they say that the whole world will be over either that or the crisis where the still managing to move ahead on banning military service by transgender people yeah we have more detail on that  former rap star kid creole killed homeless man in new york for allegedly coming on to him by saying what's up men a florida man just twenty two was killed defending his gay friends from a homophobic you know sometimes were accused of only doing bad news on this show but things happen and then a small town in oklahoma  couple says the fire department and the mayor of the town let their house burn to the ground a famous lesbian is contemplating a run for governor of new york well that's better news and in  relatively good news the anti transgender bill is stalled in texas although marriage equality is also stalled in australia there are only five countries that are aiding gay refugees from chechnya quiz answer the u s is not one of us activists and here is more good news activists have stopped united health care from denying coverage to gay men for truvada as perhaps and you've probably seen this but a four minute animated film about two boys falling in love has become a worldwide phenomenon yeah i wasn't impressed but it is a phenomenon and we will pay tribute to gay icon barbara cook and she was a people like mom too yes i'm going to miss her and will do that at the end of his show as well you know around i mean we are just sitting here in the midst of tension over what's going on in the world has given trump authority to take out kim jong un and he doesn't mean for a date this is going to lead us into and once we do the vatican stuff now i want i want no i listen i think we've got we have to deal with some of the big stuff that i think is being missed out there aren't you know i mean you know i want to start by morning the planet you saw that the fact that government scientists are telling us how terrible everything is in terms of the climate and they that they have to leak this  if you're paying attention jeff sessions you know because they can't get it out through regular channels the administration doesn't even know how they're going to deal with it but it's horrendous the report is horrendous i'm not concerned about the health of the planet the planet w regenerate itself but meanwhile the human race is going to be wiped out well and then if you want to talk about a more immediate threat there's the fact that nuclear energy safety is being abandoned by this administration this is a much more imminent threat with rick perry i'm numbskull in charge of of the energy department but they've also installed all these people who are the naysayers about you know all these extra safety rules you really have to wonder what their motivation is because it's one thing to decide that you want to deconstruct the federal government because you want to devolve power to the states or locals or whatever but to do it in a way that recklessly puts in harm's way all of us as human beings you know michael lewis wrote the risks of mistakes being made and lots of people being killed is increasing dramatically and you know when you think about the george bush administration and katrina you know it it sort of woke people up who were not paying attention to infrastructure and protecting people as kind of well to some extent they certainly spent a lot of money down there to rehab things but you know when there is like three mile island most people don't remember that but some massive nuclear accident that wipes out trump country are people going to react then and say you didn't what we are all human beings and i think some things can snap us out of some of our even our most dearly held beliefs i am more cynical than that while still finding great hope and beauty in a lot of other things but now i'm not terribly surprised by all this but it's extremely depressing and frightening and then you saw the republican senator bob cor where i broadcast dana and they have rules about language but they're all just liars there and they will i assume one of the morning till night and they everything they say is a lie everything they say is nonsense and i just don't know how they sleep at night and why we have put these morons in power was the president lying when he said he's going to rain fire and brimstone down on north korea yet he was because he said you threaten us again  because he claims he is this great negotiator and clearly he can negotiate his way out of a paper bag but i am worried that he will provoke nasr is to attack us be it north korea or china or when they when china and russia figure out how truly weak we are at this point they could really decide to have a field day when it is russia or already wanted to crimea you know i mean that you can say they put a price and sanctions but then moving on the word came out over the weekend that the white house has sent a proposed guidance to the defense department we'll see what the defense department does in stand in the way of this but here's the plan the proposed plan from the white house that no transgender troops will be allowed to re and list so they will start by getting rid of people by attrition now how they're going to ferret out who is trans and who isn't when most are not being explicit about who they are is a question there are no details about what i was most had not come out and  who are eligible for promotions as soon as they become eligible for a promotion they get kicked out the logic of that i don't understand well let's a bit that's the it's all about saving money well what is any of this about but the whole the idea of the whole proposed plan is to phase out transgender troops now lambda legal defense and out serve s l d n the service members legal defense see you would court mr trump well they are suing they're suing