 things LGBTQ. It's Tuesday, March 26th, and we have a lot of news for you today. Starting with Linda. Hi. I'm news. I'm going to do the headlines, but I have a little something on Barbara Streisler, which people have heard about. And Alabama lawmakers unanimously vote to stop issuing marriage licenses so that gay couples can't get them. If the bill is signed into law, Alabama will be the only state where marriage license would not be required. You could still get married, so what does it matter? I don't get that, you know? So they're saying you could have a religious commitment and ceremony, but you don't get a civil license? I guess. That's my understanding. Yeah, but nobody can, no one can get married. Nobody. I know. It's ridiculous. Well, I don't think you could even get married in the church without a license, right? Sure you can. Sure. Yeah, they have to sign off as an officiant recognized by the state. Oh, okay. Back to the headlines. Okay. Then there's Rosie and Barr. LGBT groups want Mayor Pete to be more than gay candidate for president, so we'll talk a little about that. And Ann will pronounce this last name for everybody. Oh, I've got that down. Tennessee advances anti-LGBQ license to discriminate. The House approved a bill which will now go into the Senate. The bill would mean that the states and cities could require companies they do business with to have non-discrimination policies. So this is Tennessee? Yeah, they can't. So and then at New York City LGBTQ Center cancels an event hosted by right wing queer group. Iowa Congressman Steve King. Yeah, I know. United Airlines will now offer non-binary options for passengers. Democrats in West Virginia called on Republican delegate Eric Porter Field to resign after he made anti-LGBQ remarks, but instead Mr. Field doubled down by going on television in West Virginia news program saying that he would drown his kids if they were gay. Gay kid governor. Boxer threatens to punch or shoot any gay man that floats with him. CN Antonio Airport bans Chick-fil-A. All right, well, there's a good trick. Doing business at their airport because of their anti-LGBQ agenda. That's a long-standing agenda. I thought it was the quality of their food. Lots of people love it. I'm a vegetarian. Get french fries. No. Dan Studio turns away a lesbian couple. NAACP endorses LGBTQ Equality Act. Michigan bars LGBTQ discrimination in state adoptions. Faith-based agencies, if funded in any part by the state, will no longer be able to turn away gay couples. Homophobic flyers target lesbian mayoral candidate Lori Lightfoot. The flyers will put on cars around black churches. This was Chicago. Colorado bans ex-gay conversion therapy. The bill would also make advertising conversion therapy a deceptive trade practice, which is good. And lastly Bernie Sanders has a transgender flag outside of his Washington, D.C. office, so. And I've seen the picture. So first some local events. Monday, April 1st is women's game night at the Pride Center. 545 p.m. I'm not going to make a comment that it's April 1st. And also there's a momentum meeting April 1st. Oh, that wasn't on the website. Yeah. Okay. Tuesday, April 2nd, Central Vermont Trans Social Group, 7 o'clock, Episcopal Church here in town. Wednesday, April 3rd, we're busy. It's a busy week for us. Pride Center 430, People with Disabilities Group. And on Saturday, April 6th, talking about someone being the news. Gellilal Copper Library, LGBTQ Poet Speak, A Poet City Reading, 12 noon, Allison Prime, Jay Turk, Toussaint, who we have interviewed on this show, and perhaps Linda Quinlan. Yes. Organizer. Soon to be published author. So then looking at regional stuff, Maine, there's a little change in attitude. Yeah. It's no longer your LaPage Augusta anymore. And we're going to talk a little bit about that. In Vermont, crossover, what did or didn't make it through. And then an update on Beto Sanchez Perez, who was taken into custody in December. And a little bit about the background and what was going on. This week's trivia question. And they kind of sort of got it. March 1988, lead story and out in the mountains. They were reporting on yet another public hearing on S278, a bill to prohibit discrimination on the basis of sexual or affectional orientation. Over 700 people attended. 215 people testified. 85 supporting 120 opposing. The hearing lasted from and those of us who have been around remember this from 7pm until Senate Judiciary Chair closed the hearing at one in the morning. We were the lead story on the 11 o'clock news and we were still testifying. Opposition. They came by bus loads and they were predominantly representing fundamentalist communities. Were they bus loads of people from Vermont or from other places? Oh, they were from Vermont. Okay. And I'm not going to tell you. Because sometimes they bus in people who want to. Oh, no. This was not about Operation Rescue where they would go into the homeless shelters and say, I will pay you to come to Vermont to demonstrate, be incarcerated and we will take care of you. No, this was, you know, Christian broadcast, head put out that this hearing was