 I'm Susan Lloyd. And today is Tuesday, January 10th. We are recording at Orca Media in Montpelier Vermont, which we recognize as being unceded indigenous land. And we welcome Simon for their first solo venture producing all things LGBTQ. And we're going to start with a bit of trivia. I'm not going to disclose who did or did not get it. But as I said, I was really missing the celebrity gossip and the celebrity trash because Linda hasn't had a lot recently. So when I was looking at the morning sort of, did you know question of the day and it was, did you know these celebrities had LGBTQ plus parents? I'm like, yes. And I found a both a parent and a child who fits that profile. Both the parent and child were both married to LGBTQ plus spouses. And not only are they major significant gay icons, they are legends on their own in both stage, screen and music. Who might be who might be the dynamic duo? So looking at events, the first thing that I want to put out is that outright Vermont is looking at launching a queer BIPOC group. This would be specifically for LGBTQ plus youth who are black indigenous people of color, which in Vermont, that's sort of a unique category. So finding a place where they're safe and, you know, they can talk about those peer issues is going to be wonderful. Rainbow umbrella, you've got the women's discussion group. Book discussion group. And you've been teasing us that there might be some event coming up in January? Yes, January 27th. There's going to be a poetry reading at 6.30 at the senior center. Okay. Is it also going to be available online? Yes. All right. Momentum, I noticed that they finally posted it that this Sunday the 15th, so if you're watching it on Saturday night, get up to go get coffee. 11 o'clock at Bohemian Bakery here in Montpelier. Fox Market looking at their happenings for January. They're starting their Saturday night specialty dinners. They've got special events going on. Take a look at their website, Facebook page, because you may find something of interest other than just stopping and grabbing great sandwiches for lunch. Social Tinkering Rutland Plus. They've made a commitment that they're going to do a monthly social event for the LGBTQ plus community, but you need to go onto their Facebook website to see what the event is for that month, or you can subscribe to their newsletter, which would let you know. Save Space. This is one of the programs at the Pride Center. They're continuing their rural provider training series. I attended the one for this month, which was on gender inclusive language and pronouns. It's only an hour, so it moves really quickly. It was a fascinating process because you've got this menagerie of providers for whom some of them are very well versed in the issue and some they're just learning, and the exchange that happened between the participants was probably the best aspect of it. And coming up in February is supporting LGBTQ plus survivors. In March is inclusive practices and barriers to access. And in April is an accountability action plan. If your agency finds that you are not meeting the needs, how are you going to do that? And what are you going to put in place? If it's Thursday, is there a happy hour happening someplace? Out in the 802 is really working on ensuring that there is a Thursday night happy hour happening someplace in Vermont. So go on to their website, Facebook place. They're coming now. They say like St. John's Berry and in Burlington. The Lincoln Inn. They were looking at expanding in St. Albans, and they may be looking at doing something in Central Vermont as well. So I'd be checking in on their website, Facebook page, see what's happening. Well, you know, travel yoses are always open to that kind of event. Well, I was going to say, so this would just be that sort of bar takeover and here we are. Also, if it's Thursday night and it happens to be the first Thursday of the Mayan Queer Connect, does their sapphic story hour? And it's either writers talking about their craft and sort of supporting each other, or it is a writer coming in such as somebody we might know coming in and talking about their creative process. You may not want to admit to it. It was a fascinating presentation that Linda did. And I kind of broke tradition because the sapphic story hour is supposed to be for women, but they let me in. They were kind to me. And also, I just want to put a plug out there again that we have more organizations who are offering more programs, support services for our community, such as when babes reached out and started doing the AA sobriety group in Bethel on weekends. Look at who is offering addiction and recovery, intimate partner violence, sexual abuse, reaching out to people with disabilities. What is your need and is there an organization out there that might be able to meet it? I always tend to just say that's a big question. But I know you. All right, so it's to you, honey. Where do you want to go? Tallahassee, Florida. On purpose? Well, no. I think a deja vu moment. The last time it was Kentucky, Louisville. Before we go to Tallahassee, I need to correct a mistake I made. I said that Mexico needed one more county or whatever they call it there. I'm sorry, I don't know. State. To be the whole country, to be gay marriage, okay? Right. But it turns out that it is the whole country. And so I said it wasn't, and it really is. So there you go. Thanks for stealing my thunder. Really? You had a story