they're now pushing for clubs to drop inclusive policies who even knew that for ages clubs had a connection to the federal government but it turns out they do in california however in the most recent elections they will bring in more election results they have elected their first out state elected official and with the democrats taking over in the u s house they're allowed to set new rules and that's going to include nondiscrimination and a big demonstrations had took place for l g b t rights in chile a taiwan and the ukraine and our guest is rob shuter here to tell us about his new radio show radio rob and to dish entertainment news from frankie grant they sexuality to how paul mccartney has become a regular at the new york city gay bar lal and free speech free space t v which carries us national a and is a great partner to us is going into another one of their pledge drives for the next month so from november twenty ninth to december twenty third we will premiere on those stations there are satellite networks on fridays at eight thirty pm eastern and will repeat on sundays at seven am and seven pm eastern regularly scheduled program mean those outlets will resume on december twenty fourth have all that down well if not describe to our newsletter and it'll have all the details it will before each club's spend so long since i've thought about them i didn't even remember what it stood  issues and they develop sort of guidance for chapters about inclusion and eight states adopted them put them on their websites and things but then the u s department of agriculture which it turns out has oversight over this federally chartered organization said no no no we don't want you to have l g b t inclusive policies our secretary sonny perdue  against this so you have to get rid of those so the state director of the four h in iowa stood up and set up no we are an inclusive organization and i am sticking up for these these principles his name is john paul carr deadness he's the first latino statewide director of the four h and he was vendor asli defending the inclusion policy yeah so they fired him yeah it's outrageous now he said look on for all the kids yeah now course all of this from the federal government was provoked by what complaints from the christian right it is the evangelical christian right and working again and the administration bowing down to that and giving them exactly what they want in all areas of life well this is why i had chest pains on election night two thousand and sixteen because all knew all these things would happen  obama was in power and g l t have spent a lot of time looking through all the policies of the federal government and saying let's make them more inclusive let's make them better you know you've got a group of people saying let's make it worse you can tell how far right wing this complaint is something that needs some looking into head h r see is looking into it by filing a freedom of information act request for all the files on this they want to see all that correspondence between the  family research council and all these people to the agriculture department about this they are however beyond the berrisford well that's true an alliance defending freedom which probably was behind this as well is asking the supreme court to overturn a trans  the new u s embassy a that's the united states mexico and canada the nafta replacement trade agreement which everyone agrees is really kind of nothing burger as they say but t greatest invention since sliced bread have i made all my food and now it thanksgiving well it turns out that canada in agreeing to this new trade pact insisted on a provision that said countries must promote inclusion and diversity of nondiscrimination including for sexual orientation and gender identity let's just say they slipped it in they put it in there yeah there was a question about what kind of force of law it would have but  the end of this month just a week away and that's where these three countries are supposed to sign on to this agreement so we'll see in the next week whether it gets changed or not and whether it blows up the agreement i mean it we've talked about this a lot but the end of a department has is issuing its guidelines for dealing with sexual harassment and there's a comment period so you can try to stop this by making comments but they're retreating on sexual harassment under title nine they want more protections for the accused role for protections for the accused absolutely but school process but school school only has to investigate now if the incident takes place on campus so it softens the obama rules here's the phrase they're saying the harassment would have to be so severe pervasive and objectively offensive that it affectively denies a person equal access to the school's education program eric to vittie do they have to have six witnesses to o and they have to go and half of them have to be men or something like that i don't know it's you know it's it's crazy right a couple more things that trump is still nominating an anti l g b t and specifically american bar association designated qualified candidates to the federal judiciary now jeff flake this week said he's not going to vote for anybody in committee or on the floor if they don't protect muller it's not enough but what's her name e this week seven hours and three nights it was fascinating and you absolutely must watch it if you missed ok ok and i'm sure they'll repeat it but one of the best moments was they're talking about the right wing plot and it really was a plot to get clinton by bringing up you know they tried with the whitewater stuff and all the crazy deals in arkansas that didn't work with ken starr the special prosecutor so he turns to these women who all accused him and then the y're very credible and and bill clinton was a creep and monica even used to call him mccurry we called on him to resign when it first came out well and he did all sorts of other terrible stuff but but