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Legalized Bias & Kenneth in the (212)!

Week of June 15, 2015

As hate holds sway in Michigan and North Carolina, MSNBC's Rachel Maddow analyzes the impact of new laws restricting adoption and marriage rights and talks with North Carolina Democratic House minority leader Larry Hall.

The intrepid blogger Kenneth in the (212) chronicles his big break from Middle America to Manhattan in Wasn't Tomorrow Wonderful? (interviewed by Steve Pride.

Fiery public intellectual and LGBT ally Dr. Cornel West simplifies the "faith versus discrimination" conflict for a questioner on Australian TV's Q&A.

And in NewsWrap: Germany's upper house defies Merkel on marriage; civil unions advance in Italy and Greece; Colombian trans-people win identity rights; Pride marches on in Nicosia, Tel Aviv and Sao Paulo; and more news reported this week by Michael LeBeau and Carole Meyers (produced by Steve Pride, written by Greg Gordon).

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NewsWrap for the week ending June 13, 2015

SUMMARY

Against the Grain - Germany’s upper house of parliament defies Chancellor Angela Merkel by passing a marriage and adoptions equality resolution …

Ireland Reverberates - civil unions bills for same-gender couples advance in Italy and Greece …

Safe Zone - an Arkansas judge upholds the validity of the marriages of some 500 gay and lesbian couples who wed before a federal court ruling overturning the state’s ban was appealed …

Last Chapter of Anita - Florida lawmakers finally repeal a decades-old ban on fostering and adoption by lesbians and gay men …

Declare Yourself - Colombia no longer requires trans people to undergo invasive medical exams before changing their gender on official documents …

Marching On - Pride parades in Nicosia -- without disruption this year -- and in Tel Aviv and Sao Paulo …

Spells and Misspells - Dumbledore and Gandalf get fantasy-married in Topeka, Kansas across the street from the hideously homophobic Westboro Baptist Church, whose cult members are still reeling from accidentally damning the Ivory Coast in a protest of Ireland’s marriage equality landslide …

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NewsWrap for the week ending April 25, 2015

SUMMARY

Rights Trump Religion - Kenya’s High Court orders the government to allow LGBT groups to register as NGOs …

Revised Repression - a proposal in Uganda would essentially outlaw LGBT NGOs "in the public interest" …

Protections Pending - India’s upper house passes a ground breaking transgender rights bill …

Acting On Their Own - a celebrity lesbian couple symbolically weds in Tokyo …

Not In My Constitution - two far-right politicians push anti-marriage equality bills in the U.S. Congress …

2 + 2 = 900,000 - a Utah lawyer claims that opening civil marriage to gay and lesbian couples will lead to 900,000 more abortions …

Whack-A-Mole - a few cities in Arkansas push back against the recently-enacted law banning them from enacting LGBT anti-bias protections, and Little Rock’s City Attorney believes a state anti-bullying law already provides those protections …

Give a Kid a Break - Arizona’s governor overturns a policy denying adoption and foster parenting to legally-married same-gender couples …

Sun Shines In - Florida Senate leaders shelve a bill that would have allowed taxpayer-funded adoption agencies to use “religious belief” to discriminate against prospective LGBT parents …

Who Needs It - with the dust yet to fully settle over contentious so-called “religious liberty” bills in Indiana and Arkansas, North Carolina’s House leader says his chamber won’t debate a similar measure this year …

Toilet Training - the Nevada Assembly rejects a bill to require transgender students to use school bathrooms and locker rooms corresponding to their biological gender …

Naked Lunch - Tallywackers, a male version of “Hooters”, is scheduled to open in May in Dallas, Texas’ Oak Lawn gayborhood  …

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NewsWrap for the week ending August 23, 2014

SUMMARY

Policy Transition - The U.S. Department of Labor issues guidelines to officially ban bias against transgender workers by federal contractors …

Arrested Development - imprisoned Wikileaker Chelsea (formerly Bradley) Manning says she's still waiting for the gender transition treatment she's been promised …

Picture This - Russian thug Maxim Martsinkevich, notorious for leading an anti-gay vigilante group called Operation Pedophelia that tortured and outed young gay men in web-posted videos, gets five years behind bars for "extremism," but not for his anti-gay crimes …

