appreciated the whole world is sick in so many ways we're going to start this week because there's always bad news with good news there are new rules the u s house acted immediately to protect the steppers and new rules in a couple of the states with new rulers democratic governors in michigan and wisconsin have signed l g b t rights executive order florida but soon to be in kansas an appeals court one appeals court upheld one of the excuse me overruled one of the over rulings of tr for consorting with sex workers not that there's anything wrong with that how about talent lay they feel that way it is church grammy nominated trans songwriter teddy geiger talks about the health benefit in congress and that was really encouraging one of the first things the democrats did when they took over the u s house was to pass rules a whole snoo set of rules banning discrimination against staffers the whole package of rules a d the package passed two thirty four to one ninety seven largely along party lines and speaker pelosi included specific mention of l g b t q people in her opening speech so clearly this is a change from the paul ryan years in the u s house and then congresswoman jennifer waxed and the democrat from virginia she ha the transgender flag outside her office with the virginia flag and she said the trans community has been under attack i wanted to show my solidarity because we're talking about my friends and my family and she also was the person who represents represents take representative got donica roam in her district didn't my pen she is staring him down well he is staring down because she's using a log book to be sworn in rather than a bible although she did say so help me god and she also what we have to wear here they snooped i'm very happy with the order a youngster is in this house and senate i'm ready to step aside and have them tell lewdly i'm all for these people who use bad language and have revolutionary thought men that doing it for the money yeah well i can't believe the people including the people on our side tut tutting about the bad language i mean it's unbelievable well of course but i appreciated the extent to which people on our side stood up for her right to be bold in her criticism of trump that i thought they didn't all go screaming for the hills and they said look  she has a right to speak her mind and says what she says is nice new nickname for the president i don't think it's new but just i just want to go back to the list so in the senate we have tammy baldwin  position and who was the chief sponsor in the house i believe of the equality and she craig of minnesota who is new she was just elected and this was her second time for trying for congress she got elected sally she's new she's a little nervous on this she needs some media training though i would like to volunteer but she needs a little more self confidence she was a little too has attended a little congress from california also saw her interviewed separately at another time and she was a firecracker she is very strong and very self assured and i predict  will hear more from katie hill of california yes john patrick maloney reelected from new york after failing to win the attorney general's office here chris pappas the new guy from new hampshire mark off trance person first elected trans official in new jersey there is shannon is like to add to the south orange maplewood board of education and yes you want to  is important and state services well you know wisconsin was the first state to pass a state wide gay rights law i believe one nine hundred eighty five in the country but it never added gender identity and of course then you have the spectacle of the michigan governor the republican governor snyder doing it all g b t executive order in his last days you know what's not about well i mean it's ok clear and so stereotypical you have wisconsin and michigan both had very right wing governors republicans one by trump did get him elected in twenty sixteen now the revolution is happening because people in those states said oh my god i can't believe we did this let's elect the democrats and of course when the democrats take office yes they immediately put into place policies that are morrow nondiscriminatory states have still have republican legislatures  both of which tried to take away the governor's powers because they were getting democratic governors snyder vetoed some of those and the new governors are saying they're going to find ways around that now  wall with bricks and love trump has issued an executive order continually nondiscrimination rules but specifically excluding people no protection and not specific but the new democratic governor janet mills has moved to implement the two thousand and seventeen voter approved medicaid expansion which had been a block by the horrible trump of married governor le page i think in some way it's been this worse than true but i know that's hard to say and senator elizabeth warren at on the campaign trail now in her race for president early out of the gate has finally spoken up to change her mind on something that got her in trouble a few years ago in two thousand and twelve she was running for senate and there was a big controversy in massachusetts because there was a trans prisoner who was suing for the right to have access to surgery or hormones or whatever and she was running against scott brown  republican who was had had been the senator he got himself elected in massachusetts so