elucidated so we'll try to do that for you and we will celebrate the fact that birmingham alabama is the st place in that state to ban l g discrimination this week republicans once again failed to pass a health care destruction bill but they're not giving up meanwhile our federal government has taken to song by two opposing sides in a big court case to settle whether discrimination based on sexual orientation is sex discrimination and a minnesota federal judge has slumped down the wedding videographer are seeking to discriminate against gay couples trump you know many who we've told you about not bad for a member of the minority party in the senate a transgender teen alley steinfeld was the victim of a grisly murder in southern missouri really horrible the that north carolina more persecution of gay people in egypt azerbaijan malaysia and russia and we will share with you chris cooper's review of battle of the sexes the billie jean king bobby riggs movie and we'll review as special show we saw broadway with patti with that wish they would be boiler alert fantastic so roy moore who had been the chief justice of alabama and twice removed once for insisting on the ten commandments on the grounds or in the court room and the other four are not enforcing the same sex marriage law while in fact the ten commandments was a big monument that he had on the courthouse lawn let's not rush through this he st of all the mainstream media is not talking about the fact that he was removed from the bench twice in his career just saying he's he's controversial or not a bigot he's a bigot he got in trouble for the ten commandments that's what they say that say he lost his job alabama supreme court twice removed by the state of alabama exactly forced to resign and the st time was because he refused the core the higher court's order to get rid of the ten commandments as a violation of the separation of church and state and then he refused to court's order to follow the supreme court law and no barrier to fell that legalized same sex marriage he told probate clerks  judges around the state to ignore that and to refuse to marry same sex couple you know we have a state law and watch out for this guy he's got a gun it's a little that's kind of the maid and the way how  i think he's crazy well in the course of politically what everybody wants to talk about he's the extremist even for alabama is this bad for the republican party and it does give the democrat somewhat of a better chance the polls are actually within single digits with the democrat doug jones when he asked for some reason they're having the election december the th very strange but here are a couple of things well you know  was reelected to the court after he was thrown off the st time for the ten commandments case he got reelected by the voters and then did the marriage case and got thrown off again but in the meantime in the midst of all this he tried to run for governor twice and was defeated twice in republican primaries so he is not entirely invincible d i you know maybe at this point he is he certainly was a folk hero locally who luther strange didn't stand a chance but luther strange also lost because he was mixed up in the whole d sex scandal of the governor who appointed him badly to replace tom price as far as the trump people were concerned he was somebody who would have supported mitch mcconnell and that was luther strange and they're scared of more because roy someone said today that roy moore will make rand paul look like you know a trump loyalist roy moore will really blow up the whole thing which is why trump is trying to sort of co opt him by saying actually he thinks he's great but what can what what i don't get is the mainstream media keeps wanting to extrapolate this to an evaluation of where the republican party stands nationally and i don't think that roy moore is the d d sign of anything nationally because i think he is such a local phenomenon and i don't know you know there may be crazy wackos like roy moore around the country but that's not i think what this election was about the candidates that trump is pushing to run against the more moderate republican senators like jeff flake and dean hell of nevada jeff flake of arizona these are going to be relative wackos aren't they well maybe and i don't think that's a settled business yet of who he's going to support and who the republican party is going to run and all that has to be sorted out and certainly they will look at these these races in alabama and to make some of those decisions but i really think roy moore d is a unique personnel an outlier completely and out an outlier too when he does want to sessions our attorney general who wants the laws of god to replace the laws of the state so this is going to be very interesting if he does get to the united states senate i agree the democrat conduct illegal again which the supreme court could allow again if trump gets another appointment a new survey by gallup says only a th of americans now think a relation should be illegal it was felt it was fi council passed a comprehensive nondiscrimination ordinance real people and it to do just like in the philippines was unanimous and this is the st place in the state to offer such protections when did you ever think you would hear birmingham alabama and the philippines in the same sentence especially unanimously standing up for l g b t rights anyway and in nearby arkansas laws you know as long as we're down south a court there also delivered some good news they're having a fight over whether they tell a fan mail can keep its nondiscrimination law that includes sexual orientation and gender identity you know the state wants the town pass that law passed a state law that said towns cannot pass laws like that because we don't have a state law that protects though most people from discrimination on the town's can't go farther so they're fighting this out in court but the court has said while they fight it out that the state laws is unconstitutional there are also some local election results from around the country as the democrats wanted heavily heavily republican districts for state legislative seats in florida new hampshire you know as yes flipping republican districts so people are awake and they know they've