"Test" & Divergent Christians

Week of June 30, 2014
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Writer/director Chris Mason Johnson's film Test brings the AIDS dance to the big screen (preview and interview with Steve Pride).

Christian conniptions and kudos conflict over LGBT rites: the American Family Association’s Bryan Fischer and novice movie mogul Rick Santorum fantasize about "re-education camps" for faith-based homophobes, Episcopal priest Cameron Partridge is the first transgender preacher at the U.S. National Cathedral, and United Methodist Church minister Frank Schaefer is "re-frocked" after his same-gender wedding conviction is overturned.

And in NewsWrap: appealing wins advance U.S. marriage equality in Utah and Colorado, Mexican Supremes okay one Baja California gay wedding, most U.S. citizens believe ENDA already exists, South Carolina town saves lesbian police chief,  and more news reported this week by Michelle Marie-Gilkeson and Wenzel Jones (produced by Steve Pride).

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NewsWrap for the week ending June 28, 2014

SUMMARY

Industry Takes the Lead - In a case involving Utah's ban on civil marriage for same-gender couples, the 10th U.S. Circuit of Appeals becomes the first appeals court since last year's Supreme Court DOMA ruling to affirm a district court decision striking down a state's constitutional ban on civil marriage for same-gender couples as federally unconstitutional …

Ahead of the Curve - Boulder, Colorado County Clerk Hillary Hall, citing the 10th Circuit ruling that also affects her state, starts handing out marriage licenses to lesbian and gay couples …

Ding, Ding, Ding - St. Louis, Missouri Mayor Francis Slay marries four same-gender couples in defiance of the state's ban on marriage equality …

Crossroads of History - a federal district court overturns Indiana's marriage ban, and with no immediate stay, hundreds of couples reportedly exchange vows before an appeals court stops them …

First Drop - Mexico's Supreme Court grants a civil marriage license to a gay couple from Baja California – but the ruling only affects that couple …

Fantasy Fairness - according to a YouGov/Huffington Post poll, 69% of the U.S. population falsely believes that federal law protects LGBT people from workplace discrimination …

Restoring the Peace - the "nightmare that will not stop" for "unprotected" openly lesbian Latta, South Carolina Police Chief Crystal Moore appears to finally be over ….

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Gore Vidal Cures Amnesia

Week of June 2, 2014
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Director Nicholas Wrathall talks about The United States of Amnesia, his documentary on the elegant, acerbic all-around man of letters who presided with a certain relish over what he declared to be the end of American civilization (interviewed by Steve Pride).

Janet Mason reviews Heal This Way written by Little Monsters and photographed by Tracey B. Wilson, and Coming Around: Parenting Lesbian, Gay and Transgender Kids by Anne Dohrenwend.

And in NewsWrap: mob lynches gay man in Ghana and hunts for his boyfriend, Luxembourg's Parliament leans toward marriage equality, NOM takes on Oregon after record fines in Maine, religiously-weakened ENDA draws U.S. activists' fire, Peruvian Congressman comes out, and more news reported by Natalie Peoples and Jason Proctor (produced this week by Steve Pride).

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NewsWrap for the week ending May 31, 2014

SUMMARY

Noose's Shadow - A mob breaks into the home of a gay man in Ghana, strips him, and lynches him – and reportedly wants to do the same thing to his boyfriend, who barely escapes the same fate …

Ready to Commit - Luxembourg appears poised to be the next country in Europe to open civil marriage to same-gender couples …

NOM de Guerre - the anti-LGBT National Organization for Marriage asks U.S. Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy to stop the marriages of lesbian and gay couples in Oregon, while Maine levies the largest ethics fine in state history against the group for violating election campaign laws during the 2009 effort to repeal Maine's marriage equality law …

No Happy ENDA - several national U.S. LGBT advocacy groups express opposition to the current incarnation of ENDA, which would federally ban workplace bias based on sexual orientation and gender identity, because of its overly broad religious exemptions…

Pol-OUT-ics - Lynne Brown becomes South Africa's -- and the continent's -- first out Cabinet Minister, while Carlos Bruce makes history as Peru's first out lawmaker ….

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"Dallas Buyers Club"

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Matthew McConaughey, Jared Leto and director Jean-Marc Vallée preview their acclaimed new film about redneck and a transwoman on the Underground Railroad of AIDS drugs (with Entertainment Correspondent Steve Pride).

In news briefs, US House Speaker John Boehner confirms his outlandish anti-ENDA rationale and WUIS-FM’s Brian Mackey reports from Springfield on an Illinois Catholic bishop who wants to exorcise marriage equality.

Plus gay American veteran Denny Meyer volunteers for visibility duty (with correspondent Kelly Cogswell).

And in NewsWrap: Luxembourg scores a double play with the world's first out P.M. and Deputy P.M., narrow miss for marriage equality in New South Wales, Missouri's same-gender marrieds get state tax rights, LGBT activists are busted in Senegal and Uganda and bugged by Russian spies, and more news reported by Michael LeBeau and Natalie Peoples (produced by Steve Pride).