on that? Yeah, the last one. The last stage just came through. So well done. No, I'm teasing you. I'm teasing. So anyway, back to Tallahassee, Florida. Florida law makers will move to increase state control over Walt Disney. World's private government. According to a notice published Friday, the latest development in a feud over law critics have dubbed, don't, uh, don't say gay. The notice posted on the, is it, Acelia? Acelia County website says that Republican control state house will take up legislature, changing the structure and powers of the Reedy Creek Improvement District, as the 55 year old Disney government is known as. A bill has not yet been filed detailing exactly what these changes would be under consideration. The notice serves as a procedural step in what has become a close watch process between Disney and Florida. DeSantis and state house Republicans slam Disney saying the entertainment giant had become a purveyor of so-called woke ideologies that are inappropriate for children. You know, it's really crazy because they're the biggest employer in Florida. I mean, well, and, you know, the sort of taxpayer backstory to that is if they implement the oversight that the Florida governor is asking for, the taxpayers are all of a sudden going to be liable for hundreds of millions of dollars of expenses because if the state takes over, they need to go in and rebuild the entire infrastructure, fire, rescue, the, yeah. Okay. Absolutely. And I don't think Floridians will be happy with this, but we'll see. Amber McLaughlin, the first openly transgender woman was executed in the U.S. on Tuesday night in Missouri. McLaughlin was pronounced dead at 6.51 p.m. at the Eastern Reception Diagnostic and Correctional Center in Tennessee, according to the Missouri Department of Corrections. She was convicted of first degree murder in 2006 in the killing of Beverly Gunther and the judge sentenced her to death after a jury deadlocked on its sentencing decision. Missouri Governor Mike Parsons denied clemency Tuesday after McLaughlin, calling McLaughlin a violent criminal. Parsons said in the statement Tuesday, Ms. Gunther's family and loved ones deserve peace. The state of Missouri will carry out McLaughlin's sentence according to the court's order and deliver justice. So it was his decision. I mean, the court deadlocked. He could have gone either way and he, he didn't. And on the good news is, Good Morning America co-anchor Robert Robbins, Robbins made a surprise announcement on ABC Morning Show Monday saying she's ready to tie the knot with her girlfriend of nearly 18 years. Amber Lane. You don't want to rush things, you know? I know. It's like, yeah. I can't commit. It's been 18 years. Amber Lane. I'm hesitating because I haven't said it out loud yet. Okay, I'm saying yes to marriage. Robbins told motivational speaker and author Gabby Bernstein during a conversation about sending intentions for the new year. We're getting married this year, Robbins said. So I have a picture of the couple of 18 years. I read about that and it was them, they were interviewing this motivational speaker who sort of prompted like, what are your intentions for this year? I'm getting married. I'm getting married. And I think we keep forgetting that there are strong pockets within our communities who don't believe in the institution of marriage. It's patriarchal, you know, it's coercive. Well, the other thing that she said was, of course, her, Amber has cancer right now. It's going through treatment. And of course, Robbins had breast cancer and various cancers over the years. So she was basically saying, I was going to wait for, yeah, might as well do it now. But I think she was hesitant, was waiting for more of a clean, yeah, when her partner was ill. So now she's just saying, go for it. And then, you know, sort of sad news. And I looked up her age, I can't remember, oh yeah, she's 66, not, Martina Navatilova said Monday that she had been diagnosed with throat and breast cancer. The 18-time Grand Slam singles champion, a member of the International Tennis Hall of Fame, will start treatment this month and her prognosis is good. Her representative said in a statement, this double women is serious, but still possible. And I'm hoping for a favorable outcome. The 66-year-old Navatilova said it's going to stink for a while, but I'm going to fight with everything I have. So good luck, Martina. I remember watching her and you know, all those people that played then, you know, it was really good. Billie Jean. Yeah. Chris, Chris. Chris Everett. Chris Everett. You know, she started the Women's Tennis League, anyway. A man arrested on hate crimes after charges. A TikTok video showed him hurling homophobic and racist remarks at a Korean American man and woman dining at a California in and out burger. Jordan Douglas Craw, 40 of Denver, was taken into custody Monday by Sian Rahman Police and booked at the Martina's detention facility on two counts of committing a hate crime. So, and Mara Healy is now officially the first lesbian government governor in the United States. She was sworn in on Tuesday in Massachusetts. The first person to be governor of the state, she was the first woman to be governor state and she and Healy and Lieutenant Governor Kim Driscoll, our first pair of women to hold the top offices in any state. And I heard she had Brandy Carlisle sing at the inauguration. Be still, my heart. Oh, God. Two Republican Arizona