The Glitterati & Weekend / Dirty Girl

Conservative homophobes "feel the rainbow" when Nick Espinosa, Joanna Hirvela and Rachel Lang set off their glitter bombs. The team tells Dixie Treichel (of Fresh Fruit on KFAI-Minneapolis/St. Paul) about their sparkling strategy.

Take in an old fashioned double feature of Andrew Haigh's Weekend and Abe Sylvia's Dirty Girl with Entertainment Correspondent Steve Pride.

And in NewsWrap: gay sex bust snares Northern Cyprus dignitary, Zimbabwe denies prisoners condoms, another bullied gay teen suicides, post-DADT inequalities linger, and more news reported by Michael LeBeau and Gary Shaw (produced by Steve Pride).

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NewsWrap for the week ending October 22, 2011

SUMMARY

Behind Closed Doors - Northern Cyprus' former Finance Minister and two others are arrested in a private home in north Nicosia for "acts against nature" …

Unprotected Custody - Zimbabwe Prison Services denies condoms to men behind bars because gay sex is illegal …

Not Enough Better Yet - bullied 15-year-old Canadian 10th-grader Jamie Hubley becomes the latest headline-making gay teen suicide …

Uncle Sam Owes Alimony - a federal judge okays a lawsuit seeking full separation pay denied to gays & lesbians honorably discharged under "Don't Ask Don't Tell" …

More To Tell - another "DADT" lawsuit will demand equal benefits for legally-married active duty lesbian and gay service members …

All in the Family - a U.S. Senator's intervention allows a National Guard enlistee just back from duty in Kuwait to bring her civil partner to a military reintegration program for returning soldiers and their families …

Repeat Step One - lawyers hired by the GOP-controlled U.S. House of Representatives to defend the Defense of Marriage Act in legal challenges to its constitutionality argue in federal court that gays and lesbians "are far from politically powerless" …

Shattered Closet - a federal judge in California decides that proponents of Proposition 8 offered no proof in their attempt to stop the release of the names of people who signed petitions to qualify the marriage equality-banning ballot measure …

After the Horse Has Bolted - Washington conservative religious groups file an emergency order to stop the naming of petitioners supporting a repeal of that state's domestic partner benefits law after 30 DVDs of petition signatures had already been released …

Gold Diggers of 2011 - even the Manhattan Clerk's Office joins the economic boom that marriage equality has brought to the Empire State ….

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Frank Kameny, RIP

The pioneering equality activist died peacefully in his sleep at the age of 86 on National Coming Out Day. A Rainbow Minute (produced by Judd Proctor & Brian Burns at WRIR-FM in Richmond, Virginia and read by Dustin Richardson) celebrates his life; Kameny discusses the beliefs that drove his activism during a 1975 conversation with Ronald Gold on WBAI-FM in New York City (with thanks to the Pacifica Radio Radio Archives); progressive lesbian news commentator Rachel Maddow eulogizes Kameny on her MSNBC program.

And in NewsWrap: disabled lesbian vet battles biased DOMA benefits, assault on California's LGBT curriculum law fizzles, Polish party propels transwoman into parliament, Presbyterian Church (USA) ordains openly gay pastor, Rio celebrates Pride, and more news reported by John Torres and Robert LeBlanc (produced by Steve Pride).

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NewsWrap for the week ending October 15, 2011

SUMMARY

Swimming to the Other Side - In an interesting confluence of Don't Ask Don't Tell and the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), a disabled lesbian U.S. Navy veteran who legally married her partner in Connecticut is suing for the same disability payment increases automatically given to newly-married heterosexuals …

Leahy the DOMA-Slayer - legislation to repeal DOMA is scheduled for a Senate Judiciary Committee vote in November …

A Force To Be Reckoned With - some 200 lesbian and gay active duty troops, veterans and civilian supporters gather in Las Vegas for an OutServe-organized first-ever military leadership summit for "out" personnel …

Single Parent Family - the U.S. Supreme Court refuses to hear the appeal of a gay couple who were denied having both names on their adopted son's revised birth certificate …

Left Back in 1st Grade- the rightwing coalition group opposed to California's FAIR Education Act, which mandates age-appropriate LGBT-inclusive history lessons in the state's public schools, fails to gather the number of petition signatures required to put a referendum on the ballot …

Honeymoon Ends - the Los Angeles-based Love Honor Cherish initiates the process to put a measure to repeal California's marriage equality-banning Proposition 8 on the November 2012 ballot after the state's biggest LGBT advocacy group, Equality California, decides not to …

Georgina the Second - Poland elects Anna Grodzka as its first transgender lawmaker …

21st Century Reformation - the Presbyterian Church (USA) ordains Rev. Scott Anderson as its first openly-gay pastor …

Corrective Justice - four of the nine South African men originally charged with the brutal rape and killing of 19-year-old Cape Town lesbian Zoliswa Nkonyana are convicted of murder after more than five years of court delays …

Keeping It Rio - hundreds of thousands mix celebration and politics in Rio de Janeiro's 16th annual Pride parade …

Livin' La Vida Reprimida - under-15-year-olds are barred from attending gay entertainer Ricky Martin’s concert in Tegucigalpa "to protect the mental health of Honduran youth" ….

