June 12, 2026 • 32 mins
This Gay Week: The Flag That Annoys The World
It’s Pride Month, but in some parts of the United States, the United Kingdom, and beyond, flying a Pride flag has become a political statement, a cultural battleground, and sometimes even a target.
Why does a rainbow flag generate so much controversy? Is the outrage genuine, or is it being manufactured by politicians, media personalities, and culture-war influencers looking for the next fight?
This week, Karel and Scott Jacobsen of The Good Men Project examine the growing backlash against Pride visibility and what it says about LGBTQ rights in 2026.
Also on this episode:
🏳️ Why are Pride flags becoming flashpoints in communities around the world?
🏳️🌈 Could the Mayor of Budapest face jail time for supporting Pride?
🎭 Has “Tip Toe” become a little too close to reality?
🏢 Why was a long-standing UK community service organization suddenly forced to relocate?
🌍 The latest LGBTQ news and developments from around the world.
Every week, This Gay Week breaks down the stories impacting LGBTQ people, equality, politics, culture, and human rights.
Join the conversation in the comments and let us know: Why do you think the Pride flag creates such strong reactions?
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It’s Pride Month, but in some parts of the United States, the United Kingdom, and beyond, flying a Pride flag has become a political statement, a cultural battleground, and sometimes even a target.
Why does a rainbow flag generate so much controversy? Is the outrage genuine, or is it being manufactured by politicians, media personalities, and culture-war influencers looking for the next fight?
This week, Karel and Scott Jacobsen of The Good Men Project examine the growing backlash against Pride visibility and what it says about LGBTQ rights in 2026.
Also on this episode:
🏳️ Why are Pride flags becoming flashpoints in communities around the world?
🏳️🌈 Could the Mayor of Budapest face jail time for supporting Pride?
🎭 Has “Tip Toe” become a little too close to reality?
🏢 Why was a long-standing UK community service organization suddenly forced to relocate?
🌍 The latest LGBTQ news and developments from around the world.
Every week, This Gay Week breaks down the stories impacting LGBTQ people, equality, politics, culture, and human rights.
Join the conversation in the comments and let us know: Why do you think the Pride flag creates such strong reactions?
Support independent media:
Patreon: patreon.com/reallykarel
Subscribe:
youtube.com/reallykarel
Listen on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeartRadio, Spreaker, and everywhere podcasts are available.
The Karel Show streams LIVE Monday through Thursday at 10:30 AM Pacific.
Karel is a history-making broadcaster, entertainer, journalist, and commentator broadcasting from Las Vegas with his faithful service dog, Ember
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
No time to fear. Correll is so near because show
time is here, So on with the show.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
Let's give it a go.
Speaker 1 (00:09):
Correll is the one that you need to know. Now.
It's show side.
Speaker 3 (00:29):
It is Pride month, so you would think there'd be
great news about gays from around the globe. Not quite
the case. Scott Jacobson's gonna be here with us live
from Ukraine to talk about this gay week on the
Correl Show. I'm the good Man Project.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
No, all right, it does Crell Show. I am Corral
and most of you know that I have.
Speaker 3 (00:52):
Had quite a trying gay week. We're gonna talk about
that with our friend Scott Jacobson, who is coming to
us from the Ukraine.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
There he is, there's this good little face. What a
pitch those little cheekies. Hello, how are you?
Speaker 3 (01:07):
How how's life in the Ukraine?
Speaker 4 (01:11):
Things are good. Bombing has been our bombardments have been slower,
so sleep has been better and the weather has picked
up to more than one sunny day, so I'm quite
happy to speak.
Speaker 3 (01:23):
Well there we go. All right, Well, I'm glad you
are all right. Well Scott knows because I sent him
the clip of me on the Great Britain news. I'm
making international gay news this week. Uh And and a
lot of you that have watched my show this week
know that the chopped up portions of that that I
posted on social media have gotten comments like you need
(01:45):
to be put in a camp. You know, you don't
need Pride months. You need to go to hell and
burn with the rest of the sinners. You know, all
of this just on and on and on of these
really dreadful comments calling for my death, calling for you know,
gay people, trans people, by people to be have some
sort of harm, befall them, or be taken out of
(02:07):
polite society. Which is amazing because the host went on
after I left the show to say how she just
didn't see why they needed Pride Month because to her
everything for gays just seemed fine and rosy and and
you know she should watch this Gay week, is what
she should do before she comments about that. But the
Hello Fresh post did stir off an international controversy where
(02:30):
they alluded to anal sex in their post, and I
guess that was just too much for the heterosexual masses
and they have all lost their minds. So I don't know, Scott,
do you want to weigh in on the Hello Fresh controversy,
or do you want to weigh in on the comments
that are under my post about how I'm basically should
die or burning hell, or me and my group are
(02:53):
a bunch of perverts, and just on and on and on.
Speaker 4 (02:56):
You know, there's one interaction I had today, Actually, we're
an individuals mentioning several instances of extremist behavior that were
exemplified by extraordinary acts of violence based on responding to
(03:19):
what people said. And these are people who were fundamentalist religious,
typically anti LGBT and so on. Yet here you are
undergoing this shit for decades. What massive violent act have
you committed? Right, So there's a huge disconnect between how
(03:39):
a lot of people in LGBT communities are treated and
then the lack of acts of mass violence or sort
of retributive justice, so to speak, and the disconnect also
with the way in which this individual is responding saying
things are great, I don't see why we even need it.
Speaker 3 (04:00):
Well, we've heard that a lot echoed in the in
the Fox News and Republican Maga echo chamber. Well, why
do they even need a Pride month? Then, of course
they're trying to rename it, which is going just spectacularly
badly for them. Uh, you know, like traditional Family Month
or whatever, and that's just not working for them. But
the the I just sent the post that had all
(04:21):
these comments to that journalist at GBN and said, you
went on air after I left, which is kind of
chicken shit, and commented about how, you know, I don't
even see why they need Pride Month. Well, read these comments,
and maybe just maybe two days ago on my show,
I actually said it's amazing that more gays are not
mass murderers, that we that we do not go out
(04:43):
and and just go crazy, and instead we respond with empathy, compassion,
with activism, you know. We we respond to the homophobia
and to their hatred and often to their violence. Uh
and and we respond with community and community efforts. And
(05:03):
you know, it's just amazing to me. I guess not
a lot of gays are armed. I don't know, because
it's amazing to me that we are as peaceful as
we are given the kind of attacks that we endure.
