Quilted Cleve & Climbing Ivy

December 1st is the 25th annual World AIDS Day, but several years before the first global observance, activists like AIDS Quilt founder Cleve Jones were sounding the alarm about the coming crisis. He described the era to This Way Out's Steve Pride.

There are happily more lesbians and gay men with us who bring a historical perspective to their present activism. Veteran lesbian-feminist agitator Ivy Bottini shares some lessons learned with This Way Out correspondent Abby Dees (produced with Steve Pride, the conclusion of a two-part interview).

[Due to the Thanksgiving holiday, NewsWrap returns next week.]

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Ivy's League (pt. 1 of 2)

The legendary exploits of the now 86-year-old pioneering lesbian-feminist activist Ivy Bottini (the first of a two-part interview with Abby Dees).

And in NewsWrap: Nigeria and Uganda weigh heavy anti-gay laws, Uruguay and France argue marriage equality, Spain's top court nixes nuptial naysayers, U.S. Supreme Court delays Prop 8 and DOMA decisions, critics challenge lesbian moms book and gay penguins play, Danish birds don't duck dads' responsibilities, and more news reported by Tanya Kane-Parry and Christopher Gaal (produced by Steve Pride).

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NewsWrap for the week ending November 17, 2012

SUMMARY

Jail Allies, Kill Gays - Nigeria and Uganda each move closer to enacting draconian anti-LGBT legislation …

Warm Winds - lawmakers in Uruguay move to make theirs the second country in South America to open civil marriage to lesbian and gay couples …

Oui and Si - French government officially proposes a marriage equality bill, and Spain's Constitutional Court upholds theirs …

Nie - Slovakia's parliament rejects a proposal to recognize same-gender partnerships …

DOMA Coma - U.S. Supreme Court postpones deciding whether or not to hear Prop 8 and/or DOMA cases until the end of November …

Bicameral Legislator - Arizona's Kyrsten Sinema narrowly wins election as the first openly bisexual member of Congress …

New Jobs - Washington's Ed Murray becomes only the second "out" state Senate Majority Leader in U.S. history, and if the U.S. Senate confirms President Obama's nomination of William Thomas to a lifetime seat on the Court for the Southern District of Florida he'll become the country's first openly gay African-American federal court judge …

Childish Censorship - the ACLU sues a Utah school district for removing "In Our Mothers' House," a picture book featuring a family headed by two lesbian mothers, from the shelves of its elementary school libraries, and a school district in Austin, Texas cancels elementary school performances of "And Then Came Tango," a play based on two male penguins at a New York zoo who successfully adopted and nurtured an abandoned egg …

Gay Bird Dads Don't Duck - a pair of male penguins in Denmark joins similar couples in Spain, Germany and China to be given an orphaned egg to incubate and raise as their own ….

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Perfection at the Polls

Reports from last week's U.S. elections, which featured stunning victories for marriage equality in Maine (Amy Browne for WERU - Blue Hill & Bangor), Washington (Quentin Mahoney for KAOS - Olympia), Minnesota (Michelle Alimoradi for KFAI - Minneapolis/St. Paul), and Maryland (Joel McCord for WYPR - Baltimore).

And in NewsWrap: Tammy takes the Senate, two rabid reps return to House, two Kansas cities rescind bias protections, equality affirming Iowa judge retained, Aussie "Big Brother" winner's heartwarming "en-gay-gement," and more news reported by Jason Proctor and Natalie Peoples (produced by Steve Pride).

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NewsWrap for the week ending November 10, 2012

SUMMARY

Chapter Two - LGBT rights supporters celebrate historic victories in this week's U.S. elections, including a second term win by "Ally in Chief" President Barack Obama …

Dyke on the Hill - Tammy Baldwin of Wisconsin becomes the first open lesbian or gay person elected to the U.S. Senate …

Bad Pennies - Congressional homophobes Bachmann and Foxx are re-elected ..

Choosing to Discriminate - voters in Salina and Hutchinson, Kansas rescind anti-bias ordinances passed by their respective city councils …

Court of Public Opinion - Iowa Supreme Court Justice David Wiggins survives efforts to have him removed from the bench for supporting marriage equality …

Grand Slam - Maine voters re-open civil marriage to same-gender couples, voters in Maryland and Washington each affirm the marriage equality votes of their respective state legislatures, and Minnesotans reject a proposal to constitutionally ban same-gender marriage …

Like Wildfire - more than a hundred "out" LGBT candidates win state and local elections across the country and nearly double their number on Capitol Hill …

Empire Stakes - one of the four Republican Senators who voted for marriage equality in New York last year is re-elected, another did not seek re-election, the third lost his primary election, and the fourth loses to a Democrat …

Happy Ending - "Big Brother Australia" winner Benjamin Norris proposes to his boyfriend on national television ….

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