lawmakers are opening the legislative centers by seeking to restrict drag shows. Senator Anthony Kern has filed one bill that would be in drag performances during certain hours aimed primarily at squelching drag brunches and another that would prohibit them on a public property or any location where they would be viewed by a minor. Senator John Kavanaugh has chimed in with a bill to ban the use of state funds for drag shows targeting minors. And now this would be a good person, another good person, to have at any event which is Dolly Parton. But that's not the trivia answer. I know I should have followed that. On Tuesday night's episode of Call Me Cat, Jordan 67 died in October in a car accident in Los Angeles. Authorities said he may have had a healthy episode that caused him to lose control of the car, which crashed into a building. The gay actor was beloved for his many TV and movie roles and for the Instagram videos he posted during the pandemic. She sang a portion of Where the Soul Never Dies, which he had recorded with Jordan and then spoke to her friend. I know usually at a memorial people talk about somebody. Well, I'm going to talk to you because there is that place on the other side and I'm certainly going to see you there, little brother. You left a lot of people here with a lot of precious, precious memories. Everyone loved you, but I doubt many of them loved you more than I did. And for the last story I'll do right now is Florida again. I'm not going. Sorry. A Florida call student is under arrest after he allegedly used a popular instant messaging and social media platform Discord to threaten a mass shooting at Florida State University. Sean Michael Albert, 19 of Winter Park and a student at Full Sail University was arrested on Tuesday and charged with making an interstate communication to threaten to injure another person. The criminal complaint alleges that on December 16th of last year Albert posed a picture to a Discord server showing in AK-47 with the following text. 600 West College Av, Tallahassee, Florida at 1300 hours, December 17, 2022 will die. See you there. The threat was posed by user Bloodstained Sand and the address listed as Florida State University. The threat was reported to the FBI in Orlando and an investigation was open. FSU increased patrols on campus and Discord voluntarily provided authorities with the relevant information associated with the user making the threat. Albert was quickly identified as the owner of the account according to authorities. So, okay. So what you got? Well, where you're taking us to? We're going to start in Russia. Okay. We're never going to. No, no, no, no. Not bringing my vape pens. Not bringing my girlfriend. Not going. Not going. Not happening. No way. I know how. The Russian government has granted its media regulator the authority to block websites containing LGBT propaganda without a court order. According to a decree published on Monday, lawmakers have drafted a bill that allows for the jailing of those who have already been fined under Putin's earlier anti-LGBT law, which banned aiming LGBT propaganda at minors. Under the draft legislation, repeat offenders could be sentenced to up to five years in jail. Speaking of tennis, though, the tennis star, Kassakina slams the Russian stance to homosexuality in her coming out video. I remember talking about her this summer. She was ranked 12th. She's ranked 12th in the world. Russian world number 12, Daria Kassakina criticized her country's attitude toward homosexuality in a video published on Monday as she announced she was a lesbian. The 25-year-old's comments come after Russian deputies proposed on Monday a new law which would ban information on all non-traditional sexual relationships in the public sphere. Broadcasting homosexual propaganda to youngsters has been banned in the country since 2013. There are many subjects that are even more important than that are also being banned, so this is not a surprise, she told the YouTube channel. Living in the closet, as they say, is pointless. Well, you know, some of those people are so brave to do what they do, living where they do. I know. We were speculating over the summer, like, did she say that while getting on a plane into exile? Are you out of the country? Is it making that comment? And then I was thinking I've got a roundup of all the things that have happened globally in 2022. I've tried to come up with some highlights. I think maybe what I will do is give you a bit of a teaser and then we'll come back to more detail. So this, and I'm going to put, check out the website that's flashing on your screen right now. I'm going to give you the website because there's a lot of information about world. I was talking to Ann and I said, how do you sift through all of this? This is a lot of information. So good job, Ann. So looking at North America, Canada, the US, and Mexico, looking at how many countries where same-sex marriage became legal, and we're going to talk about some international organizations and decriminalizing sodomy, the fight for equal marriage, banning conversion therapy, gay blood donation bans. So we're going to talk about all of those different things. And then there's a section on looking ahead to 2023. So I'll come back to that because I want to sift through some of these things, but back to you, Keith. Teasers. Teasers. Teasers. That's interesting. It's like a year-end wrap-up. It is a year-end wrap-up and I