they show this cobol of lawyers  working for the right wing and they were caught they were known as the elms that's what they were known as the l one of them's on the supreme court now brett kavanaugh there are shots of young brett kavanaugh and you know we all knew we heard during his confirmation hearings that he worked with ken starr but this shows how truly evil and maniacal he is oh my god and what they did to entrap monica and put her in an un position it was so evil and so cruel and so horrible and he was a ringleader in that and it's it is i open it it was a witch hunt it's at the very least  religious belief as an employer you know the be a religious employer like the mountains i think i have a sincere religious belief that these bigots don't have hearts and shouldn't get cardio care ok let's move on to politics first a correction or semi correction i posited last week that the new representative from kansas your restatements might be a harvard law school graduate wrong cornell still in the ivy league  and i'm sorry to say that gene ortiz jones the last lesbian congressional candidate lost a very tight race in texas you made a valiant effort and i hope you go on to do more but you can vote this week if you live in mississippi on november twenty seventh you've got to run for the u s senate voting democrat mike espy a former agriculture secretary yes yes again cindy hyde smith let's run cindy's picture from he would be the first black senator since reconstruction she would be the first woman from well sell us what her caption on that picture is you can put the picture up again she said sure is up this is mississippi history at its best that's confederate regaling folks speak up thirty percent of the white vote needs thirty percent of the white vote to win he got twenty one percent in the first row i'm not highly optimistic but then statewide elected official richard lehrer has been elected to as state insurance commissioner we have a picture of him somewhere there is he in oh we have a new governor of colorado we have a couple of attorney generals attorneys general lesbians in michigan in massachusetts but in california this is the first statewide elected out gay official you can look at all the out gay elected officials at victory fund dot org backslash results twenty eighteen of the thirty of the four hundred thirty two l g b t q candidates on the ballot two hundred forty four one fifty six point five percent that a very good record vast majority were democrats in san diego three of the nine council members are now gay and it makes it the most of any major city percentage wise yes not the small cities that had all gay city councils are right and also ah has been elected to the fullest fullerton california city council he is the first elected out gay muslim to any office  have a picture of him to there is a mug's our congratulations to you and richard lar of course is mexican american where represent we are electing a diverse universe of people and you have to love what's happened in orange county which was  absolutely the most republican area of california all represented by democrats now in congress including that's where bob dornan was from all right and i'm particularly taken by the picture of the three new members of the florida legislature and the partners of two of them the first out gay members of the florida legislature on the left we have wait and want to get this correct  in there read my handwriting all right jennifer webb a second from the left her wife cynthia warnin is on the low far left in the middle is out gay african american chevron jones and then on the his to the right of him is a latin ex carlos guillermo smith with his fiance jerrick media via the story in the middle there are the first out l g b t q legislators in florida a diverse bunch and congratulations to all of them to someone who is obviously homosexual or bisexual who was not going to be in the state legislature in ohio was west goodman he's anti gay anti abortion and he was caught having an affair with a man of his office you know it's his resignation it was apparently a consensual affair but inappropriate well that also brings us to the poor cross coburn engross texas nineteen years old out gay a city council member in texas we have a picture yes there is and he someone found online him some nude pictures on grindr he's out he's kind teen advertising for gay son grindr well this was too much for gross texas they don't like this at all and so he hadn't done anything wrong and been accused of anything but he has in recall by the voters and has lost his seat on the city's contesting it may be too late the validity of the signatures on the recall petitions and he wants the state attorney general to investigate holmes sent the photos he believes it was mayor bailey and council member hall here who did him in and he had refused to resign when all this came out earlier now also in the political world big announcement chad griffin the president of the human rights campaign is quitting he has been there for seven years calling quitting as much as moving on signing seventy years at a salary of five hundred thousand dollars a year age forty five he is he's going to stay on until they find a new executive a new president and they expect that to take till the end of the year or so i've been fairly critical of h r c over the years but i think they did a good job of ginning up the l g b to vote around the country this year and i also think he listened to people who to me who said to him none of no more of this halfway measures on nondiscrimination you have to do a full fledged nondiscrimination law for a sexual orientation and gender identity we have to be in all the civil rights laws you have to fix all the civil rights laws you have to do the whole package and he did a consortium of civil rights groups because there are some laws that don't cover women adequately or cover race out of what lay and they all got together and wrote the