stoning for homosexuality the adultery you're listening mr president was denounced by everyone from george clooney to ted cruz i remember when we protested cruise ships for stopping at the cayman islands because they were so homophobic well now berridge equality is a reality in the cayman islands and we're going to tell you about a way to fly hardly bill cool and we'll tell you and show you a trailer for a new netflix comedy on a gay man with cerebral palsy which is a series starting april twelfth and looks charming it does we start in chicago chicago chicago laurie lightfoot out lesbian was elected mayor seventy four percent of the vote she got in a runoff few hours she's she's now she's the first african american woman she was running against an african american woman opponent she's the third african american overall and the second woman to hold the seat but she beat tony perkins go and is certainly the first out l g b t person out lesbian to be the have a daughter vivian who's ten it's her first elective office she's been a prosecutor and hold other city posts federal prosecutor there she is you know there she is she's five foot one i think that the big news is that so she has promised to clean up the police department of chicago somewhat and to have everybody work together so fingers crossed you know we're not experts on chicago politics or you were who wrote me a note saying he she is less than enthusiastic but well you know give her a chance she did say she would reform and then we go to madison wisconsin where an out first elected in one thousand nine hundred seventy three served a total of twenty two years yes but has been around for ever has a partner and dogs and cats she's a scientist she works at the university of wisconsin and an institute that trains government officials so the thinking is that perhaps she knows something about good government and she also serves on the food council which is concerned about making sure everyone in the city is fed so she looks like a real good government she's nice like a good presidential candidate for twenty twenty four or maybe this year i think how think if everybody else gets knocked off the fortunately that big race in the wisconsin supreme court they vote for wisconsin supreme court justices this was to replace a liberal has been while tentatively won that mean it's less than a six the koch brothers pouring their money into an off year election you know trump won wisconsin very narrowly last year we elected a democratic governor the majority of the people voted for democrats in the legislature but still got a republican legislature so kansas city missouri where in the mayor's race there the top vote getter in a multi person primary i think thirteen candidates something like that jolie justice she will be she's on the right the holding the dog with her wife on the left murray good idea to hold a dog your photo well i'm happy to see that there are they're holding their partners their wives and partners are in these photos everybody's very out everybody's very cool and jolie is now in a runoff election on june eighteenth for the mayor ship against quinten lucas african american  his name is and his last name is the judge and we're also looking at the april twenty third runoff for mayor of tampa florida where the expected winner is say it with me again out lesbian jane cast but that's about it for any kind of major city at the moment and if we made mistakes he will tell him but to definite and to probable new lesbian mayors in major cities around the country that is pretty straight great progress so what do you think pete did does this raise peace chances of the presidency that is husband is standing by him no all these out lesbians are being elected as mayors of these cities ye s and we now have a poll that found that fifty four percent of americans are comfortable with a gay candidate for president and another fourteen percent said they would be enthusiastic about such a candidate that's a total of sixty eight percent and there was also the public policy polling that was done this past week that found every major democrat bede's trump biden by fifty three forty this was before some of his news sanders forty eight before we want to get rid of him he says he's she stays at forty one forty two forty that's it now of course that's not the electoral vote that's the national vote bloc i am still quite astonished that i know we've elected t raising a lot of money and to have these women elected as mayors is sort of our own and i said this years ago in the sense that somebody would emerge who we're not talking about because people want a fresh face someone who they don't know is going to happen involved apologetically but i hope he doesn't turn out to be makoto but when mccrone was elected he was he's under forty and was very very appealing at the time i realize you know right now with the yellow bit of them all think it's not working out so well now of course i had a picture i should have put it up higher of the women candidates run are incapable of yes well but the knock on the women is that they're concentrating too much on policy and betto is doing well because he's not saying anything we're going to i mean people get elected because people take to them and you know it's over one thing it's not over a lot of well and i maintain that what is giving booted gedge such a lift is that he inspires confidence i think rallies where they're yelling you don't have to you know when you're at the rally they'll hear you you can see you you should be speaking at a voice that more you know it's more casual conversation exactly and they sometimes they're trying too hard to get everything in and so they speak to get asked and they tumble over their words and it's not appealing to know so i really think it is pete booted judges after act as much as anything that  let's talk about the hearings on the quality of show so some federal things by the way first of all and we do have a picture here the house rebuked the trump trans band by a vote of two thirty eight to one eighty five that's very encouraging that they would do that and it's sunday was trans visibility day and so the trance community went to congress to the hill and game trans flags to every member of congress and many of so there was lots of debate in this hearing about trans women in sports and actually it was representative ted deutsch of florida who thanked his republican colleagues for their newfound concern for women in sports which they hadn't had before they they had a