 Hi, I'm Keith Ghostland. I'm Linda Quinlan. I'm Ann Charles. It's Tuesday, June 14th We're Here welcome to all things LGBTQ. We're recording from Montpelier, Vermont, which we recognize is unceded indigenous land All right, Keith now we're off. That's right and more ways than one so Oh June is a Bunch of balloons month accordion awareness month Adopt a cat month Yes, it's a Sparky will approve. Mm-hmm. It's also LGBTQ plus month and I think all things LGBTQ now holds the distinction of being the longest running Vermont LGBTQ plus theme show So congratulations however There have been other LGBTQ plus theme shows one most notably in the late 1990s that was live With music interviews and they had people calling in Do you remember what it was? I? Have the answer. Yes so looking at events The first thing I want to acknowledge is that June 12th was the sixth anniversary of the pulse massacre and I think even more so now Those of us within the LGBTQ plus community Need to be acutely aware of how we have been and continue to be targeted with gun-related violence so Also coming up on Sunday June 19th is June 10th Yep, which is now a federal holiday. Uh-huh and Burlington has made it a Municipal holiday and they will be doing events on Monday the 20th. Nice. So be looking for those Okay, looking at other events coming up on Tuesday June 21st at the Savoy here in Montpelier They are showing Jonathan Agassi save my life This is a documentary that was filmed between Berlin in Israel over a six-year period Jonathan Agassi is probably one of the most successful gay male porno stars And this documentary as they said in their review pulls back the curtain and What is this industry really like? On Thursday June 23rd babes seven o'clock gay trivia Get get your team together and go down and see how you do. Oh, we'd win hands down Okay Then on Friday June each 24th Although in Bethel is their pride and bloom prom starting at six o'clock at the town hall So if you never got to go to your prom, here's your chance Friday June 24th through 26 and this was an event that I had sort of missed before Rainbow Fest and this is a weekend-long Event that is happening at the Milldale farm for wellness and Fairleigh And they're doing camping yoga workshops hiking paddleboards on a music dancing bonfires Community HIV testing they are promoting it is Vermont's alternative pride event But it's going to cost you a hundred to two hundred and fifty dollars to come spend the weekend with them So forget that but there but there's an opportunity On Saturday the 25th at the sangha studio in Burlington, which is on Pride Street Pine Street It is their second annual community pride block party What would read this is pine tree? It's an artist collective. Oh, and they've been sponsoring events over the years poetry readings Exhibitions whatever so this is there come in spend some time with us. Let's have a good time Also on the 25th in Burlington is the people's pride and this is no corporation no cops you know one o'clock Maine and Church Street, and then they will march through town on Sunday the 26th at 2 p.m. In City Hall Park in Burlington is the dedication of the plaque commemorating the first pride day in 1983 on the 26th which is the Sunday is Bennington's pride festival parade block and I'm not done Because we still have Tuesday June 28th here in Montpelier at three penny tap room is pride eats The benefit 5% of all their sales between 11 in the morning and 8 o'clock at night Go to the pride center to support programs and outreach and the pride center was doing the you know Everyone eats program to ensure that lgbtq food and secure Actually had what they need and they want to do that in Montpelier, too Yes, and this is happening at at the tap room. Yeah so and the and my last is Out in the open They have a job opening They're looking for a community organizer And as the community organizer you would often be the people's first go-to when interacting without in the open You you will have the space to create new projects deep in relationships with long-time community members and collaborators and Bring your own brilliance and I deal to the role too bad. I'm retired When there's on a roll today, we're just having a good time and they're hoping to close the application process by June 30th And you can apply on the website sounds good. It sounds like a good opportunity for some I there you go well, we have some Depressing stories a couple of uplifting stories, but not many For everybody who's been watching the hearings this week Very interesting and illuminating. Yes. I was gonna say it's and that has been promoting yourself as being the optimistic one in our That's right. And now the truth is being revealed But will anything happen? We will see. Okay. Well, we're gonna start off with white supremacists and Their founder is among the 31 arrested for conspiracy to riot at an Iowa pride event Idaho, Idaho I don't heard. Oh, we ain't court. Yeah. Yeah Okay, so thank you Ian 31 of them 31. So we'll have more about that Drake Queen story hours disrupted by men shouting slurs in Alamon, El Amina Elamenda County, California Authority said the men wore clothing consistent with the proud voice Richmond, Virginia Representative Glenn Yonkin was running to be Virginia governor But and he was the person who defended the suspended teacher over the objection To using the students preferred pronouns Given this bipartisan surprise when he hosted a reception Celebrating Pride Month at the