Jayne of God & Where’s Reince?

 

Week of February 9, 2015
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British evangelical campaigner Jayne Ozanne comes out as a lesbian in an interview Christian Today's Ruth Gledhill, and takes the helm of the LGBT lobbying group Accepting Evangelicals.

The political weather is rainy for a hate-hosted Republican trip to Israel (MSNBC's Rachel Maddow tries to find out if Party head Reince Priebus is traveling with the American Family Association).

Comedy Central's new Nightly Show host Larry Wilmore (aka The Daily Show's Senior Black Correspondent) marvels at the mad pace of marriage equality.

UK singer-songwriter Sam Smith is grateful for four big Grammys -- and the broken heart that made it possible.

And in NewsWrap: Grammy honoree John Legend goes on the record against Brunei barbarism, Obama budgets for Social Security parity, 300 same-gender Michigan couples are still married, trans activists create change in Denver, and more news reported this week by Chrisanne Eastwood and Michael LeBeau (produced by Steve Pride, written by Greg Gordon).

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NewsWrap for the week ending February 7, 2015

SUMMARY

Hollow Honor - “Stone the Gays” Brunei is back in the news with the withdrawal by singer/songwriter John Legend from a pre-Grammys party in his honor at the Sultan of Brunei-owned Beverly Hills Hotel …

Safety Net Equality - U.S. President Barack Obama’s 2016 budget includes a proposal to guarantee Social Security benefits for all legally married same-gender couples, even if they live in a state that doesn’t recognize their marriage …

Just Married (A While Ago) - Michigan recognizes gay and lesbian couples who married in the state during a brief period late last year when they could …

Suspense - same-gender couples in Alabama were expected to begin getting marriage licenses on February 9th, barring a last-minute intercession by the US Supreme Court …

Short Change - queer-supportive Denver, Colorado Mayor Michael Hancock cancels his appearance at the 27th annual National LGBTQ Task Force Creating Change Conference in his city after activists storm the stage to protest the Denver Police shooting death of transgender Latina teen Jessie Hernandez …

Cream of the Crop - out Houston, Texas Mayor Annise Parker is named the best city leader in America …

Sally and The Gipper - California lawmakers propose a statue in the nation’s capitol honoring posthumously-lesbian U.S. astronaut Sally Ride …

A Million Women Getting Married - a high-strung Irishman opposed to marriage equality defines “laughingstock” during a TV3 Ireland “The Peoples Debate” broadcast ….

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Queer India Now & Collins Gets Better

Week of September 22, 2014
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As the news breaks that India’s government will challenge the recent Supreme Court ruling that legally recognized trans-people as a third gender, we hear "Sapphic Nomads" Katie Cook and Maggie Young's second audio postcard from Mumbai.

It Got Better for pro-basketball player Jason Collins after he came out, as he tells Chrisanne Eastwood at the OutFest screening of the docu-series on the LGBT youth support project.

Plus: right-winger Tony Perkins' homophobic radio rant against the Smithsonian Institution.

And in NewsWrap: Justice Ginsberg makes U.S. marriage equality predictions, Egypt grinds gay men into entrapment, Russia's "no promo homo" pol poisons  opening of St. Petersburg's QueerFest, Texas hotels "86" Museveni, Ugandan gay activist wins U.S. asylum, and more news reported this week by Carole Meyers and Wenzel Jones (produced by Steve Pride).

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NewsWrap for the week ending September 20, 2014

SUMMARY

Something Wrong With Justice - India's government challenges the nation's recent Supreme Court ruling legally recognizing trans-people as a third gender …

Supreme Speculation - U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg points to a pending ruling by the 6th Circuit Court of Appeals that could determine when the high court might consider nationwide marriage equality …

Grounds for Arrest - Egypt uses Grindr and other social media platforms to escalate its crackdown on gay men …

Bashers in Custody - three men are arrested in Belgrade for the harrowing caught-on-camera assault of a gay German man attending an LGBT conference in the Serbian capital …

Violence Off-Screen - Vitaly Milonov, the Russian M.P. behind the country's infamous "no promo homo" law, leads a gang of thugs to disperse an unidentified gas that sends 16 people to the hospital in an attempt to disrupt the opening event of St. Petersburg's "QueerFest" …

Trojan Horse - the Finnish news agency YLE tests Russia's "no promo homo" law by sending a package plastered with the homoerotic images of Tom of Finland – now the country's all-time postal sales leader – which is delivered in Moscow with no questions asked …

Rainbow Parachute - the Australian Football League cancels its sponsorship deal with Royal Brunei Airlines because of the tiny Southeast Asian country's pending laws that call for gay people to be stoned to death …

No Vacancy - faced with expected demonstrations protesting the east African nation's draconian Anti- Homosexuality Law wherever he stays, Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni struggles to find accommodations in Irving, Texas for a conference promoting tourism and investment in his country …

Safe House - longtime Ugandan LGBT activist John "Longjones" Wambere tentatively wins political asylum in the U.S. ….