Speaker 4 (05:16):
Well, it's also the psychology of justifying acts of violence
against some of these minority communities and then blaming it
on them. In some sense, it's saying essentially, they made
me do it right right. So it's this attent of
buteles the attend actual example of self more attempted self
(05:42):
exploitation by externalization of blame to the actual victims of
that vice.
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Speaker 1 (06:02):
Show Time is here. No time to fear.
Speaker 4 (06:06):
Correll is so near because show time is here.
Speaker 1 (06:09):
So on with the show. Let's give it a go.
Correll is the one.
Speaker 2 (06:15):
That you need to know.
Speaker 3 (06:18):
And by the way, we're doing this Gay Week with
Scott Jacobson from The good Man Project. I'm not advocating
gay's arm themselves and go create, you know, commit violence.
Speaker 2 (06:28):
I'm just amazed. I'm sixty three.
Speaker 3 (06:30):
I've been out since I was thirteen, so for fifty years,
I and everyone around me has had to endure really
horrible I mean literally today on Instagram people are calling
for my death, saying I should be put in a camp,
you know, all kinds of things. And my big crime
is that I suck better dick than they do. And
and so that you know, and and that I mean,
(06:51):
I'm being flippant about that, but you know, my big
crime is that I love someone of the same gender
that I you know, that I am not like that,
And that's the big key catchphrase, that I am not
like them. And because I am not like them, they are,
you know, and I'm trans. People are being murdered in
record numbers across the globe. LGBTQ people are being oppressed
(07:13):
in record numbers across the globe. We are going backwards
across the globe. I am just always amazed that we don't,
because wars have been started over less. Okay, Iran did
less to the United States to start this war than
straight people have done to gay people historically, So it's
just amazing to me. Now along those lines, it is
(07:34):
Pride Month. You would think that, you know, things like
Pride flags would be commonplace and everybody would be used
to them. Not true. Eurovision has banned pride flags from
the very queer contest stage. Nothing is gayer than Eurovision.
I mean, come on, they're the they launched ABBA's.
Speaker 4 (07:52):
Career, the higher ranking winners of one of them.
Speaker 3 (07:55):
Actually, right, they launched Abbas right, they love gays on
Eurovision you know. And yet and now they say you
can fly the flag of your country, but you cannot
fly a Pride flag. That is a step back, that
is not a step forward. And Eurovision has a ton
of gay fans. I don't think this is going to
(08:17):
endear them to the show.
Speaker 4 (08:23):
That's entirely true, and and the justifications tend to be
pretty thin of any rejection of the I mean, granted,
it's the it's the symbolic aspect of this sort of
cultural war, but you know, it's still mattering because it's
such a prominent event, you know.
Speaker 3 (08:46):
Such a prominent gay event. Hello, Eurovision is the gayest
song contest around. It's gayer than American Idol, and that's
hosted by Ryan Seacrest for the love of God. H
you know. I mean so anyway, And another pride issue,
or before led Barnsley Council, this is in the UK
to no longer fly the Pride flag on town Hall
(09:06):
even during their Pride festival. Oh wait, they're not having
one because the Reform Council. They're canceled that too. They
are not alone. They are one of over two hundred
places that I found in the news this week that
are now banning Pride flags from their town halls, from
their city buildings, you know, et cetera, from their corporate headquarters,
(09:29):
et cetera, et cetera. You have to wonder how a
flag pisss people off so much. It's not a Confederate flag,
it's not a swatsticka, it's just a rainbow. And yet
apparently Scott, it appears to piss off a lot of people.
Speaker 4 (09:46):
That's a big aspect of a lot of this commentary too.
Even if Christinace we were still rundown, which I wanted
to do sort of the big picture globally historically of
the facts around lgbtqu equality and repression. Individuals will stick
to from the populations after mentioned it's insulting. They won't
(10:07):
say it's not factual. They'll say it's insulting. So the
knowledge of the history can be insulting to some individuals. Yeah,
it doesn't sort of override the fact that you're trying
to present a factual history. And obviously weekly we do
this series and it's primarily about contemporary factual history with
(10:28):
some interpreted lenses. Obviously, have a more rich personal experience
and knowledge based on I do on subject matter, but
it's you know, I often come across that as a pushback.
It is insulting rather than it's not factual.
Speaker 3 (10:45):
Well, now, one of my shows this week was the
outrage machine about which social media. That's all social media
is is an outrage machine. H and Donald Trump's presidency
is just an outrage machine. And all of this hooplaw
that we cover all across the globe about LGBTQ rights
is just from the outrage machine. These people aren't really
(11:06):
upset about gay people. Most of them don't know any
or if they do, their family members, you know, they don't.
They're not really that upset about gay people. They're just
being told what the outrage of the week is. And
the outrage of the week this week pride flags. That's
the outrage of Oh it's Pride month, so pride flags
are everywhere. So let's go tear them down and show
(11:28):
how outraged we are at? What What are you?
Speaker 1 (11:32):
And?
Speaker 3 (11:32):
I you know, you just can't corner these people on
this what are you mad at? Specifically because they don't
have anything, They don't know what they're mad at. They're
just mad because they're told to be mad by their
preacher or by their political leader or by But they
don't know why they're angry. If you ask them, okay,
what negative things have LGBTQ people done to society? How
(11:56):
has a gay person negatively affected your life? If you
ask them specifically, how have gay people negatively impacted your life,
they don't have an answer because we haven't and that
so it's just it's manufactured outrage. It always has been,
it always will be. We're you know, we're not a
(12:17):
majority of the population. Trans people are less than one percent.
How can you be mad at less than one percent
of the population. That's like being mad at white rhinos.
Oh wait, there aren't any, but but you know what
I'm saying. It's it's like being mad at some some
species that only has one percent of the population left,
and you know it's ridiculous. So they're outrage is manufactured.
Speaker 4 (12:42):
I mean, if an individual's had a bad experience individually
with another person who happens to be of that background,
that's an individual basis. It's not a community or sort
of crime. We do have lots of cases of denominational
religion for instance, or political ideology as a whole used
(13:03):
to commit crimes and acts of violence. Or justify them.
Speaker 2 (13:08):
Yeah, particularly against gay people.
Speaker 4 (13:11):
You know exactly, So I don't you know, so if
it has undergone, particularly that individual experience, I don't have
sort of sort of sort of gas like them on that.
But in terms of what we're usually talking about on
this particular segment around sort of a group, collective policy,
et cetera, issues that just it just does not happen.
Speaker 3 (13:34):
No, and you know, and and sometimes good things happen.
The charges have been dropped against the Budapest mayor over
twenty twenty five Pride March, so they the Pride March
was canceled, but then others said no, we're still going
to do it, including the mayor who said yes, let's
let's go, let's have Pride. Uh. And then the Conservatives
were going to punish them because they disobeyed orders and
(13:55):
had a Pride festival and all that.