Virginia Capitol Well, he is the governor already he won. Yeah, Yonkin So he is yeah, but when he ran He defend when he was running he defended the teacher Okay, but now everybody was really surprised Because he was he held hosted a reception celebrating Pride Month I see. Okay Boise police are searching for whoever stole 35 rainbow flags during Pride Month Mega Congressional candidate promises to start executing people who support LGBTQ gay youth Republican pastor Mark Burns is running for Congress in North South Carolina He also wants to as execute Mitch McConnell and Lizzie Graham Along with the parents and teachers who support LGBTQ youth He has compared LGBTQ support of adults as Nazis So there's another good person running in South Carolina Pennsylvania House votes to remove homosexuality from the state crime code eliminating the archaic language That will promote a culture of acceptance say some we'll see in the city of Ara Illinois Pride may be canceled The police said that they cannot supply enough offices to provide Propriet security there are two they are 20 offices shot of the required amount. That sounds bogus to me I know but you know Everybody is really struggling to find police officers and I you know, I think there's a whole story behind that like, you know, maybe Racists don't feel welcome at the police department. So they're not joining in droves anymore Or I don't know what's going on But the police are having a really hard time all over the country trying to find people They should adopt the approach that Middlebury is considering of Hiring undocumented aliens Undocumented Americans. Yeah, and while we're pausing core delayed is the name of the Idaho, Idaho, okay core delaying And Ron DeSantis governor of Florida wants to investigate parents that take their kids to see drag queens He is open to using child's protection laws to outlaw drag shows in the presence of children He implied that he would use the Florida child protection service laws to terminate the parental rights of adults Who take their kids to see drag shows? I'm assuming he's talking mostly about Drake Queen story hours and stuff Mm-hmm during a conference. He said that he has asked his people to look into this idea so a Judge blocks, Texas from investigating families of trans youth That's good news three families filed suit including on one family who said they were reported by hospital staff After their child attempted suicide Rebel Wilson a comedian says she is involved with the woman the 42 year old Actor shared on Instagram her and her girlfriend Ramon agruma and entrepreneur and brand ambassador in LA, so that's that and I have a lot of more stories, but I'm just going to read a few more and then we can move on to Ann and come back to them later Friends and community members gathered this week in candlelight vision visual Fajulio Ramirez 25 who died in April after leaving a bar in New York City He was a social worker from Brooklyn and as you recall We talked about that he got into a cab with three unidentified males and His money was taken and I used I think was like I don't know maybe three thousand dollars And as far as I know, there are still they still have no suspects that We're involved in this murder and The Carolina Panthers hire the NFL's first transgender cheerleader Justine Lindsay age 25 is a black trans woman and she announced she would be joining the Panthers soon Five Tampa Ray players refused to wear the LGBTQ Pride themed jackets because they said it was against their religious beliefs So get rid of them this week's primary race has saw many wins for LGBTQ candidates We'll have more about that North Carolina can't deny health care to trans state workers the Exclusion of coverage for trans people People's care is illegal discrimination a federal judge rule, so that's good news a Texas town rallies around a gay couple after their pride flags were stolen. This is Texas. Here we go Keith dollar and Terry Gardner's community is rallying around the couple Someone set fire to several flags in Dallas the couple moved To this town just outside of Dallas from New Orleans, so Okay, and do you have that story from Oklahoma? About the judge reversing. Yes. Yes. I do good We'll get on to that later because that's optimistic news Okay, I'm glad you had it international headlines strange news from Peru Let me just Share that with you the Constitutional Court of Peru has redet rejected cases Seeking registration of Peruvian same-sex couple's marriages Entered into in other countries The court said bringing in marriage equality requires a change in the nation's Constitution that would be an abuse of the court's position to impose marriage equality That the 2017 inter-american court of human rights marriage equality ruling is not binding on Peru Which of course it is the inter-american human rights system suffers from? Idealization this court said but of course the inter-american court ruling is binding on 20 countries including Peru Peru is part of the inter-american system and the organism that defends and protects these rights is called the Inter-american Court of Human Rights and if the court has taken a decision I believe that all parties are called to respect that decision So I don't know what's going on in Purdue Peru, but it's very strange My worst story of the night involves a young lesbian stoned to death In a township near Johannesburg in South Africa Let me show you a picture before you now her name is Ruth Nikki Chagallway she was 24 