got to vote well you know we're very nervous about the midterms next year but there are some signs of hope and hang in there and keep working well you do know i mentioned that we can't pass a federal gay rights law you know the human rights campaign is touting that they now have more than one hundred dollars corporate co sponsors for this thing they go oh they don't not only do they not vote the same corporations give the money to elect these republicans to keep their taxes  keep us from passing our rights bills well let's see how far they get with that with the new trump tax reform in quotes a proposal well they didn't get their health care proposal but disturbingly read i thought this was the end of the reconciliation process where they only need fifty votes to get rid of it now they're going to keep bringing it up next year under the reconciliation process to try to kill it and they can also get rid of the whole sixty vote requirement in the congress tyron and they don't need need the reconsolidation the reconciliation process because they can just do mention already been any time each has resisted that i know trump wants them to get rid of it i used to think you know what majority rule but it would be leader of the top enlisted member of the air force came out in support of keeping transgender troops and said i guess he's african american he said there was a time i couldn't serve there's a time my wife couldn't serve as a at a senate hearing because he needs to be reconfirmed as the head of the joint chiefs when he was asked about it at the senate hearing and he again affirmed his full support for allowing trans troops to serve so who was term talking about when he said he consulted his generals i was thinking about that i thought it was probably general tire or captain crunch the general motors general motors whatever well this is the oh my god if you watch that show i saw five minutes of it this morning and it was a barrister and on the today show that makes us look good i think you look great nice picture well i got married at least a little smarter livelier than she looks but this whole n f l thing all i can think as i watch trump talk about how you know firing these sons of bitches throw me out bob on he's a plantation owner that's what he is show but i did wonder about the legality of firing people you know it's interesting we sit here week after week and we say to the right wing that is arguing for its own free speech right here in corporate settings i'm sorry i have a free speech cause of the constitution protects you from government punishment it does not protect you in a private corporate setting and so i was wondering if these n f l players who everybody is yelling free speech free speech if they really have that protection and of course they don't they don't the owners can say the owners can stop them but they're not going to because what percentage of the majority of their players are young men of color you know the to maintain while i can see what is going on although majority of the american people are against these guys taking a knee and that's quite discouraging but they are very good cognitive dissonance they do not have legal free speech protections but they do sports illustrated had a very good article about this because i googled you know n f l players free speech protection and up came a sports illustrated article that addressed this very question and went into and then talked about the contracts they have and whether they were protected under their specific contracts for speaking out and the bottom line was that they could make an argument about being fired and appropriately but the owners have the right to fire them for bringing disrepute on the league and and that the owners could interpret that any way they wanted and so these guys really are of course subject to firing and what is not illegal there and there are a lot of people yelling at them and saying that's illegal it's not illegal there are some some there is some wall that elected officials who are public officials trying to get involved in firing people in the private sector and things like that trickier and of course watching this whole vietnam series which is depressing me all over again four thousand and fifty years later it's hard to watch it is hard to watch for a number of reasons since hard to relive the war for those of us old enough and how they started started and how they started killing their own officers i didn't think they spent nearly enough time on fragging but it just reinforces everything i always thought then and still think now about how we never should have been there by been my right wing brother johnny is watching it and he said you know they died for the people but it was over there and he volunteered and he says these everybody died for nothing for the egos of a series of presidents to mix so fifty years later now people are are saying that but again as with what we're just discussing with the majority of the american  ken burns has done a very mixed job on this on the one hand there's a lot there to look at and he does you know you can pick out the the facts that he gets right but overall in seems to me fart sympathetic to the courts which is right here in new york and the they heard they heard this case on bonk which is the skydiver case where he was discriminated against because he was gay and he is our he was our well yeah and i was arguing that this is sex discrimination this is a lambda legal case he was a skydiver he had a female client who partner or husband or whatever was worried that she was going up getting fired for being gay you know why that was offensive i don't know but that's that was the case and he later died in a skydiving accident but his survivors are pursuing this case that he was fired in appropriately and trying to cite title seven i guess of the civil rights act to say that the prohibition against sex discrimination include sexual orientation and this is what the e e o c has been saying they've been saying it longer about transgender but they say it about gay people now this is a federal agency and you still have enough holdovers there for the for about five seconds who still believe this and are fighting for the new point to some trump do not believe this and will not commit