lawsuit to gain social security survivor benefits for a lot of people have been nice and of course we'll update you on anti l g q legislation in texas y policies including my heroes of the week who are thirteen and fourteen years old a famous athlete seemed to come out oh never mind but an out gay legislator or has come out about using perhaps the tony nominations are out and they're gay gay gay will review ink on broadway a play about rupert murdoch took see the  but and you know we were not terribly optimistic about the supreme court you know its composition now linda greenhouse is a long time supreme court correspondent at the new york times and you know she's a little more optimistic she says st of all the court did not buy all the right wing questions about that that is true that was impressive thing in the right wing and they are writing about these cases in the submissions and the court had proposed that the court answer certain questions about these cases and the court just said the hell with that we have our own question and it doesn't comport with your question that the court is asking is whether title seven prohibits discrimination against linda says if the court is true to the direction of sex discrimination precedents and ordinary uses of english as it does it two very big hurdles for this car three cases would be easy wins and she she quotes the judge at the lower court judge carbone us on the nd circuit in the czar to case which is about the sexual orientation being sex discrimination and the judge said zardoz sexual orientation is a function of his sex this should be the head of the analysis well we of course still see to quote a famous living american president but you know i would love to think that the court would follow that logic i have no such illusions we have so much to worry about i just want you all to have a nice summer and not have to be you know why though that anything is possible in the car it oh you have sat here for years and said that these decisions are much more political than  legal or logical and but it's entirely possible that they could decide well we don't give up much by deciding for the gays in this so maybe we'll give them this and move on to other ways that we can be  and it was no less than antonin scalia who started the ball rolling on saying sex discrimination can mean presentation and things like that so i just don't believe this court pays a lot of attention to press that and i think they're off on their own little road commissioner have a nice summer now i want nothing more than to have my cynicism punctured what's going on in the house of representatives of it's not all about russia attorney general barno holik is that he is this week it is also about the equality act which the house judiciary committee i assume is that they're doing it as busy we're taping will easily pass and and push forward to the house itself where it also should pass quite easily perhaps even with some republican support until it comes to a screeching halt at the united states senate maybe now maybe seven republican senators will  decide that they think we're human beings and deserve equal treatment and veto the equality act covers a lot of people one second i'll get to that every state poll says people are for this well ever three state poll says people of her a lot of things that we're not doing anything about like climate change and then you know our president who speaks out of nine sides of his mouth on any given day would he sign something like that there are a lot of gay many years there unbelievably in this country people are not across the board who are l g b t protected from discrimination twenty two states have passed a nondiscrimination law that for the most part include sexual orientation and gender identity there of the little spots and that a lot of cities and the other states have passed such laws but not so in mississippi but in fact in twenty eight states in this country there is no state wide nondiscrimination law for sexual orientation and gender identity or expression which is why in some states it is illegal for a baker to refuse a wedding cake to a same sex couple and unless the supreme court decides that sex discrimination is covered under title seven or unless we pass the equality act now we've had versions that were just employment only we've had versions at the state level that left out public accommodations because they thought the kate discussion was too difficult this one is the whole nine yards going to be includes other things besides sexual orientation and gender identity because it what it does is we finally decided to take a comprehensive look busy at civil rights laws busy federally across the board and when we looked we discovered in coalition with many other groups that there were some laws that didn't fully cover sex discrimination or race discrimination or other things so it's really a patchwork so everybody sat down together and said let's write something that fixes all of this and the beauty of that is that it's not just about us it's about everybody and we might get more support so let a veto it and see how people feel but will they notice but anyway it is now officially on the floor it is officially moving forward and h r seen the human rights campaign is finally behind a comprehensive bill after for a busy while just doing employment only or a sexual orientation only of leaving transgender out so they've now last time the house was at the last  one day at a time the new online version jane the virgins six feet under she has a gay brother she is an ally to the community and i thought her video was particularly crisp and strong so let's look at justin