pete judges version of religion has drawn a response from karen pence i can't wait to hear about that you know that i don't owe and attorney general william barr is probably saw him evading responsibility for trying to kill the affordable care act and everything else in his purview but he did respond to the l g b tea group at the justice department which was complaining about working conditions and our hero of the week taylor swift has boosted the campaign to stop anti l g b tea legislation in her home state of tennessee and another of our heroes chelsea manning was released from solitary confinement but is still in jail mormons and catholics have taken baby steps to i'm sorry lost my place well to so and there's a new movie that is a lesbian comedy about emily dickinson oh yes let's talk about that let's like fun and can't wait til the end and get out a piece of paper and a pen because we have some dates to tell you understatement it is swept the nation is being talked about is as a speech so fundamentally important that it will be talked about for decades to come out let's go over some of the things he said one of the currency's one of the things he said is if being gay is a choice it was made far above my pay grade he said that that's that's what he wishes the mike pence is of the world would understand if you got a problem with  lady of the united states who didn't show up for the meeting when the out gay a prime minister of ireland when he came to the vice president's house mike pence brought his sister anyway current pen said in response he was questioned about this and you might get booted out of the naval observatory where the vice president lives now pete also said he didn't want to be gay he said he came out publicly and twenty fifteen while running for reelection and he h got married but he said if i could have taken a pill to not be gay i would've i wouldn't have waited for a sip of water yeah but he's describing how he felt then and he went on to say thank god didn't have the pill thank god he didn't have a knife to cut it out of him he's very proud and happy to be gay i would say that he has the zeal of the converted well of course we all do and none of us thought when we  age one we were gay it dawned on us eventually at different times in different ways but we all had to come to that realization and that's one of the things about coming out and growing up in this world and you and i are about to have a discussion about some of this but in doing the education we've done with kids in school or our youth serving professionals or whatever what we've tried to explain to people is that you grow up in this world certainly in past decades assuming that you are heterosexual but that is what the world teaches you are a normal person so you're going to want to grow up and get married to someone of the other sex so to what you're expecting or feels the pentagon when you grow up it feels disturbing now that young people are these thirty seven young people are coming out at younger and younger ages horse i mean when ellen came out we actually saw  a change and when people were recognized we're going there was so much publicity about that coming out on her television show even so it requires a moment of realization of self definition whether that is good news or bad news or confusing news it is something that straight people do not have the same experience of now you know the co host of the gay usa show maybe you know this because i somehow didn't pick this part up because he talked about having been in denial up until twenty fifteen or i think what he says and i haven't listened to all the speeches or read everything he's read but i think i think he says you know for some period of time it didn't occur to him never had a date with a girl no never went to a mom with her own never my first kiss at the university of virginia was i was cast in a show i don't call this type casting it was called the bore by his most successful play by the way i went to a comedy anyway i had to kiss this woman in the show and i had never kissed a girl before or boy and right the director said i'm first year and the director said i want to  we're talking about what i recognized before that i was going to and i'd come out to my best friend and said i was gay he came out to me first in high school i came out to him so we knew what we were we started going to get bars right away just didn't get me kissing i he is it's so public yes but i think he went through a very common evolution which is assuming when you are very young that you are like everybody else is they say and you are straight and you expect to grow up and marry a person of the opposite sex i certainly was raised that way i certainly also had in cleans early on that i was attracted to girls but i thought you know it's it's not real it will go away whatever but we're older yes what i'm going to say how much but so these people young people got person is thirty seven now they have all they had a lot denial people are raised in different cultures in different pockets of the world he was raised by college professors and notre dame diploma so you're making all sorts of assumptions that just are not necessarily listen to them on and we can get into it struggling at all ages i think our viewers would endorse that sure act and can certainly tell us what they think about that i meet people all the time who are still closeted who are my age harris wofford didn't come out until he was ninety exactly so to say the senator from pennsylvania to expand that because the world has changed and has changed you know all the news commentators will say to you this is the fastest societal change point is it is still something that people have to do in personal isolation right they do not grow up necessarily in a family that supports them they do not have all the comprehensive