other people that's us but we've always known that but we really appreciate your comments about the shows they stonewall fifty round table and the aids activists lesbian and i must thank gene carla who supplied the footage of the act up women at shea stadium with the big banners in the bleachers they list just magnificent footage and it's from her movie sex in a nap and demick and she was very kind to let us use that thank you jeanne so we haven't done a new show for the last couple of weeks so let's bring you up to date we don't know if impeachment proceedings have started already but the democrats have taken the house by the time you're seeing this taken control but how did president trump celebrate the new year by going after service members with  pretty but perhaps in reaction to that and other things a kansas republican state senator spent the holidays cuisine the republican party over its anti transgender polic i learned that the next person the person next in line to be mayor of new york city now is an out gay man i think we all learned that but we'll give you the details the courts have put limits on the ability of religious institutions to discriminate with impunity we had to a women for retroactive gay marriage in colorado so i mean i am married if i went to high school and somewhat you did i don't think i got married the new rose queen who led the rose parade in pasadena is a bunch of firsts including l g b t much donna has opened twenty nineteen at the stone wall bar marking the fiftieth anniversary of the rebellion cuba has caved to evangelicals on same sex marriage but l g b too writes advanced in costa rica the oldest person living with hiv is turning one hundred years old and i'm going to give you my reviews of london theater which is what i was doing over the last couple of weeks including the gayest show on the planet but we start as we did all last year with our friends and well i mean so does the disgusting and dispiriting over the holidays especially to read that they're taking time out to send discharge motions to help these service members living with chevy positive now these two people have passed every fitness test are supported by their commanders and yet are being tossed out the deal is that they're called on deployable why we can't put you anywhere in the world you might need certain our supreme court for service in the military and now gets went to the supreme court this past friday to say don't take this case now you know let it play out yes because the t courts and by the way every court it does go to your stupid proposed ban on trans people surveyed in the military gets knocked down and the only reason you want to go to the supreme court is because you think you've got five votes there for this and be so sure of myself and meanwhile mattis is out as the secretary of defense and he for a while anyway there was the biggest supporter of trans people serving in the military right i think one of the reasons he left was  he just couldn't i said and i'm so but they did get a positive decision from the texas judge about obamacare but even that strike they told him that not yes but to strike it down but even that texas judge was very horrible  the reappointment of out lesbian genius hero highfill bloom to the equal employment opportunity commission this is a trump appointment because he has to appoint some democrats yeah does the sunny way now our newest senator is from arizona martha mc sally who is appointed to fill the position left vacant by the death of john mckay thus yes there was an canceled the gig and by amie club goldfinger after the owner called her assistant and i think i could she said that kind of abuse will not be tolerated how is it that people seeing my breasts she didn't use that word is more important than hate speech thank you stormy i appreciate that so the first not the technically the first but the first major democratic candidate hitting the road is senator elizabeth warren of massachusetts there she is that the victory fund yes she was the victory fund named her the twenty eighteen ally of the year oh she is a big proponent of the equality ac this mix well i think as we have seen her in the senate and seen all the attacks by trump and all the pocahontas stuff and everything we've forgotten what a true blue advocate she was for the middle nondiscriminatory school discipline guidance protecting students of color charges that were not the only ones they're going after of course there many of g b to the people of color democrats in the u s house of representatives have are going to intro a plan for u s support people globally because of course pompei own state department has kind of forgotten how to do that now great news from kansas where state senator barbara boulder quit the republican party and she said it was over there anti trade hands language this was the final straw the last straw we had the platform says we oppose all efforts to validate transgender system remotely she supported a lot of democrats in the last election so she was inching out and by the way in kansas mission kansas passed bill g b g ordinance as did prairie village kansas governor is he wanted to emphasize the accomplishments of his administration for the goals you bt community britain's official portrait and we appreciate that you're now in ohio you might have thought that retiring governor john k sick was a good guy for issuing an executive order that added gender identity an expression to a nondiscrimination rule for state employees how ever that  fooling around with abortion and two but i don't know the details but in not governor but attorney general in illinois attorney general lisa madigan says that the catholic church withheld the names of five hundred abusive priests five hundred it turns out that there are now about a dozen states investigating their local the new thing well ever since the pennsylvania report that that got a lot of people stirred up so there's more action yes in new york the person who is now next in line to be new york at this moment was the public of again she became attorney general and we didn't know this the speaker of the council becomes the acting public advocate until february twenty sixth he is the first out public advocate d n d o'donnell is running for the job and there's a whole bunch of people running for public advocate we have a picture of a whole bunch of land let me just to make sure we're clear cory johnson is the speaker of the city council because the public