happening. Okay. They piled onto the buses and came some from not that far away. There are some separate communities in our backyards. Most of the people who testified carried their Bibles with them when they went up to the table. There was one person and this was their testimony. It is well documented and well known that the ticket vocal gay has 500 to a thousand in their lifetime. And the question is 500 to a thousand what? And just as an aside, Tuesday, March 26th, write this on your calendar. We've been waiting for our next woman governor. Phil Scott is out of state. As is Lieutenant Governor David Seckerman. So that makes Speaker of the House, Mitzi Johnson, the acting governor. All right, governor for a day. There you go. Well, may I add to your announcements? I'd like if you must. I'd like to embellish momentum planning meeting Monday, April 1st, six to seven 30 and momentum is LGBT group for folks over 40. Okay, and where is the Pride Center? Okay, and then there's another. They're gonna compete with women's game night. They're all gonna be there because that could be the game. Yeah. Okay, and then there are all another announcement if I may. I know it on Sunday, March 31st at six at the Pride Center. LGBTQ family dinner, Trans Day of Visibility. You're invited to a fabulous potluck. Not you particularly. Well, I was gonna say I have a conflict because I'm gonna be at the flint seeing the ballet truckadero. I may go to the momentum meeting. Can't wait. Okay, so just to add your announcements. Thank you. Thank you for allowing me to. There you go. All right. Irrepressible. Well, let's move to my headlines if we can. They are as follows. Six LGBT moments cut from Bohemian Rhapsody in China. Now, we mentioned last time they cut out Rami Malik's mention of Freddie Mercury being gay, but they've gone further. There are those censors in China. And my question was who did I show the movie at all if you're gonna cut out half the movie? I mean it's ridiculous. Well, I will explore it more deeply. That's right. Next headline. When for Kenyan gays as court upholds their right to form an organization and NGO. India's first LGBTQ theater group called Q-Rang launched at the Kerala Queer Pride March and it was also the first Pride March in Kerala. So a lot of ground being broken there. Rainbow Rage, Kierzich, rail against LGBT community after Central Asia's first gay Pride March. And this gay Pride March was also a women's March on International Women's Day. So last time I reported that Malaysia's women's March incurred a proverbium because it included LGBT people. Same thing now here in Kierzich stand. Homophobic arsonists, torch and HIV testing center in Athens. Oh, that was awesome. And I have a picture of the torch center. It was it's called Checkpoint. It's in the middle of Athens. There was an outcry afterwards but this was almost a six month anniversary of that murder in Athens of that gay guy that I told you about. So we may get back to that. Brunei, let's not go there either, urged to halt the introduction of a strict new and anti-LGBT series of laws. They're just awful. World's happiest countries protect their LGBTQ citizens. Japanese pro soccer player comes out as gay and encourages others to do the same prior to the 2020 Olympics and I have a picture before you of her. Her name is Shino Shimoyamada and she's 24. I'm very happy to have come out. My last headline which will be accompanied by a clip. Uh-oh. Concerns. Penguins? What's that? Penguins? No, penguins. But you know a little talking to to the U.S. from Irish Prime Minister Leo Radicar. He makes deplorable Mike Pence. There was a whole awkward arrangement. With his partner, right? His partner and Pence's wife. Deplorables both. You know they had this awkwardly staged interaction and then uh... Did they go to dinner with him or something? Anyway, go ahead. Radicar made a speech that can be viewed as a rebuke of Mike Pence and I think it should be. So let's look at that speech now. I stand here, leader of my country, flawed and human but judged by my political actions and not by my sexual orientation, my skin tone, gender or religious beliefs. And I don't believe that my country is the only one in the world where this story is possible. It's found in every country where freedom and liberty are cherished. We are after all all God's children. And that's true of the United States as well. The land and home of the brave and the free. Where the promise of America inspires boys and girls all over the world to dream big dreams and inspires others around the world to do the same. Yeah when when he said we're all children of God I thought this is a rebuke to Mike Pence's homophobic evangelism and religious stance. So... I love the accent. Well and the partner in this scene was like what am I doing here? They were making small talk, the Pence's and he was like ooh. Can I throw my tater tots at them? All right. I would feel the same way if I was there. I know it. You'd wing the mashed potatoes thing. Okay, what you got? Now we have you know Barbara Streisand. Who's lost her mind? I know who alleged the sex abuse victims were