Lively Lawsuit & MN School Settlement

Ugandan activists sue U.S. evangelical missionary Scott Lively (The Pink Swastika) for anti-gay persecution with help from the Center for Constitutional Rights. Attorney Pam Spees speaks with Dorian Merina of Free Speech Radio News.

Federal officials "school" Minnesota educators on bullying in the landmark conclusion of the long-running lawsuit against the Anoka-Hennepin school district. Jefferson Fietek is both a parent and a teacher there (and now a gay candidate for the state Senate), and he talks about the historic settlement with Dixie Treichel.

Plus: the Nazis burn a German gay pioneer's library in a Rainbow Minute.

And in NewsWrap: Chilean lesbian mom's custody wins an Inter-American Court first, Euro-Court rejects co-parenting and mandatory marriage equality, New Hampshire lawmakers defeat a marriage equality repeal bill, and more news reported by Christopher Gaal and Natalie Peoples (produced by Steve Pride).

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NewsWrap for the week ending March 24, 2012

SUMMARY

Her Kids Are All Right - After her eight-year legal struggle, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights awards custody of her three children to Chilean lesbian judge Karen Atala …

Continental Regression - the European Court of Human Rights upholds French court rulings that denied a lesbian the right to become the legal co-parent of her long-time partner's daughter, and also decides that the European Convention on Human Rights does not require member states to offer civil marriage to same-gender couples …

Not That Right - Italy's Supreme Court rules that same-gender couples have the "right to a family life," but that a gay couple who legally wed in The Netherlands cannot be recognized as married in Italy …

Two Down - New Hampshire lawmakers soundly defeat an effort to repeal the U.S. state's two-year-old marriage equality law, while a bill to constitutionally ban civil marriage for lesbian and gay couples is killed in the Pennsylvania legislature …

Not This 1 - U.S. President Barack Obama and North Carolina Governor Beverly Perdue each announce their opposition to Amendment 1, a May 8th state ballot measure to constitutionally ban same-gender unions …

Exes Say Aye - Minnesotan Walter Mondale, former Vice President and 1984 Democratic presidential candidate, speaks out against a similar constitutional amendment to be voted on in his state this November, while former President Jimmy Carter endorses civil marriage equality, echoing a previous announcement by former President Bill Clinton …

Tongues Untied - Utah Governor Gary Herbert unexpectedly vetoes a bill that would have banned any discussion of sexual orientation or contraception in the state's public schools …

Somewhere My Love - Omar Sharif, Jr., the grandson of the famed Egyptian actor, worries about his native country's political future since the so-called "Arab Spring" and comes out as a half-Jewish gay man in the April issue of The Advocate ….

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Cleve Jones vs. "Gay, Inc."

The veteran human rights/AIDS activist takes on "Gay, Incorporated" and looks beyond the "gay agenda" in a compelling conversation with This Way Out's Steve Pride.

And in NewsWrap: LGBT advocacy outlawed in St. Petersburg, Ugandan activists sue "inflammatory" American missionary, Clementi's webcam snoop convicted of hateful privacy invasion, Tennessee hushes "don't say gay" bill, Denmark plans June same-gender weddings, ice cream appellation honors Britain's marriage proposal, and more news reported by Vash Boddie and Michael LeBeau (produced by Steve Pride).

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NewsWrap for the week ending March 17, 2012

SUMMARY

Nyet Promo Homo - St. Petersburg's governor makes his the fourth Russian region to make it a criminal offense to "promote" the existence of LGBT people, while Canada's Foreign Minister warns his country's gays and lesbians who plan to travel to the popular tourist destination to avoid "displaying affection in public (or) conspicuous behavior" …

Sue the Messenger - Ugandan activists file an attention-getting lawsuit in U.S. district court charging notorious anti-gay American evangelist Scott Lively with violations of international law for fomenting hysteria during several visits to the African country by warning that homosexuals wanted to recruit its children …

College HateTube Conviction - a Middlesex County, New Jersey jury convicts former Rutgers University student Dharun Ravi of invasion of privacy and bias intimidation for secretly webcaming private gay sexual encounters of his dorm roommate Tyler Clementi, who killed himself after learning about it a few days later …

Shut Your Mouth - Tennessee's so-called "don't say gay" bill to ban any discussion of sexual orientation in public schools apparently dies in the state legislature, but an even more restrictive bill awaits the signature of Utah's governor …

Catching the Bouquet - Denmark's Prime Minister predicts that her government's proposed marriage equality bill will take effect on June 15th …

Weighing the Differences - the British government launches a 12-week consultation to open civil marriage to its same-gender couples …

Sweet Victory - multi-national ice cream giant Ben & Jerry's celebrates the hoped-for nuptials by changing the name of one of its U.K. flavors from "Oh! My! Apple Pie!" to "Apple-y Ever After" that portrays a wedding cake-topping tuxedoed gay couple on the carton ….