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The Birth of Kaleidoscope

LGBT movements of many colors combine in Kaleidoscope, a new organization founded in Britain to support activists abroad. Its director David Chalmers described the gala launch with correspondent Rosie Wilby (Resonance-FM's Out in South London), and expatriate Nigerian activist Bisi Alimi discussed the group's goals and strategy.

Plus: a live-in-concert performance of Something Inside So Strong by its composer, gay U.K.-based Nigerian expatriate Labi Siffre.

And in NewsWrap: Cameron's conservatism compels marriage equality, an "evolving" Obama is better on soldiers than same-gender couples, the price tag on the U.S. House's DOMA defense triples, a landlord's lockout sinks Uganda's "strange" Sappho Islands, Belgrade cops cancel Pride to avert "blood in the streets," and more news reported by Gary Shaw and Vash Boddie (produced by Steve Pride).

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NewsWrap for the week ending October 8, 2011

SUMMARY

The Right Way - British P.M. David Cameron tells a Conservative Party conference that "I don't support gay marriage in spite of being a conservative, I support gay marriage because I am a conservative" …

Parental Controls - U.K. gay and lesbian parents will soon be able to identify themselves on passport forms for their children as "parent one" and "parent two" instead of "mother" and "father" …

Dining and Dancing - U.S. President Barack Obama keynotes the Human Rights Campaign National Dinner, saying that "every single American deserves to be treated equally in the eyes of the law" while stopping short of endorsing civil marriage equality, but takes Republican presidential wannabes to task for staying silent when the crowd at a recent GOP candidates debate booed a gay soldier serving in Iraq [with an excerpt from that rebuke] …

Your Tax Dollars for Discrimination - the Republican-led House's modified contract with the D.C. law firm defending the Defense of Marriage Act in federal court triples to $1.5 million …

Last Call - Uganda's only "out" bar for sexual minorities is padlocked by the landlord because it attracted "strange" people …

Effective Terrorism - police officials in Belgrade, backed by the Serbian government, ban the city's second Pride march, fearing a repeat of the violence at last year's event …

Russian Recidivism - police try to separate the activists from the violent counter-demonstrators among the 40 people detained in Moscow at one of Russia's first sanctioned LGBT rights rallies …

OcQUEERpation - U.S. LGBT people across the country are a visible part of the growing street protests against corporate greed and government gridlock that began with New York's "Occupy Wall Street" ….

Complete NewsWrap text and this week's podcast to be posted October 10th.

How We Won DADT's Demise

The Don't Ask, Don't Tell policy has been repealed, but there are battles still ahead for LGBT people in the U.S. military. You'll hear commentary and analysis from Servicemembers Legal Defense Network Legal Director David McKean, anti-war queer activist and writer Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore, and San Francisco State University Associate Professor of Political Science Aaron Belkin (How We Won: Progressive Lessons from the Repeal of 'Don't Ask Don't Tell'), with music by Matt Alber and Tom Goss.

And in NewsWrap>: Nigeria considers making same-gender marriage a crime, gay and lesbian couples win in U.K. and U.S. counts, the Prop 8 trial video isn't coming to a screen near you, a setback and an advance in the latest Don't Ask skirmishes, debated "outings" target "suspect" anti-gay Italian politicians, and more news reported by Vash Boddie and Gary Shaw (produced by Steve Pride).

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NewsWrap for the week ending October 1, 2011

SUMMARY

Fashionably Draconian - Nigeria's Senate supports legislation to criminalize marriages of gay and lesbian couples and also jail anyone who actively supports such ceremonies …

The Family That Gays Together - the U.K.'s Office of National Statistics reports that couples in same-gender civil partnerships stay together more than couples in heterosexual marriages …

Love Abounds - the number of lesbian and gay Americans telling the decennial 2010 U.S. Census that they're living with a same-gender partner jumps by more than 80 percent since the last Census in 2000 …

Hit Pause - a three-judge panel of the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals stops the scheduled September 30th release of video recordings of last year's Proposition 8 trial …

T's Not Crossed - another Ninth Circuit three-judge panel "disappears" last year's district court judge's ruling calling Don't Ask Don't Tell unconstitutional, saying that with repeal the issue is now moot …

"Father Mulchahy" Unleashed - the Pentagon issues a memo allowing military chaplains to officiate at same-gender weddings in states where they're legal, even on military bases …

Shame Strategy - Italy is a-buzz over the online "outing" by U.S. bloggers of ten conservative lawmakers and ministers in the homophobic administration of Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, all of whom have anti-gay voting records ….

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