she referred to the world series fifth game as the dodgers game that was extremely offensive to those of us who are red sox imaginations and on the world series thank you i will take it personally other hand the election again and there it is trans people deserve to live imagine that but you guys were wondering who did that and in fact we know who did that and it was people from the trans latin coalition in well i don't can't say i just did they were sitting with it on their lap and then they just walked down to the rail laden and took a few minutes to attach it and no one said anything or did anything and then they dropped it  there are going to try to see what the lessons were from the elections because we of course as you know we got back the house until it went back the senate but there were historic win is for the l g b to community and for women and for people of color it will fill you in on details you might not have heard on the mainstream news broadcast and we hope that the u s house is now poised to pass the l g b t equality act they better well nancy pelosi has promised to have course then you have the senate and the president very gratifying when in massachusetts with the voters there rejected in that attempt to repeal their transgender rights more overwhelmingly in other news a sad story from brooklyn where anti semitic vandalism has been charged to schizo phrenic young gay man a catholic bishop in new york was removed from ministry for his past sexual abuse a boy is getting this news is getting an ex gay therapist in florida was found cruising for a man online when you hear about him a political leader in tanzania has called for the hunting down of the people and strangely enough the united states of america has joined a elections because why not yes let's go on to the next election what i'm putting forth stacey abrams that better will rourke as the ticket for the democrats in two thousand and twenty they would have to be bothered governing or being in legislatures the very appealing i say go well if we could get rid of the electoral college and just do popular vote we could put mickey and minnie mouse and get the like that because we got millions more votes for democrats this year  than then the republicans did even though they in the senate races yes we got like fifty five forty five for the democrats in terms of senate races and we lost senate seats because it's a horrible system and you know it's frustrates people enormously because we work so hard and we are the majority and we don't live in a country that was governed by the majority so that is frustrating but now let's get into the details of this we will start with the  candidates for federal office so we should start with the senate where tammy baldwin of wisconsin who months ago we thought was in trouble because the koch brothers and their allies are pouring so many tens of millions of dollars into the race against her but she won handily and with all its own son was the state the donald trump won but we were also able to get rid of the wicked governor scott walker there in wisconsin so that was that's progress now we hope that tammy will be joined by bisexual sister kiersten senator from arizona but as we are taping on wednesday afternoon the day after the election that race is still up in the air i maybe we'll have better news by the time you see this but t people in the house one of them was curious and cinema who has moved up to running for senate and the other was jared polis of colorado who has one the governorship of colorado this is our first out gay man running for election as an out gay man to win a governorship you know he had jim mcgreevey for five minutes gay american governor when he was resigning in scandal he held on for a few fast because she is both a lawyer and a mixed martial arts fighter but not the first elected to congress miss in marcel arneson a woman who was a mixed martial arts  very happy that the native american lesbian sure reese davidson is now a member of congress from kansas and another native american was elected the new mexico yes but not a lesbian that we know about and then we have the first l knows this is our next one in congress first lesbian mom angie craig of minnesota got it there she is in the middle in the blue shirt so that now with her seat this is her second run for congress and the guy who beat her two years ago she beat this time around she she did not give up she went back and ran again and she beat the very the anti l g b t incumbent republican who had beat her last time and then new hampshire they get one one house seat and it is now they're now being represented by chris pappas he's the first elected to the u s house from new hampshire so that's three new out l g b team members of congress might get a couple of others well we have well you know we're teased jones from texas her there is thinking that  she might end up in a runoff or hoping for that bisexual katie hill of california is still in a race too close to call and then of course we have done the shalala from florida t lesbian prophetic in her age you'd think i guess she's worked in all these liberal environment most recently i know some of you resent it when we talk like this but you know she's i mean she's not like she's living in tanzania more about which later she's living in miami oh she is she's held public offices of all sorts for many years we are very excited about the fact that we have a record number of women in the house of representatives one over one hundred point and we have two muslim women who've been elected to the to the to the congress for the first time now for those of you who are thinking of fleeing the country i have a spot for you is not quite out of the country but is certainly far far away and that's why bob has just elected a democratic woman as governor but her lieutenant governor is to joshua to norio and they've also elected a female legislature would you mind before we go on