Gender Non-Conforming Kids on Camera

Jonathan Skurnick of The Youth and Gender Media Project presents his two short films about boys and girls who live "outside the box" and the families who love them (with Sonali Kolhatkar from Uprising on KPFK-FM/Los Angeles).

And in NewsWrap: a Chilean lesbian judge takes her custody case to the Inter-American Court, hundreds march against South African township anti-lesbian hate crimes, Uganda's cabinet is at odds with parliament on the "kill the gays" bill, Sharia separates a married Indonesian lesbian couple, Australian MPs and the PM palaver about marriage equality, and more news reported by Ben Caron and Robert LeBlanc (produced by Ben Caron and Steve Pride).

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NewsWrap for the week ending August 27, 2011

SUMMARY

Judging for Herself - The Inter-American Court of Human Rights hears its first LGBT-related case as Chilean judge and lesbian mother Karen Atala tries to regain custody of the three daughters taken away from her by her nation's Supreme Court ...

Still Being Ignored - hundreds march on a Johannesburg, South Africa township police station demanding official action against escalating so-called "corrective" rapes and hate crime murders of sexual minorities ...

Ugandan Two-Step - the Ugandan Cabinet and parliamentary representatives send mixed signals on the fate of the country's infamous "Kill the Gays" bill ...

Severed Hearts - authorities in the Sharia law-governed Indonesian province of Aceh annul the legal marriage of a lesbian couple and force the women to sign a separation agreement ...

The Great Debate - several members of the Australian parliament discuss their constituents' views on marriage equality, while Prime Minister Julia Gillard, who opposes opening civil marriage to same-gender couples, nevertheless meets for the first time ever with LGBT activists and supporters to discuss the issue ...

It Counts - analysis of the 2010 U.S. Census by a highly-regarded LGBT "think tank" reveals Washington, D.C. as the leading locale for the number of same-gender-couples per one thousand households, and an over-all fifty percent increase in the country during the last decade of self-identified cohabiting gay and lesbian couples; and ...

M-A-R-R-I-A-G-E - U.S. country music star Chely Wright legally marries her activist partner Lauren Blitzer – each in white gowns but sans hair-spoiling veils - at an interfaith ceremony in Connecticut ...

Complete NewsWrap text and this week's podcast to be posted August 29th.

Two Moms Can Make a Right

University of Iowa student and internet sensation Zach Wahls shares the heartfelt heartland story of his lesbian family with Steve Pride.

Plus a Rainbow Minute that decodes some of Walt Whitman's gay references.

And in NewsWrap: Obama's immigration switch may shield same-gender couples, U.K. Border surprise reprieves gay Ugandan asylum seeker, Nepalese activists rally for constitutional rights, Cuban trans-wedding draws dissidents and diplomats, and more news reported by Vash Boddie and Michael LeBeau (produced by Steve Pride).

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NewsWrap for the week ending August 20, 2011

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Another Crack in the DOMA - The Obama administration announces a new immigration policy that could end deportation threats hanging over the heads of foreign national gays and lesbians in the U.S. illegally who are in same-gender unions with American citizens ...

Nick of Time - Robert Segwanyi, a Ugandan gay man seeking asylum in the U.K., gets a last-minute reprieve from being sent back to his notoriously homophobic homeland ...

The Elephants in the Room - hundreds of LGBT people make history in Narayanghat, a primarily rural area of Nepal, with a first-ever rights demonstration outside the cosmopolitan capital of Katmandu ...

Venceremos - a transgender woman who underwent Cuba's first state-sanctioned gender-reassignment surgery legally marries a gay man in what is a political as well as a celebratory ceremony in Havana ...

The Real Thing - Mexico City marks the 1,000th same-gender civil marriage since they became legal in the capital ...

Brand X - only nine gay and lesbian couples registered their civil partnerships in July, the first month they were offered in the U.S. state of Rhode Island ...

Bull By the Horns - LGBT activists in Maine launch a petition drive to qualify a marriage equality initiative for the state's November 2012 ballot, while Oregon advocates ponder a similar effort ...

