Trevor Trumps Teen Suicide!

In turbulent times — made more turbulent by the new US administration —  queer teens in turmoil turn to The Trevor Project for support (Executive Director Abbe Land interviewed by Abby Dees and Wenzel Jones)!

At the 2017 Screen Actors Guild Awards ceremony, prize-winning speeches prompt political polemics from the cast of Orange Is the New Black and Moonlight’s Best Supporting Film Actor Mahershala Ali!

Ellen DeGeneres schools the president about Finding Dory on her award-winning daytime TV talk show!

And in NewsWrap: the Boy Scouts of America transitions on gender identity, another judge questions Lebanon’s "unnatural" sex laws, Estonia registers its first married gay couple, Trump taps a Scalia clone as a Supreme bathroom battle looms, and more international LGBT news reported this week by John Dyer V and Carole Meyers (produced by Steve Pride, written by Greg Gordon).

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Support Your Lesbian Police Chief!

Week of April 21, 2014
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Fired Latta, South Carolina lesbian police chief Crystal Moore has lots of friends in town, but there's no ENDA in sight to protect her job from the homophobic mayor (MSNBC's Ari Melber gets her story).

ABC's Cokie Roberts plays LGBT ally against religious right leaders Franklin Graham, Russell Moore and Ralph Reed … MSNBC's Rachel Maddow offers her unapologetically out perspective -- what the heck happened to mainstream news?

And in NewsWrap: same-gender couples win rights in Oaxaca and Alaska, North Korea critiques UN report with queer complaint, Brunei stalls on death by stoning, Boy Scouts excommunicate church over out scoutmaster, and more news reported by Rick Watts and Michelle-Marie Gilkeson (produced by Steve Pride).

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"The Gay Rub" & Derrick Gordon

Week of April 14, 2014
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Poet/collector Steven Reigns invites people around the world to join him gathering impressions of LGBT history (interviewed by Steve Pride).

Coming out is a slam-dunk for top tier U.S. college basketball player Derrick Gordon! The University of Massachusetts sophomore talks with ESPN's Kate Fagan, while sports legends Bill Russell and Jim Brown each briefly weigh in on out athletes.

And in NewsWrap: Saudi cops bust 35 "gay party"-goers to promote "virtue," Italian court recognizes gay couple's New York marriage, Utah's marriage equality case heard in federal appeals court, Minnesota moves against bullying, Seattle stands with ousted gay scoutmaster, and more news reported by Michael Allan and Carole Meyers (produced by Steve Pride).

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NewsWrap for the week ending April 12, 2014

SUMMARY

Party Off - Thirty-five men are arrested by Saudi Arabia religious police for being at a "gay party" in Jeddah, while four gay men are jailed in Egypt for "debauchery" …

Tuscan Triumph - an Italian court orders the country's first-ever recognition of the marriage of a same-gender couple legally performed abroad …

Last Rights - a U.S. federal court orders the state of Indiana to recognize the Massachusetts marriage of a lesbian couple, one of whom has terminal cancer …

Line Starts Here - a three-judge panel of the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals hears Utah's case challenging a lower court decision declaring the state's ban on civil marriage for same-gender couples unconstitutional – and Oklahoma's challenge will be heard by the same three judges in the coming week …

Safe Bet - Virginia Attorney General Mark Herring sides with marriage equality-seeking same-gender couples in their lawsuit challenging the "heterosexuals only" state ban, and only five U.S. states with bans have escaped court challenges …

Bullies Begone - Minnesota Governor Mark Dayton signs an LGBT-inclusive state anti-bullying bill …

Solemn Oath - Seattle, Washington city officials and his troop's church sponsor stand behind ousted-because-he's-out Boy Scout leader Geoff McGrath ….

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On With ENDA & "Kill Your Darlings”

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Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid advances the Employment Nondiscrimination Act -- but what will happen in the House? Meanwhile, Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel orders non-compliant states to issue IDs to National Guard members for same-gender spousal benefits.

