Interior: Leather Bar. & Texphobia

Week of June 16, 2014
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Modern-day filmmaker Travis Mathews goes Cruising with actor/co-director James Franco for the 1980 movie’s deleted sex scenes, called "pornography" by William Friedkin, who directed the original (Steve Pride interviews Mathews about the newly-released "hybrid docu-fiction").

Texas Republicans want to "repair" LGBT people: Governor Rick Perry chimes in on the state party's platform, and CNN's Anderson Cooper challenges the "cure" assertions of state Representative Bryan Hughes.

And in NewsWrap: U.N. General Assembly elects homophobic figurehead; Malaysian trans-women are jailed, fined and shorn; Wisconsin marrieds join the legal limbo line; Pride promotes couples' rights in Rome, Tel Aviv and Bucharest; lesbian wins Premier position in Ontario; more news reported this week by Chrisanne Eastwood and Michael LeBeau (produced by Steve Pride).

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