to that in their hearings so so but then the justice apartment gratuitously got involved in the case and they come into court and they say no no no no no and that's so the judges are saying well what's going on here you're why or why don't i haven't you figured this out and why are two parts of the federal government mean i've read read the analysis i mean this is a very important thing because that you know this is the kind we can settle this will be while kennedy is still there can we do this can we get this to the supreme court before the end of the term i don't know arguing that when you fire you know a male employee because he marries a man that is sex discrimination the the the justice department says oh but you don't call somebody when you call somebody who opposes interracial marriage races but you don't call somebody who opposes gay marriage a sexist they are going to say they also said well we would treat gay men and lesbians the same so it's not you know prefer even one sex over the other that's what sexism is well look they're also dealing with the whole fact that there's a history of the court ruling in favor of stopping sex stereotyping and that's what that's all part of a set or anyway we will follow very person in the united states senate from wisconsin did try out her goal was to attach some things to the state department appropriations bill and she succeeded even though she is a democrat and a education department because you know we told you about how they're changing their rules about campus sexual misconduct but they also stripped out all the gay language that was in there as if there's nothing it has nothing to do with us and we heard more about this truck nominee jeff here who was up for federal court in texas he spoke at the two thousand and fifteen radical right kill the gays conference you know where we're you know people stood up and called for the death penalty people stood up and called for the death collins anyway of these people you know who are standing up on health care who are you know standing up why don't they stand up against these extreme bigots that's the problem it is a problem but it's not a problem in minnesota we're a district judge federal federal district judge the air sort of a case like the masterpiece bakeshop case which is you know there before this cake shop case which is before the supreme court this was a videographer for weddings who said this is my expression and this judge tom haim really went after them and said oh none of that stuff that we've had no human rights law here since one thousand nine hundred and three you're violating it everybody can claim that they're being expressive in their work  asked to celebrate it you're just being asked to perform the service you offer to everybody while what he said was that you're saying that they have a right to their content but the reality is that they're discriminating against people and they're discriminating against those people on the basis of their sexual orientation and that is against the law and it is not obviated by federal religious freedom laws this is discrimination and you are not allowed to do it and the alliance defending freedom which was defending the videographers can go away because this is not right and in montana you know the state legislature didn't want to do a referendum on transgender you know will use in the locker rooms the gender of birth all that kind of stuff that legislature didn't want to do and so the people are arguing for it they've got the right wing groups there they need to get twenty six thousand signatures on the montana supreme court said the way your phrasing are suing for coverage of their medically necessary surgery by medicaid the state has a law against discrimination on the basis of gender identity or expression and so but she says she was given an oral offer of a job by a new mexico state university and that that was that offer was withdrawn for her to be an assistant coach for basketball to matter how you coach because god's going to decide who wins the game it's a little complex so new mexico state is saying well it wasn't a real job offer because it was an oral offer and it didn't go through claims some filed by business owners wives and other family members to divert hundreds of thousands of tax dollars to the church over a six year period what is the church getting tax dollars for in the st place hundreds of thousands of dollars all right original three were there the perpetrator the original perpetrators one man two women well i mean the women told authorities that one of the others gabs down there stabbed her in the genitals and bragged about the killing now you know this is all part of this anti transgender hysteria which has been whipped up by people like donald trump president of the united states and others and all the people who make political hay out of persecuting transgender people also violent but a little less dire in the end in the gay capitol hill neighborhood in seattle washington a trans woman was sitting peacefully in a restaurant in the middle of the night having a meal and these three men start harassing her and ended up assaulting her when she objected and this is considered quite shocking there because there it is in the middle of the gay neighborhood and england falls new york no new york is covered gender is covered by an executive order by the governor to transgender students were kicked off the bus because the bus driver said ok boys over there are girls over there and they these two transgender  kids want to sit with the people with the two male identifying one of the sit with the boys and the driver threw them off the bus and so the school district is apologizing profusely and promising training well that's nice and a sad story from the bronx in new york and an eighteen year old high school student described as flamboyant about the best description we have had been harass bullied by fellow students and just ended up stabbing one of his her harassers dead and severely injuring another one with a knife because they just didn't want to take it anymore and you might want to think twice about using the services of k b home one of the largest home builders in the country the head of the company jeff metzger lives next door to kathy griffin