already on behalf of trans troops claiming violation of due process rights and we'll see about that wasn't because of you if you listen to and northrop on the show the courts have a way of deferring to the military yes they do and they don't want to say well the democratic national committee is also way to and on turn my back on the navy guy spoke up this week to so there's no guarantee even though there are supposed to follow the orders of the commander in chief there is no guarantee that the military is actually going to sign off on this proposed to go to the military people who've been asked to drop a nuclear bomb beijing have said they would if the president ordered it well i think one guy yeah well  the guy in the in the pacific and he was asked in australia and he said that's the rules the commander in chief says go go everything is on hair trigger we're going to try to upset you too much but it is well this is the crisis that is looming is where will they and this is a serious discussion so i am wondering whether any of the military leaders will stand up to this official a when it becomes a real official thing when we say stand up to it what do you your a way to get out of i am not going to i am not going to quote donald trump about his nd amendment and solution to hillary clinton being president i am not going to do that i would also say that while they were not would be wrong the hundreds of years of history is of the court deferring to the military as a special case in two thousand and seventeen i wonder whether a corner has been turned and whether it is possible that the courts could look at this more closely and say yes you have to have a more rational basis for this and you have offered none well the courts have certainly stood up to him on the immigration policy short of the supreme court which administration people have said all along d you know the president has the right to make the decision about immigration and the answer is yes bought within certain parameters or those parameters have not necessarily wasn't even a completed process because what we were working under was another six month extension and deciding whether to admit recruits transgender so this is new it is new but the world is changing daily  date and she needed a hat for the car to keep her hair down ball and put this on and didn't realize that it was a trump cap no one is that stupid and will you then try does not intend to make the mistake again even though when somebody pointed it out at the club she's she still put it on the way home yeah i believe me she knew what she was where and she's sorry about it now but she knew it she said what he's trying is doing to our community is absolutely everything else yes he said the guy who created people for the american way he will not go to the traditional white house for session that happens the day or two before the actual ceremony at president's box and they do have this white house reception but they are not selected by the white house now they are selected by the kennedy center and you know barbra streisand was honored during the george bush george w bush administration and she took it but in this honorees says she will go to the white house reception but she will do so in order to have a confrontational conversation with the president about immigration yes they should have they should all have a confrontational buddy any of you who have face time with him on the golf course you know when your wedding reception is out there at the minster i doubt you will but yes he's two walled off now interesting invited to perform at the white house for president nixon because because there are square i don't like that they were very square said and it was in the midst of the vietnam war and the right kind of singer as it were quite bold about protesting the vietnam war and president nixon and here's what happened at the white and news report this was the scene at the white house last night as president nixon please limit the medal of freedom to do with wallace and his wife the founders of reader's the pleasant part of the evening for the president and his guests the unpleasant part came earlier during the entertainment when the reconnaissance came on one of the singers carol karachi made a short speech about vietnam the guests your work look when eartha kitt spoke up to lyndon johnson over the vietnam war she didn't work for a long time that's true but i liked the fact that the right kind of singers didn't seem to object to her doing that and they just w donation here the prop eight effort in california which got him in a lot of trouble with the boycotts of hotel and he said that was a big mistake i should never have done that and i am fully supportive of same sex marriage because now i know that once trump gets his court appointments he's going to get rid of it anyway so why upset people i'm going to give him credit for a turnaround ok not know enough people make those turnarounds love alone declare it publicly not alone declare it agency for international development and he was asked about you know reaching programming with which to vulnerable people around the world and he said we need to make sure that we reach all marginalized communities he gave this long nice speech about it no country can be a barber democracy if it isn't listening to all of its voices on the map and this is a trump comedy the fact is that ambassadors around the world embassies agencies like this have continued to be progressive and welcoming to us and to other communities they are yes in spite of the moron in chief and the big do but the biggest criticism an attack on steve bannon the way can i do believe steve bannon is behind most of this mess where and around the world came from supporter of an apocalyptic geopolitics that has stymied action against climate