Promise Kept, Vows Taken - Vermont's Peter Shumlin becomes the first sitting U.S. governor to officiate at a same-gender wedding as he fulfills a campaign promise he made to a lesbian couple last year ....

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By DOMA Divided & Gun Hill Road

Australian national Anthony John Makk and his U.S. PWA husband Bradford Wells are to be separated by immigration policy based on the Defense of Marriage Act ... despite the fact the same Obama Administration says it's unconstitutional.

Similar tales of immigration, injustice and love abound in Judy Rickard's recently published book Torn Apart, reviewed by Janet Mason.

Writer/director Rashaad Ernesto Green talks about the intersecting transitions in his festival hit Gun Hill Road, coming to U.S. theaters this month; Steve Pride adds preview clips featuring Esai Morales and Harmony Santana.

And in NewsWrap: British unrest unleashes anti-gay rage, homophobes are kept in "Czech” at Prague's first Pride, "cure" quacks proliferate in Africa and Europe, Aussies keep parenting and marriage in mind, and more news reported by Natalie Peoples and John Torres (produced by Steve Pride).

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NewsWrap for the week ending August 13, 2011

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The Fire This Time - London's venerable Gay's the Word bookstore is among the businesses targeted and damaged during riots that rocked Britain this week, as are "Gay Village" clubs and shops in Birmingham and Manchester ...

Check It Out - thousands celebrate Pride for the first time in Prague, despite Czech government leaders' "deviant" critiques ...

So Proudly We Sail - Dutch Defense Ministry floats its own boat for the first time in Amsterdam's unique Pride procession down one of the city's historic canals ...

Party of Five - arrests of one older white man and four young black men for "acts of sexual immorality" make headlines in Zimbabwe ...

But Can You Cure Stupid - Presbyterian Church of Ghana announces that it's opening "therapy centers" to "cure" and "rehabilitate" gays and lesbians, and the promotion of discredited "reparative therapy" to make lesbians and gay men heterosexual spreads in Europe ...

Propaganda of Heterosexualism - bill is introduced in Ukraine's parliament to make "propaganda of homosexualism" a criminal offense ...

In Spite of Himself - Chilé’s politically conservative President Sebastián Piñera formally sends a bill to Congress that would create civil unions for same-gender and heterosexual couples ...

Who Are You - U.S. anti-equality National Organization for Marriage is a two-time legal loser in its court challenges to political donor disclosure laws in Rhode Island and Maine ...

It Takes Two - first-ever same-gender second-parent adoption is approved in Slovenia ...

In for a Pound - openly lesbian Australian Finance Minister Penny Wong, who has consistently supported her Labor Party's opposition to marriage equality, announces that her longtime partner is expecting a child, due in December ...

Shotgun Wedding , Please - the gay male couple featured in a controversial condom promotion in Queensland hopes civil marriage for Australian same-gender couples becomes a reality sometime soon as they become foster parents of a 9-year-old boy ...

Complete NewsWrap text and this week's podcast to be posted August 15th.

Jordan's Pink Carpet & Man For A Day

Join Will & Grace's Leslie Jordan on his Trip Down the Pink Carpet with Rosie Wilby of Out in South London on Resonance-FM.

All hail drag king queen Diane Torr as she discusses her Man For A Day workshops with Dixie Treichel of Fresh Fruit on KFAI-FM/Minneapolis-St. Paul.

And in NewsWrap: vandals violate Ugandan activists' HQ; scandal scuttles gay candidate's Irish presidential bid; Australia won't let gays and lesbians marry, but counts same-gender couples wedded overseas; American Psychological Association resolves to support marriage equality; more news reported by Sarah Sweeney & Vash Boddie (produced by Steve Pride).

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NewsWrap for the week ending August 6, 2011

SUMMARY

The Kampala Job - Burglars break into and vandalize the office of Freedom and Roam Uganda, one of that notoriously homophobic nation's leading LGBT advocacy organizations, stealing computers, other valuable equipment, and the group's membership lists ...