republican panelist there well they had a panelist there for the republican side who was a turf a trans exclusionary radical feminist julia bet saying this will be the and of women's sports and i hate calling these people found us well that's what they call themselves and you know the republicans were just scaring trying to scare people about some trans person is going to get into a trans man you know sees me a man is going to pretend to be a woman to get into prison and rape women and finally some of the other panelists like kenji yoshino and things can we talk about the crap that and horror and violence that trans people experience every day in this country because you will pass this  l and representative pramod j up jai apollo from seattle i believe came out about having a non binary twenty two year old child spoke very movingly it was also a lot of talk about religious freedom yeah it's got to pa house yes it is a boat like that on trans in the military it's going to pass no question the question is can is there any way in hell to get it through the senate not to mention the president signing it but this is a good start you know we are we are still farther along than we have been in the past and the equality act is a brilliant bill because it fixes the civil rights act several of them in all sorts of ways because they're very patchwork  what and whom they cover and this applies not only to the l g b t q plus population but to women who've been left out of certain parts of some of these acts to race which has been left out of some parts of some of these clarifies exactly how you're covered with with religious freedom yeah that's not because they want to use that as a cudgel against us and we very much needed now because the organization d o j pride for the from the department of justice the group that's been around for more than twenty years they're now reporting that the justice department under sessions and now bar has become a hostile work environment for all g b t people to broaden dros yeah especially from the f b i training school where you got to be masculine enough it's also apparently a lot of discrimination against latin x people there so that's one of the reasons we need the law how about how to and i should also mention that we talk about all kinds of federal decisions that are bad trumped up to federal decisions against him this week one judge ruled against him on opening up the arctic to drilling another federal judge in the district of columbia ruled that his plans to offer a substandard health plans which is his plan yeah runs afoul of the a ca you can't do that you've got to get people decent plans you've got to cover preexisting conditions etc i of course i'm struck by it every true wealth that's just his brain synapses not firing but the new book about him cheating at golf and how this is analogous to the way he's doing the presidency of course of course he's a cheater he did he cheated this contractor so we wouldn't pay he cheats every single thing he does and what we're learning is that's why the other side one of them is because he's a miserable character who would do battle with us right now the u s house from the bronx may get a horrible person there but you know jose serrano was been there for a long time representing the bronx and he's not running in two thousand and twenty out council member richie torres from the city council  mostly and you know this would be a disaster he's got a big base with his evangelical church and on a lot of economic issues he's rather populist which but he's very anti bill called the prohibition of medicaid funding for conversion therapy and not only would it prevent such funding for conversion therapy but in you know government fun name but it also in the bill includes mention of inappropriate phony billing and how they work around it too to be able to hide the fact that they're getting reimbursed for conversion therapy and it targets that  directly so thank you xan that sounds like an excellent bill and we appreciate it and hope you can make some progress we'll that's not going to make the us pastors council very happy and they've joined with the private health care company challenging the e from infringing their religious rights by pursuing old ubi to discrimination cases on the basis of sense and they want to be exempted from all this yes they all do a not include gender identity and they are the authors of the equality act they have turned around and that's very nice to see also in indiana they're still going back and forth about this business of for change in your id and that has now been tabled and stopped for the moment the state did allow for change in any easier way and then the republicans gender confirmation surgery for prisoners it was written by a trump appointee james ho we told you about him when he was up with his horrible he said it doesn't violate the constitutional ban on cruel and unusual punishment and he said experts question whether surgery is better than counseling or hormones or to do a little rundown of conversion therapy stories around the country first of all ages r c suspended google from their corporate equity index  was the only major tech company that would not remove a conversion of conversion therapy apps from their site so then h r c suspended them and what do you know google turned around and repealed and took out that app speaking of google by the way the workers there want the heritage foundation president k coles james removed from an advisory council on artificial intelligence because of her anti  views the governor of puerto rico has issued an executive order banning conversion therapy for minors in puerto rico and in new jersey the  southern poverty law center says that joe the group that was doing conversion therapy to help people and was forbidden by the court from doing it well they just change their name and they're still doing it fraud and i think they're doing the same thing it's now call the wait a second i had it the jewish institute for global awareness is now the conversion therapy out fit in new jersey and in message who sits the legislature by huge margins in both houses has passed a no conversion therapy for minors bill and the republican governor charlie baker has not announced whether or not  going to side it although the majorities are such in the senate and house that they could override a veto but he has said recently that he was inclined to sign it so we'll follow that and see if he does then there is texas twelve in the senate it allows any kind of