thrilled to be there. However... At Neverland. Later she said that she feels deep remorse and hope James and Wade know that they are truly respected and admire them for speaking their truth. To be crystal clear there is no situation or circumstance where it is okay for the innocence of children to be taken advantage of by anyone. Streisand's statement reads the stories these two young men shared were painful to hear and they feel nothing but sympathy for them. The single most important role of being a parent is protect their children. It's clear that the parents of these two young men were also victimized and seduced by fame and fantasy. So you know but her initial statement was just horrible and I she said I guess they lived through it they both have kids and yeah I just you know like I just lost my teeth I lost a lot of respect for Barbara doing this it was it's also a concept that most people don't understand and it's grooming. It wasn't as though these two young men were invited to Neverland. I know. And immediately there was... He seduced the parents. It is a gradual process. Right. How can I get you used to what it is that I'm about to do so that you accept it and when I say you need to be silent you are going to protect me. That's grooming. That takes time. And he had money and he could offer poor parents you know trips around the world and you know so but the fact that you use the world thrilled you know having to do with his music was just kind of... Well one of my friends on Facebook said bad move babs. Yeah so she's gonna have to do a lot of backtracking on that. And then Rosie and Barr you know Sarah Gilbert is the young woman who was also a lesbian who was a lesbian not also was a lesbian on the show. Anyways Rosie and Barr says that she's never gonna be able to forgive her for destroying her life after Rosie Ann's racist tweet. Gilbert joined the course of Americans condemning her tweet as we recall Rosie Ann posted a racist tweet about Valerie Jarrett. An African-American woman who was a senior advisor to Barack Obama throughout his presidency and considered one of the most influential aides Rosie Ann wrote that if the Muslim Brotherhood and Planet of the Apes had a baby Valerie would be it. So how is she's mad at Sarah Gilbert because she joined the chorus of condemnation and she felt like that she should have had her support and also one of the sikes walked off the job when she said that she was a writer and advisor. It's not as though Sarah Gilbert took Rose Ann's cell phone and was creating tweets. I guess she expected her to. But I distract you. Yes but that's okay. And then there's the LBGT groups want Mayor Pete. Buttigieg. To be more than the gay candidate for president I really like him and I've heard him talk and I heard him in a town meeting and he's just fantastic but he's a Midwestern mayor has a Harvard diploma and he speaks about eight languages and he was also deployed in Afghanistan. Now that he's crossed the 65,000 donor threshold imposed by the DNC he can be in the debates. Why do they have a limit to how much you have to have so much money before you can speak? I don't know. They use the contributions as an indication of support from within the Democratic Party and once you reached a specific plateau then you're looked at being a viable candidate. I know I understand why they do it but I mean the fact that it's attached to money is where it promotes the you know problems that we're having. Corporate financing and yeah don't get Ann going on corporate sponsors. I know we won't even go there. I was just thinking money...money in my hand. He is trying to break the rainbow sealing. We want him though to show that he deserves to be in the arena says Denise Parker president of the L.G. BTQ victory fund. We're excited about his candidacy He has put emphasis on his generation college affordability economic equality and fighting climate change I think this is going to be like I mean once people get to know him I think he's gonna be very popular whether we could elect a gay president in the United States I don't know but he's very intriguing so and so let's hear what you have to say now okay so the first thing is an update on Beto Sanchez Perez and just sort of recap really quickly Beto is someone who had been working with the Pride Center and was an immigrant specifically doing outreach to LGBTQ migrant workers and he had his traffic stop for which he then had a court of parents and when he showed up in December in Burlington for the court of parents ice was waiting for him when he exited the courthouse even though the hearing had nothing to do with his immigration status and even though it was not a felony which is supposed to be the two components that would trigger they know no what happens is that when you show up on the court roster that goes into ICDC it goes into the national crime computer to which ice does have access so they you know they were able to grab out his name match it against their list they took him into custody and it had been really unclear what was going on but he has been held in a detention detention center outside