Speaker 1 (13:57):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (13:57):
Well, now the mayor and others who were involved and
the actual festival happening have had charges against them dropped.
That is good news. That's a piece of good news
for Pride months because you know, they shouldn't have been
charged in the first place, and their festival shouldn't have
been canceled in the first place, but the fact that
it was and then you know, they had charges brought
(14:20):
against them. At least now the charges have been dropped.
You know, maybe if they were carrying a Pride flag,
they might have continued the charges, but they did not,
So that at least is good news coming out of
the UK that I'm sorry, not the UK, the EU
that the charges against the Budapest mayor has been dropped
(14:42):
in relation to his support of the Pride March in
twenty twenty five. It doesn't say anywhere in the story
if they're having a Pride March twenty twenty six, but
I doubt it. It doesn't, you know, really say and
you know, I'm glad because this guy could have faced
(15:05):
serious penalties. I mean, it could have really disrupted his life.
But the Hungarian prosecutors dropped charges against the mayor, Georgelli
Karas Sony. The event took place in June of twenty
twenty five, a year ago, despite warnings of potential legal
repercussions by Hungary's them Prime Minister Victor Orbon who is
(15:26):
now gone. So the new prime minister heard what the
people were saying. One of the things that people have
told him the opinion polls is that they want to
protect gay rights. And so the new prime minister, even
though he's not that LGBTQ friendly, he does like his job,
so he is starting to ease the country's stance on
(15:50):
LGBTQ rights. The mayor said, neither freedom nor love can
be banned in Budapest. Oh yes they can. That's a
naive statement, because oh yeah they can. In April, the
European Court of Justice rule that Hungary's anti LGBTQ laws
violate EU rules and infringe its values of equality and
(16:12):
minority rights. Citing that ruling on Thursday, the Hungarian see
they used it. They used a technicality to get out
of it. They're like, well, the EU says we're kind
of violating your rights, and we kind of are, so
you know what, we're just going to drop these charges.
Let's act like this never happened, and then the EU
will be happy. Kah. So there. It's really a once
(16:36):
again it's the case of someone doing something right, not
because they want to, but because they're being shamed into
it or forced to. But at least they're doing you know,
at least they're doing something right. Do you want to
talk about Mendami my favorite You want to talk about Mendami,
my favorite socialist.
Speaker 4 (16:57):
So, mister mondone is a new transfer very clinic mat
or God charried trans people under the age of nineteen.
I don't do the ages differ state by state with
the curses some of this stuff.
Speaker 3 (17:09):
Just could fat check me on that. No, well, yes
and no. Some states are now banning gender affirming care
for children, which they consider anyone under eighteen. Some states
have laws about people who are wanting to transition prior
to puberty, so they said it at fourteen. So there
(17:32):
is no national set standard in terms of trans people
when they can transition, how they can. The states seem
to be putting it together in their own way. Red
states obviously are not allowing it. Blue states are trying
to allow it. Donald Trump doesn't want it to happen,
(17:53):
you know. They He has tried to ban transitional therapy
for minors. So it's a patchwork. It's sort of like
abortion now. It's you know, it's some states are allowing it,
some states are not, some states, you know. So in
New York, I think Mandami is trying to do the
(18:17):
right thing without being too provocative. In other words, it's
the right thing to open a trans health clinic. He
knew if he allowed younger people to get care there,
it would fall under greater scrutiny and backlash limiting to
nineteen and over. He can't get in any trouble even
(18:40):
with the FEDS, because everyone going to the clinic will
be nineteen and over. Because obviously, gender affirming care is
going to be things like hormonal treatments, you know, psychiatric treatment,
hormonal treatment, all of that, which is what it is
to transition. And again, many states do not want and
do not allow people that are prepubescent or under the
(19:01):
age of eighteen to transition. It's a patchwork. They'd like
to make it just a national law. They'd like Congress
to pass a law that you can't transition until you're eighteen.
Congress has not done that or anything really so about
anything at all, including stopping a madman going to war.
So in New York, he wanted to do something right
(19:26):
during Pride months, but he didn't want to do something
that was going to get him in controversy. And so
you know, it's not a win win, it's a win,
it's half a win. It would have been a win
win if any person could go there of any age
and get gender affirming care, if a sixteen year old
or a fifteen year old or a seventeen year old.
(19:48):
But the fact that they're nineteen and above, you know,
also takes out the whole parental consent thing and you
know all of that. But I'm not going to slide him.
At least he's doing something good for the te community
and not doing something bad. And right now we have
to you know, that's that's what we have to count
our lucky stars. You're pixelating Wi Fi and you see
(20:12):
the Wi Fi in a war zone. Who knew? All right,
So that's one of the stories. It is how it
goes Mondanie did launch a gender affirming care clinic and
Queens how appropriate? Come on, let's put the trans clinic
(20:33):
in Queens. You know, that's perfect. Could have been Brooklyn,
could have been the Bronx. Nope, put the trans clinic
in Queens. You know, hey, I'll take you.
Speaker 4 (20:53):
It's probably running on the list of like possil place,
and let's do it that one. Put that one place.
Just trust on this one.
Speaker 3 (21:02):
Just I'm sure that's what his aides, that just trust me. Trust,
you're gonna put it in Queens. It's gonna be trust
in June.
Speaker 2 (21:11):
Yes, you're gonna open a TRANSPLANTAE in.
Speaker 3 (21:13):
June in Queens. Win win win win quinns all right
when we come back, and also Tipto no show, All right.
(21:39):
Scott Jacobsen is my guest. He is over in Ukraine.
We are doing this Gay week, Uh, Scott. We there
was a they had to move in office because they're
in Vall Hall, which I assume is in the UK. Uh.
The Equality and Human Rights Commission e h r C
(21:59):
has moved away from its Vallhall office after an attack
on the building, with chair doctor Mary and Stevenson telling
MPs that fears for staff safety have escalated following a
Supreme Court ruling on the Equality Acts definition of sex
and gender. Giving evidence to the Women An Equality Select
Committee on Tuesday, Stephenson said the watchdog had been forced
(22:21):
to relocate because of an attack on the building vandalism
by a group that has also vandalized conferences and West
Streeting's office. This is yet another and this is the UK.
