 and Charles. I'm Keith Dosland and this is All Things LGBTQ. We are taping on Tuesday July 28th. We tape in Montpelier which we recognize is being unceded Indigenous land. And before we move on to our headlines we will be doing interview shows. Our next show which will be a week from this broadcast we will have Becca Ballant, Ember Quinn, and Brenda Churchill all talking about what it's like to be LGBTQ plus politicians and candidates. So with that I guess I do the headlines and my headlines for today are, Charlie supporters start a kill transgender chant in Shailer Township in Pennsylvania, lovely group. Alaska Town passes LGBTQ protections. Arizona County ends anti-LGBTQ and lesbian adoption to save money. AIG refuses to pay insurance for a gay deputy that died of coronavirus. Washington State may elect a bisexual to Congress in November. Beth Doglio would become the state's first LGBTQ person elected to Congress. North Dakota's GOP platform says that LGBTQ people recruit children and they prey on women. Madonna was fined a million by Russia for supporting LGBTQ publicly in 2012 at a concert. She has steadfastly refused to pay. The far-right group Million Moms is now targeting Hallmark. The Christian group is an offshoot of the anti-LGBTQ hate group American Association. Bisexual Senator Kristen Semenis-Wiggs has conservative flipping theirs. The Democrat from Arizona is a fashionable politician and is breaking another tradition by wearing colorful wigs to work. And I have a picture of her in a bright, I think it was blue wig. So uh uh the far-right group uh oh let me see uh Baltimore. I see you Dr. Joseph Koster dies of coronavirus in his husband's arms. 20 other colleagues at the hospital were at his side holding vigil. He was 56 years old and leaves behind his husband David Hart. An LGBTQ professor found dead in his North Carolina home. Southern Fire Queens in a new reality show. And Trees Latino Marisa Marilyn Kazaris was murdered. So we'll have more of stories in detail. So we'll go to Ann with her international stories. Well when I was going over my headlines it became clear that my only my first two stories are negative and the rest is positive although some of the uh good news is qualified. So let's start with the bad news. Thousands of Christians protest in Haiti against the new penal code. And the penal code liberalizes LGBT concerns. It is going to take effect in 24 months. The president supports it. It criminalizes discrimination based on sexual orientation and penalizes forced sexual relations between a human and an animal. And Christians are up in arms about this. They're distorting it and saying you know terrible things about it. Then in a gesture of cowardice Netflix has pulled a show as turkey objects to a gay character. And the show was called If Only. It was pulled when the government objected to the gay character. And what's especially reprehensible is the streaming company has seen demand for its services grow during the coronavirus pandemic. It added 10 million subscribers in the second quarter of this year taking it to 193 million subscribers. And they can't afford to stand up to turkey. So uh that's right um it's not the first time letter writing although yeah I know I know it uh has pulled something before in April. It's been um in April there was unfounded speculation that another show Love 101 would feature an openly gay character and that you know it didn't even materialize but the government was up in arms and um so those are my two bad headlines. Now I'd like to move on and talk a little bit maybe I'll just do the headlines about the Tehene war in Israel featuring the queen of Tehene. I'll tell you her name is Julia Zacher and I'll show you a picture now of her and get ready for this story. Polish courts I recall that that awful election occurred um it's being protested um but there's a very little chance that anything will happen with the opposition challenge. Still Polish courts annul LGBT ideology free zones finding they violate the constitution so that's good news. Thai LGBT activists raised pride flag in an anti-government rally and the situation in Thailand is really very grave a coup occurred um and in uh and a civil partnership law is in the works and LGBT people are up in arms about it because it's not marriage so anyway the um LGBT activists in Thailand are at work. The U.S. and this is also kind of unaccountable and strange the U.S. sanctions Chechnya leader Karadov for human rights abuses this is Pompeo all of a sudden Pompeo has recognized uh what's going on in Chechnya but of course he never mentions LGBT you know the purge of the LGBT people he does acknowledge human rights abuses so Karadov can't and his family can't come to the U.S. Sudan repeals the death penalty and flog them for same-sex relations and this is also um that's progress okay it is well it's qualified victory and it's also I don't know why they did it it's kind of unaccountable because homosexuality remains um illegal and um but I guess taking the best death penalty off the table is a good move of course it is an Iranian refugee wins transgender rights case against Hungary Hungary is another terrible place this Iranian transgender person moved to Hungary and was accepted as an asylum seeker because of his gender identification so Hungary acknowledged that he's discriminated against in transgender but then when he tried to change this diplomatic forms they refused and it went up the