Pride -- The Movie!

Week of October 6, 2014
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The unlikely true story of the 1980s Thatcher-era pairing of striking Welsh coalminers and London LGBT activists comes to the screen in the Cannes Film Festival Queer Palm award-winning Pride, written by Stephen Beresford and directed by Matthew Warchus. Mary Milton of ShoutOut Bristol chats with union organizer David "Dai" Donovan, one of the real life characters portrayed in the movie destined to become a classic!

And in NewsWrap: marriage equality advances in the U.S. but stalls in Australia, Belgrade clears the way for a thousand Serbs to parade with Pride, trade pressure gives Museveni pause on Uganda's pending Anti-Homosexuality Bill, the Philippines' Quezon City and Spain's Catalonia region block bias and hate, drag queens fight Facebook's names game, and more news reported this week by Michelle-Marie Gilkeson and Rick Watts (produced by Steve Pride).

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NewsWrap for the week ending October 4, 2014

SUMMARY

Timing Troubles - A civil marriage equality bill stalls yet again in the Australian parliament …

Don't Ask Us - equality activists and opponents alike were awaiting word on whether the U.S. Supreme Court would hear one or more civil marriage cases – but the Justices take a pass …

How Many More Shoes to Drop? - a Missouri Circuit Court judge is the latest to overturn a state's ban on civil marriage for same-gender couples …

Safe, Not Silent - more than a thousand LGBT people and their supporters march in the first peaceful Pride parade in four years in the Serbian capital of Belgrade …

Bad for Business - Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni is apparently having second thoughts about the latest version in parliament of the possibly trade-killing "Anti-Homosexuality Law" …

"Enormous Step Backwards" - the semi-autonomous Indonesian province of Aceh, which operates under Islamic law, enacts a new statute to punish same-gender sex with public caning …

Development Over Discrimination - Quezon City, the biggest in the Philippines, expands its LGBT anti-bias protections to include education, insurance, access to goods and services, and accommodations …

Hate Gets the Spanish Boot - the Spanish region of Catalonia approves a bill levying heavy fines on perpetrators of anti-LGBT hate crimes …

We Are Not Amused - social media giant "Facebook" learns the hard way that you don't mess with drag queens ….

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"Face Off HIV" & "The Happy Sad"

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Keith Pederson started to do a coffee table book featuring the rich and diverse stories of Minnesotans living with HIV and AIDS … then came the web project … and soon there will be a movie, too! He talks with Dixie Treichel about getting people to put the ribbon back on.

Film festival fans favor bi-curious couples in director Rodney Evans new movie starring Leroy McClain, who share a preview with Steve Pride.

Plus syndicated lesbian columnist Abby Dees answers a question that never seems to get old, Who's The Man?

And in NewsWrap: Russian lesbian's regional "no promo homo" conviction overturned, Belgrade Pride seems to be Serbia's E.U. membership ticket, second ruling by the same judge upholds Singapore's gay sex ban, homophobes hate being moved by Modern Family, and more news reported by Michael LeBeau and Carole Meyers (produced by Steve Pride).

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GOP Left Behind & "Ally" Sally Field

The U.S. march to marriage equality finds the Republican Party flat-footed, as MSNBC's Rachel Maddow and Steve Kornacki note that public opinion poll results are far more progressive on the subject than the party platform.

The Human Rights Campaign really likes celebrity "mother-of-a-gay" Sally Field … and anyone who heard her inspiring acceptance speech for their Ally for Equality Award would feel the same way!

And in NewsWrap: masked gang wreaks havoc at Moscow gay bar, Belgrade authorities force Pride inside, France prepares to pop the question, Australia's parliament refuses to support state marriage rights, court challenge to anti-trans laws fails in Malaysia, Big Bird bashing brings its gay parentage out of the coop, and more news reported by Sarah Sweeney and Robert LeBlanc (produced by Steve Pride).

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NewsWrap for the week ending October 13, 2012

SUMMARY

Moscow Mayhem - More than 20 masked men storm into a popular Moscow gay bar using fists, bottles and caustic substances to injure at least 10 patrons, sending four to the hospital …

Something Inside So Strong - police officials force Belgrade Pride off Serbian streets and into a conference hall for a forward-looking celebration …

Liberty, Equality, Matrimony - the French government announces that its ministers will approve a marriage equality measure on October 31st …

Feds Butt In - a bill to stop the federal government from challenging state or territorial marriage equality measures fails by a wide margin in the Australian Parliament …

No Change For the Changers - a state court in Malaysia rejects a challenge by four transgender-identified Muslim men to secular and Shariah laws banning cross-dressing …

Out of the Coop - the Daily Beast tells the unique love story of Big Bird's two gay dads ….

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