she was originally from Zimbabwe and Was brutally murdered her body was found on the 27th of May. She was stoned to death Only on May 31st did the organization confirm her identity She came to South Africa in 2019 her parents disowned her because she was Of her sexual orientation She found a job in a truck shop and started to rent a room weeks before she was killed She and her girlfriend received homophobic threats from guys around the area Wherein they uttered that they both deserve to be raped and killed to add to the tragedy She leaves behind a one-year-old daughter There's an urgent need for a massive intervention in this part of Johannesburg said an activist People live in LGBTQ people live in fear and they can't even disclose their relationships in public The family is awaiting post-mortem results and They need assistance getting the body back to Zimbabwe Which is more challenging because the family is undocumented a candlelight vigil was held on June 3rd and this is One of a series. I mean South Africa has You know LGBTQ rights are enshrined in the Constitution, but there have been all kinds of murders this year It's growing in an alarming rate This is the fifth reported queer individual to be killed in 2022 last month the mutilated body of Non-Casogo Caroline Mowklung 27 who'd been missing for a week was found after her family Desperately searched for her also in May the naked body of 22-year-old Unathi Weber was discovered in Cape Town in March Pinky Shungway a 32-year-old lesbian was stabbed to death just outside of Durban Reportedly because she rejected a man's romantic advances on April 27 22-year-old 25-year-old Musa Zulu was gunned down in full view of the public in Durban He was buying items at a garage when a man said he hated gays and shot him dead in the parking lot Days earlier another LGBTQ plus man 24-year-old Mo Fungo Nego beast was seriously injured in a Suspected hate crime attack by a group of men near a Durban's near the Durban City Hall After leaving a gay nightclub. So that's terrible news from South Africa No, no So in a dramatic switch of gears Let's look a picture look at a picture now at over a thousand people attending Donegals first Pride Parade this weekend more pride news comes from the Baltics and I have to I'd like to explore this in greater detail Nine years there's the Baltic states have a rotating pride system It's neighbors Latvia and Estonia Rotate the pride celebrations this year it was in Vilnius, Lithuania, and I spent a lot of time last On the last show talking about the dire circumstance in Lithuania, but now 10,000 people mostly young adults have flocked to the Capitol It's a country of 2.8 million people in the biggest Baltic country country nine years ago There were neo-Nazis on both sides and more police than participants and onlooker said Since 2009 the annual event has rotated among the capitals of the three countries Gathering local activists and international allies Vilnius hosted Baltic pride for the first time in 2010 Only 400 people marched and that's where all the pulley they have had the pronounced police presence It wasn't easy people looked at us like they were in a zoo said the executive director of Lithuania's biggest LGBT group Our community is very brave to show up and we lost a week have a lot of allies that marched with us big companies like Google Moody's and the Nordic Bank Nordic Baltic Bank Sweet Bank were among the participants and sponsors this year as well as the embassies of the US Canada and Norway and parents of Matthew Shefford also attended under Soviet occupation from 1944 to 1991 Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia all joined the together with other Europeans In other countries in the eastern block to join the European Union including Poland and Hungary of about which we have Spent a lot of time on this show They're all their human rights records lag behind unlike their Nordic neighbors when it comes to sexual minorities Poland, Romania and Bulgaria rank worse than Lithuania and Latvia and Estonia an economic success story Story remains in the lower half of the ranking in legal protections for queer people Yet things are mostly are slowly changing according to this optimistic article Both Lithuania and Latvian parliaments are currently debating similar bills that were would introduce civil partnerships for same-sex couples Granting them some but not all of the rights of marriage and I reported on this bill being brought forward in Lithuania After several attempts and the bill being watered down and activists said the bill avoids the term family and its wording for example She hopes to secure a parliamentary majority in favor of the measure in the coming weeks and months Now I'd like to show you a picture of Thomas Rescoviceus Lithuania's only openly gay member of parliaments He said the reluctance to grant LGBTQ people further legal recognition Comes mostly not surprisingly from the Catholic Church as well as the occupation of this legacy of the Soviet occupation And then we have a little Account of the deplorable Actions of the Soviet Union, which I'll spare you and I'll tell you about this parliament member He was a lawyer an LGBTQ activist who went into politics to create systemic change He said he will vote for the civil union bill in the hope that it will help ignite more subversive change in the long term I'm not happy with the bill because it's full of compromises. He noted the reality of politics is tough This is just the