was really impressed by the level of detail. Countries I'd never even heard of or knew where they were geographically, so we'll definitely put on the website. You get out the globe and spin it. So we're going to start with the Becca watch. She's finally sworn in. Thank goodness. It took long enough. However, there are no committee assignments yet. Didn't they say she couldn't even like go into her office or like pick up her vest? Until there was a speaker today, no action could occur. Now that there is a speaker, she has moved into the office. However, they have disclosed only the committee chairs, not the committee members or the subcommittee members because that is a panel with the speaker, Republicans, Democrats hashing it out. And it's going to take time because there's going to be a little drama. However, there is already the first sort of story about our Becca. And it was during the orientation and sort of learning the ropes, she noticed that at lunch they were all sitting in their little cliques. Remind you of high school? Did she go over to the squad? No. She went over to the Republicans. She deliberately said who are the people who are not necessarily who would I seek out? And I'm going to come sit with you. That's our backup. They all picked up their lunch trays. She took them by surprise, but they all participated. I hope it wasn't Bob or whatever her name is. Moving on. I know. But I did listen to her when she was, when they were doing the roll call for, and they said ballot and she said, Jeffrey. You could hear her yelling from the back. Well, it was one of those that it was usually the later C's when there were enough votes against that they could say, okay, speakership hasn't been decided. So ballot B was before that. So you could hear her yelling. Jeffrey. So our legislature has opened and it wasn't nearly as dramatic. And right now they're sort of doing all of the orientation. Who are the agencies and committees that will be coming in and testifying before committees? What is security? What they need to know? But they have already done the committee assignments and we have two members of the rainbow caucus or LGBTQ plus legislators who are chairs of committees. One is Brian Campion in the Senate returning as chair of education. The other is in the house and it's the ways and means committee, which is it, which is not a light committee. Emily corn hyzer. Nice is the new chair of ways and means and she has already put out an aggressive agenda at looking at social service agencies and how do we truly support for monsters? The other big bill that's going to be coming up and it's one of the reasons why I mentioned Brian Campion in education is there was the Carson versus Macon US Supreme Court decision. This was what came out of Maine about tax dollars going to parochial or religious based schools. Maine and Vermont both have in our education formulas that if your community does not have a school, you as the parent or parent guardian can choose the school to which they are tuition and Vermont has routinely said you could not go to a faith based or parochial school. The Supreme Court said no you can't do that. It has to be an equal playing field. So they're going to be coming back in and having to discuss okay what are we going to do about this? How are we going to respond to it and there's several different approaches that are being considered. One is ensuring that all schools that receive public funding have non-discrimination statements and policies as part of their school mandate. The other is restricting the list of schools to which you could be tuition based upon a department of ed criteria and one is we're not going to tuition to any private schools which would put an incredible burden on those communities that don't already have it. But looking over our shoulder to New Hampshire did you hear this story? Which one? They've already introduced anti-trans legislation. There's 11 states that have already introduced bills. Now during the 2022 legislative session nationwide there were over 160 hostile bills. The 11 that have been introduced thus far are focusing on transgender and health care. Remember reporting on the last show about the company not covering affirmation procedures, suit files by GLAD? Well it's going along those veins trying to repeal some of the things that are in place or put restrictions on when you can access it such as there's one state that you cannot engage in any treatment until you reach the age of 26. So it's more than just the minors. After your comments on our last show about the coverage that your agency had and you wanted to cover a procedure for an employee the insurance company said no. I checked with about New Hampshire. New Hampshire has had non-discrimination and parodying insurance since 2017. The other place where New Hampshire has run into problems in the past and last year they had five bills that were introduced in their attorney general said none of those bills would stand up because we have non-discrimination protection based on sexual orientation and gender identity. You would be in conflict with we would rule against your law. But New Hampshire is one of those states that is a Republican trifecta. I know the governor the set yeah the governor the house and the senate are all Republican controlled. However it's not by that wide a margin in their house which has 400 members 201 or Republican 197 or Democrat and there's two vacant