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Kenyan Sex Slavery & New Lesbian Fiction

2012-01-24T22:09:00.000-08:00

The shocking -- under-reported -- story of how slave traffickers are tricking gay and bi Kenyan men into the sex trade in the Persian Gulf is discussed by Paul Canning of the U.K.-based LGBT Asylum News and correspondent Steve Pride.

Janet Mason's review of two lesbian coming of age stories from Bywater Books (What's Best for Jane by Bett Norris and The Girls Club by Sally Bellerose) finds something new in the tried and true.

Plus: A Stamp for Alan Turing is celebrated in a Rainbow Minute (produced by Judd Proctor and Brian Burns, and read by Cris Cox).

And in NewsWrap: Cuba considers civil unions, gay Aussie MP plans Spanish nuptials, two U.S. states consider constitutional marriage bans, 80 mayors from 25 U.S. states sign resolution endorsing civil marriage equality, U.K. court convicts hate leaflet distributors, and more news reported by Gary Shaw and Natalie Peoples (produced by Steve Pride).

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NewsWrap for the week ending January 21, 2012

2012-01-24T22:05:00.000-08:00

SUMMARY

Cuba Libre - Civil unions for same-gender couples are on the horizon in Cuba …

Get MP to the Church on Time - South Australian M.P. Ian Hunter may become Australia's first openly gay sitting parliamentarian to legally marry …

Brakes on Bigotry - opponents manage to at least slow down Minnesota's repressive "Marriage Protection Amendment" …

What You Don't Know Can Hurt You - opponents of a draconian constitutional amendment in North Carolina warn of unintended consequences …

Equality Grows in the Garden State - New Jersey majority now favors civil marriage for lesbian and gay couples …

Final Step - proponents of marriage equality legislation in Washington appear to now need only one more vote for passage …

Hate Campaign Crushed - three U.K. men are convicted at Derby Crown Court of inciting sexual orientation-based hatred for distributing leaflets portraying a hanging mannequin and calling for capital punishment for homosexuality …

SVU Reruns - Malaysian prosecutors challenge last week's acquittal of opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim on what he calls trumped up sodomy charges …

Dateline: Glee - Rachel's two gay dads have "Heart" ….

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Pariah & Tim Miller

2012-01-16T22:42:00.000-08:00

As a cross section of complex characters "Sundance" into U.S. movie theaters, Entertainment Correspondent Steve Pride previews the celebrated lesbian coming-of-age story with comments by Pariah writer/director Dee Rees, lead actors Adepero Oduye and Kim Wayans, and music from the soundtrack by emoniFela.

Pioneering solo artist Tim Miller discusses performance politics with Dixie Treichel and Leigh Combs.

Plus a Rainbow Minute remembrance of Ma Rainey, Mother of the Blues (produced by Judd Proctor & Brian Burns and read by Gaye Adegbalola).

And in NewsWrap: Canadian Justice Department lawyer sparks foreign weddings panic, marriage equality proposed in Washington state, Malaysia's Anwar beats sodomy charges again, and more news reported by Jenn Mahoney and Vash Boddie (produced by Steve Pride).

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NewsWrap for the week ending January 14, 2012

2012-01-16T19:57:00.000-08:00

SUMMARY

Wedding Jitters Redefined - The Canadian marriages of foreign same-gender couples are threatened and then reaffirmed over the course of about 24 hours …

Couples Seek A Couple - a marriage equality bill introduced this week in Washington appears to need two more votes in the Senate to pass and be signed by strongly supportive Democratic Governor Chris Gregoire …

Humpty Dumpty Sat On A Wall - New Jersey's Republican Governor Chris Christie won't say if he'd sign a marriage equality bill there …

While You Were Busy Primary-Watching - repeal of their state's marriage equality legislation tops the agenda of New Hampshire's GOP-dominated legislature despite a threatened veto by Democratic Governor John Lynch …

Starting From Scratch - Prop 8 opponents in California begin a signature-gathering effort to put a repeal measure on the November 2012 state ballot …

Queer Devils Made Her Do It - a gay man "apologizes" on behalf of the LGBT community in Minnesota to anti-equality state Senate Majority Leader Amy Koch for "causing" her extramarital affair …

Sodomy Laws As Political Weapon - Malaysia's embattled former Deputy Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim is cleared of sexually assaulting a male political aid …

Judgement At Ft. Meade - a full court-martial is ordered for gay and/or "gender confused" Wiki-leaker U.S. Army Private First Class Bradley Manning for allegedly orchestrating the largest security breach in American history …

Hasn't Heard War Is Over - rightwing GOP Oklahoma state lawmaker Mike Reynolds wants to ban lesbians, gay men and bisexuals from serving in his state's National Guard …

First Nation, First Dyke - Susan Allen wins a special election in Minnesota to become the first openly lesbian Native American state legislator in U.S. herstory ….

Complete NewsWrap text and this week's podcast to be posted January 17th.

The Case of Pvt. Bradley Manning

2012-01-13T00:08:00.000-08:00

Something "Wiki" this way comes as the U.S. Army brings its case against Pvt. Bradley Manning for allegedly leaking videotape of American soldiers killing Afghan civilians. Gay activist/Army Lt. Dan Choi discussed Manning's pretrial court martial hearing on Current TV's Countdown with Keith Olbermann. Later Alice Ollstein's Free Speech Radio News report recapped the hearing with comments by Bradley Manning Support Network co-founder Jeff Patterson and Log Cabin Republicans Executive Director/Army Captain R. Clarke Cooper.

Plus: Graham Nash and James Raymond sing Almost Gone (The Ballad of Bradley Manning).

And in NewsWrap: Jamaica's new P.M. calls for sodomy law review, lesbian and gay couples plan Cancun weddings, Hungary constitutionally bans marriage equality, gay Malaysian's Irish civil partnership sparks outrage at home, pioneering "sodomite" passes away, Washington's governor proposes marriage equality, and more news reported by Rick Watts and Michael LeBeau (produced by Steve Pride).

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Pride On Screen 2011

2012-01-03T23:17:00.000-08:00

Award-winning entertainment journalist Steve Pride recalls some of the LGBT moving images that moved him most during the past 12 months. He focuses first on multi-dimensional TV characters like "Max Blum" on Happy Endings, and proliferating couples like the partnered hunky but unhappy ghosts on American Horror Story.

We're not giving up any major countdown spoilers here, but Steve's Top Ten LGBT films of 2011 include The Topps Twins: Unstoppable Girls, August, Beginners, and Pariah.

(NewsWrap returns Jan. 9, 2012.)

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Bottom of the 9th/Last Pitch ...

2011-12-31T03:01:00.000-08:00

We're down to the wire! The volunteers who bring you This Way Out each and every week need your help to at least match the amount our listener-sponsors donated during last year's holiday season. We need to demonstrate to our longtime foundation funder that there's enough grassroots support for This Way Out to justify their renewed grant to us in 2012.

Whatever you can afford (it's also tax-deductible in the U.S.) will support a truly unique LGBT community resource.

Please don't assume that others will donate even if you don't!
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Thank you, and warmest wishes from the This Way Out family to you and yours for a safe, healthy, productive, prosperous and pleasure-filled 2012.

Rev. Creech's Cost of Discipleship

2011-12-28T06:25:00.000-08:00

In the late 1990s, one courageous Methodist pastor took up the cause of LGBT equality. His mission, which included a number of banned same-gender commitment ceremonies, cost him his ordination, but his ministry to the disenfranchised has continued. This week, the Reverend Jimmy Creech talks about how receiving Adam's Gift -- the title of his recently-released memoir -- changed the course of his life forever. He recounts his comprehensive study of Biblical texts and church history, which led him to the conclusion that the condemnation of LGBT people is not God's doing, but the result of a sex-negative church hierarchy. His words of wisdom inspired a gathering at Metropolitan Community Church-Los Angeles and provide a fitting holiday special!

(NewsWrap returns Jan. 9, 2012.)

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Becoming Santa & 2011's Outstanding "Outings"

2011-12-21T14:10:00.000-08:00

"Santa Jack" Sanderson's documentary on his experiences at Santa School makes the yuletide gay for correspondent Vash Boddie.

Athletes, actors, authors and others came streaming out of the closet this year. Rainbow Minute producers Judd Proctor and Brian Burns have Robert Friedline read some of their stories.

Plus: Proctor and Burns return to reveal the truth about Mrs. Claus & Miss Bates … the Gay Liberation Quire of Sydney and the Therapy Sisters sing songs to brighten the holidays.

And in NewsWrap: U.N. documents LGBT human wrongs, Malawi reviews sodomy statutes, lesbian Australian Finance Minister adds baby, Philippines activists carol Catholic Bishops, Michigan kids can again "don … gay apparel," and more news reported by Sheri Lunn and Gary Shaw (produced by Steve Pride).

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NewsWrap for the week ending December 17, 2011

2011-12-21T04:22:00.000-08:00

SUMMARY

Global Assessment - The United Nations Human Rights Council releases a first-ever comprehensive report detailing human rights abuses against sexual minorities around the world, with recommendations to the UN's 193 member states on how to better protect them …

Until They Turn Blue - government leaders in Nigeria, Ghana and Uganda say they'll never support decriminalizing private, consensual adult same-gender sex …

Hopeful Sign - Malawi's Justice Minister says sodomy laws there need to be reviewed because they might not reflect "public opinion" …

Sticking Together - a petition opposing "no promo homo" laws in Russia bears almost a quarter million signatures from around the world …

It Adds Up - Australian Finance Minister Penny Wong and her longtime partner Sophie Allouache welcome baby Alexandra into the world …

Do Not Duplicate - Bill Johnson, a former Republican Alabama gubernatorial candidate who campaigned against marriage equality, donates his sperm to lesbians in New Zealand …

Smoking Gun - a gay sex shop receipt outs "family values" Southaven, Mississippi Republican Mayor Greg Davis …

Glad Tidings - LGBT activists in the Philippines serenade the country's Catholic Bishops Conference with rights-promoting Christmas carols …

Fa-La-La-La-La - first- and second-graders in Traverse City, Michigan can once again "don" their "gay apparel" ….

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Changing the world 30 minutes at a time

2011-12-16T18:18:00.000-08:00

Hey There:

I’ve got a story to tell you. Promise me you’ll read all the way to the end…

Not so long ago, as I was about to give up on yet another not-for-profit group that I had volunteered for, something happened that stopped me in my tracks. After years of volunteering to research, report, write, edit and raise money for non-commercial radio, I had just reached the point of burn-out. I had put in hundreds of hours producing stories and full-length programs. I had hosted our station’s ‘9-11’ coverage for eight hours. I had spent all my ‘free’ time working on any number of philanthropic ventures for a couple of years and I was just tired out. I had made a decision to resign from all my radio work, and just work at my regular job as a university professor.

The show I gave the most time to was This Way Out: the International Lesbian & Gay Radio Magazine. I was proud of my work there and had served as board chair for a number of years. We had faced crisis after crisis, but ‘the little show that could’ managed to go out over the airwaves on a budget of essentially nothing. Working on the show, we knew that the stories, news, reviews and dispatches from and to virtually the entire planet about the lives of LGBT people and the world in which they live were being heard.

But like virtually everyone who puts in long hours on philanthropic projects, I was just worn out. For the eighth or ninth or twentieth time, I vowed to write a note to the show’s founder and producer Greg Gordon and say ‘GG (My pet nick name for him), I just can’t do it anymore…’

Now remember, I love Greg and Lucia Chappelle, his comrade in arms putting the show together for close to a quarter century. I love the volunteers who worked the show and the far-flung informal network of correspondents around the world who contributed. They are my personal heroes, having done as much, if not more for the cause of LGBT rights as anyone on the planet. They continue to work on the show long past the time any reasonable person would have given up. They gather and write perhaps the single most comprehensive record of international LGBT news any place. They produce the lively, weekly half hour show that is heard on more than 200 local stations in the U.S., Australia, Canada and New Zealand, via World Radio Networks satellite in Europe and the Asia-Pacific and Middle East/Africa, on iTunes, and on free podcasts at the This Way Out website.

I had written my resignation letter, when I saw in my email inbox a message from someone in India. The sender sounded young. I’ll call him ‘Rasheed’, because he says he can’t have his real name get out. In the email to me as board chair, he wrote about how hard it was being gay in his small village in central India, how his family would disown him if they found out about his being gay. He said he didn’t think there were any other people like him in the world. He said that he had often considered suicide, because he had no hope of meeting someone like himself. He had given up on the possibility of falling in love with another gay man. Then he heard This Way Out, and was instantly addicted. He said he had to listen on his headphones, in the dark, in his bedroom when everyone else was asleep, but finding This Way Out let him know that the world was full of passionate, accomplished and above all proud Lesbians and Gay men. He heard stories of protest and legislative triumph. He heard music by openly out and proud gay artists. He heard interviews with queer writers, and reviews of gay film festivals. He heard the latest news on protests and gay pride celebrations virtually across the planet. He heard stories of gay athletes and community organizers.

Most of all, he heard hope.

I tore up my resignation letter and told Greg the story. He laughed and said, “yeah, I know that letter.” It’s had different names over the years, and it has come from all over the planet – from Africa, Cuba, Pakistan and the Philippines; from India, Ireland, Germany and South Africa. It has come from Rasheed, Salima, Tyler and Kim. It’s come from the lonely Gay boy named Tony in Oklahoma and from Lisa in Florida who had a crush on a girl in high school. Ever so gently, I cursed ‘Rasheed’ under my breath, because there was no way I could resign from this effort that had the possibility of reaching even one – or ten, or a hundred, or ten thousand – Rasheeds and Salimas or Tylers or Kims around the world who heard that they were valued as a Lesbian or Gay man, that their life is worthwhile and that they are not alone; there are loving and powerful communities of LGBT people around the planet solving their social problems and fighting for acceptance, and their voices are respected and treasured.

I’m writing this to you now because that radio show, This Way Out, is in trouble. After nearly two and a half decades of telling the world about LGBT people, after over 1200 weekly shows, after reporting the truth around the world, This Way Out is in real danger of shutting down forever. The show is produced on a shoe string – Greg will share financial records with anyone who asks, although there isn’t much to see! Both Greg and Lucia faced life-saving surgery this past year, and the work of keeping the show going gets harder and harder. Considering how important it is to worldwide Gay communities, it would be a tragedy if This Way Out had to shut down. I’m writing you because I believe in the show, and I believe that you will want to be a part of the effort to keep it on the air.

