Trump Caves On Pride Flag at Stonewall | Gay USA 4/152026
Trump Caves On Pride Flag at Stonewall | Gay USA 4/152026
This Week on Gay USA:
- Feds settle lawsuit and let Pride flag fly at the Stonewall Monument.
- Christian Nationalism is out of control in the Trump Administration.
- Boise gets creative to get around Idaho's ban on Pride flags.
- Gender-affirming care for young people reinstated in Minnesota.
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Welcome to Gay USA. I'm Andy Hum.0:33
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I'm Anne Northrup. Ready to hit the ground running for the second uh week of our 28 minute show.0:40
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as established last week, according to the federal government, we are
domestic terrorists. I've never worn any label so proudly.0:49
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So,
uh we're not going to do a long list of headlines. We're going to hit
the pride flag stuff and our Christian government and lot and the great
news from Hungary.0:58
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Yes.0:59
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And some good and bad news from the States. Y and even good news from Broadway.1:03
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Uh and I have a little quiz for Andy at the end of the show. So if you can wait 28 minutes, we'll be there. Okay.1:10
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But we'll start with the pride flag stuff at the Stonewall National Monument. A big shock. No one was expecting this1:18
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that the federal government, the Trump administration settled with uh the groups that were suing for the right to1:27
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run the rainbow flag up a pole at the Stonewall National Monument.1:30
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Two months ago, without warning, the federal government took down the rainbow flag at the Stonewall National Monument.1:37
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We all went out and demonstrated. We yelled at them and and put it back up. and put it back up. And it wasn't removed.1:44
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Correct. Uh but several groups including the Gilbert Baker Foundation found you know creator of the flag and a couple of1:52
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others sued to get it reinstated and we thought oh this will never fly.1:58
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Well I never said that. I mean we're we're winning a lot of these suits against we also knew we were technically right.2:05
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Yeah.
But no no I'm just saying look what happened in Philadelphia. They sued
to get the slavery exhibit at the presidential site up and they won.2:14
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people are winning these cases.2:15
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Well, the federal government had taken it down on the grounds that they have a law that says only the American flag, uh2:23
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the park service flag, and maybe the MIA flag can fly. PWA,2:29
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but
there's also a clause there that says uh there may be an exception for
flags [clears throat] that are relevant historically to the site,2:38
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like the Confederate flag in some cases, which is up at Gettysburg. Sure. Uh so we saw that clause and said,2:46
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"Well, surely the rainbow flag is uh relevant historically at Stonewall." And so these groups,2:52
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oh, wait a minute. It wasn't at stone the Stonewall, but as a symbol, it's become a symbol for our community.2:58
2 minutes, 58 seconds
So these groups sued and again, we woke up in shock the other day to find that the federal government had reached a3:05
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settlement with the organizations that had sued.3:09
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I
expected we'd win this. I mean, I don't know. I mean, I Well, let's put
it this way. I didn't expect us to win it so fast. Yes, they settled
very fast.3:17
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They caved. It was a taco.3:20
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So,
under the terms of this, the the government's agreed. We're going to
permanently fly the flag, but you got to put the American flag up. They
all got to be the same size. American flag up3:29
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top, then the rainbow flag, then the park service flag.3:32
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Well, the rainbow flag and the, you know, it's a it's the thing. And so the rainbow flag and the uh park service3:39
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flag will be equal on on the two arms of the uh and not to confuse you, but we've already got a city flag pole just3:47
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outside the perimeter which already is doing which is already doing this.3:51
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Yes. So we're happy about that. Now I but I asked the question of lambda legal among the others that brought this and4:00
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said where's the case to restore the park services censoring of transgender people from the history of the stonewall4:07
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which
is a complete outrage which occurred earlier than the flag being taken
down and I got no answer. They are going to put up some kind of sign
about4:16
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the flag, but not about uh you're right about because transgender people do not exist according to the Trump administration.4:24
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Well, they're doing everything they can to wipe them out. More about that momentarily. Uh and just as a footnote,4:32
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the Phil's coffee chain, which is evidently around the country, West Coast,4:38
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it's big. It started, it's very big in San Francisco. So, they had uh uh rainbow flags up in those coffee houses.4:46
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The owner took them down uh on the They were bought by a hedge fund manager. Yes. Who says we need homogeneity here,4:54
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not homosexuality?4:56
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Is that what I just made that up? No, he said uh we need to be bland and appealing to every So, are people boycotting now?5:04
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I don't think so yet. No, they should. Okay. All right.5:08
