you i hope i have my coffee under control this week taken some therapies and we'll see if we can get through this since these but these are hard things to talk about i know that not well it has been a week of awfulness as you know we actually have some inspiring stories and more than one resistance to report and we have some lousy news too but one good story is that trance juden ga you may remember him of one his latest federal discrimination case against his virginia school that may not be the end of it and it was nice to see those two u s athletes at the pan am games standing up for social justice at some price and it's nice to see l g bts people out in the streets protesting against businesses oh and by trump billionaire fundraiser stephen ross like equinox soul cycle arrested amidst their plans to shoot up places like gay bars and planned parenthood and a gay couple in russia has fled the country and you may remember this authorities figured out that they were gay  and that they were out to their children a new drug not exactly a new drug but a drug the drug has been approved for plan up but not without controversy and will review the new show very well in the supreme court said well we're not going to take your case that you've been winning because you know now the education department has different guidance about transgenders you're going to have to go back and start over gavin graham is now twenty when he's known as an illinois right yeah he's in the middle when he was in high school he transitioned and everything was fine the school said fine use the restroom that corresponds to the gender in which you're living your daily life the male restroom that went on for a couple of months and then the parents freaked out they heard about it and they freaked out and they forced the school district to break in or the school district decided to bring a lawsuit gloucester county and this went back and forth in the courts at various levels so then the supreme court as andy said kicked it back down to a lower court and now that lower court a district court in virginia has ruled for gavin graham and said that the school district is correct in letting him use the restroom that corresponds to his male gender gap and got what he wanted which is he was only pursuing nominal damages but he got a declaration that title nine which forbids sex discrimination and the equal protection clause of the constitution were violated yes and he also sought access to the proper rest room when he's on school grounds we're about to get to that but throw my sorry track i'm thinking off and yes the school district may appeal and but he's established a principle in the federal court system of title mind applying to gender identity discrimination and equal protection and due process causes to now there are a mixture of decisions on that and that's why there are cases coming up to as many courts have said and some courts have said no and this court case may or may not be added to that a busy school district may or may not appeal again well gavin as i said is now twenty and  the guy who did the planting peace house in wichita kansas across the street from the westboro baptist church in the house painted with rainbow stripes he stepped up and offered to fund gavin graham's college education which of course made gavin and cry was so happy and his mother and so he is happily in good shape and taking care of a nice one this great victory and our justice department wants to stop the e e o c from supporting the idea that this is sex discrimination for transgender or for sexual orientation and they  which has a republican majority of two to one and two vacancies to change their position on this now they don't think that's going to happen but they're still because even one of the republican says no i agree had sex discrimination but  server there and his straight friend who was bussing tables and they were straight from got abuse because he just stuck with the guy yes so their order and the end the restaurant refused to do anything about it while they were ordered there banned from condoning or engaging in a rosman based on sexual orientation i'm not these guys want to go back there and work i don't know either but they did get a settlement but this was the see so if the trump administration has its way i'm sure that the scene will stop doing that kind of stuff and as soon as they can get those other positions filled filled on the e e o c board we're screwed there and meanwhile the department of education office for civil rights girls are tired tired of losing to transfer all c s and so they filed a complaint and the justice department the department of education office for civil rights which does not leap in has destroyed any guidelines to protect freedom but some of your federal judges are from there now many all right but i did want to talk about all these resistance these inspiring stories everywhere share you know i'm a very visual basis looking at those athletes ok and they said yes but he cleared it with his teammates but the u s athletic organizations the sanction these events is out to get both of them and may says this hold so dear to my heart racism gun control and mistreatment of immigrants is what he's citing that's what's on all of our mind as well of course and when talks about i'm i'm doing this is a patriot it's because i do love my country and i wanted to do better and the fact that the right wing or anybody who is criticizing these people can't see that as a patriotic act whether it's collin kirkpatrick or megan rypien know or all of these people who are  trying to speak up and how dare they try to take away their free speech right well and then there was the guy who beat up the thirteen year old because he wouldn't take his hat off with a new yes and fractured the guy whatever i mean it was a severe beating well this guy has a history of violence domestic violence and others and he just lost it when this kid wouldn't take a hat so this is actually an encouraging story we've got a picture here of donald is a jillion