AUS Hate Debate & Trans Ban Tactics!

The marriage plebiscite debate gets down and dirty Down Under as you’ll hear in comments by Dr. Pansy Lai, Lyle Shelton, Dr. Kerryn Phelps, Tiernan Brady, P.M. Malcolm Turnbull, Lauren Foy, Alex Greenwich and Professor George Williams (music by Michael Ross, and Jade Leonard featuring Dolly Diamond and Luke Gallagher). Canberra correspondent Barry McKay reports.

Queer legal eagles James Esseks of the ACLU and Jillian Weiss of the Transgender Legal Defense & Education Fund make the case against the constitutionality of President Trump’s order to purge the U.S. military of transpeople (with Gay USA’s Ann Northrop and music by The Clash).

And in NewsWrap: wedding dreams come true for Maltese gays and lesbians, Israel’s top court rejects civil marriage suitors, Chile’s Bachelet follows through on marriage proposal, queer Chechens find refuge in Toronto, "X" marks the passport for non-binary Canadians, and more international LGBT news reported this week by Tanya Kane-Parry and Wenzel Jones (produced by Steve Pride, written by Greg Gordon).

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When The Black Cat Scratched!

Los Angeles honors the 50th anniversary of a pioneering pre-Stonewall protest action with now 80-year-old Alexi Romanoff, one of the 1967 demonstration organizers, who shares his personal and political story with Abby Dees (production assistance by Steve Pride)!

And in NewsWrap: an Australian Senate committee steers toward civil marriage equality, Washington Supremes wilt a florist’s refusal to serve a gay couple, Japan bans anti-LGBTQ harassment by government workers, the Trump administration continues to giveth and taketh away, the Chinese government funds a gay dating app, and more international LGBT news reported this week by Michael LeBeau and Tanya Kane-Parry (produced by Steve Pride, written by Greg Gordon).

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Gay Iraqis: Refuge in Love!

Out of Iraq heroes’ tale of true love is a five-year saga of romance, repression, a heart-warming reunion … and a (hopefully) “happily ever after” in the U.S.A. (interviewed by Steve Pride)!

A Rainbow Minute finds queer strands in Alfred Hitchcock’s Rope (produced by Judd Proctor and Brian Burns, read by John DeBoer)!

And in NewsWrap: Chile’s President tests marriage equality waters, a gay Bermudian sues to wed his Canadian fiancé, a Japanese trans man challenges forced sterilization, more Trump Cabinet picks threaten LGBT rights, a high-profile trans Cub Scout changes packs, and more international LGBT news reported this week by Frances O'Brien and Danny Cruz (produced by Steve Pride, written by Greg Gordon).

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NewsWrap for the week ending January 24, 2015

SUMMARY

With and Without Civility - Chilean lawmakers put the finishing touches on a civil unions bill, but Macedonia’s Parliament bans civil marriage and makes civil unions almost impossible …

Three Strikes - Portuguese lawmakers reject for the third time a bill to open adoption to same-gender couples …

Sweet Home - a U.S. federal judge overturns Alabama’s civil marriage ban …

News That's Fit to Scapegoat - the Egyptian government has reportedly ordered state-run media to step up negative coverage of LGBT people …

Censored! - Russian authorities tentatively ban films that “defile national values” -- such as, critics warn, any with positive LGBT content -- and the founder of an online site for Russian LGBT teens, “Children-404," is convicted of spreading “gay propaganda” …

Trans World Headlines - Israel’s high court allows trans people to change the gender designation on their IDs without having to undergo reassignment surgery, the first housing shelter for Turkish trans-women opens in Istanbul, and trailblazing Silverton, Oregon Mayor Stu Rasmussen, the first transgender mayor in the U.S., leaves politics -- at least for now ….

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Dana Eagle Soars!

Week of December 15, 2014
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Lesbian laughs with the Eagle, the Hummer, and the Last Comic Standing as Dana meets up with Chris Wilson and Wenzel Jones.

Queer Life and Literature Commentator Janet Mason leafs through three new books about disparate parts of the LGBT world: Pride Climbing Higher, Stories by LGBT People from Nepal, an anthology edited by Chad Frisbie (Creative Nepal, 2014), Mardis Gras, a photobook from Australia (2014, Sonia Friedrich) and The Last Conception, a novel by Gabriel Constans (Melange Books, 2014).

And in <i><a href="http://bit.ly/1w0od5m">NewsWrap</a></i>: dozens of naked men humiliated at Cairo gay bathhouse crackdown, thousands protest E.U. sanctions over Gambia's anti-LGBT laws, English and Welsh "partners" finally get married, Seoul's mayor bows to human rights pressure, I.O.C. bans bias against the L-G-B but not the T, and more news reported this week by Michael LeBeau and Chrisanne Eastwood (produced by Steve Pride).

