Global Shift for Rights Group!

IGLHRC (the International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission) changes its name to OutRight Action International to better reflect its mission, and Executive Director Jessica Stern discusses the diversity of queer human rights movements around the world with our Steve Pride. (part one of two)

Stephen Colbert dishes the One Million Moms for stirring up a plot of cold Campbell’s Soup.

And in NewsWrap: Catholic Italy considers civil unions, South Africa's Dutch Reformed Church blesses inclusion, Russia unexpectedly jails six violent homophobes, bogus "cures" are still peddled in China, the U.S. government prescribes a ban on “conversion therapy" nationwide, and more international LGBT news reported this week by Chrisanne Eastwood and Christopher Gaal (produced by Steve Pride, written by Greg Gordon).

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Friend of Francis & Lesbian Lit Reviews!

As LGBT issues strain an already-conflicted Catholic Synod on the Family, Vatican assistant Rev. Father Thomas Rosica explains the progressive bishops' position, and Pope Francis' gay former student Yayo Grassi talks about his warm reunion audience with the pontiff.

The biography of an artistic lesbian duo (Living Large) and the release of a herstoric, censored French classic (Therese and Isabelle) are celebrated by Queer Lit Commentator Janet Mason.

And in NewsWrap: a British appeals court denies same-gender couple pensions parity, a pro-equality Obama resists endorsing the Equality Act, transgender people suffer setbacks in Malaysia and Poland, Isle of Man official and an NCAA basketball coach make coming out news, Kim Davis could be a porn star, and more international LGBT news reported this week by Kristin Mellian and John Dyer V (produced by Steve Pride, written by Greg Gordon).

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Rebellion Renewal & Presidential Denial-ability!

Veteran activist Martha Shelley keeps the Stonewall spirit alive during a press conference aimed at memorializing it instead (GayUSA's Andy Humm and Ann Northrup comment).

Zimbabwe's Mugabe and Russia's Putin misstate the obvious about homophobia in their countries.

Kim Davis is the model of a Modern Fundamentalist.

And in NewsWrap: Bali blasphemy charges follow a gay couple's Hindu cleansing, marriage equality advances in two British territories, a student's conviction calls Tunisia's sodomy law into question, homophobia is finally driven out of New York's St. Patrick's Day Parade, and more international LGBT news reported this week by Kristin Mellian and John Dyer V (produced by Steve Pride, written by Greg Gordon).

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NewsWrap for the week ending October 3, 2015

SUMMARY

Booked Up - A resort executive in Bali faces blasphemy charges for selling the hotel’s Hindu cleansing ceremony package to a gay couple that was widely reported as a “gay wedding” …

Isle of Two Men/Two Women? - the autonomous government of the British crown dependency Isle of Man begins a public consultation on opening civil marriage to same-gender couples …

Out For Good - a public forum on marriage equality reveals a sharp divide in British Overseas Territory Bermuda, but prompts a union official to come out …

Light Rail Romance - video of the marriage proposal of a gay man to his boyfriend on a Beijing subway is the talk of Chinese social media …

Student Teacher - Tunisia’s Justice Minister announces his support for repeal of the northern African nation’s sodomy law …

Green Light - Irish Queers and allied groups win a 25-year battle to march as self-identified LGBT groups in New York City’s St. Patrick’s Day Parade …

Till It's Over - a fond farewell to U.S. baseball legend, English language mangler and little-known LGBT ally Yogi Berra …

Read the complete NewsWrap text here.