Trump’s Trans Treachery & Moonlight’s Glow!

Trump flushes trans student bathroom rights (with reports by Christina Aanestad of the Pacifica Evening News and Amy Goodman of Democracy Now! featuring Kris Hayashi, Mat Staver, Gavin Grimm, Marla Keisling, Chase Strangio, Donald Trump and Caitlyn Jenner)!

Moonlight shines after a monumental Oscars mix-up (with comments by winners Barry Jenkins, Tarell Alvin McCraney and Adele Romanski)!

A new Johns Hopkins study suggests that LGBTQ teen suicides decreased in U.S. states with marriage equality prior to the Supreme Court's 2015 nationwide ruling (Public News Service's Mark Richardson's report includes comments by Chuck Smith of Equality Texas)!

And in NewsWrap: Finland lawmakers reject marriage equality repeal campaign, a leading Japanese housing website welcomes queer renters, Arkansas Supremes nix Fayetteville rights, a Canadian fundamentalist red-lights lascivious LEGOs, and more international LGBT news reported this week by Michelle-Marie Gilkeson and Wenzel Jones (produced by Steve Pride, written by Greg Gordon).

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World of Wonder & RuPaul's Doll Race!

Drag artists and other "outsiders" orbit the reality TV/documentary empire responsible for Inside Deep Throat, The Eyes of Tammy Faye, Million Dollar Listing, Mapplethrope: Look at the Pictures and RuPaul’s Drag Race. World of Wonder co-founders Randy Barbato and Fenton Bailey talk about where they came from and what's in store (interviewed by Steve Pride)!

Plus a “profile in plastic”: a Rainbow Minute devoted to the RuPaul doll!

And in NewsWrap: pressure builds in Uganda for a revived Anti-Homosexuality Act, Jerusalem’s Pride predator is convicted of murder, two U.S. states are deemed dangerous for U.K. travelers, Virginia trans-teen’s federal appeal unclogs bathroom equality, North Carolina and Mississippi bad law backlash continues, and more international LGBT news reported this week by Wenzel Jones and Carole Meyers (produced by Steve Pride, written by Greg Gordon).

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Tar Heel & Natural States’ Strife!

North Carolina Governor Pat McCrory digs in despite derision from critics including Equality North Carolina’s Chris Srgo, Charlotte employment attorney Kevin Murphy, Democratic lawmaker Billy Richardson, and Daniel Cook’s YouTube-posted McCrory parody (with a report by Pacifica Radio’s Mark Mericle).

Trans LGBT rights advocate Rev. Gwen Fry defends Arkansas’ local anti-bias laws (interviewed by Abby Dees).

And in NewsWrap: activists attack the constitutionality of Kenya’s sex code, a court in China rules against a marriage equality lawsuit, the Roman Catholic Church pressures some 800 big Australian businesses to stop promoting marriage equality, anti-LGBT laws continue to roil Mississippi and Tennessee, Greg Louganis finally gets his Wheaties box, and more international LGBT news reported this week by Carole Meyers and John Dyer V (produced by Steve Pride, written by Greg Gordon).

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Legalized Bias & Kenneth in the (212)!

Week of June 15, 2015

As hate holds sway in Michigan and North Carolina, MSNBC's Rachel Maddow analyzes the impact of new laws restricting adoption and marriage rights and talks with North Carolina Democratic House minority leader Larry Hall.

The intrepid blogger Kenneth in the (212) chronicles his big break from Middle America to Manhattan in Wasn't Tomorrow Wonderful? (interviewed by Steve Pride.

Fiery public intellectual and LGBT ally Dr. Cornel West simplifies the "faith versus discrimination" conflict for a questioner on Australian TV's Q&A.

And in NewsWrap: Germany's upper house defies Merkel on marriage; civil unions advance in Italy and Greece; Colombian trans-people win identity rights; Pride marches on in Nicosia, Tel Aviv and Sao Paulo; and more news reported this week by Michael LeBeau and Carole Meyers (produced by Steve Pride, written by Greg Gordon).

