Cooper's Vito & Irish Partner Parents

CNN anchor Anderson Cooper was GLAAD to be gay as he accepted the media advocacy group's Vito Russo Award in New York City.

The pitfalls of parenthood under Ireland's civil partnership law are exposed in a case examined by Jenny Butler (The Cosmo with Scott De Buitléir, RTE Pulse).

Plus: New Jersey teen Jacob Rudolph doesn't kid Governor Chris Christie about "conversion" quackery in his testimony before a state Senate committee on a bill to ban it.

And in NewsWrap: Australia's new Sex Discrimination Act dots the "I" in "LGBT," a trans anti-bias bill's triumph gives Canada's Tories toilet terrors, a Russian regional court rules that Pride is not "propaganda", and a Scottish church fears Jedi weddings, and more news reported by Wenzel Jones and Pam Marshall (produced by Steve Pride).

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NewsWrap for the week ending March 23, 2013

SUMMARY

Some Bias Still Optional - An LGBTI-inclusive Sex Discrimination Act is welcomed in the Australian parliament –- with reservations …

Tories' Toilet Terrors - Canada's House of Commons passes a bill banning discrimination against transgender people …

Hateful Trifecta - Marco Feliciano, the homophobic and racist chair of the Brazil House of Representative's Human Rights Committee adds misogynist to his descriptor …

FYI Only - Russian regional court overturns a ban on peaceful LGBT Pride events and political demonstrations …

Full Circle - New South Wales police officials hear from dozens of Sydney Mardi Gras revelers claiming to be victimized by sometimes brutal officers during the world-famous festivities …

Fjords Flood for Equality - it only takes a day to qualify a citizens' initiative to force Finland's parliament to consider a marriage equality bill …

By the Summer It Should Sizzle - a proposal to open civil marriage to same-gender couples moves a step closer in France …

Be Fruitful and Recognized - Israel's Health Ministry complies with court rulings and agrees to recognize both members of a same-gender couple as parents of children born via overseas surrogacy …

New Honeymoon Haven - city officials in Santa Fe, New Mexico announce that same-gender couples already have the right to civil marriage in the U.S. state …

Jedi Don't Wear Plaid - "fear is the path to the dark side" in Scotland ….

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Urvashi Vaid & "Straight to Vegas"

The veteran rights advocate questions the LGBT movement's status quo in Irresistible Revolution: Confronting Race, Class and the Assumptions of LGBT Politics (interviewed by Chris Thomas of WBAI's OUT FM).

Gay "beard" Wenzel Jones deals deceptive fun in "the marriage capital of the world."

And in NewsWrap: New Zealand one vote away from marriage equality, Michigan's Odawa Indians okay same-gender weddings, civil unions law peaks in Colorado, Elizabeth's Commonwealth speech disappoints activists on "other grounds," there's nothing really new at the Vatican, and more news reported by Natalie Peoples and Johnnie Torres (produced by Brian DeShazor and Steve Pride).

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NewsWrap for the week ending March 16, 2013

SUMMARY

Chill the Champagne - The second time is one charm away from marriage equality in New Zealand …

Like Before The Others Came - upstate Michigan Native American tribe becomes the third in America to marry same-gender couples …

Nearing the Summit - civil unions for lesbian and gay couples are all but a done deal in Colorado …

Tossing the Leftovers - federal appeals court overturns Virginia's sodomy statute citing the U.S. Supreme Court's 2003 Lawrence v. Texas decision ruling that state's law to be unconstitutional …

Nonprofit Orientation Cured - U.S. Internal Revenue Service revokes the tax-exempt status of the gay "cure"-peddling National Association for Research and Therapy of Homosexuality (NARTH) because the group had failed to submit required tax forms for three years …

Half-Hearted Wave - much anticipated speech on human rights by Britain's Queen Elizabeth II that activists expected to be LGBT-inclusive buries them instead in "other grounds" …

Keep It Down - holy landlords! Italy's biggest gay sauna shares space with priestly housing …

Two Peas in a Priory - "meet the new Pope, same as the old Pope" ….

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Invisible Athletes & Aversion Survivor

Sports pros Patrick Burke, Esera Tuaolo, Becca Lindquist, and Nick Kleidon liberate the locker room (in a panel discussion excerpted by Dixie Treichel).

Meet Stuart, a gay man who lived to tell the story of the 1950's British quack "cures" to David Rigby in Bristol.

