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years thank you to philly cam for picking us up we will have continuous service in philadelphia and we'll keep looking for more outlets any of you who want to suggest others wherever you are please let us know now here's a preview of this week's program the big news of course was that a federal judge in the lead mark decision blocked president tribes a ban on transgender service members where did you hear about this fascinating details on the other hand four of the transgender community two thousand and seventeen is the deadliest year on record in the united states and i think it has something to do with the prejudice coming from the top democrats are working to block president trump's anti o g t t nominees and if you could believe that they are getting even more extreme the nominees not the democrat if only the democrats would get the experience and they're pretty helpless with the numbers at this point but good news for missouri where a judge there has ruled that anti l g b t discrimination is to violence in chechnya but our president and our secretary of state remain silent the state of ohio is high court has upheld and hiv criminal and there are a lot of l g b t movies opening in new york and around the country this week we'll give you a rundown on some of those but i think we actually have to start with something you know there was a horrible massacre in new york this week right down the block from us and yes i actually was caught in the traffic on the west side highway just after it happened but it's horrible it's awful were tremendously sorry for the whole country was curled up into a ball i was certainly lying there crying i mean now this is become part of the normal pattern of life whether it's mass shootings by off mostly by american men and then these terror naive about how you make it a better world and that we don't need protections and things but this particular perpetrator was under the radar of the government we spend hundreds of billions of dollars on this kind of surveillance and he got through the system nonetheless i do not enjoy hearing the president refer to them repeatedly as an animal i don't think that's the answer no it's just in our desktops and we don't let it  it's not nailed down so anyway well i wouldn't be happy if we did probably certainly not going to go people are not going to be encouraged to do what they we need them to do which is to report things that they hear and see if  the guy at the top is so anti muslim that they're worried about themselves it's a very dismissive approach that doesn't look at the complexity of the problems but that is the problem with this president who just speaks  challenge to her name is colin kahl are cockily she said this was not a carefully considered solution to it to an issue it was just impulsive and you can't do that you've got to you know you've got to make some arguments about why you're doing this ok not just because you're the commander in chief quick background some very right wing members of congress vicky hartzler of missouri and others wanted to put an amendment into a defense bill that would forbid funding by the defense department to transfer lated medical care surgery hormones whatever the house of representatives is shocking late defeated that the help of general horrible and truck meanwhile wants to to get them to pass a bill that includes funding for the wall between here and mexico and so he want he needs these people on his side to get enough votes for the bill that's going to include that funding so that's when he writes the tweet that says all right no transgender in the military i'm i'm going to go beyond what these guys want down going to go all the way and say no transgender of the military and that was the genesis of this and then there was the whole thing about was he actually going to fulfill it and he kept insisting on it and so our people started going to court against it so what this court has done this week is issue  against trump's order going into effect and taking us back to the previous status quo so the trans people can serve in the military transfer people will be able to enlist in the military as  january st trans medical care will be paid for because as she said as andy said there is no rational basis for what he did and it is discrimination against and a den stigmatized people and you can't do that even in the military without a good reason as we've discussed in there's generally judicial deference to the commander in chief on these things that the phrase for productively and she said you cannot then turn around and just do this arbitrarily they are allowing a proposed ban on federal funds for gender reassignment surgery in the military no but baptists they didn't do that ever got there they didn't so it goes back to the way it was a way which is allowing funding of medical care and we should say these things don't just happen in this case was brought by the national center for lesbian rights of gay and lesbian advocates and defenders who  that one of the things she said about this is you issue a preliminary junk injunction when the people bringing the lawsuits in the st place because this isn't a final adjudication of this case this is a  while the lawsuits continue against tromso order and when the judge said it is and this injunction says is that our side is likely to prevail in those lawsuits so that's why you issue an injunction because you don't want a bad thing to happen if it's not if it's going to be overruled in the end right and i think we should bring up at the top of the show the horrible milestone that we passed in this this week which is that with the