advocate job is now vacant for a couple of months since as as acting public advocate and then one of these people who are running for public advocate will take over and i know a lot of these folks but we are nationally know the out candidate who is the second from the bottom left and that's danny o'donnell who was who was running and you went to his announcement where his sister was there rosie o'donnell that is correct and they both gave excellent speeches and there is a candidate's for democratic majority would not let simple felder the traitor sit with them in their conference and that's an encouraging sign it is can we go over some supreme court news yes if i was a reluctant yes just have to find i have a list so i can start going for the alliance defending freedom is asking the supreme court to rule in favor of a hawaii bed and breakfast that refused a gay couple from being allowed to stay there they say that the the bed and breakfast should be allowed to practice the mrs murphy rule which says if your establishment is small enough week will decide whether or not to take that case they will also decide whether to take three cases that have to do with whether the title seven of the civil rights act includes sexual orientation and gender identity all right those are on the potential docket also a week later on the eleventh that their conference will consider four trans military cases and whether the  trumpet ministration gets to get an expedited ruling on those cases so that's next week's decision by the supreme court and then i think i've got one more also later on the supreme court will decide whether to take a couple of cases the oregon wedding cake case and the pennsylvania trans high school student case so all of those are coming up for consideration by this court in the next month or two and we will be getting some fast and furious announcements about whether or not the supreme court is going to take these case one of those they're going to take it yeah couple of court decisions from around the country federal courts in colorado well actually i guess this was their kno court of appeals ruled that the o'berg a file decision applies retroactively to determine whether a lesbian couple had a common law marriage they their their common law sort of you know association  and the court is saying yes no no no the court of appeals in the state i say that i say and then well this one relates to religious freedom in california a federal court ruled that saint james elementary like school violated the teacher's rights under the americans with disabilities act she had cancer and they fired her because she was going to be getting treatment and then i guess that would pay for them or something and the courts know you likely wouldn't get a blanket a ministerial exemption to do anything you want with anybody just because you're religious and sometimes that is what these religious people are saying they're saying this has nothing to do with her teaching anything but i couldn't agree with you more but what the logical extension of all these alliance defending freedom you know tony perkins focus on the family cases is that these so called religious institutions and  would you know we can debate how religious they are that they have the right for absolutely separate existence in this country a lot by their own lights to do whatever they want  they want a theocracy is what they want to wipe out civil law and they want to rule on entirely on their own religious groups like catholic church is not forced by the mod to ordain women that that would be an infringement on their rights even though it would be a nice thing to them to do but that's the way it works in idaho a federal judge ordered the department of corrections to pay for gender confirmation surgery for an incarcerated trans woman now they cited the eighth amendment cruel and unusual punishment she had castrated herself made a bloody mess went to the hospital so they said this was so bad in this case was we're not making it a blanket thing everybody's entitled to jen to come but they were even denying  hormones so in this case they have to deal with it now now they don't want to supply anything they don't believe in transgenderism they don't believe that people can self defined they believe that they have the right to define who people are and now they should be well except what was another case where was it going to find it right away where they transform and was reassigned to the women's  news who should show up on new year's eve at the stone wall in greenwich village where the rebellion was kicked off fifty years ago bought shoes and she gave a old who played guitar while she sang a couple of songs she sang like a prayer and she sang can't help falling in love the old elvis presley so she urged us to share what we know with people we don't agree kicked he kicked out a fair because the guy was good and they gave him a ten day suspension and a fine of eleven hundred fifty dollars but he wasn't treated as a human rights violation by the human rights commission so it was only a sort  of agency thing whereas somebody who picked out a black family wouldn't take them where they wanted to go the agency gave them a two hundred dollars fine the human rights commission gave the guy a twenty five thousand dollar fine for that twenty five designated legally as the city's band they came together nine hundred seventy eight around me and made a bryant stuff and they've always been the san francisco gay freedom day new york in a little town called watertown the town justice there john hallet resigned and agreed never to seek office again after his homophobic rant at a county attorney where he said you and vigo mortensen should get a hotel room and second picture because the audience for this the guest list and this and there it is this is the what is very it's he issued today they are going to all those they met in two thousand and eight in west hollywood and they their biggest common activity is con conventions together so robert garcia is the first out gay and the left tino mayor of long beach and shared his happiness with the entire city i guess other hand in fresno california the catholic diocese there suspended their l g b ministry that had begun in twenty fifteen saying it had strayed involved but it wouldn't say how in a way that they would say what they objected to they just said it had you know gone beyond it people in jacksonville are losing their minds as they went after the station that