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Week of January 12, 2015
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Turkish lesbian activist Sedef Cakmak looks to the UN for support, as she tells UN Radio: Women's Stephanie Castro.

Maggie Young and Katie Cook's "Sapphic Nomads" sojourn comes to an end (at least for now) in Ghana, where gays and lesbians like activist Anita Confidence live "illegal" lives.

Transparent and The Normal Heart score queer Golden Globe Awards (with excerpts from comments by winners Jill Soloway, Matt Bomer, and Jeffrey Tambor)…

Trans Eurovision Contest winner Conchita Wurst sings for the Heroes in the new single from her forthcoming album.

And in NewsWrap: a club assault kicks Russian gays in the apathy, 26 Egyptian men are tried for "debauchery," Vietnam okays same-gender weddings, an Irish priest comes out for equality, and more news reported this week by Michelle-Marie Gilkeson and Michael LeBeau (produced by Steve Pride, written by Greg Gordon).

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NewsWrap for the week ending May 17, 2014

SUMMARY

Post-Landslide Legal Limbo - India's law criminalizing gay sex is likely to stay in force for at least five years – unless it's overturned by the Supreme Court – following national elections that swept the anti-gay, opposition party to power …

Wedding Wrangling - Arkansas joins Utah and Michigan with hundreds of civilly-married same-gender couples in legal limbo after an appeals court stays a lower court ruling authorizing them, while an appeals court stays a similar ruling in Idaho to avoid such uncertainties …

Backlash - anti-gay violence spikes sharply in France after marriage equality becomes the law of the land there in mid-2013 …

Floodgates of Hate - abuse of and violent assaults on people perceived to be LGBT continue to mushroom in Uganda since the February enactment of the draconian Anti-Homosexuality Law …

Don't Feel Threatened Or I'll Kill You - Gambia's President Yahya Jammeh calls anyone seeking asylum by claiming anti-gay persecution in his country "liars," warning that "If I catch them I will kill them"…

Pork Prize - the sky has yet to fall following bearded gay Austrian drag queen Conchita Wurst's celebrated win at the Eurovision Song Contest as a butcher in her hometown creates a top-selling special sausage featuring the singer's portrait that he calls "extra spicy, just like she is" …

Razor's Edge - although Russian lawmakers call for a "gay free" competition, and one apocalyptically laments "the end of Europe," several men in Russia and in Eastern Europe reportedly shave their beards to protest Conchita's win, and social media lampoons priests in the Conchita-condemning Russian Orthodox Church as "bearded men in dresses opposing bearded men in dresses" ….

Complete NewsWrap text and this week's podcast to be posted May 20, 2014.

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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