of Boston since December and he the report last night was that he had finally after many delays had his hearing after being in the orange jumpsuit and handcuffs and waiting in the courtroom all day and reportedly he has been granted asylum granted asylum which is a positive thing so we will have more in future shows Maine I guess it's not LePage's Augusta anymore although he's speaking doesn't mean we have to listen I know and it doesn't mean that it has weight while Susan Collins is a different issue Governor Mills signed LD1 into law this was an act to protect health care coverage for Maine families it was done is an emergency act which meant it got two-thirds vote and both their house in the Senate and what this does is that it codifies the Affordable Care Act into Maine statute so that regardless of what happens on a federal level they've got coverage and why it's important to us is this is what is going to ensure that people who are HIV positive or identify as transgender insurance companies cannot come in and just artificially inflate your premiums there have to be that's well see that's the catch with the Affordable Care Act is that an insurance company cannot do an adverse rating on you because of pre-existing conditions they have to accept it although that's going through the courts too that's a whole different thing but what this means is that regardless of what 45 is able to do in the federal courts relative to repeal of the Affordable Care Act Maine has their protections in place the other thing they just introduced LD1,025 this would be a ban on the use of conversion therapy it passed during the last session LePage veto did there was not enough time to do an override of his veto nor did they really have the votes in the chamber to do it but it's been reintroduced and looking at the number of sponsors they already have more sponsors than would be needed to vote in favor of the bill so my guess is that we're going to be looking at a ban on conversion therapy in Maine in the very near future we have an insurance parody where Vermont already has in place all of the necessary protections and it's actually one of the bills that the House Health Care Committee which is the committee for which Bill Lippert is the chair voted out so that it would make crossover to ensure that all of those protections are in place good that's encouraging now it's to you okay let's go back to Bohemian Rhapsody if we may it opened in China on March 22nd and as we know it portrays the life of Queen frontman Freddie Mercury an LGBT icon who died of AIDS related illnesses at the age of 45 Chinese censors in 2016 banned the portrayal of abnormal in their view sexual behavior including gay and lesbian relationships in TV and online and in online shows consequently some members of the LGBT community have called the release of Bohemian Rhapsody in China a victory however the China Chinese documentary filmmaker and LGBT activist fan and papo said it was dangerous to review the release of the to view the release of the film which has grossed over 890 million dollars at the global box office as a win if everyone becomes content with this kind of victory then the whole world will always submit to authority creators won't be respected and there will be no protection for the interests of the audience here are six LGBT moments in the film which I have not seen but I'm hoping this will be the interest of general interest six moments that have been censored for the world's second largest movie market number one a close-up of a male crotch number two a kiss between male I can tell you give you more context but let's just go through it quickly a kiss between male characters Mercury is confronted over his sexuality his longtime lover and friend Mary talks to him about his sexuality he says I'm bisexual and she says no Freddie you're gay they took that out the word gay is removed in another scene somebody says about Mercury's new haircut gayer in the Chinese version he's only shown given Mercury's new haircut a skeptical look before the scene moves on a plot hole emerges just after the one hour mark in the original version a drunk Mercury gropes his future partner Jim who was working at as a server at the party the star had just hosted the scene is deleted in the Chinese release leaving a plot hole as viewers have no idea where Jim came from a passionate kiss between both men later is also gone the entire I want to break free scene is gone now you may wonder if you haven't seen the movie what scene this is it's Freddie Mercury gets dressed up in women's clothing to shoot the now legendary music video of I want to be free the Chinese release skips this and cuts to Queen's heated reaction to MTV banning the music video which viewers might find confusing I would think so what stayed in during a press conference even though Mercury was asked directly about his sexual orientation the term used by the reporter was translated as sex life in the Chinese subtitle changing the questions meaning entirely despite the cuts and mistranslation the average Chinese viewer can still infer Mercury sexuality scenes that made