information they don't have the support that they need and to think that it should have been easier for pete or for he or that he should have come out earlier i think is just inappropriate i think he sort of had one of these best little boy in the world syndrome is also you know the kids who are members of oppressed groups was easier than talking to kids privileged you know private schools because the private school kids are much more closed off and much more invested in their status in the viewers and the headmistress at a private school who after i did and aids education class with her faculty which included discussion of my being a lesbian led her to take me aside afterwards and call me a traitor to my cl and that's what those kids in private schools are facing now having settled this you know of course this is the gay usa show we do talk a lot about sexuality but that's not what everybody else is really talking about they're talking about his religion and he called for the religious left to play more of a role in america and he said i think i had lunch and he said that president trump's actions well it's hard to believe that the actions of someone who though there is talk about oh he's too perfect these two good and the country likes him because he's not a threatening gay the fact that he's saying this is tough it's pretty a man and we do have some policy disagreements with him but then his had to leave right it was so bad he had a live in a car let live with friends the hope was he's a teacher and he runs the diversity club he also talked about he also talked about trans black women the murder he talked about trans people being thrown out of the military talked about the bad texas laws that are being voted on you could google chest if you can figure that out and you can watch the speech are just go to h r c dot org i'm sure they have a show hosted the other thing was that you know booted you talked a lot did a lot of this religion talk not only to the victory fund but on meet the press with todd well then people commentators are saying afterwards and isn't it great that there he was on meet the press with chuck todd and his sexuality didn't even come up why do you think that is because chuck todd is not comfortable talking about gay issues oh sure it has that's what it looks like we're sorry if you think we're looks just now our hand or anything else but really check todd is far too could know there were twenty candidates please don't write us complaining about not just mentioning all of them and what they did this  complain we don't talk about peter not write better work this week said trump's immigration rhetoric is straight out of the third reich or did somebody who's not missing we're a big they go back to them are you really comparing yeah well my comparison is always and remember hitler was elected that's true yeah actually better was talking about all that you have no actual you know yeah i have notes on some of the others mixed in here talk about sure well i mean you know all the headline no this friday the trans military band goes into effect and congratulations to the view for having two trans military service members on their show this week and treating them very respectfully and supportive les and i thought that was so if you're in the military and you're already out that's supposed to be ok your grandparents get in but you can't come out now if you are the staff member for  republican member of congress dusty johnson a republican of south dakota the staff member when asked about the trans military ban going into effect said no one cares no one cares what meaning what made said steven miller is the biggest embarrassment to the jewish people since i played little league baseball well if you think we're going to lose what is why are you getting so upset i thought he was scaring away smooth in his testimony luke yes and yes very awkward anyway anyway he was also asked about hate crimes during his hearing he said i've seen learn you know we told you about the fact that d o j a department of justice pride wrote to him about the horrendous conditions under sessions and now him for employees that he wrote them back  signed an equal employment opportunity statement that includes gender identity and sexual orientation that addresses discrimination retaliation in the rest but jeff sessions would not issue such a statement right barr said that he was troubled by the hand congress well the u s chamber of commerce which represents three million businesses and is known as a fairly right wing organization historically wrote a letter to congress supporting the equality act they had their second hearing on our bill before the education labor subcommittee on civil rights and human services this week by the way tripp tried to do a campaign video to get it on you tube yeah he got knocked off because he was using somebody else's music this happens to us from time to time but we're very we're much more careful with music now yeah but it happened to trump it automatically got is video knocked off the internet charming also in congress they've been working on renewing the violence against women act and one of the changes to it is to include sexual orientation and gender identity and expression in protected  classes or groups and the republicans are not happy about that so the n r a of course has come out strongly against the act because they want men who perpetrate domestic violence to still be able to have guns and the arrests and the republicans are just really freaked out about the inclusion of people in the act and so they put up quite a fight and i don't know whether it will pass the officers and that's how you have war which is what he wants because the other distractions aren't working the way he wants my favorite story of the week though is when new zealand prime minister just said to art