first step on the road toward equality and Latvia is taking a similar step And you know what this just reminded me of in a national parallel is this gun rights Legislation that is in the US that's so watered down You know, it's not gonna really make almost an embarrassment, but there's a step in the right direction Anyway, getting back to the pride march. We're the first generation that did not grow up under the Soviet occupation A youthful participant explained we grew up in the European Union. We are free to do as we wish It's going to get better He said as pride marchers As the pride march speakers on the floats played global queer anthems from Katy Perry's I kissed a girl to Gloria Gaynor's Legendary I will survive So that's mixed news from Lithuania Now let's turn to there's another story I'd like to get back to I'm not sure if I'll have time for those so The last European story I have involves tennis legend Billy Jean King and you all know what she looks like I'm not gonna show a picture of her posing with Manuel Macron as she receives the Legion of Honor Award on the anniversary of the her historic French open victory and she won this 50 years ago and She's now 78 she said that she is prouder of what I have done off court than what I've accomplished throughout My story tennis career, which has included a total of 39 grand slam titles I guess being the world's number one and winning grand slam tournaments is quite an achievement But I'm proud to have fought for gender equality She dominated remember she won the Bobby Riggs battle of the sexes game that we all watched staring at the TV then in 2022 is among a hundred over 170 current and former athletes and women's sports who signed the friend of the court brief and support of trans girls and women's playing Sports other prominent signatories included World Cup champion champion Megan Rapino WNBA Trailblazer Candace Parker, Bessie Sauerbrunn, Megan Duggan Like Leisha Clarendon and Kate Sowers There's no place in any sport for discrimination of any kind King declared I'm proud to support all transgender athletes who simply want to access an Opportunity to compete in the sport they love She continued the global athletic community grow stronger when we welcome in champion All athletes including LGBTQI athletes so I'm finished with Europe. Let's go to Asia in my next segment. Okay I was thinking Billie Jean King is really a hero. She were all about you know of which Megan Rapinoe and she's her successor. Yeah, you know Shoulders she stands on. Yes. Okay Okay, so anyone who's been following the mom player front porch forum. There was an incident Over the weekend where a pride flag was vandalized in the downtown area and I reached out to the person who did the posting Who shared that they put out pride? Symbols in the past This is the first time there's been an incident such as this that's occurred at their house And it's the first time this has occurred in their neighborhood. However, it reminds us that Regardless of what it is that we are trying to create We need to be ever vigilant and if you are experiencing any degree of bias or Vandalism, please report it So that we can track what it is this happening particularly as you're reporting on Idaho and Patriot Front and the Proud Boys Because we saw their leaflets up throughout downtown Montpellier in the past. So we are not immune but a positive flip to the defacing of the pride flag is The Harvard Union School in Duxbury Their school board unanimously approved Displaying the pride flag for the remainder of their school year After being submitted a two-page essay That was written by a student who identifies as non-binary and Who shared with the school board their experience of harassment and bullying at a Harvard Union? So good going little follow-up on New Hampshire and eight house bill 1731 and this is the Parents rights bill that we've been reporting on for for several shows and that Linda reported on our last show that Governor Sununu said, you know, if it gets to my desk in its current form I will veto this and their state Attorney General said, you know The manner in which this bill is written. I think that it is in conflict with our non-discrimination statutes Well, Governor Sununu didn't have to veto it because There was some controversy within the conference committee itself and members were replaced Because they were members that weren't going along with the more conservative Senate version so when the more conservative Conference committee version went back to the house They voted it down 176 to 171 that's still very close, but this bill died So Posit yeah positive in Massachusetts They've introduced a parentage bill That will extend Who qualifies as being a parent Establishes relationships a protocol for disputes talks about surrogacy and Assisted reproduction This is the same bill that Vermont passed three years ago and Massachusetts is poised to do it now Which means that main Vermont, Massachusetts will all have these very positive parenting bills that acknowledge LGBTQ plus parents and Looks at parenting from an entirely different perspective not oh, what's the biology of this? But what's in the best interest of the child? What a kind of time? Radical concept and sort of following up on that You know looking at what Linda was reporting about Texas and the hospital staff feeling that they needed to report this chent transgender youth and their parents and Stepping in I'm gonna I lost my place here Connecticut, Rhode