because we're going to tell you about all around the states announcement elected a little bit more about the implications for the house and the senate could we talk about that a little bit well i have a list of things that might come up in the house we should tell people what did we win well we hope we won the equality act finally getting passed by the house of representatives nancy pelosi did talk about this i n the election we want a check and balance on this horrible president that's what we want if we stand firm now one of my concerns is that we're democrats i mean look at china like a cheap suit well look what chuck schumer did with the judges before the election saying that's ok you go we'll pass another fifteen of your judges along is we get to go home and he did not win back the senate means we are condemned to getting all these horrible judges confirmed by the senate now most automatically you know there's almost no one to stop them now that's horrible it is horrible and and we still exactly we have no one to stop them now  they can pass everything in the senate with a majority they need sixty for a lot of stuff unless they change the filibuster rule but i mean what good would it do them because the house is there to put the house on the yes but the equality act it least tran's military stuff may come up and having a democratic house may help on that religious freedom stuff we may be able to stopped more easily with a democratic house and there are some adoption  regulations that we may be able to do better on the definition of sex discrimination to include sexual orientation and gender identity could be helped by a democratic house but most importantly let's look at who are going to be heading the committees in the house now our congressman jerry nadler a great liberal is going to be the head of the house judiciary committee he is already announced that he is going to conduct certain investigations into the trumpet ministration and m adam schiff is going to head the intelligence committee finally we're going to find out what's going on there elijah cummings is going to be head of oversight and government reform maryland maxine waters as head of the financial services commission and she could investigate the criminality of the trump crime family now we may hear more about her checkered shirt or hill from massachusetts as head of ways and means and he has already said i have a perfect right now to see trump's tax returns and i am going to he was asked about that in his press conference today and he said are there still under audit i can trump was asked about you know the chair of ways and means allowed to see them confidentially and then the committee has to vote on whether to release them and there's obviously a reason the trump hasn't released all doesn't the treasury department have to pass that doesn't mean newton get to say whether or not they're i saw they really it's up to the committee it's up the committee decides on whether to release it neil gets to decide this man neil gets to decide as head of ways and means whether he wants to see it he can see anybody's tax returns in the country so watch out you watch out and then nita lowey is going to be head of appropriations and legislatures around the country and if you go to the victory fund website you can get a whole long list of people who've been elected and those who've lost victory fund dot org slash  results twenty eighteen results twenty eighteen victory fund dot org slash results twenty eighteen you can see the whole long list it's fantastic to train before you move off yeah sylvania and again we were up against a tremendous amount of voter voted the people voted unexpected states like michigan to vote say let's do this some a nonpartisan basis i think missouri past yeah i mean this is all this is how the country is going to move forward with the care system if at all  house in alabama in nebraska a lesbian megan hunt was the first out personal acted to the state house texas moved from two zero state legislators to five a record representative oh and our old pal zach walz the son of the lesbian mothers who so eloquently addressed the state legislature a few years ago about when they were trying to outlaw civil partnerships i attorney general of michigan she is an out lesbian a lawyer and she was a local lawyer who took on the case of a lesbian couple in a marriage related case custody maybe and all the national l g b t organizations told her not to do the case and she said nonsense i am taking this i think she took it to the supreme court and she won and now she runs for attorney general  of course he you know he had there was a charge of domestic violence in his relationship which was not substantiated but he be the main news here is that he beat a lawyer for the alliance defending freedom who was a total right wing crazy and we told you a couple  weeks ago the polls were changing and that when keith ellison prevails gavin newsome elected governor of california it's good for a new york state we have an african american attorney general james who was our public advocate in new york city and also believed to be not open about her lesbian sexual orientation as those who are making a list of those but more even more importantly i would say in new york we took back the state senate for the democrats in a sweeping win we've been fighting with the state senate for years the other house the assembly is heavily democratic the governor is democratic but they've had this thing in the state senate where  republicans have been in control because several democrats caucused with them and help them retain power many of them got vanquished in primaries this year and that was very that was one of the sweetest things that happened all year in new york and now and now more democrats were elected and we have solid control of the state so one african american woman andrea stuart cousins will be the leader of the senate in new york a democrat  