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Marriage equality champions square off with their opponents before the Supreme Court of the United States! Voices that will ring throughout LGBT history include U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts and Justices Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan, Steven Bryer, Antonin Scalia, Anthony Kennedy, and Ruth Bader Ginsburg; Proposition 8 defense attorney Charles Cooper, opposing counsel Ted Olson, and lead plaintiff Kristen Perry; Defense of Marriage Act defense attorney Paul Clement, opposing counsel Roberta Kaplan, U.S. Solicitor General Donald Verrilli, and plaintiff Edith Windsor; law professor Kenji Yoshino; and attorney Shannon Minter.

And in NewsWrap: gay U.S. military activist Lt. Dan Choi convicted of a law-breaking White House fence-chaining Don't Ask Don't Tell demonstration, Paris police protect presidential palace from anti-equality protest, Russian activist beaten after his Pride is banned, Brits turn out for Turing, and more news reported by Pamela Brooks and Wenzel Jones (produced by Steve Pride).

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NewsWrap for the week ending March 30, 2013

SUMMARY

Supreme Test - The U.S. Supreme Court hears two historic days of oral arguments on marriage equality cases – the first involving California's Proposition 8, and the second challenging DOMA, the federal Defense of Marriage Act …

Decorated, Damaged, Delinquent - PTSD takes its toll on gay Army hero Lt. Dan Choi as he's convicted of a criminal misdemeanor for chaining himself to the White House fence in a 2010 protest against Don't Ask Don't Tell …

Shields Up - French "family values" types "put the kids in front" as hundreds of thousands march against marriage equality - and police - in Paris …

The Whole World Is Watching - Pride is banned in another Russian city and its organizer is beaten as TV cameras roll …

Poisoned Apple Pie - the "Universal Machine," (ultimately persecuted) gay mathematician Alan Turing's forerunner to the modern computer, is named the greatest British innovation of the 20th century ….

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NewsWrap for the week ending September 24, 2011

SUMMARY

Final Minutes - Countdown celebrations in LGBT venues across the country culminating at the stroke of midnight on September 20th cheer the official repeal of Don't Ask Don't Tell, the 18-year-old U.S. military policy that kept lesbian and gay service members in the closet …

Dear Dad - YouTube video of a private stationed at an Air Force base in Germany coming out to his father in Alabama on the day of repeal gets more than two million views …

He Who Waits - a gay World War II veteran wins a decades-long battle to have his discharge officially changed from "undesirable" to "honorable" …

A Few Good Queers - Marine recruiters make U.S. military history by visiting an LGBT center in Tulsa, Oklahoma to sign up new enlistees …

I Was A Male War Bride - a justice of the peace in Vermont declares a gay lieutenant "officially out" as he pronounces the Naval Academy graduate legally married to his longtime partner seconds after midnight on the day of repeal …

Now to Win the Peace - the Obama administration fights an effort to get equal separation pay for gays and lesbians honorably discharged under Don't Ask Don't Tell, another lawsuit to formally declare the policy unconstitutional …

Let's Jail the Hero - the "fierce advocate's" team also opposes a "vindictive prosecution" defense allowed by a federal judge hearing "failure to obey a lawful police order" charges against military equality advocate Lt. Dan Choi for chaining himself to the White House fence to protest Don't Ask Don't Tell before its Congressional repeal …

Best Wishes, Despite the Above - President Obama himself does issue a statement hailing the demise of the policy and briefly voices support for gays and lesbians around the world during his speech the following day at the U.N. General Assembly …

The Prop 8 Shore - a federal judge allows the release of video recordings of last year's landmark Proposition 8 trial – though his decision will almost certainly be appealed …

Equally Protected - a state judge in Alaska rules that lesbian and gay couples are entitled to the same senior citizen and disabled veteran property tax exemptions as the state's heterosexual couples …

Long Engagement - government officials in the U.K. say they're planning initial discussions on full civil marriage equality legislation in March 2012 with an enactment goal of 2015 …

Leaning on Labor - Tasmania's lower house of parliament passes a resolution urging the Australian federal government to open civil marriage to same-gender couples …

Lynch Pin - "out" Emmy winner and host of this year's telecast Jane Lynch peppers her comments with lesbian references throughout the ceremony, including the lavish opening musical number, during which she slyly discusses recent social progress and the battles yet to be won with the cast of the 1960s era-set Mad Men ….

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Taps for Don't Ask, Don't Tell

Our coverage of the repeal of the U.S. military's ban on openly lesbian and gay servicemembers includes a review of the policy's history (from Pacifica's Democracy Now!), the true identity of Outserve's "J.D. Smith" (from MSNBC's Rachel Maddow Show), and a repeal celebration at the Los Angeles Gay & Lesbian Center (with Steve Pride on the scene). You'll hear the voices of Army Lieutenant Dan Choi, Servicemembers United Executive Director Alexander Nicholson, Navy Commander Zoe Dunning, Air Force First Lieutenant and Outserve leader Josh Seefried, Servicemembers Legal Defense Network Board member Tom Carpenter, and other active duty and veteran U.S. lesbian, gay, and bisexual military personnel.

And in NewsWrap: DADT ends and an Air Force private publicly comes out to his father on YouTube, a U.S. federal judge takes the wraps off the Proposition 8 trial videos while a judge in Alaska rules for same gender couple property tax equity, a marriage equality proposal in the U.K. comes with a long engagement but a resolution of support pushes the issue in Australia, Emmy-winner Jane Lynch hosts some Mad Men, and more news reported by Robert LeBlanc and Rick Watts (produced by Steve Pride).

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NewsWrap for the week ending June 5, 2010:

Summary: A committee of the United Nations Economic and Social Council rejects consultative status for the International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission ... more than a thousand mostly young Muslims stage a first-ever march against homosexuality in Ghana ... Tiwonge Chimbalanga & Steven Monjeza, the Malawi couple pardoned from their 14 years hard labor sodomy prison sentence by President Bingu wa Mutharika last week, make their first post-release public appearance ... a 42-year-old Pakistani man and his 19-year-old transwoman friend are arrested in a raid on the teen's birthday party in Peshawar and are being charged with sodomy ... U.S. President Barack Obama issues an official LGBT Pride Month proclamation and issues a memo outlining the benefits he ordered last year for the partners and children of lesbigay federal workers ... military veterans Dan Choi and Jim Pietrangelo end their week-long hunger strike protesting the slow progress of "Don't Ask Don't Tell" repeal but say they might do it again ... Dutch airline KLM refuses the request of its gay flight attendants to not have to work on flights to queer-dangerous Iran ... Dutch researchers say they may have discovered evidence that "gaydar" actually exists.

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