air who is a big developer in new york and elsewhere there he is a friend of trump's for forty years raised thirteen million dollars in the hamptons for him this weekend and this drew a lot of attention ross owns all these developments where businesses like high end restaurants like momofuku oh and gyms like equinox and soul cycle are all part of the package to make you feel good about where you're living and where you're doing your business and all that kind of stuff well there is the demonstration in west hollywood to protest it but there are protests these protests are really taking off people really are canceling their memberships because you can't go to people and say because i passed the soul cycle the other day it's all about feeling good about yourself and being the best person that you can be you can't feel good going into a business that is putting money into the pockets of this pig who was raising all this money and you know ross whoever's advise exude rosser equinoxes soul cycle with their presidents is deserves to be fired because they're just trying to say oh oh i just want to participate in the democratic process equinox says oh he's a passive investor i mean it's terrible but it is an investor your dollar is going to stephen ross who gives them to donald trump yes and here is the discouraging thing that fundraiser in the hamptons was originally scheduled to raise ten million dollars for trump when this all broke out and went to thirteen fine the goldberg baker estate wrote about canceling memberships at equinox i wish they could stop them from using the rainbow flag that's our friend charlie beal well we i have a lot to say and you know there's that wonderful chef jose andress who runs one of these restaurants in the hudson yards which is owned by steve ross he pleaded with ross to cancel leases don't support a candidate whose goal is to drive my belo trump and he need to to planned parenthood and groups like that but stephen ross says well i don't agree with everything donald does but i you know support his financial stuff or whatever nonsense and it was nice to see rise and resist out there protesting the horrible ice raids across the country especially in mississippi here they block the westside highway by and i saw office and a homeless shelter here in new york refuse to let i killed likely we don't have the you know the government is covered up because they removed all the journalists now there are too many journalists and too many people with cell phone cameras and it will all be seen by us yes whatever they decide to do we knew they were moving in the tanks in just as we were taping today yeah but what are they going to do a few sanctions against china around the world what are we going to do i just think the people who made hong kong great are going to want to leave the not government we're go chinese government doesn't care about that well they're going to care if they kill the goose that laid the golden egg it's one of the big money makers for china yes but they've got plenty going on i think and i'm heartened by the demonstrations in moscow but again th still refusing to testify in the in the wiki leaks case it was only supposed to be able to last about eighteen months or so whatever but the judge it's a new grand jury they can keep doing this the judge is fining chelsea half a one million dollars a century based on day to day you're not talking one thousand dollars a day this by the way was the judge who was the st judge to uphold the trump muslim note the defense department has been asked so what's up with your discharge is a trance people you're supposed to be kicking him out of the military unless they're grandfathered in and said why don't we not and then the terry says that we're not taking it we haven't kicked anyone  application well we pointed out the answer that they're being delayed and that's how the federal government is getting out of saying that they're actually rejecting people but they're depressed out there i am and i want to keep giving them good stories now my favorite is the gay dads this week who adopted six siblings from foster care look at their own smiles these kids arranges seven to fourteen stephen rob anderson mclean of pittsburgh these kids were in foster care for five years and now they have what they call a forever home the kids are carlos want to loop a selena and max so good on them they're very excited to have a family they are and you know one of the one of the dad said it was a little nervous about the teenager is going to feel about having gay dads and thinks he's fine you know and good yeah all right and i want to know the passing of the writer professor and activists and she has died at the age of seventy six i believe not a lesbian but a really ardent feminist and i want to read something that she wrote that was from her  said feminism offers a life of significance as does work on any social movement it gives individuals a feeling of being in history of being actors and no longer sequestered or left outside and a being capable of changing their situation to believe this and to act on it even with skepticism is to have an extremely exciting and kinetic relationship not only to ourselves but to the world and her best known book is the feminism of uncertain well that attitude about life is exactly what i felt coming to be a part of the community in the movement and part of act up that it was being on the front lines it was being involved it was being involved in  important social change i thought of you when i read that quote that is exactly what i hear it's what i have found in doing this work and that's why i urge others to do the work because it makes you so happy right there and you meet it's all on fathom of oh it's worth it's worth the areas with and is that elaine maxwell going maxwell whose father committed suicide the former daily news off the boat yet you know there are questions i was in the human rights forum with him at the daily news once years ago as an activist and it's ridiculous this woman was his pen you know  