Island, Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont We have all enacted protocols or or bills that say We're not going to cooperate with other states that try to impede on providing care to transgender youth or goes after their parents If you bring your child to Vermont or any of these other states for care that's a confidential record and it does not get reported back and Massachusetts They were looking at if they really needed to introduce a bill to ensure That protection and that integrity and their attorney general is saying you know I think the existing language in their non-discrimination statutes does in fact provide that protection so New England Yes, we are rapidly becoming Like two different countries exactly we are we are rapidly becoming we are we're the place where you are safe and you are protected good Excuse me so back to white supremacists Must be I know In Idaho mm-hmm, so They were at this hotel and someone tipped off the FBI or the police that They saw these guys getting into a you-all 31 of them wearing masks Proud boy insignias caps Cocky pants same shirts Same navy blue shirts beige hats and masks covering their faces Well, that would look kind of suspicious The police arrested them ten minutes after they left the hotel And right winger and Trump supporters are flooding social media now telling people The usual claims that the Patriot front is a secret FBI Operation to make them look bad Okay, the the key component though is not only were they all dressed in this sort of paramilitary They were heavily armed They filled the you-all what I think it was you know enough to Supply a small army. Yeah They declare that they're intent was to cause a riot at the proper rate Yeah, you know and they're talking about doing that at voting polls now, too like they're asking people to Become voter What do they call them poll watchers, right? And you know that and they want these destructive people to be there to kind of like really scare off Democrats who might run so we all need to be aware of that Um Swallowed is a queer horror film This film focuses on two friends on the last night before one of them leaves their backward town in Maine For Los Angeles for a career in gay porn So that sounds like it was Jonathan Agassi No, I don't okay Nicole Serrano ex-Christian singer and songwriter comes out as a lesbian. That's good news, huh? Dre Queen story hours canceled in a North Carolina town due to violent threats The town is apex North Carolina. So if you live around here, I don't know Now here's another movie which I'm really looking forward to starting. It's a series actually and it's called first kill And is a queer vampire drama create a Victoria Schwab Along with stars Imani Lewis and Sarah Hook Discuss singing their teeth into a wonderfully gay Netflix series The creator The creator grew up with Buffy the vampire slayer and wanted to see more in that genre One is a vampire one lesbian is a vampire and the other is a vampire slayer So they should be they should be chasing each other all around the universe. I should be very fun I may have to bring you a second television for your apartment. No kidding Pauline Murray's documentary of the non-binary actresses life wins the Peabody Award. Oh good so a Teen is arrested or fourth right knee a mass shooting at one of Florida's pride events. Oh When this is this is good because I know they've been doing this probably for 200 years is The New York Port Authority is to stop undercover pop public bathroom stings. Oh finally, I know a Gay trust fund ears body is found and his ex has been arrested for murder Richard Young 22 Had been missing since 2019. He was the heir to a two million dollar trust fund His ears the his body was found after being missing for three years So that's not so good and we reported last time about the lesbian mom who went to court and Her name was on the birth certificate with her partner and they took and the judge took her name off Well, um So now she's been her name has been reinstated on the birth birth certificate the ruling has been reversed Chris Williams and Rebecca Wilson were married in 2019. They had a child throughout official insemination And both were initially on the birth certificate So they took it away and they put it back. So that is good news And then Paul Gunther keeper of cult of a cultural fame dies at 65 He helped engineer behind the scenes rescues of monuments murals and museums and The preservation of time squares dazzling lights He died of suicide and and this was confirmed by his longtime partner Joel Saunders, so he'd do a lot for New York and Ohio bill being trans girls from female sports could require genital checks Girls of all ages could be required to have full pelvic exams if the opposing coach Questions the identity the gender identity of a player. That is scary. Yeah, that's awful Okay, well, and I have some more stories, but we're kind of running out of time So I will have to add them To next week's agenda so that you can do some of your stories and Keith will have time for his Yeah, yeah So you go girl, okay Let's start with a picture of Thailand from Thailand Bangkok. See is the first LGBTQ pride March in 16 years Um Thailand it's the first March with local backing Thousands of people and allies took part in the first pride with local backing March came as parliament considers increasing Right the rights of same-sex couples. We'll see what happens there Jerusalem celebrates 20 years of pride marches thousands