sorry to see rob cordray lose the governor's race and ohio certainly sorry to see andrew lose in florida you know i heard a terrible statistic today at the election results white women yes oh my god more than white men white women voting overwhelmingly for ted cruz for ron to say and for rick scott it's going on with your people i clerk ship in kentucky she was spending too much time and there's the picture in romania in an unsuccessful effort to ban same sex marriage in the constitution of romania and other primary wasn't happy with him no but kentucky fairness kentucky did endorse the guy who beat ken davis and i was really sorry to see marsha blackburn win the senate seat in tennessee she is a nightmare there somebody described the senate u s senate as the original gerrymander of the country sure and it's undemocratic and we really have to throw it off i don't know quite how to do it if you have ideas on how to do it right me what i mean seriously we have a new system we're never going to win as we should under this system well we're never going to get it while they have a vote in this because the small states are never going to give up that power that means we may need another you and i don't i don't mean a violent one but i mean that's what we had to get the system that we had all we all have to be able to wyoming owned by britain are you ready to move to wyoming well we could all move to these states and take them over y basis of gender identity and expression more than two to one the voters of massachusetts a lot of the polling had been very good but we're always nervous about these things because of a hidden vote you know we put transgender people including young people front and center you probably saw the ads that we ran on this show yeah and that that's the way to do it folks it's not you know having just advocates talk for us and all that you have to show people what we're talking about and we did and we won and it was massachusetts which can be fairly conservative they have a republican governor so the bottom line for me is mixed bag some very good news some very bad news and disappointed overall because i passed yet well i have to say there are a couple of things that happened in we have a category called trump and we know what a racist he was and you probably read that michael cohen revealed the behind the scenes he says the n word and he uses a lot of bad terms but the press did not really report at all we just i just learned about it this week that what he really said about a contestant on the apprentice is was i can't let that black faggot when it lawyer says that behind the scenes trump said no way i can let this black bag win now all the networks reported this story a couple of weeks ago when this came out didn't use the f word did not use the f word and did not describe his language as homophobic they described his racist language they quoted him say black af and they never made clear when we got a ref word it could have been many f words but but we will tell you on this show that he said black bag and for all of you who still live in some dream land that makes you think that donald trump is not homophobic it's time to wake up nonetheless he's still won the senate i was also happy to see that fifty six corporations put out a statement condemning his anti trans policies i would like the fifty six corporations to stop funding horrible racist white supremacist in iowa and the confederate flag on his desk by the way with people in new york i know who went up state to campaign for democrats they saw a lot of confederate flags up there you live in right we had a great story this week a triumph for truth wins out that's the name of an organization they were given a tip that this guy goldwasser who was a conversion therapist norman goldwater you know to make make you an x gay was trowing people on man hunt and something to do with bears on line and laura he got he got caught and he said he was caught dead to rights right so he finally had to admit it and he said i've helped so many people i just couldn't assaulted in prospect park in brooklyn and the cops the two female cops you know supported her believed their story were looking for the perpetrator but the top brass  john miller who you see on television all the time as a spokes person when there are terrorist incidents john miller talked to mak mak a larry columnist for the new york post it was glorified by tom hanks in the stage show by nora  made all this up in order to publicize and mack mcilree writes this column just slurring her all over the several yeah so so they've apologized they still refuse any more years later refuse to apologize for the stonewall rains or the ongoing the rest of trans women get arrested all the time still in new york just for walking down the street they get arrested they say you're probably prostituting yourself just first so that makes it a story i hope it becomes a non story very quickly she's the third out transgender judge in the country in iowa we've been telling you about the orange city library where some right wing guy you know religious fanatic went in checked out some l g b tea children's books and then took them outside and filmed himself burning them and you know ranting about the evils of homosexuality hey up getting rid of all or and i hope that the house investigations committees hire moeller to complete the investigations are you all happy for having reelected all these right wing republicans to the united states senate because they're going to be the ones confirming the next attorney general yes that's true sessions out not that i ever thought i would be saying anything in support of jeff sessions was a all their houses right and the first of many changes to i i predict chris co back will wind up in one of these seeds he could be attorney general is already appointed to the elections commission by president from the age of nine and then going on for four years from his step father