the final version include Mercury coming out to his parents by holding the hand of his partner Jim Hutton homosexuality is not illegal in China and the authorities in 200 2001 removed it from the official list of medical mental disorders but activists and experts agree that prejudices and discrimination as well as periodic government crackdowns persist instead of trying to eliminate LGBT themes within the film filmmaker fun said the sensors have honed in on its more explicit sexual elements rather than homophobic I think China sensors are sex phobic he said they are probably the most conservative people in China that's why they are chosen for this job still fun does not believe the release of bohemian rhapsody in China represents a loosening of the sensors censorship of LGBT content I think that China has recently been trying to present itself to the world as open-minded CNN has reached out to the office of 20th Century Fox for comment and they didn't comment so I bet they can get on the black market or whatever that is I bet they could get like videos the real thing don't you think I don't know I want to say that the American companies like Netflix Amazon Prime etc. Amazon video have been going along with the Chinese censorship and not making them available yeah I can't answer that I don't know about the black market in China but I can tell you about the win for Kenyon Gaze as the court upholds their right to form an organization Eric Jittari and I have a picture of him before you right now he's approached the NGO coordination board after seeking to register his NGO after his application was rejected he went to the High Court he's co-founder of the National Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission in Kenya three justices affirmed the decision of the High Court and said that all human beings should not be denied their fundamental rights because of how they choose to live their life the presiding judge said there's nothing lawful unlawful and criminal about the objectives of the proposed NGO the issue of LGBT is rarely discussed in public but it cannot be doubted that it isn't a motive issue this judge said the reality is that this group exists and we can no longer deny that let it go down that I will not be the first to throw a stone and harm them he said according to the court documents get Atari well you know it's not a happy atmosphere in Kenya generally according to court documents Gittari had approached the NGO Coordination Board seeking to register his NGO the core objectives of the proposed organizations according to Gittari is advancement of human rights specifically the proposed NGO would seek to address the violence and human rights abuses suffered by gay and lesbian people as we observed above our understanding of the objectives of the proposed NGO is the protection of persons whose sexual orientation is gay or lesbian as well as persons who are transgender or intersex from discrimination and other violation of their rights the bench said so what does NGO stand for non-governmental organization okay and that could be anything like yeah but they need social service thing or right but it needs to be approved let's talk about India's first LGT theater group Q Rain and the Kerala queer pride march now I have a picture before you of the queer pride in Kerala held on March 17th 2019 St. Patrick's Day the pride march launched India's first ever LGBTQ theater group Q Rain toward the close of the event are they going to do like a theater that's already been established are they going to think up their owner they just I don't know you know I don't know they just had their first performance among the programs announced at the end of the March also include the launch of Joala a self-help group created for the transgender community according to an organization working for the rights of sexual and gender minorities the turnout this time was unexpectedly large and this spokesperson was pleasantly surprised to see people pouring in from other states like Tamil Nadu Karnahaka and West Bengal the march had followed a green protocol in this edition the report added none of the materials we used are non none are non biodegradable the rainbow flags are all made of cotton or cotton mixed material several cultural events followed after it drew to a close including a performance by the theater group of which I just spoke this is the first queer pride in Kerala after the decriminalization of section 377 of the India penal code in September 2018 a colonial law under which homosexuality was a criminal offense now I can go on to Kirk it's done I think we should move down this way and then when we get to you you can go back to you okay okay all right we have I or Congress men Steve King we are a deplorable well he had something fun have well he didn't think it was fun but I kind of thought it was interesting he was questioned why white nationalism had a negative connotation well he had a glass of water thrown at him during a lunch on Friday 26 year old adoptee advocate rights activist Blake Gibbons was arrested and charged police believe Gibbons targeted King for his