seats. So they really don't have a whole lot of right and their session started in December. So they're already underway. And last year when we were looking at what was happening regionally main also had hostile bills that were introduced but Ryan Fecto who was the speaker of the house then is an out gay man and they just never came out of committee. And what had actually what had happened in New Hampshire last year is they took their five hostile bills and they ordered them to lie which means we're not even taking them up. Yeah but and I think it's one of the things we need to keep in mind and keep looking for is those pockets within New England that still have that alt right affiliation right that as much as we would like to say we leave we live in a supportive environment ain't always all that supportive. We do but we have to try through other states. But even looking at stuff that gets introduced here in Vermont we've had some hostile things come up but they just don't get out of committee. They've just been now I wanted to leave on you know a bit of a positive bees knees general story bakery Lawrence town Nova Scotia lesbian couple went there on their honeymoon liked it said we're moving here and they opened the bees knees general store and bakery and the community thought this was a wonderful thing embrace them we are so glad that you are here well not everybody well wait so so well no Linda knows what happens because someone started stealing their rainbow flag well but what happened is the community and they reported it to the Royal Canadian Mounted Police with whom we might have some connection but we won't go there they reported it they were investigating it as a potential hate crime the people in their neighborhood started putting up rainbow flags in support and they got taken down and they put up a rainbow flag and a mick mac flag for the indigenous people that got taken down and so the community has continued to reach out to them saying we're here for you we're a support they bought them out of food well no no no no and following Linda's advice the bees knees got a camera so that's Linda's solution to stealing a flag I'm putting up a camera so but what happened is you know the community has continued to rally around them there is a gay straight alliance at a regional school who wrote a letter to them saying thank you for being here we are support we are so appreciative to have adult queer role models in our community and pastry and good pastry and and customers came in they had stickers made with the bakery logo on it saying put this on the and this was one of the stories that just yeah they had a parent who drove over an hour to bring their child who had just come out to see the store and to meet these and their response to all of this is they posted on Facebook is the best antiseptic to hatefield ignorant acts such as what has occurred is to combat that hate with tolerance understanding and show that love indeed will always win they put out an invitation on their Facebook that whoever it is that is doing this please come in and talk with us let us explain to you why it's important for us to display our flag we invite you to come in for coffee and a treat I respect that people have their own beliefs but not at the cost of my human rights I have a right to be safe in my home and in my business and that I have a right to create a safe space for other people love wins love will always win that's a nice story I wish I could have some nice story I know well in Louisiana okay that's a little left of Tallahassee okay people logging into the internet in Louisiana wishing to watch pornography must first upload their driver's license according to the law that went into effect this year websites that publish pornography are required to verify a user's age before granting access to adult material users must verify their identity with state digital driver's license app due to advances in technology the university ability of the internet and limited age verification requirements minors are exposed to pornography early in age so that's Louisiana can you imagine like showing your license um if you go if you go into an adult store here in Vermont or if you're going into a smoke shop cannabis you've got you've got to produce an official ID a state issued ID to prove identity in age I know that's true I'm not going to ask him I know Frank Jolotti a gay man who was a titan of Chicago and Broadway theater has died at the age of 79 a writer director and author Jolotti died Monday night he won Tony awards in 1990 for the best play a best director for adapting John Steinbeck's novel the grapes of wrath and directing it on Broadway the production originated at Chicago Steppenwolf theater he was many artists who put Steppenwolf and another Chicago theater the Goodman on the map with their innovative material and wealth of talent including actors John Malkovich, Joan Allen, Laurie Metcalf, Cary Cole, and Gary Simis so that that's not your light true that's going to list the people there yeah a new Democratic member of commerce from California is the first out gay immigrant elected to the body and he'll be this is a great story he will be sworn in on a rare first edition superman comic I love that sentimental personal items and the constitution once republicans managed to elect a new speaker of the house Robert Garcia who was mayor of Long Beach before the November election announced on Tuesday that he