Tarnished Tar Heels!

North Carolina toilets overflow with injustice! Our comprehensive coverage includes comments by Governor Pat McCrory, state Attorney General Roy Cooper, Lieutenant Governor Dan Forest, Equality North Carolina's Chris Srgo and Crystal Richardson, trans-man lawsuit plaintiff Joaquin Carcano, ACLU attorney Chase Strangio and the Human Rights Campaign’s Chad Griffin.

And in NewsWrap: Saudis threaten death for gay online liaisons, marriage equality finally comes to Greenland, Mississippi’s adoption ban bombs in federal court while state lawmakers okay a draconian new anti-LGBT law, Chinese film censors clear a gay love story for the big screen, PostNord proudly issues rainbow stamps of approval, and more international LGBT news reported this week by Carole Meyers and Michael LeBeau (produced by Steve Pride, written by Greg Gordon).

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NewsWrap for the week ending November 17, 2012

SUMMARY

Jail Allies, Kill Gays - Nigeria and Uganda each move closer to enacting draconian anti-LGBT legislation …

Warm Winds - lawmakers in Uruguay move to make theirs the second country in South America to open civil marriage to lesbian and gay couples …

Oui and Si - French government officially proposes a marriage equality bill, and Spain's Constitutional Court upholds theirs …

Nie - Slovakia's parliament rejects a proposal to recognize same-gender partnerships …

DOMA Coma - U.S. Supreme Court postpones deciding whether or not to hear Prop 8 and/or DOMA cases until the end of November …

Bicameral Legislator - Arizona's Kyrsten Sinema narrowly wins election as the first openly bisexual member of Congress …

New Jobs - Washington's Ed Murray becomes only the second "out" state Senate Majority Leader in U.S. history, and if the U.S. Senate confirms President Obama's nomination of William Thomas to a lifetime seat on the Court for the Southern District of Florida he'll become the country's first openly gay African-American federal court judge …

Childish Censorship - the ACLU sues a Utah school district for removing "In Our Mothers' House," a picture book featuring a family headed by two lesbian mothers, from the shelves of its elementary school libraries, and a school district in Austin, Texas cancels elementary school performances of "And Then Came Tango," a play based on two male penguins at a New York zoo who successfully adopted and nurtured an abandoned egg …

Gay Bird Dads Don't Duck - a pair of male penguins in Denmark joins similar couples in Spain, Germany and China to be given an orphaned egg to incubate and raise as their own ….

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Beginners & Redirected GOP Dollars

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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