racist anti-immigrant anti-LGBTQ and Islam islamophobic statements just this week King said victims of Hurricane Katrina expected the government to come and bail them out and help them as opposed to Iowans who's recovering from recent floods I know so here's the other thing there is a go fund me set up for Gibbons to help him with his legal expenses so if you want to go help Gibbons with this legal offenses go to his go fund me and help him out just dog okay it was like that guy who egged with that boy in Australia boy yeah that Australian deplorable who was blaming the Muslims for the Christchurch Massacre and they ate them yeah all right gay kid governor this is kind of a really neat thing you have a picture I have a picture yeah of this young girl and say she's going to be the next she's gonna be the first lesbian president I believe her fifth grader Ellie Briggs who was bullied at her old school ran on a pro-LGBTQ rights platform since 2015 this would be a good thing for any state I would think Connecticut has ran run a state once our state run civics program that encourages fifth graders to run for election for president vote and she was voted kid governor this 11-year-old was sworn in as the kid governor at the state house and she is just adorable and so she's not really gonna be the governor no she's a kid yeah that's the idea of the story so the idea of the civics is to have these kids run and make a platform and take a stand and argue their issues and and she won so and she's gonna be the first boxer threatens to punch or shoot any gay man the flirts with him so apparently these two have been having this the target of this anger is Adrian bro a Adrian bro ners hate filled video because an ex gay man accused the boxer of coming on to him so he did this video and said that he wouldn't he wasn't flirting in fact he would shoot he would shoot him yeah so excessive response yeah yeah and dance studio turns away lesbian couple the owner said he didn't want them to come because it would make people uncomfortable because they dance better than the rest yeah are they suing well I don't know what state was this in just peppering her with questions I know I can't I don't know and I didn't because there was not a public accommodations non-discrimination Texas maybe Michelle they can get away and Amanda Sheldon returned away from the prestige ball oh this is where it was from the prestige ballroom in Desperes Missouri by Dave Thompson who allegedly told them that he doesn't have to accommodate same-sex couples though and that he is freely a freely admit oh he said he didn't have to because it wasn't required by law however it is required by law but he said that he didn't have or he didn't do it for religious reasons but if he had done it for religious reasons he would have had a way to throw them out Missouri has non-discrimination statutes in place maybe in this town I don't know but it turns out that if he had said it was religious professor Charles homework okay if he said it was religious he would have been legitimately thrown them out but he said it wasn't religiously based so we had to take them so I don't know he took them no he didn't well I don't know what the outcome was I know that someone else called and said well you're welcome at my dance place but I don't know that was probably the outcome so we'll have to catch up with them at some point and I think that's pretty much what I have here so so let me add to your national stuff at as we were coming down it was announced that Jesse small at right in Chicago they've dropped all 16 charges what the prosecutor had said was that the volunteer service that the young man is already providing and his willingness to forfeit the bond would equate to what would be the fines and penalties if they went through the hearing so they've dropped all 16 charges neither the mayor nor the chief of police kind of like this agreement and they've been very vocal in opposition April 2nd US House of Representatives will have the first public hearing ever on the Equality Act which means non-discrimination based upon sexual orientation gender identity and there was a recent poll not taking you to Poland looking at sort of the level of support for LGBTQ issues and they found that still 69% of Americans support LGBT equality however that's a two to three percent decrease from two years three years ago major shift within the people who self-identify as Republicans in Vermont looking at those things that passed crossover which means there will be action completed this year paid family leave and this would add half a cent payroll tax and people who earn 1334 per hour or less they would qualify for 90% of their salary and people who earned greater than 1334 which is considered the livable wage would get 50% of their salary and what the bill would give you is 12 weeks of parental leave and eight weeks of medical leave so it was it was it is no longer the most generous program in the nation but it's doing pretty good the other bill that is advancing is a 24-hour waiting period on the purchase of a handgun and this this bill is a compromise it is