machado supporting the equality act i'm just you know machado and i'm a proud american for the equality act everyone all of us have someone in our lives who has to be t q whether it's a family member like myself or a close friend no one should be discriminated against because of who they are or who they love and that's why congress has to pass the apology act now right now putting it on right here i have a brother who is an incredible human being and it's important for me that he's safe and it's important for me that he gets the same rights that i get and it's important for me that he can go anywhere and live his life the way he wants to live it if my brother were to drive from los angeles to washington d c his rights would change at least a dozen times i am aware of this and that is incredibly scary to see is discrimination gone that's laughable every single day we see something in the news every single day were there somebody getting hurt because of the color of their skin or because of their sexual orientation every day so it's not gone that's why we need to pass the equality act now join if you know that they're terrible on it let them at least hear from you that you're for it and your senators and see if we can get this moving on and even if you know they're great on it they could use some reinforcement and support too because we do need this you have things like the  trumpet ministration this week essentially asserting literally asserting sex does not refer to gender identity they are preparing regulations to allow health care providers hospitals and insurers to discriminate against transgender patients and they are rewriting the obamacare rule that protects them now we're going to talk about a lot of stories where transgender people are getting it in the neck it is it is very reading just reading all these stories this week the way that the pumping the right wing pumping on this and using transgender people a scapegoat is so evil and to a community that is already downtrodden is just very depressing and i can't imagine what it's like for my transgender brothers and sisters and it is it is just scapegoat it is opportunistic there is nothing real about it it's just a convenient way for them to raise money to keep their right wing organizations and business and to have an easy victim of their hatred and they are also probably think they're putting out regulations which will be able to comment on if you would like to stop collecting data on l g b t q youth in foster care because youth are disproportionately in foster care but they don't want you to know that and they don't want to do anything for them so if they don't collect data on them then they don't have to do anything but i'd like to mention a way in which some people in the states are fighting back on something the trans ban in the military well the number of states this week california new mexico nevada washington and oregon have  they will take trance people in their national guard the state's control of this and they can accept and encourage trans people to join the national guard people are fighting back in the bronx  there has fallen by more than forty percent since he's become president among other business woes that the family is trying to hide from congress by the way that maureen dowd column about the french the upper east side with his husband and he told the truth as a political genius and gerrard pushed or is a really smart guy and he entertained steven miller this is very young that's what i have to say about that very nominee for assistant secretary of state for democracy human rights and labor robert dest roe he opposes the equality act he called for trench warfare vs the l g b t community and he says that faith should be used to as a pretext for discrimination against people and he purposely in public mis genders trans people now we're we've got a picture up there of franklin graham a laugh who went after  because he's a catholic so like father like son bigots oh yeah big time billy was a little smoother franklin is a little coarser but it continues but you know pete is under attack from actually claimed to be they grabbed this guy and made him sign some statement that he'd been sexually assaulted by pete and when the guy realized what was happening he then no obama of course was the right wing was spreading rumors that he had been a male hooker in chicago remember the remote very much traction yeah it's interesting it's interesting to see that list smith is his walk into the lion's den type but he is really he is beneath contempt and i went on bill o'reilly show once together and we did i'm very encouraged to read about this new super majority this new group to harness the power i'm also encouraged by the fact that people voted jad has decided not to take any money from federal lobbyists or corporate pacs he's returning thirty thousand dollars that he got from some of them he's sworn off any of that kind of money as have a number of other candidates but he what i want him to do and i think he has shown some signs of doing is the ability to learn he is young he's not experienced in at this level not everything he says is something we agree with certainly or not everything he does but he listens and he is capable of changing his mind and i think that's what i hope that the dead accredit congressional campaign committee will change its mind they have said they will not work with political consulting firms that backed democratic insurgence against these right wing democrat arab like that guy in illinois who they have but bertie people h you serious about this this is really all well it really is it's a very shortsighted and stupid kind of thing