and apparently her boyfriend called in a complaint about some noise next door so he calls up and uses all these horrible anti lesbian profanities you know cold or a bull dyke in the c word in a bunch of other things and the board took away his the board of k b home took away  right all right well we get it let's start with the philippines they have a proposal in their legislature for a nondiscrimination long clued in sexual orientation and gender identity it's very very broad  penalizes gender profiling denying revoking your preferred license except a marriage license issued by the government denying access to public services including military service refusing admission or expelling a person from an educational training institution denying a person access to public or private medical or other health services open to the public very broad they have a transgender lawmaker there from but tom who's in there and said you know i mean it's sort of legislature about how bad their past behavior had been and how long overdue yes another legislator said too many have died simply because of who they are and who they love which is what we were just talking about with this violence zach i mean that's what you want to stop where is the outrage where is the i mean where is the where's the outrage from the president who's upset about all these people take on the me about the way african americans and latinos are being treated in this country like in puerto rico i was just go ninety eight to nothing it still has to go to the senate we will certainly keep an eye on that but this was an amazing three really heartening piece of news and in the same part of the world in hong kong  appeals there has kade a dependent visa to the lesbian spouse of a hong kong woman they have been rejected previously by the immigration  department on the grounds that hong kong doesn't recognize same sex marriage by again they you know they're legally married one of them is from hong kong and they have every right to this and now the court has said yes you true you know we've been telling about this postal ballot nonbinding that there is under way on same sex marriage which is going to creating some some ugly in this but also you have young people saying things like i'm not entirely sure with the postboxes are the but the deadline is november th but we've told you that the leader of this fight to ban same sex marriage is tony abbott the right wing former prime minister who has a lesbian sister who is to have a pre partition this weekend on september th they banned that so we'll see whether those bands stand up or whether people show up anyway it's just even more outrageous is what's going on in egypt  they some people went to a concert of the band of the lebanese band mushroom which has a band which has a lead singer who is openly gay yes and some of them were waving rainbow flags and the media got upset about this and some of the legit you know prosecutors got upset so they are they arrested seven people they're detaining them for fifteen days then they conducted one of these stings where they use the dating apps that you know that gay men use or people who was there he was caught and caught they say in the act of debauchery after being lured he's been sentenced to six years in prison already and the police are using fake profiles to do this it's a perilous perilous country there not that far from chechnya and it's a it's been called the worst place for l g b t people in europe they they say oh we didn't arrest these people because they're gay or trans we arrested them because they're prostitutes and they have a child the n s t and often they wouldn't let you go and once you gave them the names of other members of the community or at least made up some names you know it's just some of the been sent already been sentenced to either twenty or thirty days of administrative detention were a little concerned also about what's happening in germany with the election they're giving power to the far right anti immigrant alliance and eighty two kids partner she used to work for goldman sachs now she's a leader of a leader of the co leader of the far right party ensured well there have been controversies here domestically about you know how to deal with gays and jews who want to be part of the old right but all is not lost in that part of the world in far north norway in turn called neutral birth certificate bill they were threatened with a lawsuit over this but because they are now saying oh right right we'll do a bill the lawsuit is on hold but kind of the has permanently banned chelsea manning entering the cut as mad as that who are you know are boyfriend justin trudeau when he said i need to learn more about this they yes the people banning chelsea in the immigration people i said she if she did what she did in the to the united states here she would have been convicted of treason and she's a convicted felon so we're not letting you're in canada she paid her debt to society yes she did and some of us did not think it was constitutional court has okayed gender changes by minors on there and documents and you know we we we told you about the judge in brazil who said ok thank you colombians constitutional court just subject you could drive in saudi arabia and the prime minister gives me the premier of taiwan did we do that now does say together a package of drugs that is sort of up to date and effective and fewer side effects and the reason they put in this guarantee and they're starting with drugs for africa but they're going to expand it to ninety two countries is there a they need to re energize the generic production in india because the generic pharmaceutical industry in india has been suppressed in recent years because of things like the united states refusing to support generic drugs and wanting you know to support our own brand name parma so tickle companies so the gates foundation and these others are trying to switch that around again industry and and by guaranteeing the modern drugs also combat resistance to these two hiv drugs around the world so that's a good thing that's a good thing and it's good to you know really great but ongoing protection against sexually transmitted infections very important and we followed the case of michael johnson the