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Uh All right. So that's uh that's the flag. Now should we go to our religious leaders?5:14
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Well uh yeah I mean first well first we have to go to our Lord and Savior Donald Christ. I mean everybody has seen this.5:20
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Um but you know it has made some MAGA supporters break from him.5:27
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A lot of them. At first I thought this was a painting and I thought how' they do that so fast.5:33
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Ricky Gaines Riley Gaines has she was a huge fan of Trump. She's the turf swimmer5:40
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swimmer who's always fighting trans women and trans boys.5:43
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Leah Thomas and and she said um that this is uh uh you know totally inappropriate and he5:51
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was asked about it and he said I don't listen to Riley Gaines. I'm not a big fan of Riley actually. I mean5:59
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funny
you were uh quoting her and bringing her to the White House and leaning
on her for all maybe this will make him come out for trans rights. I
don't think so, but I think he will lose a lot of credibility.6:11
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Anything
is pos. He's bipolar. Anything is possible. I don't mean to denigrate
bipolar, but I mean, he obviously swings around on what his positions
are. I mean,6:20
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but he really has uh been under attack for this image. So much so that he did finally take it down. And he doesn't do6:29
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that
very often. But all of this has morphed into this whole thing about the
pope and the attacks from the pope because the pope had the tmerity to
say,6:38
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you know, Jesus believes in peace, not war. And that that set him off.6:43
6 minutes, 43 seconds
And
he also said, I'm, you know, I'm not going to change anything because
of Donald Trump. I mean, basically, right? I mean, he's he's by name.6:50
6 minutes, 50 seconds
He says, I'm not scared of the Trump administration. But Trump said that the pope is uh in favor of crime, which is a7:00
7 minutes
reference to immigrants because his whole immigrant thing is about immigrants are the big uh troublemakers here.7:07
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And this is a religion that teaches that homosexuality is a mortal sin.7:11
7 minutes, 11 seconds
He could have gone to that, but he didn't. No. Uh but this is immigrant equals crime to Trump. So if you're7:18
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pro-immigrant, you are in favor of crime. So he's also and the pope also wants to have Iran to have an atom bomb.7:26
7 minutes, 26 seconds
Uh because uh or a nuclear weapon.7:31
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Yeah. Um yeah, the the pope is bad on foreign policy. That's what he said. But7:38
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what all this gets us to is the uh the fact the extent to which the Trump7:45
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administration is deeply embedded with the Chris the uh uh Christian nationalist.7:53
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Paula White, his spiritual advisor has called him Jesus.7:57
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And even his uh Catholic convert JD Vance is uh siding with the Christian nationalist. Mind your own business, Holy Father.8:05
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Uh Russell V. Oh my [laughter] god. Vote who's uh the budget director,8:12
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Heritage Foundation, Christian nationalist,8:14
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head of implementing project 2025 and they've been very successful [clears throat] at it.8:20
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But they are just uh the and Hegsth Hegsth is all about Christian nationalism and his spiritual adviser8:28
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who he brings into the uh uh Department of Defense to lecture the troops and the generals and everyone. This is Doug8:36
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Wilson there, the guy with the beard there. Um, but Doug Wilson, I mean, you know, this kind of stuff did not used to8:43
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be tolerated. I mean, he says in our in our country there should be steeples and no minoretses. Uh, only the sound of8:50
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church bells, no statues of Hindu deities. Adultery would carry legal penalties. And he wants to get rid of,8:56
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of
course, the Oberfell decision. Um, he wants women not to be able to
vote. He wants the anti-sodomy laws reinstated. I mean, etc., etc.,9:06
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etc. And where's the uproar? Exactly. Where's the uproar? This guy,9:12
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it has the full uh support of Hegsth. Uh they're not even holding him at arms length. They are bringing him into the9:20
9 minutes, 20 seconds
defense department. And this is what our troops are being taught.9:25
9 minutes, 25 seconds
Subject. That's what they're being subjected to. Christian nationalism which uh they don't want women to vote9:32
9 minutes, 32 seconds
because they want one vote per family and that will be only the male head of household.9:38
9 minutes, 38 seconds
Well, it couldn't be a woman head of households, single moms. No, they they are not allowed to vote.9:43
9 minutes, 43 seconds
Only men who are heads of households can vote. There aren't that many of them. Exactly. [laughter]9:51
9 minutes, 51 seconds
And they comprise a large part of Trump's support. So it's men men who are9:58
9 minutes, 58 seconds
supporting Trump um mostly uh great imbalance.10:02
10 minutes, 2 seconds
He won white women great still a gender imbalance. So the point is that uh that we are watching10:12
10 minutes, 12 seconds
this takeover of the government by these these Christian nationalists. And it's really important to know this and pay10:19
10 minutes, 19 seconds
attention to this because these guys are relentless. They're not backing down.10:24
10 minutes, 24 seconds
and they're totally convinced of their uh rightness on all of this.10:28
10 minutes, 28 seconds
Listen, uh Trump was asked by the uh Door Dash grandma who delivered him as McDonald's.10:36
10 minutes, 36 seconds
Do
you think men should play in women's sports? And she goes, "I really
don't have an opinion on that. I'm here about no tax on tips." You
don't? I'll bet you10:44
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do.
