and of course the democrats have taken over the house of representatives and some of congress's worst anti gay bigots are swept away by a rainbow tsunami it's quite a long list i'm eager to read i horrible week in the country and in the world we have the devastating fires that killed more than forty eight people in california and another shooter in california that killed twelve people in a country music club in thousand oaks there just this all more than one hundred and fifty l g b t q people have been elected to various offices around the united states in this election in federal candidates ninety six will go down a lot of the list is that it is as much an asset as anything else these days and l g b t people have a lot to do with that because we're now considered a bow of the poured into the polls about six percent of the national vote and eighty jump that's the highest we've ever been and that's people who self are willing to self identify in exit polling which more and more young people do and more and more young people voted this time record numbers of young people voted now the big there are lots of highlights but of course the marquee race was scarce in cinema in arizona out bisexual member of congress who stepped up to run for the senate there she is yes and she ran and she's run a long time in arizona as an out bisexual she originally ran as a green party candidate very anti war years ago and lost her mean we have we have blasted her several times on the shelf are making votes with the republicans martha big sally who she defeated everybody saying oh gracious she was what a nice dog she has she's not protesting but she lived very very closely with trump in the senate race and one might think stereotypically that align with trump in arizona which she certainly won two years ago would be a good thing to but in fact in this seems to have cost her the election and kiersten cinema is being celebrated far and wide for pulling out this arizona senate race and bringing the democrats some measure  with the democrats they're both up there on the hill for nelson is this an innocent but it's still very tricky we don't know where this going to end up but currently i think there are forty seven so are a lot of other people who pulled it out so we're still waiting mississippi in florida but the worst we can end up is fifty three forty seven and the best we can end up is fifty one forty nine so we'll see how those races go there's a runoff in mississippi there may be there wouldn't there wouldn't be a runoff in florida they just would be endless recounts and minerals and it's not the same so who are republicans at least saying that they'll they'll come others tens of millions of dollars were very worried for her a year ago especially since trump won the state exactly and scott walker was governor well we got rid of scott walker miraculously and tammy won big on a miracle it's hard work and you did it that's correct so now we have two women in the united states senate one lesbian one bisexual and that is the caucus and the moment you do not i said in a closet cases well they are not so those are out members so the house had six out represented them care still went off to run for the senate jared polis went off to run for governor of colorado again another great w colorado everybody is very very happy about that and everybody is celebrating him and his husband and his big celebration in colorado so the four remaining out representatives john patrick molone all got reelected home from the poconos and then we have three new one sure restatements who is my new candidate for president of the united states cigs celebration there yes let us show share reese's crowds this is the celebration for native american lesbian martial arts fighter being elected to the u s and the suburbs of kansas city kansas yes showed her with a pose last week last time but she's in the house and the other members of the house newly elected are katie hill from california pulled out a very tight race bisexual and she beat a sitting u s member of congress steve night he is the son of pete knight who in two thousand put together prop twenty two in california  that banned same sex marriage so beating his son who was an incumbent member of the house was a really big deal for alex bisexual katie hill you know now the steve knight himself supported prop was against banning conversion therapy so you know right so i think as a gay brother who came out didn't affect him yet now we have a couple of other members of congress where are they  about specific members of congress it's about a white man in this case who voted against the affordable care act and who they've been replaced for can you put that up on the screen look at that all these horrible old white men who've been replaced by the rainbow tsunami completely multicultural group the point is made by portraying them in black and white and portray the winners in colorado also many of them are people of color yeah they a some of the horror shows that are gone also you talked about steve knight demir war a backer fifteen term representative of the house real monster used to team up with jesse helms to deny aids funding attack one who beat john in the special election last year karen handel was did not support allowing adoption by gay and lesbian couples but she was beaten by a gun reform advocate and he asked was newt gingrich russell who in two thousand and sixteen interest dues to bill that would have provided religious exemptions to obama's executive order banning l g b t q discrimination among federal contractors last two can draft board first democrat to win the that congressional best district in forty four years so some of the other bigots that are gone the bishop in michigan dave bing and barbara comstock and virginia rod we have a new super majority in oregon and we broke republican super majorities very significant in north carolina michigan and pennsylvania this means that reduced and they they all the big promoter of h b two and he was defeated which is unbelievable and north carolina also civil rights leader and leader earl rowles was elected to the supreme court two republican amendments to pa that court were defeated and people are rising up all of the race is because texas thirty five l g b c q people ran for office fourteen of them won amazing in  colorado trans woman briana two tone won a state house seat along with the two trans women who won in new hampshire for the legislature there and danica rome already in office and virginia that now makes for trans women in office in state legislatures around the country to york to tone one became the new surrogate he's an assembly member right now sargon is where the money seat he's the first out l g b t person elected to statewide office in