with the murder of stephany mateo's in texas statistics the deadliest year for the trans community on record now again a lot of the reason another reason the statistics are going up is because we're identifying these people they were often mis gendered reports and we didn't even know about them  also the vast majority almost all of these twenty four murdered trans women are women of color it is massacre and an epidemic of more likely to be the victims of this while and by the way i just this is going backwards but i just have to note that the lovely rowing more of alabama who may very well be elected to the united states most people vote for doug jones said that the judge who issued the preliminary injunction should be impeached yes of course he wasn't impeached he was just removed as the chief justice alabama twice for different things and lest you think the military is the be all and end all of rationality in this an air force colonel in albuquerque new mexico has been disciplined because he would not sign a certificate of appreciation for the same sex spouse of a retiring master sergeant while he was going to he's got the he's at kirtland the air force base he's got homosexuality for many years they had a big fight at the air force academy over this it's a very strong streak in the air force and and it's very routine for retiring service members to get the certificate of certificates of appreciation for their spouses and and this guy said no i'm not doing it because your spouse is of the same gender about and that and of course he will have the right to do that if the our government prevails at the supreme court because the justice department has got me in on the side of the mask piece of cake shop this week now although all the amicus briefs were filed this week tons of a because briefs on our side folks again this is larger ramifications for civil rights laws of this country if we may start making these kinds of exceptions and people can cite their religion their moral concerns and things about how they want to treat people who come in off the you know for business it's over wanted yes and that is now what they're trying to impose on gay people in these plans anybody oh i am black people but a little good news from phoenix arizona where a court rejected a lawsuit by a company their brush and nia but that does wedding invitations they had gone to court to ask for an exemption from the state's nondiscrimination law so that they could reject same sex couples from michigan where they have no where we have no protections unless we are protected by sex discrimination same sex couple was turned away from a wedding venue they're the post family farm because they said you know we don't offer same sex couples the same  services you know we we don't want to support same sex marriage want to find someplace else had your wedding well it's an interesting time we're living through where are we that's occurred where we know from wh i now where we go from zero burnt epidemic bigotry to people rethinking and changing their attitudes but there are still many vestiges of unashamed bigotry out there i've been impressed and moved recently by taking a close look at our allies who are standing up for us senate and standing up against racism and sexism and everything else and i and we would like to see more of it in the united states congress i think we should talk about the trumpet point well i mean we could we could start with the fact that we're with o b l g b two groups have come out against this guy scott garrett to head the export import bank of the united states now that was headed by fred hochberg the highest ranking out gay official in the administration this guy was defeated for congress last year in new jersey because of his anti gay statements he was withholding money from the republican party because they appoint they supported use the money to support a few gay republicans and yet this offended him so much and try as we found wednesday was bragging this morning about all the judges he's getting confirmed federal judges one hundred and forty five approximately right to district courts and courts of people i mean again this seems to make it look there were a handful of republicans who voted with us on the transgender service thing but they're but this is not a deal breaker for them they want these judges because they're so conservative on everything goes there are a lot of originally appointed by ronald reagan yes to the courts and then elevated to the federal courts by d bill clinton and republican judges as we have gone through marriage decisions over the last few years  and other cases we have often noted that these judges is you know as many were appointed by republican presidents as by democratic but this is a whole new class of judges that trump and some point in who are real hard core right winger it is a complete who jeff sessions doesn't believe in justice scott pruitt doesn't believe in environmental protection he has that ben carson doesn't believe in the housing and urban development and the device doesn't believe in public school and mike pence doesn't believe in  vice by the way it was paul bought a ford who engineered the pick of mike pence for vice president my favorite story of the week these indictments that have come down please let them be only the tip of the iceberg of people street in brooklyn and she's a local blogger in her neighborhood in her community she writes a little community blog and she runs into a friend on the street and says hey you know who owns that house pole in a fort and a woman says really and she starts posting things out her blog because in the middle of all gentrified park slope brooklyn