DADT Senate Shenanigans & New Queer CDs

Now playing ... week of Sept. 27, 2010

U.S. Senators "Don't Ask" and "Don't Tell" about the repeal of the ban on lesbian and gay servicemembers serving openly, John McCain rants at queer reporters about how the policy is "working," and Lady Gaga turns out to be the REAL "fierce advocate" for LGBT rights.

Tret Fure's heart and heartbreak ("The Horizon"), and the CD debuts of Avi Wisnia's pop fusion ("Something New") and "lesbian boy" K Anderson ("The Overthinker") star as JD Doyle, Chris Wilson and Christopher David Trentham bring you this edition of Audiofile.



And in NewsWrap: second federal judge rules U.S. military ban unconstitutional, Russian activist Nikolai Alekseyev tells true abduction story, Moscow activists busted at birthday "roast" for homophobic Mayor Yuri Luzhkov, Florida dumps its "Orange Era" adoptions ban, and more news reported by Tanya Kane-Parry and Pam Marshall.

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NewsWrap for the week ending September 25, 2010

SUMMARY

Don't Ask the Courts - A second federal judge in less than a month uses the "Witt Standard" to rule "Don't Ask Don't Tell," the U.S. ban on military service by open gays and lesbians, unconstitutional ...

Don't Tell Barack - the Obama administration moves to stop the first judge's injunction to end its enforcement ...

Don't Pursue Anything in Congress - the U.S. Senate fails to address repeal ...

Back From ??? - Russian activist Nikolai Alekseyev describes his two-day abduction by unidentified government agents,

Happy Birthday, Homophobe - Moscow activists get arrested to "celebrate" Mayor Yuri Luzhkov ...

Family Friendly - state appeals court rules Florida's law prohibiting adoption by gays and lesbians unconstitutional, probably ending the last such ban in a U.S. state

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What Makes Brittany Novotny Run

Now playing ... week of September 20, 2010

An Oklahoma trans-woman's place is in the House, and as Brittany Novotny stands up against the barbs of her famously homophobic opponent (Rep. Sally "homosexuality is a bigger threat than terrorism" Kern), our Linda Birch and Steve Pride chat with her at her West Hollywood campaign fundraiser.

Literary commentator Janet Mason wonders what's so queer about being pink as she reflects on writer Sherry Wolf's "Sexuality and Socialism."

And in NewsWrap: Israel's high court orders Jerusalem gelt for LGBT community center, abducted Russian activist resurfaces, dozens detained in Kathmandu for identifying a problem, lesbian U.S. Air Force nurse goes to court to out-Witt "Don't Ask Don't Tell," Sapphic September sojourn's success supersedes small-town skepticism, and more news reported by John Torres and Robert LeBlanc.

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NewsWrap for the week ending Sept. 18, 2010

SUMMARY

Gay Gelt Ordered - Israel's Supreme Court rules that the Jerusalem municipal government must provide funding to the LGBT Open House because the city funds other community groups and because anti-gay bias "has no place in the 21st century" ...

Just Stop It - United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon calls for the repeal of all laws around the world that discriminate against lesbians and gay men ...

Moscow Mystery - leading Russian gay activist Nikolai Alekseyev is abducted from a Moscow airport by unidentified officials, followed by contradictory media reports about what happened to him and his resurfacing days later ...

ID Demo - Nepal's only openly-gay lawmaker Sunil Pant is among 70 demonstrators detained at a protest outside the P.M.'s office demanding a "third sex" option on national identification documents for transgender people ...

Trans-Aussies Serve - Australian Defense Force chief Angus Houston announces the end of a ban on military service by transgender people ...

Witt and Wisdom - second high-profile federal lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of the U.S. military's "Don't Ask Don't Tell" policy begins in the state of Washington ...

DADT Vote - vote to consider a major military spending bill that includes repeal of the policy looms in the U.S. Senate ...

Primary Lavenders - several openly gay and lesbian candidates win U.S. primary victories ...

Share a Little Tea With Moldy - homophobic "Tea Party" candidate wins the GOP nomination for the U.S. Senate in Delaware ...

Far From Palm Springs - lesbians from across Europe gather in Eressos, Lesbos for the Greek island village's 10th annual International Women's Festival

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GLSEN Does Its Homework

Now playing ... week of September 13, 2010

The Gay Lesbian and Straight Education Network battles school bullying with consciousness-raising programs for teachers and kids and legislative lobbying. Executive Director Dr. Eliza Byard tells Sheri Lunn about those efforts and a new campaign of PSA's produced by the Ad Council called "Think Before You Speak" (one of which features Wanda Sykes and the song "Colors" by Will.i.Am.)