showed this i thought this was a family station and somebody got really upset and put the picture up again somebody got really upset and said white shoes after where a parade queen now she won it as she and her friend entered on a lark they say you apply to become the rose quaid and they were like fourteen hundred applicants and you go through a series of interviews and they were just kind of doing it for fun but she kept getting called back and called back and called back and what the judges evidently liked was she she's a high school senior she's a science student and she's also a member of the debate team  the judicial committee of sequoia high school in pasadena and she but she's very she's research press can well and she is adamant about science education for kids she's only like seventeen  and and so they picked her to be the rose queen and she was completely out about being bisexual and jewish and and they picked her and so there she was  very direct way although she did once say that the mona lisa might have been sneering at vinci because he was she knew he was homosexual and didn't know anything about women which is kind of an odd remark but there was that is odd a anger and upset about that so she apologised well immediately twitter and then when she was next of the show she looked us right and said that language was absolutely unacceptable and groping of a teenage boy in a bar in two thousand and sixteen charge of felony indecent assault he put out a crazy video which you may have seen and he says he's going to plead not guilty he was last seen in baltimore wearing a baseball four ok grover cleveland who got married while he was in the white house i don't care in cuba they are considering a new constitution and as originally written it included evangelicals didn't like it it has now been removed from their proposed new constitutional of the government says it was just because there wasn't enough public support which is nonsense  e the l g b t activists say that it was because of religious fundamentalism my cheese mo and patriarchy mario mario castro thirtieth there was no one on the site lot of damage in the recent investigation underway and bad news from chechnya the organization for security and cooperation in europe has put out its full report and it  all about gay men being rounded up and tortured and killed in chechnya and forced to give names of other gay people now they have no confidence that russia is going to do anything about that of course they say that now they say we're writing this report to help the people who are fleeing so that they can get asylum in other countries good luck with that and they detail the cases of some lesbians who have also been raped and killed in chechnya  same sex marriage got underway in austria the first of the year and it is the twenty six nation to merge equality in singapore a court has allowed to gay men to adopt a child carried by a surrogate for them and the sound is now five but actually only one of the dads can be an official parent but at least they allowed the son to be in the same sex household and recognize one of the dads but in israel the high court of justice has ordered the interior minister to put both dad an adopted child in the child's birth media's going to get rid of socialism he promised that he will protect children from gender ideology which means any mention in their school curriculum of sexual as currently constituted would still all poulder in kenya l t v t people in major in a major refugee camp have complained to the united nations that they are being brutally in germany the parliament has approved a third gender non binary designation for intersex people in costa rica the president carlos alvarado signed for directives protecting l g b to rights cleaning up the code and facilitating same sex marriage i think i was sorry to see that the u k has said that they will not promote same sex marriage and nondiscrimination laws in sex marriage so when the privy council up hold same sex marriage in bermuda that may become a model for other british territories they don't seem to want to impose it but no but if but if a court in bermuda you've got to do it yeah they're saying we're not going to overturn not in thailand the cabinet has endorsed a new partnership bill for same sex couples it includes adoption rights but is  not government spousal benefits or taxes sort of a halfway measure in japan ten couples are same sex couples are suing for marriage equality yeah they're going to file that suit in february meanwhile the opposition party in japan is proposing legislation for same sex marriage but since they're the opposition party i don't know how far that's going to go to do montenegro's we did not the government passed a dr serbia whatever and nearby in croatia the parliament has banned same sex couples as foster parents activists they're going to sue about that back in the u k do we talk about b new movie a new bollywood extravaganza that is going to be a lesbian love story i can't wait for this it will this be the foreign language oscar next year it's going to be called how i felt when i saw that girl expected in release in early twenty nineteen to take you back to my trip to england a little anecdote i took a tour of spencer house of picture o missions it's a nice place i'm sure and i'm sure that ronnie and out is not cheap how about that po he told child abusers to prepare for divine justice which is another way of saying we're not going to deal with it now you know he talks about crimes against children and they never take responsibility for the crimes they commit against kids with their heart what they don't take responsibility for the crimes they commit against children anywhere else yes what i'm saying yeah you know this is all just to the extent they even talk about any of it will raise drug prices not lower them and is giving up a lot of government power too of course the private heavily heavily profitable drug well yeah i mean there's a there's a big habsi warning out there fourteen h i v negative men on prep have acquired sexually transmitted tricks retransmitted hepatitis c well there is a treatment for that it costs eighty four thousand dollars yeah so you can go to india and pant thousand dollars and have a vacation but the bottom line on that is that if you are having unprotected sex even if you're on you should be tested regularly for a sexually transmitted infection and there are other reasons to have protected sex other than h i v point