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NewsWrap for the week ending June 13, 2015

SUMMARY

Against the Grain - Germany’s upper house of parliament defies Chancellor Angela Merkel by passing a marriage and adoptions equality resolution …

Ireland Reverberates - civil unions bills for same-gender couples advance in Italy and Greece …

Safe Zone - an Arkansas judge upholds the validity of the marriages of some 500 gay and lesbian couples who wed before a federal court ruling overturning the state’s ban was appealed …

Last Chapter of Anita - Florida lawmakers finally repeal a decades-old ban on fostering and adoption by lesbians and gay men …

Declare Yourself - Colombia no longer requires trans people to undergo invasive medical exams before changing their gender on official documents …

Marching On - Pride parades in Nicosia -- without disruption this year -- and in Tel Aviv and Sao Paulo …

Spells and Misspells - Dumbledore and Gandalf get fantasy-married in Topeka, Kansas across the street from the hideously homophobic Westboro Baptist Church, whose cult members are still reeling from accidentally damning the Ivory Coast in a protest of Ireland’s marriage equality landslide …

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NewsWrap for the week ending April 25, 2015

SUMMARY

Rights Trump Religion - Kenya’s High Court orders the government to allow LGBT groups to register as NGOs …

Revised Repression - a proposal in Uganda would essentially outlaw LGBT NGOs "in the public interest" …

Protections Pending - India’s upper house passes a ground breaking transgender rights bill …

Acting On Their Own - a celebrity lesbian couple symbolically weds in Tokyo …

Not In My Constitution - two far-right politicians push anti-marriage equality bills in the U.S. Congress …

2 + 2 = 900,000 - a Utah lawyer claims that opening civil marriage to gay and lesbian couples will lead to 900,000 more abortions …

Whack-A-Mole - a few cities in Arkansas push back against the recently-enacted law banning them from enacting LGBT anti-bias protections, and Little Rock’s City Attorney believes a state anti-bullying law already provides those protections …

Give a Kid a Break - Arizona’s governor overturns a policy denying adoption and foster parenting to legally-married same-gender couples …

Sun Shines In - Florida Senate leaders shelve a bill that would have allowed taxpayer-funded adoption agencies to use “religious belief” to discriminate against prospective LGBT parents …

Who Needs It - with the dust yet to fully settle over contentious so-called “religious liberty” bills in Indiana and Arkansas, North Carolina’s House leader says his chamber won’t debate a similar measure this year …

Toilet Training - the Nevada Assembly rejects a bill to require transgender students to use school bathrooms and locker rooms corresponding to their biological gender …

Naked Lunch - Tallywackers, a male version of “Hooters”, is scheduled to open in May in Dallas, Texas’ Oak Lawn gayborhood  …

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Indiana's Pence-mending!

Indiana Governor Mike Pence's signature lets "religious freedom" ring wrong, as discussed by  commentators Joy Reid, Garrett Epps, Beth Fouhy, David Von Drehle, Emma Margolin, and Jonathan Capehart.

And in NewsWrap: Malta raises the bar on gender identity laws, a Tokyo ward becomes Japan's first to recognize queer couples, film censors in India ban the lesbian themed Unfreedom, South Korea excises sexual orientation from sex education, British Bake Off finalist Ruby Tandoh comes out of the oven, and more news reported this week by Matthew McLaughlin and Sarah Sweeney (produced by Steve Pride, written by Greg Gordon).




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NewsWrap for the week ending April 4, 2015

 SUMMARY

Surprising Frontrunner - Malta passes what’s been described as “the world’s most progressive” gender identity laws …

Icebreaker - the Tokyo ward of Shibuya becomes the first government entity in Japan to recognize lesbian and gay couples …

Unscreened - India’s censors ban a lesbian-themed film called “Unfreedom” …

Hoosier Hellfire - a firestorm erupts over so-called “religious freedom” bills in several U.S. states after Indiana Governor Mike Pence signs what critics called “a license to discriminate” …

Fix-it Ticket - Arkansas Governor Asa Hutchinson demands a “fix” before he’ll sign a similar “religious freedom” measure …

Stampede - the same kinds of LGBT-discriminatory “religious freedom” bills die in Georgia, Montana, North Dakota, and Nevada — though the ACLU says they’re on the legislative agendas in at least 10 other states …

Sex Obfuscation - new curriculum guidelines bar South Korean teachers from even acknowledging the existence of LGBT people in sex education classes …

To Do His Duty - a New York Boy Scouts Council defies national BSA policy by hiring an openly gay over-18 scout leader to work at its upcoming summer camp …

Self-Rising Lesbian - British Bake-Off TV star Ruby Tandoh comes out - with a little help from Diana Ross …

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NewsWrap for the week ending February 28, 2015