it's a rather moored story why did he do it why did he talk about this he was inspired by dr christine blasi forward and her standing up to cavanaugh and that's why he did it and he said you know so he feels is the one who was accused by mitt mean and who was on this show talking about it wrote for the gay city news the new york times new york one and you know this this this president priest as a younger priest in the  independent review board just last week and then they removed genic because they said that the charge is credible all right hopscotching some other news stories in l a the los angeles football club which is their soccer team is upset that their fans are using gay slurs as seventy soccer fans do calling the opposing goalie puto and spanish for a fag and they're threatening to reject fans who keep doing did we do the story no no so in new york in the wake of the horrible stuff in florida this kid went on a rampage in brooklyn vandalizing synagogues painting horrible things on the walls setting trash fires setting a fire inside one of them he turns out to be a twenty six year old gay kid who some of us know and who had been taken under the wing of out council speaker christine quinn given in turn ship james polite his name was he worked on hate crimes there but he's bipolar possibly schizophrenia and when that is when he has these off these meds this is what comes out he was his foster parents were jewish so it's a horrible horrible story he's charged with a lot of horrible crimes and hate crimes but he's in psychiatric observation right now would whole hospital  s a great dilemma of getting people to stay on their meds because of course when they're on their meds first of all the meds have side effects and can make you very low b and sleepy so but you feel ok so you think are i don't want to take  the manhattan bridge right in hawthorne new york applebee's the restaurant has agreed to a one hundred thousand dollars settlement with trans woman who work for them but was fired she had been badly abused by her fellow employees and the she complained to the e e o c and they supported her claim of discrimination as sex discrimination as a trance woman which of course they trumpet ministration one kid was not responding as he wanted me looked at me he said stop looking at me like a homosexual he's fired the team is saying he was actually a good guy this was not a good act on his part and we mourn the death of a couple of prominent lesbians ruth gates a champion of coral reefs said an expert on coral reefs died at fifty six much to soon as she worked and lived in hawaii is survived by her wife robin burton gates who said she could do everything well she was going to computers fantastic a business she could remodel oh she was a fantastic cook she had a third degree black belt in karate but she was really the world's expert on coral reefs and lauded for that and maria irene for ness eighty eight playwright on guard guard off broadway plays but adored and  kirshner she's not spoken of as an important american playwright and she should be she had terrifyingly high standards and was terribly blunt about what others did her work her productions were married couples now thirteen of thirty one states have full marriage equality so you can get married elsewhere it's very complicated but that's a step forward and a court in mexico ruled that a couple of mexican couple living in new york city have the right to marry at the consulate in new york city of mexico the bermuda government's challenge to same sex marriage being forced to do that is underway this is their appeal they had to import judges to the quay to hear the case people i'm going to imprison them now get some sense fired people around the country to send in thousands of messages with names of gay people to be rounded up now in previous times  gay people rounded up and imprisoned have been raped by the police while the penalty of firsts consentual same sex activity is thirty years in prison even the united states of america has warned its citizens  careful about their social media lest they become targets of this round here did they rounded up ten men in the zanzibar for for be gay after they were reported for attending a same sex wedding yes and this is also  ministry of foreign affairs trying to distance themselves as the culture is picking it up and saying yeah let's get the gays and what is the same thing that's happening in the united states with all these attacks that are happening and then it's having ancillary effects like hiv aids prevention kenya are inviting tanzania and gays to come there well and kenya is not a paradise island of the frying pan into the fire we tell you how bad everything's getting in brazil but across the venezuelan border in brazil they've opened the first  same sex behavior there by the way except in the uk your province and they were they were sent for guidance which tells you for quite some time now about all the horrors inflicted and gay men in particular in chechnya and how many of fled the area and now for years we have begged the united states and the u n to get involved in this and of course the russian government well now the organization for security and cooperation in europe which has sort of a european thing that we're a part of which is about dealing with russia over some issues i think russia is not dealing with the chechnya situation so this is meant to put added pressure on making that happen well it's sixteen countries including the united states and they have all authorized a fact finding mission about the anti l g b t atrocities in chechnya we'll keep an eye on that and panama are still stalling on marriage equality so the roman catholic church had their synod on youth and they were preparing a document and they included reference to the community and then in the final draft the word l g b t disappeared and went away the whole section on gay people only passed by two votes it's a little