discrimination on religious grounds and amendments to the d did pass an amendment to exempt first responders so they do have to put the fire out of your house they are meant to ban discrimination based on sexual orientation that our side brought up to thirteen an amendment to require reporting by licensees who want to discriminate failed so we're not going to know who these people are well what the law says more anti gay they can still be sued or whatever but they cannot be denied a state license for this and yes there is another texas thing i can paxton you know the twin of the lieutenant tourney general he is now investigating the san antonio city council rejection of chick fil a outlet at the airport in san antonio he is calling it religious  discrimination but of course you know they they don't care if people discriminate against us but they care about what they call religious discrimination course the government is supporting their religions but not supporting the people carmen shot dead in maryland yes thirty five woman thirty five years old the good news if you can call it that is that this is only the second report this year of a black year ported deaths and i believe these deaths are vastly under reported and has been in the mid twenty's so the fact that we're at the end at the beginning of april now and we've only heard about two is good news killed by someone who we looked with not in the same room but in a supportive housing thing for homeless kids who had come to our new alternatives program arrested a guy named christopher dixon twenty six who had no previous record but it was a stabbing death that started inside the building and ended up where troops still trying to get more details on that by the way i missed a political note in pennsylvania there was a special election for state senate and democrat pam  special in the pittsburgh suburb that's good and this yes well the republicans still have a twenty six to twenty three edge there but it's and this was a district that trump had won right exactly right let's spend a little time yes but the you know this was a true l g b t education pioneer because she instituted project ten in los angeles a school based program and had to stand up to the religious right to get it to stay there  very small program in the beginning and just a little sheldon you're a member of that name he went after her he wanted to get all state funding to the district band if they had this program and the district said we're not getting rid of this program even though we're only spending a few thousand dollars on it we're doing it she was a science teacher in school in the l a area and she had been supportive of african american students who were being discriminated against she was not out as a lesbian then and the gay students came to her and said we see that you are helpful to these other students and we need help because we're being bullied and discriminated against can you please help us  actually an african american student who came to work that him there you go so she created really just a support group of kids to get together at lunch hour and talk to each other and it grew into this huge  statewide program of counseling and help with all tried to get it going in many of our localities yeah with the novel a lot of success in new york although we kept citing project ten but why don't we let virginia win a five minute video of her telling the story of how she came to do this and what happened  my name is virginia i believe that people know me best for the beginning of the program that i started called project for the los angeles unified school district i didn't really think much about what my future would be until i got to college for women in those days and the catholic college teaching or social work or nursing were the really the three things opens which is why i chose teaching you  constricted in catholic circles i mean you could only think a certain way and you were not allowed to depart from that because catholic dogma kept you can find when i first started teaching i went to i went to a school that was primarily jewish it was like night and day to me i mean here were brilliant brilliant young people who were not constricted in their thinking by dog and that was a very enlightening thing to me and part of by evolution oh it's a from being kind of a strict catholic to being a recovering catholic when i was well out of college this is in the sixty's now there was a great fight that went on between the immaculate heart nuns and the cardinal in los angeles cardinal macintyre was his name they wanted to modernize and change their dress and so on and he refused to let them do that and he fired hundreds of teachers for that and dissolve the community that is a very very important moment in my life when that happened the injustice of it all was probably what laid the foundation for my being aware of the injustices gay and lesbian youth in nineteen eighty four i was a counselor and a group of students came in one day at lunch and they were very upset because a young gay man had been transferred to another school and what happened was that he had been harassed by other students and the way the school dealt with that instead of dealing with the harassers the school dealt with the situation by transferring him to another school so these students met with me and they were they thought that was so unfair i saw reflected in them a lot of the things that i had read about gay and lesbian youth in there was not much literature so that crystallized in my mind that there really that this was an underserved group of young people in the educational system and that something should be done about that and to my good fortune the principal was very very supportive he said we're public education and our job is to serve all of our students and if this is an underserved group which apparently it is from what you're saying then i think we ought to try and develop some kind of a program so that was the beginning as i said we didn't have a name we thought was what are we going to call ourselves  friends said well ten percent of the population according to kinsey why don't you call it project ten so that's how project ten got started through project ten we try to educate the personnel within the school district little by little a couple other schools copy the idea they attach to it on to other counseling programs that they had this idea that there would be an outreach to gay and lesbian then in one nine hundred eighty eight the principal calls me unity