Michael C. Hall and Daniel Radcliffe star in John Krokidas and Austin Bunn's Beat poet murder mystery movie involving Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, William Burroughs and the enigmatic Lucien Carr (a preview by Steve Pride).

Plus -- a Rainbow Minute crowns the not-so-closeted King James I and His Favorite (produced by Judd Proctor and Brian Burns, read by Phil Pollard).

And in NewsWrap: Taiwan takes a look at marriage equality, Vatican vets social questions in  global survey, I.O.C. snubs Russian LGBT activists, ex-Defense Secretary may open the Gates to the Boy Scouts, and more news reported by Christopher Gaal and Michelle-Marie Gilkeson (produced by Wenzel Jones and Steve Pride).

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NewsWrap for the week ending November 2, 2013

SUMMARY

Taipei Tipping Point - A marriage equality bill is introduced in Taiwan's legislature the day after more than 50,000 parade with Pride in Taipei …

Rings and Rainbows - hundreds demonstrate for marriage rights in Hanoi …

Experts Notwithstanding - a marriage equality proposal fails for the second time in the Australian state of Tasmania …

Who Do They Say That I Am? - the Vatican distributes an unprecedented worldwide survey asking for input from local Roman Catholic parishes about such contentious social issues as abortion, divorce, and marriage equality …

Cold Shoulder - Thomas Bach, the new head of the International Olympic Committee, refuses to meet with LGBT advocates during his visit to the Russian site of the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi …

A League of Their Own - a group of Russian activists is planning a major sporting event in Moscow right after the Sochi Olympics that will be open to people of all sexual orientations …

He Blinded Me With Junk Science - discredited homophobic American psychologist Paul Cameron gives "expert" testimony before the Russian parliament claiming that one in three gay men has sex with children or wants to …

Open the Flood Gates - former U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates, who oversaw the dismantling of Don't Ask Don't Tell, is tapped to lead the soon-to-be partially-gay-welcoming Boy Scouts of America ….

Complete NewsWrap text and this week's podcast to be posted November 5, 2013.

NewsWrap for the week ending June 8, 2013

SUMMARY

Praise the Lords - Overwhelming approval in Britain's House of Lords of the "Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Bill" in its second reading, following full approval in the House of Commons, all but assures its ultimate passage, so the Church of England abandons its efforts to defeat the measure and says it will now work to "improve it" …

Two in One - the 4-million-member Evangelical Lutheran Church in America elects Reverend Dr. R. Guy Erwin of Southern California as its first openly gay and first Native American bishop …

Follow the Money - Germany's highest court rules that tax laws that treat same-gender couples unequally are unconstitutional …

Wǒ Yǒu Yǒng Qì - Changsha, a city in central China's Henan province, hosts about 80 brave activists at what organizers call the largest-ever public demonstration for LGBT rights in the country's history …

Para o armário, nunca mais! - more than a million people celebrate in the Brazilian city of Sao Paulo at what's billed as the world's largest LGBT Pride event …

Choose the Right - supportive Mormons and unauthorized uniformed Boy Scouts highlight the annual Pride march in Salt Lake City, Utah …

New Pride, Old Wounds - record crowds celebrate Pride in Tel Aviv, while speakers reflect on the breaking news of arrests in the horrific 2009 shooting spree at the Israeli city's LGBT center …

"Serena Morena?" - 59-year-old Mexican soap star Sebastian Ligarde tells a national magazine that "I'm gay, and I say this with pride" ….

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Union Cup & Lara's Scout Oaths

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Europe's gay ruggers take the pitch for the Union Cup in Bristol, UK with BCFM's ShoutOut host Mary Milton and her station compatriots Cheryl Morgan, Natalie Newbury and Paul Davis on the scene.

California State Senator Ricardo Lara vows to defeat youth group bias by targeting the tax exempt status of discriminating organizations like the Boy Scouts of America.

Plus: the American Family Association's Bryan Fischer rants against the "Boy Sodomizers of America."

And in NewsWrap: Nigeria's Jonathan pressured to sign world's worst anti-LGBT law, first French gay couple makes it legal as violent protests persist, marriage equality stalls in Australia and Illinois, rights marches make history in Croatia and the Ukraine, and more news reported by Jason Proctor and Tanya Kane-Parry (produced by Steve Pride).