I know requests like this have become so commonplace online that it is easy to discard; you just hit the delete button. But think what your $20 or $50 or $100 dollars would mean to Rasheed, Salima or Kim. Think of the lives of young LGBT people you will be changing. This Way Out is a treasure of our unruly, exuberant gay community. I’m begging you to take the time to think about this; to go to the This Way Out web site (www.thiswayout.org) and use PayPal to make either a one-time donation or to sign up for modest automated monthly donations -- or postal mail your contribution to This Way Out at P.O. Box 38327, Los Angeles, CA 90038 USA. FYI, all U.S. donations are tax-deductible charitable contributions.

Now more than ever, we need you to not be shy or ambivalent about this. We have a number of ways to thank you; that’s not new. You hear these pitches all the time. But how many times have you heard that your donation could potentially save a life? Think about it. Every time you hear of a Gay suicide, or a horrendous case of bullying, haven’t you wanted to take some kind of action?

Contribute now. Be generous. Tell your friends.

Jon Beaupre
Assoc. Prof. TV, Film & Media CSULA
jbeaupr@calstatela.edu
213.709.2040

PS: I’m always happy to talk more about this and welcome calls, text or email!

Sec'y Clinton Tells the World

2011-12-16T03:21:00.000-08:00

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton makes history with her December 6th address to the U.N. Human Rights Council in Geneva on international LGBT rights.

And in NewsWrap: U.S. President Barack Obama issues a memorandum outlining American support for global LGBT rights, although extremist televangelist Pat Robertson damns the move; no waffling in Belgium over the world's first openly gay PM; Australia claims the Western world's first intersex public official; U.S. Ninth Circuit hears even more about Prop 8; Honolulu lesbian couple sues for marriage equality; rights vote looms in Anchorage; Riverdale's Kevin Keller gets hitched; and more news reported by Vash Boddie and Rick Watts (produced by Steve Pride).

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NewsWrap for the week ending December 10, 2011

2011-12-16T03:14:00.000-08:00

SUMMARY

World View - A U.S. presidential directive and a U.N. speech by the Secretary of State combine for what is being called "the most affirming LGBT rights foreign policy in the nation's history" – although extremist televangelist Pat Robertson strongly disagrees (hear what he told his Christian Broadcasting Network "700 Club" viewers) …

No Waffling - Elio Di Rupo's swearing in as Prime Minister of Belgium makes him the world's first openly gay head of government …

The Both In Charge - Australia's Tony Briffa may be the Western world's first known intersex elected official as he becomes the Mayor of Hobsons Bay, a local government authority near Melbourne, Victoria …

Heard It Before? - adversaries debate the release of video recordings of the Proposition 8 trial, and Chief District Court Judge Vaughn Walker's ability to impartially rule that the California marriage-banning measure is unconstitutional, during two hours of hearings at the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals …

Aloha This - a Honolulu lesbian couple sues the state of Hawai'i for marriage rights …

Fairness Thaw - equality activists in Anchorage, Alaska appear to have submitted the required number of signatures on initiative petitions to put an LGBT anti-bias measure on the April 2012 city ballot …

When Will It End? - Jacob Rogers of Ashland City, Tennessee becomes the latest reported bullied gay teen to kill himself …

Small Comfort - an unknown number of upstate New York high school classmates of bullied gay teen Jamey Rodemeyer are suspended for indeterminate periods for contributing to his suicide earlier this year …

Jury Gamble - Dharun Ravi rejects a generous plea deal and will stand trial in New Jersey for allegedly driving fellow Rutgers University student Tyler Clementi to suicide after uploading secret webcam video of Clementi having what he thought was private gay sex in his dorm room …

Comic-ment Ceremony - but Kevin Keller's Riverdale nuptials headlining the January issue of "Life With Archie" will not only be mainstream comics' first same-gender wedding, it'll be an interracial one at that ….

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Making the Boys & Bye-Bye Barney

2011-12-05T20:21:00.000-08:00

Writer-director Clayton Robey brings the "boys in the documentary" in preview clips from his newly-out-on-DVD chronicle of the iconic stage-to-film classic The Boys in the Band to a visit with Entertainment Correspondent Steve Pride.

The rarely-retiring U.S. Congressman Barney Frank says he's actually retiring from the House.

And in NewsWrap: Australia's Labor Party favors marriage equality with an escape clause, Queensland creates civil unions, a bill to criminalize same-gender weddings and LGBT advocacy clears Nigeria's Senate, Cameroon jails three more gay men, Spanish election results drive lesbian and gay couples to the altar, and more news reported by Sarah Sweeney and Michael LeBeau (produced by Steve Pride).

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NewsWrap for the week ending December 3, 2011

2011-12-05T18:24:00.000-08:00

SUMMARY

Yes and No - Delegates to the National Conference of Australia's ruling Labor Party vote to support marriage equality, but also approve allowing a conscience vote for their MPs on any marriage equality legislation, which analysts say will doom such a bill to failure …

State's Rites - a measure to create civil unions for same-gender and hetero couples wins approval in Queensland's parliament …

Paper Prejudice - the hetero-only Australian federal Marriage Act prevents the issuance of certificates required by some countries verifying that they're not already married to gay and lesbian Australians who want to wed their partners overseas, but the Labor Party's National Conference voted to support issuing Certificates of Non-Impediment to Marriage …

Jail the Gays & Their Allies - Nigeria's Senate approves legislation to criminalize same-gender unions and anyone who supports them …

They "Looked Like Women" - Cameroon sentences three more men to prison for homosexuality …

Fire Sale - applications for marriage licenses by same-gender couples surge in Spain following the landslide election victory of the center-right People's Party, which has challenged in the Constitutional Court the then-Socialist government's 2005 enactment of marriage equality …

Nyet Promo Homo - Russians resent criticism by the U.S. and the U.K. of a bill in the northwestern city of St. Petersburg that would ban so-called "homosexual propaganda" …

Less Than Paradise - some activists in the Netherlands are expressing surprise over unexpectedly-high reports of homophobic abuse in a country viewed as one of the world's most LGBT-friendly, while Gay-Straight Alliances are blossoming in Dutch schools to provide support and greater acceptance for at least half of LGBT students who say they don’t feel safe enough to be "out" …

Hot Men - the mayor of the Peruvian coastal city of Huarmey voices concern that high strontium levels in the town's water supply is making men gay ….

Complete NewsWrap text and this week's podcast to be posted December 6th.

Out in Africa

2011-12-03T01:00:00.000-08:00

International Gay & Lesbian Human Rights Commission Executive Director Cary Alan Johnson and Kenyan-born activist Lourence Misedah discuss LGBT struggles on the Mother Continent and beyond, including good and bad news from Uganda, Rwanda, Malawi, Kenya, South Africa, Jamaica, the Philippines, Iran, and India.

(NewsWrap returns next week with reports from around the world.)

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NewsWrap for the week ending November 12, 2011

2011-11-17T17:48:00.000-08:00

SUMMARY

First Dates - Poland swears in its first gay and first transgender MPs …

One Makes a Difference - a Democrat's win in an Iowa Senate race virtually guarantees the safety of marriage equality in the Hawkeye state …

Majority Approves Equality - Traverse City, Michigan voters overwhelmingly uphold a local ordinance banning sexual orientation-based bias …

All Politics Is Local - an impressive number of "out" candidates win reelection and score several "firsts" in local off-year election victories across the U.S. …

Told You So - voters rebuff extremist right-wing Republican legislation in Mississippi, Maine, Arizona, and Ohio …

Case Closed - a U.S. appeals court formally shuts the door on the Log Cabin Republicans lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of the now-repealed Don't Ask Don't Tell …

Can't Get No Respect - the Senate Judiciary Committee advances the Respect for Marriage Act, which would repeal DOMA, the Defense of Marriage Act, the mid-1990s law that bans federal recognition of legally married same-gender couples – though there's little chance that the bill will even be considered by the GOP-controlled House, which is using taxpayer dollars to defend DOMA in federal lawsuits challenging its constitutionality …

Lesbians Held Captive - a coalition of women's and human rights groups in Ecuador demands the closure of some 200 so-called "ex-gay" facilities that some who've escaped have called "torture clinics" …

Too Bad He'll Only Be 52 - the man who confessed to brutally murdering Ugandan gay rights activist David Kato is sentenced to 30 years in prison …

Penguins Need Progeny - the "heart-breaking" forced separation by the Toronto Zoo of Buddy and Pedro, two "pair bonded" male African penguins, causes an international uproar ….

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Ryan Cassata & License to Bully

2011-11-17T03:04:00.000-08:00

The halls of high school house the slammin' singing-songwriting trans-teen whose music and activism has been a beacon of hope to his struggling peers.

A caveat in an anti-bullying bill passed by Michigan's Senate protects the perpetrators more than it helps the victims.

And in NewsWrap: Poland christens gay and trans lawmakers, cornucopia of queer candidates win U.S. elections, DOMA repeal gets first green light, global petitioners challenge Ecuador's anti-lesbian "torture clinics," pair-bonded male penguins split up to propagate, and more news reported by Rick Watts and Michael LeBeau (produced by Steve Pride).

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Musto's Fork & Mormon Confessions

2011-11-09T17:43:00.000-08:00

Veteran Village Voice columnist Michael Musto sets the table for celebrity gossip with his new book Fork on the Right, Knife in the Back, and our Steve Pride has an appetite for answers.

Playwright/actor/producer Steven Fales evolves from missionary to Latter-Gay Saint in his one-man show Confessions of a Mormon Boy, and Resonance FM's Rosie Wilby had him for tea during its London run.

And in NewsWrap: British Commonwealth confab exposes post-colonial rights conflicts, U.N. exposes Iran's abuses against LGBT people, Indonesia's sexual minorities get their first health clinic, lesbian Ruth Davidson leads Scottish Conservatives, and more news reported by Robert LeBlanc and Natalie Peoples (produced by Steve Pride).

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NewsWrap for the week ending November 5, 2011

2011-11-09T17:30:00.000-08:00

SUMMARY

Quid Pro Quo - The British government's intention to tie its financial aid to countries' human rights records, including the treatment of LGBT people, angers several African leaders, including those from Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe, and Ghana at the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in Perth, West Australia …

To Skin a Cat - Botswana's former president Festus Mogae calls for decriminalization of same-gender sex to help fight the continent's soaring HIV infection rates …

Proving What We Knew - the United Nations Human Rights Committee issues a report detailing and harshly criticizing human rights abuses, notably those against LGBT people, in the Islamic Republican of Iran …

To Your Health - the first health clinic specifically welcoming sexual minorities in Indonesia opens on the island of Bali …

Scathach to the Rescue - Ruth Davidson's election to lead the Scottish Tories makes her the first "out" lesbian to lead a major U.K. political party …

For Gay and the Empire - Manchester's former U.S. National Basketball Association star John Amaechi is honored with the Order of the British Empire …

Thin Ice & Fancy Footwork - former Australian hockey star Gus Johnston and current Welsh rugby team captain Jed Hopper each come out as gay men, while already "out" Welsh rugby star Gareth Thomas announces his retirement ….

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"We Were Here" & "Riot Acts"

2011-11-01T22:56:00.000-07:00

Filmmaker David Weissman previews his up-close-and-personal documentary on the generation that witnessed the advent of AIDS in San Francisco with Entertainment Correspondent Steve Pride.

Performer/filmmaker Madsen Minax tells Queer Music Heritage's JD Doyle how he tracked the travels of trans-musicians in the "rockumentary" he made with his Actor Slash Model partner Simon Strikeback.

And in NewsWrap: Taipei Pride parades for equality, Uganda's "kill the gays" bill sees renewed life, Brazil's top appeals court favors equal families, Queensland lawmakers consider civil unions, New Hampshire legislators attempt marriage equality repeal, and more news reported by Sarah Sweeney and Vash Boddie (produced by Steve Pride).

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NewsWrap for the week ending October 29, 2011

2011-11-01T22:44:00.000-07:00

SUMMARY

Made in Taiwan - A record crowd numbering as many as 50,000 colorfully march in Taipei in the Taiwanese capital's 9th annual Pride parade …

Like a Bad Penny - Uganda's infamous "Kill the Gays" bill is apparently back on the front burner …

Bad to Worse - Nigerian lawmakers consider harsher laws against homosexuality in their country …

Constitutional Conversion - Zimbabwe's Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai does an about-face from his support last year of President Robert Mugabe's position and now favors the inclusion of sexual minority rights in the new constitution now being drafted …

Everybody Samba! - Brazil's top appeals court becomes the highest court in Latin America's most populous nation to rule in favor of marriage equality …

Elevation to Equality - Denmark's government announces a proposal to upgrade currently-available registered partnerships for gay and lesbian couples to full marriage equality, and to allow their wedding ceremonies in the Church of Denmark …

For Starters - a civil unions bill is introduced in the Australian state of Queensland's parliament …

Backward Motion - the Republican-controlled legislature in New Hampshire is on track to repeal the U.S. state's 2009 marriage equality law and revert to a form of inferior civil unions for same-gender couples that had been established in 2007, although Governor John Lynch, a Democrat, has vowed to veto any repeal measure …

Goodnight, Mrs. Calabash - leading Russian gay rights activist Nikolai Alekseev announces his resignation from the advocacy groups he's led since 2005 …

Bus Driver's Honeymoon - U.S. Freedom to Marry activist Evan Wolfson finally ties his own knot in New York ….

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The Glitterati & Weekend / Dirty Girl

2011-10-28T09:49:00.000-07:00

Conservative homophobes "feel the rainbow" when Nick Espinosa, Joanna Hirvela and Rachel Lang set off their glitter bombs. The team tells Dixie Treichel (of Fresh Fruit on KFAI-Minneapolis/St. Paul) about their sparkling strategy.

Take in an old fashioned double feature of Andrew Haigh's Weekend and Abe Sylvia's Dirty Girl with Entertainment Correspondent Steve Pride.

And in NewsWrap: gay sex bust snares Northern Cyprus dignitary, Zimbabwe denies prisoners condoms, another bullied gay teen suicides, post-DADT inequalities linger, and more news reported by Michael LeBeau and Gary Shaw (produced by Steve Pride).