This is yet another case of an LGBTQ organization coming
under attack and then for the safety of their own
(22:44):
people having to move to another location. And you know,
you don't really picture the modern day UK as being
that homophobic, but it appears like here and everywhere that
anti gay sentiments are on the rise. And again I
think it's manufactured outrage, but there are people acting upon
(23:06):
this online outrage. And I know that this attack was
rooted in something online. I do. I know it was
fueled by something online or you know what I'm saying. Yes,
the Supreme Court ruling over there was misguided, but I
don't think the perpetrators of this crime were really paying
(23:27):
attention to that. I think they were online. They got
all worked up into a frenzy and went and attacked,
you know, a building, which is how things seems to go.
So it's sad that Vaullhall had to move. You know,
they had to move their offices of the EHRC because
they didn't feel that their staff was safe. And you know,
it just that just seems regressive, does it not.
Speaker 4 (23:51):
Violence is not the answer and if you have a
social disagreement, take it to the political arena. That's what
it's for.
Speaker 3 (24:00):
Unfortunately, these young people who are doing these things, that's
not how they've been raised or how they've been trained.
Let's leave on a little bit of entertainment news that
is upsetting a lot of people. Spoiler alert if you're
going to watch the show Tiptoe, or you have watched
it and haven't seen the end. Tiptoe is created by
one of the best LGBTQ writers in the world, Russell T. Davies.
(24:21):
I've had the pleasure of meeting and talking with him,
interviewing with him. It's his new show. It had Alan
Cummings with it, and it's about exactly what we're speaking
about now. It's a five part mini series about two neighbors,
one gay, one straight, and the straight one is basically
a homophobe. And over the five episodes, you know, Alan
(24:44):
Cumming goes out of his way to try to coexist
with his neighbor, but ultimately the homophobic neighbor, who could
be equated to Maga in this country, just doesn't buy it,
doesn't want it. The final episode has upset people because
spoiler alert, Leo, who is played by Alan Cummings, is
(25:06):
found hung to by a light pole, you know, out
front of his house, and his neighbor and his neighbor's
friends are the ones who did it. And what Russell T.
Davis wanted to show is that when these kinds of
emotions and we were just talking about it, we were
(25:28):
giving real world examples of this. When these kinds of
emotions are left to fester and to grow and then
fueled by online hatred and everything else, it very often
can end in violence and death. And even though this
show was set in a different time period, so many
of the commenters down below about the show are saying,
(25:51):
this smacks of today. This is too real, This is
hitting too close to home. This feels like modern day.
It's sad that a community is at a place where
the murder of one of their people in a fictional
drama that was set years ago hit so close to
(26:11):
home today. The show is very well received, very very
well acted, very well written, another classic from Russell T. Davies.
It's just sad that it has such a horrifying ending,
but yet a realistic one. Mm hmmm. I take it
you haven't seen that. I haven't. I take it you
(26:32):
haven't seen the tiptoe. You haven't. You haven't heard of
it or seen it.
Speaker 4 (26:36):
I haven't heard I haven't seen the tip that. I
haven't heard about it. But thematically that would not feel
unfamiliar with regards to.
Speaker 2 (26:45):
Well, Russell T.
Speaker 3 (26:46):
Davis is my age, and so he went through the
AIDS crisis, he's been through Act Up, He's been through
all of the movements that we've had him in the
UK me over here. He writes a lot like I
talk in so Much, which as the weight of everything
that's happened is not lost on him. He remembers it.
(27:07):
He carries those scars with him and he writes about that.
And all of the shows he has written, it's they've
been very uber realistic, and this show is very uber realistic.
And Alan Cumming, who's fabulous and openly gay, has said
that it was a rough show to do. It was
a rough ending to film, and part of the problem
(27:29):
with for him as well is that it felt very
present tense to him as well, that he could see
this happening in today's world. And that's sad when you're
showing hate from thirty forty years ago and then realizing
that it could happen now. His last show, it's a sin.
The same thing. He's written a lot of fabulous LGBTQ shows,
(27:52):
and he often sets them in the past because he
sees that as pivotal movements in our history, fighting for
our our rights under AIDS and all of that. But
it appears from our fiction and from our regular stories
that we are backfighting those same battles again, maybe not
(28:15):
centered around AIDS. I think Trans is the new AIDS.
And I know that sounds odd to say, but they
used to hate us because of the AIDS. Now they
hate us because we support Trans. I was told on
that gb News program by the host that we Gaze
would be better served if we didn't ally ourselves with
Trans if we didn't. Also, she said that Trans aren't
(28:36):
in our venn diagram, so why do why do we
support them? Because it's hurting us? And I said, that's
exactly why we support them, because they're being marginalized and
they need our help.
Speaker 4 (28:49):
But there is something the cubtle de a Chappelle attempt
to basically, you know, byas the alphabet people sort of rhetoric. Yes,
say that they're individuated and therefore not more or less right.
Speaker 3 (29:05):
But we're not going to break aparty out, all right,
but we will try to find good stories for next week.
On this day week, we've got to Jacobson and Ukraine,
where I think he's just gonna move even take up residence.
Speaker 1 (29:18):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (29:18):
And it is Pride month, So next week we'll try
to find some prideful stories. I'll let you look.
Speaker 2 (29:24):
It's broadcasting from a completely different place.
Speaker 3 (29:26):
You know what.
Speaker 2 (29:27):
Let me hear yours.
Speaker 3 (29:29):
I'm the bass daily to the carell cast on your
favorite streaming service. Hold on, hold on, held on. There
I got rid of all that hoopla because I haven't
said goodbye.
Speaker 1 (29:43):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (29:43):
And you know, I think next week I'll let you
pick the stories because the ones I found were like
really depressing.
Speaker 4 (29:52):
We gotta find some good stuff we do.
Speaker 3 (29:55):
Have you heard any Have you heard any good day
over here?
Speaker 4 (30:02):
I got one good news finally had another Keef pride
based article published in the Rabble. That's good. That's a win.
You know, major news in Canada rebels, very prominent progressive publication,
maybe with promos.
Speaker 3 (30:15):
Is keieve having a pride.
Speaker 4 (30:20):
I talked to the project manager maybe a month and.
Speaker 3 (30:23):
A half ago for some interviews.
Speaker 4 (30:25):
I can reach out and find out.
Speaker 3 (30:28):
I'd love to know that in the middle of a war,
are they're gonna have a pride festival? Because we need
it now more than ever.
Speaker 4 (30:35):
But they haven't been having them in the middle of
the war. I don't know if they've had them consistently
over here.
Speaker 3 (30:41):
I'd like to know if they're having a pride in Keith.
I'll fly over and perform my new single.
Speaker 4 (30:47):
You're gonna fly over a war zone where you can't fly?
Speaker 3 (30:49):
Well, I'd fly into Poland and take a train into
isn't that how you get out? You sure through Poland
you go in and out of Yeah?