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New Zealand Marriage & Bishop Gene Robinson

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New Zealand MP Maurice Williamson argues brilliantly for equality as his country becomes the thirteenth in the world to open civil marriage to same-gender couples.

Recently-retired "out" gay Episcopal Bishop Gene Robinson is less than retiring when talk turns to his personal journey and his timely new book, God Believes in Love: Straight Talk About Gay Marriage (a conversation with award-winning WNHN broadcaster Arnie Arnesen).

And in NewsWrap: Paris protests get uglier as wedding equality draws near, Ireland's constitutional convention issues marriage parity proposal, half-baked policy change gets Boy Scouts of America less-than-honorable mention, dozens of allegedly gay and lesbian high school students expelled in Ghana, celebrated Sydney street crossing robbed of its rainbow, and more news reported by Tanya Kane-Parry and Michael LeBeau (produced by Steve Pride).

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NewsWrap for the week ending April 22, 2013

SUMMARY

Pokarekare Ana - New Zealand becomes the first country in the Asia Pacific region, and the thirteenth in the world, to open civil marriage to same-gender couples …

Paris in the Stresstime - France's road to expected marital equality is a bumpy one …

More Than Luck - a convention in Ireland proposes a constitutional marriage equality amendment …

Stuck in the Mud - U.S. Republican Party doubles down on its opposition to civil marriage for same-gender couples …

Short on Honor - the Boy Scouts of America offers a half-measure change to its ban on openly gay members …

Students Struck - two of the leading Catholic schools in Ghana expel a total of 53 students for "practicing homosexuality" and trying "to convince more students to practice the act," or "the detestable act of lesbianism" …

Colors Won't Fade - the removal of Sydney's cherished Oxford Street rainbow crossing sparks a "chalk revolt" across Australia and in at least one other seemingly unlikely corner of the world ….

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Scouts/Sports Souffle & Lammy's Equality Lesson

The Boy Scouts of America and the National Football League intersect (featuring Super Bowl Champion Raven Brendon Ayanbadejo; Minnesota Viking Chris Kluwe; former Eagle Scout Zach Wahls; Peter Sprigg and Tony Perkins of the Family Research Council; Ethics and Public Policy Center President Ed Whalen).

Black MP Davd Lammy's "less than equal" lament helps launch U.K. marriage equality.

And in NewsWrap: Britain's House of Commons overwhelmingly approves a bill to open civil marriage to same-gender couples, French troops save two Mali men from execution for having gay sex, Uganda's Parliament reconsiders "Killing the Gays," football allies in Melbourne -- and a Mumbai fifth and Hyderabad first -- mark LGBT Pride, the rainbow flag flies over Cambridge's Guildhall, and more news reported by Pamela Brooks and Wenzel Jones (produced by Steve Pride).

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NewsWrap for the week ending February 9, 2013

SUMMARY

Another Marriage Problem for Canterbury - Britain's House of Commons gives overwhelming approval in its second reading to the "Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Bill" -- opposed by the new Archbishop of Canterbury …

Intervention Within Intervention - French troops save two Malian men from Islamic execution for homosexuality …

Recurring Nightmare - Uganda's infamous "Kill the Gays Bill" is back on the parliamentary agenda …

Unprepared - the National Executive Board of the Boy Scouts of America unexpectedly postpones a decision on the proposed repeal of its policy banning openly gay scouts and troop leaders …

Fancy Footwork - Australian Football League pros proudly march for the first time in Melbourne's annual Pride parade …

Out in Hindi - in India an estimated two thousand people attend the fifth Queer Azaadi Mumbai Pride Parade, and as "The Hindu" reported, LGBT people "came out into the open" for Hyderabad's first …

History on Top of History - the rainbow flag flies during Britain's LGBT History Month over Cambridge Guildhall …

Royal Treatment - Sweden's Crown Princess Victoria is the surprise presenter of the "Gay of the Year Award" at a glitzy Stockholm gala ….

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