Marriage Equality's Tin Anniversary

Now playing ... week of Mar. 28, 2011

Flashback to the April 1, 2001 first-ever legal same-gender wedding in the world, when Amsterdam Mayor Job Cohen married four couples at the stroke of midnight to celebrate the Netherlands' new marriage equality.

Plus ... some parting words from an invaluable ally.

And in NewsWrap: UN council declares support for LGBT rights, Obama and Rouseff ask the OAS to set up a special office to protect LGBT people, Uganda's "kill the gays" bill has a twin brother, Canada plans to aid refugees from homophobia, and more news reported by Rick Watts and Sheri Lunn.

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NewsWrap for the week ending Mar. 26, 2011

SUMMARY

Double Dare - United Nations Human Rights Council declares support for LGBT rights and calls for member states to remove criminal statutes based on sexual orientation and gender identity ...

Inter-American Way - U.S. President Barack Obama and Brazilian President Dilma Rouseff call for the establishment of a "Special Rapporteur" at the Organization of American States to promote and protect the rights of LGBT people ...

Bait & Switch - President Yoweri Museveni would like Uganda's Anti-Homosexuality Bill to fade away, but its provisions may reappear under the Sexual Offences Bill ...

New Haven - Canada's Citizenship, Immigration and Multiculturalism Department has a plan to aid LGBT refugees fleeing persecution ...

No Exit - for the first time since the Obama Administration announced that it would no longer defend the Defense of Marriage Act in court, a binational same-gender couple wins a suspension of deportation proceedings ...

Life in the Slow Lane - Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals denies a motion to lift the ban on marriage equality while litigation over Proposition 8 continues ...

Marching Orders - as the demise of Don't Ask, Don't Tell continues, Servicemembers United tallies the casualties, chaplains get trained, and activists meet with Pentagon officials to discuss the implementation of repeal ...

"Cure" App Cured - torrent of outrage lets Apple know that there really isn't an app for that.

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Armistead Maupin's "Maryann in Autumn"

Now playing ... week of Mar. 7, 2011

Tales of the City author Armistead Maupin talks about life, love, politics, and the latest chapter in the lives of the people of Barbary Lane. (Produced by Steve Pride.)

And in NewsWrap: Australian Labor conservatives balk at a Green proposal that might make marriage equality easier, U.S. House Republicans rally to rescue the Defense of Marriage Act, Israel gets its first gay judge; TV station wreaks "outing" havoc in India, and more news reported by John Torres and Rick Watts.

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NewsWrap for the week ending Mar. 5, 2011

SUMMARY

Revolting Development - Australian Labor conservatives balk at a Green proposal that might make marriage equality easier in the territories ...

No Place Like DOMA - U.S. House Republicans rally to rescue the Defense of Marriage Act...

Waiting List - California Attorney General Kamala Harris joins the push to get the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals to lift the ban on same-gender marriages pending Prop. 8 litigation ...

Justice Relayed - Israel gets its first gay judge ...

Finger Pointing - TV station wreaks "outing" havoc in India ...

Freedom of Hate - the U.S. Supreme Court upholds the right of the Westboro Baptist Church to carry on its homophobic pickets of veterans' funerals ...

Host with the Most - gay Jeremy Bernard is the first man to be right for the job of White House Social Secretary.

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