"The Kids Are Alright" & New Queer CDs

Now playing ... week of July 26, 2010

Writer/director Lisa Cholodenko and co-screenwriter Stuart Blumberg talk with Linda Birch about their alternative family comedy featuring Annette Bening and Julianne Moore as lesbian moms, Mark Ruffalo as their sperm donor, and Mia Wasikowska and Josh Hutcherson as their kids ... who are alright. (Check out the movie's website.)

Namoli Brennet ("Black Crow"), Kevin Wong ("The Pink in the Grey") and Daniel J. Cartier ("Redemption") present their new releases in our Audiofile. JD Doyle and Chris Wilson host with assistance from Christopher David Trentham.

And in NewsWrap: sexual oppression compounds the international AIDS crisis, global LGBT rights group wins seat at the U.N. table, "Don't Ask Don't Tell" lets Dan Choi twist in the wind, presidential signatures confirm civil partnerships in Ireland and full marriage equality in Argentina, and more news reported by Jon Beaupre and Ben Caron.

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NewsWrap for the week ending July 24, 2010

SUMMARY

AIDS & Anti-Gay Laws - Research released at the 18th biennial International AIDS Conference this week in Vienna underscores the link between surging HIV infection rates among gay and bisexual men and their criminalization in many African and Asian countries ...

Syrian Busts - more than 25 men in Syria arrested during raids of private gay parties in March and April are released without being formally charged ...

IGLHRC @ UN - the International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission becomes the eighth queer advocacy group around the world to win consultative status at the U.N. Economic and Social Council ...

DADT Survey - the much-criticized Pentagon "Don't Ask Don't Tell" survey of active duty and reserve troops about serving with open gays and lesbians may not yield accurate results, and that it's not the first time soldiers have been polled prior to a major military personnel policy change ...

DADT Halt Sought - lawyers for the Log Cabin Republicans ask the federal judge hearing their constitutionality challenge to the "Don't Ask Don't Tell" policy to issue an injunction barring its continued implementation ...

DADT Casualty - outspoken "Don't Ask Don't Tell" critic Lt. Dan Choi is honorably discharged for coming out on "The Rachel Maddow Show" last year ...

ENDA Demo Hits Reid - Choi and seven other GetEQUAL activists are arrested for blocking traffic on the Las Vegas Strip to protest Senate Majority leader Harry Reid's perceived inaction on passage of the Employment Nondiscrimination Act (ENDA) ...

Irish Partnerships - President Mary McAleeese signs Ireland's new civil partnerships bill into law ...

Argentine Marriage Equality - President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner's signature makes Argentina the first in Latin America to open full civil marriage (and adoption) to lesbigay couples ...

Prom Settlement - Mississippi teen Constance McMillen settles her lawsuit against the Itawamba County School District for not allowing her to bring her girlfriend to the senior prom

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Del Shores

Now playing ... week of July 19, 2010

Entertainment Correspondent Steve Pride exposes the Sordid Lives of the multi-talented writer/director/actor whose credits include Daddy's Dyin' (Who's Got the Will?), and Southern Baptist Sissies. What really happened to Season 2 of Shores' popular LOGO TV series? (Visit Del's Facebook Fan Club and website.)

Plus a Rainbow Minute celebrating the acclaimed life of African American lesbian-feminist poet, activist and educator Audre Lorde.

And in NewsWrap: marriage equality dawns in Argentina, courts and questionnaires clash over "Don't Ask Don't Tell," DC's top judges quash local Prop 8 clone, Mexico City gifts Argentina's first queer newlyweds, and more news reported by Michelle Pleasant and Sheri Lunn.

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NewsWrap for the week ending July 17, 2010

SUMMARY

Argentinean Marriage - Argentina becomes the first nation in Latin America to extend full civil marriage rights to lesbigay couples ...

Finnish Marriage - Finland's Justice Minister says legislation is being drafted to extend marriage rights to same-gender couples there ...

DADT - U.S. federal lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of "Don't Ask Don't Tell" begins in a California courtroom ... charges are dropped against two gay veterans for twice chaining themselves to a White House fence to protest the policy ... queer critics question the Pentagon's troop survey to ostensibly determine how best to implement repeal ...

Washingtonian Marriage - Washington, D.C.'s top court rules against homophobes who wanted to place a Proposition 8-like initiative on the local ballot to overturn the city's marriage equality law ...