Complete NewsWrap text and this week's podcast to be posted September 23, 2014.

St. Pat's Ploy & Love Is Strange

Week of September 15, 2014
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Mature marriage meets separation anxiety in the new Ira Sachs film starring Alfred Molina and John Lithgow (interview by Steve Pride).

The organizers of the New York City St. Patrick's Day Parade try to green-wash their bias, but they can't fool Gay USA's Ann Northrup and Chris Cooper.

And in NewsWrap: Ugandan repression migrates to Gambia, Cairo cops hunt down viral video "gay wedding" guests, the Australian Football League rethinks its deal with the Sultan, mounting marriage equality cases compel U.S. Supreme Court consideration, and more news reported this week by Michael LeBeau and Kristin Mellian (produced by Steve Pride).

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NewsWrap for the week ending September 13, 2014

SUMMARY

Hateful Contagion - Gambia lawmakers approve a draconian Uganda-like anti-LGBT law, while seven men arrested in Cairo for appearing in a viral video that allegedly shows Egypt's first gay wedding ceremony "test negative" for homosexuality …

Deal With the Sultan - the Australian Football League "reassesses" its major sponsorship deal with Royal Brunei Airlines in view of the pending laws in the tiny Southeast Asian country that call for gay people to be stoned to death …

Supreme Suspense - all eyes will be on the U.S. Supreme Court on September 29th when justices meet behind closed doors to consider hearing appeals of marriage equality rulings in Indiana, Oklahoma, Virginia, Wisconsin, and Utah, while three other federal appeals courts ponder marriage equality cases in Kentucky, Michigan, Ohio, Tennessee, Texas, Idaho, Nevada, and Hawai'i …

Clobbering Quackery - a federal appeals court upholds New Jersey's ban on so-called "reparative therapy" for patients under the age of 18 that claims to turn gay people straight …

Dishonorable Bias - a Republican-controlled panel of the U.S. House of Representatives rejects a bill to provide lesbian and gay military veterans with spousal benefits equal to their heterosexual counterparts, even if they live in states that don't recognize their legal marriages …

Taming the Beast - professional homophobes Mat Staver and Matt Barber of the "Faith and Freedom" radio show use a "heterosexual men are pigs" argument to keep civil marriage exclusively heterosexual ….

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Sultan, Celebration & Unstoppable!

Week of May 12, 2014
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A fast-growing boycott against the Sultan of Brunei shortens stays at the Beverly Hills Hotel as the Feminist Majority Foundation's Eleanor Smeal, comedian Jay Leno, the United Farm Workers' Dolores Huerta, and the Los Angeles Gay & Lesbian Center's Lorri Jean rally with supporters outside.

"Golden Girl" Betty White and her current Hot in Cleveland co-stars Wendie Malick, Jane Leeves, and Valerie Bertinelli honored the 31st anniversary of Los Angeles' Celebration Theater -- the oldest queer theater in the country -- with a reading of a script from the 80s gay sitcom fave. Chrisanne Eastwood also interviews Celebration's co-artistic director Michael A. Shepperd, original Supreme Mary Wilson, and former Golden Girls writer Stan Zimmerman (produced with Steve Pride).

Bearded and "unstoppable" Austrian drag queen Chonchita Wurst conquers the Eurovision Song Contest with a spectacular performance of Rise Like A Phoenix and offers hope for the future in her moving victory speech.

Plus: out Missouri Tiger Michael Sam becomes a St. Louis Ram!

And in NewsWrap: democracy-fearing Chinese cops detain LGBT activists, Taiwan equality advocates organize, marriage rights come to Arkansas, and more news reported by Carole Meyers and Rick Watts (produced by Steve Pride).

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"Modern" Marriage & "Same Love" Remake

Week of May 5, 2014
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As television fans await the impending nuptials of Modern Family's "Mitchell and Cameron," actors Jesse Tyler Ferguson and Eric Stonestreet have a bachelor party on ABC-TV's Jimmy Kimmel Live!

Hip-hop's Angel Haze freestyles against homophobia over Macklemore & Ryan Lewis' hit of Grammy wedding fame.

Commentator Janet Mason loves the literature of love in the pages of The Wilde Passions of Dorian Gray (Mitzi Szereto) and Foolish Hearts: New Gay Fiction (Timothy J. Lambert and R. D. Cochrane, eds.).