Speaker 4 (30:57):
Yes, I went into Cracko via plane, then bust into
Liviv and then train leavit.
Speaker 3 (31:05):
Yeah, so you can get in and out. It's just
not easy, but you can. I mean, Zelenski's off somewhere.
He was just off greeting heads of state somewhere. I
forget where, but I saw him getting oh oh yeah.
Speaker 1 (31:18):
I mean.
Speaker 4 (31:18):
There's been a lot of stuff in Europe and a
lot of stuff in the GCC because of the drone
technology Anti drone technology agreementsead of being built.
Speaker 3 (31:28):
Alrighty, so we will try to find some good stories
for next week. But this week tiptoe ends badly yet realistically,
the HRC and the UK in the UK had to
move because their offices were attacked New York launched a
fabulous gender affirming care clinic in Queens, but only if
you're over nineteen. The Mayor of Bucharest in Budapest, sorry,
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is not going to be charged over supporting the twenty
twenty five Pride March. Barnsley Council in the UK said
they can no longer either Pride flag on the over
their town because in some way that'll make them have
less gays and the gayest song competition in the world, Eurovision,
has banned the Pride flag from their stage. That's this
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week on this Gay News. Anything else that's off this week,
well then that's all for this week. Scott an ibiduous
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No time to fear. Correll is so near because show
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Speaker 2 (00:08):
Let's give it a go.
Speaker 1 (00:09):
Correll is the one that you need to know. Now.
It's show side.
Speaker 3 (00:29):
It is Pride month, so you would think there'd be
great news about gays from around the globe. Not quite
the case. Scott Jacobson's gonna be here with us live
from Ukraine to talk about this gay week on the
Correl Show. I'm the good Man Project.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
No, all right, it does Crell Show. I am Corral
and most of you know that I have.
Speaker 3 (00:52):
Had quite a trying gay week. We're gonna talk about
that with our friend Scott Jacobson, who is coming to
us from the Ukraine.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
There he is, there's this good little face. What a
pitch those little cheekies. Hello, how are you?
Speaker 3 (01:07):
How how's life in the Ukraine?
Speaker 4 (01:11):
Things are good. Bombing has been our bombardments have been slower,
so sleep has been better and the weather has picked
up to more than one sunny day, so I'm quite
happy to speak.
Speaker 3 (01:23):
Well there we go. All right, Well, I'm glad you
are all right. Well Scott knows because I sent him
the clip of me on the Great Britain news. I'm
making international gay news this week. Uh And and a
lot of you that have watched my show this week
know that the chopped up portions of that that I
posted on social media have gotten comments like you need
(01:45):
to be put in a camp. You know, you don't
need Pride months. You need to go to hell and
burn with the rest of the sinners. You know, all
of this just on and on and on of these
really dreadful comments calling for my death, calling for you know,
gay people, trans people, by people to be have some
sort of harm, befall them, or be taken out of
(02:07):
polite society. Which is amazing because the host went on
after I left the show to say how she just
didn't see why they needed Pride Month because to her
everything for gays just seemed fine and rosy and and
you know she should watch this Gay week, is what
she should do before she comments about that. But the
Hello Fresh post did stir off an international controversy where
(02:30):
they alluded to anal sex in their post, and I
guess that was just too much for the heterosexual masses
and they have all lost their minds. So I don't know, Scott,
do you want to weigh in on the Hello Fresh controversy,
or do you want to weigh in on the comments
that are under my post about how I'm basically should
die or burning hell, or me and my group are
(02:53):
a bunch of perverts, and just on and on and on.
Speaker 4 (02:56):
You know, there's one interaction I had today, Actually, we're
an individuals mentioning several instances of extremist behavior that were
exemplified by extraordinary acts of violence based on responding to
(03:19):
what people said. And these are people who were fundamentalist religious,
typically anti LGBT and so on. Yet here you are
undergoing this shit for decades. What massive violent act have
you committed? Right, So there's a huge disconnect between how
(03:39):
a lot of people in LGBT communities are treated and
then the lack of acts of mass violence or sort
of retributive justice, so to speak, and the disconnect also
with the way in which this individual is responding saying
things are great, I don't see why we even need it.
Speaker 3 (04:00):
Well, we've heard that a lot echoed in the in
the Fox News and Republican Maga echo chamber. Well, why
do they even need a Pride month? Then, of course
they're trying to rename it, which is going just spectacularly
badly for them. Uh, you know, like traditional Family Month
or whatever, and that's just not working for them. But
the the I just sent the post that had all
(04:21):
these comments to that journalist at GBN and said, you
went on air after I left, which is kind of
chicken shit, and commented about how, you know, I don't
even see why they need Pride Month. Well, read these comments,
and maybe just maybe two days ago on my show,
I actually said it's amazing that more gays are not
mass murderers, that we that we do not go out
(04:43):
and and just go crazy, and instead we respond with empathy, compassion,
with activism, you know. We we respond to the homophobia
and to their hatred and often to their violence. Uh
and and we respond with community and community efforts. And
(05:03):
you know, it's just amazing to me. I guess not
a lot of gays are armed. I don't know, because
it's amazing to me that we are as peaceful as
we are given the kind of attacks that we endure.
Speaker 4 (05:16):
Well, it's also the psychology of justifying acts of violence
against some of these minority communities and then blaming it
on them. In some sense, it's saying essentially, they made
me do it right right. So it's this attent of
buteles the attend actual example of self more attempted self
(05:42):
exploitation by externalization of blame to the actual victims of
that vice.
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Speaker 4 (06:06):
Correll is so near because show time is here.
Speaker 1 (06:09):
So on with the show. Let's give it a go.
Correll is the one.
Speaker 2 (06:15):
That you need to know.
Speaker 3 (06:18):
And by the way, we're doing this Gay Week with
Scott Jacobson from The good Man Project. I'm not advocating
gay's arm themselves and go create, you know, commit violence.
Speaker 2 (06:28):
I'm just amazed. I'm sixty three.
Speaker 3 (06:30):
I've been out since I was thirteen, so for fifty years,
I and everyone around me has had to endure really
horrible I mean literally today on Instagram people are calling
for my death, saying I should be put in a camp,
you know, all kinds of things. And my big crime
is that I suck better dick than they do. And
and so that you know, and and that I mean,
(06:51):
I'm being flippant about that, but you know, my big
crime is that I love someone of the same gender
that I you know, that I am not like that,
And that's the big key catchphrase, that I am not
like them. And because I am not like them, they are,
you know, and I'm trans. People are being murdered in
record numbers across the globe. LGBTQ people are being oppressed
(07:13):
in record numbers across the globe. We are going backwards
across the globe. I am just always amazed that we don't,
because wars have been started over less. Okay, Iran did
less to the United States to start this war than
straight people have done to gay people historically, So it's
just amazing to me. Now along those lines, it is
(07:34):
Pride Month. You would think that, you know, things like
Pride flags would be commonplace and everybody would be used
to them. Not true. Eurovision has banned pride flags from
the very queer contest stage. Nothing is gayer than Eurovision.
