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The transcendent entertainer lives -- and acts and sings -- outside the boxes, and is happy to chat about it all with Entertainment Correspondent Steve Pride.

And in NewsWrap: Zimbabwe activists "screened" for discussing discrimination, hacktivists post Pride to Ugandan government websites, Lebanese activists protest gay detainee humiliation, Canada's top Protestant church elects mainstream Christianity's first openly gay leader, thousands agitate for marriage equality across Australia, Squarepants-Winky conspiracy threatens Ukrainian kids, and more news reported by Abby Dees and John Torres (produced by Steve Pride).

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NewsWrap for the week ending August 18, 2012

SUMMARY

Harassing While Intoxicated - Harare police raid the headquarters of Gays And Lesbians of Zimbabwe (GALZ) and detain 44 members overnight for "screening" …

Fawke the Homophobes - Anonymous hacks Ugandan government websites to demand the end of arrests and harassment of LGBT people …

Prob-ity Protest - demonstrators in Lebanon's capital of Beirut protest the arrests of 36 men at a gay movie house who were forced to undergo anal probes to determine it they'd engaged in homosexual acts …

99 1/2 Years To Go - a challenge to the 100-year ban on LGBT Pride events issued by Moscow's municipal government earlier this year appears destined for the European Court of Human Rights …

God's Will - the United Church of Canada – the country's largest Protestant denomination – elects Rev. Gary Paterson as its first openly gay moderator …

Aussie Anniversary Agitation - thousands mark the eighth anniversary of the passage of Australia's federal Marriage Amendment Bill that denies civil marriage to same-gender couples with protest marches and rallies across the country, while the premiers of South Australia and Tasmania vow to legislate their own marriage equality laws …

Spongebob Subversivepants - a Ukrainian Commission charged with protecting "public morality" warns that several animated television shows, including "Family Guy," "The Simpsons," "Futurama," and "Spongebob Squarepants" -- the latter of whom Commission "experts" identify as "gay" -- are "aimed at the destruction of the family" and will turn the country's children into "criminals and perverts" ….

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"Eminent Outlaws" & "No Straight Lines"

Author Christopher Bram examines the gay lives and literary times of "the gay writers who changed America" with Richard Wolinsky on KPFA-Berkeley's Bookwaves program.

Editor Justin Hall's collection documenting "four decades of queer comics" gets high praise from Dyke To Watch Out For Alison Bechdel as Steve Pride braves Comic-Con International.

And in NewsWrap: registered German partners' real rights advance, U.S. federal judge denies marriage equality to Hawai'ian lesbian and gay couples, courageous Ugandan activists brave police harassment to celebrate Pride, Madonna defies St. Petersburg's "no promo homo" law, and more news reported by Jason Proctor and Sarah Sweeney (produced by Steve Pride).

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NewsWrap for the week ending August 11, 2012

SUMMARY

Real Estate Rights - Germany's highest court rules that a 2010 law giving same-gender couples in registered partnerships the same land transfer tax exemptions as married heterosexual couples can be applied retroactively …

The Ball's in Your … - a U.S. federal judge in Hawai'i rules that opening civil marriage to gay and lesbian couples is the province of state lawmakers or a popular vote, not the courts …

Place Your Bets - oral arguments in a lawsuit filed by eight same-gender couples seeking marriage equality in Nevada are scheduled for late November …

Kill the Fatted Peking Duck - Malaysian-born gay minister who married his African-American boyfriend in New York last year fulfills a vow to hold a traditional Chinese wedding banquet in his native country …

Daddy Landmark - married gay male couple scores an Argentinean "first" by being listed as the two fathers on the birth certificate of their surrogate-delivered newborn baby boy …

Proud to Party with Police - courageous Ugandan LGBT activists brave police harassment and widespread homophobia to celebrate Pride in Entebbe with a weekend of parties, a small film festival, and a beach parade …

Making Waves - hundreds of thousands cheer Amsterdam's 17th annual Pride flotilla along the Dutch city's historic canals …

Political Girl - pop diva Madonna makes good on her promise to defy a St. Petersburg ban on "promotion of homosexuality to minors" during a concert in Russia's second-largest city …

Kidnapping for Jesus - American Family Association mouthpiece Bryan Fischer calls on his radio show for an "Underground Railroad... to deliver innocent children from same-sex households" ….

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This week - Farewell Vidal & Bornstein's Trans-gressions

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Farewell Vidal & Bornstein's Trans-gressions

Author-essayist-playwright Gore Vidal gives a final history lesson from his own life, including reflections on his friendships with James Baldwin, Eleanor Roosevelt, and his decades-long relationship with significant other Howard Austen (excerpted from a May 2008 interview with Amy Goodman on Democracy Now!).

Think of Kate Bornstein as "a work in transgress" -- she and correspondent Dixie Treichel discuss the original Gender Outlaw's ongoing transitions as revealed in her award-winning writings (including her new memoir, A Queer and Pleasant Danger.

And in NewsWrap: Vietnam considers the reality of equality, Jerusalem Pride takes back the street, U.S. low-prioritizes same-gender partner deportations, Connecticut case hastens "DOMA's" demise, hate groups get more than chicken feed from poultry politics, and more news reported by Jenn Mahoney and Rick Watts (produced by Wenzel Jones and Steve Pride).

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NewsWrap for the week ending August 4, 2012

SUMMARY

Revolutionary Vanguard - Vietnam's Justice Minister issues a surprising same-gender marriage proposal, while LGBT activists celebrate the Asian nation's first-ever Pride festival …

Take Back the Street - Jerusalem's 10th annual Pride marchers return to their route without the confrontations along the way as in past years with homophobic religious extremists …

Look the Other Way - the U.S. Department of Homeland Security announces new policies that will make deporting the foreign same-gender spouses of American citizens a "low priority" …

Hastening DOMA's Date with Destiny - a federal district court in Connecticut becomes the latest to declare the Defense of Marriage Act unconstitutional, and backers of California's marriage equality-banning Proposition 8, judged to be unconstitutional by a federal appeals court, request a final verdict from the U.S. Supreme Court …

Trained Response - the U.S. national rail system promotes its "kids ride for half-off" offer to same-gender couple-headed families (AmtrakRideWithPride.com) …

Political Chicken Feed Not Paltry - P-FLAG – Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays – disputes the common media wisdom that the controversy over the Chick-fil-A fast-food restaurant chain and its anti-gay rightwing Christian president Dan Cathy is simply about religious freedom and free speech ….

Complete NewsWrap text and this week's podcast to be posted August 7th.

"Vito"

Writer/director Jeffrey Schwarz talks with Entertainment Correspondent Steve Pride about his movie documenting the life of movie documentarian Vito Russo.

And in NewsWrap: New Zealand's Parliament is introduced to marriage equality, Scotland's government issues its own wedding proposal, Amazon founder funds the defense of Washington parity, Muppet-makers part with a homophobic chicken magnate’s money, coming out was Sally Ride's final frontier, and more news reported by Wenzel Jones and Sarah Sweeney (produced by Steve Pride).

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