again March in a colorful parade There's a little controversy in Kuwait Which criticism it which criticized the US Embassy over pro-LGBTQ? Tweets and they don't want the flag. They don't want the US Embassy flying the Rainbow flag supporting gay rights Yeah President Joe Biden issued a message of solidarity Kuwait officials criticized the Embassy for supporting homosexuality and demanded That it not happen again Now let not surprising. Let's let's take a look at Kuwait Where LGBTQ people are severely restricted and it is illegal there for men to be gay Pair of tweets published in English and Arabic from the US Embassy quoted Biden is saying all humans should be able to live without fear No matter who they are or whom they love too much for the Kuwait authorities the post Was supposed to mark the beginning it was posted to mark the beginning of pride month And it appeared with the picture of the flag Rights for LGBTQ people are limited in socially conservative Kuwait One of the 69 countries in the world where being gay is criminalized According to the Gulf States penal code men who have same-sex relations can be punished by up to 17 years. It was a criminal offense up until this year In Kuwait to be trans a court has now overturned the law as unconstitutional use states the US State State Department spokesperson told the BBC United the United States proudly advances efforts around the globe to protect all individuals including LGBTQ plus persons from violence and abuse criminalization discrimination and stigma and to empower marginalized populations and local civil society Including the LGBTQ plus community. So the US is sticking to its guns Kuwait is irritated. I have very exciting North American stories. I'll start with the more Most stayed only five Mexican states now lack marriage equality 26 states in the federal capital Mexico City have marriage equality though Four five or six of those still need to codify it in their laws Meaning legislative action remains required in 10 or 11 states Now I'm counting Linda has granted me permission to cover some National entertainment news in the form of the Tony Awards Which was very gay this time it aired on CBS Channel 3 and diverse Let's start and I want you know all the pictures are copyrighted So I couldn't show you pictures, but you know, you can go online and see pictures and recordings and reportage She was fabulous Adriana do boss I think But let's start with a strange loop Which is a scalding story about a gay black theater artist Confronting self-doubt and societal disapproval This won the Tony Award for best new musical Sunday night giving another huge accolade to a challenging contemporary Production that had already won the Pulitzer Prize the soul-bearing show nurtured by nonprofits and Developed over many years triumphed over two flashy pop musicals MJ jukebox musical about the entrepreneur Michael Jackson and six an Irreverent consideration of Henry the eighths ill-fated wives in the six-way race the strange loop Got praise from critics on Sunday night Michael R. Jackson the writer who spent nearly two decades working on it acknowledged how personal the project was As he collected her first Tony Award for the best book of the musical I wrote it at a time when I didn't know What I was going to do with my life. He said I didn't know how I was going to move forward. I felt unseen I felt unheard I felt misunderstood and I just wanted to create a little bit of a life raft for myself as a black gay man Take me out Emerged victorious in the best play revival category particularly a particularly strong field That included productions of American Buffalo I learned to drive trouble in mind and for colored girls who have considered suicide when the rainbow is enough Written by Richard Greenberg. Take me out first ran on Broadway in 2003 and won the best play Tony that year this year's revival presented by the nonprofit's second stage theater Is about what happens when a baseball player Portrayed in this production by Jesse Williams comes out as gay Jesse Tyler Ferguson picked up his first Tony for his portrayal of the player's investment visor visor The host was Ariana Dubose Who is queer And it not only honored shows Performers writers and designers, but also under studies who carried so many performances of the season Dubose Won this year's Academy Award as Anita in West Side Story paid tribute to the season's Extraordinary diversity saying I feel like the phrase great white way is becoming more of a nickname as opposed to a how-to guide She noted the season's high volume of work by black writers Which came about as producers and theater owners scrambled to respond to demands for more representation and Opportunity for black artists after the national unrest over racism during the summer of 2020 This year's class of Tony nominees featured a large number of black artists Reflecting the fact that work by black writers led to more jobs for black performers designers directors and more Tony award six co-creator Toby Marlowe has become the first non-binary composer lyricist to one best score and the first openly Trans-nominated performer was el Morgan Lee And we're going to New York and we're going to see a bunch of play so he's going to tell you all about that when we get back Well, I don't want to bore you with them, but it's very exciting and the Tony's were electric They were really good. Everybody seems so excited to be back. Yes to be working to having you know I mean it was the electricity