court up the court finally a European court has um granted this person a right to um change their gender identification and they also awarded damages so I have a small question speaking of Poland um I thought if you were in the European Union you had to um be part of whatever their rules and regulations are like gay marriage abortion you know all those kind of things I thought you had to adhere to that or not be part of the EU you think you think Poland is part of the European Union it is and this if I may spacious this is the European Union I think that's probably why one reason that they changed they modified their stance on LGBT free joke free zones because um the European Union is putting pressure on them um they don't they agree to this right they agree when they join the EU that they have to adhere to certain and there's a parliament right creates their guiding principles and the European parliament um has on women's rights and gender equality urge the European commission to freeze funds from the regions that might be used in where these LGBTs exist really something yeah I mean they're um put pressure on them they are they are and it's I think it may be effective so thank you for asking that question and um let me continue with my headlines if I may and these are more cheerful headlines from victim to protector Pakistan's first trans cop fights for justice and let's see a picture of her her name is Reem Sharif and she was bullied and had her terrible time here at the Weave school college and finished her courses online because of transphobia in Pakistan but now she's a cop and so she's um acting as a protector for trans people another exciting story and I have a clip to go along with this that I'll show in my first segment involves Denise Ho who has there's just been a documentary publish released about her and she's a Hong Kong lesbian activist singer popular singer of a in a genre called Kanto Pop which is um written in traditional Chinese with Cantonese lyrics and so I want to talk more about her in my segment and finally right now actually let's take a look at a picture of Denise Ho but you'll see more in the clip and finally um I'd like to mention an lesbian olympic row olympic rower from New Zealand who has come out her picture is before you now her name is Emma twig she's on the left and she's here with her spouse Charlotte Mitzi who's on the right and Charlotte also is an athlete and um Emma was motivated to come out by her marriage to Charlotte Mitzi so there they are and those are my headlines all right I was going to say there's a US case I didn't hear you mention uh political asylum where the US government first granted asylum and is now saying no oh I didn't see that HRC put it out today asking for people to respond I didn't write all the details down but are the US government is saying because he was previously married to a woman he's not gay oh and therefore he is not under but so well that would knock me out there but we forgiven him this week's trivia this week's trivia question over the years LGBTQ plus for Monters have enjoyed some high visibility and access to the mainstream political process starting with the recognition of liaisons to the office of the governor by then governor Madeline Keenan in 1986 Beth Dingham was the first lesbian recognized who was the first gay man so have you been socially isolating for way too long do you need some company give cottage core lesbians a look on tic-tac tumbler or pinterest this is the tag to it all it wants everyone seems to want to quit their jobs and run off to upstate Vermont to pick apples raise chickens and live their best woman loving woman life you may find some company in that rural yurt raising chickens so I want to acknowledge that Sunday July 26 was the 30th anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act groundbreaking legislation that extended protection to people living with disabilities and public accommodation employment transportation and government services we're going to talk a little bit about Canada good and some bad then we're going to talk about the census you keep hearing me going on about it but there's a little twist to it right now remember august 11th is the primary elections do matter we are going to be watching Debbie Ingram who is running for lieutenant governor on the democratic ticket and taylor small for a house seat in Winooski Chittington six seven not that we're giving any support mind you you also may admire my shirt it's a lovely thing rainbow umbrella is continuing to me with the new people police if you have an interest or you have something that you feel should be brought to his attention please be in touch with rainbow umbrella be checking those local organization websites for what they're doing online and if they're starting to transition into some in-person events because there's restrictions less and there could be more happening momentum is the next one is Sunday august 9th at 11 we posted on the rainbow umbrella site we're going to talk about the legislature and one piece of legislation in particular that really got my attention and then a little bit about a rise in bias and hate crimes here in Vermont but the last positive lgb2 lgbtq plus political representation in america within the past year has increased by over 21 percent so even as the federal administration has been trying to push back we have truly been rising up so did you see that clip oh you're not you