and got a call from trump about what the massacre new zealand then he asked crisis search if there is anything he could do to help and she said to him provide sympathy and love for all muslim communities but i don't think he followed through on that well it sounds to me like the theme so far today show is speaking truth to power and i love it when people find their voices well speaking of power though we told you about what happened in wisconsin last week they have an election on guy who won had to warn he compared homosexuality to beast yalla the end says his faith informs everything he does in the workplace and his own litmus test when voting is opposition to abortion he won praise midterms yes but that was more of a national thing in new york state our state senator brad hall that is trying to get trump's tax returns his new york state returns it is true we're really getting successful on this bill that requires the really released two three congressional committees of new york state tax returns which would include trump and so we live in a state with a democratic governor and a democratic legislature finally so let's say they pass whatever brad suggested about getting the tax returns and say trump doesn't want to have them releases tax returns where does that end up i think they try to go to court to stop it just like they're party wasn't bad enough their freedom caucus is now warning the big drug companies to not to cooperate with a congressional investigation of how they set prices it's just too much by the drunk's big thing was he was going to lower prices by the way you know we're scared about a lot of things about the success of this movie on attack on planned parenthood and anti abortion drama based on you know supposedly true events it's apparently a big hit yeah and they ban on conversion therapy for minors that leave believe colorado's gerrard post is going to do the same as that on his death would make them the seventeenth state to do it the district of columbia that is fast work well they say this is one of the coming along but we neglected to mention and the viewers were kind enough to point it out to us if i can find it here like so he's not running for reelection this year but he's the city lesbian mayor of salt lake city and we neglected to mention her star and the first out lesbian black mayor was denise simmons of cambridge mass there is a lesbian mayor of key west  a little complicated california is advancing a bill that gives judges the ability to evaluate whether someone on the sex offense registry if they should be on the sex registry if a team fourteen to seventeen has sex with someone within ten years and here's the deal right now the judge has no discretion if they had oral or anal sex but the judge has discretion if they just had that little said is to equalize seniority age is eligible for the sex registry between straight and gay doesn't get you necessarily and it's still a crime but anyway also in california we told you that the legislature was considering a bill to allow for to prohibit basically surgery on intersex babies and till they were old enough to make a decision for themselves well the sponsor of that bill has withdrawn and for the moment because the very powerful doctors lobby doesn't like it they want to be able to just consult with the parents and let the parents decide and because they think they're doing the child a favor by making an arbitrary determination gender as opposed to waiting until the person can make the decision himself herself or their self and whether they want surgery at all level lot is not why the doctors call corrective surgery exams so that legislation is on hold at the the tennessee we've been talking about a lot because they have a whole package of bills against us in fact it's called the slate of eight and we've been following the progress of these bills and someone has stepped in to help and that is the daughter of tennessee taylor swift who has donated one hundred thirteen thousand dollars to the tennessee equality tennessee and louisiana are that we've have we have these multiple burnings of black churches domestic terrorism that i haven't heard the administration talk about yet well the other thing is that in tennessee we think we know now a white nationalist burned down a building at the hylander center which is the legendary conference center where many heroes of the black civil rights movement trained rosa parks martin luther king many others and i was at a conference of the highlander center a few years ago that was an l g b t convening training people to take leadership and it was very moving to be at the highlands they're so this is not  they're not going out of business it's just one of their buildings and they'll rebuild but certainly it's just a reminder that along with these church burnings and that hate is alive and well it is and and you know the trump so scary to me what is happening to this country in a very short time under troma and it's always been there under the yes always been there we did have a civil war after all we did all right in order to hoe a federal appeals court has granted the state's request of the state's request to postpone gender confirmation surgery for and inmate named audrey at bow a trans woman who would have become the second incarcerated person in the country to get such surgery now it's up to the ninth circuit court of appeals in may to decide this meanwhile chelsea manning has who has been incarcerated because she refused to testify to a grand jury about and so she had been kept in solitary confinement for a month but she's now been moved into general population by the way those bills are advancing in tennessee oh yeah and they are one past sixty nine to twenty five anti it would not apply the pimps and say sex traffickers and he would also support legalizing sex work in general