and circling the wagons so dan patrick the lieutenant governor of texas made a stupid remark lightweight well i think we should spend a little time on biden because he made his official announcement after we taped last week i i have very very mixed feelings about like i liked it i thought it was a great hard meeting me to start with you didn't i did like the music and i thought it was very general and i are heard some some women on facebook say is appealing to a lot of people i think you know i think pete came out of the gate going hard against trump i think that's not exclusively biden's territory and i hate his un willing even as he inches forward to admit that he should have left the other accusers of clarence thomas testify when he was on the view he said we didn't ask her to testify and she didn't want to have all doubts that all true those women are sitting around still waiting to testify  and there is a long long list of sins he has committed and he is just unwilling to admit any of that and really pulling the you know never apologize routine and well not attractive but the of the c n n poll in polls at this point folks are not that meaningful bug he's at fifty percent support among people of color that's like kind of what hillary had going into the democratic primaries and that the people of color make up the majority of the vote in the south but people in those states are very important to winning the nomination though we're unlikely to win them in the fall but people of color may have preferred hillary to bernie but they did not vote in the same more authentically for all communities and particularly people of color to earn you know the nomination and the win and if biden goes the same route as hillary that's not a good thing  garcia back in custody the minute she got out picked her up again she twenty four years old she's been held for a year she is a trans woman from honduras where she was very badly treated and now she's back and i suggest and i mentioned there the the nominee for the state department who is anti gay we get e mails all week long about these bigoted judges that he continues to activists against the rights of people of color and women and we we don't we've even stop mentioning all these names on the show but i think we've got to get back to you in your states contacting your senators and saying or running ads saying you know don't start it or don't vote for this person so that you would least educate people that your republican senators cory gardner in colorado susan collins in maine are voting for these people and enabling this horrible judiciary that we're going to be stuck with for the rest of our lives certainly well it's certainly never too early to start going after these people for next year in selection because it's going to take some real dating to get them out of there and then there was the synagogue shooting in minnesota of the house of representatives there voted to bar conversion therapy for youth will follow that through the rest of the legislature in tennessee the senate there is voting on the hate slate of anti gay l g b t bills but they spiked the is trying to strip that have gender identity going to have a wide civil rights law that the legislature is trying to strip it out well what they did was there they are trying to pass a provision that says that gives both the state and local governments the right to have medicaid not apply to transport people who want surgery and this is a fight that's going on across the country they have passed it will the governor sign it is the question now we had already won a court decision that that was unconstitutional and then the legislature when it hadn't passed it again and the governor signs that the a c l u is going to have to go back to court and again haven't declared unconstitutional because we do win in court some time still trumps yes they did and in kansas the high court there ruled under the state constitution it protects a woman's right to abortion no appeal possible to federal authorities even to even if the supreme court overturns r so the conservatives now want a constitutional amendment in kansas to ban abortion all right i need a few good news stories from the world of religion i want to start with the united methodist church sure we told you a couple of weeks ago a few weeks ago that the general synod i guess had voted to retain and strengthen the anti l g v t rules of the united methodist church no out clergy no same sex marriages mostly african portions of the church voting for this but also right wing churches in the us and the high court of the methodist church just up how about yes  but there is a reaction and the reaction is that various congregations are withholding their do and refusing to pay their putting rainbow flags up all over on their churches they are filing challenges to the traditional plan that was voted by these church members and the great story is an omaha vs the entire confirmation class the entire class said we do we don't want to be confirmed into this church at this moment with what's going on against ariel g b t q brothers and sisters they said they love the congregation but the church's stance is immoral and they were teenagers and they received a standing ovation and they were on their way at the confirmation ceremony eight of them there thirteen and fourteen years old and they had written this statement and they got up and read it to the  congregation that was expecting them just to be confirmed and they said no we refuse it's like draft dodgers they said where are not going to participate in this immoral  and listen to the whole thing he told the crowd that he was proud to be a gay son