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ENDA-fatigable & "The New Black"

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The Employment Nondiscrimination Act's U.S. Senate success hits a House roadblock, but Senators Tammy Baldwin and Jeff Merkley will never call it quits on the federal job rights bill.

Documentary director Yoruba Richen (interviewed by Steve Pride) went into the midst of Maryland's marriage equality initiative campaign to examine civil rights frictions as  The New Black evolves.

And in NewsWrap: Euro-Courts support African asylum-seekers and Greek partners, Ireland and Croatia plan marriage equality votes, A.C.T. counts down to  High Court marriage hearing, Illinois and Hawai'i march down the aisle with 14 other U.S. states, and more news reported by Pamela Brooks and Wenzel Jones (produced by Steve Pride).

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On With ENDA & "Kill Your Darlings”

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Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid advances the Employment Nondiscrimination Act -- but what will happen in the House? Meanwhile, Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel orders non-compliant states to issue IDs to National Guard members for same-gender spousal benefits.

Michael C. Hall and Daniel Radcliffe star in John Krokidas and Austin Bunn's Beat poet murder mystery movie involving Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, William Burroughs and the enigmatic Lucien Carr (a preview by Steve Pride).

Plus -- a Rainbow Minute crowns the not-so-closeted King James I and His Favorite (produced by Judd Proctor and Brian Burns, read by Phil Pollard).

And in NewsWrap: Taiwan takes a look at marriage equality, Vatican vets social questions in  global survey, I.O.C. snubs Russian LGBT activists, ex-Defense Secretary may open the Gates to the Boy Scouts, and more news reported by Christopher Gaal and Michelle-Marie Gilkeson (produced by Wenzel Jones and Steve Pride).

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ENDA Encore & Blog This Way

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The effort to pass the Employment Nondiscrimination Act returns to the U.S. Congress as a committee hearing led by Senator Tom Harkins takes on the bill -- and the activists like Heather Cronk of GetEQUAL, and Mara Keisling of the National Center for Transgender Equality -- that won't go away. (Alice Ollstein  of Free Speech Radio News reports from Washington.)

Paul Vitagliano's blog and book were both Born This Way, and he tells Angela Brooks how you can still participate in the project.

Conan O'Brien heals Pat Robertson's Facebook tummy ache.

And in NewsWrap: Colombian judge says yes to gay couple's marriage proposal, Kolkata Pride walkers question normalcy, Tel Aviv massacre redefined as hate crime, and more news reported by Wenzel Jones and Tanya Kane-Parry (produced by Steve Pride).

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NZ Marriage Strategy & DNC LGBT Planks

Lesbian Labour MP Louisa Wall is leading the legislative initiative to make marriage equality the law of New Zealand; she discusses the history of the effort with Auckland correspondent Ross Stevenson.

U.S. Democrats plank down their best pro-gay platform yet; party bigwig Eric C. Bauman and activist Rick Watts (of NewsWrap fame) talk with Pacifica Radio's Davey D at the Democratic National Convention.

And in NewsWrap: pro-gay Kampala play performances put their British producer in prison, Iranian "expose" reveals a global gay conspiracy, Texas beauty school turns ugly over gay student, Benedict's adult film debut puts the Pope in porn, and more news reported by Christopher Gaal and Jason Proctor (produced by Steve Pride).

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NewsWrap for the week ending April 28, 2012

SUMMARY

Under the Table Bias Relief - The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission rules that gender identity-based workplace bias constitutes sex discrimination under Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, which leaves gays and lesbians without protections and waiting for passage of the Employment Non-Discrimination Act, or ENDA, by a more receptive Congress …

Don't Ask Keeps Telling - three U.S. Senators ask Defense Secretary Leon Panetta to expedite the process for veterans kicked out of the service under Don't Ask Don't Tell to delete that specific reason, which virtually "outs" them to prospective employers, from their discharge documents …

Court Martial the Messenger - a military judge advances the court martial of Private First Class Bradley Manning, variously described as gay or "gender confused," for providing Wikileaks with reams of sensitive documents in what's been called the largest leak of government secrets in U.S. history …

Scaling the Rockies - Colorado's Senate provisionally approves a bipartisan civil unions bill that probably faces stiffer opposition in the GOP-controlled House …

The Maine Event - the infamously anti-gay National Organization for Marriage teams up with the Christian Civic League of Maine to fight a marriage equality measure on the November state ballot …

Cure for the "Cure" - a bill introduced in the California Senate would ban so-called "reparative therapy" for anyone under the age of 18 …

In Franklin's Footsteps - Brian Sims is all but on his way to Harrisburg as the first openly gay member of Pennsylvania's House of Representatives …

Tongzhi Power - pop star Anthony Wong comes out as a gay man to thousands of fans during the closing night of a series of concerts at the Hong Kong Coliseum …

No Promo Homo Convicto - the movement to prevent minors from being exposed to so-called "gay propaganda" spreads across Russia, while the first man arrested for violating such a law in St. Petersburg is only convicted of refusing to comply with a police order to stop violating the law ….

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