Plus: prospective trendsetters Heather Beason, Jessica Caviness, and Denise Davis confirm that lesbians become "chic" at last (Michelle-Marie Gilkeson, reporting).

And in NewsWrap: queer F-words bomb in Mexico's top court, Singapore's second sodomy law challenge heard, Michigan moms await Prop 8 ruling for adoption rights, Greek trans-people win hate crime protections, and more news reported by Christopher Gaal and Michelle-Marie Gilkeson (produced by Steve Pride).

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NewsWrap for the week ending March 9, 2013

SUMMARY

F-Word Bombs in Court - Mexico's Supreme Court rules that offensive homophobic words such as "maricone" and "punal" ("faggot" in English) are not constitutionally protected speech …

Colonized Sexuality - Singapore's High Court hears a second challenge to the nation-state's antiquated sodomy statute …

Domino Effect - a federal judge in Michigan delays ruling on a lesbian couple's second parent adoption case until the U.S. Supreme Court rules on California's Proposition 8 …

Unchanging Rights - transgender people win legal protections in Greece, and Transgender Equality Uganda begins its rights fights in one of the world's most hostile-to-sexual-minorities countries …

No Knock - 20 trans-women living together for mutual security are arrested in a bust-down-their-doors police raid of an allegedly unauthorized brothel in Istanbul …

Solidarity Not Forever - revered former Polish President Lech Walesa takes heat for a televised interview during which he makes homophobic statements including "a minority should not impose itself on the majority" …

Precious Bodily Fluids - Uzbek President Islam Karmiov reportedly calls homosexuality "disgusting" and a violation of his nation's "moral purity" …

Fox to Henhouse - a notoriously racist and homophobic deputy is elected by the Brazil House of Representatives to chair its Committee on Human Rights and Minorities ….

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Manning's Plea & Obama's Brief

The possible consequences of Private Bradley Manning's truth is assessed by journalist Kevin Gosztola following the whistle-blowing Wikileaker's February 28th court martial proceedings (with Dorian Merina of Free Speech Radio News).

President Barack Obama explains the "evolutionary" embrace of equality evidenced in his administration's Prop 8 Supreme Court brief (taken from a March 1st news conference).

Plus: The U.S. Congress passes -- finally -- an inclusive Violence Against Women Act! Arizona Democratic Congresswoman Ann Kirkpatrick, Rape Abuse Incest National Network founder Scott Berkowitz, and Wisconsin Democratic Congresswoman Gwen Moore speak out on the issues for LGBT people, Native Americans and undocumented women in Alice Ollstein's report for Free Speech Radio News.

And in NewsWrap: marriage equality proposal flops in Finland, three "civil partnership" tries and you're out in Poland, bills advancing marriage rites progress in the U.K. and New Zealand, Canada's Supreme Court finds an anti-gay street preacher guilty of hate speech, and more news reported by Pamela Brooks and Michael LeBeau (produced by Steve Pride).

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NewsWrap for the week ending March 2, 2013

SUMMARY

Finn Flop - A marriage equality proposal dies in a Finnish parliamentary committee …

And You're Out - three different bills creating civil partnerships for same-gender couples in Poland each fail to survive a first legislative reading …

Hand in Cookie Jar - the UK's most senior Roman Catholic cleric, "Bigot of the Year" Cardinal Keith O'Brien, resigns amidst charges of sexual improprieties with several male priests, but his replacement is equally bigoted …

Calling the Caterers - marriage equality measures, each with strong religious exemptions, pass committee muster in both British and New Zealand parliaments …

With Friends Like These - an avalanche of "friend of the court" briefs, from political leaders to business and labor leaders and professional associations, meet the filing deadline and urge the U.S. Supreme Court to declare California's Proposition 8 and the federal Defense of Marriage Act unconstitutional …

It's Legal, Just Shut Up - Russia's Foreign Minister defends his country's proposed bill to ban "homosexual propaganda" …

Just Saying - a court in Balti, the second biggest city in Moldova, reportedly overturns a local "no homo promo" law as an unconstitutional violation of human rights …

It Ain't Necessarily So - Canada's Supreme Court rules that the inflammatory anti-gay fliers of a "cured by religion" street preacher constitute hate speech …

Meet Marryin' Soham - the new Groom Wanted website in India promises gay men "the freedom to express themselves" ….

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