equality act which fixes all of it and there are daily am a quality news feed which we rely on here to some extent very very full of transgender news as well but here's what he's going to do he is going to go work for a presidential candidate he came out of politics and press relations in california he's close to camelot harris so there's a lot of speculation that is going to work for her but it really presumably whoever the democrats nominate he will work for or he could run for office some self but he is going to move on to bigger things and also moving in the transgender legal defense fund has a do executive director transgender and the marrow we have a picture has served at arkansas glisten glad  and the korean community development group tall the board of freedom for all americans they're actually andy all right now we are not happy to hear about this guy benjamin matthews you know from arkansas he is he is a menacing looking dude and it turns out he in the space of about three days made at least forty made threatening calls to chuck schumer maxine waters and miss n b c as a whole i guess my eleven nadi planned parenthood so he's been arrested let's go back to congress for a second look at it looks like pelosi is going to get in again  the community was angry at him for a long time because he was just a craven coward about all having sold the democratic party out to wall street and the parent lead to facebook yeah well and facebook has been the latest thing well it turns out after he has a lesbian daughter who works for face value i think we have shown this first picture before shot with his daughter on the left and her fiance the right marching in the new york city pride p the women are married and there they are in their wedding a tire getting married this past weekend in brooklyn and not only did allison get a job at facebook but chuck got a fifty thousand dollars donation from facebook ellen talked about how when the o'berg a film decision went down and you saw the white house lit up in rainbow colors she the daughter got so excited they ran outside past the secret service agents right outside she said it took her fifteen minutes to get past them they had to get they ran into locked doors they couldn't get out of her they didn't join the crowd but they stood on the sign of the white house because they were just so excited there were a lot of people outside the white house celebrating and she stood out of view and that was the way that they celebrated and of course that was the same day that there was the very moving heart wrenching funeral in charleston south carolina for the parishioners killed by dylan root and so she points out what a poignant day it was to a bit in charleston earlier in the day where brock was singing amazing grace and then to come back from the white house and find these huge crowds outside celebrating the marriage equality of the from the supreme court and we got one more wedding to tell you about and that is a former dallas cowboys  linebacker jeff there he is an act in the mid eighty's he was a very successful wine backer for the cowboys well he is retired of course now and now he is married joshua ross who is an s the titian to the stars a skin care expert he works out a lot of the real housewives of beverly hills or orange county or their wedding he is certainly the first ex n f l or to marry i think just so says i remember when dave kopay was the first to come out post career we mentioned that the united states house of course you know it's being been taken over the by the democrats and the majority is going to create an independent diversity office in january they got a bad discrimination i guess again on the basis of sexual orientation and they're also going to change the rules banning hats because one of the muslim women who was elected beads her headwear and but the thing is they're only going to allow religious had wear which i think is wrong if you're going to change it perhaps anybody should be able to remember they want to have those african american women stories new study out of h r see at the university of connecticut have been studying trans youth this is the latest report is the expansion of an earlier one three quarters of the trans who say they feel unsafe at home and hear negative comments from their family twice as likely to be so sexually assaulted or raped less than a quarter feel can feel they can be themselves or be safe at school and half of them never use school restrooms and the conclusion of the report is that these kids need help now immediately this is not some  of non l g b people and we're also more likely to support gun control as a terrible story in all right a terrible happy ending story a new york state lesbian in college it college campus her parents who told her who are rejecting you we have we'll have nothing to do with you if you don't come home and go to conversion therapy and she said oh way am i going to conversion therapy so they cut off all contact and all financial support so that our friends at college did a go fund me kind of thing raised a lot of money for but she's a student athlete and the n c a a and see double aid and said they were cutting her off from any  ability to compete because she was getting outside financial help and then her friend said who are you kidding that's ridiculous and so the n c devil i reconsidered it ended up saying now we see your and right now they're trying to do all kinds of crap ohio was passing draconian anti abortion bills i mean they were ban it only entirely new mexico is looking to overturn it is looking to overturn a statutory ban over the supreme court overturns roe they'll have it that's something we have to do on the marriage thing we have to get the states to do to do that and then republicans in michigan wisconsin north carolina are doing horrible horrible things while they still have power so pay attention and try to stop it if you can nice story from texas where the texas a and m student