this house is a mess and she's saying who knows something about this what's going on and to moyers take her up on it they read her a little local blog and they start looking into all the air real estate records and the end of all this is that they discover how he's been laundering money through his real estate ownership for whatever purposes and they are major whistle blowers on poll data for it it's just another example of grassroots action now that it's not all robert muller and sometimes local blogger is in brooklyn by the way  sam brownback who is up for the position of ambassador at large for religious freedom and he's a total right wing you know tie game not this is one the senate democrats are trying to slow down he was confirmed by committee  democrats voting against him because he is so horrible yeah yeah on women yet another sam clovis you might have heard of me this week well  who was tapped to be the top scientist at the department of agriculture despite no expertise as a scientist and now he's caught up in the russian scandals because there are several references in the court filings this week about that to the campaign supervisor and that's clovis who served as trump's national cochairman and the susan travel he well he was they asked sarah huckabee sanders about him and she said i see no reason why we're going to have to withdraw that nomination i'm betting he's this one is in trouble and all high school friend of mine   pro gay country well i hope they eat him for a while and we've told you about penny nance who trump wants to make ambassador on global women's issues she's from concerned women for america now the reason she got in trouble this week and heard nomination may be in some trouble it's because she can't stop tweeting either and she went after bob corker and jeff flake whom she likened to a middle school girl that might hurt her chances with those guys if they have any self respect long lost long ago you know brownback was asked of this confirmation hearing about issues because he got rid of a nondiscrimination order that kathleen sebelius his predecessor as governor of kansas had instituted and his answer at his confirmation hearing was well i just think that's more appropriate for the legislature to take care of and no one said to him well if it had come up in the legislature would you have some right or did it well he also wouldn't answer to mccain when he has to move religious motivations are sufficient justification for foreign laws and that requires a level of commitment and money that is not there and meanwhile just to be contrary the department of state on intersects awareness day that they're not on top of where the way below sam brownback gets out there and let me say something nice about a republican you know i've always spoken up for joe straus was the speaker of the house of the state of texas but because he stopped the very horrible bills from going through there not only now or now he's not going to run for reelection well he's one of these guys like oh well i don't want to compare him to jeff flake because he's a lot better than jeff like but i th  people are all saying how lovely their speeches or what they say about trump is but they vote against us all the time absolutely but and so to bob corker and and john mccain and not john mccain all the and twenty three because he hadn't joined implementation of the bill and then a higher court has just removed that injunction so remove says they can reinstitute offended by him sort of teasing people about who he is and then refusing to talk about it certainly most egregiously at the town and p s this is not this revelation by anthony rapp which we'll talk about is you know it's not new i mean it is news that it's him but i mean the stories about his abuse of attractive young men on the sets wherever he is are legion and you know my friends other friends these are this is this is this is the way he operates so whatever that erupted this week was extraordinary he revealed although he's told the story before without naming kevin spacey that at the age of fourteen we have a picture of him when he was fourteen this is him  he's forty six now he was in a show on broadway and spacey was in another show on broadway and anthony was you know in social circles on broadway and ended up at a party invited spacey to his house with other people with other adults and things and he said i was so bored at the party i'm a kid i just wanted to watch t v and then when i was trying to leave i turns out i'm the only one there and spacey blocked the door picked me up like   he said like a bra bridegroom carries me into the bedroom and then jumps on top of me and tries to get sexual with me he said i was able to squirm away he said you know kevin spacey was a twenty six year old actor not very famous in a smaller role long day's journey into night and he said this kind of haunted me for a long time but then spacey started getting famous and he said it really became uncomfortable for me in the business knowing what i do about him seeing about gatherings parties whatever and it would kind of freak me pending to his apology to rap you know this is the exactly apologize he said i have no memory of this happening but if it happened it's horrible and i'm so sorry wow i was drawing must have been a drug well well my mind when i st heard about it because i have not heard or paid attention to perhaps they what you said is was was this a one time incident or is this a repeated thing anymore that would be the traditional progression but will an added layer of self loathing by gay men who are concerned about their place in the business prevent have respect for his talent but