north carolina people were elected to the state house which is again no longer veto proof this is going to help the roy cooper the governor there quite a bit state house of representatives out in arizona andras kato to the state house of representatives joining to let mechs incumbents who were reelected cesar chavez and daniel her now as you know from the  staff a couple of gay republicans elected in wisconsin todd novak reelected to the state assembly and in the state of washington schuyler ruud elected to the state house in oklahoma pa megan mccain in some conversation like this says can't we just stop talking about identity politics can't we just elect the best person yeah to be nice if i mean nice of the best person got the job and they wouldn't  so many white men in congress if they did there are many factors that go into being best and we are expanding the category of who's available for that and perhaps you should treasure the various characteristics and see them as broadening and enriching our lives rather than as something to be sneered at and in minnesota and this was once considered a surprise victory dave  has been elected the new majority leader of the senate in nevada let's give people a chance to catch up with all the notes on what we're doing actually you can look all these results up in your state and i'll swear at the victory fund dot org backslash results twenty eighteen you can read it all it's quite heartening let me give you one or two more before we get to the video i think is where we are headed in san diego california the eighth largest city in the country three out of nine of members of the city council are now l t beatty georgia now has four out l g bt folks in the state house of representatives missouri elected to two elected  dana nestle getting elected attorney general of michigan now this is only the second lesbian attorney general out but that we know of maureen healey in massachusetts is the other is doing a great job there standard introduction they were a promise to always fight for justice for the people of michigan especially for those who need it most i have bought and won hundreds of cases convicting child abusers murderers the worst of the worst i've not only been a prosecutor but also a defense attorney justice is about more than locking up back people it's also fighting for good people and protecting our rights it's about justice for  fought for the rights of parents like april and jane these two nurses in their home and their hearts by foster children but in michigan they wouldn't allow them to adopt the kids together they wanted to fight for those rights and i helped them do it we took that he's all the way to the united states a lot of people didn't think we could win but we did that was a good day for me it's more than just about the work it's personal early in my career i was a single mother to twins who were born premature sharing their first weeks of life in a new and none of my arms that was hard being the next michigan attorney general is an attorney general because i want to be there strong fighting for all the people of michigan we have an attorney generals on the streets it's not fighting to protect our people it's wasting our tax dollars protecting big companies who are getting away with looting our air and our water and letting special interest buying favors justice should never be said and when i'm here attorney general it never will and likely on november sixth and no one in this state who needs help justice will ever happen to wonder who will represent them i will represent and i will work relentlessly towards justice for all makes you kind of want to move to michigan while i'm very happy and proud of her and delighted and wish her well and help she follows through out all that all of that so important who the attorneys general are because they're the ones who can take on trouble at the local level and you know we have seven new democratic republicans still picked up a couple of seats well lest you think these trends are not important because there are people who don't vote because they think it doesn't make a difference the new governor of kansas is an example laura kelly she of the things that helped her well because he ruined the economy of kansas but here's what governor laura kelly has said even before she takes office she is having drafted a new nondiscrimination executive order for state employees that covers sexual orientation and gender identity because they used to have one under kathleen sebelius but sam brownback got rid of it so  really institute that nondiscrimination policy and she is also going to stop a proposal to for bid adoption by same sex couples laura kelly new democratic governor of did an executive order that prevents migrants from seeking asylum this cruel harsh oh well he's limiting it well and c l r said it's not only cruel but it's a death sentence for many in our community because if they're turned away they will go back to their countries and be executed well in fact eighty l g b tea members of the caravan who knew from honduras and other countries in that area have broke off from the  neighborhood that is not happy to have them there but these are people we have a picture of some of them there they are they they are fleeing deadly violence in their countries the have all been attacked and threatened and many of them say back home they can't even leave the house it's so dangerous for them especially the trans women and you know you know during the campaign when he held up  a flag when he when he gave his acceptance speech at the convention i will protect from isis well what about from this how about from you right and he hasn't give us any support by appointing matt whitaker against him but was essentially the guy was acquitted within two hours and that included lunch but they made him the cost matt mccoy one hundred thousand dollars that he's still paying off now from this legitimacy of his appointment and the case that he's involved in people are going to question his legitimacy the white house has already rationalized the thing and said no no it's ok it's ok what else are they going to say so we made a mistake well i think that there was some turmoil in the recover by fire and sessions and hiring this guy and suddenly the whole world comes down on his head over this guy and then he goes to france and gets it again and comes back and gets it again for not going to arlington i think trump is very depressed nobody told me th nationalism was an anti patriotic well the f b i has released its latest hate crimes report this one covers twenty seventeen because they're always a year behind on this stuff and these reports to put any faith in them nonetheless to the extent they provide any picture seventeen percent and eighteen