was in the air in the show Well, now let's move to Canada. I know I'm taking I'm stealing keys Bailawick, but I have a movie that Linda and I saw that I'd love to tell you about it's a 2021 Canadian dramatic romantic coming-of-age film directed by Bretton Hanam running time 100 minutes country Canada Language English and Mick Mac It's an extension of Hanam's earlier short film wildfire Which was the winner of the award for the best film at the set at the Nova Scotia Awards in 2020 We'd like that. It was really good It stars Philip Lewitsky as Lincoln a young man in his late teens who was raised disconnected from his maternal Mick Mac heritage by his abuse of white father Following the discovery that his mother Sarah whom he had long been told was dead is in fact still alive He takes his younger brother Travis on a journey to find her On route they meet the openly two-spirit Paz may who becomes both a guide to Lincoln and Reconnecting in reconnecting with his indigenous tools roots and a love interest Let's take a look at the trailer for Wild Hood That's how your mother felt Dead today, she left his house. All right, I want you You're into dirt bikes What's your favorite ride? No, no Yeah, you don't need your help Regalia for dancing a good dancer can make a big cat. Yeah, I didn't get it That was really good. I recommend it highly it's on Hulu and we saw it on it was part of a festival But I'm sure you can find it and you might have and if you have who that's the place to go And it may be doing the circuit. I'm sure it is. Yeah So really quickly before I do the trivia Elections they really matter and if you have candidates That you really want to see make it to the general election you need to get out of vote in the primaries and Early primary voting starts June 25th, which is only a couple of weeks away And the primary here in Vermont is August 9th Traditionally primaries has a low attendance the people who show up Are the ones who are determining who goes on to the general election? And we have several out candidates that are going to need our support if they're going to make it to the general election Early voting for the general election starts October 1st You know the general election is Tuesday, November 8th. You can do Early voting or what we used to call absentee voting by either going on to the Secretary of State's website Or getting in touch with your town clerk to have a ballot mailed to you because you may wake up and forget That it's election day Or you may be out holding a sign to Support your best candidate. So the trivia question other than us Who is of course your favorite LGBTQ plus theme show? There have been others and in the late 1990s there was a one that actually got a fair amount of Recognition this is Vermont. This is Vermont. This is Vermont specific I mean, I was very clear that these are our shows Okay, and this was in Burlington and it was what was then called V cam and they did it live and People would phone in and I remember when they interviewed first lieutenant governor Barbara Snelling and Then me and then nurse ratchet Who said this is what you well know It was nurse ratchet from the safer sex program of Vermont care saying this is what's going on out there And this is why you need to wrap it I imagine that sitting next to Barbara Snelling the show was Sherry Tartt and Yolanda they were outrageous drag queens and Yolanda is actually still performing in Brooklyn and Has gained quite the reputation and the reason that it's come up is There were 70 episodes and When Yolanda was here on a visit brought all of the old tapes back and they are now in digital Format and available in their library So in our library No, no, no the what it what had been v cam it is now merged with the cable access program in Burlington. Yeah So people can just go on there and kind of Take a look around. Okay, I Have a Ukrainian story you do Because she's looking up and it's like we've got it. We got a couple of minutes We all have two minutes. Well, we have four but we have to say goodbye and anyway, go ahead all right, let's I wanted to spotlight an organization in Berlin called Quartira which welcomes you Ukrainian refugees and Russian exiles and I have a picture to go with it This is Polina Punagova 27 who's Russian and her partner Julia Maznik? 37 who was born in Kiev and they were vacationing in Budapest when Putin invaded Russia, they live in St. Peter'sburg I'm sorry. Thank you. Thank you. He invaded from Russia to Ukraine and So there all the flights were canceled their passports were in question and So they didn't know what to do and their dog and their cat were home being pet sat And in Kiev in St. Peter'sburg where they lived But Hulia's mother was living in Kiev and still is and she you know, she didn't want to leave and they're worried about her So anyway, this organization Quartira in Berlin came together helped them and even brought their pets To reunite with them. So they're joyful and they're settled and their Terrible things are going on for Russian People in Russia who opposed the war there being tortured only imagine So but I'm glad we get to take a quick look at their story Did the mother come no the mother though has moved to a safer part of Kiev and seems to be less Threatened threatened. Okay. Yeah So on that note Does anybody we have about a minute left does anybody have anything to discuss or we're out of here right here? All right, until next time remember. It's more important than ever we just