change and exploited fears of migrants and muslims and calls for walls and purifying deportations so this is all heavy duty the writers declare that the world view of american evangelical and hardline catholics which is based on a literal interpretation of the bible is not too far apart from g augusts this is the vatican going after americans  what's the effect of all and steve what is the effect of all that who was how many as i said how many legions does the pope command to get his views across i mean yes he is pointed softer spoken more more moderate sounding bishops since he's gotten there but he hasn't changed that he dog with this mean there's no really radical opening that you've seen no i think this is the most important and strong statement by the pope directly or indirectly of opposition to the conservative ideology of american catholicism and the white house most of the american bishops are just happy that they're going to get rid of abortion rights and gay rights and the submit astray sion or they are getting rid of them well yeah but that's the u s bishops and cardinals who are acting that way and the am pressed by this move enormously and i am enormously impressed by this and i think it's incredibly hard hitting and the fact that they went after bannon directly and by name and the fact that they went after the american cardinals and bishops for aligning with the right wing evangelical church i think is spectacular would be interested to read some follow ups of press questioning more closely the spokespeople for these american bishops with the bishops themselves oh they're furious they don't return my call they are very furious at the vatican yeah all right good news from texas at the moment where the proposed bill to ban transgender people from using the bathroom that corresponds with their lived gender has not made progress in the house after passing the senate well that's what happened during the regular session this was a special session of the they're threatening to do another special session well this one runs out saying don't do this and you know toyota is threatening not to build a proposed plant in texas if they pass all of this is coming from the far right the governor is certainly far right greg abbott but the dan patrick is the lieutenant will say we're winning there because our rights are not protected there now but it's heartening to see a republican speaker of the house stand up to the right wing republican governor and lieutenant governor and hold the line so far now they can call special sessions infinitely we can also hold the line and right now the interesting thing here is the bennies and the speaker of the house there joe strauss has you know he's got a committee chair also who is aligned this way and will not hold hearings on this so you know we don't like that sometimes when when a bill is not allowed to be voted on we're going to talk about australia later but so this could work both ways along we  education in new york and she has been hammering this for years and so now she's going along at the moment in a coya way with the rumors about her running for governor i think she's going to run for governor but  trump is president i don't think cynthia nixon would get elected governor but maybe i'm wrong but anyway she's gotten the attention of the governor who has invited her in to have a conversation about that i think people are looking for fresh faces people who are not you know professional politicians how else could trump of gotten elected you know by people sure i mean when people say you know it was a lot of talk online about who the next democratic nominee should  trashing kaamelott harrison and stop trashing bernie and stop all this kind of stuff it's got to be a fresh face whoever yes it's got to you it's like obama somebody that you could invest your hopes and who don't know too much about well that's the same age i find that so amazing i'll have to look that up today in arizona in pima county which is tucson they have banned conversion therapy for minor and that's a good thing the eisenhower was not that young he was the you know when he left office he was the was the oldest person to have held the office until reagan was elected well republican gay activist charles francis in d and he's the one who went to court and got the federal court now to order the department of justice and the f b i to turn over all their files from decades of firings of l g b t gay lesbian b trans whatever workers who were fired by the federal government although evidently this started in fact under truman who issued a loyalty order in one thousand nine hundred and forty seven that provoked the start of decriminalize it and thousands of people were arrested after that and what he gathers on this and i'm going to include this in our e mail this week if you get on our e mail list you'll get a link to this he documented all these people who are arguing for reform criminal reform you know saying we shouldn't make it a crime but we despise these people you better not got the idea that it's ok to walk around holding hands you're still disgusting that's the i mean these are all quotes of these are things that people are saying who led the reform movement and that lasted for decades the persecution of gay people after the initial decriminalization which the doing some of celebrating about well in a similar vein i we think amazon suing amazon because they worked in one of their warehouses and hebron kentucky and for a year or viciously harassed by their coworkers and their supervisors when they complain and have been brake lines cut on their car one day the ego see found grounds to sue and so they have now filed suit with the transgender legal defense and education fund against  sam's club at the e e o c yeah this is been a long standing