yeah anyway travis meant president of the united states talking about a former president of the united states having accomplished this hit there's no reason to believe it wasn't tr accomplish it if that's what was going on absolutely who knows they're all scum every last one of them and the attorney general who's acting all concerned about justice now while he fights justice for the rest of us well as someone called media as his sister but in fact is saying at this morning yes i've heard it repeatedly again even though the news has come out that in fact this was his trans brother jordan who was not entirely out about being trans but you have to believe his brother knew of about it and they're not saying anything about whether the trans status of the brother had anything to do i mean is this the whole thing is  even saying it's possible that he did know that his brother was there though there are signs that are likely republican senators have refused to come back to washington to do anything about this i mean there seems to be something in the air  about background checks at this point well there does but it's not the st time that we've expected something to be done only to be disappointed and find that it appears in the letter here yes there is and i think and who are they more concerned about  disarray yes but there's still that core of their voters who well but when n r a members are surveyed yeah they say we are for background checks and yet they like these people over and over and over again yes so who knows but there are a couple of other things in in nevada in las vegas connor climate was arrested he had plans e had bomb components in his bedroom he could face ten years in twenty six t v was on a local t v report saying he was doing community patrol with a with them automatic rifle  i mean look i mean i know you are tonight i'm impressed that they stopped him and they also stopped the kid in boardman ohio outside youngstown justin also and allison olson eighteen never arrested him he had planned house i maintain that there aren't that many rabbits in the whole area as they say these that weapons and ammunition were all acquired legally he is charged with aggravated menacing and he admitted to making the threats it but he said it was a joke yeah you don't put together an arsenal like that is a joke well back to trump again the we learned that it's not a big surprise but the justice department suppressed the report from last year on white supremacist domestic terrorism from the congress and the public which revealed the twenty five dollars or forty six dollars individuals involved in thirty two domestic terrorism incidents were white supremacists as alexandria ocasio cortez said this is a white supremacist administration which has said over and over and over again and the person of our president that white supremacy is not a problem and to take down some other highlights of the week they're trying to weaken restrictions on coal they're trying to gut the endangered species act of one thousand nine hundred and seventy three under richard nixon variate of the environmental protection agency right and you know it's well in those days republicans still felt they had to appeal to the middle lane morocco's south eugene scalia the son of the late chief justice rather  pushing him for secretary of labor he's an ardent opponent of labor that's what's supposed to be a good new show well we're going to give them hope with all the oh the fighting back the resistance that republicans are whining about being exposed as donors to tromp and not yes this was joaquin castro just to the people in the senate only aware that he's being accused of harassment harassment it's public record it yes they're say that what are they calling violet produce a new nose and they may still get a downtown plaza stay two more good news from new york city congratulations cory johnson the he's got a boyfriend and that's all over the news do you think that was a boyfriend or a date well a date yes but i mean he said he really wants to make it a little are only two called a boyfriend i think he's i think are cory because he does co host the show from time to time and he's running for mayor and showing that he has a full well rounded life i have find with him posting the picture and telling us about is private life i just think it's a little early to call the boy friend or call him not it on the other hand  well i was also then i congratulate steve bonafied cio new york city trance man who has gotten a settlement of money and promised policy changes because he was discriminated against homeless shelters as a trans man he was he got housed he went to a shelter and he was put into housing and he was then rejected from the house and when they figured out it was a trance man and he was moved seven times to different house in situations each time rejected because of his trance state is and he finally sued the city and has been given some money and this city is promised to make all sorts of changes with the homeless shelter system i will not hold my breath what remains enormously perilous to being a trans in america especially if you're if you're african american and we really have two more deaths two more murders to report transwoman pebble lead dime doe twenty four murder in her hometown of allendale south carolina less than one hundred miles from where tr woman denali buckley was killed in late july dime was shot to death that's the th murder this year five black trans women from south carolina been killed since april of two thousand and eighteen now the killer in the th black trans woman to be murdered in the united states shot to death there been to a north carolina just in the past two months we don't have a lot of details about these cases not getting a lot of coverage in the mainstream media endanger these women beyond the transfer and racism is lack of jobs lack of health care or lack of proper housing these are the things that we have to provide for people but even when they have all of that because some of these women are