and persecuted for being a trans woman in zimbabwe was granted asylum in the united states and she is our guest today after being honored by right action international last night i were very eager to talk to her then we will talk about the federal bt rights bill the equality act which advanced in the democratic u s house this week and is headed for passage there if not the senate will see trump did on vale his anti executive order to allow discrimination in the health care against us and others based on religious belief and people don't want to impeach him what's wrong with them i was governor and acted anti transgender legislation but tennessee's hate slate of bills is on hold till next year brazil's and bt fashions president also narrow pencilled a trip to new york amid protests brew non i they think they're getting away with this they say that they won't get rid of their death penalty for homosexuality but that they won't transmitting the virus when our guest is recognized and said welcome thank you we're from zimbabwe a trans activist there the founder of a group called treat trans research education advocacy and training now with the united states after being honored last night by right action international we have a picture by the way of the use of the of last night there you are in the r transgender so she didn't know how to handle the whole fiasco and she decided that i should be placed on remand until the senior area prosecutor came on duty because she didn't conference of all the that so so you didn't go back when you realize that you really were in terrible danger you see days here and shockingly really shockingly the united states government has granted you is so i mean if this is your only because you didn't you see people all the time you know i think in particular of a trans woman from honduras who came here was held in custody was not granted asylum was sent back and was killed yes and i don't see that the set story here we see trouble at the u n and another kind of an international agreement they want to get transgender anything to do with gender even out of their they don't want to have anything to do with human rights yes so congratulations sent here and here now tell us well that was quite a story it is you know i i really hope she doesn't go back to zimbabwe any time soon but man what a great activist and in terms of asylum claims and for the people from central america who have something positive to report that ten transgender people from honduras who were released from a trip a detention center in the united states in texas they were part of the eighty member refused already but twenty either waiting or refused they were abused at home they were abused in the caravan and they were abused in detention and the u s immigration judges have only approved thirty five percent of asylum pleas and tw a record low and that's obviously the anti immigrant policy of the administration the administration there let's go there is a little segue to the administration i am particularly appalled this week five left the sta department did we told you a little while ago about two married gay men one firm in the u s one from israel they were married abroad but they are married legally married u s married yes yes but the state department only wants to give citizenship to the child born of the u s husband's sperm in fact we haven't tested the other twin and c this is discussed in a court has already said that they are both parents and the kids are both entitled to u s citizenship and the state department is now appealing that ruling and say no we do not want to give citizenship to the other twin i mean do not want to recognize this marriage we do not want to give it usual marriage rights with parentage it's just on believe one one million issued and it basically allows medical providers to discriminate on their beliefs especially against people but also against minority religions and not just on their religious beliefs also on their moral beliefs y you everybody has been seeing the spectacle of them and defying all subpoenas from the administration the total breakdown of separation of powers for law nice to see six hundred former federal prosecutors signing a letter saying there's a lot of obstruction of justice and that you have a nice to see laurence tribe where the books cautioning about impeachment that's what the book was about saying no more time for caution you know caution is cowardice at this point caution is a cowardice becomes betrayal of the constitution well whether it's taking them out legally or are taking them out by a vote i just cannot wait for the end of this administration well we still have federal judges of the lower level in oregon washington and california who  l committee when they're not trying to cross examine these people they managed to pass the equality act by a vote of twenty two to ten all the republicans voted against it  fred they asked the question should employers not be able to fire someone because of sexual orientation or sexual identity ninety two percent said they should not be able to fire them now you can be two percent you know and i am percent for anything and yet they persist well they certainly persisting in texas where twenty three g b t bills are pending yeah but they deferred to next year mostly because businesses of those corporations we like to talk about and celebrities and sports teams objected to the bills and said really you are going to become the and this isn't a state that has transgender protections in the civil rights law so they actually had to amend the civil rights law to do this essentially relentless and shaming the other one is about banishing planned parenthood from being involved in sex education in public schools and then of course we have the lovely new abortion bill and george you know where basically you can't have an abortion after six weeks pregnant and many many many people do not know that they are praying right at six weeks  far in the presidential politics area one development this last week is that mayor pete booted gedge and his husband chast and ended up on the cover of time magazine american go illustrated that's a curse so i think you're ok if you're going to cover well i'm pete was speaking