical by producer ken devonport who did spring awakening so i will look forward to that next month on march fourteenth the new season of project runway premieres they are currently doing the all star season but regular contestants march fourteenth it's going back to bravo from lifetime heidi clune tim gunn have disappeared for a place by karlie kloss and christian siriano but the news is that there will be for the first time an openly trans mo on project runway now i do not always like sam shepard bless of memory i like his acting sometimes more that is playwriting but he really truly weston this was one of the most successful plays back in one thousand nine hundred i think and they revived it on broadway with ethan hawke and paul dano danno you know as very different strange really brothers and it is the first act is extremely intense and unsettling just to watch it and then the second act it's very crazy but these are really great performances these these two guys and then some supporting characters are doing a terrific job so true west on broadway we're falling into our stereotypes you're seeing in the male movies and plays  i'm celebrated i mean i didn't i didn't even know what sorry angel was really about when i went to see it but i it was it was pretty male although there are some very attractive female characters in and there's some bisexuality and blah blah blah blah blah and there's something for everyone but it is mostly male big announcement from glad the new york glad media wards on saturday may will honor as their advocate for change but how do you feel about them dropping from they sent it to me in the email i hardly vote at all cus i don't like to vote once i've seen all the things and then most categories i haven't yeah well i'm fair about that i don't vote if i haven't seen you well i backwards show with where women sing men songs men sing women songs is going to be march eleventh of the new webster dam theater and for those of you who plan early broadway bears from them is going to be june sixteenth that the hammerstein ballroom mitchell is the choreographer as the executive producer of that opening in miami this weekend at the frost art museum at florida international university is a really great show photo to survive on this shore photographs and interviews with transgender and gender nonconforming older adults we have a couple of pictures from the show there is one these are photographs by je vanessa faber or fabray and and there's going to be a lecture this saturday and an opening reception it's a magnificent show the new york times wrote about these photographs recently acknowledging stonewall fifty in many different ways so that's at the for us museum in miami opening a reception this saturday 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