Candidly k.d. & Anderson Backstage

Iconic crooner k.d. lang talks about her music, love, and life (from "Out in South London" with Rosie Wilby on Resonance-FM).

A behind-the-scenes chat with award-winning multi-genre playwright Jane Anderson (and our Ben Caron).

And in NewsWrap: Pride marchers meet mayhem in Moscow, LGBT parades aborted in Montenegro and Belarus, Aussie fundamentalists can't silence marriage equality calls, Church of Scotland lifts blanket ban on gay clergy, Pride accidentally on display in Afghanistan, and more news reported by Ben Caron and Chris Wilson.

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NewsWrap for the week ending May 28, 2011

SUMMARY

Annual Riot - Dozens of arrests follow attempted attacks by right-wing homophobes against LGBT activists on May 28th at yet another banned Moscow Pride march ...

Crying for Freedom - tear-gassing of an LGBT rights concert in Montenegro's capital of Podgorica leads activists to cancel what would have been that nation's first Pride parade on May 31st ...

Without Leave - LGBT activists in Belarus defy a ban to march in Minsk ...

No Contest - small groups of disruptive fundamentalist Christians can't stop marriage equality marches in Brisbane, Queensland, and Adelaide, South Australia ...

One Foot Out - the Church of Scotland lifts its outright ban on "out" lesbian and gay pastors but orders a 2-year study to fully resolve that issue and whether or not pastors can bless same-gender unions ...

Holding Breath, Turning Blue - to no one's surprise, the GOP-controlled U.S. House of Representatives passes an annual defense spending bill with three amendments designed to at least impede the repeal of Don't Ask, Don't Tell ...

Prop. 8 Re-inactmet - the GOP-controlled Minnesota legislature approves a November 2012 ballot measure to constitutionally define marriage as exclusively heterosexual ...

Limiting Local Liberty - Tennessee's Republican governor signs a bill preventing local cities and counties from enacting anti-bias protections that exceed those specified in state law ...

Don't Gamble on Bias - Nevada's Republican governor signs a bill to ban workplace discrimination based on gender identity or expression ...

If the Logo Sticks ... - LGBT Pride is accidentally displayed in Kabul, Afghanistan -- until drivers discover what their proliferating rainbow bumper stickers represent ...

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Activist v. The Establishment & UNHCHR Navi Pillay

Controversial Russian gay activist Nikolai Alekseev creates a "Gay Inc" stink in the conclusion of his four-part conversation with Steve Pride.

United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay condemns anti-LGBT violence and calls for all governments to treat their citizens with compassionate equality in a special message circulated to coincide with May 17th's International Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia.

And in NewsWrap: worldwide IDAHO demonstrations denounce homo- and trans-phobia, Roman Catholic bishops stop blaming gays for clerical child abuse, new survey "Gallups" toward U.S. marriage equality, string of self-outings mark sports figures' personal bests, and more news reported by Jenn Mahoney and Rick Watts.

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NewsWrap for the week ending May 21, 2011

SUMMARY

With One Voice - seventh annual International Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia – best known by the acronym IDAHO – is observed in more than 70 countries around the world ...

Don't Blame Us - five-year study commissioned by the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops absolves gay priests of causing its clerical abuse scandal ...

The Balance Tips - new Gallup Poll reveals first-time majority support for marriage equality in the U.S. ...

Second Best - Rhode Island eschews marriage parity for lesbian and gay couples and heads in the direction of civil unions ...

Albeit a Weakfish - Delaware's governor signs his state's civil unions bill into law ...

State of Mind - Tennessee lawmakers who don't like Nashville's ordinance banning sexual orientation bias pass a bill to ban all cities and counties from enacting their own anti-bias ordinances, even those based on race, religion, or gender ...

News to Me - African-American CNN prime time weekend anchor Don Lemon decides to come out as gay in order to lead a more "Transparent" life ...

Self-Outing Scoreboard - several prominent figures in the U.S. athletic world also come out, including ESPN sports reporter Jared Max, pro bowling Rookie of the Year Scott Norton, former Villanova basketball player Will Sheridan, and president and CEO of the National Basketball Association's Phoenix Suns Rick Welts ...

Chuck Roasts 'Phobes - former NBA star and current basketball TV analyst Charles Barkley calls any current player who claims to have never had a gay teammate "a stone-freakin' idiot" ...

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Russian Rhubarb & "Bob The Book"

Moscow's pre-eminent gay activist Nikolai Alekseev discusses the intercontinental controversy over allegations that he's anti-Semitic in the third of a compelling four-part conversation with Steve Pride.

Bob The Book leads a page-turning gay life, as literary commentator Janet Mason attests in her review of Don Pratt's new novel.

And in NewsWrap: Uganda's "Kill The Gays" bill dies in parliament, U.S. Presbyterians ordain clerical equality, House Republicans try to derail Don't Ask Don't Tell repeal, Europe's top court orders pensions equality, Taiwan right-wingers slander a new schools diversity curriculum, and more news reported by Rick Watts and Michael LeBeau.

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NewsWrap for the week ending May 14, 2011

SUMMARY

Kill Bill Vol. 3 - Uganda's parliament adjourns without considering the infamous "Kill The Gays" bill, but its sponsor, David Bahati, vows to revive it in the next parliamentary session ...

Answered Prayer - after 33 years of debate and deliberation, the Presbyterian Church (USA) opens its clergy to partnered gays and lesbians ...

The Congressional Front - the Armed Services Committee of the GOP-controlled U.S. House of Representatives attaches three amendments to the annual Defense Authorization Bill in an effort to at least slow down repeal of Don't Ask Don't Tell, which one LGBT military advocate calls "a shameful and embarrassing waste of time" ...