I mean, he was like totally He didn't know what to do. He didn't know
what to do with his hands when she did it. He got Did you read the thing
about him and Queen Elizabeth? Yes.10:53
10 minutes, 53 seconds
He kept badgering her about uh what she thought of various US presidents. Who's your favorite? Who's your favorite? And11:01
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she wouldn't answer, of course, because that would be stupid. So, and this is behind closed doors. Yes.11:06
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But then he goes out and says Queen Elizabeth likes me the best. [laughter]11:11
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Well, um apparently Queen Elizabeth also did a little imitation of Melania after one of Oh, wait a second before we leave the11:18
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religious uh right. The Pentagon uh uh in January held a meeting where they uh11:26
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brought in people from the Vatican to yell at them for the Pope criticizing Trump. Oh yes.11:32
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Uh and the Pope uh to his credit has cancelled any visit to the US while Trump is11:40
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president. He's not coming here. He was invited for the 250th anniversary. He said, "No way. I will not be there."11:47
11 minutes, 47 seconds
They got to get King Charles to not come as well. But their royal family is not they do what they're told.11:55
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So
yes, uh and this was also the week that uh Melania Trump gave her
Epstein speech, which was a surprise apparently even to Trump.12:04
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Everything's a surprise these days. And uh you know uh she's I think she's you12:12
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know
I think she did it or or was told to do it to distract from the war and
it became it became the actual top story on the news.12:21
12 minutes, 21 seconds
Well, sure for about five minutes. She uh No, she's running scared because her friend Amanda who is from Brazil.12:30
12 minutes, 30 seconds
Yeah. They the Trumps have these friends Paulo and Amanda. Paulo is uh an older12:37
12 minutes, 37 seconds
guy uh who supposedly introduced uh Donald and Melania. Then he gets into a12:43
12 minutes, 43 seconds
fight now with his companion Amanda. And so he goes to his friend Trump and says, "I want you to have ICE deport Amanda."12:52
12 minutes, 52 seconds
And they do. They pick her up and they deport her.12:55
12 minutes, 55 seconds
And she's been in the country for a long, long time.12:57
12 minutes, 57 seconds
Absolutely. This is clearly just uh a power move. So now she unleashed and angry is saying using the b- word.13:06
13 minutes, 6 seconds
Yes.
And I am going to reveal everything about uh Trump and Melania. And so
Melania went out there to try to for all that. I don't know Epstein.13:18
13 minutes, 18 seconds
And
then of then of course if you're done [clears throat] with that I mean
the other big thing Trump said this week is that he's promised immunity
to13:26
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everybody
who works for the administration. Anybody who comes within 200 f feet
of the oval office is going to get a pardon. Um so it's this is13:35
13 minutes, 35 seconds
unleashing lawlessness not just by him but by everyone in the administration.13:40
13 minutes, 40 seconds
Yes. Uh by the way JD Vance is saying to the pope stick to matters of morality. Yeah. [laughter]13:46
13 minutes, 46 seconds
Isn't that what being anti-war is? Isn't that a moral position?13:50
13 minutes, 50 seconds
Yeah. He says I'm very careful when I talk about public policy. No you don't.13:55
13 minutes, 55 seconds
You craven it. You compared your boss to Hitler for God's sakes. Well, here's something. A couple things.14:01
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Um, first of all, they're threatening to uh resurrect the draft in December for Baron.14:09
14 minutes, 9 seconds
Well, that's the big question. What about Baron? Men 18 to 25. Uh, no more uh self-registration.14:18
14 minutes, 18 seconds
Uh, you have to uh we will uh they're saying Baron may get out of it because he's too tall. [laughter]14:25
14 minutes, 25 seconds
six foot nine. Uh and the people who did the women's march when uh 10 years ago are announcing a big major mobilization14:34
14 minutes, 34 seconds
just before the 250th birthday celebration. So they're going to bring people all over the country into the streets to uh combat.14:42
14 minutes, 42 seconds
Is Baron too tall to be like a cook or or somebody who cleans the toilets?14:48
14 minutes, 48 seconds
And Buddhaj and Kamalar are saying they may run for president in 2020.14:52
14 minutes, 52 seconds
Oh wow. All right. uh with 50 other people. So, Congress is returning has returned and they're going to they're15:00
15 minutes
going to move on a bill uh stop the sexualization of children act. Um but uh you know they want to go after any15:09
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sexually oriented material to to include anything that involves gender dysphoria or trans.15:16
15 minutes, 16 seconds
Their definition of sexually oriented is mentioning a trans person.15:21
15 minutes, 21 seconds
Yeah. trans people by definition with them are and then they want to bar federal funds if you don't comply.15:27
15 minutes, 27 seconds
Yes.