would be sworn in with items of personal significance and will probably sworn into congress at the U.S. Constitution underneath the Constitution will be three items that mean a lot to me personally he said a photo of my parents who I lost to COVID my citizenship certificate and an original superman number one Garcia wrote on Twitter along with a photo of the items so the New York Times has brought on an anti-LGBT columnist David French a former national review editor who was once an attorney with the alliance defending freedom the Times announced French is hiring Tuesday calling him an expert on the law faith and politics but glad is pointing to his deep history of anti-LGBTQ activism glad also notes that he joins the Times after the paper ended its relationship with the claim transwriter Jenny Boylan last year and brought on transwriter and brought on another anti-LGBTQ columnist Pamela Paul so I guess we got to keep an eye on the New York Times huh I'm renewing my subscription to the Boston Globe oh upon his death today both Benedict well skating all television coverage and reading news outlets about it was struck by the fact that every journalist said that Benedict's legacy would be that he was the first pope to resign in 600 years but if the Catholic Church ever opens its vaults of secret documents and because trans and becomes transparent it will only further establish the Benedict while he was a cardinal while Cardinal Joseph Radzinger was even more complicit in covering up church peace abuse scandal when Germany in Germany's Munich diocese with Radzinger led as Archbishop in the 1970s and 80s he was known for his anti-LGBTQ views the hatred and cues includes his comments around HIV and AIDS in the late 1980s and 87 while the virus raged rumors about the Catholic Church might implicitly endure the use of common condoms to prevent the spread of the disease it was immediately shot down by Radzinger who said that such an approach to protect gay men and gay sex would result in at least the facilitation of evil so so much for him those who would soon be facing criminal charges for the roles in the U.S. Capitol insurrection of January 6th 2021 include John Eastman a legal advisor to Donald Trump and a longtime anti-LGBTQ plus activists the U.S. House committee investigation the effort to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election which spurred a riot on the Capitol decided Monday to make a criminal referral to the Department of Justice recommending that Eastman be charged with obstruction of an official proceeding and conspiracy defraud the United States of course now it's up to the DOJ to decide whether to act on the referral and another death that happened was Barbara Walters died and she was considered a pretty good LGBTQ ally she did many things to support the lbgt community and put two lesbians on the view so and the drake queen panda dulce was at the sand Lorenzo library in california and members of the extremist group the proud boys marched in they interrupted drake queen story hour where performers read books to kids as a means toward literacy and compassion for others and per dulce slung insults such as gruma one man's t-shirt instructed kill your local pedophile so on that lovely note i think we're done there are more ways than one yeah follow that whoo you have a best i do have a best of why also some worse stuff but so around the world starting with looking at some global trends from international organizations so the united nations voted 23 to 17 to 7 to renew the mandate of the independent expert on sexual orientation and gender identity for an additional three years there's a position that was created in 2016 that has to be renewed every three years that's a good news they also provided retroactive pension benefits for same-sex spouses of its staffers this year that's significant yeah in 2022 denmark and honduras were admitted to the un lgbti core group as a pair i don't know if they're seeing each other now i don't know what's happening with that there also was a un committee for the elimination of discrimination against women they ruled in a case against uh shrillanka that the country's ban on lesbian sex is illegal discrimination and against their convention yeah in the commonwealth of nations four countries voted to decriminalize gay sex so pay attention we're going to these places kind of rights uh antigua barbuda barbuda not permuta but barbuda st kits barbados so we can go to singapore yep okay um the e you accepted three new candidate countries so these are european union aspirants they call them ukraine moldova and bosnia herzegovna uh and the council of europe uh is a body that's meant to promote peace and human rights across the continent they found uh they were the ones that were involved in 2015 there was a case oliari and others versus italy which was a decision that the convention requires states to recognize same-sex civil unions russia has been booted out of the council of europe come on why for denouncing the convention so they were the single largest country that was opposing same-sex marriage so they're no longer part of the council so with slovenia switzerland and andora legalizing same-sex marriage this year the balance has shifted to 19 states out of 46 to endorse equal marriage and we may see more as it says the fight for equal marriage same-sex marriage took a giant leap forward in 2022 becoming legal in four countries write this