office and he said shows me this little note and he said someone from sacramento just sent me this note and he said i think this is the beginning of the backlash that you're going to have and sure enough there was an enormous backlash orchestrated by the traditional values coalition they sent a memo to the assembly education committee they wanted to stop all of the money coming into the l a unified school district we didn't drop this program so there was a big uproar and they they had to have an open hearing which they had but through it all the  board of education stood behind the program it's hard to believe that that's almost thirty years now because things right now are so different it's like you know now it's the renaissance compared to the dark ages b then that video was provided to us by the lavender effect and you can go to the lavender effect dot org have an oral history project you can hear the whole interview with virginia reby and many others there thank effect and much as we'd like to think there is a renaissance and certainly things have changed in the years since project ten was started we have a couple of other stories today  defense and the national center for lesbian rights are suing to finally stop a nineteen ninety one law in arizona that says you cannot promote homosexuality  that would be representative david stringer he resigned after his past arrest for sex with under age boys thirteen and fifteen from maryland were revealed this was apparently something that was sealed but found out about  don't denies it but he you know he's seventy one years old he did this when he was thirty five and he got a zero percent rating from the gay group there well also the one they're finally going after is david boren of oklahoma long time senator from oklahoma a long time president of the university of melbourne or i believe to governor of oklahoma and someone democrat and yes and someone who we've heard about for decades as a closeted gay man and now they're finally going after him for accusations of assaulting young man and he's still he's real assaulting one of the young men not so young anymore who he had gone after apparently the vice president university joined  abuse and in wyoming in cheyanne at a junior high school mccormick junior high school there's a big dustup because of flyers like this being posted around the school attacking both gay students and black students at the top and says it's great to be story and not ok to be gay at the bottom it says join the k k k a wait a second they define that as  confederate kid declaw oh see they're so the the kids the school is trying to ignore this and saying it's a one time thing but the cancer say no this goes on all the time we're assaulted march route for the queer liberation march on june thirtieth starting at sheridan squared front of the stone wall and on seventh avenue south they're going up seventh avenue on what is the end of the heritage of pride parade they won't get there for days one hundred and fifty corporate floats in the heritage of pride or and they're going to squeeze them all by stone wall is tired and square this is a chance for you to six to central park which is what the pioneers did and we're going to do that so if you want to do that you can do that with us if you want to go back and be with be with your friends who are still going to be sitting standing on the side streets waiting to go out in the parade for nine hours  our guest but if you want to have both fun and an outlet to express your frustration and anger and all the injustice you hear about on gay usa and join the radical faeries and the labor unions and people of all stripes join us on june thirtieth for the queer liberation march go to reclaim pride and y u c dot org for details i mean keep your eye on reclaim pride always talks about why we march and we tell you stories like this on the show all the time did we talk about the bills in tennessee now they want to let adoption agencies discriminate  house sixty seven to twenty two you know it goes to the senate and then to governor bill lee nine other states have these laws they have one to encourage schools to have discriminatory bathroom rules about transgender and they have one that bars local governments from providing incentives to businesses that don't discriminate it is and they  hey origin of hate but good news from nevada where the house there is voted to repeal the opposite sex only me marriage law which is outlawed by the supreme court decision but states are doing wade overturned long just talking about this thing at the moment and what i'm saying is that they are there are old laws on the books in many states that for bid same sex marriage which people have ignored because maybe i think there may be one or two others but here is a project for if you're looking for something to do to track your state laws see if that law forbidding same sex marriage is still on the boss long term here in the us get rid of it we're you know  california has banned travel to south carolina over its anti all g b t adoption law not all travel to south carolina or government funded government university movie stars because he will miss out and film there g b t refugee activists held a demonstration in front of a courthouse for twenty other l g v t refugees who had been arrested and  held in jail the l g b t refugees in kenya are really something they held that pride parade in the refugee camp last year that was so moving right amazing  slovakia they've elected their first woman president her name is zeus sama caputo she's an environmental activist an anti corruption activist we could use them here she ran on the platform stand to evil and on the values of humanism solidarity and truth and she's very pro a bt yes that was part of her platform and she defeated very right wing candidates that's great yeah and adultery and now most of this is only going to be applied to other muslims but there it is it's draconian it's awful and they do is getting pretty much you have to say universal condemnation from the west  out there in los angeles hotel and i had to listen to bill maher show andrew sullivan and bill maher calling this virtue signalling and silly or well you know wants to spend their money at places that are going to benefit this horror show condemned it but even ted cruz condemned it shocking and the and then they had to press the state department to make a statement that this was not a good thing they're against who sued them because they made fake profiles for him before he lost