don't do facebook but there's no clip on they're evil a big fight that happened in maupilia yeah between the police and yeah okay yeah i i saw um front porch and front porch forum had and digger both had articles that there was a rally planned by a group supporting law enforcement yeah thin blue line and that the black lives matters came as a counter demonstration and it got fairly nasty yeah so yeah so that was it's here well and as we talk yeah yeah um so uh on a good note lgbtq political represent representation jumped 21 percent in the past year 800 didn't i just say that did you yeah oh i'm sorry because i didn't hear you say it in the headlines it's an important fact yeah over 843 open league oh i'm sorry i missed a space that out it's okay and i was listening to i could have reported on that also i saw the headline so moving on okay so moving on um trump supporters started kill transgender chant in shaler county pennsylvania the rally was in favor in support of the police at a black lives matter rally they began this chant at the edge of the black lives matters group the unidentified man was caught on video shutting the phrase repeatedly in front of the middle school where about 100 people attended the black life red black lives matter rally while while some of the cohorts that he was with joined in the chant it seemed that most people on both sides of the debate looked on in shock so um that's that one alaskan town passes lgbtq protections after a local business refuses to serve gay people in kecha kechi khan alaska the town boast that it has the largest standing native american collection of totem poles which is their claim to fame it also has a thriving tourist industry and locals know that discrimination is bad for business in order in ordinance prohibiting discrimination against lgbtq people uh passed in the city council unanimously local florist heather dalin owner of heavenly creations made news for refusing to take an order from a same-sex couple wedding when it comes to uh the holy scripture she said the holy sacrament of marriage and god's word is clear this ordinance strips me of my rights and is trying to force me to participate in a ceremony that violates god's holy truth is this still alaska yes yep yep that's the woman who caused this whole ruckus where you know she wouldn't sell and so the council voted unanimously to pass a um anti-discrimination yeah yeah to sort of thwart her thing you know because it's bad for business so so my question about this is are the totem poles appropriative of native american culture well i don't know i would you know and they may be native i thought when you were saying it they were inu it so that i don't know that oh i do not know that okay but i do know that that's you're that's that that's why people are attracted to the air it's probably one of those cruise ship lines or something i would guess maybe a modification yeah aig refuses to pay a life insurance claim for gay deputy who died of corota virus shannon bennett gay broughwood county florida sheriff's deputy was the first responder aig is refusing on the basis that there is no proof that he caught the deadly disease while working so far the company has refused to pay twice now the insurance company is saying that corona virus was not specifically listed on um what's allowed to be paid when you die so it doesn't count daren bennett his husband said it's not about the money but the disrespect and greed of this insurance giant the case is being appealed again and good luck not surprised by that no and then there's an anti-lgbtq professor found dead in his north carolina anti-lgbt anti yeah mike annams is also a political columnist in washington dc authorities do not suspect follow play the police were at his house when someone called for a wellness check so they went to check on him because somebody called he didn't think that schools should shut down during the pandemic but they should shut down non-essential majors like women's studies and black history he tweeted that stay-at-home orders were like slavery and was heard saying let my people go about the stay-home orders of north carolina so i don't know if it was suicide or he died of yeah they're not saying maybe yeah what they're not saying but um you know it's odd love a character um okay uh keith you have oh and sorry we're on to the same at the right onto your onto your first segment here okay i'd like to talk about the tahini war um and israel so julia zahar let's see a picture of her again is the owner of a company that makes some of the most popular tahini in israel she made a donation to a gay rights group recently um and she saw it as an unremarkable act she's an arab israeli and she donated to a hotline um tahini of food yeah tahini yeah yeah she's known as the queen of tahini in israel so she donated to this lgbt organization called aguda and aguda on july 1st thank her publicly um and the point of the donation was to help set up a hotline for arab speaking israelis everybody was up in arms the religious arabs condemned homosexuality the religious jews condemned her act um there was all kinds of anti-gay backlash um somebody showed a picture of his store clerks removing all the tahini from the grocery store shelves a big boycott people called for a big boycott um she's 65 kind of mild mannered they said uh a former school teacher and what happened was her husband died unexpectedly of a heart attack so she took over this