this was the way he operated all the time so but at the end of all this space he tries to sort of deflect bit by saying i have loved and had romantic encounters with men throughout my life and i choose now to live as a gay man oh now you travel real life i want to deal with this honestly and openly and that starts with examining my own behavior well i have yet to hear from him you know that this was th fund dot org to see what's going d on in your area and who your local candidates might be we have that film but i don't think we have time for it at the moment if we have time at the end of the show will be what we were or will put it in the note trans amendment included that we told you about last week that forbids any use of these funds to help trans kids with any kind of counseling medical treatment what i wrote to governor veto those i don't know i don't know whether he wants to i don't know what's going to happen to it in the house but we will stay in touch on this ok all right lance we have a little victory in lansing michigan where the mother of a th grader a transgender son won the right for him to use the restroom consistent with his gender identity the school board went along with that but the local entitled u b d activists are trying to fight that but he complained about some suspicious activity and then the sheriff's office would respond so we complained about them so they came to his door to beat him up and started using  to is call about suspicious activity around his house and they released him in the morning without charges being filed but you know the lawsuit is about putting an end to the good old boy culture there they also entrapped him they they folded they you know he put in the call they didn't come he complained then they come he won't let them in the house because he sees that they're angry and they're after him so they go away so he goes out to write lock the gate bonding in the case she's not going to have to pay but the state is going to have to pay two hundred and twenty three thousand dollars to the attorneys the people who complained about her not doing her job and the judge in kentucky who refused to  consider adoptions by same sex couples and wanted a religious exemption for that is going to resign to avoid being disciplined for his bigotry in puerto rico incendiary crime in the midst of everything that puerto rico is going through to then gin up the hate and energy to start throwing incendiary devices at a dance club seems unbelievable good news from from arizona where the tribal court has ordered the locked tribe to recognize same sex marriages using using they say they have a fundamental right to marry under the constitution of the community and the indian civil rights act of eight hundred and sixty eight good news from ferndale michigan where the city council has added stone ten years old he was assigned a class project to do something and he decided that he wanted to write nice notes to transgender people really wrote have now read about how mistreated transgender people are and you know he decided to do something we remember a boy scout a kid who had followed the whole gang issue of the scouts we had him on the show a one hundred years ago a good to talk about that so he coordinated campaign of writing encouraging school bullying a lot of it would which is anti goal g b t this week it was you know this went on for six hours of this hearing and i have to say i'm not encouraged i mean in terms of the kinds of measures that need to be taken that are going to get this thing under control but there are additional steps that are going to be taken in new york in the wake of the canteen official they seem so you know lip service let's cover it it's about legally covering their asses and they keep passing policies yeah they say we have all this in place but you've got to go in there and change school cultures you know it's hard but it's good for everybody you know it wasn't so hard when we were going to schools and talking to classes of kids kids start off of forty five minute sessions saying that they their favorite sport was going to be queer people and forty five minutes later they were saying that maybe this not such a good idea and danny drama was the head of the education committee head of this was a heretic that you to be to the chancellor and others you need to articulate l g b t issues in the schools you need to say the words we were in there breaking silence about these things in those days but there's still a lot of silence around it of course except that one bright note in this a bill written by students in new york city pass the council education committee it promotes more g s a which used to be a gay straight alliance is now that's defined as gender sexuality alliance clubs and training staff  discriminated against in west virginia a local big brothers big sisters organization announced that they need they have lost funding because they gave a correct ok anyway he was supporting trans people in the military and he's famous as the father of soldier who was killed in the military and very straightforward in moving in and  phatic i thought hillary's speech was an attempt to be emphatically supportive but didn't break any new ground campbell harris talked about we have to tell the truth she was the senator from california who's being to and twenty yeah and she was relaxed and good and appealing but none of it was really groundbreaking and meanwhile the people who were protesting pride events last summer  the see if i can find it no justice no pride people they showed up outside the dinner saying what are you doing in allowing wells fargo to sponsor this event you've sold out to the corporate