I mean, come on, they're the they launched ABBA's.
Speaker 4 (07:52):
Career, the higher ranking winners of one of them.
Speaker 3 (07:55):
Actually, right, they launched Abbas right, they love gays on
Eurovision you know. And yet and now they say you
can fly the flag of your country, but you cannot
fly a Pride flag. That is a step back, that
is not a step forward. And Eurovision has a ton
of gay fans. I don't think this is going to
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endear them to the show.
Speaker 4 (08:23):
That's entirely true, and and the justifications tend to be
pretty thin of any rejection of the I mean, granted,
it's the it's the symbolic aspect of this sort of
cultural war, but you know, it's still mattering because it's
such a prominent event, you know.
Speaker 3 (08:46):
Such a prominent gay event. Hello, Eurovision is the gayest
song contest around. It's gayer than American Idol, and that's
hosted by Ryan Seacrest for the love of God. H
you know. I mean so anyway, And another pride issue,
or before led Barnsley Council, this is in the UK
to no longer fly the Pride flag on town Hall
(09:06):
even during their Pride festival. Oh wait, they're not having
one because the Reform Council. They're canceled that too. They
are not alone. They are one of over two hundred
places that I found in the news this week that
are now banning Pride flags from their town halls, from
their city buildings, you know, et cetera, from their corporate headquarters,
(09:29):
et cetera, et cetera. You have to wonder how a
flag pisss people off so much. It's not a Confederate flag,
it's not a swatsticka, it's just a rainbow. And yet
apparently Scott, it appears to piss off a lot of people.
Speaker 4 (09:46):
That's a big aspect of a lot of this commentary too.
Even if Christinace we were still rundown, which I wanted
to do sort of the big picture globally historically of
the facts around lgbtqu equality and repression. Individuals will stick
to from the populations after mentioned it's insulting. They won't
(10:07):
say it's not factual. They'll say it's insulting. So the
knowledge of the history can be insulting to some individuals. Yeah,
it doesn't sort of override the fact that you're trying
to present a factual history. And obviously weekly we do
this series and it's primarily about contemporary factual history with
(10:28):
some interpreted lenses. Obviously, have a more rich personal experience
and knowledge based on I do on subject matter, but
it's you know, I often come across that as a pushback.
It is insulting rather than it's not factual.
Speaker 3 (10:45):
Well, now, one of my shows this week was the
outrage machine about which social media. That's all social media
is is an outrage machine. H and Donald Trump's presidency
is just an outrage machine. And all of this hooplaw
that we cover all across the globe about LGBTQ rights
is just from the outrage machine. These people aren't really
(11:06):
upset about gay people. Most of them don't know any
or if they do, their family members, you know, they don't.
They're not really that upset about gay people. They're just
being told what the outrage of the week is. And
the outrage of the week this week pride flags. That's
the outrage of Oh it's Pride month, so pride flags
are everywhere. So let's go tear them down and show
(11:28):
how outraged we are at? What What are you?
Speaker 1 (11:32):
And?
Speaker 3 (11:32):
I you know, you just can't corner these people on
this what are you mad at? Specifically because they don't
have anything, They don't know what they're mad at. They're
just mad because they're told to be mad by their
preacher or by their political leader or by But they
don't know why they're angry. If you ask them, okay,
what negative things have LGBTQ people done to society? How
(11:56):
has a gay person negatively affected your life? If you
ask them specifically, how have gay people negatively impacted your life,
they don't have an answer because we haven't and that
so it's just it's manufactured outrage. It always has been,
it always will be. We're you know, we're not a
(12:17):
majority of the population. Trans people are less than one percent.
How can you be mad at less than one percent
of the population. That's like being mad at white rhinos.
Oh wait, there aren't any, but but you know what
I'm saying. It's it's like being mad at some some
species that only has one percent of the population left,
and you know it's ridiculous. So they're outrage is manufactured.
Speaker 4 (12:42):
I mean, if an individual's had a bad experience individually
with another person who happens to be of that background,
that's an individual basis. It's not a community or sort
of crime. We do have lots of cases of denominational
religion for instance, or political ideology as a whole used
(13:03):
to commit crimes and acts of violence. Or justify them.
Speaker 2 (13:08):
Yeah, particularly against gay people.
Speaker 4 (13:11):
You know exactly, So I don't you know, so if
it has undergone, particularly that individual experience, I don't have
sort of sort of sort of gas like them on that.
But in terms of what we're usually talking about on
this particular segment around sort of a group, collective policy,
et cetera, issues that just it just does not happen.
Speaker 3 (13:34):
No, and you know, and and sometimes good things happen.
The charges have been dropped against the Budapest mayor over
twenty twenty five Pride March, so they the Pride March
was canceled, but then others said no, we're still going
to do it, including the mayor who said yes, let's
let's go, let's have Pride. Uh. And then the Conservatives
were going to punish them because they disobeyed orders and
(13:55):
had a Pride festival and all that.
Speaker 1 (13:57):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (13:57):
Well, now the mayor and others who were involved and
the actual festival happening have had charges against them dropped.
That is good news. That's a piece of good news
for Pride months because you know, they shouldn't have been
charged in the first place, and their festival shouldn't have
been canceled in the first place, but the fact that
it was and then you know, they had charges brought
(14:20):
against them. At least now the charges have been dropped.
You know, maybe if they were carrying a Pride flag,
they might have continued the charges, but they did not,
So that at least is good news coming out of
the UK that I'm sorry, not the UK, the EU
that the charges against the Budapest mayor has been dropped
(14:42):
in relation to his support of the Pride March in
twenty twenty five. It doesn't say anywhere in the story
if they're having a Pride March twenty twenty six, but
I doubt it. It doesn't, you know, really say and
you know, I'm glad because this guy could have faced
(15:05):
serious penalties. I mean, it could have really disrupted his life.
