Pride -- The Movie!

Week of October 6, 2014
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The unlikely true story of the 1980s Thatcher-era pairing of striking Welsh coalminers and London LGBT activists comes to the screen in the Cannes Film Festival Queer Palm award-winning Pride, written by Stephen Beresford and directed by Matthew Warchus. Mary Milton of ShoutOut Bristol chats with union organizer David "Dai" Donovan, one of the real life characters portrayed in the movie destined to become a classic!

And in NewsWrap: marriage equality advances in the U.S. but stalls in Australia, Belgrade clears the way for a thousand Serbs to parade with Pride, trade pressure gives Museveni pause on Uganda's pending Anti-Homosexuality Bill, the Philippines' Quezon City and Spain's Catalonia region block bias and hate, drag queens fight Facebook's names game, and more news reported this week by Michelle-Marie Gilkeson and Rick Watts (produced by Steve Pride).

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NewsWrap for the week ending October 4, 2014

SUMMARY

Timing Troubles - A civil marriage equality bill stalls yet again in the Australian parliament …

Don't Ask Us - equality activists and opponents alike were awaiting word on whether the U.S. Supreme Court would hear one or more civil marriage cases – but the Justices take a pass …

How Many More Shoes to Drop? - a Missouri Circuit Court judge is the latest to overturn a state's ban on civil marriage for same-gender couples …

Safe, Not Silent - more than a thousand LGBT people and their supporters march in the first peaceful Pride parade in four years in the Serbian capital of Belgrade …

Bad for Business - Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni is apparently having second thoughts about the latest version in parliament of the possibly trade-killing "Anti-Homosexuality Law" …

"Enormous Step Backwards" - the semi-autonomous Indonesian province of Aceh, which operates under Islamic law, enacts a new statute to punish same-gender sex with public caning …

Development Over Discrimination - Quezon City, the biggest in the Philippines, expands its LGBT anti-bias protections to include education, insurance, access to goods and services, and accommodations …

Hate Gets the Spanish Boot - the Spanish region of Catalonia approves a bill levying heavy fines on perpetrators of anti-LGBT hate crimes …

We Are Not Amused - social media giant "Facebook" learns the hard way that you don't mess with drag queens ….

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