of god i am not broken i am loved and important in the planet of our creator each of us are and there were no reports of anybody trying to snatch the diploma applause he got very nice applause and here's the brigham young university code as it has evolved you can be out you can advocate for all g b t but physical intimacy is still far better and that means kiss and it's also forbidden i believe for unmarried straight up well but the that's probably not as highly regulated or punished but he talked to he gave interviews he talked about how scared he was to do this he had come out to family and a couple of friends a couple of years ago but basically he was still he was not a gay activists not at all and he had submitted this speech to the little buddy you can watch it online it's really quite wonderful it's a cell phone video that they put out yeah but it's very clear and you can hear the whole thing and the crowd just explodes enjoy  did there are to be different we had a lesbian mayor in tampa and now we've got a gay cheerleader for the tampa bay buccaneers what is in the water here i don't know but not so good stuff in the water in california yeah you know i think we celebrated the elevation of an out gay man to head the democratic party and california eric bauman we did and we thought oh great and it turns out that he is a sexual harasser and not a good guy he did lee he he went after this guy repeatedly insisted on oral sex with william floyd twenty eight years old and he without his consent and then he said if you cross me i will break you so he is suing william floyd the state and local parties well he says the party knew about this for years and was not a well kept secret and the party is a cesspool he says so i asked someone in california you know what about this the democratic party and he said yeah this is ugly but it's really not the whole story but about the democratic party but this is ugly all right as it york city where moore's lawyer said they just want to get home after this jury you don't know new york but i don't think you're going to win i don't think any jury would give him ninety five one million dollars for anything i'm very encouraged about what happened in michigan this past week federal judges found that the congressional districts and the state legislative districts were unconstitutionally drawn must be redrawn prior to the two thousand and twenty all actions ordered a special election in two thousand and twenty for state senate districts which are normally not up for two more years and their board already passed of independent redistricting commission for two thousand and twenty two we have to get districts back we just need fair lines fair where we don't have to skew them towards us that we're getting to in california and working out in a lot of the legislature changed its mind about something there had been desire there is a desire for a memorial at the pulse night club to honor the forty nine dollars people killed at that mostly gay latino club in two thousand and sixteen and the legislature it st said it would do it and then it did out in the current budget they said no not a penny but now they've changed their mind they're going to give five hundred thousand dollars they've given a lot of money to parkland for a one million dollars following their tragedy and you know we want everybody to be able to do what they need to do but i wonder whether the fact that it's a gay latino nightclub versus a suburban high school whether that makes any difference and i'm glad that the legislature reversed itself in our zona the high court ruled  there the national center for lesbian rights case can require parents to provide counseling therapy and other expert help to children who may be transgender even if one does not support the treatment the child has to be at risk for a physical danger a significantly impaired emotionally for the court to step in but in this case but mom allowed the born male child to wear a skirt to school that that objected he got custody full time custody of the kid and the child  threatened self harm the dad later agreed to there before the child and himself good nice to hear what else the mayor of a class action federal suit on so tell me this ok same sex spouses are seeking equal access to social security for survivor benefits because we couldn't get married all those years and if you married at the last minute the person died as with james oberg a fellow was joining the right pace you don't get me if you got to be married for nine months there are a lot of some of these people were not able to be doing that you know this is a class action suit basically the primary plaintiffs were together for forty three years one died of cancer six months they married they're trying to say this is very important to all of you who are if you have these kind of situations where they're trying to go back and say you should have been able to be married big and get your benefits and that has been  the hindu marriage act i don't know why it's hindu marriage act but it does allow trans women to marry men the gender and identity is self determined reassignment surgery and intersex children which is good because we want self determination there too i wanted to show we talked about this a little last week the video from armenia of the tran woman addressing the parliament yes it is wild but it's an armenian and it has subtitles so you should look for it on line maybe we could put it in the show no activists invited to address the parliament i'm not even sure everyone in the parliament knew they were going to be addressed by a trans activist but she got up and gave a fierce speech about discrimination