High Noon at the High Court!

Week of May 4, 2015

Highlights from the U.S. Supreme Court's marriage equality hearing -- the justices, the lawyers, the plaintiffs, the analysts … and the heckler!

And in NewsWrap: Nepal's killer quake cracks queer HQ in Kathmandu, Ecuador's civil unions law passes without apocalypse, marriage equality loses its fourth fight in Northern Ireland, the EuroCourt seals France’s stringent gay/bi blood ban, Tokyo Pride toasts rights recognition, and gay choral compadres harmonize U.S.-Cuba relations, and more news reported this week by Matthew McLaughlin and Carole Meyers (produced by Steve Pride, written by Greg Gordon).

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NewsWrap for the week ending May 2, 2015

SUMMARY

Shaken - Leading activist Sunil Pant describes the specific impact of the devastating earthquake in Nepal on LGBT people …

Stranded - an emergency airlift evacuates Israeli gay couples and their Nepalese surrogates and newborns …

Approved - Ecuador lawmakers okay civil unions …

Excluded - El Salvador legislators approve initial proposals to ban same-gender couples from civil marriage and adoption …

Denied - the Northern Ireland Assembly rejects a marriage equality proposal for the fourth time …

Exsanguinated - the E.U.’s top court okays continued bans by member countries on the donation of blood by gay and bisexual men …

Emboldened - the annual Rainbow Pride Parade in Tokyo expands to a two-day festival as buoyant crowds celebrate advances toward equality in Japan …

Harmonized - Washington, D.C.’s Gay Men’s Chorus will be one of the first U.S. imports into Cuba as relations warm between the two countries after decades of antagonism …

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Whither Russia & NFL Pro-mophobia

Week of February 17, 2014
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Russian lesbian author Masha Gessen (The Man Without a Face: The Unlikely Rise of Vladimir Putin) and Dartmouth College professor Jeff Sharlet (who wrote the GQ article "Inside the Iron Closet: What It's Like to Be Gay in Putin's Russia") share their concerns about a post-Olympics apocalypse for Russia's LGBTs with MSNBC's Chris Hayes.

University of Missouri Tiger Michael Sam intercepted the possibility of being outed for a proud first down, but can the award-winning defensive end sack the shower sensitivities in the National Football League to score high in the upcoming draft?

And in NewsWrap: science fiction fuels Uganda's Anti-Homosexuality law, El Salvador saved from marriage inequality amendment, U.S. Justice Dept. reaffirms federal rights for same-gender marrieds, three up and one down for U.S. wedlock parity, Kansas considers bias loophole law, and more news reported by Michael Allan and Natalie Peoples (produced by Steve Pride).

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NewsWrap for the week ending February 15, 2014

SUMMARY

Science Fiction - The Ugandan government announces the signature of President Yoweri Museveni on the draconian "Anti-Homosexuality Bill" after lawmakers with medical backgrounds from his ruling political party assure him that it's a "social behavior" and not a genetic predisposition …

Saved Again - El Salvador lawmakers reject a constitutional amendment defining civil marriage as exclusively heterosexual …

Justice Deployed - U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder orders his Justice Department to defend all the rights, responsibilities and benefits of marriage currently available to legally married same-gender couples …

Several Shoes Dropping - a U.S. federal court overturns Virginia's constitutional ban on marriage equality, Nevada's Attorney General decides that defending her state's ban in a federal appeals court is a losing proposition, a federal court in Kentucky rules that that state's law banning the recognition of same-gender couples legally married elsewhere violates the U.S. Constitution, and a Kentucky gay couple files suit demanding marriage equality within the state …

Tie Game - the Wyoming House of Representatives soundly defeats a marriage equality proposal but also votes down a separate bill to ban legal recognition of same-gender couples legally hitched elsewhere …

Word Count - Indiana lawmakers stumble over language in a proposed constitutional amendment defining civil marriage in the state as the union of one man and one woman …

Bias Bailout - the Kansas state House approves a bill to allow businesses and government agencies to deny service to same-gender couples based on "their sincerely held religious beliefs" -- described by opponents as a "license to discriminate" ….

Complete NewsWrap text and this week's podcast to be posted February 18, 2014.