floundering tahini business and turned it into a booming concern she's nazarene and there are factories that are um all over israel um primarily in the west bank but then after the backlash um um oh and then she was also criticized by gay arabs because she went through an israeli organization and we know what israel's doing in the um palestinian territories um however um it turned around and lgbt people viewed it and other leftists and liberal thinking people viewed this whole controversy as a teachable moment so um so they went out and bought all that so the tahini has been bought also um and it's only the this gesture is only the latest in a series of public demonstrations in support of arab gays and lesbians and made thousands of mourners attended a funeral of a gay dancer who drowned in the mud with tyranny and after he helped me save the life of a friend last august hundreds of people protested in hypha after the stabbing of a young transgender arab um what we have been seeing is the taboo slowly being broken down and activists said everything happened in the past year is the culmination of the work that has been done over the past two decades all the efforts activists have made to promote social change on this issue miss zahar's phone has been ringing constantly over the past week and she's puzzled by the uproar i never could have imagined that something like this would happen she said it doesn't make sense you do something positive and then you get something negative and return but you know the field of effect of this gesture has been positive so the queen of tahini has made a mark can we order i don't know we could try israel might be a long ways away haven't they in court so if you knew the brand name you just look on the shelf to see if it's being carried here maybe that's right and i'm sure i could dig up the brand name also but now let me go on to denise ho if i may okay um because you know we've been listening to everything that's been happening in the news about hong kong and the various uh the pro democracy movement is uh the smacked down china is imposing all these kinds of draconian measures um we haven't done anything in the united states have we well we're thinking we're boycotting it i think we're um trump is suggesting a boycott okay a gesture against china and other european countries are also and you know my question is the boycott hong kong how does that help the people in hong kong but we have a doc there's a documentary that's just come out called becoming the song denise ho becoming the song um and this documentary profiles a singer who's become an influential activist in the democracy movement it maps the life and career of kanto pop singer denise ho who has used her platform to become one of the most influential pro democracy activists in hong kong her story may be a particular note at this moment as china's new security law and that's what they're all demonstrating against imposes more restrictions on the region her parents left hong kong and moved to montreal in 1988 four years after britain and china settled on a joint agreement that would hand the territory over to china in 1997 but allow it to retain autonomy i mean i was suspicious of that the liner there was going to go south i know it and i think britain was kind of pucillanimous in that regard um anyway her parents saw the light and got out of there um but denise ho um became inspired by an early kanto pop singer anita mwy who's referred to as the Madonna of the east and she was also a pro democracy activist and nurtured the values ho says made her the person she is today uh so she moved back to hong kong in 1996 after winning a singing contribution uh competition that is to say she eventually came out as a lesbian joined the pro democracy demonstrations in 2014 and faced both arrest and significant commercial backlash as a result now she's banned in china as a lesbian these setbacks didn't stop her the film does an excellent job of introducing the pop star to unfamiliar audiences like us contextualizing her activism and more broadly examining the role art can play in shaping our beliefs and before i show you the clip i just want to call your attention to this group called kino lorber it's a virtual film company so you can go google kino lorber get a ticket and watch the documentary we learned about this on gay usa and north of watch it and recommended it and linda and i are gonna tune in as soon as we can but anyway let's look now at the clip denise ho um becoming the song denise ho is a brilliant kanto pop singer she was huge in mainland china we would always be like she's the perfect idol the record companies they just didn't know what to do with me and i wasn't ready to conform to what they expected i was pretty obvious with my songs and every place i had concerns for people around me and i started thinking maybe they're small that i can focus on ah she thinks it's more important to do what's right than to worry about her own stardom protesters mostly students are demanding full democracy every Hong Konger no matter what they do they could potentially be sent to china where there's no rule of law if we pass that there's no turning back she was really with students on the streets she didn't act like she was some kind of superstar she already knew the consequences if you're not welcome in china nobody would want to touch you for the first time in hong kong you see these people fighting for something that they