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NewsWrap for the week ending October 22, 2011

2011-10-28T09:44:00.000-07:00

SUMMARY

Behind Closed Doors - Northern Cyprus' former Finance Minister and two others are arrested in a private home in north Nicosia for "acts against nature" …

Unprotected Custody - Zimbabwe Prison Services denies condoms to men behind bars because gay sex is illegal …

Not Enough Better Yet - bullied 15-year-old Canadian 10th-grader Jamie Hubley becomes the latest headline-making gay teen suicide …

Uncle Sam Owes Alimony - a federal judge okays a lawsuit seeking full separation pay denied to gays & lesbians honorably discharged under "Don't Ask Don't Tell" …

More To Tell - another "DADT" lawsuit will demand equal benefits for legally-married active duty lesbian and gay service members …

All in the Family - a U.S. Senator's intervention allows a National Guard enlistee just back from duty in Kuwait to bring her civil partner to a military reintegration program for returning soldiers and their families …

Repeat Step One - lawyers hired by the GOP-controlled U.S. House of Representatives to defend the Defense of Marriage Act in legal challenges to its constitutionality argue in federal court that gays and lesbians "are far from politically powerless" …

Shattered Closet - a federal judge in California decides that proponents of Proposition 8 offered no proof in their attempt to stop the release of the names of people who signed petitions to qualify the marriage equality-banning ballot measure …

After the Horse Has Bolted - Washington conservative religious groups file an emergency order to stop the naming of petitioners supporting a repeal of that state's domestic partner benefits law after 30 DVDs of petition signatures had already been released …

Gold Diggers of 2011 - even the Manhattan Clerk's Office joins the economic boom that marriage equality has brought to the Empire State ….

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Frank Kameny, RIP

2011-10-19T09:01:00.000-07:00

The pioneering equality activist died peacefully in his sleep at the age of 86 on National Coming Out Day. A Rainbow Minute (produced by Judd Proctor & Brian Burns at WRIR-FM in Richmond, Virginia and read by Dustin Richardson) celebrates his life; Kameny discusses the beliefs that drove his activism during a 1975 conversation with Ronald Gold on WBAI-FM in New York City (with thanks to the Pacifica Radio Radio Archives); progressive lesbian news commentator Rachel Maddow eulogizes Kameny on her MSNBC program.

And in NewsWrap: disabled lesbian vet battles biased DOMA benefits, assault on California's LGBT curriculum law fizzles, Polish party propels transwoman into parliament, Presbyterian Church (USA) ordains openly gay pastor, Rio celebrates Pride, and more news reported by John Torres and Robert LeBlanc (produced by Steve Pride).

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NewsWrap for the week ending October 15, 2011

2011-10-18T10:59:00.000-07:00

SUMMARY

Swimming to the Other Side - In an interesting confluence of Don't Ask Don't Tell and the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), a disabled lesbian U.S. Navy veteran who legally married her partner in Connecticut is suing for the same disability payment increases automatically given to newly-married heterosexuals …

Leahy the DOMA-Slayer - legislation to repeal DOMA is scheduled for a Senate Judiciary Committee vote in November …

A Force To Be Reckoned With - some 200 lesbian and gay active duty troops, veterans and civilian supporters gather in Las Vegas for an OutServe-organized first-ever military leadership summit for "out" personnel …

Single Parent Family - the U.S. Supreme Court refuses to hear the appeal of a gay couple who were denied having both names on their adopted son's revised birth certificate …

Left Back in 1st Grade- the rightwing coalition group opposed to California's FAIR Education Act, which mandates age-appropriate LGBT-inclusive history lessons in the state's public schools, fails to gather the number of petition signatures required to put a referendum on the ballot …

Honeymoon Ends - the Los Angeles-based Love Honor Cherish initiates the process to put a measure to repeal California's marriage equality-banning Proposition 8 on the November 2012 ballot after the state's biggest LGBT advocacy group, Equality California, decides not to …

Georgina the Second - Poland elects Anna Grodzka as its first transgender lawmaker …

21st Century Reformation - the Presbyterian Church (USA) ordains Rev. Scott Anderson as its first openly-gay pastor …

Corrective Justice - four of the nine South African men originally charged with the brutal rape and killing of 19-year-old Cape Town lesbian Zoliswa Nkonyana are convicted of murder after more than five years of court delays …

Keeping It Rio - hundreds of thousands mix celebration and politics in Rio de Janeiro's 16th annual Pride parade …

Livin' La Vida Reprimida - under-15-year-olds are barred from attending gay entertainer Ricky Martin’s concert in Tegucigalpa "to protect the mental health of Honduran youth" ….

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The Birth of Kaleidoscope

2011-10-14T02:45:00.000-07:00

LGBT movements of many colors combine in Kaleidoscope, a new organization founded in Britain to support activists abroad. Its director David Chalmers described the gala launch with correspondent Rosie Wilby (Resonance-FM's Out in South London), and expatriate Nigerian activist Bisi Alimi discussed the group's goals and strategy.

Plus: a live-in-concert performance of Something Inside So Strong by its composer, gay U.K.-based Nigerian expatriate Labi Siffre.

And in NewsWrap: Cameron's conservatism compels marriage equality, an "evolving" Obama is better on soldiers than same-gender couples, the price tag on the U.S. House's DOMA defense triples, a landlord's lockout sinks Uganda's "strange" Sappho Islands, Belgrade cops cancel Pride to avert "blood in the streets," and more news reported by Gary Shaw and Vash Boddie (produced by Steve Pride).

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NewsWrap for the week ending October 8, 2011

2011-10-10T15:01:00.000-07:00

SUMMARY

The Right Way - British P.M. David Cameron tells a Conservative Party conference that "I don't support gay marriage in spite of being a conservative, I support gay marriage because I am a conservative" …

Parental Controls - U.K. gay and lesbian parents will soon be able to identify themselves on passport forms for their children as "parent one" and "parent two" instead of "mother" and "father" …

Dining and Dancing - U.S. President Barack Obama keynotes the Human Rights Campaign National Dinner, saying that "every single American deserves to be treated equally in the eyes of the law" while stopping short of endorsing civil marriage equality, but takes Republican presidential wannabes to task for staying silent when the crowd at a recent GOP candidates debate booed a gay soldier serving in Iraq [with an excerpt from that rebuke] …

Your Tax Dollars for Discrimination - the Republican-led House's modified contract with the D.C. law firm defending the Defense of Marriage Act in federal court triples to $1.5 million …

Last Call - Uganda's only "out" bar for sexual minorities is padlocked by the landlord because it attracted "strange" people …

Effective Terrorism - police officials in Belgrade, backed by the Serbian government, ban the city's second Pride march, fearing a repeat of the violence at last year's event …

Russian Recidivism - police try to separate the activists from the violent counter-demonstrators among the 40 people detained in Moscow at one of Russia's first sanctioned LGBT rights rallies …

OcQUEERpation - U.S. LGBT people across the country are a visible part of the growing street protests against corporate greed and government gridlock that began with New York's "Occupy Wall Street" ….

Complete NewsWrap text and this week's podcast to be posted October 10th.

How We Won DADT's Demise

2011-10-04T14:12:00.000-07:00

The Don't Ask, Don't Tell policy has been repealed, but there are battles still ahead for LGBT people in the U.S. military. You'll hear commentary and analysis from Servicemembers Legal Defense Network Legal Director David McKean, anti-war queer activist and writer Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore, and San Francisco State University Associate Professor of Political Science Aaron Belkin (How We Won: Progressive Lessons from the Repeal of 'Don't Ask Don't Tell'), with music by Matt Alber and Tom Goss.

And in NewsWrap>: Nigeria considers making same-gender marriage a crime, gay and lesbian couples win in U.K. and U.S. counts, the Prop 8 trial video isn't coming to a screen near you, a setback and an advance in the latest Don't Ask skirmishes, debated "outings" target "suspect" anti-gay Italian politicians, and more news reported by Vash Boddie and Gary Shaw (produced by Steve Pride).

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NewsWrap for the week ending October 1, 2011

2011-10-03T14:30:00.000-07:00

SUMMARY

Fashionably Draconian - Nigeria's Senate supports legislation to criminalize marriages of gay and lesbian couples and also jail anyone who actively supports such ceremonies …

The Family That Gays Together - the U.K.'s Office of National Statistics reports that couples in same-gender civil partnerships stay together more than couples in heterosexual marriages …

Love Abounds - the number of lesbian and gay Americans telling the decennial 2010 U.S. Census that they're living with a same-gender partner jumps by more than 80 percent since the last Census in 2000 …

Hit Pause - a three-judge panel of the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals stops the scheduled September 30th release of video recordings of last year's Proposition 8 trial …

T's Not Crossed - another Ninth Circuit three-judge panel "disappears" last year's district court judge's ruling calling Don't Ask Don't Tell unconstitutional, saying that with repeal the issue is now moot …

"Father Mulchahy" Unleashed - the Pentagon issues a memo allowing military chaplains to officiate at same-gender weddings in states where they're legal, even on military bases …

Shame Strategy - Italy is a-buzz over the online "outing" by U.S. bloggers of ten conservative lawmakers and ministers in the homophobic administration of Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, all of whom have anti-gay voting records ….

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NewsWrap for the week ending September 24, 2011

2011-09-30T17:19:00.000-07:00

SUMMARY

Final Minutes - Countdown celebrations in LGBT venues across the country culminating at the stroke of midnight on September 20th cheer the official repeal of Don't Ask Don't Tell, the 18-year-old U.S. military policy that kept lesbian and gay service members in the closet …

Dear Dad - YouTube video of a private stationed at an Air Force base in Germany coming out to his father in Alabama on the day of repeal gets more than two million views …

He Who Waits - a gay World War II veteran wins a decades-long battle to have his discharge officially changed from "undesirable" to "honorable" …

A Few Good Queers - Marine recruiters make U.S. military history by visiting an LGBT center in Tulsa, Oklahoma to sign up new enlistees …

I Was A Male War Bride - a justice of the peace in Vermont declares a gay lieutenant "officially out" as he pronounces the Naval Academy graduate legally married to his longtime partner seconds after midnight on the day of repeal …

Now to Win the Peace - the Obama administration fights an effort to get equal separation pay for gays and lesbians honorably discharged under Don't Ask Don't Tell, another lawsuit to formally declare the policy unconstitutional …

Let's Jail the Hero - the "fierce advocate's" team also opposes a "vindictive prosecution" defense allowed by a federal judge hearing "failure to obey a lawful police order" charges against military equality advocate Lt. Dan Choi for chaining himself to the White House fence to protest Don't Ask Don't Tell before its Congressional repeal …

Best Wishes, Despite the Above - President Obama himself does issue a statement hailing the demise of the policy and briefly voices support for gays and lesbians around the world during his speech the following day at the U.N. General Assembly …

The Prop 8 Shore - a federal judge allows the release of video recordings of last year's landmark Proposition 8 trial – though his decision will almost certainly be appealed …

Equally Protected - a state judge in Alaska rules that lesbian and gay couples are entitled to the same senior citizen and disabled veteran property tax exemptions as the state's heterosexual couples …

Long Engagement - government officials in the U.K. say they're planning initial discussions on full civil marriage equality legislation in March 2012 with an enactment goal of 2015 …

Leaning on Labor - Tasmania's lower house of parliament passes a resolution urging the Australian federal government to open civil marriage to same-gender couples …

Lynch Pin - "out" Emmy winner and host of this year's telecast Jane Lynch peppers her comments with lesbian references throughout the ceremony, including the lavish opening musical number, during which she slyly discusses recent social progress and the battles yet to be won with the cast of the 1960s era-set Mad Men ….

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Taps for Don't Ask, Don't Tell

2011-09-30T15:34:00.000-07:00

Our coverage of the repeal of the U.S. military's ban on openly lesbian and gay servicemembers includes a review of the policy's history (from Pacifica's Democracy Now!), the true identity of Outserve's "J.D. Smith" (from MSNBC's Rachel Maddow Show), and a repeal celebration at the Los Angeles Gay & Lesbian Center (with Steve Pride on the scene). You'll hear the voices of Army Lieutenant Dan Choi, Servicemembers United Executive Director Alexander Nicholson, Navy Commander Zoe Dunning, Air Force First Lieutenant and Outserve leader Josh Seefried, Servicemembers Legal Defense Network Board member Tom Carpenter, and other active duty and veteran U.S. lesbian, gay, and bisexual military personnel.

And in NewsWrap: DADT ends and an Air Force private publicly comes out to his father on YouTube, a U.S. federal judge takes the wraps off the Proposition 8 trial videos while a judge in Alaska rules for same gender couple property tax equity, a marriage equality proposal in the U.K. comes with a long engagement but a resolution of support pushes the issue in Australia, Emmy-winner Jane Lynch hosts some Mad Men, and more news reported by Robert LeBlanc and Rick Watts (produced by Steve Pride).

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NewsWrap for the week ending September 17, 2011

2011-09-21T13:04:00.000-07:00

SUMMARY

Virtual Visibility - LGBT Iranians respond to last week's reports of sodomy executions by defiantly setting up a Facebook page, for those in the country and those who have fled, called "We Are Everywhere" …

The Bill That Wouldn't Die - Uganda's First Lady wants to "Kill the Gays" …

Nobody's Perfect - Human Rights Watch calls the Netherlands on the carpet for its anti-trans civil code …

Passport to Freedom - Australian government removes sex-change surgery as a requirement for trans-people to identify themselves on passports in their chosen gender …

To Be Unequal, Rather Than to Seem - North Carolina legislature approves a proposal for the May 2012 ballot that would amend the state constitution to define marriage as exclusively heterosexual …

Roomies and Taxes - Michigan's House passes a bill that would forbid public sector employers from offering domestic partner benefits …

Step Back - New Hampshire House Judiciary subcommittee okays a measure to replace that state's 2009 marriage equality law with civil unions that would be open to any two unmarried adults, even if they're related …

Jughead for Bridesmaid - wedding bells will soon ring out in the pages of "Archie Comics" for "Kevin Keller," the most prominent gay resident of the fictional city of Riverdale …

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Alexandra Billings & Prop 8 Standing

2011-09-19T16:40:00.000-07:00

An engaging and entertaining chat with the multi-talented trans-performer who's had top "Billings" on ER and Grey's Anatomy (interviewed by Dixie Treichel and John Townsend).

We're on the scene as Proposition 8 proponents stand their ground at the California Supreme Court. Opposing attorneys Theodore Olson and Charles Cooper, Justice Joyce Kennard, and Prop 8 lawsuit plaintiff Kris Perry address the legal standing issue (Pacifica Radio's Christopher Martinez reports).

A pair of Rainbow Minutes (produced by Judd Proctor & Brian Burns) celebrate Sappho, The First Recorded Lesbian in History (read by Allen Browne) and The Daughters of Bilitis (read by Brenda Thornton).

