NewsWrap for the week ending April 25, 2015

SUMMARY

Rights Trump Religion - Kenya’s High Court orders the government to allow LGBT groups to register as NGOs …

Revised Repression - a proposal in Uganda would essentially outlaw LGBT NGOs "in the public interest" …

Protections Pending - India’s upper house passes a ground breaking transgender rights bill …

Acting On Their Own - a celebrity lesbian couple symbolically weds in Tokyo …

Not In My Constitution - two far-right politicians push anti-marriage equality bills in the U.S. Congress …

2 + 2 = 900,000 - a Utah lawyer claims that opening civil marriage to gay and lesbian couples will lead to 900,000 more abortions …

Whack-A-Mole - a few cities in Arkansas push back against the recently-enacted law banning them from enacting LGBT anti-bias protections, and Little Rock’s City Attorney believes a state anti-bullying law already provides those protections …

Give a Kid a Break - Arizona’s governor overturns a policy denying adoption and foster parenting to legally-married same-gender couples …

Sun Shines In - Florida Senate leaders shelve a bill that would have allowed taxpayer-funded adoption agencies to use “religious belief” to discriminate against prospective LGBT parents …

Who Needs It - with the dust yet to fully settle over contentious so-called “religious liberty” bills in Indiana and Arkansas, North Carolina’s House leader says his chamber won’t debate a similar measure this year …

Toilet Training - the Nevada Assembly rejects a bill to require transgender students to use school bathrooms and locker rooms corresponding to their biological gender …

Naked Lunch - Tallywackers, a male version of “Hooters”, is scheduled to open in May in Dallas, Texas’ Oak Lawn gayborhood  …

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Matt’s Friend & “Freedom’s” Fools!

Week of April 20, 2015

Matthew Shepard, the icon of homophobic violence, is remembered as the guy they knew by his friend Michelle Josue and his dad Dennis in Josue's award-winning new documentary, Matt Shepard Is A Friend of Mine. (Interviewed by Steve Pride.)

U.S. Republican presidential wannabes (Senators Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio and Rand Paul, and former Florida Governor Jeb Bush) run rings around "religious freedom."

And in NewsWrap: Mexico's top court equalizes Sinaloa marriages, Egypt denies reentry to an allegedly gay Libyan student, Indiana struggles to regain its reputation, a children's picture book about same-gender penguin parents is banned again for its "homosexual agenda," and more news reported this week by John Dyer V and Michelle-Marie Gilkeson with Rick Watts (produced by Steve Pride, written by Greg Gordon).

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NewsWrap for the week ending April 18, 2015

 SUMMARY

Poquito Mas - A Mexican Supreme Court ruling orders marriage equality in the state of Sinaloa …

Still Proving a Point - an administrative court in Cairo upholds the Egyptian Interior Ministry’s denial of reentry to a Libyan student deported in 2008 for being gay …

Still Unscathed - the offices of the leading LGBT rights group in Kyrgyzstan, Labrys, are firebombed …

Still Stalling - Guam’s governor is “delaying” his promised decision on whether or not to allow the U.S. territory’s Public  Health Department - which deferred to him after the state Attorney General so ordered - to issue a marriage license to a lesbian couple who’ve sued in federal court for it …

Call In the Mad Men - Indiana Governor Mark Pence’s popularity plummets following his disastrous support for a so-called “religious freedom” law, while the CEO of well-known  Indiana-based consumer review website Angie’s List steps down to “fix” his state’s image, and state officials want to “fix” it by spending at least 2 million dollars on a public relations firm …

Hurricane Bobby - seemingly-oblivious Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal - expected to announce his GOP presidential aspirations sometime soon - pushes a “religious freedom” bill in his state’s legislature that critics say is even worse than the original Indiana law …

Avian Agenda - the penguin-loving children’s storybook "And Tango Makes Three" is again among the American Library Association’s Top 3 "Most Challenged Books" this year because it "promotes a homosexual agenda" …

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NewsWrap for the week ending April 11, 2015

SUMMARY

Early Adopters - Irish lawmakers approve adoptions equality for same-gender couples …

Parental Controlled - major changes in Nicaragua’s “Family Code” taking effect this week ban adoptions by same-gender couples, define civil marriage as exclusively heterosexual, and deny same-gender couples social security protections and other rights …

Suitors' Suit - a lesbian couple in the U.S. territory of Guam sues in federal court for a civil marriage license …

Popular Hate - voters in Springfield, Missouri repeal LGBT anti-bias protections …

Sacred Snub - the Vatican virtually rejects an openly gay diplomat named by France as its ambassador to the Holy See …

In Case You Thought We Liked You - Mormon officials denounce the “counterfeit lifestyle” of lesbians and gay men …

Obamacare Won't Cover It - the Obama administration officially opposes so-called “conversion therapy” for LGBT youth …

Stick to Acupuncture - South Korea’s government hosts “conversion” conferences by anti-LGBT hate groups …

Consider the Source - a Dublin paper company shreds virulently anti-marriage equality leaflets to make confetti for the weddings of gay and lesbian couples …

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Indiana's Pence-mending!

Indiana Governor Mike Pence's signature lets "religious freedom" ring wrong, as discussed by  commentators Joy Reid, Garrett Epps, Beth Fouhy, David Von Drehle, Emma Margolin, and Jonathan Capehart.

And in NewsWrap: Malta raises the bar on gender identity laws, a Tokyo ward becomes Japan's first to recognize queer couples, film censors in India ban the lesbian themed Unfreedom, South Korea excises sexual orientation from sex education, British Bake Off finalist Ruby Tandoh comes out of the oven, and more news reported this week by Matthew McLaughlin and Sarah Sweeney (produced by Steve Pride, written by Greg Gordon).




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NewsWrap for the week ending April 4, 2015

 SUMMARY

Surprising Frontrunner - Malta passes what’s been described as “the world’s most progressive” gender identity laws …

Icebreaker - the Tokyo ward of Shibuya becomes the first government entity in Japan to recognize lesbian and gay couples …

Unscreened - India’s censors ban a lesbian-themed film called “Unfreedom” …

Hoosier Hellfire - a firestorm erupts over so-called “religious freedom” bills in several U.S. states after Indiana Governor Mike Pence signs what critics called “a license to discriminate” …

Fix-it Ticket - Arkansas Governor Asa Hutchinson demands a “fix” before he’ll sign a similar “religious freedom” measure …

Stampede - the same kinds of LGBT-discriminatory “religious freedom” bills die in Georgia, Montana, North Dakota, and Nevada — though the ACLU says they’re on the legislative agendas in at least 10 other states …

Sex Obfuscation - new curriculum guidelines bar South Korean teachers from even acknowledging the existence of LGBT people in sex education classes …

To Do His Duty - a New York Boy Scouts Council defies national BSA policy by hiring an openly gay over-18 scout leader to work at its upcoming summer camp …

Self-Rising Lesbian - British Bake-Off TV star Ruby Tandoh comes out - with a little help from Diana Ross …

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