believe and i was screaming we're proud and that's how we support her here as well because i think she truly represents hong kong and she is a true hong kong i like where it shows her she comes out at a gay pride parade and you know that's even that's in the clip too so she's a very energizing figure um should i continue or do you want to um well let's let let's let Keith go now and then we'll get back to me and then you and i think we'll have some extra time because because i see more papers on that yes oh yeah i have so many things so canada they're having their 15 year anniversary of marriage equality however acknowledgement of 15 years and then a story coming out of ontario lesbian couple approached an officiant to perform their marriage ceremony who refused based on my religion does not support this marriage they then went to look for the videographer who as one of the members of the couple said all you had to do was tell me you were booked for that day but the videographer made a point of saying i absolutely disagree with what you're doing i stand in opposition it was a condemnation and she's like this isn't right so there is action occurring regarding all of that both in Ottawa it is a couple in ontario ontario okay right but and it was the same couple who had first been rejected by the officiant right and then was rejected by the videographer because it was a lesbian marriage so the census starting august 11th if you haven't filled out the census application someone may show up at your door looking for information and they will be doing that until october 31st on our last show i warned you that that trick or treat it may actually be a census taker in disguise uh vermont has come up a bit we are still estimate is that we're dramatically enter reporting and again this it is that count that determines the level of federal funding to which the state would qualify all you have to do if you have a computer go online take two seconds okay but that's the problem here in vermont broadband yeah lack of computer access and ensuring that it's in the correct language yeah but but here's the other twist is the census is also going to be used for redistricting the house of representatives the federal administration is trying to put a block on the inclusion of undocumented immigrants as part of the census right and it there has been constitutional cases by the supreme court that clearly says everybody gets counted regardless of status and that a lot of people are rightly you know rightly or wrongly afraid to do that i mean do well that's that's why coming to your door and the assurance of i'm just asking for numbers you do not have to disclose you don't have to show me a green card any of that but part of this is that they were able to track back and clearly document that the intent is is through some of the southern states clearly shifting it from a blue to a red district that this is one of those maneuvers to try and uphold the gerrymandering that they've been doing to create some of the most bizarre legislative districts you've seen so and then when we come back around i'm going to talk a little bit about a bill in our vermont legislature that really got my attention in the rise in our hate crimes here mm-hmm so okay so these i'm going to show you a picture of southern farm queens and how they deal with breeders on a new reality show queens to the rescue went down to a farm to fight for animal rights in easily south carolina they had a furry photo shoot this was a charity event which supported is he's coined a wildlife rescue center so here's their picture and they are quite they look quite entertaining and you might want to check out their show it's a worthy cause you know and i guess there's been some problems with ellen g generous um you know a lot of people said that um it's a toxic culture there um permission to say tacky things yeah this has been an open secret for years i know this this isn't i mean within the queer community yeah this conversation has been going on for a long time did you hear what happened to her today no what she got robbed yes while she was taping her show her mansion was robbed oh my god really we should be careful did you lock the door no i didn't oh no yeah but people don't know when we take oh my god i had no idea it's just have to do with the uh the toxic report i don't know i probably anyway probably not um warner media which is the company that has her show has launched an internal investigation that will be led by the company's employment relations so we'll see how that goes yeah i don't know what that might have i know uh there's been a lot of complaints so i don't know um and racist stuff too apparently yeah i don't think by her specifically but by people who are in charge of it yeah you know i don't know but a 20 year old 21 year veteran of the memphis fire department was shot to death in a park last week last wednesday and the man who shot him allegedly admitted to it saying that the firefighter hit on him and made him feel uncountable carton wells 23 and his girlfriend daniel mac 39 were arrested by memphis police this past friday in connection to the death of mac bond 58 according to the police report wells admitted admitted to the killing and said it was bond's fault for hitting on hitting uh hitting him up in public wells told investigators that he and mac were hanging out in a rented car in kennedy perk in memphis which is a gay uh cruising um place he