And in NewsWrap: South Africa's new Chief Justice may drive its top court to the right, three "non-existent" gay men may have been hanged in Iran, the Thai Armed Forces reclassify katoeys, a U.S. appeals court nixes Arizona's benefits bust, and more news reported by Natalie Peoples and John Torres (produced by Steve Pride).

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NewsWrap for the week ending September 10, 2011

2011-09-19T16:36:00.000-07:00

SUMMARY

Legal Right Turn - South African President Jacob Zuma appoints Mogoena Mogoena, a judge that critics say has issued misogynistic and homophobic rulings, as Chief Justice of the nation's highest court …

Maybe Nobody Killed Her - two of nine men charged with the brutal murder of South African lesbian activist Zoliswa Nkonyana in 2006 are released for lack of evidence …

A Glimpse of Reason - Ghana's Attorney General and Justice Minister Martin Amidu bucks the predominant continental mindset when he tells a press conference that private consensual adult same-gender sex should be decriminalized …

Guess They Found Some - three men are reportedly hanged in Iran for penetrative sodomy, an unusual admission by the state-run media …

"Disorder" Order - Thai trans-women will no longer be publicly labeled "permanently insane" when they report for the military service required of all men in the country, but will still be said to have "gender identity disorder" …

The Captain and the Colonel - Argentina's armed forces okay full dress uniforms for the first same-gender military couple to be civilly wed since marriage equality became the law of the land there last year …

Fair's Fair - the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals tells Arizona that it must provide the same health care benefits to the partners of its gay and lesbian state workers as it offers to heterosexual spouses …

Truck Stops - the Big Apple's Big Gay Ice Cream Truck goes "shopping" ...

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Being With You On 9/11

2011-09-12T09:06:00.000-07:00

Mark Bingham was an openly gay passenger on United Flight 93 who joined the group that attacked three hijackers headed for the US Capitol on September 11, 2001. Bingham's mother Alice Hoagland is featured in the award-winning documentary on his life, and she tells Steve Pride about his moment in history.

And in NewsWrap: Mexican and U.S. Presbyterians part ways over gay and lesbian ordinations, British activists evangelize for equality, Prop 8 pix go on trial, the case against an alleged junior high school hate murderer ends in a mistrial, feds harass a "Don't Ask" hero over his White House protest, closeted U.S. service members prepare to come out in print, and more news reported by Rick Watts and Jon Beaupre (produced by Steve Pride).

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NewsWrap for the week ending Sept. 3, 2011

2011-09-12T08:53:00.000-07:00

SUMMARY

Til Dogma Do Us Part - Mexican Presbyterians break with their more progressive U.S. counterparts over the latter's move to ordain partnered openly lesbian and gay clergy, while equally-disaffected conservative U.S. Presbyterians meet in Minnesota to discuss a breakaway branch ...

Outside the Box - Britain's leading advocacy group, Stonewall, plans to evangelize for equality overseas ...

You Oughtta Be in Pictures - anti- and pro-Proposition 8 lawyers battle in a U.S. District Court over the release of videotapes of the proceedings of last year's landmark trial that concluded with a judgment calling California's voter-approved marriage equality-banning measure unconstitutional ...

Shadow of Doubt - a mistrial is declared in the murder trial of now-17-year-old Brandon McInerney, whom everyone acknowledges, at age 14, shot and killed his gender-variant 15-year-old classmate Lawrence King, when the jury can't unanimously agree on a first- or second-degree murder or manslaughter conviction ...

For Freedom of Choi-ce - the federal court case against gay former U.S. Army Lieutenant Dan Choi for failing to unchain himself from the White House fence in a protest of Don't Ask Don't Tell last November gets a 10-day delay after the prosecution objects to the presiding judge's decision to allow Choi's defense team to present evidence of "vindictive prosecution" by the government ...

Finer Point - Log Cabin Republicans tells a federal appeals court why its judges need to uphold a lower court ruling declaring the soon-to-be-repealed anti-gay military ban unconstitutional ...

At Ease - some 100 formerly closeted personnel will come out on the day of repeal in the September 20th issue of "OutServe," a new magazine for lesbian and gay service members to be distributed on U.S. Army and Air Force bases ...

And in the End - tacky shots of his derriere on a website for gay sex seekers come back to bite Puerto Rico anti-gay Republican Senator Roberto Arango in the ass ...

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Gender Non-Conforming Kids on Camera

2011-08-30T23:47:00.000-07:00

Jonathan Skurnick of The Youth and Gender Media Project presents his two short films about boys and girls who live "outside the box" and the families who love them (with Sonali Kolhatkar from Uprising on KPFK-FM/Los Angeles).

And in NewsWrap: a Chilean lesbian judge takes her custody case to the Inter-American Court, hundreds march against South African township anti-lesbian hate crimes, Uganda's cabinet is at odds with parliament on the "kill the gays" bill, Sharia separates a married Indonesian lesbian couple, Australian MPs and the PM palaver about marriage equality, and more news reported by Ben Caron and Robert LeBlanc (produced by Ben Caron and Steve Pride).

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NewsWrap for the week ending August 27, 2011

2011-08-29T17:11:00.000-07:00

SUMMARY

Judging for Herself - The Inter-American Court of Human Rights hears its first LGBT-related case as Chilean judge and lesbian mother Karen Atala tries to regain custody of the three daughters taken away from her by her nation's Supreme Court ...

Still Being Ignored - hundreds march on a Johannesburg, South Africa township police station demanding official action against escalating so-called "corrective" rapes and hate crime murders of sexual minorities ...

Ugandan Two-Step - the Ugandan Cabinet and parliamentary representatives send mixed signals on the fate of the country's infamous "Kill the Gays" bill ...

Severed Hearts - authorities in the Sharia law-governed Indonesian province of Aceh annul the legal marriage of a lesbian couple and force the women to sign a separation agreement ...

The Great Debate - several members of the Australian parliament discuss their constituents' views on marriage equality, while Prime Minister Julia Gillard, who opposes opening civil marriage to same-gender couples, nevertheless meets for the first time ever with LGBT activists and supporters to discuss the issue ...

It Counts - analysis of the 2010 U.S. Census by a highly-regarded LGBT "think tank" reveals Washington, D.C. as the leading locale for the number of same-gender-couples per one thousand households, and an over-all fifty percent increase in the country during the last decade of self-identified cohabiting gay and lesbian couples; and ...

M-A-R-R-I-A-G-E - U.S. country music star Chely Wright legally marries her activist partner Lauren Blitzer – each in white gowns but sans hair-spoiling veils - at an interfaith ceremony in Connecticut ...

Complete NewsWrap text and this week's podcast to be posted August 29th.

Two Moms Can Make a Right

2011-08-23T21:36:00.000-07:00

University of Iowa student and internet sensation Zach Wahls shares the heartfelt heartland story of his lesbian family with Steve Pride.

Plus a Rainbow Minute that decodes some of Walt Whitman's gay references.

And in NewsWrap: Obama's immigration switch may shield same-gender couples, U.K. Border surprise reprieves gay Ugandan asylum seeker, Nepalese activists rally for constitutional rights, Cuban trans-wedding draws dissidents and diplomats, and more news reported by Vash Boddie and Michael LeBeau (produced by Steve Pride).

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NewsWrap for the week ending August 20, 2011

2011-08-23T17:47:00.000-07:00

SUMMARY

Another Crack in the DOMA - The Obama administration announces a new immigration policy that could end deportation threats hanging over the heads of foreign national gays and lesbians in the U.S. illegally who are in same-gender unions with American citizens ...

Nick of Time - Robert Segwanyi, a Ugandan gay man seeking asylum in the U.K., gets a last-minute reprieve from being sent back to his notoriously homophobic homeland ...

The Elephants in the Room - hundreds of LGBT people make history in Narayanghat, a primarily rural area of Nepal, with a first-ever rights demonstration outside the cosmopolitan capital of Katmandu ...

Venceremos - a transgender woman who underwent Cuba's first state-sanctioned gender-reassignment surgery legally marries a gay man in what is a political as well as a celebratory ceremony in Havana ...

The Real Thing - Mexico City marks the 1,000th same-gender civil marriage since they became legal in the capital ...

Brand X - only nine gay and lesbian couples registered their civil partnerships in July, the first month they were offered in the U.S. state of Rhode Island ...

Bull By the Horns - LGBT activists in Maine launch a petition drive to qualify a marriage equality initiative for the state's November 2012 ballot, while Oregon advocates ponder a similar effort ...

Promise Kept, Vows Taken - Vermont's Peter Shumlin becomes the first sitting U.S. governor to officiate at a same-gender wedding as he fulfills a campaign promise he made to a lesbian couple last year ....

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By DOMA Divided & Gun Hill Road

2011-08-17T13:34:00.000-07:00

Australian national Anthony John Makk and his U.S. PWA husband Bradford Wells are to be separated by immigration policy based on the Defense of Marriage Act ... despite the fact the same Obama Administration says it's unconstitutional.

Similar tales of immigration, injustice and love abound in Judy Rickard's recently published book Torn Apart, reviewed by Janet Mason.

Writer/director Rashaad Ernesto Green talks about the intersecting transitions in his festival hit Gun Hill Road, coming to U.S. theaters this month; Steve Pride adds preview clips featuring Esai Morales and Harmony Santana.

And in NewsWrap: British unrest unleashes anti-gay rage, homophobes are kept in "Czech” at Prague's first Pride, "cure" quacks proliferate in Africa and Europe, Aussies keep parenting and marriage in mind, and more news reported by Natalie Peoples and John Torres (produced by Steve Pride).

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NewsWrap for the week ending August 13, 2011

2011-08-15T23:03:00.000-07:00

SUMMARY

The Fire This Time - London's venerable Gay's the Word bookstore is among the businesses targeted and damaged during riots that rocked Britain this week, as are "Gay Village" clubs and shops in Birmingham and Manchester ...

Check It Out - thousands celebrate Pride for the first time in Prague, despite Czech government leaders' "deviant" critiques ...

So Proudly We Sail - Dutch Defense Ministry floats its own boat for the first time in Amsterdam's unique Pride procession down one of the city's historic canals ...

Party of Five - arrests of one older white man and four young black men for "acts of sexual immorality" make headlines in Zimbabwe ...

But Can You Cure Stupid - Presbyterian Church of Ghana announces that it's opening "therapy centers" to "cure" and "rehabilitate" gays and lesbians, and the promotion of discredited "reparative therapy" to make lesbians and gay men heterosexual spreads in Europe ...

Propaganda of Heterosexualism - bill is introduced in Ukraine's parliament to make "propaganda of homosexualism" a criminal offense ...

In Spite of Himself - Chilé’s politically conservative President Sebastián Piñera formally sends a bill to Congress that would create civil unions for same-gender and heterosexual couples ...

Who Are You - U.S. anti-equality National Organization for Marriage is a two-time legal loser in its court challenges to political donor disclosure laws in Rhode Island and Maine ...

It Takes Two - first-ever same-gender second-parent adoption is approved in Slovenia ...

In for a Pound - openly lesbian Australian Finance Minister Penny Wong, who has consistently supported her Labor Party's opposition to marriage equality, announces that her longtime partner is expecting a child, due in December ...

Shotgun Wedding , Please - the gay male couple featured in a controversial condom promotion in Queensland hopes civil marriage for Australian same-gender couples becomes a reality sometime soon as they become foster parents of a 9-year-old boy ...

Complete NewsWrap text and this week's podcast to be posted August 15th.

Jordan's Pink Carpet & Man For A Day

2011-08-09T10:37:00.000-07:00

Join Will & Grace's Leslie Jordan on his Trip Down the Pink Carpet with Rosie Wilby of Out in South London on Resonance-FM.

All hail drag king queen Diane Torr as she discusses her Man For A Day workshops with Dixie Treichel of Fresh Fruit on KFAI-FM/Minneapolis-St. Paul.

And in NewsWrap: vandals violate Ugandan activists' HQ; scandal scuttles gay candidate's Irish presidential bid; Australia won't let gays and lesbians marry, but counts same-gender couples wedded overseas; American Psychological Association resolves to support marriage equality; more news reported by Sarah Sweeney & Vash Boddie (produced by Steve Pride).

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NewsWrap for the week ending August 6, 2011

2011-08-09T06:59:00.000-07:00

SUMMARY

The Kampala Job - Burglars break into and vandalize the office of Freedom and Roam Uganda, one of that notoriously homophobic nation's leading LGBT advocacy organizations, stealing computers, other valuable equipment, and the group's membership lists ...

Past Makes the Future - openly gay Irish Senator David Norris is forced to end his campaign for the presidency, which polls had him winning, after a controversy involving his former partner from 25 years ago makes headlines ...

2 By 2 - in a national first, the next Australian census will count same-gender couples who've married overseas (although they can't marry in their home country) ...

Psych Eval - the American Psychological Association, the world's largest such organization, strongly resolves to support marriage equality ...

Reserving the Right - Washington state's Suquamish Tribal Council extends marriage rights to its lesbian and gay members (although they’ll only be recognized on the reservation) ...

Sick Call - U.S. Centers for Disease Control reports an alarming increase in HIV infections among young African-American men who have sex with men ...

Blissful Ignorance - anti-gay forces get the green light to circulate petitions for a proposed ballot measure to overturn California's new law requiring public schools to teach about the contributions of LGBT and physically-challenged people to state and national history ...

Dolly Is So ... - U.S. country music megastar Dolly Parton apologizes to a lesbian couple who were hassled entering her Tennessee theme park, Dollywood, because one of them wore a T-shirt proclaiming "Marriage is so gay" ...

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NY Knots, Queer UN History & GH Homo Hunt

2011-08-02T23:01:00.000-07:00

Bear witness to the dawn of New York's marriage equality with the jubilant wedding guests, including Salim Rizvi of Free Speech Radio News.

UN Human Rights High Commissioner Navi Pillay celebrates the commitment of Australian activist Nicholas Toonen, who first brought LGBT issues to the United Nations, and looks into the future.

Researcher Charlotte Walker-Said of the Human Rights Program at the University of Chicago discusses the circumstances that led to a a government official ordering an anti-LGBT crackdown in Ghana.

And in NewsWrap: ECOSOC likes ILGA again, Uganda revives "kill gays" bill, Turkish Cypriots bust two men under "unused" sodomy law, Italian Deputies in denial about discrimination, Jerusalem celebrates Pride peacefully, and more news reported by John Torres and Natalie Peoples (produced by Steve Pride).