senate has passed a resolution the l g b t resource center which is interesting because couple years ago they were trying to destroy the student center but now they've turned around there supporting the resolution supports the resource center support the students administration and faculty appreciates a lot who have worked on these issues and also supports gender neutral bathrooms we democrats picked up twelve seats in the texas legislature and one of the ones who just was certified as losing was ron simmons in the house he was the bathroom bill author and he was upset by democrat michelle beckley who wanted to bait called his bill  shying away from it tex all right in brooklyn brandon math america was the suspect in the williamsburg attack in september of a gay couple were really beat the hell out of them and not come unconscious was charged with second degree assault hate crime and we have learned this week of a new video game that is called heinous would be a complement it's put together by christopher cantwell he's one of these neo nazis who was a ring at charlottesville and he has something called the rape radical agenda and they have published this neo nazi video game in which one of the characters as richard spencer you can be richard spencer and you can shoot people jews and journalists to save trump it's called angry go way to go and you know i watched a couple of frontline documentaries on the neo nazi terrorists in this country it is very scary and the idea that the federal government is making all these claims about isis which is nonsense and they're completely ignoring this is extremely violent movement in our country where people are so arming themselves and going out to do these lone wolf shootings like the pittsburgh synagogue this is an on a race the history of conversion therapy in america ok and can grow i don't know who to congratulate david hockney's portrait of an artist pool with two figures has become the highest selling picture march in favor of marriage equality because that's what they're saying the government is for long enough of the blob the united states tried to water down the u n route one resolution on can containing sexual harassment and violence against well the worst we're going to come out with on the relationship side is civil unions and if we lose that's one thing adopted then we can go back to court and try to get it out of the court yes one hundred thousand people showed up and in taipei taiwan to rally for l g b t rights for marriage also on marriage coast to recount the constitutional court finally published its pro marriage rule and now the caucus starts ticking it's going to take eighteen months to come into effect the government could do it a little faster and the president is promising an executive order that gives family housing bonuses rights to same sex couples but i don't think they're going to fully implement this immediately in china an erotic novelist called you you was jailed for ten years for including gay male sex in her novel occupation she was fine she has filed an appeal apparently porn is illegal there but social media is lighting up and saying this is a bit much for a novel and in ukraine one hundred violent right wingers broke up a march in kiev forty people marching for trans rights the police could not contain it whereas in jakarta seven trans people were told to leave their building by local residents they were accuse them of prostitution they say we haven't broken any rules or laws but they're being tormented in nigeria a court has rejected the attempt at a lesbian n g o s who registered in other countries these groups have to register with the government lesbians equality and empowerment initiatives was rejected on the grounds that same sex marriage is not legal in the country therefore any group cannot register a on the other hand in india where they've declared sodomy to be legal now they're now featuring gay contestants on their elbow vater pitch dating show a first on m t v india and what they do is they have these quick dates in an australia a wedding magazine called white magazine was out of business because they wouldn't take cover gay stop gay weddings and they said they experienced a flood of judgment on the advertisers with true so they're out of business in san marino the tiny country and europe with a population of thirty two thousand they have approved civil unions for both gay and straight couples in new zealand a lot of turmoil over the pride march the police were excluded in uniform so the defense forces dropped out major sponsors pulled out in auckland and it's a massive will have to keep an eye on in malaysia the government censorship board has cut four gay scenes a total of twenty minutes from bohemian rhapsody even though as you'll hear in a few minutes it is the highest grossing queerer film ever in this country and around the world and in toronto is an all boys school basically seven through twelve st michael's catholic school where student football players were expelled and charged with gang assault for broome raping a boy six were arrested they were caught on video and then another video came out showing gerstein oh no i've got that wrong i'm going to change my handwriting car right that's what i've got for international news aids news well world aids day is december first and you know there are events all over the world so check it out on tell you more about that next week as we approach it and tell you about some local events right the day without art is going to have this movie alternative alternate endings activists risings and that's going to be shown all over the country doesn't accept them that they by some small margin we're not talking vast differences here are more likely to get caught up in misuse they did a study you finish i got one more they did a study out of northwestern on the effect of a thing called project life skills appear intervention for young trans women and they feel that they were able to actually