said bond approached him and his girlfriend and hit on them which made wells feel uncountable he said he pulled out a gun and shot bond multiple times mac and wells drove away and bond died at the scene they were arrested two days later wells has been charged with second degree murder and possession of a handgun as a convicted felon mac has been charged with tampering with evidence since she drove the car back to the rental shop and claimed that there was a transmission problem in order to exchange it the gay panic defense is uh when a defendant in an assault or murder says they acted in a state of temporary insanity uh some someone of the same sex made unwanted sexual advantages advances it can be used to argue that they had diminished capacity over acting in self-defense and it is based on the idea that gay people especially gay men are predators or that being gay is a provocation 11 states have been the gay panic defense a tenancy is not one of them the states hate crimes law include sexual orientation it is not yet known if wells will use the k panic defense so it's an awful story it is an old story um i'm not sure that i believe that even was bothering them but i know when i've heard this debated actually hearing from our the women's community came back and said if being hit on was justification for homicide there would be a whole lot of fewer men no kidding yeah i'm yeah sorry male panic defense there we go on july 13 another sad story maryland kazaris was found dead in an abandoned home set up lays in brawley california she is the 23rd known transgender person who murdered or violently killed in 2020 this is already close to the total number of known murder trans trans people from all of 2019 which was 27 while an exact cause of death hasn't been released it is believed that maryland was living in the building where she was found police are investigating the death as a homicide a march is being organized by her family for august first in front of the building um in the county demanding justice for maryland and protesting against transphobia so very sad story yeah well let's go to mexico city in a virtual session mexico city's lawmakers passed the bill which received broad cross-party support this is the bill outlawing gay conversion therapy um it's approval makes the mexican capital which in 2009 was the first region in the country to legalize sex marriage the first jurisdiction in mexico to ban the practice so let's talk a little more if we may about sudan um as i said in the headlines it's repealed the death penalty and flogging as punishment for consensual same sex relations the decision of course was held by lgbt few activists this is step in the right direction while noting that gay sex is still illegal in the country article 148 of the penal code of 1991 known as the sodomy law remember them it was in the us wasn't that long ago yeah hard work versus balance yeah it's still active and can read to prison sentences of up to seven years according to pan africa i gla a coalition of over 150 organizations that work for human rights and equality for the lgbtq community last week sudan sovereign council had approved amendments to the law removing death and 100 lashes as punishments for same sex relations these amendments are still not enough but they're a great first step to the transitional government that's trying to implement changes nor sultan executive director of the lgbtq group in egypt and sudan told roiders we see this as a positive change on the path to reform the east african nation was one of six countries including iran saudi arabia yemen nigeria and samalia and imposed capital punishment for gay sex six other countries also have similar laws in the books but they are not enforced and i remember when i was teaching at shamp lane one of the books that was that we read as part of the curriculum was what is the work by gay it was good but in it um it's based on the life and the lost boys of sudan and in it the narrator speaking as a lost boy of salon says there's no homosexuality in sudan that homophobic canard it circulates widely but anyway so this is um step in the right direction is everyone says pardon me it's just like yeah and i can remember in iraq the head of iraq said yeah there's no i mean the head of chechnya says it it's just i know but anyway so sudan is recognizing that there's homosexuality and removing the death penalty so and that's positive well maybe the transitional government will make more changes maybe we can hope because movement is occurring in africa very slowly not to generalize about the problem but i could continue but uh i can pass it on to keith well i think we'll pass it on to keith if we have any extra time we'll let you time in we know how to find you that's right i'll organize my papers yeah as people will recall during the last legislative session following the difficulties encountered by kair morris and bennington there was a change in how reporting happens so that the civil rights enforcement division of the office in the office of attorney general you directly report to them bias or hate motivated crime incidents so anything that occurs a report goes to them directly haleo thompson who is the head of the division said that between june 1st and july 20th report hit there were 15 incidents of bias and hate motivated crime in vermont in 2019 there were only 17 so people are seeing a real surge there was an incident that occurred in rutherland