Past Makes the Future - openly gay Irish Senator David Norris is forced to end his campaign for the presidency, which polls had him winning, after a controversy involving his former partner from 25 years ago makes headlines ...

2 By 2 - in a national first, the next Australian census will count same-gender couples who've married overseas (although they can't marry in their home country) ...

Psych Eval - the American Psychological Association, the world's largest such organization, strongly resolves to support marriage equality ...

Reserving the Right - Washington state's Suquamish Tribal Council extends marriage rights to its lesbian and gay members (although they’ll only be recognized on the reservation) ...

Sick Call - U.S. Centers for Disease Control reports an alarming increase in HIV infections among young African-American men who have sex with men ...

Blissful Ignorance - anti-gay forces get the green light to circulate petitions for a proposed ballot measure to overturn California's new law requiring public schools to teach about the contributions of LGBT and physically-challenged people to state and national history ...

Dolly Is So ... - U.S. country music megastar Dolly Parton apologizes to a lesbian couple who were hassled entering her Tennessee theme park, Dollywood, because one of them wore a T-shirt proclaiming "Marriage is so gay" ...

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NY Knots, Queer UN History & GH Homo Hunt

Bear witness to the dawn of New York's marriage equality with the jubilant wedding guests, including Salim Rizvi of Free Speech Radio News.

UN Human Rights High Commissioner Navi Pillay celebrates the commitment of Australian activist Nicholas Toonen, who first brought LGBT issues to the United Nations, and looks into the future.

Researcher Charlotte Walker-Said of the Human Rights Program at the University of Chicago discusses the circumstances that led to a a government official ordering an anti-LGBT crackdown in Ghana.

And in NewsWrap: ECOSOC likes ILGA again, Uganda revives "kill gays" bill, Turkish Cypriots bust two men under "unused" sodomy law, Italian Deputies in denial about discrimination, Jerusalem celebrates Pride peacefully, and more news reported by John Torres and Natalie Peoples (produced by Steve Pride).

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NewsWrap for the week ending July 30, 2011

SUMMARY

Put An ECOSOC On It - It took 17 years, but the U.N. Economic & Social Council has restored the consultative status of ILGA, the International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Association ...

It's Ba-ack! - multiple reports warn of the resurrection and impending consideration in Uganda’s newly-seated parliament of the internationally infamous "kill the gays" bill ...

Dead Law Walking - the arrest of two men in Nicosia for "unnatural intercourse" renews calls by Northern Cyprus activists for repeal of the island nation’s British colonial era sodomy law ...

Bias Permission - the Italian parliament’s lower house defeats a bill to ban discrimination based on sexual orientation or gender identity ...

Coulda Been Worse - some four thousand celebrants enjoy the 10th annual Pride and Tolerance parade in Jerusalem absent (for the most part) the usual violent protests by religious fundamentalists ...

Green With Envy - a right-wing Christian preacher fails to deter thousands from marching with Pride in Belfast ...

Summer of Love, East - hundreds of gay & lesbian couples begin marrying in New York at the stroke of midnight on June 24th – the first day the law creating civil marriage equality in the Empire State takes effect ...

Does Cheese Stand Alone? - the California Supreme Court schedules oral arguments for September 6th to decide if sponsors of Proposition 8 have legal standing in the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals to challenge a lower court ruling, if the state refuses to do so, that the marriage equality-banning measure violates the U.S. Constitution ...

Keep Trying - Colombia’s Constitutional Court gives lawmakers two years to extend civil marriage rights to same-gender couples, but six previous bills in Congress to do that have failed ...

International Incident - Taiwan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs upsets a diplomatic official for refusing to extend to his gay partner the same diplomatic immunity given to heterosexual spouses ...

Hlín & Gná to the Rescue - lesbian couple Hege Dalen and Toril Hansen become nautical Norwegian heroes for braving the bullets of mass murderer Anders Breivik and ferrying in four separate trips as many as 40 of his bloodied and terrified young targets to safety in their small boat ...

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