NewsWrap for the week ending July 25, 2015

SUMMARY

We're Human, It's a Right - The European Court of Human Rights decides for the first time that same-gender couples are entitled to some form of legal recognition …

Inviolable Identity - Italy’s highest court rules and the lower house of the Polish parliament decides that a trans-person can change their legal gender without having reassignment surgery …

Marry Us! - Taiwan’s capital city of Taipei petitions the island’s high court to open civil marriage to same-gender couples …

New Boss, Old Boss, Etc. - Nigeria’s new president Muhammadu Buhari rejects anti-LGBT law reform during a state visit to the U.S. …

Bringing It Home - President Barack Obama pushes LGBT rights in Kenya and Ethiopia …

The Vote's On You - the Texas state Supreme Court orders the city of Houston to put its 2014 City Council-enacted LGBT anti-bias ordinance to a public vote …

Over the Rainbow - a Saudi Arabian educator and his school apparently violate Islamic “anti-rainbow” ideology …

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Week of April 21, 2014
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The lesbian classical-pop singing duo of Laurie Rubin and Jenny Taira perform live in-studio and discuss their new adventure into music with a message (with correspondent Abby Dees).

Early 20th century British composer and suffragist Ethel Smyth is profiled in a Rainbow Minute (read by Karen Burns, produced by Judd Proctor and Brian Burns).

And in NewsWrap: India's top court affirms and protects trans-people, Malta bans trans bias and okays civil unions, Ethiopia eschews Africa's trending homophobia while Zimbabwe's Mugabe reinforces it, new laws in Brunei punish consensual adult gay sex with death by stoning, and more news reported by Sarah Sweeney and Ryan Pest (produced by Steve Pride).

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NewsWrap for the week ending April 19, 2014

SUMMARY

When Two Aren't Enough - India's High Court declares trans-people to be a third gender entitled to rights, protections, and government benefits …

Whistling in the Dark - the conviction and 35-year prison sentence for Wiki-leaking U.S. Army Private Chelsea (formerly Bradley) Manning are upheld, sending her case to a military appeals court …

Twin Wins - Malta lawmakers protect transgender people from discrimination, and create marriage-like civil unions for same-gender couples that include adoption rights …

Time Out Corner - Ethiopia's government resists calls for harsher anti-gay laws than already exist, so a large church groups-organized anti-gay march in Addis Ababa is cancelled …

The Usual Suspect - Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe calls gays and lesbians "inhuman" and threatens to kick pro-gay foreign diplomats out of the country …

Trapped - defiance and fear mix among Ugandan LGBT and HIV/AIDS activists under the new "Jail the Gays" law as many of their lives are threatened and police hunt them, while a Namibian official says his country won't accept gay refugees fleeing Uganda …

Stoned Again - new laws in Brunei punish consensual adult gay sex with death by stoning …

Can You Hear Me Now? - the 10th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals considers Oklahoma's challenge to a lower federal court ruling declaring the state's ban on civil marriage for same-gender couples unconstitutional in the second such hearing in as many weeks …

Don't Save the Children - Utah's Attorney General asks the state Supreme Court to stop same-gender couples who legally married during the brief few days that they could from getting second parent adoption approval …

What Constitution? - despite the U.S. Supreme Court 2003 ruling overturning state sodomy laws, Louisiana lawmakers vote to keep their statute on the books because residents believe gay people to be "dangerous, unhealthy and immoral" …

Southern Hospitality - in response to enactment of a state law to "protect religious freedom" that opponents called a veiled anti-LGBT "license to discriminate," hundreds of Mississippi business owners and shop keepers are welcoming them as customers with rainbow window stickers declaring "We Don't Discriminate" ….

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NewsWrap for the week ending March 29, 2014

SUMMARY

Inaugural Processions - Lesbian and gay couples begin civilly marrying in England and Wales …

DOMA Adobo - a lesbian couple who live in Puerto Rico but legally wed in Massachusetts files suit to require the U.S. territory to legally recognize the marriage …

Great Lakes Status - a U.S. appeals court extends the stay of a lower court ruling striking down Michigan's law banning civil marriage for same gender couples while state officials appeal it, and while U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder announces that the federal government will recognize the more than 300 couples who legally wed during the brief hours it was available to them, but Governor Rick Snyder says the state won't until there's a final legal resolution …

Celtic Confusion - a group of students in a flashmob celebration of St. Patrick's Day in the Siberian city of Irkutsk are assaulted by homophobic thugs thinking it was a gay event …

Russian Expansion - Russia-like "no promo homo" laws are pending in the former Soviet republic of Kyrgyzstan -- with harsher penalties for violators than the Russian version -- and are being considered in Lithuania and Ukraine …

Abolish the Gays - activists in Uganda report on the increasingly dire situation for sexual minorities in the East African country, while preachers begin a series of "abolish homosexuality" marches …

Bad Company - a proposal appears headed for passage in Ethiopia that would group consensual adult same-gender sex in the nation's Pardon and Amnesty Law with rape, human trafficking and terrorism …

Learned Behavior - a "religious freedom" bill to "protect" Tennessee students from anti-LGBT bias charges is headed to the governor's desk, with opponents calling it a "license to discriminate" …

Change for the Better - Maryland Governor Martin O’Malley is expected to sign into law a bill to protect transgender people in the state from discrimination …

'Til Death Do Us Join? - fringe opponents of marriage equality in the U.K. warn of apocalyptic consequences of marriage equality that include a resurrected Jesus being forced to marry a man and gay people digging up corpse on "National Necrophilia Day" ….

Complete NewsWrap text and this week's podcast to be posted April 1, 2014.