too hot for them and in australia the new conservative prime minister evangelical prime minister scott morrison has branded as nonsense be idea of gender neutral passports or birth certificate these were supposed to go into effect next week and he's stopping it well the labor department proposed it and he is he says nonsense in cuba they are proposing there is a proposal for marriage equality in the new proposed constitution  controversial not voted on yet so they are supposed to be a kissin in support of this it was cancelled officially but they held it anyway and in thailand ben life partnership bill which is supposed to grant gay couples most of the rights of marriage but not marriage and will not include adoption is really moving through the legislature this month the parliament in the czech republic is supposed to be having a debate on marriage equality but they have postponed it yet again this is not the first time they do have registered partnerships there that have them since two thousand and six but they're not in any hurry to do marriage and in our media i mean yes there was a christian l g b t conference scheduled but it has been canceled under threats of violence you know ok well in my sociological t good yes setting a good example e s well his mother cookie p henson became aware of this and she freaked out how how dare you put yourself in danger  week she may be better educated these things take time you want to stretch these out over several episodes because you can't deal with the whole day and not like the show when we plough through the stories and we have well you know empire is produced by lee daniels out center in new york five fifteen malcolm x mall of our this is mostly for black and latino gay men and trans people panels film food we'll tell you more about it as we get closer to it and the international congress on drug therapy in h i v infection took place in glasgow scotland and there was one interesting piece of news which is a study that showed that a combination of named elaina bruning and her professor at shawnee state university nicholas meriwether was willing to call alina by the name that she has but not by the pronouns that she had adopted so so the school said that's the way we do it here we respect what pronouns people want to use he says this is a violation of my evangelical faith and i'm suing you women who's on what side the professor doesn't want to use the not much of a physical resemblance well except that they keep some of them lines about that really yes like about his size and his and his voice i would call that bad copy i mean you know i mean edward all of the i mean we've been chained shakespearean sometimes if we needed to so but on the other hand what mercedes role you saw her there she plays the mom the not very accepting at all mom comes up from florida that's when the show really develops harvey but this is a this is directed by boy says kofman you were a little kinder to waverly gallery last week than i would have been given that i did not hang around for the second act no i just thought we were being subjected to what it's like to live with someone with that we saw a while ago yes but it's just popping up in still i guess and film festivals and it won the audience award for best documentary and i thought it was really good i would enjoyed it i you know they really had some interesting characters great people in that and for the feature film ruffy key the kenyan lesbian film which i did see at the festival on which i liked but i thought was a little slow but that costumes  and friends which was about intersex people in kenya kenya is very hot these days so i gave the best international feature to something called the tom blow from peru and best us feature to i noticed but i thought you know and i'm very wary of these things i sit there like oh my god how are you going to portray these gay people in this thing is going to be a cliche and i was very moved by it i mean in the cold kidman and russell crowe to genuine younes as arkansas parents can you go wrong they were excellent and i saw a movie this weekend that is so stereotypically gay maria by callous that maria callas documentary for all of you opera fans one point she was making her comeback in new york and they interview fans a man a the street interviews new york for gay men right after what right out with these guys on the street maybe you were one of them go see maria b com news for m t v grey's anatomy finally has an out gay male character and the character is levi schmidt played by jake borelli and so he's come out at the same time as this character of course is family and friends knew people who knew him but he's come out publicly subject really welcome to the club yeah and he professes great to live and having this opportunity to come out but you know we talked about some closet cases and things i'm you know and again and in the west it's not a great thing to be but acting is one of the professions that remains hardest to come out for a lot of people because they don't want people not to cast them in anything but a tough i mean more and more and more people are coming you know and we want to remind you that next week logo on november fifteenth at eight pm will be airing trans military a documentary about trans people serving in the u s military i've seen parts of it over the last couple of years because the filmmakers have been you know showing bits and pieces of it as they tried to raise money for it and stuff and it looks quite compelling now be i've set my d v r already now if we could only save trans people in the military from the wrath of khan so i i you know i'm i hate jeff sessions and i think he is a monster but he he made some attempt to  personnel changes in the trump administration between now and then if we're still allowed to speak but go to victory phone dot org slash results twenty eighteen defined out about all the l t b t candidates who won and lost see you next