Ricamora’s Reward & Canada's "Queer Decade" 4!

How to Get Away with Murder’s gay Asian Conrad “Oliver Hampton” Ricamora gets away with the Human Rights Campaign’s Visibility Award.

In Part 4 of Queer Decade: 1995-2005, veteran Vancouver correspondent Heather Kitching’s award-winning documentary recalls the 2001 British Columbia legal setback in the push for marriage equality.

And in NewsWrap: Australia’s Opposition throws marriage proposals into the plebiscite mix, Bermuda’s High Court okays a marriage equality lawsuit, New York’s highest court expands the definition of parenthood, the Church of England has its first openly gay Bishop, Pride drags into Kim Davis’ hometown, and more international LGBT news reported this week by Jessica Andrea and Wenzel Jones (produced by Steve Pride, written by Greg Gordon).

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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 January 12, 2013

SUMMARY

Parental Permission - Italy's Supreme Court declares that same-gender couples can raise children just as well as heterosexual couples …

First Bias Hit - an appeals court in Serbia becomes the first in the Balkan nation to punish someone for anti-gay discrimination …

Liquor License - the Court of Appeals in Cameroon frees two men after they'd served more than a year of five-year "homosexuality" prison sentences for, among other "offenses," drinking Bailey's Irish Cream …

Reproductive Rights - the Stockholm Administrative Court of Appeals overturns a 1972 law in Sweden that required involuntary sterilization in all gender reassignment surgeries …

Oyez Oyez - the U.S. Supreme Court announces that it will hear oral arguments in the Proposition 8 case on March 26th and on the DOMA case the following day …

If You Don't, You Can - the Church of England says that "out" gay men in celibate civil partnerships can now become bishops …

Faithful Servant, Well Done - the first openly-gay bishop in the Episcopal Church, New Hampshire's Gene Robinson, retires after almost a decade in that post …

Capital Equality Bells - the national seat of the Episcopal Church, the iconic National Cathedral in Washington, D.C., will soon begin hosting the weddings of lesbian & gay couples ….

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