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NewsWrap for the week ending December 15, 2014

SUMMARY

Un-Pride March - Up to 40 frightened and naked allegedly gay men are paraded out of a Cairo bathhouse with news cameras rolling as they're being arrested for “perversion” and “debauchery” …

Biting the Hand - thousands march in Gambia’s capitol of Banjul to protest the EU’s withdrawal of financial aid because of the enactment of draconian new anti-gay laws …

No, It's Not Free Speech - a U.S. federal appeals court in Boston advances an unusual “crimes against humanity” lawsuit by Ugandan activists against professional homophobe Scott Lively …

Movin' On Up - same-gender couples in English and Welsh civil partnerships begin converting them to civil marriages …

Decent Proposal - a civil marriage bill is introduced in the Chilean House of Delegates …

Sorry for Dehumanizing You - after a five-day sit-in by equality advocates at City Hall, Seoul’s mayor apologizes for dumping an LGBT-inclusive municipal Human Rights Charter because Christian conservatives had objected …

Game Changer … Almost - the International Olympic Committee adds sexual orientation to the named characteristics in the Charter’s anti-bias Principle 6, but as activist (and Harvey Milk nephew) Stuart Milk notes, transgenders are still without specific mention …

What's the Problem? - U.S. Air Force Secretary Deborah Lee James tells the “USA Today’s” Susan Page that she has no objection to military service by qualified transgender people …

Empire Progress - transgender rights advance in New York City and New York state …

When the Unexpected Happens - Roman Catholic Pope Francis tells an Argentinian newspaper that parents finding themselves in the “somewhat unusual situation” of having a gay or lesbian child should support them …

Lavender Lotuses - Kyodo’s 500-year-old Shunkoin Zen Buddhist Temple becomes Japan’s first to host the wedding ceremonies of same-gender couples ….

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Puerto Rican LGBTs & Kluwe's Kick

Week of January 13, 2014
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Activists Margarita Lopez, Luis Santiago and Rosie Mendez talk about being out and Puerto Rican on the front lines in New York City (correspondent Kelly Cogswell).

America's National Football League gets a (Chris) Kluwe about equality from the player who says he was fired by "two cowards and a bigot" (correspondents Abby Dees and Wenzel Jones).

Commentator Janet Mason gets ready to buy stamps with Harvey Milk.

And in NewsWrap:  Russia's Orthodox Church prays for homo sex ban, dangers rise as LGBT Ugandans await pending homophobic law, Chile moves closer to civil unions, U.S. feds foil Utah's effort to nix marriage rights, and more news reported by Sarah Sweeney and Rick Watts (produced by Wenzel Jones and Steve Pride).

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NewsWrap for the week ending January 11, 2014

SUMMARY

Russia Roundup - Russia's politically powerful Orthodox Church calls for a public referendum to re-criminalize gay sex; NBC Sports anchor Bob Costas tells reporters that he wants to ask Vladimir Putin to defend his country's "no promo homo" law during the network's Winter Olympics coverage next month in Sochi, while the U.S. State Department warns LGBT visitors to keep it on the "down low" …

Slow Backtrack - the Indian government asks the nation's Supreme Court to reconsider its December 11th ruling that recriminalized gay sex …

As Night Is Falling - just the threat of Uganda's draconian anti-gay law, yet to be signed by the president, is already making life more difficult for HIV/AIDS workers and the sexual minorities they serve …

The Sun Also Rises - civil unions for Chile's same-gender couples may be just a few weeks away after the Senate overwhelmingly approves a bill to create them …

Feds Buzz Bees - Utah's Republican Governor Gary Herbert nixes state recognition of the 1,360 lesbian and gay couples who legally wed in the state during the 17 days that they could, but U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder says that the federal government will recognize those couples …

Courting Rituals - four same-gender couples challenge Arizona's constitutional marriage equality ban in federal court, and a federal court in Austin will soon begin hearings on a challenge to the ban in Texas …

Disenchanted - an effort by opponents of New Mexico marriage equality to pass a constitutional amendment to overturn the state Supreme Court ruling establishing it as the law of the land in December are not given much chance of success …

Celebrity News - Germany's retired high-profile international football [soccer] star Thomas Hitzlsperger comes out, while Joseph Lown, the San Angelo, Texas mayor who resigned in 2009 to move to Mexico to live with his undocumented gay partner legally marries him in a Mexico City ceremony …

And That's the Truth - comedy icon Lily Tomlin and her creative/life partner of 42 years Jane Wagner finally make honest women of each other on New Year's Eve in New York City ….

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"Out In The Dark" & "A Piece of the Sky"

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Set against the backdrop of one of the most difficult situations in the world, co-writer/director Michael Mayer's new film puts a different face on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

Her new CD and upcoming tour prove that Tret Fure's four-decade career as a music industry trailblazer is still on the move.