in dallas and he was interrupted four times by protesters shouting repent and marriage is between a man of the woman and he responded the moment i pack my bags for afghanistan to defend that man's freedom of speech you know so he's a better o'rorke defended him against this trying to defend the honor of texas and in tough times of the tough to define you know you know who's yelling at him randall terry oh really this is randall terry running around the country after he was a little wary when i heard when he said he was doing his shooting in afghanistan that he wrapped himself literally an american flag but there are a lot of reasons to have trouble yelling at anti abortion activists he took film of them and he said who is this woman identifier i'd like to go to her house and demonstrate against her because one of them what they're doing to these women trying to  hundred dollars for anybody i got a hose manner of speaking also was a little rough so he ended up apologizing oh ok well ok but they were also you know they held that big anti abortion rally in times square last week and they were they had three stages they were broadcasting an anti abortion film on the jumbo trons in times square they got a lot of money a lot of money we do  non binary trans thirteen year old constantly bullied in school segregated from peers during sex education extremely brave young person thank ok good news from ohio where the congressional map was declared unconstitutional gave the republicans a twelve to four damage but the supreme court and i did think that's one of the big decisions that we are awaiting this year bad news from california where a couple of gay men in west hollywood drop dead instantly from it is believed sentinel laced math or cocaine and they're saying that this is widely out there and people really it's out there to such x and extent that the l a l g b t center has a supply of like five thousand  parable the lieutenant governor of guam was in new york for the conference of the international gay and lesbian travel association to invite l t v t visitors to guam pointing out that it was a friendly spot and he wants everybody to come there in a vacation the fire department c m s service with four thousand five hundred and eighty m s workers working under her she is terrific and congratulations to lilian on her promotion everybody is very very happy about now you probably think of new york and especially but happen where we live as a fairly liberal place but the deputy borough president under our friend gayle brewer the borough president is matthew washington who constantly tweets support for ant anti choice preachers i was shocked by that identified himself as the deputy borough president on his feet now says oh i'll take that down these are just my private views promotes focus on the family that abortion rally in times square public employees do have a great deal of protection but at that you know for their certain a certain certain obs but when you're out there representing things i mean is how can we trust you to do the right thing for people and women and others if not going to come it sounds like the dinner is still going forward the brazilian american chamber of commerce gala so maybe we still have the protests certainly pompei i was there well and my you know how hard is it to be named then from  financial times with through their sponsorship of this in herb ott citi group j p morgan morgan stanley the bank of america and united health group have continued the services committee devoted himself totally to the cause of the homeless youth particularly l g b t q youth who he said made up forty percent of the population his advocacy was used against him this was a south brooklyn district a very conservative  it didn't faze him one bit he was a hero he was straight guy great ally yet and i don't know if this belongs here in entertainment news but scrabble has approved of some new words gender queers sis gender transpo bank z but here's my question you only get what like seven letters on a scrabble thing how are you going to spell it transposed it was seven encouraged congregations to be reconciling to christ that's the phrase they use for gay people and then rachel held evans a christian writer who challenge the evangelical establishment as died at the age of thirty seven dollars after a severe reaction to said don't waste your time with people who are not going to change their minds that's a quote from byard rustin don't waste your time with the ten percent of people who will never agree with you because now it's forty percent if i or at least thirty five it varies all right international news yes please while cuba the government has just canceled their annual pride parade as the th or th annual parade now this is the thing known as dressing for a repressive regime that was still being mean to dissidents and activists and particularly on c v t so she canceled this march this year and now the the independent activists are saying yeah see and she's really the government's been influenced by the evangelical church is this the ones that got marriage equality it was taken out of the new constitution i believe you know we used to be oppressed by them when they were godless communists and no they're communists who are promoting the religious right and yes they are and they're the ones who you know put the kybosh on well they do you know some things in cuba are very progressive and wonder at all and medical are they do have the death penalty brought his sexuality in saudi arabia and they had a you know we all read about this mass execution thirty seven people were killed five were linked to homosexual acts most know most the people executed they said it was terror related that just meant they were part of a religious minority but one of these kids one of them was sixteen at the time of arrest one of them was crucified one with allegedly confessed to sex with four others and executed  to get out from under the the economic pressure russia russia well in chechnya they put out a new report analyzing the arrests of gay men and found new waves of that a new beating said torture and i'm really a whole story of what they did to these four guys in the latest wave and it is unbelievably