case and she was a persecuted because she was you know transitioning subjected to harassment and intimidation and she won and she was working for them in florida these are all title seven cases and a bunch of you know they cobbled together of their laws because they were not adequate direct laws on this in fact in in the amazon case they're also claiming violation of the americans with disabilities act because that's because the amazon treated the trans wife as disabled part of this so there are all sorts of ways they're putting this together now on the other hand graduates from high school and that's a shame because these are real issues about transgender bathroom b s s at a high school and they're just pushing it off to the side so as not to have to deal with it by the way we  don't mention the vice president pence enough because he is the power behind a lot of the sand bt stuff and he's had longingly koch brothers conference this week of the these are the people who actually run the country and it's the americans for prosperity but it's not your prosperity and a little deeper tony perkins of the family research council says he's never been invited to the white house as much as he has been innocent mr asian it's these right wingers it alliance defending freedom it's tony perkins once all of these groups just getting in there and hammering away with hands with jeff sessions i'm sure with bannon also and it's it's  not the president's lawyer comes out of that now to talk about the michigan civil rights commission now they may add l g b t q to the definition of sex so they can make this decision you if you would like to comment on this you sentence although we wonder whether it's a long legal guidelines yeah only you know we kind of wish she weren't going to prison at all but there are more details came out about the judge and her opinion of this judge margo here from the new york times report judge brody was clearly sympathetic to mr her rant saying she had trouble sleeping well considering his sentence and she began an unusual conversation with him after his statement asking why she should not sentence him to prison mr her aunt seemed perplexed by the question but eventually said i did my best to run a company that was doing good for people not as a criminal racket judge brody seemed to agree and to find irony in the situation the very thing that was illegal it also did a lot of good well she got a lot of letters from the community saying what are you doing this is that this is an organization that has been around for twenty years you know he was trying to make sex work save maybe he take it off the streets and make it safe he ran an online service where escorts could advertise their services and clients could find them and he provided by now and chill management education for the escort and safe sex education and tried to run a clean business and and did a lot of phone tropic donations and the judge recognized this i mean this case was initiated by former attorney general loretta lynch when she was she was the federal prosecutor and there are now a lot of security brought this case a lot yes a lot of this comes to the surface because of the concern about traffic and there was an intimation of  this is a gay couple that moved to a small town a population of about one hundred and twenty one dollars cocked and we have a news report on out do we move to the town with their african american seven year old son adopted i guess  and yes we have a news report let's take a look at that it's like something out of a movie rather than the real life developing tonight a federal discrimination lawsuit filed against the blaine county sheriff in leaders of the august he says one month later the racial and homophobic slurs started and the harassment reached its peak when his house burned down this year no lives were lost a lot my worst case scenario green case civil rights named in the federal lawsuit detailing numerous instances of citizens calling to mel medlar a queer and threatening violence against his black son the former clerk says blaine county sheriff tony l magaro and under sheriff david robertson refused to file reports citing free speech laws the events culminated may th when kamil miller says he was standing inside his house when he heard glass breaking he says the garage was set on fire and his house subsequently burned to the ground the lawsuit states the mayor and other citizens watched as it burned and that firefighters a block away did respond until it was too late mayor ed saul told me that simply not true that cases pending and the mayor insists race and sexuality were never an issue tomorrow freedom oklahoma will be visiting the town to file open records requests and they're calling on the o s b f b i and state fire marshal to conduct an investigation jesse mitchell now that report did not include the disgusting racist and homophobic statements that have been quoted from the mayor and all these other people i mean i can clean it up a little bit but one of the defendants who's accused in this case that i'm about the kid i'm going to rip his and word head off and crap down his throat and they use stronger language it's just it's it was an assault yes and and disgusting and horrible and that report while it gives you some basic facts you know just didn't talk to the family violent incidents most egregious former rap star member of grandmaster flash and the furious five kid creole who went on to a slightly different kind of performing career is being that being taken into court and now working as a handyman and security guard he's walking down the street in the middle of the night and he is the southern guy and we have a picture of him as there is a homeless man named john jolly  if you don't think there's homophobia in the world holy mount