but the legislators were really upset and this rife she was the st or median to obtain a passport a several years ago under her new name but she's terrific and the woman screaming at her is unbelievable and it's definitely a video to watch to see what's going on in the world  for sport is screaming at the passengers the now they're now saying that female athletes with high levels two of testosterone have to take suppressants to compete in some women's races and international events including the olympics and caster one that is a two time olympic champion and racing so now they're saying up to the eight hundred meters you're going to have to take suppressors maybe not after that it's all very today as we're taping and i read some of the comments that mediately came up and they were wonderful every one of them said this is absolute nonsense you know if i'm six feet tall and basketball players are seven feet tall should i get some extra booster chair or something to play basketball should the net be moved down every time i go the ball to compensate people have different traits and different skills and different body type suppress the natural testosterone level in their body where is the right wing of this and what god intended dad clarify that that when that's a nice analysis maybe franklin graham will support it but it's outrageous charity mermaids to join in their wellness efforts the tree some a government in the process so reforming the twenty dollars for gender recognition act two d medicalized the process for changing gender going through an undercut there's a picture of the two of them harry and megan because megan is in the news to the duchess of sussex she says she plans to raise their child with a fluid approach to gender including the gender neutral states donald j trump at a state visit only three presidents have had the george w bush show bamma and now trump is going to get a state visit there's a lot of protest over there and there will be protests over there on june rd yeah by the way speaking of brunei j p morgan just told the staff you've got to boycott it boycott all the sultans hotels around the world but the royal dutch shell company is in trouble because they do enormous business with brunei on their oil and gas businesses will show company a corporate partner of the human rights campaign they are so pro gay in their literature and their employee practices and now they have been you know it's noticed that they're doing all this business with  well something called s t a trouble for students and young people and stop selling flights to brunei now some say the sultan is compensating for the lavish lifestyle of himself and his brother prince owns giant ya called can i say this on television and we'll see tits nipple one and nipple two this is the this is the prince the brother of the sultan where they want to stone you to death for adultery and homosexuality  should avoid being known as the country should be avoid being known as a gay destination because we have families here he said tourists are were more than welcome to come here and have sex with a woman or spin a gay tourism paradise for decades and you know the out legislator down there david miranda said both of their amounted to be anti gay and promotes next door as i'm in the same breath an image that the country was trying to get over and what about a liza what about her but she lived there for years with her lover a brazilian architect you've forgotten your history mr ball and we were very moved by watching some clips the priest who was her friend we told you spoke up for her at the funeral and did make reference to her or her partner there and they're saying since air all these world leaders with the air especially from our land in the united kingdom and northern ireland part of the united kingdom that all there together that it might help with the push for same sex marriage in northern ireland well that also like it to further the cause of peace in northern ireland not ireland you know what i liked i this or go out of her way to impress them she just you know loved her i was very moved by the video and we will include it in our emails if you go to our website and get us a t v dot org you can sign up for weekly e mails prominent named james faulkner and he tweeted about having dinner with his mom and a man he identified as his boyfriend together for five years this is what he put up it got a lot of support and praise for his courage  everybody says i'm not gay that of the guy is a housemate my best friend and he said but it's been fantastic to see the support from and for the l g b t community and i apologize for any unintended some of those were teenagers as well when they were arrested it's a barbaric country but one of our best friends even if they did knock down the world trade center and the pentagon and kill thousands of people aids news well congratulations to pennsylvania representative brian sit him see his st maybe only out gay member of the legislature there in pennsylvania and he tweeted i guess this week of facebook thank you i take truvada for prep stop shaming me he i'm starting this thing off smart proactive been in control how about you and people wrote some nasty stuff it isn't really a one hundred percent effective now only ninety nine nine percent so he said stigmatizing sexual choices literally kills us so don't do it he said my sex life is none of your business i'm just talking  about using protection no shame in my game just profit yes i talked about it being too expensive and not accessible to everyone and that is very true well he's better off than those poor kids who have infants who have seizures  who are now