percent reported hate crimes were for sexual orientation or gender and it was nice to see that eighty seven percent of the agencies reporting something with no hate crimes where we are that would give you an idea of how comprehensive the report is if you would like to read reports about the speaking of the you know the legal area would be very anti gays dot org no gays dot org if you want to read up on the alliance defending freedom and now it's up to one hundred eighty companies that are now opposing a racing transgender people from legal protections as the tr is drafting well meanwhile the public schools of washington d c are right at trump's door steps are going to in the twenty nineteen twenty twenty twenty school year allow students to made them their gender identity as non binary on their enrollment for mon they better get busy with education around those issues in the d c schools and everywhere three transfer people fought off an attacker with a knife or the d attack er had a knife and these these trance people were hospitalized with non threatening injuries but wow that happens all the time now did we want to take a look at amy stevens yeah i mean the the update amy stevens is the transgender woman in michigan  who worked at a very very well received employee at a michigan funeral home a six year veteran of that and when she transitioned they fired her for not wearing proper attire because you're a man the guy kept saying and so she kept winning her cases the courts including the court of appeals in the six circuit said it's it's sex discrimination on two grounds one because she's you're saying that she's not presenting you know you're discriminating against her because she's not calling herself male and because she is dressing in a way that you consider inappropriate for the gender you want to label her as so they're getting the funeral home coming and going about what i want to read this quote from the court they said it's ama live here clearly impossible to fire an employee based on status as a transgender person without being motivated at least in part by the employees sex now this is a this is a concept supported by the obama administration supported by the e e o c equal employment opportunity commission but now opposed by the trumpet ministrat sexual orientation cases that are saying that sex discrimination and part of that is a complication because the c is still supporting namely stevens so there is this wacky thing where the justice department opposes her into the religious field in kentucky the baptist convention has kicked out several churches from its coalition because they are supportive of l g b t affirming churches in albany new york now the episcopal church in july passed a thing that you've got to do same sex marriage in your diocese's individual priest don't have to do it but somebody has got to do it but there's one bishop holding out on that and his that but some parishioners at st andrews parish in albany burned his directive on the steps of the church thank you and told the presiding bishop now michael curry you remember him bad news i mean well actually you want to call this good news that eighty five percent of primary care physicians are willing to provide routine care to transportations i guess that's progress that means that fifty percent say get out of my office probably in i'm sorry i had to say that so there is the lens be in couple of a couple of hours north of new york city in wallkill new york not far from pickett say and they and there they are they had just moved their lives  good here as and surely figaro and now surely i think it surely always had this dream of supplying to treat a rockefeller center and in their previous house they had a tree and she would fertilize that tree in the hopes that it would grow into rockefeller center a size tree no such a lock so they moved and her wife tells her you know in this new house there's a tree there that rockefeller center is had its eye on us and surely  and this tree is now if you see it being installed in front of rockefeller center that is a tree that the lesbians call shelby seventy two foot norway spruce it's going to be laid in a ceremony on national television on november twenty eighth it will be up until january seventh at which point it will read chopped up for wood for habitat for humanity to build houses that's not and i can't wait for all the feature pieces lizette and surely that will run around the lighting of the rockefeller center christmas tree by the way lots of good things plus be able to happen in new york now that we have a democratic senate and among them is passing the gender identity gender expression not discrimination act maybe secure abortion rights maybe universal health care folks i'm just happy we have the lesbian christmas tree another new york state story so disgraced attorney general is not going to face criminal charges over the abuse of four women because a quote state law allows some punching and slapping without consent if it's for sexual gratification according to the prosecutor who was appointed by the governor in this case the why when i said any i would say it must be consensual well that's apparently not the law there has to be there has to be evidence of substantial pain and so this d a from nassau county is proposing a new law to make it a misdemeanor all right internationally is all right well i think the big news is from guyana in two thousand and nine for trans women who were arrested for wearing dresses in public there they are now they have they were arrested they were imprisoned for three nights they were convicted and they were punished fined but they went to court and they have spent nine years fighting the law that says that people are not allowed to cross dress in public for improper purpose the magistrate judge in the original case said i order you to go to church give your lunch to jesus right ing and said that the law was too vague because what for it is for improper purpose and this this court this case was brought by the society against sexual orientation discrimination so activ made saw this through it's a huge victory and congratulations to them but we are very worried about west sumatra where twenty to thirty thousand people marched to criminalize gay sex in indonesia the local mayor there called  virus that has to be wiped out we have a and that's planned rather for november seventeenth it's called busted up blah blah in other words enough blah blah let's act on l g b to rights well it's marriage specifically because the enter american court of human rights has mandated marriage for south and central america and the outgoing president of chile had promised marriage michel bhatia way but the new president who is very right wing is stalling even though he