down from the 72 hours at the house that originally wanted and the house is about to consider it the 48 hours that was originally proposed in the Senate they also limited it specifically to handguns rifles are exempted and they remove the suicide right well that's the whole basis for the bill is you know the parents of a young man who went out purchased and committed suicide within the same afternoon was saying if they had had 48 hours things would have changed so but rifles are now excluded they also put in a provision that if I was grandfathered in with high-capacity magazines I could will them to an immediate family member not going there PR 5 this is this is one of the constitutional amendments passed by unanimous vote added the Senate Health and Welfare Committee there were two there were two different constitutional amendments relative to reproductive freedom one is PR 3 and the other is PR 5 PR 3 was introduced by Senator Benning of Caledonia County and what he put into the language of his bill was only what he thought were the core components of Roe v. Wade and it's about your right to privacy PR 5 goes further than that and and this was introduced originally by Senator Ash and Senator Becca Ballant our next woman governor yeah and they went further that it's not only a right to privacy but it is a right a woman's right to choose and is clearly identified there is no doubt about it and this would put it at the constitutional level so regardless of what the U.S. Supreme Court does where covered Vermont would have it at our highest level a bill of interest S 141 soda will no longer be considered the default drink on a children's menu just fun and the House had voted to put a 4 cent per gallon tax fuel charge heating fuel to contribute to the weatherization program worthy program currently it is 2 cents per gallon they're going to double it to 4 cents a gallon looking at you know for climate change and you know all of the things that we really need to be doing you know weatherization for you know low income is probably one of the more effective things that we can do my only last comment because we're going to give and as much time as possible what about trivia and I have two questions for you okay oh why didn't you tell me a question is that well I don't want to interrupt your presentation you know continuing the only other thing I was going to say is they release some hate crime statistics looking at 2016 and of the 275 rallies that 45 held looking at those counties in which the rallies were held there was an over 226% increase in the incident of bias and hate crimes characterized by vandalism intimidation and assault mm-hmm so back to the Equality Act is it true that Mitch McConnell isn't even going to bring it to the Senate oh I haven't heard that I've heard that it that wouldn't necessarily surprise me no but and the PR3 and the PR5 what's happening I have they've been passed or okay PR5 is the one we want which is the one we want well have made it from the Senate to the House by the crossover deadline so it will be enacted this year oh Scott will sign it he doesn't have to this and again constitutional amendment it has to pass by two-thirds majority in the Senate simple majority in the House that has to be completed within the biennium then it gets reintroduced the next biennium which would be 2020 2021 it would have to be reintroduced in the Senate passed by simple majority passed by the House in simple majority and then it goes out for vote by the citizens this is not something that the governor signs into law this is something that we vote on and it gets essentially and it gets enacted as a constitutional amendment not until 2021 if all goes well 22 yeah very informative thank you I have three stories to wrap up my segment one involves this rainbow rage story in the first gay pride march slash women's day march in Kyrgyzstan I have a picture before you know of the human rights activists marching in this women's day march many consider it the first gay pride march ever held in Central Asia it's unleashed a storm of controversy in Kyrgyzstan with threats of violence against participants counter protests and fiery parliamentary debate over whether to reign reign in civil society the peaceful march by some 400 people in central Bishkek on women's day on March 8th promoting women's rights and equality for capital yeah believe so and equality for all it was fiercely criticized by socially conservative lawmakers in the predominantly Muslim country so there was a big fight in parliament and all these deplorables came out and denounced LGBT rights and so forth no women's marches were held in any of the four other Central Asian states critics say such comment or observers say such comments are emblematic of a deep societal division within Kyrgyzstan the region's only democracy and arguably its most progressive country I think it's very cool that the LGBTQ community came to the march because this is also related to the rights of women if we're talking about lesbians and transgender girls who face tremendous violence in Kyrgyzstan said Buktor Iskander the founder of