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NewsWrap for the week ending July 30, 2011

2011-08-01T17:04:00.000-07:00

SUMMARY

Put An ECOSOC On It - It took 17 years, but the U.N. Economic & Social Council has restored the consultative status of ILGA, the International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Association ...

It's Ba-ack! - multiple reports warn of the resurrection and impending consideration in Uganda’s newly-seated parliament of the internationally infamous "kill the gays" bill ...

Dead Law Walking - the arrest of two men in Nicosia for "unnatural intercourse" renews calls by Northern Cyprus activists for repeal of the island nation’s British colonial era sodomy law ...

Bias Permission - the Italian parliament’s lower house defeats a bill to ban discrimination based on sexual orientation or gender identity ...

Coulda Been Worse - some four thousand celebrants enjoy the 10th annual Pride and Tolerance parade in Jerusalem absent (for the most part) the usual violent protests by religious fundamentalists ...

Green With Envy - a right-wing Christian preacher fails to deter thousands from marching with Pride in Belfast ...

Summer of Love, East - hundreds of gay & lesbian couples begin marrying in New York at the stroke of midnight on June 24th – the first day the law creating civil marriage equality in the Empire State takes effect ...

Does Cheese Stand Alone? - the California Supreme Court schedules oral arguments for September 6th to decide if sponsors of Proposition 8 have legal standing in the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals to challenge a lower court ruling, if the state refuses to do so, that the marriage equality-banning measure violates the U.S. Constitution ...

Keep Trying - Colombia’s Constitutional Court gives lawmakers two years to extend civil marriage rights to same-gender couples, but six previous bills in Congress to do that have failed ...

International Incident - Taiwan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs upsets a diplomatic official for refusing to extend to his gay partner the same diplomatic immunity given to heterosexual spouses ...

Hlín & Gná to the Rescue - lesbian couple Hege Dalen and Toril Hansen become nautical Norwegian heroes for braving the bullets of mass murderer Anders Breivik and ferrying in four separate trips as many as 40 of his bloodied and terrified young targets to safety in their small boat ...

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Don't Defend Marriage, Respect It

2011-07-28T01:40:00.000-07:00

Comprehensive coverage and analysis of the U.S. Senate Judiciary committee hearing on the Respect for Marriage Act, which would repeal the 1996 Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA).

And in NewsWrap: Don't Ask's final countdown begins, Ghanaian clerics call on government to hunt homosexuals, Jamaica's top cop denounces anti-gay accusations, Lithuania attacks biased advertising, India embarrassed by Health head's homophobia, and more news reported by Michael LeBeau and Ben Caron (produced by Steve Pride).

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NewsWrap for the week ending July 23, 2011

2011-07-25T15:31:00.000-07:00

SUMMARY

Forward March - The ability of the armed forces to deal with Don't Ask Don't Tell repeal is certified, beginning a countdown that will end – as will that discriminatory U.S. military policy –- on September 20th ...

Clean-up Operation - the LGBT Log Cabin Republicans press their lawsuit against DADT to confirm its unconstitutionality ...

Offensive Against the Defensive - the first legislative step is taken on the fabled "Gay Agenda's" next repeal target as the Senate Judiciary Committee hears testimony on a bill to overturn DOMA, the so-called Defense of Marriage Act ...

Hunting Season - on the heels of Muslim and Christian clerical condemnation of homosexuality, a Ghanaian government minister calls for the arrest of anyone suspected of engaging in private adult consensual gay sex ...

Queer Con Profile Canned - in a rare official disavowal of homophobia in what many consider the most anti-queer country in the Caribbean, Jamaica's top cop, Commissioner Owen Ellington, publicly chastises a subordinate for blaming young gay men for national lottery scams ...

No Promo Anti-Homo - Lithuania's parliament bans discrimination based on sexual orientation in advertising ...

Low HIV IQ - India's Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad takes heat for "backward and ignorant" comments about homosexuality and AIDS ...

Cash and Carry Over the Threshold - think tank forecasts big bucks from New York weddings ...

Always Something - Massachusetts couples remind Empire State newlyweds that their ability to marry doesn't end the fight for full equality ...

Evening the Score - Cambridge, Massachusetts becomes what's believed to be the first city in the U.S. to compensate its married lesbian and gay workers for the federal taxes they must pay for spousal health care benefits ...

Complete NewsWrap text and this week's podcast to be posted July 25th.

The Bachmann "Cure" & Torn Apart

2011-07-19T18:42:00.000-07:00

The hubby of White House hopeful Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) heads a homophobic "cure" clinic, a scandal revealed by undercover "patient" activist John Becker. Becker tells MSNBC's Ed Schultz about his experience at Bachmann & Associates, and Jon Stewart skewers Mrs. Bachmann's "chutzpah" on his Comedy Central Daily Show.

U.S. immigration policy borders on cruelty, as bi-national lesbian couple Judy Rickard and Karin Bogliolo can attest. Linda Birch chats with them about their sometimes harrowing experiences and Judy's new book Torn Apart: United by Love, Divided by Law.

And in NewsWrap: Chilé's Piñera honors his civil unions promise; marriage equality fails to destroy civilization in Argentina, Spain, and Canada; "New York state of mind" becomes contagious; "Don't Ask" drama becomes a "Can't Kick Out" conundrum; and more news reported by Jenn Mahoney and Sarah Sweeney (produced by Steve Pride).

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NewsWrap for the week ending July 16, 2011

2011-07-18T18:39:00.000-07:00

SUMMARY

Campaign Pledge - Chilé's President Sebastián Piñera floats a civil unions proposal ...

Hasn't Hurt - several Uruguayan celebrities televise marriage equality endorsements, while same-gender wedding stats are issued in Argentina, Spain and Canada ...

Sundays Will Never Be the Same - New York prepares for Sunday weddings in July ...

Bringing It All Back Home - gay South Australian MP says he'll challenge his country's refusal to recognize same-gender marriages legally conducted abroad after he marries his longtime partner in New York ...

Rising Tide - passage in the Empire State inspires new moves for marriage equality in Maine, Maryland and Colorado ...

Just Don't Already - legal battle in federal court over Don't Ask Don't Tell wears on as legislative repeal looms ...

Knowledge Base - California requires public schools and social studies textbooks to teach about LGBT people's contributions to the economic, political and social development of the state and the country ...

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Pomo Afro Homos' Fierce Love (Remix)

2011-07-13T14:50:00.000-07:00

A conversation with today's company members and excerpts from a revival of the "postmodern African American homosexuals'" classic 1991 performance piece (with our Ben Caron).

Plus: London's black, Guyana-born lesbian rapper Mz Fontaine has her own Untold Story (from her Spoken Thoughts CD).

And in NewsWrap: Obama administration takes DOMA-defying action; appeals court order halts Don't Ask Don't Tell'; Euro-Council issues equality roadmap; Pride parties from London, Lima, and Toronto to the U.S. Embassy in Islamabad; more news reported by Christopher Gaal and Robert LeBlanc.

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NewsWrap for the week ending July 9, 2011

2011-07-13T14:38:00.000-07:00

SUMMARY

DOMA-Defying Actions - U.S. Justice Department pro-actively joins the legal challenge to DOMA, arguing that the so-called Defense of Marriage Act is unconstitutional, and also announces that it will no longer oppose joint bankruptcy filings by legally united same-gender couples ...

Don't Dally, Don't Stall - 3-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals lifts its stay of a lower court ruling declaring Don't Ask Don't Tell to be unconstitutional and ordering an end to its enforcement, while House Republicans add new amendments to the 2012 defense authorization bill designed to obstruct im minent legislative repeal of the policy ...

Euro Inventory - Council of Europe issues its first social-legal report on anti-LGBT discrimination among its 47 member countries with recommendations for ensuring full equality ...

Liberation Contagion - Pride marches on in London, Lima, and Toronto, and is controversially celebrated at the U.S. Embassy in Islamabad ...

Attack of Affection - 74-year-old straight but not narrow Pride-watcher in North Carolina is charged with misdemeanor assault for planting a kiss on the cheek of a protesting preacher ...

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Dan Savage Gets Better

2011-07-07T15:35:00.000-07:00

The founder of the It Gets Better campaign to bring positive role models to bullied LGBT teens tells our Steve Pride how a husband-father-author-activist goes from "sexpert" to "spokes-gay."

And in NewsWrap: triumph and tragedy at Prides from New York to St. Petersburg, Brazilian judge rules for marriage equality, American Medical Association prescribes same-gender matrimony, activists unite to oppose Rhode Island civil unions, New Jersey couples sue for real rights, Chinese LGBTs vacate censoring website, and more news reported by Jon Beaupre and Chris Wilson.

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Marriage Equality in New York!

2011-07-01T19:28:00.000-07:00

The Empire State crosses the marriage equality threshold, while President Obama's ringing non-endorsement suggests a failure to evolve. The nail-biting legislative drama features Obama; state Senators Ruben Diaz, Tom Duane, and Mark Grisanti; and Governor Andrew Cuomo.

And in NewsWrap: partnerships are endorsed in Liechtenstein and Wisconsin; Tennesseans launch a lawsuit for the right to ban bias; police protect protested Pride parades in Sofia, Zagreb and Budapest; W.H.O. finds anti-gay sex laws unhealthy; Amnesty asks Turkey to axe homophobia, and more news reported by Rick Watts and Chris Wilson.

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Grossman Tribute & Bornstein's Outlaws

2011-06-23T05:04:00.000-07:00

The posthumously-released Something in the Moonlight celebrates the work of trailblazing gay troubadour Steven Grossman. JD Doyle previews the album and chats with a few of the pioneering singer-songwriter's admirers.

Gender Outlaw Kate Bornstein toasts the next "trans-genderation" in conversation with Chris Thomas from WBAI's Out-FM.

And in NewsWrap: United Nations Human Rights Council condemns anti-LGBT bias, gay Kenyans go online and face death threats, Hong Kong activists protest a "change" therapist, Australia's marriage equality-opposing P.M. to "engage" with same-gender couples, and more news reported by Christopher Gaal and Ben Caron.

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NewsWrap for the week ending June 18, 2011

2011-06-23T03:47:00.000-07:00

SUMMARY

World First - The Geneva-based United Nations Human Rights Council resolves for the first time to combat discrimination around the world against LGBT people ...

Ahead of the Pitchforks - Nairobi-based activists launch Kenya's first website to fight the isolation and abuse faced by sexual minorities in the country, and in the same week the nation's top Muslim clerics call on the government to impose the death penalty for homosexual acts ...

Not Well or Fair - activists protest the hiring by their government of a "reparative therapy" promoter to train Hong Kong's social welfare staff ...

Charge of the Split Brigade - some 10,000 opponents violently attack about 200 LGBT people and their allies attempting to march with Pride in the Croatian seaside city of Split ...

Poles Apart - 3,000 Polish Pride-sters shrug off a small counter-protest to parade without violence in Warsaw ...

As Discharges Continue - U.S. Senate Armed Services Committee passes a defense spending bill without the amendments attached by House Republicans designed to delay the repeal of Don't Ask Don't Tell, but with a provision to axe the military's century-old sodomy law ...

Don't PACS It In Yet - France's National Assembly rejects a Socialist Party marriage equality proposal ...

Defense of Money - California district bankruptcy court joins the growing chorus of federal benches to rule that key provisions of the Defense of Marriage Act, or DOMA, violate the U.S. Constitution ...

Grasping at Straws - Federal District Judge James Ware rejects the motion by Proposition 8 supporters to vacate the ruling by his now-retired predecessor Vaughn Walker declaring California's marriage equality-banning measure unconstitutional because Walker is gay and in a long-term relationship ...

Eating for Equality - Australian P.M. Julia Gillard, who opposes opening marriage to same-gender couples, will soon have to break bread with three of those couples after an LGBT advocacy group submits the highest bid for that dinner-date at a charity auction ...

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Beginners & Redirected GOP Dollars

2011-06-08T22:29:00.000-07:00

On-screen father and son Beginners share a late love story, which writer/director Mike Mills and actor Ewan McGregor explain to Steve Pride as he shares preview clips.

Major Republican donors known more for supporting conservative candidates are pouring big money into the New York marriage equality campaign, according to Bill Newman of the ACLU of Massachusetts in a Civil Liberties Minute.

Plus a Rainbow Minute celebrating gravelly-voiced writer-actor Harvey Fierstein (produced by Judd Proctor and Brian Burns, and read by Sonia of disappear fear).

And in NewsWrap: AIDS prevention ads are attacked by the Australian Christian Lobby, Nepal's head count of "third genders" may be a world first, "It Gets Batter" with pro baseball teams' anti-bullying plays, and more news reported by Tanya Kane-Parry and Michael LeBeau.

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NewsWrap for the week ending June 4, 2011

2011-06-08T15:22:00.000-07:00

SUMMARY

Pilate Spares Ad - An Aussie safe sex campaign is saved from homophobic Christian opposition ...

Undiplomatic Diplomat - South Africa's recently-appointed ambassador to Uganda Jon Qwelane is convicted of anti-gay hate speech ...

Do the Math - Nepal becomes what may be the world's first country to count sexual minorities in its census ...

Standing United - dozens of couples get licensed in Illinois on the first day the state's new civil unions law takes effect ...

Transforming Bias - Connecticut and Nevada governors each sign bills protecting transgender people from discrimination ...

"It Gets Batter" - 2010 U.S. baseball champion San Francisco Giants become the first professional sports franchise to contribute a supportive video to the "It Gets Better" LGBTQ teen suicide prevention campaign ...

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Candidly k.d. & Anderson Backstage

2011-05-31T19:05:00.000-07:00

Iconic crooner k.d. lang talks about her music, love, and life (from "Out in South London" with Rosie Wilby on Resonance-FM).

A behind-the-scenes chat with award-winning multi-genre playwright Jane Anderson (and our Ben Caron).

And in NewsWrap: Pride marchers meet mayhem in Moscow, LGBT parades aborted in Montenegro and Belarus, Aussie fundamentalists can't silence marriage equality calls, Church of Scotland lifts blanket ban on gay clergy, Pride accidentally on display in Afghanistan, and more news reported by Ben Caron and Chris Wilson.

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NewsWrap for the week ending May 28, 2011

2011-05-31T18:33:00.000-07:00

SUMMARY

Annual Riot - Dozens of arrests follow attempted attacks by right-wing homophobes against LGBT activists on May 28th at yet another banned Moscow Pride march ...