The Judicial Front - the gay advocacy group Log Cabin Republicans asks a federal appeals court to lift its hold on a lower court order to abolish Don't Ask Don't Tell, and the Obama administration fights the ACLU's lawsuit challenging the Pentagon policy that gives gay men and lesbians honorably discharged under Don't Ask Don't Tell only half of the separation pay other honorably discharged veterans receive ...

Beneficial Decision - the European Court of Justice rules that gays and lesbians in legal civil unions or registered partnerships in E.U. member states are entitled to the same pension benefits as their heterosexually married colleagues ...

True Hate - LGBT advocates in Taiwan file a slander lawsuit against the Union for True Love, charging the right wing group with spreading inflammatory falsehoods about the Ministry of Education's proposal to include discussion of sexual orientation and family diversity in elementary and junior high school curricula

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Alekseev in EuroCourt & Rep. Simon's Gospel

Rabble-rousing Russian activist-lawyer Nikolai Alekseev recounts his EuroCourt crusades, and how his kidnapping and detention became part of the extra-legal proceedings involved in the second of a four-part conversation with Steve Pride.

Minnesota State Representative Steve Simon brought a heavenly defense of marriage equality to the House Civil Law Committee debating a ban on recognizing same-gender couples.

And in NewsWrap: Brazil's top court finds civil unions a must, voters will have the final say on Liechtenstein's partnerships law, U.S. Attorney General takes on two DOMA-dependent immigration cases, South Africa launches a task force to combat "corrective rape," and more news reported by John Torres and Robert LeBlanc.

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NewsWrap for the week ending May 7, 2011

SUMMARY

Blame It On the Bossa Nova - Brazil's Federal Supreme Court orders marriage-equivalent civil unions for same-gender couples ...

Alpine Showdown - Liechtenstein voters will determine the fate of the recently-enacted-by-Parliament registered partnership law after opponents successfully put the issue on the ballot ...

Silent Partners - Polish citizens who file to marry or contract a civil union abroad will no longer be required to include the name of the spouse after some registry offices refused to issue the mandatory form when the intended's name appeared to be of the same gender ...

Departure on Hold[er] - Venezuelan gay man who legally married his American partner last year is temporarily spared deportation after the U.S. Attorney General appears to suggest, in a similar case involving a legally-united bi-national couple, that the Defense of Marriage Act, which bans federal recognition of same-gender unions, should be disregarded ...

The Wrong Stuff - California's Attorney General tells the state high court that, absent action by elected officials, Proposition 8 backers should not be allowed to appeal a federal court ruling that the marriage equality-banning measure violates the U.S. Constitution ...

Can't Win For Losing - bill to allow initiative sponsors like those behind Prop 8 to appeal relevant federal court rulings dies in a California state Senate committee; ...

Carefully Taught - 13-year-old girl who is open about her lesbian orientation is the latest reported victim of so-called "corrective rape" in South Africa, while the government finally begins to address that escalating problem ...

Facing the Music - former soldier is arrested in Sydney for creating a Facebook page that threatened and harassed dozens of suspected gay members of the Australian Defence Force ...

There Ought To Be a Law - Australia's Human Rights Commission recommends the enactment of federal legislation to outlaw discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity ...

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Alekseev's Pride & Kameny's Persistence

Russia's leading gay activist Nikolai Alekseev goes another round for Moscow Pride (in the first of an engaging multi-part conversation with Steve Pride).

Plus two Rainbow Minutes tell the story of venerable U.S. activist Frank Kameny (produced by Judd Proctor and Brian Burns and read by Tom Miller and Chris Delbom).

And in NewsWrap: Uganda removes death penalty from harsh anti-gay bill, South African lesbian activist slaughtered in "corrective rape" attack, gay writer wins Japanese municipal election, Congress' DOMA defender quits pro-LGBT law firm, and more news reported by Pam Marshall and Jenn Mahoney.

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NewsWrap for the week ending April 30, 2011

SUMMARY

Life, Not Death - The death penalty may have been dropped from the proposed Anti-Homosexuality Bill in Uganda, but the draconian measure still punishes same-gender sex with life in prison and may still be voted on in parliament before its session ends on May 12th ...

The Cure That Kills - lesbian activist Noxolo Nogwaza is sexually assaulted and brutally murdered in another case of so-called "corrective rape" in South Africa ...

Where Is My Assemblymember? - author Taiga Ishikawa becomes Japan's first openly gay male elected official by winning a seat on the Tokyo area Toshima Ward Assembly ...

Changing Partners - King and Spalding, the law firm hired by the U.S. House of Representatives to defend the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), bows out, but its senior partner Paul Clement, who was its lead attorney and wants to continue that defense, resigns and brings the case to another law firm, Bancroft PLLC ...

Conflict of Love - supporters of Proposition 8 file a motion to have U.S. District Court Judge Vaughn Walker's ruling overturning the marriage equality-banning California measure thrown out after he comes out as a partnered gay man soon after retiring ...

Discouragement in the Hope State - lesbigay activists who believed there was a good chance for passage of a marriage equality bill in Rhode Island will apparently have to settle for civil unions as a consolation prize ...

In the Best Interest - the last Roman Catholic Church adoption agency to fight having to comply with British laws requiring them to accept same-gender couples as prospective parents on an equal basis with heterosexual couples loses an important round in its exemption efforts ...

Wedding Gift Request - the U.K. Equal Love Campaign asks newlywed royals William and Kate to support same-gender marriage ...

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