SUMMARY

Still Soviet After All These Years - Kazakhstan’s Senate approves a “no promo homo” bill …

Equality Watch - a Swiss legislative panel overwhelmingly votes to advance a marriage equality proposal …

Native Intelligence - the Tlingit and Haida Indian Tribes of Alaska has become at least the 11th Native American group in the U.S. to open civil marriage to same-gender couples …

Faith in Hate - Northern Ireland’s politically-powerful Roman Catholic Church pushes for an LGBT bias-enabling “religious freedom” bill …

Discrimination Liberation - religious exemption measures are percolating in more than a dozen U.S. states, most recently advancing in the North Carolina and Indiana Senates, but surprisingly opposed by former Georgia Attorney General Michael Bowers and quashed in Arkansas …

State of Rebellion - the Arkansas bill to ban local anti-bias ordinances that don’t comport with state law will officially take effect in September, but Little Rock leads at least three Arkansas cities that have defied the ban or plan to, and an Arkansas-like "no local anti-bias bills" bill is killed in West Virginia …

Judge Bad Penny - Don Davis, the same Mobile, Alabama probate judge who was forced by a direct court order to issue a marriage license to Kim McKeand and Cari Searcy, the lesbian couple who successfully sued the state for marriage equality, refuses to grant Searcy’s second-parent adoption application for the son born to McKean in 2006 and being raised by both women …

Three's the Charm - the U.K. becomes the first country in the world to allow in-vitro fertilization clinics to replace defective DNA in one woman’s egg with healthy DNA from another’s, which will virtually result in 3-parent babies - a dad and two moms …

X Marks the Spot - while the Human Rights Campaign, Americans for the Separation of Church and State, and the AARP(!) are on the American Family Association’s "hit list," the Center for Inquiry, which supports the rights of Christians, atheists and others, is miffed at not being included in the way-far-right group’s “bigotry map” identifying organizations around the U.S. that “openly display bigotry toward the Christian faith”  ….

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Mary Lambert & Texas One Step!

Week of February 23, 2015

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Mary Lambert, the singer/songwriter whose featured turn on Maclemore and Ryan Lewis' Same Love shares her Secrets and other tracks from her new album (interviewed by Chrisanne Eastwood).

Suzanne Bryant and Sarah Goodfriend become the lone lesbian married couple in the Lone Star State.

An Arkansas alert fails to activate LGBT activists and allies, but does not escape the attention of MSNBC's Jose Diaz Balart and the AP's Andrew DeMillo.

Best Adapted Screenplay Oscar winner Graham Moore (The Imitation Game) inspires weirdness.

And in <i><a href="http://bit.ly/1wi7Y5s">NewsWrap</a></i>: two-year betrothal for Finland's marriage equality, Ireland sets the date, much Moore to argue in Alabama, no religious trump card for discrimination in Washington,  and more news reported this week by Sarah Sweeney and John Dyer V (produced by Steve Pride, written by Greg Gordon).

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NewsWrap for the week ending February 14, 2015

SUMMARY

Not Worth the Vote - Regressive anti-LGBT proposals fail in a Slovakia referendum for lack of interest …

Pasta Al Dente - Italy’s top court rules that the country’s constitution does not require opening civil marriage to same-gender couples …

Balancing the Fairness Books - the new Greek government proposes civil unions for queer couples …

Honorable Mention - the Tokyo district of Shibuya plans to offer “partnership certificates," which would be the first-ever recognition of lesbian and gay couples in Japan …

Fake Diseases Can't Be Cured - a New Jersey judge rules that businesses pushing “change therapy” to make gays and lesbians heterosexual are violating the state’s Consumer Fraud Act …

Partisan Bullies' Pulpit - a Republican-controlled U.S. House committee kills proposals to protect LGBT students …

Bias Unbound - Arkansas lawmakers ban enactment of city or county laws in the state to protect LGBT people from discrimination …

Straight Scandal Yields Bi First - Oregon Secretary of State Kate Brown is set to become the first openly bisexual governor in the United States …

Risks of Brownbacking - Jon Stewart reminds us how much we’ll miss him when he leaves “The Daily Show” later this year with his searing satirical report about GOP Kansas Governor Sam Brownback rescinding state anti-bias protections for LGBT people ….

