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Friday, October 28, 2016

The Queer Early '80s!


Recalling rise of the religious right, the first Gay Games, and the dawn of AIDS -- classic archival coverage celebrating LGBT History Month!

An expanded Rainbow Minute remembers the life and times of Olympian and Gay Games founder Dr. Tom Waddell (read by Dustin Richardson, produced by Judd Proctor and Brian Burns).

And in NewsWrap: Indonesia's President offers scant fresh air to choking queers, a Romanian marriage case divides top officials, Amsterdam's prosecutor investigates homophobic death threat leaflets, Australia seats its first out aboriginal MP, and more international LGBT news reported this week by Michael LeBeau and Sarah Sweeney (produced by Steve Pride, written by Greg Gordon).


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Saturday, October 22, 2016

Oz Pleb Dead & March Into History!


Australia’s Opposition pulls the plug on Turnbull’s wheezing civil marriage plebiscite (with remarks by Bill Shorten, George Brandis, Penny Wong, Malcolm Turnbull and Alex Greenwich)!

Indelible highlights from Allen Ginsberg, Kate Millett, Blackberri, Robin Tyler, Holly Near with Meg Christian and Mary Watkins, "and a cast of thousands" at Washington’s first queer mega-march honor LGBT History Month!

And in NewsWrap: sexual and gender minorities are shut out of the UN’s "New Urban Agenda," Russia’s government shuts down an LGBT teen support website, a U.S. appeals court agrees to rehear an Indiana lesbian’s workplace bias lawsuit, France advances transgender rights, North Carolina gubernatorial candidates clash over HB2, and more international LGBT news reported this week by Tanya Kane-Parry and Frances O’Brien (produced by Steve Pride, written by Greg Gordon).


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Thursday, October 13, 2016

Come Out in Style!


A collection of classic LGBT music and poetry inspires the annual Coming Out Day: Labi Siffre's Something Inside So Strong, Margie Adam's Best Friend/The Unicorn Song, The Flirtations' Everything Possible, and Pat Parker's For the Straight Folks!

And in NewsWrap: Australian activists challenge their Attorney General on the government’s plebiscite plan, U.S. ID laws challenge transgender voters, HB2 drives junior college sports and a fine dining panel out of North Carolina, a U.S. national campus Christian group denies an equality supporter witch hunt, the Rentboy.com CEO plea deals to prison, there’s no more wondering about "Wonder Woman," and more international LGBT news reported this week by John Dyer V and Wenzel Jones (produced by Steve Pride, written by Greg Gordon).


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Saturday, October 08, 2016

"Margarita With A Straw"


Disability meets sexuality in writer/director Shonali Bose's coming of age story from India! Our Abby Dees chats with the award-winning indy filmmaker and lead actress Kalki Koechlin.

And in NewsWrap: Hong Kong makes diversity pretty in pink, hundreds are detained for
being proud in Kampala, Haitian authorities halt an LGBT Afro-Caribbean culture fest, homophobic arrests surging under India's reinstated sex code, HB2 fallout still plagues North Carolina, no more injustice from Chief Justice Moore, and more international LGBT news reported this week by Carole Meyers and Jason Proctor (produced by Steve Pride, written by Greg Gordon).


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