Crying for Freedom - tear-gassing of an LGBT rights concert in Montenegro's capital of Podgorica leads activists to cancel what would have been that nation's first Pride parade on May 31st ...

Without Leave - LGBT activists in Belarus defy a ban to march in Minsk ...

No Contest - small groups of disruptive fundamentalist Christians can't stop marriage equality marches in Brisbane, Queensland, and Adelaide, South Australia ...

One Foot Out - the Church of Scotland lifts its outright ban on "out" lesbian and gay pastors but orders a 2-year study to fully resolve that issue and whether or not pastors can bless same-gender unions ...

Holding Breath, Turning Blue - to no one's surprise, the GOP-controlled U.S. House of Representatives passes an annual defense spending bill with three amendments designed to at least impede the repeal of Don't Ask, Don't Tell ...

Prop. 8 Re-inactmet - the GOP-controlled Minnesota legislature approves a November 2012 ballot measure to constitutionally define marriage as exclusively heterosexual ...

Limiting Local Liberty - Tennessee's Republican governor signs a bill preventing local cities and counties from enacting anti-bias protections that exceed those specified in state law ...

Don't Gamble on Bias - Nevada's Republican governor signs a bill to ban workplace discrimination based on gender identity or expression ...

If the Logo Sticks ... - LGBT Pride is accidentally displayed in Kabul, Afghanistan -- until drivers discover what their proliferating rainbow bumper stickers represent ...

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Activist v. The Establishment & UNHCHR Navi Pillay

2011-05-24T14:30:00.000-07:00

Controversial Russian gay activist Nikolai Alekseev creates a "Gay Inc" stink in the conclusion of his four-part conversation with Steve Pride.

United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay condemns anti-LGBT violence and calls for all governments to treat their citizens with compassionate equality in a special message circulated to coincide with May 17th's International Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia.

And in NewsWrap: worldwide IDAHO demonstrations denounce homo- and trans-phobia, Roman Catholic bishops stop blaming gays for clerical child abuse, new survey "Gallups" toward U.S. marriage equality, string of self-outings mark sports figures' personal bests, and more news reported by Jenn Mahoney and Rick Watts.

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NewsWrap for the week ending May 21, 2011

2011-05-23T14:41:00.000-07:00

SUMMARY

With One Voice - seventh annual International Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia – best known by the acronym IDAHO – is observed in more than 70 countries around the world ...

Don't Blame Us - five-year study commissioned by the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops absolves gay priests of causing its clerical abuse scandal ...

The Balance Tips - new Gallup Poll reveals first-time majority support for marriage equality in the U.S. ...

Second Best - Rhode Island eschews marriage parity for lesbian and gay couples and heads in the direction of civil unions ...

Albeit a Weakfish - Delaware's governor signs his state's civil unions bill into law ...

State of Mind - Tennessee lawmakers who don't like Nashville's ordinance banning sexual orientation bias pass a bill to ban all cities and counties from enacting their own anti-bias ordinances, even those based on race, religion, or gender ...

News to Me - African-American CNN prime time weekend anchor Don Lemon decides to come out as gay in order to lead a more "Transparent" life ...

Self-Outing Scoreboard - several prominent figures in the U.S. athletic world also come out, including ESPN sports reporter Jared Max, pro bowling Rookie of the Year Scott Norton, former Villanova basketball player Will Sheridan, and president and CEO of the National Basketball Association's Phoenix Suns Rick Welts ...

Chuck Roasts 'Phobes - former NBA star and current basketball TV analyst Charles Barkley calls any current player who claims to have never had a gay teammate "a stone-freakin' idiot" ...

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Russian Rhubarb & "Bob The Book"

2011-05-17T14:39:00.000-07:00

Moscow's pre-eminent gay activist Nikolai Alekseev discusses the intercontinental controversy over allegations that he's anti-Semitic in the third of a compelling four-part conversation with Steve Pride.

Bob The Book leads a page-turning gay life, as literary commentator Janet Mason attests in her review of Don Pratt's new novel.

And in NewsWrap: Uganda's "Kill The Gays" bill dies in parliament, U.S. Presbyterians ordain clerical equality, House Republicans try to derail Don't Ask Don't Tell repeal, Europe's top court orders pensions equality, Taiwan right-wingers slander a new schools diversity curriculum, and more news reported by Rick Watts and Michael LeBeau.

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NewsWrap for the week ending May 14, 2011

2011-05-16T15:40:00.000-07:00

SUMMARY

Kill Bill Vol. 3 - Uganda's parliament adjourns without considering the infamous "Kill The Gays" bill, but its sponsor, David Bahati, vows to revive it in the next parliamentary session ...

Answered Prayer - after 33 years of debate and deliberation, the Presbyterian Church (USA) opens its clergy to partnered gays and lesbians ...

The Congressional Front - the Armed Services Committee of the GOP-controlled U.S. House of Representatives attaches three amendments to the annual Defense Authorization Bill in an effort to at least slow down repeal of Don't Ask Don't Tell, which one LGBT military advocate calls "a shameful and embarrassing waste of time" ...

The Judicial Front - the gay advocacy group Log Cabin Republicans asks a federal appeals court to lift its hold on a lower court order to abolish Don't Ask Don't Tell, and the Obama administration fights the ACLU's lawsuit challenging the Pentagon policy that gives gay men and lesbians honorably discharged under Don't Ask Don't Tell only half of the separation pay other honorably discharged veterans receive ...

Beneficial Decision - the European Court of Justice rules that gays and lesbians in legal civil unions or registered partnerships in E.U. member states are entitled to the same pension benefits as their heterosexually married colleagues ...

True Hate - LGBT advocates in Taiwan file a slander lawsuit against the Union for True Love, charging the right wing group with spreading inflammatory falsehoods about the Ministry of Education's proposal to include discussion of sexual orientation and family diversity in elementary and junior high school curricula

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Alekseev in EuroCourt & Rep. Simon's Gospel

2011-05-10T18:55:00.000-07:00

Rabble-rousing Russian activist-lawyer Nikolai Alekseev recounts his EuroCourt crusades, and how his kidnapping and detention became part of the extra-legal proceedings involved in the second of a four-part conversation with Steve Pride.

Minnesota State Representative Steve Simon brought a heavenly defense of marriage equality to the House Civil Law Committee debating a ban on recognizing same-gender couples.

And in NewsWrap: Brazil's top court finds civil unions a must, voters will have the final say on Liechtenstein's partnerships law, U.S. Attorney General takes on two DOMA-dependent immigration cases, South Africa launches a task force to combat "corrective rape," and more news reported by John Torres and Robert LeBlanc.

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NewsWrap for the week ending May 7, 2011

2011-05-10T01:45:00.000-07:00

SUMMARY

Blame It On the Bossa Nova - Brazil's Federal Supreme Court orders marriage-equivalent civil unions for same-gender couples ...

Alpine Showdown - Liechtenstein voters will determine the fate of the recently-enacted-by-Parliament registered partnership law after opponents successfully put the issue on the ballot ...

Silent Partners - Polish citizens who file to marry or contract a civil union abroad will no longer be required to include the name of the spouse after some registry offices refused to issue the mandatory form when the intended's name appeared to be of the same gender ...

Departure on Hold[er] - Venezuelan gay man who legally married his American partner last year is temporarily spared deportation after the U.S. Attorney General appears to suggest, in a similar case involving a legally-united bi-national couple, that the Defense of Marriage Act, which bans federal recognition of same-gender unions, should be disregarded ...

The Wrong Stuff - California's Attorney General tells the state high court that, absent action by elected officials, Proposition 8 backers should not be allowed to appeal a federal court ruling that the marriage equality-banning measure violates the U.S. Constitution ...

Can't Win For Losing - bill to allow initiative sponsors like those behind Prop 8 to appeal relevant federal court rulings dies in a California state Senate committee; ...

Carefully Taught - 13-year-old girl who is open about her lesbian orientation is the latest reported victim of so-called "corrective rape" in South Africa, while the government finally begins to address that escalating problem ...

Facing the Music - former soldier is arrested in Sydney for creating a Facebook page that threatened and harassed dozens of suspected gay members of the Australian Defence Force ...

There Ought To Be a Law - Australia's Human Rights Commission recommends the enactment of federal legislation to outlaw discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity ...

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Alekseev's Pride & Kameny's Persistence

2011-05-02T22:51:00.000-07:00

Russia's leading gay activist Nikolai Alekseev goes another round for Moscow Pride (in the first of an engaging multi-part conversation with Steve Pride).

Plus two Rainbow Minutes tell the story of venerable U.S. activist Frank Kameny (produced by Judd Proctor and Brian Burns and read by Tom Miller and Chris Delbom).

And in NewsWrap: Uganda removes death penalty from harsh anti-gay bill, South African lesbian activist slaughtered in "corrective rape" attack, gay writer wins Japanese municipal election, Congress' DOMA defender quits pro-LGBT law firm, and more news reported by Pam Marshall and Jenn Mahoney.

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NewsWrap for the week ending April 30, 2011

2011-05-02T15:27:00.000-07:00

SUMMARY

Life, Not Death - The death penalty may have been dropped from the proposed Anti-Homosexuality Bill in Uganda, but the draconian measure still punishes same-gender sex with life in prison and may still be voted on in parliament before its session ends on May 12th ...

The Cure That Kills - lesbian activist Noxolo Nogwaza is sexually assaulted and brutally murdered in another case of so-called "corrective rape" in South Africa ...

Where Is My Assemblymember? - author Taiga Ishikawa becomes Japan's first openly gay male elected official by winning a seat on the Tokyo area Toshima Ward Assembly ...

Changing Partners - King and Spalding, the law firm hired by the U.S. House of Representatives to defend the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), bows out, but its senior partner Paul Clement, who was its lead attorney and wants to continue that defense, resigns and brings the case to another law firm, Bancroft PLLC ...

Conflict of Love - supporters of Proposition 8 file a motion to have U.S. District Court Judge Vaughn Walker's ruling overturning the marriage equality-banning California measure thrown out after he comes out as a partnered gay man soon after retiring ...

Discouragement in the Hope State - lesbigay activists who believed there was a good chance for passage of a marriage equality bill in Rhode Island will apparently have to settle for civil unions as a consolation prize ...

In the Best Interest - the last Roman Catholic Church adoption agency to fight having to comply with British laws requiring them to accept same-gender couples as prospective parents on an equal basis with heterosexual couples loses an important round in its exemption efforts ...

Wedding Gift Request - the U.K. Equal Love Campaign asks newlywed royals William and Kate to support same-gender marriage ...

Complete NewsWrap text and this week's podcast to be posted May 2nd.

"Corrective Rape" Escalates & The Side Door

2011-04-27T13:22:00.000-07:00

The targeting of lesbians in South Africa for sexual violence -- which it's believed will make them heterosexual -- is becoming worse (even worse than it was at the time Radio Netherlands' Eric Beauchemin did this 2009 interview with a "corrective rape" survivor), as brave activists confront their government and their neighbors.

An ironic Rainbow Minute celebrates South Africa's first same-gender wedding ... proving that marriage equality doesn't mean equal rights.

Janet Mason reviews Jan Donely's young adult novel that takes the mystery out of surviving bullying.

And in NewsWrap: Hungary harbors homophobia in questionable constitution, India's top court defers challenges to sex law reform, Malaysian "butch camp" draws jeers, queer-positive environments prevent teen suicide, and more news reported by Rick Watts and Michael LeBeau.

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NewsWrap for the week ending April 23, 2011

2011-04-27T13:12:00.000-07:00

SUMMARY

Con Game - Hungary's new constitution bans marriage equality and omits sexual orientation and gender identity anti-bias protections ...

Justices Have a Headache - Supreme Court of India defers until an unspecified date hearing petitions challenging the Delhi High Court's ruling decriminalizing same-gender sex ...

Boys Won't Be Boys - 66 teenage boys in Malaysia identified by their teachers as effeminate are sent to a "butch it up" camp ...

Home Security - new report in the U.S. confirms that lesbigay kids who live in queer-accepting areas are less likely to attempt suicide than those who live in more conservative less-affirming locales ...

15 Candles - Dharun Ravi, whose secret webcasting of his Rutgers University roommate Tyler Clementi having sex with another man led to Clementi committing suicide, is indicted on 15 criminal counts including commission of a hate crime, invasion of privacy and witness tampering ...

Familia Interuptus - Virginia's Board of Social Services votes against opening adoptions in the state to same-gender couples ...

Truth Marching On - new CNN/Opinion Research poll shows a continued trend toward majority acceptance in the U.S. of civil marriage equality ...

Your Tax Dollars At Work - Republican-controlled U.S. House of Representatives authorizes spending up to $500,000 on a high-profile attorney to defend DOMA, the Defense of Marriage Act, in federal court ...

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Gay in Malaysia & "108 Queer Questions"

2011-04-21T15:46:00.000-07:00

In majority Muslim Malaysia, the conservative government is bent on maintaining what they call a "sacred and pure" society, and the closet holds a lot of power. But as Kuala Lumpur internet video journalist Zan Azlee found, the longing for liberation is becoming almost as powerful.

Abby Dees is a civil rights attorney and editor for St. Lynn’s Press who has been closely involved with the Los Angeles chapters of the Human Rights Campaign and the Trevor Project (gay teen suicide prevention), the National Center for Lesbian Rights and other activist work for 25 years. She is also the author of Queer Questions Straight Talk: 108 Frank, Provocative Questions It's Ok to Ask Your Lesbian, Gay or Bi Loved One. This Way Out’s Steve Pride had a few more questions for her to answer.

And in NewsWrap: Delaware governor expected to ring civil unions bells, GOP AWOL for pro-DOMA hearing, bi-national couples bill back in US Congress, partnerships dawn for couples in Liechtenstein and Ireland, and more news reported by Christopher Gaal and John Torres.

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NewsWrap for the week ending April 16, 2011

2011-04-21T14:52:00.000-07:00

SUMMARY

Bells Will Ring - Delaware is on the verge of becoming the eighth U.S. state to offer civil unions or domestic partnerships to same-gender couples ...

Wheels Will Spin - subcommittee of the Republican-led House of Representatives holds a hearing to "defend marriage" ...

Love Will Prevail - a bill to allow U.S. lesbians and gay men to sponsor their foreign partners for legal residency is introduced in both houses of Congress ...

Paperwork Will Abound - Liechtenstein's Parliament passes a registered partnership law that will take effect in September, while gay and lesbian couples begin registering their civil partnerships in Ireland ...

Trends Will Track - a marriage equality bill is introduced in Uruguay's Parliament ...