But the Hungarian prosecutors dropped charges against the mayor, Georgelli
Karas Sony. The event took place in June of twenty
twenty five, a year ago, despite warnings of potential legal
repercussions by Hungary's them Prime Minister Victor Orbon who is
(15:26):
now gone. So the new prime minister heard what the
people were saying. One of the things that people have
told him the opinion polls is that they want to
protect gay rights. And so the new prime minister, even
though he's not that LGBTQ friendly, he does like his job,
so he is starting to ease the country's stance on
(15:50):
LGBTQ rights. The mayor said, neither freedom nor love can
be banned in Budapest. Oh yes they can. That's a
naive statement, because oh yeah they can. In April, the
European Court of Justice rule that Hungary's anti LGBTQ laws
violate EU rules and infringe its values of equality and
(16:12):
minority rights. Citing that ruling on Thursday, the Hungarian see
they used it. They used a technicality to get out
of it. They're like, well, the EU says we're kind
of violating your rights, and we kind of are, so
you know what, we're just going to drop these charges.
Let's act like this never happened, and then the EU
will be happy. Kah. So there. It's really a once
(16:36):
again it's the case of someone doing something right, not
because they want to, but because they're being shamed into
it or forced to. But at least they're doing you know,
at least they're doing something right. Do you want to
talk about Mendami my favorite You want to talk about Mendami,
my favorite socialist.
Speaker 4 (16:57):
So, mister mondone is a new transfer very clinic mat
or God charried trans people under the age of nineteen.
I don't do the ages differ state by state with
the curses some of this stuff.
Speaker 3 (17:09):
Just could fat check me on that. No, well, yes
and no. Some states are now banning gender affirming care
for children, which they consider anyone under eighteen. Some states
have laws about people who are wanting to transition prior
to puberty, so they said it at fourteen. So there
(17:32):
is no national set standard in terms of trans people
when they can transition, how they can. The states seem
to be putting it together in their own way. Red
states obviously are not allowing it. Blue states are trying
to allow it. Donald Trump doesn't want it to happen,
(17:53):
you know. They He has tried to ban transitional therapy
for minors. So it's a patchwork. It's sort of like
abortion now. It's you know, it's some states are allowing it,
some states are not, some states, you know. So in
New York, I think Mandami is trying to do the
(18:17):
right thing without being too provocative. In other words, it's
the right thing to open a trans health clinic. He
knew if he allowed younger people to get care there,
it would fall under greater scrutiny and backlash limiting to
nineteen and over. He can't get in any trouble even
(18:40):
with the FEDS, because everyone going to the clinic will
be nineteen and over. Because obviously, gender affirming care is
going to be things like hormonal treatments, you know, psychiatric treatment,
hormonal treatment, all of that, which is what it is
to transition. And again, many states do not want and
do not allow people that are prepubescent or under the
(19:01):
age of eighteen to transition. It's a patchwork. They'd like
to make it just a national law. They'd like Congress
to pass a law that you can't transition until you're eighteen.
Congress has not done that or anything really so about
anything at all, including stopping a madman going to war.
So in New York, he wanted to do something right
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during Pride months, but he didn't want to do something
that was going to get him in controversy. And so
you know, it's not a win win, it's a win,
it's half a win. It would have been a win
win if any person could go there of any age
and get gender affirming care, if a sixteen year old
or a fifteen year old or a seventeen year old.
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But the fact that they're nineteen and above, you know,
also takes out the whole parental consent thing and you
know all of that. But I'm not going to slide him.
At least he's doing something good for the te community
and not doing something bad. And right now we have
to you know, that's that's what we have to count
our lucky stars. You're pixelating Wi Fi and you see
(20:12):
the Wi Fi in a war zone. Who knew? All right,
So that's one of the stories. It is how it
goes Mondanie did launch a gender affirming care clinic and
Queens how appropriate? Come on, let's put the trans clinic
(20:33):
in Queens. You know, that's perfect. Could have been Brooklyn,
could have been the Bronx. Nope, put the trans clinic
in Queens. You know, hey, I'll take you.
Speaker 4 (20:53):
It's probably running on the list of like possil place,
and let's do it that one. Put that one place.
Just trust on this one.
Speaker 3 (21:02):
Just I'm sure that's what his aides, that just trust me. Trust,
you're gonna put it in Queens. It's gonna be trust
in June.
Speaker 2 (21:11):
Yes, you're gonna open a TRANSPLANTAE in.
Speaker 3 (21:13):
June in Queens. Win win win win quinns all right
when we come back, and also Tipto no show, All right.
(21:39):
Scott Jacobsen is my guest. He is over in Ukraine.
We are doing this Gay week, Uh, Scott. We there
was a they had to move in office because they're
in Vall Hall, which I assume is in the UK. Uh.
The Equality and Human Rights Commission e h r C
(21:59):
has moved away from its Vallhall office after an attack
on the building, with chair doctor Mary and Stevenson telling
MPs that fears for staff safety have escalated following a
Supreme Court ruling on the Equality Acts definition of sex
and gender. Giving evidence to the Women An Equality Select
Committee on Tuesday, Stephenson said the watchdog had been forced
(22:21):
to relocate because of an attack on the building vandalism
by a group that has also vandalized conferences and West
Streeting's office. This is yet another and this is the UK.
This is yet another case of an LGBTQ organization coming
under attack and then for the safety of their own
(22:44):
people having to move to another location. And you know,
you don't really picture the modern day UK as being
that homophobic, but it appears like here and everywhere that
anti gay sentiments are on the rise. And again I
think it's manufactured outrage, but there are people acting upon
(23:06):
this online outrage. And I know that this attack was
rooted in something online. I do. I know it was
fueled by something online or you know what I'm saying. Yes,
the Supreme Court ruling over there was misguided, but I
don't think the perpetrators of this crime were really paying
(23:27):
attention to that. I think they were online. They got
all worked up into a frenzy and went and attacked,
you know, a building, which is how things seems to go.
So it's sad that Vaullhall had to move. You know,
they had to move their offices of the EHRC because
they didn't feel that their staff was safe. And you know,
it just that just seems regressive, does it not.
Speaker 4 (23:51):
Violence is not the answer and if you have a
social disagreement, take it to the political arena. That's what
it's for.
Speaker 3 (24:00):
Unfortunately, these young people who are doing these things, that's
not how they've been raised or how they've been trained.
Let's leave on a little bit of entertainment news that
is upsetting a lot of people. Spoiler alert if you're
going to watch the show Tiptoe, or you have watched
it and haven't seen the end. Tiptoe is created by
one of the best LGBTQ writers in the world, Russell T. Davies.