And in NewsWrap: U.S. federal court questions the constitutionality of "Don't Ask Don't Tell," pro-marriage Aussie Greens help goose Labor into another term, Latina lesbian selected for Colorado’s top court, progressive Italian Protestants bless same-gender unions, Faroe Islands M.P. fumes over the Icelandic P.M.'s visit, and more news reported by Michael LeBeau and Ben Caron.

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NewsWrap for the week ending September 11, 2010

SUMMARY

Don't Ask the Constitution - Federal district court judge rules that "Don't Ask Don't Tell", the Pentagon policy forcing gay and lesbian service members to stay in the closet, violates the First and Fifth Amendments of the U.S. Constitution ...

Pro-Prop 8s Punched Again - California's Supreme Court rejects the challenge to a lower appeals court's dismissal of a lawsuit demanding that the Governor and Attorney General defend the state's marriage equality-banning Proposition 8 at the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in December ...

Judged Supreme - Colorado Governor Bill Ritter appoints Monica Marquez as the first Latina and "out" lesbian to the state Supreme Court ...

Greening Australia - with the support of three newly-elected independent MPs and the new marriage equality-supportive Green MP, Australia's ruling Labor Party maintains power following a virtual dead heat in the August 21st national elections with the right-of-center Liberal Party ...

NSW Adapts - New South Wales opens adoption to same-gender couples ...

Fostering Love - in what may be a first, a court in Victoria allows a partnered gay man in that state to adopt his foster son ...

Italian Equality - the joint synod of Italy's Protestant denominations, the Waldensians and Methodists, votes to allow local churches to bless same-gender couples ...

Bad Manners - conservative Christian MP in the Faroe Islands refuses to attend an official state dinner for Iceland's legally-married lesbian PM and her partner

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"Out in the Silence"

Now playing ... week of September 6, 2010

A fateful homecoming for first-time documentarians and married gay couple Dean Hamer and Joseph Wilson becomes an educational campaign. They tell Steve Pride what happens when the mother of a gay teen being tormented at school in a conservative town begs for help from an outsider.

California's Prop 8 raises its head on the campaign trail as Democratic U.S. Senator Barbara Boxer debates conservative Republican challenger Carly Fiorina.

Jane Lynch of "Glee" thanks the Academy and takes an Emmy home to her wife and daughter.

Kookaburra is now safely gay in the old gum tree, so The World Children's Choir can perform the suddenly controversial folk classic.

And in NewsWrap: Aussie voters push Labor towards Greener future, Texas won't put asunder Massachusetts marriage, Fidel takes blame for Cuba's old anti-gay purges, African Anglicans push Canterbury to settle homo-schism, U.S. Lutheran throwbacks birth splinter church, and more news reported by Rick Watts and Michael LeBeau.

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NewsWrap for the week ending September 4, 2010

SUMMARY

Green-Labor Kiss - The marriage equality-supportive minority Australian Green Party reportedly allies itself with Labor's efforts to form a new government following inconclusive national elections ...

TAS Imports Rights - Tasmania's parliament recognizes the marriages or civil unions of same-gender couples legally contracted anywhere else in the world ...

Propping Up 8 - California appeals court rejects the motion of a right-wing legal group to force state officials to defend Proposition 8 at the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ...

No D-I-V-O-R-C-E - Texas appeals court upholds the state's ban on same-gender marriage in rejecting a Massachusetts-married gay man's divorce petition ...

Fidel Apologizes - former Cuban President Fidel Castro blames himself for the round-up and labor camp internment of gay men by his revolutionary government in the 1960s and early 70s ...

Anglican Angst - African Anglican bishops press the Communion's titular leader Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams to resolve the festering schism over the inclusion of LGBT people in church life ...

Lutheran Split - splinter group opposed to last year's decision by the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America to welcome partnered gay clergy forms the rival North American Lutheran Church ...

Double Decision - Napa, California Presbyterian Church court both rebukes and praises Rev. Jane Spahr for officiating at the marriages of several lesbian and gay couples in California during the brief time in 2008 when they were legal ...

What Good? - New Zealand's Charitable Commission rejects the application of the Kiwi affiliate of the so-called "ex-gay" group Exodus International because it offers no "public benefit"

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