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Thursday, February 24, 2011

Survivors' Tales & "Hide/Seek"

Now playing ... week of Feb. 21, 2011

Two young gay Los Angeles men tell Sheri Lunn how they each survived sometimes-violent homophobic harassment and bullying. Jordan Rada and Frank Figueroa hope their experiences can help "make it better" for teens.

The Smithsonian Book "Hide/Seek: Difference and Desire in American Portraiture" accompanies the first LGBT exhibition by a major U.S. museum. Janet Mason peeks between the covers of a picture book worth a million words.

And in NewsWrap: delay in Prop 8 lawsuit aggravates activists, same-gender couples' rights rise and fall in five U.S. states, U.K. couples seek equality in EuroCourt, trans protections added to Canadian Human Rights Act, Budapest and Moscow Prides challenged, and more news reported by Rick Watts and Michael LeBeau.

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Tuesday, February 22, 2011

NewsWrap for the week ending Feb. 19, 2011

SUMMARY

Waiting at the Altar - The federal Prop 8 case is delayed by at least several months as California's Supreme Court agrees to answer the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals' question as to whether or not the measure's sponsors, ProtectMarriage, have legal standing to appeal last year's federal District Court ruling declaring the marriage equality-banning measure a violation of the U.S. Constitution ...

Show of Hands - vote-counters in Maryland predict imminent passage of a marriage equality bill in the state Senate, passage in the House, and the governor's signature, while a marriage equality bill is introduced in the Washington state legislature ...

Full Faith Falls Short - Indiana's House of Representatives approves a state constitutional amendment to define marriage as exclusively heterosexual, and Wyoming's Senate advances a bill to ban state recognition of same-gender marriages or civil unions legally contracted elsewhere ...

Aloha! - civil unions bill heads to the governor's desk in Hawai'i for his expected signature, and Sabrina McKenna is confirmed as the state's first openly lesbian or gay Supreme Court justice ...

Turnabout Should Be Fair Play - four same-gender couples denied marriage licenses and four heterosexual couples denied civil partnerships in the U.K. file a dual discrimination complaint with the European Court of Human Rights ...

Gender Victories - Canada's House of Commons passes a bill to add gender identity and expression anti-bias protections to the Canadian Human Rights Act, while Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick issues an Executive Order banning workplace bias against transgender state employees ...

Work Outs - Virginia House of Delegates subcommittee rejects a bill to protect state LGBT employees from workplace bias, but the University of Alaska Board of Regents adds sexual orientation to existing anti-discrimination policies ...

Fun in the Sun - Auckland celebrates "New Zealand's biggest celebration of diverse sexualities and gender" at the annual Big Gay Out ...

Intractable - Budapest police withdraw permits for this year's Pride march citing concerns over traffic disruption, while Moscow's new Mayor, Sergei Sobyanin, says he doubts that there'll be a Pride march this year in his city ...

One Party That Never Gets Old - rainbow banners fly high over Sydney's Town Hall to launch the Australian city's world-famous Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras ...

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Monday, February 14, 2011

"Injustice at Every Turn"

Now playing ... week of Feb. 14, 2011

Trans-people brave "Injustice at Every Turn" according to a landmark report introduced at the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force's Creating Change Conference by National Center for Transgender Equality Executive Director Mara Keisling, Savannah transwoman Ja'briel Walthour, and Minneapolis transman Marcus Waterbury. Dixie Treichel chatted with the three presenters at KFAI.

Modern Family couple Jesse Tyler Ferguson and Eric Stonestreet give the Writers Guild of America tips on how to Write It Gay.

Equality advocate Lady Gaga breaks records with Born This Way.

And in NewsWrap: 200 busted in Bahrain at alleged "gay wedding," unreported homophobic harassment habitual in Scotland, India's top court sets sodomy review, and more news reported by Robert LeBlanc and John Torres.

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NewsWrap for the week ending Feb. 12, 2011

SUMMARY

Party Downed - As many as 200 men are arrested for "conduct against public morals" at a raid of a private alleged "gay wedding" party in Bahrain ...

Harassment in the Highlands - homophobic hate crimes soar in Scotland and seem to have also increased in London ...

