Lesbian Marrieds in Selma & Mardi Gras Moments!

Week of March 16, 2015
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Hijinks conquer homophobia at Sydney's Gay & Lesbian Mardi Gras Parade featuring a cast of thousands … and our friends at JOY94.9, Australia's LGBTIQ community radio station, with partners 2SER and SBS Radio!

Tori Wolfe-Sisson and Shanté Wolfe-Sisson, one of Alabama's first wedded same-gender couples, chat with Democracy Now!'s Amy Goodman at the Selma Weekend civil rights commemoration about crossing another historic bridge to equality!

And in NewsWrap: Peru's Roman Catholic Church-coerced Congress kills civil unions, Alberta blesses Gay/Straight Alliances, Swiss lawmakers extend bias ban to include LGBT people, EuroCourt nixes forced trans sterilization, and more news reported this week by Wenzel Jones and Natalie Peoples (produced by Steve Pride, written by Greg Gordon).

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NewsWrap for the week ending March 14, 2015

SUMMARY

Second Strike - A civil unions bill for same-gender couples dies in a Peruvian Congressional committee - again …

Studies in Support - the Canadian province of Alberta makes high school Gay-Straight Alliances on all publicly-funded campuses mandatory …

Good for Goose, Gander Not So Much - the “Utah Compromise” LGBT anti-bias bill enacted this week - with significant religious exemptions - may be good for the Mormon-dominated state, but would probably be considered a setback almost anywhere else …

Add to the Anti-Bias Equation - Swiss lawmakers vote to protect LGBT people from hate and discrimination …

Trans, Not Childless - the European Court of Human Rights rules that sterilization cannot be required of people seeking gender reassignment surgery …

Stop Trans Loss - a new U.S. Army directive makes it much more difficult for a transgender service member to be discharged …

You Mean We Can't Do That? - it took a few months after U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder confirmed that anti-trans workplace bias is illegal, but upscale retail giant Saks Fifth Avenue finally settles out of court a bias and retribution lawsuit filed by a fired transwoman  ….

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