And in NewsWrap: Brunei's deadly penal code gets Sultan's blessing, Japan's First Lady floats message of Pride, Russian repression enters Crimea, Uganda targets "homo-promoting" NGO's, the United Church of Christ challenges North Carolina's equality ban, and more news reported by Carole Meyers and Rick Watts (produced by Steve Pride).

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NewsWrap for the week ending May 3, 2014

SUMMARY

Sultanic Verses - Death by stoning for consensual adult gay sex is celebrated in the tiny Southeast Asian nation of Brunei by the omnipotent Sultan Hassnal Bokiah, while protests at and boycotts of Brunei-owned high-end hotel properties in the U.S. and Europe begin …

Prime Example - Japan's First Lady Akie Abe rides atop a float with a colorfully-bedecked drag queen at Tokyo's LGBT Pride Parade …

May Flowers - about 300 rainbow flag-waving Russian LGBT people and their supporters participate without incident at the St. Petersburg May Day march …

Charge of the Homophobic Brigade - the so-called "no promo homo" law comes to Crimea following its annexation by Russia, and the measure's architect Vitaly Molonov wants to crack down on LGBT people on the peninsula even further …

No NGO Promo Homo - a draft bill in Uganda would add to the draconian "Anti-Homosexuality Law" by banning NGOs from providing monetary or other assistance to LGBT people in the east African nation because that would be "promoting homosexuality" …

No Green Light - Northern Ireland lawmakers reject a proposal to discuss marriage equality …

God On Our Side - the United Church of Christ sues the U.S. state of North Carolina for its law banning ministers from officiating the marriages of same-gender couples …

Not Neutrality - Louisiana lawmakers reject a bill to protect LGBT people from housing discrimination because, as the rightwing Louisiana Family Forum argues, only "morally neutral" characteristics deserve protection ….

Complete NewsWrap text and this week's podcast to be posted May 6, 2014.

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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NewsWrap for the week ending April 26, 2014

SUMMARY

Cracked Wedding Ceiling - Mexico's Supreme Court rules in favor of 39 same-gender couples seeking civil marriage in the state of Oaxaca …

Early Thaw - Alaska's Supreme Court orders limited property tax equality for same-gender, civilly-married couples …

NOM's Away - a federal judge allows a last-minute intervention by the National Organization for Marriage to defend the constitutionality of Oregon's exclusively heterosexual civil marriage law since state officials refuse to do so …

Poor Excuse - North Korea's official news agency condemns a U.N. report critical of human rights abuses in the insulated Asian nation by calling lead investigator, openly gay former Australian High Court Justice Michael Kirby, "a disgusting old lecher" …

Wait Till Your Sultan Gets Home - Brunei delays enforcing –- but perhaps not for long -- a new penal code that punishes consensual adult gay sex with death by stoning …

Another Shot - the Chief Justice of India's Supreme Court announces that the "curative petition" filed by opponents of the country's law banning "unnatural sex" will be heard by a five-judge panel headed by three of the bench's most senior justices …

Wiki Update - the whistleblowing transgender U.S. Army private formerly known as Bradley legally becomes Chelsea Manning …

Excommunication - the Boy Scouts of America revokes the charter of Seattle, Washington-area Rainier Beach United Methodist Church because the congregation and its pastor refuse to fire openly gay scoutmaster Geoff McGrath …

Snitch on the Sick - draft guidelines from the Ugandan government reportedly suggest that the recently-enacted "Anti-Homosexuality Law" requires healthcare workers –- including those at HIV/AIDS clinics -- to report all gay clients to the police …

Meta-Homophobia - a critic of Ugandan anti-gay crusader Pastor Martin Ssempa says the gay-porn-showing zealot himself should be charged with violating that law ….

Complete NewsWrap text and this week's podcast to be posted April 29, 2014.

PureLand LIVE!

Week of April 21, 2014
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The lesbian classical-pop singing duo of Laurie Rubin and Jenny Taira perform live in-studio and discuss their new adventure into music with a message (with correspondent Abby Dees).

Early 20th century British composer and suffragist Ethel Smyth is profiled in a Rainbow Minute (read by Karen Burns, produced by Judd Proctor and Brian Burns).

And in NewsWrap: India's top court affirms and protects trans-people, Malta bans trans bias and okays civil unions, Ethiopia eschews Africa's trending homophobia while Zimbabwe's Mugabe reinforces it, new laws in Brunei punish consensual adult gay sex with death by stoning, and more news reported by Sarah Sweeney and Ryan Pest (produced by Steve Pride).

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