As they want to uh bar Medicaid and Medicare funding to hospitals that
don't comply with their anti look I think we ought to since the15:36
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states
tend to follow it the red states tend to follow each other we ought to
be concerned that Tennessee is a moving on the Charlie Kirk Act which
bans student15:44
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walkouts and protects anti-LGBTQ activists. It says like if you don't want to have one of these people in your15:52
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club, you can exclude them even though it's you know such discrimination uh may be illegal.15:57
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Tennessee has also uh enacted the wait I just had it the nuclear family month in16:05
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June where they will honor uh heterosexual uh uh couples only because that is God's design. This is the state of Tennessee.16:17
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a
hate state. But we told you about the librarian there, Lannne James,
who was dismissed from the library because she wouldn't move the gay
books out of the16:25
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children's section. And they started a fundraiser for her. That fundraiser is now up to $138,000.16:33
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And
I just, you know, what what did she say? Restricting access to these
materials uh is a violation of the community's right to information. And16:41
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it's, you know, a a clear act of viewpoint discrimination. Okay, good news. Boisee, Idaho. Uh,16:49
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again, the state outlawed uh pride flags uh in in the city of Boisee, which had been flying them. So, the city of Boise16:58
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said, "All right, we're going to wrap rainbow colors around uh uh flag poles, and that's what they've done."17:04
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Everybody's
being very creative. In Florida, where Dantis tore up a rainbow
crosswalk, they took the bricks and they put them in a park.17:14
17 minutes, 14 seconds
Yeah. And people are painting the sidewalks rainbow.17:18
17 minutes, 18 seconds
In Wisconsin, we told you that uh the Dem the more liberal candidate won the race for uh uh court, the statewide17:28
17 minutes, 28 seconds
Supreme Court, but the attack ads were all based on anti-transgender stuff and it didn't work. Chris Taylor won by 2017:37
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points at carrying 20 counties that Trump won in 2024. All this has to be very encouraging17:44
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and it's encouraging that Children's Hospital in Minneapolis is reinstating gender affirming care uh based on the17:52
17 minutes, 52 seconds
court decision that said the HHS ban was illegal.17:57
17 minutes, 57 seconds
And in California, they're fighting back too. You know, we told you that the Supreme Court kind of fudged on uh18:04
18 minutes, 4 seconds
conversion
therapy, says it's okay to talk about it. Um, so they're extending the
stat working on extending the statute of limitations for survivors of
conversion therapy so that they can sue.18:16
18 minutes, 16 seconds
And uh, Briana Turner of the WNBA has uh, Las Vegas ACEs has uh, spoken out in18:25
18 minutes, 25 seconds
support of trans women versus what the IOC is about to do in in testing18:31
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genetically all women. uh do not use the names of women athletes to target, shame, or exclude transgender women, she wrote.18:40
18 minutes, 40 seconds
And a Colorado dad uh fears that uh this anti-trans in sports referendum on the18:47
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Colorado ballot is going to hurt his uh cisgender daughters because everybody's going to be genetically tested,18:55
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right?18:56
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So, uh it's people are waking up to this. In Montana, the state supreme court in Montana upheld a district court19:03
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order preventing the state from enforcing policies that bar trans people from obtaining accurate se sex19:10
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designations on their birth certificates and driver's licenses, which is what they did in Kansas.19:16
19 minutes, 16 seconds
In Texas, the Texas Tech chancellor has cancelled all academic programs that are centered on LGBTQ.19:25
19 minutes, 25 seconds
Again, eraser. And and in Nebraska,19:28
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they're
they're they're able to stop some of these anti-transgender bills
because there is one Republican who is holding out and that means that
they19:37
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can't clear a filibuster. One Republican,19:40
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well, she uh well, the Republican woman who proposed the anti-trans bills attached one of them to a cannabis bill,19:49