down chili switzerland slovenia and cuba cuba all right that's surprising to me um this brings the total number of equal marriage states to 34 looking ahead there's a number of states that could legalize same-sex marriage uh lichtenstein in thailand okay uh we talked about last time india supreme court is going to rule on a same-sex marriage case next year and we're hoping to get a final resolution on the appeals of the same-sex marriage ruling from aruba and curacao which could extend to st martin see these are all warm tropical places that uh there's also that court case pending i was talking about last time uh in the virgin islands uh and there's some decisions going on in panama and amoeba as well decriminalizing sodomy five states ended their laws criminalizing sodomy antigua and barbuda st kits and nevis barbedo singapore and south korea indonesia introduced a new law criminalizing extramarital sex remember we were talking about that last but it's not clear if it applies to gay sex interesting uh let's uh banning conversion therapy so conversion therapy was banned in the following places in 2022 canada france greece new zealand paraguay vietnam israel india and the mexican states uh halisco baha california heldal go pueblas sonora and nuevo leon so those are all places that we can go um let's see gay blood donation bans bans ended in 2022 austria canada cyprus france greece ireland lichtenstein lithuania malta and slovenia and and who's not on that list during the height as it says during the height of the aides epidemic many countries instituted bans on blood donations from gay men and other men who have sex with men and sometimes they're female partners lgbt activists have long called for these bans to be revised to orientation neutral behavior based deferral policies that's a mouthful for example some call for anyone who is celibate or monogamous to be allowed to donate how do you how do you attest for that while those who have had recent new sexual partners are deferred so in summary these are the major highlights uh decriminalized sodomy uh same-sex marriage passed in mexico the last seven states yes uh slovenia andora and cuba same-sex marriage coming into effect in chile and switzerland recognition of foreign marriages in american samoa okay you can go there uh same-sex marriage reband so blue they did it again bermuda and the cayman islands it has been going back and what is that that is about and has repeatedly reported on well they first said yes now they're going no now they're appealing that uh registered partnerships lot via numerous japanese uh prefectures and municipalities same-sex couple adoption and parenting the ferro islands slovenia andora cuba lichtenstein there's a there's a pattern here croatia chile switzerland and the mexican states quintana ru and baha california sir conversion therapy ban we talked about that anti-discrimination laws antigua and barbuda spain and the u.s states of nevada michigan and pennsylvania gays allowed in the military kazakhstan and south korea that seemed legal gender change uh serename lithuania el salvador venezuela andora switzerland slavakia lithuania and the mexican states sinoloa and zakatakis end of gay blood ban canada ireland austral lichtenstein the u.s france greece cyprus slovenia malta lithuania looking ahead to 2023 likely to decriminalize voted most likely to decriminalize sodomy in declining order of probability st lucha st vincent and the grenadines dominica granada cook islands namibia shulanka plus the u.s states massachusetts maryland michigan and minnesota are likely to strike their defunct laws from their books likely to pass same-sex marriage aruba curacao st martin lichtenstein india virgin islands thailand bolivia checkia panaman namibia greece in japan likely to pass sylva unions ukraine lithuania virgin islands likely to ban conversion therapy mexico spain ireland netherlands belgium columbia norway austria iceland sweden finland the uk the australian states of western australia tazmania and the u.s states of minnesota and michigan likely to end gay blood donation iceland switzerland and the u.s same-sex couples can now marry in 34 nations and in 47 other discrete jurisdictions around the world again there's a whole list of all of this so if people are interested we're going to put the website up on that so great a lot of good things happening good job i sort of edited out all the murder and mayhem and the person that was found in a metal box yeah all those stories are you know well and can can bring those back like we should have edited out linda's story on the last episode yeah well interesting but not not lgbtq particularly but i don't know if everybody's probably heard that some of the men in afghanistan have stopped working because um of the taliban restricting women being able to go to college in the workforce so that was good news in a way i suppose so anyway uh we're almost out of time we have two we need the trivia question the the parent child combination who both had lgbtq plus a lgbtq plus parent and an lbtq plus spouse who else could it be but judy garland and lisa minnelli lisa her father vincent minnelli was judy's second husband lisa herself was married to peter allen and david guest and to say that there are legends in icon would be understating the impact that they have had on our cultures absolutely so with that you want me to seek somewhere over the rainbow could you remember to resist