his his appeal to the second circuit court of appeals his boyfriend did as they said if you want to sell your boyfriend you can sue your boyfriend but the law around this says that the provider cannot be held up because what we're worried about is that you're going to get all the information on people and be able to bribe them and compromise them etc because your information is obviously not safe they don't even have to hack into anything it's just right there for the e has they name planes after iconic figures and they've got one lined up for harvey milk there now it's not he's not the first gay person they've done a whole bunch of others they've done oscar wilde for genuine mercury and they know they call them tailfin heroes and by the way there's still a controversy over renaming terminal one in san francisco for harvey milk the board of supervisors passed a bill this week requiring signs to say har milk terminal and by the way that the milk foundation gave their honey second thought i'm not sure i want to see harvey milk terminal touch the milk foundation gave their harvey milk award to meghan mccain of the view well she is very pro l g b tea although i haven't heard her speak out about either the arizona representative or of the no promo homo law aids education i would like to see her do that in beirut a military court ruled that homosexuality is not a crime they're following the lead of the civil courts on that they decided not to pursue a sodomy case am shocked to see that in japan they have new elementary school textbooks that include information on sexual orientation and gender identity elementary school textbooks in japan which is not the most gay friendly place for grants from yes and now they and they have just put these out and evidently i haven't heard of any backlash yet so i think that's kind of stunning  national human rights commission there is going to add a non binary gender option to its official petition documents they already have male female trans male and transfer email but they understand there could be more than four genders sarajevo there they're going to hold their first pride event parade on september eighth and they're saying it's going to be a protest against inequality and a lack of access to  public space exactly they don't have sodomy laws there but they have no protection for gay couples well this is why we're doing the queer liberation march too because we feel the heritage of pride pride parade is not political enough and doesn't take not of what's going on around the world well in europe they are not waiting to march in italy and verona tens of thousands marched against the end u s based world congress of families calling it a vision of the world the belongs for equality activists and now he's taking is show and taking it around the world because he's no longer so welcome here by the way a chinese lesbian dating app exposed five million yeah yeah well yeah i think everybody in china is another education story from birmingham england where they have lessons for elementary kids on issues but the muslim parents asking for more support for what they're doing from rob shooter's old stomping grounds ah yes in northern russia and a small city there which were unsure of the name of police raided the local l g b t center a long standing and they were seeking violations of the n t l g b t law they're the anti propaganda law to minors and this group at least has a lawyer defending them in court well it's an intimidation move you know the cops move in and they sort of toss everything in the joint and stare at you and then leave but this is the oldest l g b t center in russia which is amazing in this tiny town in northern russia of the authorities finally discovered them evidently and the cayman islands oh yes there was a cruise line that used to go to the cayman in fact it was a game cruise line they used to go to the cayman islands and we would have protests that we would yell and scream well now these two women in the front there with their legal team behind them sued for the right to marry in the cayman islands and the courts said yes the chief justice basically said yeah and the governor has said ok the legislature hasn't weighed in as they did in bermuda against him so well the court has ordered the legislature to make the marriage law gender neutral i don't like being told what to do but on the other hand i good for a week without anybody screamin trump says you should get rid of the judges that's right he did and not in this context and the hope is that this as a british speaking this weekend he was shouted down by aids activists at a speech to aids watch conference after he refused to explain why the agency woman force its patent on truvada the government holds that post and i have told them to leave the is exactly what down i'm not denying that i'm explaining that it's not the basic trev out of patter patent it's the patent for its use as her app because people who are living with h perhaps provide them gilliard with three billion dollars a year they charge two thousand dollars a month for the pills which cost six dollars to make so  positive recipient this is apparently a first and yeah they've done not living donors but this is the first living donor nina martinez thirty five years old a marathon runner a very for all by you long new and kudos to the yanks the rap company for bringing this play about a gay asian theme to the new ohio theater in greenwich village and it's a very good ensemble led by an old borro there as the going son returning to hawaii from new york where he fled from illegal homophobia but it really i felt it only really took the actual flight in the last couple of scenes those are the kind of scenes that we need to see the rest of it was more people telling people about things rather than showing us things new gay american idol contestant to watch jeremiah lloyd horror rejected by his parents made the top twenty tired of his the janitor in his father's church yes focus say that for grindr i love that you think i've been of self esteem to be  daytime drama series and congratulations to new day z and beyonce for their awards at the glad media wards in l a hey jay z talked about his lesbian mom who won the award last year and beyond say talked about her uncle who died of aids out  johnny and we have some more time we never got to talk about why people aren't having sex anymore but you saw that survey now it's being led by young people does the number of young people who haven't had up to twenty nine who haven't