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and
the author of the cannabis bill cannabis bill was so offended that he
withdrew his bill rather than have it right go on like that. The Texas
Education19:57
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Board gave uh preliminary approval nine to one to put Bible verses on the reading list uh Bible verses and uh but20:06
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they
also include in this list and it's only old and new testament it's not
any other religion you know uh but they they also have Ray20:14
20 minutes, 14 seconds
Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451 which is about uh guys who go around burning books and uh officially by the government I mean20:23
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is
that what they want to happen or do they not understand that it's a uh u
All right. Uh we lost a great activist in Philadelphia this week, Joe
Demarco,20:35
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78, writer, community organizer, member of Gay Activist Alliance, uh helped found the William Way Community Center,20:46
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uh and also founded was founded the weekly Philadelphia Gayette, which ran from20:52
20 minutes, 52 seconds
1974 through 76. So, a pioneer and we will link we will link uh to his21:00
21 minutes
uh full uh obit in our email. So, sign up for our email gayusatv.org. Go to it and you'll get these links.21:09
21 minutes, 9 seconds
Uh uh international news.21:12
21 minutes, 12 seconds
Well,
the big news is Hungary that Peter Majar uh who was a conservative and
used to be in Orban's party beat him overwhelmingly.21:22
21 minutes, 22 seconds
So his new party has a uh veto proof majority essentially or a super majority so they can change all these21:30
21 minutes, 30 seconds
constitutional amendments that that uh that uh Orban implemented. Well, Majar21:36
21 minutes, 36 seconds
has already uh spoken up in favor of gay and trans people. Uh says no hatred and21:44
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has
canled state funding of the CPAC convention which the Christian
nationalists here were holding in Hungary for the last few years.21:53
21 minutes, 53 seconds
Orban
was the great hero to the Christian nationalists and to the and to Ste
Steve Bannon and all those characters. And this also ends Russia's22:02
22 minutes, 2 seconds
veto power over EU decisions because Orban was was the problem there.22:08
22 minutes, 8 seconds
All right. Uh hustling along, uh Mark Carney's party in Canada has taken uh the majority of the seats, so he has22:17
22 minutes, 17 seconds
more power. And we have a new outgay foreign minister in Mexico, the equivalent of Secretary of State,22:25
22 minutes, 25 seconds
Roberto Velasco Alvarez. And just like Trump turned on Riley Gaines, he's turned on Georgia Maloney uh because she22:34
22 minutes, 34 seconds
doesn't like what he's doing to the Pope. And he said now he just says,22:39
22 minutes, 39 seconds
"Well, I thought she was brave, but I was wrong. I was shocked by her."22:43
22 minutes, 43 seconds
He's They're all abandoning you. Yeah. He's not going to have any left.22:47
22 minutes, 47 seconds
Melania, all the M's and the and others. Uh AIDS news.22:55
22 minutes, 55 seconds
Uh, and congratulations to Mark Carney.22:58
22 minutes, 58 seconds
His party, the Liberal Party, now has a a an actual majority uh because people are defecting to his party because he's so good.23:06
23 minutes, 6 seconds
In Massachusetts, uh, new HIV diagnosis are up 34%23:12
23 minutes, 12 seconds
between 2022 and 2024. This caused uh AIDS organizations and advocates to go23:19
23 minutes, 19 seconds
to
the Massachusetts legislature and lobby every single ma member of the
legislature to uh increase funding for HIV prevention and treatment.23:31
23 minutes, 31 seconds
I was a littleware a wary of doxy pep when it came along as a way to you take it before right after having sex that23:37
23 minutes, 37 seconds
was
suspect to maybe prevent an STI, but it's working. It's working
overwhelmingly according to these studies and cutting syphilis cases,
but23:46
23 minutes, 46 seconds
the Trump administration is trying to thwart it.23:50
23 minutes, 50 seconds
Well, they they've cut all they want you dead uh funding. Yeah. Right. Entertainment news.23:57
23 minutes, 57 seconds
I was encouraged to see that in the Malcolm in the Middle reboot,24:02
24 minutes, 2 seconds
they've introduced a non-binary character played by Vaughn Morray. Um,24:08
24 minutes, 8 seconds
and it's it's because the producers um have uh children who are queer basically24:15
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and they want this reflected in the modern family so to speak.24:20
24 minutes, 20 seconds
Okay. Uh, first episode of the last year of hacks. I assume you did not watch it.24:25
24 minutes, 25 seconds
There was a famous gay author on making a guest cameo appearance. Who might that be? Gay. This is my quiz for you.24:33
24 minutes, 33 seconds
No, I have no idea. Tony Kushner24:38
24 minutes, 38 seconds
[laughter]24:39
24 minutes, 39 seconds
first
episode of hacks at the Olivier Awards which are the Tony's in London.