exactly and the c d c has put out its figures for twenty seventeen it takes a long time for these figures to be accumulated and published fifty two per cent of new h i v diagnoses in this country half plus new h i v diagnoses were in the south along top nine cities for incidence are in the south the south and has one third of the united states total population but forty four percent of all people living with hiv so at this point infections there are stable a bad but stable they went down seventeen percent of the northeast and and six percent in the midwest now oh we have really buried the l council with john weisman who is the washington state secretary of health the council was disbanded in two thousand and seventeen by trump right is everybody quit he said no no you're fired because he had destroyed the national aids strategy and people were literally a race from the white house website what has turned this being unconstitutional now of course it includes provisions that protect trans people access to care and g b g people in general and preexisting conditions which is of course h i v s that's not good news now undetectible on his viral load and he says he has learned them tea with honey every night before bed it's so funny you hear these stories about you know really old people like semifinalists but what they did do was a whole feature piece on her and they had a lovely several minute long piece about her being in and out trans woman and they at the end of the piece she did a special runway walk up and down absolutely gorgeous and total support and applause from the audience so i thought that was a good progress yeah yeah yeah to have her feature i sat on the broadcast  is progress deborah and chris the actor has announced that he wants to make sure he won't be another straight boy taking a gay man's role now of course he famously was gay on glee and the assassination of gianni versace and some other things but he he played hedwig on broadway says he doesn't want to do it anymore and he says he grew up in san francisco theater so he was essentially raised by gay men and he feels is just inappropriate for him to take i left out the most nominated person for grammys with six nominations brandi carlile who was now let's be it i'm stupid i didn't know about brandy here she's on the right there with her wife on the left the black guy and i apologize for not having his name at my fingertips who played the cop on the show said i was seen in the gay bar back in the early seventy's and they basically told me if i come out that  you know the show would be canceled or something like that so i went by i stayed in the closet he loved mr rogers but it's it was very see since mr rogers zone about accepting and everybody and you know at every level it was just discouraging and sad and that's the way it they felt it had to be maybe it did well i'm sure it did but you always have the choice you can and presumably they were making the choice they thought was appropriate for the greater good they would lose funders yeah but at what point do you draw the line and say well you know not treating people like that is more important to you and i don't think that that would happen today with a children's show no certainly not but this  was a long time was a different error and this guy had a great love for mr rogers yeah i am looking for it this sunday to the golden globes which should be fun right this sunday this sunday cher and reba mcentire and philip glass and wayne shorter and it was actually kind of dull and not very exciting and that used to be a more exciting show but the i thought the person who stole the show was adam lambert do we share song do you believe in love as a ballad and he brought a lot of poignancy to it and i thought was the one thing that stood out in the show is  you know worth seeing we mourn the loss of head extravaganza the grandfather of ballroom a consultant on the show pony and a little kim designer he's died at the age of sixty three was in paris go ahead you and do your london reviews sure right ahead and i should have put up the website you can go to gay city news dot com and read my four reviews one of gay stuff over there in london and a lot of it is coming here and some of it you can see also in cinemas around the world on something called n t live national theater and why i'll mention the ones that are doing that but the big a play and it's not meant to live because i think it's going to be coming to new york is by an american latin next going from the deep south who wrote this gay play based in forster's howard's end about contemporary gay men in new york and it's a two part play shades of angels in america so they put a perfectly good e m forster intricacies of the plot is very very difficult but you know it's meant to be sort of an intergenerational story paid tribute to what happened before talking about what happened was certainly fascinating and the second picture the producers of the west end production broadway producers so yes i'm sure they're preparing it to come here ok all right i think they're going to decide whether to put it into a big theater or a small theater that i saw my favorite actors simon russell beale in the tragedy of richard the second and i've never seen they did the whole show in an hour and forty minutes that's the him with the crowd on of course that makes a big difference it was very very stripped down didn't get such great reviews but i was intrigued by the interpretation do about a retiring teacher there in the center alan armstrong who he came people at his school thirty years ago when it was legal kids found out about it they're all outside the house demonstrating against him he's there with his long suffering wife there on the left and his daughter nicole walker who has been a strange for twenty years and shows up to help out dad get through this crisis or is she getting out getting him through this crisis is he currently kay no no task a they found out that he did it  part series on the b b c it's got to come here it's tremendous the tell tale heart which is supposed to be about a somebody who kills the landlord puts them under the floorboards and keeps hearing the heart of this case it's this woman image and  got who's wearing this eyepatch and what happens when she takes it off it was i thought it was really i have to say i got a little sick of it you're allowed to say that and then i saw a company so company it ok well thank you very much and we will see you next week