he would had some popularity and she knuckled under and said no i don't think it's a good idea for on the view this we heard is that declared yet but speaking of change you can change your sexual orientation and the dead for city council ban conversion therapy for minors it was unanimous vote and the same kind of vote was taken  in could he could have that he got it he wisconsin they did it to ok now so maybe we're going to some trump stuff and yeah i think we have well first of all the u s supreme court blocked the immediate appeal of virginia's republicans they're challenging the state lines they're going to redraw the state lines because they're racist and voting right the district lines but they're going to hear the case  don't know how that's going to turn out ultimately they're going to hear of the swearing right now on the transit military band this so there are four separate cases working their way through the courts in this country a trump's proposed ban on trans people serving in the military and in each of those four cases so far the courts have agreed with us that the ban is unnecessary illogical constitutionally imposed whatever so the ban has been on hold while this goes through the court but the d c court of appeals overturned a lower court ruling that was helping us to we need to build a wall yeah so they're against the drains people so then they made a so called adjustment and they went into court back into court and said well now we've changed it and we did a study birth gender and you don't do anything about changing your gender then you can call yourself trans you can't do anything about it but then you can serve i think as my court said oh ok that's different so that's ok so the u s supreme court this week on january eleventh is going to consider whether to take this this all these appeals up they're also going to decide  on all the cases the three cases involving i tell you g b t discrimination as sex discrimination if they don't decide to do that by the middle of the month that means it gets carried over into the next term so you know they've been and the d c court of appeals ruling differently on the trans military ban didn't change anything practically at the moment because three courts have still enjoying the implementation of the ban this week that the propaganda she was fed under communist rule in czechoslovakia she defected in one thousand nine hundred five the propaganda mandated by the soviet union was next to the community despite his opposition to same sex marriage and he did say he opposes the criminalization of gay sex but he used to work or he has been working for this right wing christian group and can you know all these years and he does speak islamic state and gays and he you know he mocked a lot begin foreign minister for coming out but you know trump wants him to be able to visit the united states he's now russia's deputy prime minister there he is a good looking guy well  round the world it's going to be the third women's march nationwide do some googling for your area to find out what's going on you know this but a lot of controversy this year there may be multiple marches that's fine we may end up in grand central terminal where there's going to be solidarity march with disabled people when it's all about anti trump get out the streets and just go outside on january nineteenth years and there will be part of it here is another reason michaeli senator from utah has succeeded in  and sixteen well it did because this is exactly the agenda and when he says he's happy to have the government shutdown for years he means this and what he means is he's trying to destroy the thing the trump administration has not yet issued an opinion on a request by the governor of south carolina right to continue federal funding for a religious institution called miracle hill in greenville they get six hundred thousand in state funds and then they they turned away a jewish couple because they only want to serve christians this isn't even just you just want to serve christians and take your money to do it and if you want to take a foster child this is a child agency that you know matches foster kids w you have to sign a piece of paper that declares you to be a thankful practice same christian you can even just be affiliated as a christian you have to be a you know ten  there is a prediction now demographers think that they will cease being a major political force by twenty twenty four which is the first year that alexandria ocasio cortez can run for president the young are abandoning this is very serious and then there's and then there's the fort worth pastor and yeah who he prayed god would finish the job that the man at the polls started massacring all those people this was horrendous at the time but they didn't fire both of them he called the victims the scum of the earth he was just sounds that over over gaging with prostitutes his name is donny were mero he said i haven't been  what's the word what is the word he used i haven't been rolling my house well i have been a terrible husband and father that's true and yet not subjecting himself to the death penalty as he requested for all of us but good news for texas in the semi religious front a district court there has rejected a lawsuit by a guy who is a real crackpot he brings a lot of these kinds of suits he said it was it against his religious freedom for the houston public library to allow drag queen story hour  bliss lawsuit and he had no