Appropriate Bi-havior!

Bisexual Iranian-American filmmaker Desiree Akhavan talks about Appropriate Behavior with our Entertainment Correspondent Steve Pride.

After reading Out of Orange and Bettyville, our Queer Life and Literature Commentator Janet Mason finds that memoirs are made of those.

And in NewsWrap: smoke bombs scatter Ukrainian activists in Odessa, Chelsea Manning punished for expired toothpaste and Caitlyn contraband, White House hires its first trans staffer, out pro American baseball and British rugby players get sporting chances, equality glitter spooks an Aussie Senator's staff, and more international LGBT news reported this week by Wenzel Jones and Chrisanne Eastwood (produced by Steve Pride, written by Greg Gordon).

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Aussie Wedding Waltz & Mad MS Moms!

The latest developments in Australia's marriage equality struggle are defined by drama and dissent.

Super-lawyer Roberta Kaplan takes up the cause of same-gender Mississippi parents fighting the last adoption ban in the U.S.

And in NewsWrap: Mexico's high court overturns state adoption restrictions, Costa Rica considers common law equality, Chelsea Manning charged with possessing treacherous toothpaste, Ugandans celebrate Pride under the radar, Reykjavik rolls out a rainbow road, and more international LGBT news reported this week by Wenzel Jones and Chrisanne Eastwood (produced by Steve Pride, written by Greg Gordon).

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NewsWrap for the week ending August 8, 2015

SUMMARY

Turning Point - An historic violence-free week of LGBT Pride is celebrated in Kingston, Jamaica …

Inherent Right - Philippine same-gender couples push for marriage equality …

Standing Alone - St. Petersburg police arrest individual LGBT rights picketers on Russia’s Airborne Forces Day …

End the Masquerade - thousands in Israel protest deadly anti-LGBT and anti-Palestinian Jewish extremism …

Who Do They Think They Are? - Maine’s highest court is still trying to get the anti-equality National Organization for Marriage to disclose its donors lists …

Fond Adieu - the American Foundation for Equal Rights, which spearheaded the overturning of California’s Proposition 8, announces that, mission accomplished, it’s going out of business …

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NewsWrap for the week ending August 1, 2015

SUMMARY

Once Again With Murder - One Jerusalem Pride participant is dead and five are wounded by the same ultra-Orthodox Jew who stabbed three celebrants at the 2005 march, only weeks after being released from serving a 10-year attempted murder sentence for the previous attacks …

Slipknot - the Boy Scouts of America officially opens the organization to out adult gay leaders and volunteers, but with a large religious loophole …

Blarney Dispensed - Ireland’s Court of Appeals dismisses challenges to the landslide marriage equality vote in May’s referendum …

Island Weddings - same-gender couples score “firsts” as each tie the knot in two U.S. territories …

Un-Res-olved - most Native American gays and lesbians can’t legally marry their partner on tribal lands …

Soap A Dope - a Taiwanese homemade soap company is in trouble with authorities over its allegedly suggestive gay logo …

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