campbell harris by the way to mention about the presidential candidate apparently also recently endorsed decriminalization well i don't know where this fits into decriminalization but the city of chicago is going to sue jesse small lead for refusing to pay court costs of one hundred thirty thousand dollars so they're just not letting him out from under he is going to go back to empire to appear on that show better news from atlanta the library there the library system poll that one step lesbian couple want to hold their wedding there and they said no it's against our religious beliefs but you come on by and enjoy so why not join us for you need me you know dinner or whatever we would love to you can not discriminate against people when you are a public accommodation if you're going to advertise your wedding services they have to be available to everyone who can legally marry and that includes us that leads us to religion in utah kids of same sex parents is so loathsome oh it used to be and also they said same sex marriage no longer constitutes apostasy it's just very very bad to pressure and canceled its artificial intelligence ethics board because coles james of the heritage foundation was on it that's what got people upset so t content the number one is a book called george which is the story of a ten year old girl trans girl named melissa know disobeys george and it's a book for eight to twelve year olds and john oliver's day in the life of marlon brando also  s about the gay bunny in the calendar and household some very interesting local news report from tulsa oklahoma a trance woman who is a well known op baritone lucas who has performed in europe a lot but she's american is going to be performing the first trans woman to take a lead role in an opera and she'll be performing in tulsa in don giovanni and so that's getting local coverage there and people seem happy to see or i'm not quite sure what role or how but s g performing of trans people or intersex people or people who gender is not completely understood we talked talk to you about last week about general custom you're polaski the revolutionary war hero in america who was polish to s george washington fly the pride of polish american companies killed during the war so smithsonian channel did this thing was the general female their their their gen the general is but one of the interesting developments is that you know the polaski day parade in new york from publisher americans keeps b g groups out there let them in once keep them out now but the president of the group said i've heard something about this before but i'm a little shocked when in this day and age i don't think it will matter to most people but i really believe the majority will and it doesn't take away from the fact that poleski was a polish american hero so how about latin well course i think the gay group polish immigrants as disbanded ra's that was the name of it which is also the name of the party over there yeah anyway all right and that brings us to another parade or march the reclaim pride queer liberation march for june thirtieth which we are a part of yes we are they were we were endorsed this week by gay activists in beijing and by the novice foundation in india and now we have talked about them to you for several years there are major h hiv aids foundation in india at national foundation and a few years ago seventeen years ago seventeen was a waste of seven well they work for seventeen years on getting rid of the sodomy laws their lead on we did aids education in the schools it became very clear to us very quickly that you could not do aids education without d stigmatizing homosexuality it just was impossible and so we started doing both  education on homosexuality and aids education is two separate things and the nonce foundation went to court to overturn the sodomy law in india because same sex sex was illegal and it took them many years they finally got a good court decision overturning section three seventy seven and then that that reversed and they and they lost on the second round but they hung in there and they went back to court and they managed to overturn the defeat and last year we have a huge celebration at the idea that india had finally decriminalized homosexuality it was a really big deal and now the people who did that have endorsed the reclaim pride march because they understand that this is a people's political march it's not a mardi gras it is a serious political joy yes you about yourself and if you are committed to bringing about scenes and making a difference in the life of individual many individuals or any life form it's very possible funny this picture come up and some people on facebook says it came out about what ten years ago that's crazy his fiance is a real estate broker to malone in new york city in michigan the state board of education quassia to remove references to g b t q people reproductive health and climate change from the curriculum and in portland oregon scott wayne smith forty seven pled guilty to second degree intimidation a hate crime for threatening violence against a gay man in august the victim lives in housing for p w ways and smith makes him an easy target better news from new mexico they have joined the national popular vote compact they are now the fifteenth state to do that a great comprising off hundred eighty nine electoral votes you need two hundred seventy to get into it in order to bypass the electoral college yet you still use the electoral college but you vote for the winner of the popular vote right that's how we're going to get around this right now ok internationally well the only thing they've got as much publicity as pete booted judge religious comments this week was the sultan of brunei deciding to make us all subject to stoning to death for homosexuality it has a lit up the world with