standing you know this guy was very involved in the in the campaign for houston pat which overturned the gay rights law in twenty fifteen so you know it's is  didn't realize this they spent millions in the twenty two term midterms running ads trying to lead democrats to the drag queen library program millions of dollars trying to link the world around to the way one the group insurance board in wisconsin has ruled that it will cover hormones and surgery for trans state employees ok now that is a nice little doesn't nice story of a boulder colorado so this was the first place that marriage licenses were issued to gay couples in one nine hundred seventy five but the clerk then her name is clay le warrick's now there she is in a newspaper story the idea was the same sex couples came to her and said they wanted a marriage license and she looked up the law and she said you know what there is nothing in state law that says married couples marry and have to be of different  in general yes but the state attorney so she did about six of these it made national news yeah and charter member well she got stopped by the state attorney general but what happened this week was surprise her he's the new openly gay well he was governor elect at that moment he has now been sworn in yes and it was just a wonder she says she's never regretted a day in her life she thinks it was the greatest thing she ever did and i remember it is just earth shattering news well part of it part of the reason she took that position was because when she retired for cork in seventy four the party officials said we want a man at the advocate magazine they have just hired their first african american editor in ch this he used to be in it too which was the grinder news outlet out magazine the guardian and forbes named him one of there are thirty under thirty well speaking of grindr we told you about the guy who brought a lawsuit because his ex boyfriend was really nasty you know put his name up there falsely and he got hundreds of people wanting violent sex with him and he sued and under some obscure old law from the ninety's they said no you know you can't be responsible for what third parties post on this thing this guy has filed an appeal and has got many amicus briefs so has grindr and he wants to take it further up the line in federal court i think time for some saturn news in berkeley california two very prominent lesbians a lesbian couple him by a car and in critical condition both an induced comas last i heard  alison burton steen a public defender on the left there and judy pell president of the school board in berkeley and a staff member at the logan foundation  they have two kids and it's just a tragedy and people are really very shaken by this they were just out walking in some guy i think eighty one years old a nic i don't know what lost control  we don't know the details yet but we certainly wish them all the best send our sympathies to their family in turn his story out of raleigh north carolina two women assaulted a trans woman in a bar these women amber harrell thirty eight jessica fowler thirty one are charged are charged with second degree kidnapping and sexual battery they expose themself to the victim started touching her that assaulted her the bartender tried to intervene to no avail so now they're charged with crimes and a strange and confusing story out of los angeles we told you in twenty seventeen about and bach formerly a prominent drugs at his home he came in having used drugs elsewhere but ed buck's m o is true trolling not just on brian or all these kind of things but also for people bringing people in from out of town that he wants to come in and cut out all pay your murdered by pastor elbert whether who waited an hour to call the cops after assaulting her and she is now dead right well speaking of those who have died let's talk about a couple of those people who we lost this week we don't have a picture of yes we do do a k u k o but we do have a picture of it that's an early picture over she died at the age of fifty two she was an editor writer and bookseller of lung cancer she was the former editor of lambda book report the memorial is going to be at the women's building in san francisco on january twentieth at four o'clock she's survived by maura thomas who she married aftermath and saw someone cleaning up the street just sweeping up the street and singing to himself the song from west side story there is a place model sylvia chase yeah she she died at eighty that's an early picture of her in one nine hundred seventy eight when i had a big crush on her she was a reporter at c b s a b c at other places twenty twenty and the guy on the right is our friend joe lovett longtime t v producer and show was working with sylvia and produced the what he says is the first positive story on l g b people on network news at her daytime show called magazine at c b s and the piece was called parents of gays what do you say when your kid says he's gay a long segment very mild to accepting parents and sylvia went on to report on the aids crisis when she moved to a station in san francisco highly respected county west virginia the assistant principal there we told you about this lee lived in good quarter to transport in the men's room and insisted that he pee in the urine old approved gender so he was suspended to february first but will be allowed to return the a c l u intervened seems happy that there's going to be new rules and that there's going