Sex Law Dal - India's Supreme Court schedules a final hearing for April 19th for all nineteen submissions in a challenge to the Delhi High Court's ruling overturning the British colonial era law criminalizing private adult consensual adult same-gender sex ...

Honolulu Civil-moons Soon - Hawai'i House of Representatives passes a civil unions bill that now appears headed for the governor's promised signature ...

Survivor Embraced - Israel's Interior Ministry reverses a deportation order for the German partner of a gay man killed during the Tel Aviv LGBT Center shooting rampage ...

Bed-and-Bias Case Continues - British fundamentalist Christian bed-and-breakfast owners who lost an anti-bias case for refusing to allow a gay couple to share a bed say they're appealing the ruling ...

Diversity Drills - Pentagon releases more details about the implementation of the repeal of Don't Ask Don't Tell, training for which may not be completed until September, while Tim Pawlenty, a probable candidate for the Republican 2012 presidential nomination, wants to have funding for that training rescinded ...

Children's Hour Flip-side - seven-year-old Los Angeles boy protests unequal treatment of gay people with charitable donations to two LGBT advocacy groups ...

Monkeys Shine - pair of love-struck male British spider monkeys named for a music superstar and his beau get a special Valentine's Day treat ...

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Tuesday, February 08, 2011

Zach Wahls Loves His Mothers & Kato Murder US Ties

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

University student Zach Wahls celebrates his lesbian mothers' family values as he speaks against an amendment to overturn marriage equality in the Iowa state House.

Rachel Maddow's expanded MSNBC coverage of the murder of Ugandan gay activist David Kato adds both damning and inspiring details to the story.

Plus a Rainbow Minute honoring a lesbian couple who pioneered children's healthcare in the U.S.

And in NewsWrap: angry Egyptian gays join anti-government protests, U.S. equality activists protest a Family Breakfast, Russia appeals the EuroCourt's Pride-positive ruling, and more news reported by Sheri Lunn and Chris Wilson.

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Monday, February 07, 2011

NewsWrap for the week ending Feb. 5, 2011

SUMMARY

Our Liberation Too - LGBT Egyptians, who've been specifically targeted by government oppression, join the massive anti-Mubarak protests in Cairo and other cities ...

Questionable Motives - Ugandan police claim that the suspect in the murder of David Kato bludgeoned him to death with a hammer after the high profile gay activist refused to pay him for sex, and had nothing to do with Kato's activism – an assertion sharply questioned by International Gay & Lesbian Human Rights Commission Executive Director Cary Alan Johnson (from an interview on "GritTV with Laura Flanders") ...

Eating With the Enemy - LGBT activists demonstrate against the secretive right-wing Christian group The Family, longtime sponsors of the annual National Prayer Breakfast in Washington, D.C., because of their ties to the promotion of homophobia in Uganda (with brief comments to Joe Sudbay of "gayamericablog.com" by protest organizer Michael Dixon of GetEQUAL) ...

But Why Can't We Hate? - Russia appeals the October 2010 European Court of Human Rights ruling that declared the bans on LGBT Pride events in Moscow illegal ...

DNR DADT - U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals denies the Obama administration's motion to suspend the Log Cabin Republicans lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of Don't Ask Don't Tell ...

Wings of Change - new Thai airline makes a bit of history by hiring three "katoey" flight attendants ...

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Tuesday, February 01, 2011

Kato Killing & State of the Union

Now playing ... week of Jan. 31, 2011

He just won a lawsuit against the tabloid newspaper that included him in a supposed list of "Uganda's 100 top homosexuals" with the banner headline, "Hang Them!" Was David Kato's murder the result of a robbery or a hate crime?

In last year's address to the Joint Session of the U.S. Congress he promised repeal of the military's "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy. This year President Obama took a bow for sealing the deal.

Plus: singer/songerwriter Nhojj performs "The Gay Warrior Song."

And in NewsWrap: Ugandan lesbian temporarily escapes deportation from Britain at the eleventh hour, Cameroonian activists fight growing threats, France's Constitutional Court fails to find marriage equality, several U.S. states address couples rights, and more news reported by Tanya Kane-Parry and Christopher Gaal.

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