And in NewsWrap: Christie surrenders to New Jersey marriage equality, Tasmanian equity gets constitutional okay, four neo-Nazis convicted of killing "Chile's Matthew Shepard," Cairo cops raid alleged gay bathhouse, public service puppets "Sheka and Teka" spark controversy in Israel, and more news reported by Michael Allan and Abby Dees (produced by Steve Pride).

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NewsWrap for the week ending October 19, 2013

SUMMARY

Wedding Garden - In U.S. state marriage equality news, the New Jersey Supreme Court green-lights marriage licenses for same-gender couples beginning October 21st …

Awaiting Enchantment - New Mexico's high court is scheduled to hear arguments on October 23rd in a marriage equality case there …

Great Lakes Front - a U.S. District court judge schedules oral arguments for February 2014 in a challenge to Michigan's hetero-only constitutional marriage statute …

Beaver State Breaks Dam - Oregon's chief operating officer orders state agencies to recognize the marriages of same-gender couples conducted in other jurisdictions where they're legal …

Perpetuated in Righteousness - Hawai'i lawmakers begin a special session to consider marriage equality on October 28th …

Prairie Justice - activists are hoping for debate to be held in the coming week on a marriage equality proposal in Illinois …

Fertile Ground for Faithfulness - two Australian constitutional law experts conclude that the state of Tasmania can enact marriage equality without being in conflict with the federal Marriage Act …

On Matthew Shepard's Anniversary - four alleged neo-Nazis are convicted of last year's brutal torture and murder of Chilean student Daniel Zamudio …

Devil Made Them Do It - at least 14 men are arrested for "practicing homosexuality" in a raid of a Cairo "health club" …

Romantic Sparks - speculation rises about the sexual orientation of "Plug" and "Socket," a pair of male puppets that have been promoting the Israel Electric Corporation for more than a decade, after the arrival of a baby puppet in their latest ad ….

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NewsWrap for the week ending April 7, 2012

SUMMARY

Targets on Their Backs - An anti-gay group in Liberia's capital city of Monrovia distributes fliers with what is being described as a "hit list" of people who support LGBT rights, whom one member said could be punished by "flogging and death" …

You Mean They're Human? - authorities in Cameroon's capital of Yaounde shut down a human rights workshop when they discover that the focus is on LGBT rights …

This Is Fascist - two Russian gay activists become the first to be arrested in St. Petersburg under the city's recently enacted law criminalizing dissemination of LGBT "propaganda" to minors for holding placards outside a popular youth center simply reading "Gay – this is normal" …

The Orientation Will Not Be Televised - Malaysian government authorities announce a ban on state-owned radio and TV stations of any shows that feature gay characters, although one official says male program hosts who appear effeminate are exempt "because they are born this way" …

Too Late for Daniel - Chilean lawmakers pass a bill to ban sexual orientation- and gender identity-based bias seven years after it was first introduced, but about a week after the highly-publicized brutal neo-Nazi gang beating death of "out" young man Daniel Zamudio …

Freezing Chads? - citing several polling place irregularities, the ACLU of Alaska demands a formal review of municipal election results this week in Anchorage that included the overwhelming defeat of Proposition 5, which would have banned anti-LGBT bias …

The Audacity of Political Pressure - the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund joins 72 members of Congress to urge President Obama to issue an executive order requiring federal contractors to have LGBT-inclusive non-discrimination policies …

Queers in Hoodies - 23 of the largest LGBT rights organizations in the U.S. sign on to a joint open letter condemning the shooting death in Florida of unarmed 17-year-old African-American teen Trayvon Martin …

Age Appropriate - after almost a half-million people petition the Motion Picture Association of America to protest the "R" rating of "Bully," the highly-praised documentary about anti-queer school bullying that would only allow viewers 17 and older to see it in theaters, filmmakers agree to cut the number of "f"-words from six to three to get a "PG-13" rating, which will allow movie houses to admit viewers aged 13 and older, and screenings in middle schools and high schools, so that it can be seen by the film's target audience ….

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NewsWrap for the week ending July 16, 2011

SUMMARY

Campaign Pledge - Chilé's President Sebastián Piñera floats a civil unions proposal ...

Hasn't Hurt - several Uruguayan celebrities televise marriage equality endorsements, while same-gender wedding stats are issued in Argentina, Spain and Canada ...

Sundays Will Never Be the Same - New York prepares for Sunday weddings in July ...

Bringing It All Back Home - gay South Australian MP says he'll challenge his country's refusal to recognize same-gender marriages legally conducted abroad after he marries his longtime partner in New York ...

Rising Tide - passage in the Empire State inspires new moves for marriage equality in Maine, Maryland and Colorado ...

Just Don't Already - legal battle in federal court over Don't Ask Don't Tell wears on as legislative repeal looms ...

Knowledge Base - California requires public schools and social studies textbooks to teach about LGBT people's contributions to the economic, political and social development of the state and the country ...

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