Grossman Tribute & Bornstein's Outlaws

The posthumously-released Something in the Moonlight celebrates the work of trailblazing gay troubadour Steven Grossman. JD Doyle previews the album and chats with a few of the pioneering singer-songwriter's admirers.

Gender Outlaw Kate Bornstein toasts the next "trans-genderation" in conversation with Chris Thomas from WBAI's Out-FM.

And in NewsWrap: United Nations Human Rights Council condemns anti-LGBT bias, gay Kenyans go online and face death threats, Hong Kong activists protest a "change" therapist, Australia's marriage equality-opposing P.M. to "engage" with same-gender couples, and more news reported by Christopher Gaal and Ben Caron.

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NewsWrap for the week ending June 18, 2011

SUMMARY

World First - The Geneva-based United Nations Human Rights Council resolves for the first time to combat discrimination around the world against LGBT people ...

Ahead of the Pitchforks - Nairobi-based activists launch Kenya's first website to fight the isolation and abuse faced by sexual minorities in the country, and in the same week the nation's top Muslim clerics call on the government to impose the death penalty for homosexual acts ...

Not Well or Fair - activists protest the hiring by their government of a "reparative therapy" promoter to train Hong Kong's social welfare staff ...

Charge of the Split Brigade - some 10,000 opponents violently attack about 200 LGBT people and their allies attempting to march with Pride in the Croatian seaside city of Split ...

Poles Apart - 3,000 Polish Pride-sters shrug off a small counter-protest to parade without violence in Warsaw ...

As Discharges Continue - U.S. Senate Armed Services Committee passes a defense spending bill without the amendments attached by House Republicans designed to delay the repeal of Don't Ask Don't Tell, but with a provision to axe the military's century-old sodomy law ...

Don't PACS It In Yet - France's National Assembly rejects a Socialist Party marriage equality proposal ...

Defense of Money - California district bankruptcy court joins the growing chorus of federal benches to rule that key provisions of the Defense of Marriage Act, or DOMA, violate the U.S. Constitution ...

Grasping at Straws - Federal District Judge James Ware rejects the motion by Proposition 8 supporters to vacate the ruling by his now-retired predecessor Vaughn Walker declaring California's marriage equality-banning measure unconstitutional because Walker is gay and in a long-term relationship ...

Eating for Equality - Australian P.M. Julia Gillard, who opposes opening marriage to same-gender couples, will soon have to break bread with three of those couples after an LGBT advocacy group submits the highest bid for that dinner-date at a charity auction ...

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Beginners & Redirected GOP Dollars

On-screen father and son Beginners share a late love story, which writer/director Mike Mills and actor Ewan McGregor explain to Steve Pride as he shares preview clips.

Major Republican donors known more for supporting conservative candidates are pouring big money into the New York marriage equality campaign, according to Bill Newman of the ACLU of Massachusetts in a Civil Liberties Minute.

Plus a Rainbow Minute celebrating gravelly-voiced writer-actor Harvey Fierstein (produced by Judd Proctor and Brian Burns, and read by Sonia of disappear fear).

And in NewsWrap: AIDS prevention ads are attacked by the Australian Christian Lobby, Nepal's head count of "third genders" may be a world first, "It Gets Batter" with pro baseball teams' anti-bullying plays, and more news reported by Tanya Kane-Parry and Michael LeBeau.

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NewsWrap for the week ending June 4, 2011

SUMMARY

Pilate Spares Ad - An Aussie safe sex campaign is saved from homophobic Christian opposition ...

Undiplomatic Diplomat - South Africa's recently-appointed ambassador to Uganda Jon Qwelane is convicted of anti-gay hate speech ...

Do the Math - Nepal becomes what may be the world's first country to count sexual minorities in its census ...

Standing United - dozens of couples get licensed in Illinois on the first day the state's new civil unions law takes effect ...

Transforming Bias - Connecticut and Nevada governors each sign bills protecting transgender people from discrimination ...

"It Gets Batter" - 2010 U.S. baseball champion San Francisco Giants become the first professional sports franchise to contribute a supportive video to the "It Gets Better" LGBTQ teen suicide prevention campaign ...

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