moly seven well on staten island two men have been arrested for kicking and punching a trans woman twenty nine years old at nine forty in the morning i think of these things  happening at two o'clock in the morning but nine forty in the morning in broad daylight these guys are just kicking the crap out of this poor woman just for witnessing her and then in florida in lake worth a man was we have a picture fatally shot after defending is gay friends that they were all out of the club and this other guy who was there and this is the guy who was killed by the way his name is javier cruz as the leaving the club this this other man i'm a let's put his picture up there nelson hernandez mania is drunk and starts going after them and then he says i i hate i hate people like you bore i'm from i'm going to you know they kill you he's other guy was wounded terrible awful awful in much milder but still homophobic news in oakland california oakland a's outfielder matt jones was suspended without pay for two dollars games after yelling gay slurs at a fan he was angry at the money was his pay for those two days has been donated to pee fly and he will take part in a public outreach initiative with p flag he says he is beyond know cetera this is in people's hearts and it comes out at these times and it's like the word that they think can hurt you the most well and it's the way they've been raised and what they've been taught and it becomes the reflexive action and until we start doing some real work from the ground up when young children we're not going to get rid of that you know many parents are doing that kind of work with their kids we also want right so australia is the big headline this week as we've been wondering whether they were going to finally get over the hump and do marriage but in their still arguing in the legislature is once again turned down the idea of a plebiscite vote which would require people to go to the polls to vote instead the government is now proposing a male vote a postal vote but no one is required to participate in that people say they don't use the mail and it's not binding anyway and neither is the ballot initiative binding on the legislature because a lot of them said no matter what happens i'm still voting against the what the government you know the prime minister wants marriage but he's in a conservative coalition to so he wants the people to make them pass and he doesn't have the guts to just let the parliament have a free vote and activists are going to challenge the postal vote in a lawsuit so it's all still up in the air and meanwhile the united nations has told australia that they have to recognise the marriage of two lesbians who were married in canada and then moved to australia and i want them to give them a divorce yes for purposes of a divorce yes yes right although one is now living in scotland i can't figure out where the united would return to their had their st same sex marriage and this is no they only approved this in june it's the st one of the united kingdom they are the church to do it and it's going to cause more trouble but get over it in haiti the senate has passed a bill to ban same sex marriage and any public demonstration of support for pass a same sex marriage bill but two activists groups are going to continue to fight this bill there are only five countries who are working to help the chechen refugees who are gay and they are france germany lithuania canada and one country not named by the organ ization the put this out we don't know they united states well it is not we're not helping refugees from anywhere that's true and over in dollars homosexuals after closing twenty two dollars massage parlors this year and they're trying to clean us out of kuwait in israel fourteen thousand people at least showed up  jerusalem pride which was at least three times the number expected but there were twenty two arrests including one guy with a knife presumably those were protesters who were arrested and in london there's a controversy a neighborhood council is demanding that a new office luxury apartment development include a very gay club to produce to replace one that was lost when they are doing this  know people are you meet happening here to people who are meeting in other ways and they go to regular bars and they can be people they want to be but alan come thing is you know the eastern block club is closing which was a big gay bar very famous one he's open  york and new york in the east village he's opening up a club coming there which is not gay specific but everybody's welcome big victory united healthcare we told you the insurance company had refused to cover tru screaming in the streets aids art and activism all the major artists of the aids movement story and it's got more than eighteen million hits but the it's a very interesting story behind it was made by some student filmmakers beth david and esteban bravo originally conceived as a non gay story and then they made a day and that made a deeper and  s taken off around the world we'll put that in our email are interested in the disney channel's disney junior section for preschoolers including a lesbian mom's family in husband boyfriend and their attempt to have a baby coming out to the world is our and card here he is opening up about his sexuality as bisexuality didn't quite say it explicitly but he knowledged it and i guess i really care well there it is though for some people who follow these new n b c series midnight texas has a gay couple and b b c america starting a day series called queers a short films with a lot of prominent people  picture for a while a long time had a pretty pretty hard period she came back as a great cabaret singer and concert singer and i'm going to see play because her son adam like grant was a guy and she got her big break