protests and anger i don't test here we have a picture of a protest at the dorchester which is one of the hotels all but own but they had four hundred people at this protest in london and they broke through the police lines they were not going to be did i but this is i mean the one of the leaders of the labor labor government is saying we should throw them out of the commonwealth this is getting serious travel agencies won't book trips to burne i princess cruises is going to cancel a couple of schedule now a group of people also a couple of people went into the guy's name jordan ten to hell and again they went into the dorchester for afternoon tea and we have video of what happened there don't think it was would bother her but i mean you know activism is about often afflicting the comfortable and you know police group has just canceled an event and in a brunei owned hotel  by the way seems brother rather prince jeffrey is known as the playboy sultan drinking the u k military is pressuring the queen who was very close to the sultan by the way because he's part of the commonwealth to revoke honorary titles given terry is asking for this and there was a  them have the death penalty all right well with the show now right in peru a court has ordered recognize recognition of a peruvian couple married in miami and in the cayman islands where we've been following the legalisation of marriage there the lesbian couple that won the court case are scheduled to be married this week but the government has decided to appeal the ruling and may try to bar them from getting married we'll know that more than we do by the time you see this on the cuffs this week so you all saw about the israeli elections in the run up to the election netanyahu you mostly tried to beef up is standing by doing very right wing things but he also had his first meeting in ten years with gay activists just before the election to try to get every last vote delivered nothing haha what he said was the right wing won't let me help you but after election of course the hallway is going to be in office is because neither he nor the his opponent got a majority of the seats and they each have to make a coalition with their allies and netanyahu has allies are all these right wing parties attacks in the last year nonetheless five l g b t bill has been elected to the knesset one from netanyahu is party and the rest from more liberal one are very labor and three from the new party which is the blue and white in the czech because people are encouraging a boycott of euro vision because of israel i e treatment of palestinians so madonna performing is controversial some progress in the czech republic but republic the prime minister underage bob has said publicly that same sex couples should have the same right to marry currently they can get registered partnerships but there are conflicting repos rules in parliament they expect that to be resolved within the next month condemning discrimination and that didn't happen either no they just perlin after the meeting just repeated the bromides that we are defenders of every person's dignity and we are against every form of violence but how about stopping the what the church doesn't terms of violence against us you know there the condemnations cost so asides yet on young horace vulnerable young people trying to figure out who they are yes and you wonder why people don't come out so that's  form of bio you bet it is special when you know better and especially when eighty percent of you in the vatican are enjoying homosexual sex exactly if not that's not an exaggeration  so in fiji the prime minister said we will never have same sex marriage here when it it's in the constitution that sexual orientation is protected blowing my line yes activists brought quite a backlash and said we have nondiscrimination for sexual orientation and gender identity in our constitution how dare you say they will never be same sex marriage so the fight continues and well it certainly it certainly helped in south africa to ha they suspect that if this passes and it's given a good chance of passing it will not go into effect for this year but will for next year and subsequent years and that is a delightful turn of events tasmania which used to be a backwater when it came to our rights as poised to pass the best laws for trans and gender diverse people anywhere in the world allowing to self determination of gender identity and recognition of on birth certificates allowing most conservative part of australia and they have leapfrog ahead no polish politicians are apparently discovering anti gay bigotry big time this year as their political atmosphere and one of the city's the no g n i e z n the president of the city they call him call the person the president band the pride parade they have been set for april thirteenth it's being appealed so maybe it's going to go forward because it's a violation official alternative to true could this have anything to do with a the bad publicity about the pricing of truvada and b the fact that travolta's patent is running out in about eighteen months  truvada overall i think they always find a way to bilk us in the united kingdom forty percent of gay men with new hepatitis c infections are h i b negative and before this all shrek it's gotten rave reviews you know standing ovations and everything and it's you know she's a woman who used to do contests to about what the constitution mudra when she was a teenager and i thought you know as you turned to me and said she won when emily molly shannon as emily dickinson but it looks so charming that we're going to show you the trailer up also in june the new season oppose on june ninth and june fourteenth twenty seventh paris is burning has been restored and revived and will be at the film for at the british show the tony awards the oliviers the inheritance the