to be training for everybody on this but the student in this case michael critchfield fifteen said he was absolutely traumatized by what happened and in maryland a trans teacher jennifer eller is suing prince george's county schools she says that she worked in three different schools and was horrendously abused and harassed and discriminated against for five years were talley aided against by the schools they gave her absolutely no support she was harassed by the administration by fellow teachers by students it just sounds horrible so she is finally suing the prince to on the other hand in washington state the catholic hospital st joseph there bellingham in bellingham they refuse to cover gender confirmation surgery for the seventeen year old son of an employee the a c l u sued in the case was settled but only for people who are over eighteen that's what they decided this group called peace health is now going the reclaim pride meetings which we are a part of are now at the cutie graduate center at thirty fourth street and fifth avenue while the people's for a space is being renovated so that some of the walk it's every wednesday seven o'clock for the time being will be at the cuny grand center and we will go back but we were gaining momentum here folks i want you to be a part of it and again if you don't want to come to new york wherever you are in the world have a reclaim pride march of your own in your own city on june thirtieth but meetings wednesday seven to nine cuny grads center thirty fourth and fifth room fifty four fourteen reclaim her and news from them or the northern mariana islands a u s territory same sex marriages now exceed church weddings i want to discuss allen in kevin hart before we get much farther so ok kevin hart goes on the ellen show she devotes essentially the entire show to her interview with him and this week he went on good morning america to talk to michael straight hand he is a mess he really is he and she was just  so he just plain such the victim card and he really he just has never given a scuse the expression heartfelt apology on a lot of comedians never you know joan rivers could be very offensive she was absolutely to gay people to women disabled people all sorts of people and that wasn't acceptable either no and kevin hart just you know i'm a big believer in people learning and growing in that we all make mistakes i will repeat i have had to apologize quite a few times  that and sometimes things slip out but he for years has been doing fag jokes in his movies said violence state iowans to children who are gay and none of that has he really  positive and and today as we tape on wednesday he was on good morning america and michael straight in was doing a very decent job of pressing him on this not let it slide asking the question over and over although benchley they went on to discuss the new movie but he was in a separate segment but kevin hart just sat there and said i'm over it and michael stringham would ask about it and he'd say i'm not talking about it i'm of being supportive of gay people who are you just going to go yell at us from the sidelines and and say you're our victim i thought it was shameful  and i think somebody said ellen you're not the pope of the community you know and she's gotten attacked a lot over this which i thought was very interesting and particularly by black gay men yes who said you know billy porter oh billy porter is real and going to any of it yeah oh and kevin hart said you know they killed my indorsement deals they killed me and then he says and i've got a new deal with chase well and boys will be princes and really france will run as rolly banks twenty six will be dead shot eleven times had been threatened and shot at before but she is ok i'm just looking for what would be the lead be and then i'll just go down the list in hong kong in two lawsuits by gay men suing for marriage was an encouraging sign and in pakistan they held their first trans pride march i mean and in st helena which is a british territory but in the south atlantic they had their first same sex wedding on new year's eve now they passed same sex marriage twenty seventeen but this was the first one well it has an entire population of forty five hundred people the happy grooms the guy on the left is a local guy on the right is from sweden and they are very happily married the way they legalized in the year ago after debate in their parliament deciding that the constitution mandates equality and i was very moved by what one representative said he said if this house cannot uphold the constitution then why are we here today and why do we have a constitution well a world and get married twenty six times in every yeah venue that allows it so that they can demonstrate to japan that same sex marriage is a good thing and i think they're going to get consideration of it in a committee i think that started today the committee consideration of it the new president does not enjoy the idea of same sex marriage but he may not be able to stop it unlike m obama chalet who was there before but she's now at the year went right in the netherlands three men have been following five hundred euros each for insult and inciting discrimination model called the national declaration only men signed it the education minister whoever said that this is just proof that emancipation is far from done lots of people in parliament condemned them as disgusting sometimes aids institute twenty years ago and has