promised coming into office that he would follow through on the previous president's promise and the legislature is stalled so this demonstration on saturday i think is going to be a big deal and i love  it's the only place that's mandated you know and even they have not followed through fully well new york has had some new policies as well but of course this was all banned under section twenty eight in the entire united kingdom under margaret thatcher scotland is more progressive the switzerland parliament is moving to add sexual orientation and gender identity to their nondiscrimination laws they haven't done marriage yet about there the penalty for violating it is three years in prison or for prosecution must we remind our audience that these anal exams are useless and not a good indicator of anyone's homosexuality  poland the president says he would consider doing a no promo homo law like russia has and the schools who are going to hold a rainbow friday but a lot of them are intimidated out of it but the polish scouting association has announced its support of l g b people and the co we love mexico state has passed a gender identity protection law they are a border state with the united states they were the first to pass marriage equality as a state in mexico we're looking forward to the nov twenty fourth the votes in taiwan for and against same sex marriage that's going to be a mass and in our media the eastern european and central asia forum conference of christians was cancelled after a series of death threats this is a country where the prime minister referred to equality as a headache in parliament and said family values are important to him our media ranks forty eighth out of forty nine you're and countries according to your liberia is pondering criminalizing same sex marriage and in nigeria they are putting up romantic comedy about a special yes it is kind of like that's sweet i didn't regret watching it and it has i guess a few clever moments and i like the sort of out of the what making a new bio pic rock hudson well there is a lot there a lot has been told already let's see if he finds any new rules and also on h b o i watch this new series sally for ever goes to a club and meets up with this woman who she was making eye contact with on the subway and they get very wild together and all thing about this show is that bodily fluids everywhere and sex and and it's effing boyfriend he said this about ten times from the stage although tom of the creator is calling him a crazy n word band and we just don't know if it was just a publicity stunt or if it's true but it seems to be jade coming out as a gay as a gay person he's twenty i think this is he is out and he has been very gender fluid in will smith seems to be hands at the end as they went off into the sunset he was a little persnickety so harvey insisted on kissing in this production and he said when he said i'm telling tales out of school but he said when kelsey did it what he was with douglas haunch he would put his hand over his mouth whereas whereas then they were replaced by harvey firestein and christopher sieber who is in the prom more about which later and they rolled around and kissed and did everything they could and this is the movie that's been legendary and never seen it was made in one thousand nine hundred seventy two it is been the subject of much curiosity anger litigation ever since sydney pollack shot it if the franklin who was the height of her pop career and twenty nine years old went to a small baptist church in los angeles to do gospel concert there couldn't have been more than one hundred fifty people in the seats very modest little space and this film is an hour and a half of her singing gospel mick jagger is in the audience her father is there and he gets up and speaks at one point about what wonderful person and singer she is that's very moving reverend c l franklin jr reverend james cleveland is the emcee for all of this seven the choir behind her is just spectacular and to hear the purity of her voice at twenty nine singing these gospel songs is very very moving so it will be released shortly in theaters amazing grace with aretha franklin it's really just a gospel concert film but very modest and really weren't seen well opening tonight if you're watching this in new york or if you're watching it on you tube beforehand buy your tickets prom this is a new music oh i didn't know much about it it has a rich sounds like it had a ridiculous premise you got a bunch there they are a bunch of broadway narcissists right who were or they're going to show that sort of fails and they want to boost their image so they said let's take up a cause and they look on line and they say oh there's this lesbian and then deana who wants to go to will probably go help her so they show up with signs that say lenses more and things like that anyway th was in the drowsy chaperone she won the town at brooks ashmont months now he played a i thought an offensive day stereotype in something rotten now this is also directed by casey he plays a stereotype again and he is terrific christ sieber who i mentioned and you sure and josh levs they all know they're all stereotypes but what they do so successfully here is they humanize them they make them into people and it makes it so beautiful and michael potts  african american actor plays the principal of the school he's but he's a liberal and he you know they're coming in saying you know we want her to go to the probably says i want to go to the prompter i've got some problem parents here and there so and the lesbian is played by caitlin can commune in she's the brave young lesbian so i mean it's a whole the original show a lot of it is show business inside jokes maybe you know but it but it's it's i was so moved by the end of this thing i wept for the like the last fifteen minutes of the show just being moved by the fun of it and the joy of it you know even doing a lot of crying because hard time of the country and hearing  their their mixed race son has been arrested there in a florida police station where jeremy jordan is the comp on duty and eugene lee is an older cop and it's a kind of a mystery in a race drama lots of racial tension  enormous amount of point to it given our real life discussion of these issues all the time when they real life video we see by the way a show that i loved to march thirty first twenty nineteen i also saw a movie called who will save the roses an italian older really aged gay men movie it's sweet it's romantic it's opening in gender screwing around and that's not very elegant it's a fascinating show that's getting rave reviews at the japan society check it out i think you will enjoy that gender is a changing concept in this twenty five top gay podcasts see you next week