interests pardo good reason so none of that showed up on c span i protest of a charset dinner where they had rudy giuliani as speaker at rideau but in general i think we should be focusing most of our energy on and we should certainly try to improve ourselves most of our lives you we want to be focused and i thought oh excellent but i don't like we did like our mayor all right so we move on to international news finally where things are really dire i mean the situation in egypt is getting even worse in terms of what the what they're doing to gay people we've told you a lot about that they now want to make perverted sexual relations between people of the same sex punishable up to five years in prison they don't have an anti sodomy law they persecute gay people on other bases and they want to make could get three years under the proposal but they put up to if you would tend to gay party or carry any sign or code for homosexuals i mean like the rainbow flag is insane and you know we're trying to get to listen the speak out against it but resolution every time they hold an olympics all the countries of the world sign a truce resolution which is nonsense by the way and there in any war d is actually going down halt during that but this is the n supports them or stands up for us and what happens with the olympics lots of news from taiwan going to that route taiwan the premier there is going to send his own version of the and sex education was the theme of the far right for aid this year the president of the country also took to facebook to express most wish her best wishes for the pride parade well you know the deal with the marriage thing is that a court issue they are that council of grand justice or whatever in march of this year said you have to do marriage you have to do within two years or it's going to go into effect automatically and so they've been arguing since then everybody wants them to do it the legislature to do it faster that's why they keep saying ok ok we're going to come up with a bill but no one is confident they're actually going to get anything done before the two year in the united states to took part also call it in singapore which also was huge thousands of people corporations diplomats participating and the interesting thing there is that the gay games have just announced that they are going to be in hong kong rules hong kong and has been cracking down on stuff so whether we can hold a successful games in hong kong even five years from now will be interesting to see this tour of the european union agencies are in london and of course with brooks that they're going to have to relocate these agencies somewhere else because they're not going to be part and the game boy is concerned about going to a country that doesn't recognize same sex marriages so slovakia which doesn't have same sex marriage to recognize the relationships with poland says we don't have to we're following the australian marriage post card vote results will be announced on  at any rate the right wing is gearing up to fight it in parliament because there's going to be a lot of pressure from parliament to pass marriage equality if we win the postal vote so they have already announced one hundred their members have been disqualified as having dual citizenship and being illegal members of parliament staying over in that part of the world the new zealand prime minister who we told you about was sworn in and  getting involved in a fight but he was just defending them in go india and they have their st year i know raid and a film festival and back in the u k the country has denied asylum for a game moroccan man twenty five years old who has h i c he in morocco was getting assaulted getting death threats and the u k asylum adjudicator said well that's not persecution that's just routine harassment also in the united kingdom they're having a huge sexual harassment scandal with the tory party and some labor people as well as a big list going around and in india the high court has asked the neighbor to reconsider alter the job for a transgender sailor who was sacked moving on and speeding up and aids news will watch out on  refuse to call the national emergency called a public health emergency by doing that the only thing that he did do was free up the states to take away money from any it's programs and put it towards if you want to put it towards the opioid epidemic you can and i don't really really care about anything in indiana a nd county has now ended the needle exchange program that pencil loud to be instituted over his dead body because so many people were sexual partners of their status before having sex or risk criminal charges now this may be appealed to the supreme court mightly will be entertainment news hour and i want to alert you to some movies  dreamboat which is a documentary about a gay cruise and got very good reviews playing at the new fest film festival here is opening at the quad here in new york this weekend and probably around the country and our own actors and the pilot is shooting this month in new york it's not picked up yet but it could be a disney t v series and the mac is going to have a gay story line warriors basketball d coach steve kerr who has always been very supportive and who refused to go to the white house that he and his team after they won the championship he is celebrate he they held l g b t q night at  will tell you how you can make a difference in new york if you're from here and philadelphia viewers sign on to our web site and gave us a t v down or to get our newsletter we are now on philly cam in philadelphia and still on mine t v for a few more weeks we'll see you everywhere and back here next week