where people spray pated on the side of the building white lives matter more and tabitha more who is the head of the n double a cp in rutherland may have a comment of this is what happens when people are either actively hateful blissfully unaware or unwilling to face the truth of racism in vermont it's going to keep happening and what clio was clear and pointing out is this is reported cases you know there is still i mean as we talked about the incident that occurred over the weekend here in montipillier there are more incidents that don't rise to that level or aren't being reported in wasn't there something in what a very branch or something where somebody wrote was just a white nationalist and sitting around a dam in waterberry the person in milton who was walking around is dealing flags oh then there's the guy that's painting over things do you know what yeah well and those were sort of public billboards the vandalism of the black lives matter here in montipillier and then where people have black lives matter on roadways people are doing burnouts with their cars to try and disrupt it different topic and and i kind of missed this bill during the session and it's being reported now because people are saying this bill is going to go nowhere i've got your attention is h 401 which was introduced by representative geno sullivan and in 2013 geno sullivan the q is from the new north end in burlington introduced the first piece of legislation making the national guard accountable and having to report on an annual basis to the legislature all complaints of discrimination and sexual harassment so what she was trying to do with h 401 this year was to create this new position of chief diversity officer within the national guard who would be responsible for the reporting to the investigation of discrimination sexual harassment sexual violence sexual assaults within the national within the national guard well it's kind of going nowhere because and here is the argument it disrupts the chain of command that by creating this position that is outside of and to which they are accountable oh that that would disrupt how we do you know we and they are creating a provost marshal position oh the national guard yes so saying oh well that's where the complaints could be registered we can take care of this i know how those things work in organizations if unless you have somebody outside usually the chain of command does not work right i mean if there is no one to which you are accountable over which you can exert no pressure how do you really bring about change so and but you know there may be like we have a trivia right well there may be five minutes before the trivia question so if you've got a quick story i know the pressure's on you i know it and i'm very excited to have this time um i'd like to talk a little about tyland you know what i need is an index for my yeah tyl dbt activists and allies raised rainbow flags on sander day evening as they called for democracy and equal rights the latest in a series of youth protests calling for the government to step down several youth-led demonstrations have sprung up across the country since last week when thousands of ty activists staged a coronavirus defied a coronavirus ban on gatherings and staged one of the largest street rallies since the 2014 military coup they danced and sang and performed stand-up comedy making jabs at the government of prime minister praeus chan hu cha a former former army chief who ousted an elected government six years ago pride flies were waved against the backdrop of bank of Bangkok's democracy monument the lg uh let's see the calls came after uh there's dispute in the lgbt community after tylin's cabinet backed a civil partnership bill earlier this month that would recognize same-sex unions with almost the same rights as very couples saturday's gathering was the latest in the series of protests under the free youth movement which has issued three demands the dissolution of parliament and end the harassment of government critics and amendments to the military written constitution even if they don't step down from power today we want to let them know that we won't go anywhere we will be here be here so the 21 year old protester who gave her name as yaya even if they get rid of us our ideology will never die we will pass this on to the next generation so they're really agitating against this government but unfortunately they're kind of fighting within themselves about this bill because you know garrison i mean people are saying well it's a step forward with civil partnerships better than nothing and then another faction is saying yeah but didn't we have that here oh maybe yeah so it's kind of an echo anyway there's turmoil in tylin well good though i'm glad they're out there well yeah and it would be nice to see well it's nice to see education against this um dictatorship yeah well i think we have a trivia question now and thank you so oh my great pleasure and and we're going to continue our you know rabble rousing and activism yes so 1986 governor madeline kuhn and recognizes liason's representing from lgbtq plus community beth dingham was the first lesbian thatch as liason the first gay man may have been terry anderson who also was one of the co-founders of the vermont coalition for lesbian and gay rights vermont cares and has most recently just stepped down as the chair of the vermont democratic party so so with that i think we should we exist