established in their communities they have friends and family who support them and they still end up being victims of racist transfer  who died in rikers island jail in new york city first under our known conditions then they finally said it was because of an epileptic seizure which the jail knew she  was liable to they had her medication list they knew about her epilepsy and yet they put her in solitary and she ended up having an epileptic seizure and like jeffrey epstein was not checked on often enough and was found dead and her family is now so in the city for that death terrible story out of the university of south scuse me u s c so california you let your partner calmly do this kind of stuff he denies all this the complaints were made for years before he resigned in two thousand and eighteen but when he resigned from u s c he went over and worked at cal tech so fi to fight the bill to extend the statute of limitations on these kind of cases not but that by the way has gone into effect in new york this week the lank the extension of the statute of limitations so now the stories are coming out about someone who was abused by a priest fifty years ago who is now suing these guys who want to get their stories out i mean they just wanted to be known and i want some closure and they want some validation and they want some  societal understanding that they were abused and attacked and they want to be able to be validated in that way yes and in d c at trans woman was attacked and trans bashed and robbed by a group of seventy seven men who followed her down the street as she was leaving work she tried to go into a gas station convenience store to get help beg the clerk to let her into his walled off area he ignored her and group of seven then set upon her and beat her up for yes and then there's the mayor of marta got movement an affront to god almighty almost gives me almighty god and then he said but there's no hate or bigotry intended here garden state equality says it's actually great working with the local school district this guy is an outl r more on that when we get to poland in international you know is the governor of illinois meanwhile signed a bill to require teaching l g b t q history in public schools the barnegat mayor was objecting to the new jersey state law it mandates that a now illinois has a similar mandate california was the st place yet it did it a few years ago it's really crucial and the illinois law also requires that all  textbooks that the state buys be inclusive and have the history enough is what i meant about right wing censorship we have been prevented from doing this all these years because of right wing censorship they don't want to mentioned well the whole textbook industry it was a great article in the new yorker god knows how many decades ago when i read this about how texas controlled the writing of textbooks in this country because they were the biggest market and they had standardized textbooks across the state and they became standardized or across the country because they were the biggest market for buying textbooks so whatever texas wanted became the standard in all textbooks that change with the internet i don't know but they were quite conservative yes speaking of education  told you about this run cali high school where two lesbians who were beloved guidance counselors were lost to homophobia the students returned to school with the back to school already yeah holding up signs of support for the community they wanted to make sure the gay students knew that they were supported there even if the administration is so awful and of course the archdiocese one of the students who spoke out last year he graduated but he was told he came out and he was told he wouldn't graduate if he kept it education about this stuff and doing you know hi i'm you know local lesbian ask me anything and i would love to meet some of the kids today who were in those classes and through the how they've played out these issue presidential forum and already committed to show up at this debate or i don't that's a debate or they're just going to talk to him one on one joe biden who in castro joe the new board of ed cheered florida is an anti evolution christian extremist named dandy tog he was originally appointed by governor rick scott now he chairs the the board of education for the entire state and he doesn't want evolution taught in the public schools all right live in and in a section on a good no which is it is still two thousand and nineteen it is still the th anniversary of stone of the team called real salt salt lake because he kept using abusive homophobic language at the referees and they want to all their games when he was under suspension and in we ho west hollywood they're going to host the buy pride celebration on yeah but i know yes they are the protesters want the archbishop to resign the catholic archbishop because he condemned the rainbow play that is  sweeping across poland he called us can you imagine this he called us a neo marxist that once to seize our souls hearts and spirits just like the mayor of barnet get new jersey yeah and so or american court of human rights mandated a year or two ago in tunisia we've mentioned this guy before but he's actually declared now he's the liberal party leader moved near bought tour we're going to picture of him he's an out gay lawyer and he is standing for president the st in the arab world and he was jailed for three months and two thousand and thirteen for sodomy with a seventeen year old a charge he denies and he's campaigning for the decriminalisation of sodomy and the law is in force there every time we do make advances yeah there often is violence well new report out of central latin america and the caribbean one thousand three hundred plus l g b t people busy murdered in the last five years mostly young gay men and trans women and a lot of this they're attributing to the rise of evangelical christianity in the area it's certainly not helping and when those  die here but nobody can quite beat russia so we've told there's this