(24:21):
I've had the pleasure of meeting and talking with him,
interviewing with him. It's his new show. It had Alan
Cummings with it, and it's about exactly what we're speaking
about now. It's a five part mini series about two neighbors,
one gay, one straight, and the straight one is basically
a homophobe. And over the five episodes, you know, Alan
(24:44):
Cumming goes out of his way to try to coexist
with his neighbor, but ultimately the homophobic neighbor, who could
be equated to Maga in this country, just doesn't buy it,
doesn't want it. The final episode has upset people because
spoiler alert, Leo, who is played by Alan Cummings, is
(25:06):
found hung to by a light pole, you know, out
front of his house, and his neighbor and his neighbor's
friends are the ones who did it. And what Russell T.
Davis wanted to show is that when these kinds of
emotions and we were just talking about it, we were
(25:28):
giving real world examples of this. When these kinds of
emotions are left to fester and to grow and then
fueled by online hatred and everything else, it very often
can end in violence and death. And even though this
show was set in a different time period, so many
of the commenters down below about the show are saying,
(25:51):
this smacks of today. This is too real, This is
hitting too close to home. This feels like modern day.
It's sad that a community is at a place where
the murder of one of their people in a fictional
drama that was set years ago hit so close to
(26:11):
home today. The show is very well received, very very
well acted, very well written, another classic from Russell T. Davies.
It's just sad that it has such a horrifying ending,
but yet a realistic one. Mm hmmm. I take it
you haven't seen that. I haven't. I take it you
(26:32):
haven't seen the tiptoe. You haven't. You haven't heard of
it or seen it.
Speaker 4 (26:36):
I haven't heard I haven't seen the tip that. I
haven't heard about it. But thematically that would not feel
unfamiliar with regards to.
Speaker 2 (26:45):
Well, Russell T.
Speaker 3 (26:46):
Davis is my age, and so he went through the
AIDS crisis, he's been through Act Up, He's been through
all of the movements that we've had him in the
UK me over here. He writes a lot like I
talk in so Much, which as the weight of everything
that's happened is not lost on him. He remembers it.
(27:07):
He carries those scars with him and he writes about that.
And all of the shows he has written, it's they've
been very uber realistic, and this show is very uber realistic.
And Alan Cumming, who's fabulous and openly gay, has said
that it was a rough show to do. It was
a rough ending to film, and part of the problem
(27:29):
with for him as well is that it felt very
present tense to him as well, that he could see
this happening in today's world. And that's sad when you're
showing hate from thirty forty years ago and then realizing
that it could happen now. His last show, it's a sin.
The same thing. He's written a lot of fabulous LGBTQ shows,
(27:52):
and he often sets them in the past because he
sees that as pivotal movements in our history, fighting for
our our rights under AIDS and all of that. But
it appears from our fiction and from our regular stories
that we are backfighting those same battles again, maybe not
(28:15):
centered around AIDS. I think Trans is the new AIDS.
And I know that sounds odd to say, but they
used to hate us because of the AIDS. Now they
hate us because we support Trans. I was told on
that gb News program by the host that we Gaze
would be better served if we didn't ally ourselves with
Trans if we didn't. Also, she said that Trans aren't
(28:36):
in our venn diagram, so why do why do we
support them? Because it's hurting us? And I said, that's
exactly why we support them, because they're being marginalized and
they need our help.
Speaker 4 (28:49):
But there is something the cubtle de a Chappelle attempt
to basically, you know, byas the alphabet people sort of rhetoric. Yes,
say that they're individuated and therefore not more or less right.
Speaker 3 (29:05):
But we're not going to break aparty out, all right,
but we will try to find good stories for next week.
On this day week, we've got to Jacobson and Ukraine,
where I think he's just gonna move even take up residence.
Speaker 1 (29:18):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (29:18):
And it is Pride month, So next week we'll try
to find some prideful stories. I'll let you look.
Speaker 2 (29:24):
It's broadcasting from a completely different place.
Speaker 3 (29:26):
You know what.
Speaker 2 (29:27):
Let me hear yours.
Speaker 3 (29:29):
I'm the bass daily to the carell cast on your
favorite streaming service. Hold on, hold on, held on. There
I got rid of all that hoopla because I haven't
said goodbye.
Speaker 1 (29:43):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (29:43):
And you know, I think next week I'll let you
pick the stories because the ones I found were like
really depressing.
Speaker 4 (29:52):
We gotta find some good stuff we do.
Speaker 3 (29:55):
Have you heard any Have you heard any good day
over here?
Speaker 4 (30:02):
I got one good news finally had another Keef pride
based article published in the Rabble. That's good. That's a win.
You know, major news in Canada rebels, very prominent progressive publication,
maybe with promos.
Speaker 3 (30:15):
Is keieve having a pride.
Speaker 4 (30:20):
I talked to the project manager maybe a month and.
Speaker 3 (30:23):
A half ago for some interviews.
Speaker 4 (30:25):
I can reach out and find out.
Speaker 3 (30:28):
I'd love to know that in the middle of a war,
are they're gonna have a pride festival? Because we need
it now more than ever.
Speaker 4 (30:35):
But they haven't been having them in the middle of
the war. I don't know if they've had them consistently
over here.
Speaker 3 (30:41):
I'd like to know if they're having a pride in Keith.
I'll fly over and perform my new single.
Speaker 4 (30:47):
You're gonna fly over a war zone where you can't fly?
Speaker 3 (30:49):
Well, I'd fly into Poland and take a train into
isn't that how you get out? You sure through Poland
you go in and out of Yeah?
Speaker 4 (30:57):
Yes, I went into Cracko via plane, then bust into
Liviv and then train leavit.
Speaker 3 (31:05):
Yeah, so you can get in and out. It's just
not easy, but you can. I mean, Zelenski's off somewhere.
He was just off greeting heads of state somewhere. I
forget where, but I saw him getting oh oh yeah.
Speaker 1 (31:18):
I mean.
Speaker 4 (31:18):
There's been a lot of stuff in Europe and a
lot of stuff in the GCC because of the drone
technology Anti drone technology agreementsead of being built.
Speaker 3 (31:28):
Alrighty, so we will try to find some good stories
for next week. But this week tiptoe ends badly yet realistically,
the HRC and the UK in the UK had to
move because their offices were attacked New York launched a
fabulous gender affirming care clinic in Queens, but only if
you're over nineteen. The Mayor of Bucharest in Budapest, sorry,
(31:52):
is not going to be charged over supporting the twenty
twenty five Pride March. Barnsley Council in the UK said
they can no longer either Pride flag on the over
their town because in some way that'll make them have
less gays and the gayest song competition in the world, Eurovision,
has banned the Pride flag from their stage. That's this
(32:12):
week on this Gay News. Anything else that's off this week,
well then that's all for this week. Scott an ibiduous
civil ado. I am Corella. Be who you want to be,
so long as it doesn't hurt anybody, and we shall
be back next week
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