the popular cloup KG website and a participant in the march this is part of the women's rights movement it's impossible to separate them and I'm proud of Kyrgyzstan that this has become possible here is God or is kinder added that it wasn't the only time that supporters of sexual minorities in Kyrgyzstan had been taking part in the women's march only that it was the first time opponents of the LGBT community had noticed this year's women's march had more touch participants than in previous years because there's a group of deplorables called the 40 warriors and they made threats to marchers and city officials allowing the event to be held Bishkek feminist initiatives insisted on holding the march despite this group's efforts to discourage it saying they could it the opponents said it could cause traffic jams and lead to confrontations but the feminists prevailed while there were 40 warrior are these legislative people or just well there was a fight in parliament a lot of deploy and then this group of 40 warriors caused trouble and then city officials were threatened and you know the 40 warriors said this is going to cause confrontations and traffic jams and the BFT feminists that we're going to go ahead and do it anyway there were 40 members 40 there were 40 warrior members present at the march but they didn't directly a fear interfere with the procession however they are accused of making threats to female activists and others who attended 40 warriors called on March 11th for Bishkek mayor to resign for permitting the march and two days later the nationalist group held a counter protest in front of parliament warning its members that it and its thousands of supporters would take action if lawmakers did not only about 30 people attended the nationalist group rally we proposed that 40 warriors renamed themselves this activist said to 40 dickheads 30 people came no well I was just I can never deliver a punchline so let's go on to my next story which has no punchline Brunei or so you think Brunei is urged to halt the introduction of strict anti-LGBT laws changes would allow whipping and stoning to death Muslims found guilty of adultery, sodomy and rape Brunei was the first East Asian country to introduce Islamic criminal law in 2014 when it announced the first of three stages of legal changes that included fines or jail time for offenses like pregnancy outside marriage or failing to pray on Friday previously homosexuality was illegal in Brunei punishable by up to 10 years imprisonment but the changes would allow whipping and stoning to death for Muslims found guilty of adultery, sodomy and rape the country delayed implementing the first two stages of changes after an international backlash in 2014 but now it plans to go ahead with both on April 3rd Manila based outright in action international confirmed with other groups that Brunei was about to implement a new stage in its Sharia laws socially conservative attitudes prevail across Asia with Myanmar Malaysia Singapore and Brunei banning sexual relationships between men while Indonesia has seen an increase and raids targeting LGBT plus people in recent years Brunei a former British protectorate of about 400,000 nestled between two Malaysian states on Borneo Island is the first country in East Asia to adopt the criminal component of Sharia on a national level the full implementation of Sharia penal law will apply severe penalties against consensual same-sex relations including the death penalty via stoning said Ryan Silviero coordinator at a human rights caucus in an email Dede Ohtomo Ohtomo one of Indonesia's most prominent LGBT plus activists said it would be the gross violation of international human rights if the changes went ahead it's horrible Brunei is imitating the most conservative Arab states he said and it seems like it's gonna go forward very quickly I have one more story if I may well they can forget about tourism the world's happiest countries protect their LGBT citizens the world happiness report 2019 has been released ranking 156 countries on how happy people living there think they are off the top of the top ten happiest countries nine have extensive laws and legal protections for their LGBTQ citizens Finland came in first happiest country in the world followed by Denmark Norway Iceland the Netherlands Switzerland Sweden New Zealand Canada and Austria so I have more but I think it's time to go to the trivia question where the United States I don't think we even placed it's 19th in the world happiest country 19th in the Spartacus travel index which I mentioned last time all right now we'll have our trivia so 1988 people opposing the anti-discrimination bill based upon sexual and affectional orientation made this comment it is well documented and well known the typical gay has 500 to a thousand in their lifetime and the answer would be sexual partners there was one person testifying who actually said that it was 500 to a thousand in a year I have no comment 500 to a thousand in a lifetime we need to end the show now because I'm behind up my quota and with that I'm that note of confession let's remember to resist