NewsWrap for the week ending June 14, 2014

SUMMARY

Head Hater in Charge - Foreign Minister Sam Kutesa of homophobic Uganda is elected to the presidency of the United Nations General Assembly …

Caution: Hate Zone - Zambia's Foreign Minister Gabriel Namulambe warns diplomats to respect his "Christian nation's" homophobia …

Busted, Fined & Shorn - seventeen trans-women are jailed in Malaysia for violating sharia law …

Paper Tigers - Denmark makes it easier for trans people to change the gender on their legal documents …

Seven Days in June - the federal judge who overturned Wisconsin's ban on civil marriage for same-gender couples on June 6th stops their weddings a week later …

Pride & Love - 200,000 celebrants in Rome, 100,000 in Tel Aviv, and 400 in Bucharest parade with Pride and demand the legal recognition of lesbian and gay relationships …

LGBTouchdown - Michael Sam, the first out college football player drafted in the U.S. National Football League, signs a four-year $2.65 million contract with the St. Louis Rams …

Canadian Ceiling Cracked - lesbian Kathleen Wynne is elected Ontario's first female leader and Canada's first out provincial premier ….

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The Ninth on 8 & Lea DeLaria

California's marriage equality-banning Proposition 8 suffers a new defeat at the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, where the justices have decided to stand pat on an earlier ruling that the measure is unconstitutional (Pacifica Radio's Tina Bachemin reports).

The lesbian comic/singer/Broadway star is all jazzed up with everywhere to go, including the studios of Resonance-FM for a visit with Rosie Wilby of Out in South London for an entertaining discussion about her origins and future plans.

Plus a Rainbow Minute on this year's history-making "Mr. Gay World" contest in South Africa.

And in NewsWrap: Denmark weds civil marriage equality to religious rites, "DOMA" dies again in U.S. federal court, Moscow bans Pride for a century, Mormon allies build bridges to Salt Lake Pride, and more news reported by Tanya Kane-Parry and John Torres (produced by Steve Pride).

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NewsWrap for the week ending June 9, 2012

SUMMARY

Danish Treat - Denmark becomes the eleventh country in the world to open marriage to same-gender couples …

How Many Stakes Will It Take? - yet another U.S. federal court declares DOMA unconstitutional, this time in a case involving 83-year-old lesbian widower Edie Windsor …

What Part of "No" … - the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals refuses to reconsider it three-judge panel's February ruling that California's Proposition 8 violates the U.S. Constitution …

Century of Shame - the Moscow City Court bans Pride for 100 years …

From Warsaw to Riga - Poland's capital of Warsaw and Latvia's capital of Riga each host peaceful Pride marches …

From Mexico City to Tel Aviv - as many as 30,000 party with Pride in Mexico City and a like number do it in Tel Aviv …

To Detroit and Beyond - a Chevy Volt "comes out" for Detroit's Motor City Pride …

For All the Saints - supportive Mormons make history with Pride in Salt Lake City, Utah ….

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