paying ninety seven thousand percent more for a drug that they need it was forty dollars it's now thirty nine thousand dollars a vial how does this happen in the he company and jacks it up to whatever price he wants top it i mean trump makes noises about i'm going to get drug prices and control the democrats make noises nobody's doing anything well that should not happen ireland just  jail for murder of course ireland just approved truvada for perhaps and gilly it is right on the scene a lobbying for no access to a generic version keep those prices up keep giv us billions of dollars that's how it happens because they they lobby for it will this company questcor made a one billion dollars on the drug and trial and the why doctors to prescribe it yeah yeah it's quite a system and you know what you know socialism you're going to call a socialist because we say that's not right that the market has to have some that's the kind of answer they need to give when there has to be socialists i agree they trump administration was going to cut off funding for hiv aids to south africa on the grounds that the program was not correctly run as opposed to not an abstinence like the trump administration which runs everything so well well now there restoring funding because they've been shamed into it well it's been raised this week that young people on their parents insurance that that is you know they're allowed to under the obama care thing up to twenty six it's a hindrance to getting prepped because the federal rule remits release of info on billing statements about what the kid is getting and so that needs to be record complicated all right and the other aids related story this week is that there is a new documentary that is coming out called killing patient zero and it's a fascinating story this is plain attendant and he was stigmatized as patient zero as the guy who brought aids to north america and the world for nonsense he was listed on a sheet by the person doing the research as patient and there was an o which stood for out of california not zero he was patient fifty seven dollars he was not and they done the blood tests on these people he was not even related to anybody else in the cluster that they looked at but randy schel zero and the book took off and it became this huge scandal on the front of magazine cetaceans there are sixty minutes did a piece on the book and you were hoping that it was going to finally bring attention to the epidemic and all they wanted to talk about was patient i made everybody is saying you know people you take no responsibility you screw everybody you don't care who you give this to hell with you nots what it did and that's why hundreds of thousands and millions of people died because they dirty needles for injecting facials they close this place but to no hiv infection so anyone who got that treatment there needs to get tested hiv rates are rising among the homeless due to the opioid epidemic in the sharing of syringes and in new york city we've got an outbreak of hepatitis a among gay bi men mostly in the bronx brooklyn queens mostly people of color and it's also happening in virginia  in another state florida get vaccinated you can get vaccinated against hepatitis a and you know we talk about anything epidemic and we talk about making progress to that and all these great markers but the fact is it's still there and it's still being spread and we have not found a way to really treat everybody and bring an end to this and intel were willing to go into all those pockets i'll put you i'd users and homeless people further moonlight which was from his original story when i saw him together about rupert murdoch getting his empire started in britain hiring an editor to sensationalize the sun by james graham who i really like this john who was nominated for a tony and johnny lee miller as the editor i thought it was lively and somewhat chilling but it really didn't tell me a lot i didn't know about all this it i thought it was excellent theater great spectacle yes next and then when i saw a touch see the musical of the dustin hoffman film michael dorsey becoming dorothy michaels they make a lot of twists and turns what i want to say about this is what i really loved about it w supporting roles our old friend julie halston as the producer of the musical within the musical as rita she was very funny and andy i am not going to say his last name because he got a tony nomination as the roommate was terrific boeing scandal with the you know those planes going down benjamin walker i highly recommend all my sons and a special tony's yeah we're very happy that terrence mcnally thousand famous things is getting a special tony yes we have a picture of it where a lot of water but he's got a picture of him with his husband tom kearney he has a producer who is bringing the inheritance there they are he is bringing the inheritance that they is the st of the marvel superhero movies with a gay character on believe it or not even a superhero but a character yes they will have a review of it from chris cooper in our evening elvis week well it's director  russo doing a cameo as a guy in a support group talking about his dead husband who vanished in the great vanishing it sounded like the leftovers but it's not a lot are going to blow out of the the empire did a big extravagant wedding of jamal to his boyfriend but just just a small lad has had his contract extended so they might bring him back but they're not bringing him back at the beginning of the next season so they're still thinking about it his cast members wrote a letter of support and i'm excited because josh howard's documentary the lavender scare is going to be