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NewsWrap for the week ending May 17, 2014

SUMMARY

Post-Landslide Legal Limbo - India's law criminalizing gay sex is likely to stay in force for at least five years – unless it's overturned by the Supreme Court – following national elections that swept the anti-gay, opposition party to power …

Wedding Wrangling - Arkansas joins Utah and Michigan with hundreds of civilly-married same-gender couples in legal limbo after an appeals court stays a lower court ruling authorizing them, while an appeals court stays a similar ruling in Idaho to avoid such uncertainties …

Backlash - anti-gay violence spikes sharply in France after marriage equality becomes the law of the land there in mid-2013 …

Floodgates of Hate - abuse of and violent assaults on people perceived to be LGBT continue to mushroom in Uganda since the February enactment of the draconian Anti-Homosexuality Law …

Don't Feel Threatened Or I'll Kill You - Gambia's President Yahya Jammeh calls anyone seeking asylum by claiming anti-gay persecution in his country "liars," warning that "If I catch them I will kill them"…

Pork Prize - the sky has yet to fall following bearded gay Austrian drag queen Conchita Wurst's celebrated win at the Eurovision Song Contest as a butcher in her hometown creates a top-selling special sausage featuring the singer's portrait that he calls "extra spicy, just like she is" …

Razor's Edge - although Russian lawmakers call for a "gay free" competition, and one apocalyptically laments "the end of Europe," several men in Russia and in Eastern Europe reportedly shave their beards to protest Conchita's win, and social media lampoons priests in the Conchita-condemning Russian Orthodox Church as "bearded men in dresses opposing bearded men in dresses" ….

Complete NewsWrap text and this week's podcast to be posted May 20, 2014.

NewsWrap for the week ending May 10, 2014

SUMMARY

Paranoid Puzzle Box - Nervous about the impending 25th anniversary of the military's democracy-crushing Tiananmen Square action, Chinese authorities detain nine gay activists who were preparing to lead a Beijing seminar critically examining "civil society and the state" …

Watch Out for PrideWatch.tw - a new marriage equality lobbying group is born in Taiwan …

Another "Beat the Stay" Race - lesbian and gay couples race to the altar in Arkansas as it becomes the latest of the United States to have its same-gender civil marriage ban declared unconstitutional …

The Guest & The Refugee - Uganda President Yoweri Musevini takes heat at a U.K.-Uganda business conference in London, while high-profile Ugandan gay activist John "Longjones" Wambere seeks asylum in the U.S. …

Forever Sticking It Out - the U.S. Postal Service prepares to issue a first class "forever" stamp honoring trailblazing gay politician Harvey Milk on what would have been his 84th birthday …

Still Whipping Up A Frenzy - international demand for Tom of Finland's homoerotic images on a series of Finnish first class stamps crashes the website selling them ….

Complete NewsWrap text and this week's podcast to be posted May 13, 2014.

NewsWrap for the week ending November 16, 2013

SUMMARY

Two For the Show - The out mayor of Luxembourg City Xavier Bettel is tapped to form a new federal government in the tiny European nation, and for the first time in the world he'll serve with an equally out Deputy Prime Minister, Etienne Schneider …

Almost Yes - a marriage equality proposal is narrowly rejected in the upper house of the Australian state of New South Wales …

The People Rule - proposed ballot initiatives in Arkansas would replace the U.S. state's constitutional definition of marriage as exclusively hetero with marriage equality …

The People's Welfare - Missouri Governor Jay Nixon executive-allows married gay and lesbian couples to file their state tax returns jointly – and voices support for state marriage equality …

Arrest Report - high-profile Senegalese lesbian activist Sene Dienge and four of her friends are arrested in Dakar and charged with breaking the West African nation's laws banning same-gender sex …

Law Without Order - leading Ugandan activist Sam Ganafa and three of his associates are behind bars after warrantless police searches of his home, but fellow activists still don't know what the men are being charged with …

All Ears - the Russian government has no shame in revealing that they bugged private meetings of local and global LGBT & human rights activists in a St. Petersburg hotel room to use audio excerpts in a nationally broadcast TV "expose" about "homosexualists who attempt to infiltrate our country" …

Death Toll - Europe’s Trans Murder Monitoring Project reports that at least 238 gender-variant men and women around the world have been murdered so far this year, with a spike in the killings of transgendered minors …

Pearl of Great Price - the lawmaker who spearheaded California sodomy law repeal in 1975 officiates at the marriage in San Francisco City Hall of Jonathan Moscone, the out son of former mayor George, where 35 years ago this month that mayor and out Supervisor Harvey Milk were assassinated ….

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