Oh Mary by Kola Skolola won for best new entertainment24:48
24 minutes, 48 seconds
or comedy play. In accepting Cole said I want to thank my amazing husband who doesn't exist but that's okay.24:56
24 minutes, 56 seconds
[laughter]24:57
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It was the null coward award.24:58
24 minutes, 58 seconds
And
then I saw this movie the Christophers which is playing in theaters
only now. um Michaela Cole and Ian Mckllen. It's a It's really25:06
25 minutes, 6 seconds
terrific.
He's a cranky bisexual fading artist. She becomes his assistant and
therein lies a tale. It's directed by Steven Soderberg. I highly
[snorts]25:17
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recommend it and I don't often and they had closed captions at the theater for me. Wow.25:22
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Excuse me. Open captions so that it's on the screen. I could read it. They only do it for some performance at the IFC.25:30
25 minutes, 30 seconds
Okay. and uh Titanique.25:34
25 minutes, 34 seconds
Well, I'm I'm just going to say because you know we we have a shorter show. Uh uh but Bill sought uh Titanique.25:41
25 minutes, 41 seconds
We have 2 minutes and 20 seconds.25:43
25 minutes, 43 seconds
Well, it's a scrappy musical spoof on the movie Titanic led by Selene Dion as survivor of the 1912 disaster.25:51
25 minutes, 51 seconds
She's not in the play. Selene is the main character,25:55
25 minutes, 55 seconds
but Oh, no. It's not Selene Dion. [laughter] It's played by somebody. And by the way,25:59
25 minutes, 59 seconds
it's not the one I saw with Bill. I'm getting a little fat to here. I I did see T10ique. Um anyway, it was it that26:07
26 minutes, 7 seconds
was a lot of fun. Uh Becky Shaw at the Hayes uh is about the best play I've seen all year. Really?26:13
26 minutes, 13 seconds
Oh
my god. Um and I really want to recommend Linda Iman who plays the
mother in this family. Mother in this family. But I mean these people
are are26:22
26 minutes, 22 seconds
you
know some of them are kind of repellent. Uh but it's all about
relationships. It'll make you think of all your bad relationships,26:29
26 minutes, 29 seconds
etc. And Cat's the Jellical Ball is on Broadway. That's the one that Bill saw. And he says it's a loving, respectful,26:37
26 minutes, 37 seconds
often moving homage to the 70s and 80s Harlem, New York City ballroom scene.26:42
26 minutes, 42 seconds
Um, large cast. They're they're not playing cats anymore. They're doing a ballroom version of this.26:48
26 minutes, 48 seconds
Oh, yeah. This is a total reworking of it and uh very popular. Uh so lots of audience participation.26:55
26 minutes, 55 seconds
Yeah. All right. Uh time [clears throat]26:58
26 minutes, 58 seconds
once again we have come up a minute short.27:00
27 minutes
Well no we can we can tell you that the in New York City the city council has named trans activist Yaneri Cruz the27:09
27 minutes, 9 seconds
first executive director of the LGBTQIA caucus. She's an Afro Latina transw woman who previously worked with NITAG.27:17
27 minutes, 17 seconds
So that's you know progress. All right. So, we are still, of course,27:21
27 minutes, 21 seconds
working
on uh how to get the rhythm right of doing a shorter show and and get
all the information in, but you can go to our website, gay usatv.org,27:33
27 minutes, 33 seconds
and sign up to get our once a week uh show note, and we'll have even more extras than we usually do. And I think27:41
27 minutes, 41 seconds
we
had a link to LGBTQ Nation, which has a lot of news uh there. Oh my
god. We have all those listed on our website, by the way. All these,27:51
27 minutes, 51 seconds
but I think they ought to be in the show notes. Oh, okay. [laughter]27:54
27 minutes, 54 seconds
Whatever. Whatever you What we're negotiating and we'll continue. Thanks for being with us next week. Goodbye.Follow along using the transcript.
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