Gore Vidal Cures Amnesia

Week of June 2, 2014
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Director Nicholas Wrathall talks about The United States of Amnesia, his documentary on the elegant, acerbic all-around man of letters who presided with a certain relish over what he declared to be the end of American civilization (interviewed by Steve Pride).

Janet Mason reviews Heal This Way written by Little Monsters and photographed by Tracey B. Wilson, and Coming Around: Parenting Lesbian, Gay and Transgender Kids by Anne Dohrenwend.

And in NewsWrap: mob lynches gay man in Ghana and hunts for his boyfriend, Luxembourg's Parliament leans toward marriage equality, NOM takes on Oregon after record fines in Maine, religiously-weakened ENDA draws U.S. activists' fire, Peruvian Congressman comes out, and more news reported by Natalie Peoples and Jason Proctor (produced this week by Steve Pride).

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