reduce the prevalence of h apparently trans gendered women have thirty four times the rate of h i v among all adults talk about stress they used to you know these sessions what i didn't see in the study in the bay mainly were able to get condom use up but they didn't talk about introducing prep among these folks so it was a concern and in new york state lest you think activism is dead act up in new york and physicians for a national health care plan and the new york state nurses association and the democratic socialists went up to troy new york which is a hike from new york city to demonstrate at a right wing conference that is people organizing health insur are organizing against single payer health care and the activists did a great job of interrupting well we have a very short window in new york now that we have a democratic state senate starting in january to pass universal health care and that's the one that's the heavier let them do the easier things like codify abortion rights which they should and pass gender i hope the gender expression nondiscrimination act but that's the big i mean we need those but we also need universal health care in new york did you see the trends military documentary and logo i did it was terrific it's really really good it's really worth watching and it profiles for trance members of the military and various different situations and it's available on demand logo if you have the demand function through december nineteenth so i would highly recommend taking a look at that didn't help the filmmaker in one hundred years ago i don't yeah cigarette smoking sexual it was a while it was wild and he was a he was quite a wacky guy so i'm planting myself in front of h b o and tell him bring me that show good for the church or getting educated very fast it's a little quick but the story this week was that he refused to have a white boyfriend that he saw a real need for the audience to see two black men together which i think is brilliant and wonderful and congratulations to him for standing firm on that and that is the situation now on empire and celine dion has come out with a gender neutral clothing line  jeans on and the movie fantastic beasts the crimes of brindle wall it is drawing a little controversy because it mostly you know grant this is a harry potter spin off and or a sequel or whatever and grendel wald is a character who is it was involved with double door and j k rowling said that doubled or after she wrote the books was gay well so the big question was would they appear as a couple in this movie and it turns out that they're very cautious about it they tiptoe around it they described them as like brothers only closer and the way not making a lot of money with can you ever forgive me which i saw you saw it and talked about it week or two ago and i saw mccarthy is a lesbian writer who hangs out a julius's yes lee israel  and i liked it and i liked the fact that jane curtain and anna deavere smith were in it looking like older women with a lot of wrinkles and i thought that was an unusual and brave choice but i was particularly happy of course to see justin that's a great segue in is our guest this week you've seen him on the show several times sometimes co hosting sometimes as a guest rob shuter and we just didn't interview with him and it's a lot of fun so here is our interview with one of our favorites rob shuter with a new radio show and coming soon to a radio near you radio rock not just a radio or he'd be out of business in the nobody that night to talk to folks a sample of the kind of thing they might hear let's pressure's on let's do it i'm dying to hear about this new movie the favorite the favorite is a new movie about seventeen children she lost her husband she had seventeen rabbits which she really did in many ways to replace the children later on in life and later on in life she's alone when she's she's in the palace plays by play by here in new york city paula showed up at least two maybe three times at club cummings this is bar on the lower east side anderson cooper's ex boyfriend runs it and also alan cumming if you go in that aisle and he's behind the bar the twice three times i himself as a young guy and he told himself to tell yourself you're a winner when you don't feel like he said at one point to me is life he had to decide between buying groceries or paying to go to the skating gring can he also to tell  linked in the movie very early on mr big was going to die of a heart attack in the shadow and the whole movie was going to really be about sarah and finding love again after a loss the x and the ladies were not really in it and this is one of the reasons that can can travel this movie and i think we're going to see it with the michael jackson musical that's coming down the states own the rights and you could not do this movie with we couldn't do with the music without the stage so the state wanted to be quite soft  not knowing whether we would love this there's a new musical on broadway called the prom it has so many stereotypes it has so many reasons for us not to like it it's phenomenal it's phenomenal to take a look returning to human beings yeah let's get a little of a singing and with i feel like i'm married to them twenty five lifetimes ago from the moment we beat that's the people but he goes out with his choir to use the word again and we all try that and it turns out that maybe it's not quite so fa d i made a quick pass last week at telling you about something that i want to do better justice to the japan society there is an exhibit an extensive exhibit by an artist who's very well known in japan yes i'm on more and more and he there he is in front of one of his works he does a lot during play in his work and it's fascinating art and really impressive and if you go to the japan society in new york through kenya where he thirteenth you can see the exhibit more and more highly recommended check that out have a happy hope you had a happy thanksgiving