vicious and it's all about you're going to tell us the names of others and we're going to we're going to get you now you can go to h r w human rights the it's just unbelievable you know and the investigation of the last wave which was intense produced absolutely nothing all right on a few lighter notes he united kingdom they of them but i would is not part of this group he's doing arm about may twenty six so there's a campaign to block him wow and he's been barred from african countries too i think well staying with the u k in scotland they are are putting together the two thousand and twenty one census and they've decided to add voluntary voluntary questions on sexual orientation and gender identity because they want to gather evidence to provide support and protection for scotland's transgender population now this is something we've talked about in this country a lot too should we put questions like that on the census or shouldn't we when it drives people away would people what they trust the government with that information with the government somehow manipulate that information scotland seems to be a better place to ask those question and see if scotland does separate from britain  it will become the richest per capita country in the world wow really well it's like scotland in poland in warsaw a female activist put up a poster and pasted it around town in warsaw and you know the madonna classic picture with a a halo around the madonna and the baby jesus and this activist  painted a rainbow flag in the halo portion x very pretty it does look pretty and it has caused quite a controversy not since rudy giuliani tried to take funding from the brooklyn museum for this the activist who did this was detained question for five hours and if she is prosecuted she could face up to years in prison for offending religious other is not who have sex without condoms and if the one of whose age every positive is that here are two drugs there are no cases of h i v transmission in and among any of them it really push puts this issue  if you already here and you are not going to transmit h i b but you really have to be adherent and you have to be tested to find out if you are in fact undetectable in your virus level because that is what is the point at that may is national masturbation month oh so here we celebrate as you will say yes you may in new york they've adopted new eligibility requirements for  more asset test and you will income level is now up to five hundred percent of the federal this is a lot of aids drug assistance program where if you need help paying for your drugs the state government will pay so if you're saying go in and make up to sixty two thousand four hundred and fifty dollars a year your own your boat and the program is now called uninsured care programs and canada is reducing the time gay man has to wait after sexual relations to get blood from fifteen months to three now that is spectacular as a camp well that's a question that's a christian siriano creation with several hats on her head and blinking eyes she had a little purse that was the other eye quite stunning whatever it is but as i looked through hundreds of pictures of these people and we are going to send you a link to hundreds of pictures and if you sign up for e mail we'll give you the link and it's all on how home dot com and the new york times website has them too and probably everyone else it's quite a collection of outfits it's a quite a range but as i looked through it i thought what is camp out fits you know i can i can look at something and i can say dynasty it it's and exaggeration well there was plenty of that at the met ball and then of course someone said all this money spent on this and where the proceeds going to the met costume institute would be nice if it went to you know spectacular i think than any of the ones they had before because it called for some outrageous creativity ok i had broken down and started to watch a gentleman jack on h b o about an a lister a lesbian  you it really i mean she you know some of the women that she was in love with you can't take it they can't take living this way in the rd quarter and they you know they rebel and merry men but this was created following this opera for some years since it was st created some years ago and it's really terrific if you're possibly interested i really recommend both thinking of honor of the new york city opera busy is going to premier the stonewall opera with written broadway continuously it's now with the new world stages but they're closing it on may th they held the billboard music awards in the last week or so one of the winners for top rock artist  this was controversial and imagine dragons won but nonetheless their leader dan roundels gave an acceptance speech that was all about blasting conversion therapy there from utah  mormon and he has been on quite a crusade for some years now as he spoke explicitly about how conversion therapy leads to bt suicide and the depression that our kids have tripled the rate of suicide and only thirty four dollars thirty four cents states don't have any law against it so and the glad media warrants were held last week oh yeah they will be a aired on logo this sunday night condensed version i guess madonna spoke so if you're interested in that on logo sunday night the glass media and there is the st g b t q arts festival in new york city on broadway yes i think i was fairly newly out in a little less enthusiastic about my new life and i wanted to share it and i think he was a little take it was a very like comedy it was with gangsters  everything i remember years ago if this is going to get into the documentary but they asked terrence why did you get into play why did you get to do theater he said to me guys that's what got him started that's such a common called dancing in the living room and it shows different it's a nice country song it shows different couples together two women couple of the older straight couple and you start a business it's all very murky but apparently the photos were destroyed i wish the pool boy would come forward and give us a little description maybe this is part of what michael cohen meant when he said there is more  i'll be back eventually don't worry by