good couple that adopted sons and they had to flee the country for the crime of telling their kids that they are married and it came out when they took one of the guys and they ordered a medical exam for the child to see if you'd been abused and the case became public because the telegram newspaper had some kind of monitoring of  radio yes no police stuff records in russia and they reported on it and that it all got out and these guys said we're outta here they had to get out of there because they were going to take their we were going to know what they were going to do to them and this is a couple that was married in denmark one of them applied to adopt children but then it came to light that they were a couple now the room investigating the adoption agency and yes well the dads are accused of violating the russian this was a clause added to the proposed bill on equalizing rights between men and women and they added that you know same sex marriage clause which was not in the original bill because religious leaders demanded it  china in beijing the st same sex couple in beijing to apply as guardians for each other and which is the their version of marriage at the moment because marriage is not  legal there are they this is a couple that was married overseas they've been together ten years now this device has been enacted error has been used in other cities in china yes but this is the  legalization of same sex relationships got started in new york earlier would adopt each other sometimes the younger one would adopt the older one but then the courts put a stop to what at some point said wait a minute what's going on here as happy as i am that argentina has reverted to a progressive government from a right wing government at the same time we see guatemala has now installed a new right wing president  these guys well there seem to be fewer protesters there wasn't a huge crowd coming after them but they did have extensive police production saudi arabia has declared all atheists are terrorists it's a new way to crackdown on dissidents in hatch they gave them the egg because they noticed that this gay couple of penguins had been trying to hatch fish and rocks they gave it a hard i guess w i mean they had a parental instinct now they're not exemplary proud parents they are taking turns keeping the egg warm they're acting perfectly as parents but there is a little fly in the  from my penguin movies documentaries obviously the female lays the egg but doesn't the male one of the ones who put it underneath and keeps it warm in the arctic yes i believe so i mean i think they both do it  the male in the female so now it's the male in the male fight right you're saying is that their nails are programmed to take care of th and interesting news from france where marcel proust said gage short stories now we've known that marcel proust was gay and some of his work was sort of fairly gay but he though they played it before so hundreds gathered to brute beirut for a protest concert and mushroom lee did not attend but sent a statement and this is people saying don't don't don't start this in lebanon for god's sakes truvada are still going to be told you've got to take truvada which is going to go generic although i don't know how low of people i saw on except the generic truvada they want to wait for it but people are being told they have to take disco b which has now and people of color weren't included in the trial things have gone backward since the days of heavy at the trial that is trying to slash four billion dollars from the global health international organizations and development assistance already approved by congress they tried this in two thousand and eighteen and they were pushed back trumps attack on the coverage of l g b t people got one hundred and thirty thousand comments opposing it submitted to health and human services we'll see what difference it chivied drug which is very speculative at this point not something you should count on but they're looking at it as something that would then relieve people of taking daily pills or whatever because it would be an implantable long lasting drug and i referred to it as being like the contraceptive drug that ok well you know i have the same reaction to it in some ways that i had to now that i watched in it on netflix and for about the st forty five minutes i sat there saying why am i watching this what's the big deal i was never one so enthusiastic about this because i found douglas and i would say it's a similar experience but not quite as powerful but again i sat through the st hour of it thinking oh man this is really as you said soft more slump the guys were oh the and he adds again i go to the show which is not in the movie i thought it was an extremely enjoyable st act i had a wonderful time bird clever use of little snippets of pop songs in a very clever way and then it fifty one french film called of libya that's going to be playing at the quad theater here in new york this weekend this is really old nine hundred and fifty one and it's a lesbian  french girl's school and the headmistress and her fair with her her sort of companion but her her coming on to students and it's all it's very emotional it's very lesbian twin boys there they are well st played the grand ole opry when she was eighteen and now she's coming back when she's forty eight but the fans petitioned the op opery to read state that's fantastic her big hit and seven was shut up and drive that was a really big hit single she came out in two thousand and ten and was like blackballed across the board but she did a documentary called wish me and i also want to alert you to the east village queer film festival coming up in new york next week the one thousand through the th you can get information about the screenings at wild project dot org that's  with her journalistic background by the time i'm offering yes your coughing i was pretty much better today it takes guts to busy sit here for the st time and talk to all of you and she was great and chris is always great and i will be here next