Blood Will Tell - British officials will reportedly lift the outright ban on gay men donating blood, but will require donors to have been celibate for at least 10 years ...

Fear Itself - Indian government minister worries that all of his country's men will someday "become gays" and a prominent Italian professor claims that gays caused the downfall of the Roman Empire ...

The Hateful Network - the Australian Defence Force is under fire for not disciplining some of its members for creating an anti-gay Facebook page and uploading a homophobic YouTube video ...

Offensive Foul Language - Los Angeles Lakers basketball superstar Kobe Bryant apologizes for his easy-to-lip-read homophobic slur during a nationally-televised game ...

They Opined With Their Socks On - right-wing commentators get their shorts in a bunch over a young boy's neon pink-painted toenails ...

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Miss Vicki Marlane & "Don't Ask" Implementation Easy

2011-04-14T16:37:00.000-07:00

At 78, drag performer Miss Vicki Marlane is still going strong in San Francisco. Steve Pride finds out about her remarkable life.

The U.S. House Armed Services Committee checks in with the brass of the four branches of the military to see how implementation of the Don't Ask, Don't Tell repeal is going - and the Republicans aren't too happy that it's going so well.

Plus: Kate Clinton has a few words about Social Not-working.

And in NewsWrap: Council of Europe inclusive about violence against women; Shanghai bar raid nabs 60; ENDA at the plate again; Arkansas Supreme Court strikes adoption ban, and more news reported by Chris Wilson and Tanya Kane-Parry.

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NewsWrap for the week ending April 9, 2011

2011-04-14T15:38:00.000-07:00

SUMMARY

Common Enemies - Council of Europe approved a document calling on member states to combat violence against women, with inclusive language covering sexual orientation and gender identity ...

Safety Net - European Parliament voted to adopt a series of measures to better protect LGBT asylum seekers ...

Shanghai 60 - more than 60 patrons and employees of a newly-opened gay bar in Shanghai were rounded up and held for more than 12 hours following a police raid ...

Copy That - Republican-lead U.S. House Armed Services Committee followed up on last week’s subcommittee hearings on the implementation of Don’t Ask Don’t Tell repeal with hearings of its own ...

Broken Record - Human Rights Campaign calls a scheduled April 15th House hearing on the defense of DOMA the GOP's third anti-LGBT hearing in as many weeks ...

Working It Out - gay Democratic Congressman Barney Frank of Massachusetts announced that he had formally introduced ENDA – the Employment Non-Discrimination Act – in the U.S. House of Representatives, with 111 co-sponsors, including three Republicans ...

Arkansas Family Values - Arkansas Supreme Court ruled that a ballot initiative barring unmarried couples from fostering or adopting children was unconstitutional ...

Liberty & Interdependence - Delaware Senate passed a bill on to create civil unions for same-gender couples ...

To Be, Or Not To Be - Equality California, that state’s leading LGBT advocacy group, has launched a campaign to gauge community support for placing a measure to repeal Proposition 8 on the 2012 ballot ...

Bench Player - Judge Vaughn Walker, whose ruling last year that Proposition 8 violated the U.S. Constitution is currently being appealed, has acknowledged that he is, indeed, a gay man ...

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Millennial Speak & Sarah Waters

2011-04-05T17:18:00.000-07:00

Four young Los Angeles "millennials" talk with Ben Caron about their role models, their politics, and their visions of the future.

Rosie Wilby asks how novelist Sarah Waters (Tipping the Velvet, Affinity, The Little Stranger) creates lesbian history.

Plus ... a Rainbow Minute remembers the 18th Century Ladies of Llangollen.

And in NewsWrap: House Republicans beat dead "Don't Ask" horse, South Korea retains military ban, U.S. Immigration backtracks on bi-nationals, and more news reported by John Torres and Ben Caron.

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NewsWrap for the week ending April 2, 2011

2011-04-05T16:59:00.000-07:00

SUMMARY

All Systems Go - Pentagon officials disappoint right-wing GOP Congressmen by testifying at a House Armed Services subcommittee that training for the repeal of Don't Ask Don't Tell is going "extremely well," is costing less than expected, and that open gays and lesbians could be serving in the U.S. military by the end of August ...

Pork Chop Hill Revisited - South Korea's Constitutional Court upholds a law punishing anyone in the country's military with up to a year behind bars for engaging in homosexual conduct ...

Un-acquired Information Deficiency Syndrome - major new study in the U.S. reveals that little data exists about specific health issues unique to LGBT people, and that more research needs to be done ...

Early Admissions - U.K.'s Equality and Human Rights Commission wants to survey children as young as age 11 about their sexual orientation and gender identity ...

Bordering on Dispair - hopes of bi-national couples in the U.S. for more equitable treatment are encouraged and then dashed by federal government officials in the course of three days ...

Looking in the "I's" - Indiana takes a step toward putting a ban on same-gender marriages and civil partnerships in the state constitution, but a constitutional marriage ban bill is apparently dead in Illinois ...

Plus and Minus - civil unions bill advances in Delaware, but is killed in Colorado ...

Come As You Are - Washington is poised to recognize the marriages and domestic partnerships of same-gender couples legally contracted elsewhere ...

Sorry, Chicken Little - "the sky does not fall in" as a law takes effect in the Australian state of Tasmania to recognize the marriages and civil unions of lesbian and gay couples contracted in other jurisdictions ...

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Marriage Equality's Tin Anniversary

2011-03-31T07:18:00.001-07:00

Now playing ... week of Mar. 28, 2011

Flashback to the April 1, 2001 first-ever legal same-gender wedding in the world, when Amsterdam Mayor Job Cohen married four couples at the stroke of midnight to celebrate the Netherlands' new marriage equality.

Plus ... some parting words from an invaluable ally.

And in NewsWrap: UN council declares support for LGBT rights, Obama and Rouseff ask the OAS to set up a special office to protect LGBT people, Uganda's "kill the gays" bill has a twin brother, Canada plans to aid refugees from homophobia, and more news reported by Rick Watts and Sheri Lunn.

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NewsWrap for the week ending Mar. 26, 2011

2011-03-31T02:13:00.000-07:00

SUMMARY

Double Dare - United Nations Human Rights Council declares support for LGBT rights and calls for member states to remove criminal statutes based on sexual orientation and gender identity ...

Inter-American Way - U.S. President Barack Obama and Brazilian President Dilma Rouseff call for the establishment of a "Special Rapporteur" at the Organization of American States to promote and protect the rights of LGBT people ...

Bait & Switch - President Yoweri Museveni would like Uganda's Anti-Homosexuality Bill to fade away, but its provisions may reappear under the Sexual Offences Bill ...

New Haven - Canada's Citizenship, Immigration and Multiculturalism Department has a plan to aid LGBT refugees fleeing persecution ...

No Exit - for the first time since the Obama Administration announced that it would no longer defend the Defense of Marriage Act in court, a binational same-gender couple wins a suspension of deportation proceedings ...

Life in the Slow Lane - Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals denies a motion to lift the ban on marriage equality while litigation over Proposition 8 continues ...

Marching Orders - as the demise of Don't Ask, Don't Tell continues, Servicemembers United tallies the casualties, chaplains get trained, and activists meet with Pentagon officials to discuss the implementation of repeal ...

"Cure" App Cured - torrent of outrage lets Apple know that there really isn't an app for that.

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Armistead Maupin's "Maryann in Autumn"

2011-03-10T02:35:00.000-08:00

Now playing ... week of Mar. 7, 2011

Tales of the City author Armistead Maupin talks about life, love, politics, and the latest chapter in the lives of the people of Barbary Lane. (Produced by Steve Pride.)

And in NewsWrap: Australian Labor conservatives balk at a Green proposal that might make marriage equality easier, U.S. House Republicans rally to rescue the Defense of Marriage Act, Israel gets its first gay judge; TV station wreaks "outing" havoc in India, and more news reported by John Torres and Rick Watts.

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NewsWrap for the week ending Mar. 5, 2011

2011-03-10T00:04:00.000-08:00

SUMMARY

Revolting Development - Australian Labor conservatives balk at a Green proposal that might make marriage equality easier in the territories ...

No Place Like DOMA - U.S. House Republicans rally to rescue the Defense of Marriage Act...

Waiting List - California Attorney General Kamala Harris joins the push to get the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals to lift the ban on same-gender marriages pending Prop. 8 litigation ...

Justice Relayed - Israel gets its first gay judge ...

Finger Pointing - TV station wreaks "outing" havoc in India ...

Freedom of Hate - the U.S. Supreme Court upholds the right of the Westboro Baptist Church to carry on its homophobic pickets of veterans' funerals ...

Host with the Most - gay Jeremy Bernard is the first man to be right for the job of White House Social Secretary.

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Survivors' Tales & "Hide/Seek"

2011-02-24T00:00:00.000-08:00

Now playing ... week of Feb. 21, 2011

Two young gay Los Angeles men tell Sheri Lunn how they each survived sometimes-violent homophobic harassment and bullying. Jordan Rada and Frank Figueroa hope their experiences can help "make it better" for teens.

The Smithsonian Book "Hide/Seek: Difference and Desire in American Portraiture" accompanies the first LGBT exhibition by a major U.S. museum. Janet Mason peeks between the covers of a picture book worth a million words.

And in NewsWrap: delay in Prop 8 lawsuit aggravates activists, same-gender couples' rights rise and fall in five U.S. states, U.K. couples seek equality in EuroCourt, trans protections added to Canadian Human Rights Act, Budapest and Moscow Prides challenged, and more news reported by Rick Watts and Michael LeBeau.

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NewsWrap for the week ending Feb. 19, 2011

2011-02-22T20:17:00.000-08:00

SUMMARY

Waiting at the Altar - The federal Prop 8 case is delayed by at least several months as California's Supreme Court agrees to answer the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals' question as to whether or not the measure's sponsors, ProtectMarriage, have legal standing to appeal last year's federal District Court ruling declaring the marriage equality-banning measure a violation of the U.S. Constitution ...

Show of Hands - vote-counters in Maryland predict imminent passage of a marriage equality bill in the state Senate, passage in the House, and the governor's signature, while a marriage equality bill is introduced in the Washington state legislature ...

Full Faith Falls Short - Indiana's House of Representatives approves a state constitutional amendment to define marriage as exclusively heterosexual, and Wyoming's Senate advances a bill to ban state recognition of same-gender marriages or civil unions legally contracted elsewhere ...

Aloha! - civil unions bill heads to the governor's desk in Hawai'i for his expected signature, and Sabrina McKenna is confirmed as the state's first openly lesbian or gay Supreme Court justice ...

Turnabout Should Be Fair Play - four same-gender couples denied marriage licenses and four heterosexual couples denied civil partnerships in the U.K. file a dual discrimination complaint with the European Court of Human Rights ...

Gender Victories - Canada's House of Commons passes a bill to add gender identity and expression anti-bias protections to the Canadian Human Rights Act, while Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick issues an Executive Order banning workplace bias against transgender state employees ...

Work Outs - Virginia House of Delegates subcommittee rejects a bill to protect state LGBT employees from workplace bias, but the University of Alaska Board of Regents adds sexual orientation to existing anti-discrimination policies ...

Fun in the Sun - Auckland celebrates "New Zealand's biggest celebration of diverse sexualities and gender" at the annual Big Gay Out ...

Intractable - Budapest police withdraw permits for this year's Pride march citing concerns over traffic disruption, while Moscow's new Mayor, Sergei Sobyanin, says he doubts that there'll be a Pride march this year in his city ...

One Party That Never Gets Old - rainbow banners fly high over Sydney's Town Hall to launch the Australian city's world-famous Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras ...

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"Injustice at Every Turn"

2011-02-14T19:21:00.000-08:00

Now playing ... week of Feb. 14, 2011

Trans-people brave "Injustice at Every Turn" according to a landmark report introduced at the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force's Creating Change Conference by National Center for Transgender Equality Executive Director Mara Keisling, Savannah transwoman Ja'briel Walthour, and Minneapolis transman Marcus Waterbury. Dixie Treichel chatted with the three presenters at KFAI.

Modern Family couple Jesse Tyler Ferguson and Eric Stonestreet give the Writers Guild of America tips on how to Write It Gay.

Equality advocate Lady Gaga breaks records with Born This Way.

And in NewsWrap: 200 busted in Bahrain at alleged "gay wedding," unreported homophobic harassment habitual in Scotland, India's top court sets sodomy review, and more news reported by Robert LeBlanc and John Torres.

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NewsWrap for the week ending Feb. 12, 2011

2011-02-14T19:08:00.000-08:00

SUMMARY

Party Downed - As many as 200 men are arrested for "conduct against public morals" at a raid of a private alleged "gay wedding" party in Bahrain ...

Harassment in the Highlands - homophobic hate crimes soar in Scotland and seem to have also increased in London ...

Sex Law Dal - India's Supreme Court schedules a final hearing for April 19th for all nineteen submissions in a challenge to the Delhi High Court's ruling overturning the British colonial era law criminalizing private adult consensual adult same-gender sex ...

Honolulu Civil-moons Soon - Hawai'i House of Representatives passes a civil unions bill that now appears headed for the governor's promised signature ...

Survivor Embraced - Israel's Interior Ministry reverses a deportation order for the German partner of a gay man killed during the Tel Aviv LGBT Center shooting rampage ...

Bed-and-Bias Case Continues - British fundamentalist Christian bed-and-breakfast owners who lost an anti-bias case for refusing to allow a gay couple to share a bed say they're appealing the ruling ...

Diversity Drills - Pentagon releases more details about the implementation of the repeal of Don't Ask Don't Tell, training for which may not be completed until September, while Tim Pawlenty, a probable candidate for the Republican 2012 presidential nomination, wants to have funding for that training rescinded ...

Children's Hour Flip-side - seven-year-old Los Angeles boy protests unequal treatment of gay people with charitable donations to two LGBT advocacy groups ...

Monkeys Shine - pair of love-struck male British spider monkeys named for a music superstar and his beau get a special Valentine's Day treat ...

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Zach Wahls Loves His Mothers & Kato Murder US Ties

2011-02-08T13:44:00.000-08:00

Now playing ... week of Feb. 7, 2011

University student Zach Wahls celebrates his lesbian mothers' family values as he speaks against an amendment to overturn marriage equality in the Iowa state House.

Rachel Maddow's expanded MSNBC coverage of the murder of Ugandan gay activist David Kato adds both damning and inspiring details to the story.