Free Mexican Honeymoon - Mexico City's Tourism Minister offers a free honeymoon to the first couple to wed when Argentina's new same-gender marriage legislation takes effect in mid-August

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40 Years of Liberation in London

Now playing ... week of July 12, 2010

Veteran British activist Philip Rescorla recalls the adventures of the Gay Liberation Front and the evolution of London's Pride celebrations. Excerpted from Resonance-FM's "Out in South London" radio show with Rosie Wilby, featuring music by the Tom Robinson Band and London's Pink Singers with Dublin's Gloria choir ... and a brief cameo appearance by Sir Ian McKellen.

And in NewsWrap: U.K.'s top court orders asylum for two gay refugees, DOMA doubly denounced by U.S. federal court, Governor's veto vanquishes Hawai'i civil unions, gay Anglican cleric crossed by Canterbury complications, Presbyterian USA confab splits decisions on ordination and marriage, Iceland's lesbian PM takes a bride, and more news reported by Michael LeBeau and Rick Watts.

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NewsWrap for the week ending July 10, 2010

SUMMARY:

Asylum Ordered - The U.K. Supreme Court orders asylum for a gay Iranian and a gay Cameroonian, overturning an appeals court ruling that said the men would not be persecuted in their home countries if they concealed their sexual orientation ...

DOMA Unconstitutional - The U.S. District Court in Boston rules in two cases, one brought by lesbigay couples legally married in Massachusetts and the other by the state's Attorney General, that a key section of DOMA, the Defense of Marriage Act, violates both the 5th and 10th amendments to the U.S. Constitution ...

HI Civil Unions Vetoed - Hawai'i's Republican Governor Linda Lingle vetoes a civil unions bill that would have given same-gender couples virtually all the rights of marriage in the state except the name ...

Gay Cleric Twice-Trashed - Openly gay partnered-but-celibate cleric Jeffrey John is blocked for the second time from becoming a Church of England bishop ...

Ordination Yes, Marriage Maybe - The annual meeting of the Presbyterian Church USA recommends the ordination of non-celibate gays but decides that blessing legally married same-gender couples requires further study ...

No Marriage in Argentina - An Argentine Senate committee recommends the rejection of a marriage equality bill ...

Ireland's Partnerships Pending - A civil partnerships bill easily passes in the second house of the Irish parliament and awaits a presidential signature ...

PM Siguroardottir Weds - Iceland's openly lesbian Prime Minister Johanna Siguroardottir marries her longtime partner on the first day that the nation's new marriage equality law comes into force ....

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Queer Kagan Confirmation Inquiries

Now playing ... week of July 5, 2010

Elena Kagan passes U.S. Senate confirmation hearings with rainbow colors, despite intensive questioning about her positions on "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" and same-gender marriage by Republican Senators Jeff Sessions of Alabama and Chuck Grassley of Iowa.

Veteran activist Roberta Sklar analyzes the somewhat surprising results of a new report that takes the rose-colored glasses off recent ballot rights battles.

And in NewsWrap: Ireland's lower house green-lights civil partnerships, India's gays celebrate one year of legal sex, U.S. Supremes rule against discriminatory Christian student group, Pride marches large and small from Augusta to Zagreb, and more news reported Rick Watts and Sheri Lunn.

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NewsWrap for the week ending July 3, 2010:

SUMMARY: Ireland's lower house of parliament approves a bill creating civil partnerships for gay and lesbian couples ... LGBT people and their supporters in several cities in India celebrate "365 Without 377" ... the U.S. Supreme Court rules 5-to-4 that a Christian student group that bars membership to LGBT people or those who advocate for them can be denied official recognition and financial support by a public law school that has specific bias-banning policies ... the Wisconsin Supreme Court upholds the 2006 voter-approved state constitutional amendment that bans same-gender marriages or civil unions ... Rhode Island Governor Donald Carcieri vetoes a bill to add gender identity or expression to the state's hate-crimes law ... Illinois Governor Pat Quinn signs a sexual orientation-inclusive bill to curb bullying in public schools ... ubiquitous marches, rallies and demonstrations to celebrate queer Pride during the traditional month of June include Istanbul, Zagreb, Paris, Berlin, Tijuana, Mexico City, Sofia, Boston, San Francisco, Nashville, Augusta (Georgia), Chicago, and New York City ... the rabidly anti-queer American Family Association calls the honoring of pre-teen LGBT rights supporter Will Phillips as Grand Marshall of the Northwest Arkansas Pride Parade in Fayetteville "child abuse"

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