NewsWrap for the week ending May 10, 2014
SUMMARY
Paranoid Puzzle Box - Nervous about the impending 25th anniversary of the military's democracy-crushing Tiananmen Square action, Chinese authorities detain nine gay activists who were preparing to lead a Beijing seminar critically examining "civil society and the state" …
Watch Out for PrideWatch.tw - a new marriage equality lobbying group is born in Taiwan …
Another "Beat the Stay" Race - lesbian and gay couples race to the altar in Arkansas as it becomes the latest of the United States to have its same-gender civil marriage ban declared unconstitutional …
The Guest & The Refugee - Uganda President Yoweri Musevini takes heat at a U.K.-Uganda business conference in London, while high-profile Ugandan gay activist John "Longjones" Wambere seeks asylum in the U.S. …
Forever Sticking It Out - the U.S. Postal Service prepares to issue a first class "forever" stamp honoring trailblazing gay politician Harvey Milk on what would have been his 84th birthday …
Still Whipping Up A Frenzy - international demand for Tom of Finland's homoerotic images on a series of Finnish first class stamps crashes the website selling them ….
Complete NewsWrap text and this week's podcast to be posted May 13, 2014.
Labels: Arkansas, bisexual, China, gay, Harvey Milk, homophobia, homosexuality, human rights, lesbian, LGBT, marriage equality, Taiwan, Tom of Finlad, transgender, transsexual, uganda
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