Plus a Rainbow Minute honoring a lesbian couple who pioneered children's healthcare in the U.S.

And in NewsWrap: angry Egyptian gays join anti-government protests, U.S. equality activists protest a Family Breakfast, Russia appeals the EuroCourt's Pride-positive ruling, and more news reported by Sheri Lunn and Chris Wilson.

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NewsWrap for the week ending Feb. 5, 2011

2011-02-07T22:34:00.000-08:00

SUMMARY

Our Liberation Too - LGBT Egyptians, who've been specifically targeted by government oppression, join the massive anti-Mubarak protests in Cairo and other cities ...

Questionable Motives - Ugandan police claim that the suspect in the murder of David Kato bludgeoned him to death with a hammer after the high profile gay activist refused to pay him for sex, and had nothing to do with Kato's activism – an assertion sharply questioned by International Gay & Lesbian Human Rights Commission Executive Director Cary Alan Johnson (from an interview on "GritTV with Laura Flanders") ...

Eating With the Enemy - LGBT activists demonstrate against the secretive right-wing Christian group The Family, longtime sponsors of the annual National Prayer Breakfast in Washington, D.C., because of their ties to the promotion of homophobia in Uganda (with brief comments to Joe Sudbay of "gayamericablog.com" by protest organizer Michael Dixon of GetEQUAL) ...

But Why Can't We Hate? - Russia appeals the October 2010 European Court of Human Rights ruling that declared the bans on LGBT Pride events in Moscow illegal ...

DNR DADT - U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals denies the Obama administration's motion to suspend the Log Cabin Republicans lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of Don't Ask Don't Tell ...

Wings of Change - new Thai airline makes a bit of history by hiring three "katoey" flight attendants ...

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Kato Killing & State of the Union

2011-02-01T22:12:00.000-08:00

Now playing ... week of Jan. 31, 2011

He just won a lawsuit against the tabloid newspaper that included him in a supposed list of "Uganda's 100 top homosexuals" with the banner headline, "Hang Them!" Was David Kato's murder the result of a robbery or a hate crime?

In last year's address to the Joint Session of the U.S. Congress he promised repeal of the military's "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy. This year President Obama took a bow for sealing the deal.

Plus: singer/songerwriter Nhojj performs "The Gay Warrior Song."

And in NewsWrap: Ugandan lesbian temporarily escapes deportation from Britain at the eleventh hour, Cameroonian activists fight growing threats, France's Constitutional Court fails to find marriage equality, several U.S. states address couples rights, and more news reported by Tanya Kane-Parry and Christopher Gaal.

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NewsWrap for the week ending Jan. 29, 2011

2011-01-31T22:36:00.000-08:00

SUMMARY

Murder Most Foul - Leading Uganda gay activist David Kato is brutally murdered in his home in what police call a robbery but what LGBT rights advocates worry may have been a homophobic hate-motivated killing ...

Escape from Kampala - expatriate Uganda lesbian Brenda Namiggade wins an 11th hour court-ordered reprieve from being deported from the U.K. ...

Alice Does Live Here - official government condemnation and physical harassment increase against leading Cameroon activist Alice Nkom and her Association for the Defense of Homosexuality after the E.U. awards the group a grant for "support and training for sexual minorities" ...

The French Disconnection - France's Constitutional Court rules against a lesbian couple seeking marriage rights ...

Back to the Past - effort to repeal Iowa's marriage equality law stalls in the state Senate, but Wyoming lawmakers vote to deny state recognition to same-gender marriages or civil unions legally contracted elsewhere ...

As Good As Married - Illinois Governor Pat Quinn is expected sign a civil unions bill in the coming week, while a new civil unions bill in Hawai'i, unlike previous efforts, has the support of the governor ...

The Bigger Sky - six Montana same-gender couples sue for rights equal to marriage ...

The Education of Faeries - Italy's first accredited university gay studies course counters ignorance ...

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"Every Day" & A "Glee"-ful Thank You

2011-01-24T21:16:00.000-08:00

Now playing ... week of Jan. 24, 2011

His new movie's "father of the gay" reflects writer/director Richard Levine's real life. Steve Pride's interviews with Levine and co-star Helen Hunt are punctuated by preview clips featuring "dad" Liev Schreiber and "son" Ezra Miller.

Chris Colfer's Golden Globe acceptance speech -- with it's special message for bullies -- highlights a big night for LGBT-themed and -inclusive screen favorites.

Plus a Rainbow Minute celebrating England's revered actor and gay activist Sir Ian McKellen, produced by Judd Proctor and Brian Burns, and read by Robin Austin.

And in NewsWrap: U.S. Supreme Court refuses to hear D.C. marriage equality foes, Saskatchewan court cans marriage commissioner bias, anti-queer violence rampant in Honduras and Brazil, hate-peddler protests America's first LGBT history museum, and more news reported by John Torres and Robert LeBlanc.

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NewsWrap for the week ending Jan. 22, 2011

2011-01-24T17:14:00.000-08:00

SUMMARY

Stop! in the Name of Love - Supremes refuse to hear a challenge to the marriage equality law in Washington, D.C. ...

Equality Under the Law Ring a Bell? - U.S. federal judge questions the constitutionality of the so-called "Defense of Marriage Act", or DOMA ...

Like It Or Lump It - Saskatchewan's Court of Appeals rules that the Canadian province's marriage commissioners must comply with the nationwide marriage equality law and cannot refuse to marry same-gender couples for religious reasons ...

No Room? Sue the Inn! - fundamentalist Christian owners of a British bed and breakfast are fined for refusing to allow a civilly-partnered gay couple to share a double room ...

Mounting Death Toll - human rights groups sound the alarm over escalating hate murders of LGBT people in Honduras and Brazil ...

Want Fries With Your Discrimination? - global fast-food giant McDonald's comes under fire for blocking access to LGBT websites on the new free Wi-Fi at its New Zealand restaurants ...

Midsumma Downunda - record crowd estimated at more than 100,000 celebrants launch the three-week Midsumma Queer Arts and Culture Festival in the Australian city of Melbourne, Victoria ...

A Convenient, Comfy Truth - America's first LGBT History Museum, newly-opened in San Francisco's famed Castro district, is attacked by a well-known right wing homophobe as nothing more than a "propaganda porch" ...

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Kate Clinton & Successful Failure

2011-01-19T13:42:00.000-08:00

Now playing ... week of Jan. 17, 2011

The beloved "fumerist" just gets funnier, as Steve Pride finds out when he catches up with Kate at the Out and Equal conference.

Gender and sexuality educator-writer Judith "Jack" Halberstam explains her redefinition of "failure" to Dixie Treichel.

And in NewsWrap: Ireland recognizes same-gender unions from abroad, national health-care opens to spouses of Mexico City same-gender marrieds, U.S. Justice Department defends "DOMA," professional homophobes fund-raise to fight marriage equality bills in Rhode Island and Maryland, four LGBT U.K. activists receive Queen's Honours, gay Tucsonan hero honored, and more news reported by Rick Watts and Michael LeBeau.

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NewsWrap for the week ending Jan. 15, 2011

2011-01-18T03:16:00.000-08:00

SUMMARY

Irish Imports - Ireland recognizes same-gender marriages and civil partnerships legally performed in other countries ...

Coverage Con Carne - Mexico's Institute of Social Security allows gays and lesbians legally married in Mexico City to insure their spouses in the national health-care system ...

Defending DOMA - U.S. Justice Department files its first appeal of two federal court rulings declaring a key provision of the so-called Defense of Marriage Act unconstitutional ...

More Hard Slogging - Log Cabin Republicans continues to pursue its lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of Don't Ask Don't Tell despite Congressional action in late December to authorize repeal, while a conservative Republican Congressman introduces a bill that could effectively block or at least stall the repeal process ...

Second Thoughts - U.S. State Department backtracks on new guidelines to replace "mother" and "father" with "parent" on children's passports and in consular reports of births abroad to American expatriates ...

Marriage Marches On - leader of New Hampshire's now Republican controlled House tells reporters that there won't be an effort to repeal the state's two-year-old marriage equality law this year, while marriage equality bills are progressing in Rhode Island and Maryland, and Maryland's governor says he supports the bill in his state ...

Honourable Mentions - four LGBT activists are named Members of the Order of the British Empire in Queen Elizabeth II's New Year Honours ...

Heroic Homosexual - one of the life-saving heroes of the Tucson, Arizona mass shootings, Daniel Hernandez, who spoke at the memorial service for the victims and was honored by President Barack Obama there, is a proudly "out" young gay man

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"Don't Ask" Done & Prop 8 Pause

2011-01-10T20:30:00.000-08:00

Now playing ... week of Jan. 10, 2011

A historic presidential signature, a returned ring, and shared military showers play taps for Don't Ask Don't Tell: President Obama's December 22nd signing ceremony authorized repeal of the odious military policy; Aaron Tax of the Servicemembers Legal Defense Network talks about the way forward; MSNBC news commentator Rachel Maddow heralded repeal with two noteworthy footnotes -- U.S. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid returns the West Point ring given to him by activist Lt. Dan Choi, and Congressman Barney Frank responds to a question about the "horrors" of post-repeal shower-sharing. (Dan Wood of Free Speech Radio News contributed.)

A Prop 8 question in the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals creates complications: Shannon Minter of the National Center for Lesbian Rights and Equality California's Geoff Kors discuss the legal standing of the measure's sponsors to litigate the case. (Aileen Alfandary of Pacifica Evening News contributed.)

Plus a Rainbow Minute recalling the crossed paths of U.S. President Gerald Ford and reluctant gay hero Bill Sipple. (Produced by Judd Proctor and Brian Burns, and read by John DeBoer.)

And in NewsWrap: Ugandan activists win against "outing" tabloid, U.N. restores sexual orientation to resolution against extrajudicial killings, Alberta's amended psych list better late than never, and more news reported by Chris Wilson and Ben Caron.

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NewsWrap for the week ending Jan. 8, 2011

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SUMMARY

No Moss - Uganda's highest court slaps "Top 100 Homos/Hang Them!" tabloid Rolling Stone with monetary damages and henceforth bans all media from publishing lists of gays and lesbians ...

Porn Free - Harare court acquits Gays & Lesbians of Zimbabwe administrator Ellen Chademana on pornography charges ...

Who Knows - Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals temporarily refers the Prop 8 case to the California Supreme Court for a ruling on whether or not Prop 8 sponsors can legally defend it ...

Non-Executable File - United Nations General Assembly restores gays and lesbians to a resolution against extrajudicial killings of specified targeted minorities ...

Travel Mercies - U.S. State Department issues revised passport forms and other guidelines replacing "mother" and "father" with "parent" to make it easier for American gay and lesbian parents to legally protect their children ...

Stop Farkus - New Jersey Governor Chris Cristie signs what's being called the toughest anti-bullying legislation in the country ...

GOPut Asunder - repeal of New Hampshire's marriage equality law is a real possibility in the now conservative Republican-dominated state legislature ...

BYO Marriage - New Mexico's Attorney General opines that same-gender couples legally wed elsewhere should be recognized in his state ...

Better Late - Canadian province of Alberta no longer lists gays and lesbians as "disordered deviates"

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Pride On Screen 2010

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Now playing ... week of Jan. 3, 2010

This Way Out's award-winning entertainment reporter Steve Pride recalls some of the queer moving images that moved him most during the past twelve months.

Steve's list of small screen favorites includes: "Modern Family," "Glee," "The ("A" is for "awful") A-List," plus "RuPaul's Drag Race," "The Fabulous Beekman Boys," and "House Hunters."

The Pride on Screen Top 10 Movies Of The Year are "Fit," "8: The Mormon Proposition," "I Love You Phillip Morris," "Children Of God," "I Killed My Mother," "The Secret Diaries Of Miss Anne Lister," "Howl," "A Marine Story," "Undertow (Contracorriente)," and "The Kids Are Alright."

Plus a Rainbow Minute profile of gay celluliod activist/historian Vito Russo (produced by Judd Proctor and Brian Burns, read by John Porter).

(NewsWrap returns next week.)

Audiofile To Go!

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For 14 years, nobody has covered the LGBT music scene like JD Doyle, Chris Wilson, Pam Marshall, and Christopher David Trentham. You'll want to have your own CD copy of their "last waltz," the Audiofile 2010 Year in Review! It's yours for a $25 donation to This Way Out. Get the details at thiswayout.org.

Why not make it two? Donate $50 and ask for the Audiofile 2009 Year in Review (featuring Kate Reid, Levi Kreis, Jay Brannan, Julie Clark, Matt Alber, Pansy Division, Coyote Grace, and Bettina Schelker) as well!

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Sonia & disappear fear - Blood, Bones and Baltimore
Ryan States - Strange Town
Roger Mapes - House of Joy (Special Edition)
Kevin Wong - Pink in the Grey
Sean Wiggins - Naked Thursdays
Avi Wisnia - Something New
Kristie Stremel - Color of Stars
Mike Rickard - Sweat

Audiofile 2010 Year in Review

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Now playing ... week of Dec. 27, 2010

Our tune-filled holiday season tradition features bluesy/jazzy/country/pop/rock from the personal to the whimsical to the political, the music of Sonia & disappear fear (Blood, Bones & Baltimore), Ryan States (Strange Town), Roger Mapes (House of Joy), Kevin Wong (The Pink in the Grey), Sean Wiggins (Naked Thursdays), Avi Wisnia (Something New), Kristie Stremel (Color of Stars) and Mike Rickard (Sweat).

It's an all-star swan-song for Audiofile hosts/producers JD Doyle, Chris Wilson, Pam Marshall, and Christopher David Trentham.

(NewsWrap returns January 10th.)

Support "This Way Out" - Get "Secret Historian"

2010-12-22T16:29:00.000-08:00

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"Secret Historian: The Life and Times of Samuel Steward"

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Now playing ... week of Dec. 20, 2010

Janet Mason reads into Justin Spring's biography portraying the life long friendship of professor, tattoo artist and sexual renegade Samuel Steward with Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas.

A fond remembrance of former This Way Out News Director Cindy Friedman, who would have been 60 years old this week, featuring Jerry Falwell, Tinky Winky, and Cindy's infamous, razor-sharp wit.

Plus a Rainbow Minute saluting the lesbian "little general" of a venerable U.S. first family.

And in NewsWrap: "Don't Ask Don't Tell" marches to the dustbin of history, British couples seek double equality, Iranian oppression gets documented, poisonous homophobia mushrooms in Africa, and more news reported by Christopher Gaal and Rick Watts.

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