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S-G Ban Ki-moon & Gov. Martin O'Malley

Speaking at the Human Rights Council in Geneva, the U.N.'s Secretary-General blesses a groundbreaking conference on violence and discrimination against LGBT people.

The governor of Maryland, who signed civil marriage equality into law, looks toward the future of a ballot initiative effort to repeal the measure in November.

Lesbian TV talk-show host Ellen DeGeneres takes up the cause of a Michigan teenager who is spearheading a petition drive to change the rating of the documentary Bully so that it can be shown in middle and high schools.

Plus -- justice-seeking young LGBTs unite to say I Want To Know What It's Like in Ryan James Yezak's popular YouTube video.

And in NewsWrap: Iraqi militia target queer youth for death, Belarus president would "rather be a dictator than gay," Vatican-inspired anti-equality crusades continue, and more news reported by Jacob Anderson-Minshall and Sarah Sweeney (produced by Steve Pride).

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NewsWrap for the week ending March 10, 2012

SUMMARY

Emo to the Slaughter - Multiple sources report that as many as a hundred young people perceived to be LGBT have been brutally murdered by religious militia in Iraq during the last month …

Scapegoated in Syria - the UK's "Pink News" reports that an inflammatory article in a popular newspaper in Syria claims that gays have been "prospering" from the uprising against the entrenched regime of President Bashar al-Assad …

Your EU Wears Army Boots - Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko responds to comments by Germany's openly gay Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle that Lukashenko's government is the "last dictatorship in Europe" by saying that it's "better to be a dictator than gay" …

Papal Army Recruited, Indulgences Offered? - Roman Catholic Pope Benedict XVI continues his crusade against marriage equality with a warning to visiting American bishops this week of "the powerful political and cultural currents seeking to alter the legal definition of marriage" …

Incitement to Riot - two senior Roman Catholic bishops in the UK tell parishioners that they have a "duty" to "ensure" that same-gender couples are never allowed to marry, while comments by Scotland's Roman Catholic Cardinal Keith O'Brien calling the idea of marriage equality "grotesque" are applauded by Zimbabwe's state-run "Herald" newspaper …

Hush Little Baby, Don't Say a Word - what's come to be known as the "Don't Say Gay" bill in Tennessee, which would ban any discussion of homosexuality in public schools, continues to percolate in the US state's legislature …

Don't Ask, Don't Teach - Utah lawmakers pass legislation that not only bans classroom discussion of homosexuality, but also of contraception and sexual activity outside of marriage, and requires any school sex education to be abstinence-only, all of which one opposing legislator calls "a mandate against reality" ….

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Prop 8 Onstage & Tennessee's Sons On Film

Excerpts from an all-star cast's live L.A. reading from the transcript of the Proposition 8 trial featuring George Clooney as Prop 8-challenging lawyer Ted Boies, Kevin Bacon as Prop 8 backers' attorney Charles Cooper, John C. Reilly as Prop 8 supporter David Blankenhorn of the Institute for American Values, and George Takei as Prop 8 proponent Dr. William Tam of the Traditional Family Coaltion.

Entertainment Correspondent Steve Pride discovers how The Sons of Tennessee Williams pioneered Louisiana liberty in conversation with the documentary's writer/director Tim Wolff and one of his interview subjects, Albert Carey.

And in NewsWrap: Liberia doubles down on anti-gay legislation; Cameroon arrests alleged lesbians for the first time; St. Petersburg, Russia's mayor weighs anti-LGBT repression; surveys in Iowa, New Jersey and California show surge in support for same-gender weddings; Texas judge won't marry hetero couples until equality walks down the aisle, and more news reported by Tanya Kane-Parry and Rick Watts (produced by Steve Pride).

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NewsWrap for the week ending March 3, 2012

SUMMARY

Opposite of Liberation - A second bill to punish private consensual adult same-gender sex with prison time is introduced in Liberia …

Female Trouble - several women have reportedly been arrested for engaging in lesbian sex in Cameroon …

Pigs, Dogs and Cameron - Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe says "to hell with you" to rights-supporting British Prime Minister David Cameron …

Post in a Prominent Place - the first-ever gay-supportive billboard in Africa promotes the upcoming Mr. Gay World competition in Johannesburg …

When You Can't Say Something Nice - lawmakers in St. Petersburg, Russia give final approval to a bill to criminalize the public advocacy of LGBT rights …

Good News/Bad News - Maryland Governor Martin O'Malley signs a measure making his state the eighth to open civil marriage to same-gender couples – though a November ballot challenge is expected …

Dawn Breaking - recent public opinion polls show significantly increased support for marriage equality in Iowa, New Jersey and California …

Get In Line - Dallas County, Texas Judge Tonya Parker, the first openly lesbian African-American elected official in the state, refuses to marry heterosexual couples until gays and lesbians have the same right ….

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