been at sea ever since and he's very smart and great guy living with aids for a very long time and he's decided it's time to move on and handed over to new are putting a hundred million dollars into this so it's a step forward and it's you know it's not universal health care we still need that from the state legislature no it was a lot of it is going to be informing people of their rights to access to health care and i do think with some much of what we cover it is the ignorance of the population about what is going on and what is out there especially again for undocumented people who stay away from the system because they're afraid was that joel but i mean like you know when i covered the this able to daniel case of this kid who was shot in the classroom and it was because he was told that he didn't know his rights to leave the school when you're getting bullied if you have a right to do that people need to be informed of their rights well know very little because there is no commitment to doing education so the fact that the city is going to educate people about their right to healthcare is not going to give you some information on a new study says that hormone replacement therapy does not increase the risk of heart disease very good it's less likely to cause blood clots than birth control pills in the trip administration is moving forward with its plan to limit drugs available through medicare part d they claim this is a way to keep prices down but in fact a lot of people particularly people with hiv need access to a variety of drugs and if there are only a few available because the administration will only pay for a few that is actually going to really harm to help the people of hiv now who is condemning this carl smit our new co chair of the president's advisory council on in aids the former head of the log cabin republicans he's at the aids institute and he says that it is wrong to limit hiv drugs people need different drugs and to limit them can increase of course resistance so will karl spirit newly appointed as co chair of the president's advisory council be able to do anything about this new drug limiting policy guess is no in our state of new york governor cuomo was calling for passage of the reproductive rights act but but he's right and i think they're not going to any trouble passing that to codify abortion rights but he's also calling for a constitutional amendment that would require about a referendum i'm not very keen on the voting on these things statewide vote i remember when i know it's a while ago but new york voted you know to not to pass the equal rights amendment in this state back in the seventy's now times have changed but abortions are tricky issue and i rather just have we have a legislature let them pass the law and i don't think things like that should be put up to a popular vote well like the legislature d what happens live out to l a for four weeks while the child has been born because of course in new york state you cannot hire a surrogate to bear a child so you have to do it in another state and  found supple and in california and has announced that he's having his son and you know that's all over a watch what happens well we told you about teddy geiger trends composer used to be a singer can still sing well was nominated for a grammy for with shawn mendez for in my blood told c b s this week that when she started expressing herself as transgender it helped her was on the anniversary of his father's sunny's death and he was very pleased with jared spector as portrayal that's the only kind of comment i got out of that but you know the golden globes but let's also mention wrestler anthony bowen yes he had come out as bisexual a while ago and now has said actually i am gay and you are in mcgregor is going to go gay again he's going to play a whole stand in a mini series about his life what would darien chris say about that well down chris took an awful lot of gay roles before he said he's not going to do it anymore well and he won a golden globe as best actor in a t v limited series at the golden globes for his per trail of andrew hunan in the assassination of gianni versace and the producers they won for best like series and brad simpson was one of the his speech about versace is being out and told us all to resist on the streets that was all good well he said the forces of hate and fear are still with us yes and that in fact is to some extent the theme of our reclaim pride stonewall fifty march for human rights and social justice the revolution is not over we have many issues to address here and around the world and it is not time for mardi gras it is time to  movement there were a bunch of gay roles that one but one one of them was played by a gay actor ben whishaw he won for a very english scandal on t v and he thanked norman scott the character he portrayed as a queer hero who took on the establishment but then you know you can thank your husband which was the reason that you came out libya coleman won for best actress in a movie in the favorite she portrays queen and with you know women fighting for her they did without us by not giving anything to pose which i found the yeah re absenting porter was nominated as was nominated and i thought that was a real shame to not give anything to pose which i going to watch the sopranos again i did to some well i didn't see the whole thing when it was first on i caught up to it later and they were doing a marathon this week and i just decided