missouri former college wrestler who was sentenced to you know for th status this is the criminal i was seeing sex with hiv is a tragedy and a scandal in this country and around the world and yet it persists because of fear and stigmatization and racism and like saw problem but they've got an ad campaign going where they advertise it as all types well meaning all all people welcome they're playing off the ban on gay men donating blood for a bloody movie and they have an ad campaign that uses trans people and gay people and social media it's all just an ad campaign for this movie but it's interesting that this is now considered a positive to sell a movie all right strange speaking of movies chris cooper your sacrificial movie goer  dot org just tell us a t v dot org there it is it's on the screen yeah but chris cooper like the battle of the sexes he says in the best sports movie tradition they're intertwined fades all come down to the final match in which the movie this is billie jean king played by a stone versus bobby riggs played by steve corral so i have we haven't seen the movie yet but i'd like to well i'm still recommend a major be you know me and documentary playing on h b o billie jean documentary called chavela made by my old act up colleague katherine gun and and others it's a story of chavela vargas who was an out lesbian magnificent singer in originally from costa rica tonight as we sit here david francis documentary about the transgender homeless person who was part of stonewall everything else who died under mysterious circumstances well the end that's what the movie is a murder mystery and it's opening in theaters and netflix tobar th and th and we have a clip from the movie that we would like to share with you hi my name is victoria cruz i'm work for the anti violence project i'm yes i think at the time they tried to dismiss that as a suicide right they did that was their official found in the river yeah you would think people would want to get the answer to questions like this but clearly not and yes this is the new york where familiar with and i can't wait to see the movie that's just a tiny little taste of it and we're so glad we got to see how the love poem be being interviewed and the singing with  as a benefit for broadway cares equity fights aids they raised almost three hundred thousand dollars there they are at sardi's at the after party what a show i mean of course she's better than everything well and they did it on a broadway stage on the stage where she is and he no he as you started to say knows everything about her and she has done everything so it was so i mean the people should know what she's done i mean vito les mis company oliver warpage well we're paid still running anything anything goes sunset boulevard and she's told such great stories i don't know she told a great story about revivals where she said i don't like these directors when you come in they want to be like it was the last time and i want to do everything like that give you a chance to discover the role yourself approach it was very insight was and she said it several times in different context the directors try to impose a performance on the new cast that is doing the revival of the old show and she also says she looks at the audience when she's acting you're not supposed performances were there i had two favorites at one point they talk about how she used to say anyway that all the good roles were written for man and less so these days but that for a long time that was the truth and she was d upset about that and angry about that so he said ok and she does the trouble in river city from the music man it was astonishing it's the most it's you know rap fifty years ago and it's a great song and she told me try me trouble trouble she had every lyric nailed it which she did not have the other songs but she had this perfect and she brought the audience into it and the audience knew perfectly when to come in and do the chorus so it was thrilling as you say to hear that you know and you know what i love was i thought she did spectacularly  ladies who lunch from company and she's going to be in a new production of company yes but i thought she really was her voice was right for that these days she's quite the human being i mean she's so honest we can't repeat some of the things know i was very much looking forward to seeing ellen burstyn one of my favorite actresses because she's and she's in as you like it shakespeare's as you like and this is the opening production of classic stage company's new season with john doyle a director i suspect this was one of the worst things i've seen it was just a it was a total waste of of her i mean you know even though andrea to sheild play touch tone sorry about it but it was torture and i hope we don't feel that way about the return of will and grace this week you will probably have seen it by the time you see this we haven't seen it yet but some critics have and of course they've been going around doing a lot of interviews then of the fairest critic called it a surprisingly wishaw russell tovey rebecca front i mean quite a crew there celebrating the th anniversary of the passage of the sexual offenses act which actually was a partial decriminalisation yes it basically said you know you shouldn't as long as there's just two people in the house and they're doing it and nobody else sees it knows about it that's ok but we don't want them coming out the whole demands and they be celebrated part by the raising of a rainbow flag in sheridan square here in new york outside the stonewall d inn where believe it or not even though it is now a national park there has never been a rainbow flag flying on the wonderful people but pardon me how many audience members friends was about f ing either one of them and they all right so then so then they bring up matt bomer who is a he says oh you know he's attractive but he's got a rich husband he doesn't he can he could do whatever he wants to be followed the next week by their pride fast but september th through october th the atlanta out on film festival many many  interesting and wonderful component films including the death and life of marshall p johnson and a lot of other stuff and then shortly thereafter in new york will be new fast october th through