Lifted Offering - a major multi-faith Ugandan religious group loses U.S. funding for endorsing the country's horrific Anti-Homosexuality Law …

Brighter Sunshine - a U.S. federal judge joins four state courts that had already declared Florida's ban on civil marriage for same-gender couples unconstitutional …

Hoosier Justice - another federal judge orders Indiana to recognize the marriages of lesbian and gay couples legally performed elsewhere …

Staying Power - an appeals court ruling overturning Virginia's ban is stayed by the U.S. Supreme Court …

Steep Incline - a federal appeals court extends an indefinite stay on a lower court ruling striking down Colorado's ban …

Summer Sci Fi Hate-Buster - Irish marriage equality group LGBT Noise web-posts "Armagayddon," an over-the-top video satire lampooning people who believe opening civil marriage to same-gender couples marks the end of the world ….

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Queered Theology & Crazy-Making Lesbians

Week of August 11, 2014
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A homophobic trio (Rick Scarborough, Linda Harvey, and Rick Wiles) trumpets queer-caused crises --- but we slam them with trans-poet J. Mase III’s queer theology.

Author Amber Ault gives Sande Janagold a classic Sapphic warning: Leave the U-Haul behind! They discuss her book, The Wise Lesbian Guide to Getting Free from Crazy-Making Relationships and Getting on With Your Life.

And in NewsWrap: Ugandan lawmakers look to resurrect Anti-Homosexuality Law," rainbow cycles spin Pride around Hanoi, U.S. appeals court hears marriage equality 4-some, "homo promo" game not in the cards for Russian kids, and more news reported this week by Wenzel Jones and Gary Shaw (produced by Steve Pride).

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NewsWrap for the week ending August 9, 2014

SUMMARY

Zombie Resurrection - Ugandan lawmakers race to reinstate the Anti-Homosexuality Law after it was overturned on a technicality by the Constitutional Court, the Attorney General appeals the ruling to the country's Supreme Court, and the government hires a high-priced D.C. public relations firm to improve its image …

And Yet Still Proud - about a hundred courageous Ugandan LGBT activists celebrate Pride on a beach in Entebbe …

Rainbow Spokespeople - a record-breaking Vietnamese crowd bicycles and motor scooters with Pride as part of Hanoi's third annual celebration …

Solemn Sails - two boats honor the AIDS activists and researchers lost in the downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight #17 about 15 minutes prior to the kick-off of the otherwise festive-as-usual Pride flotilla along the canals of Amsterdam …

Port in a Storm - several African delegates to the International AIDS Conference in Melbourne reportedly seek asylum in Australia …

Menage a Quatre - a third U.S. federal appeals court hears six marriage equality cases from four states …

Hurricane Watch - four county clerks in Florida declare that state's ban on civil marriage for same-gender couples unconstitutional – but Attorney General Pam Bondi makes sure none can marry just yet …

Playing With Fire - the creators of a Russian "Truth Or Dare" card game are fined for the "promotion of non-traditional sexual relations to minors," while a toy pencil sharpener salutes President Vladimir Putin from the rear ….

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NewsWrap for the week ending July 26, 2014

SUMMARY

Spy Games - A judge declares St. Petersburg-based LGBT advocacy group Coming Out Russia "foreign agents", while officials in the same city tell organizers to dump (or landfill) Pride …

The "P" Word - Turkish court rules that calling someone a "pervert" is hate speech …

Trans Advocates Upheld - Kenya's high court orders the government to accept the registration of the group Transgender Education and Advocacy as a non-governmental organization …

Rocky Climb - Colorado's is the latest U.S. state ban on civil marriage for same-gender couples to be declared unconstitutional by a federal court, while a separate court rules that Boulder County can continue to offer marriage licenses to lesbian and gay couples, over the continuing objections of Republican Attorney General John Suthers …

Sun Shines In - second South Florida circuit court declares that state's civil marriage ban unconstitutional, but both rulings are stayed pending appeal …

Penguin Porn - with all copies of one title already destroyed, two of the three LGBT-positive children's books ordered to meet the same fate by Singapore's National Library Board are saved following several days of public outcry, but will now only be available in the adult literature section …

Foot in the Door - new owner steps in at the last minute to save Philadelphia's iconic LGBT bookstore Giovanni's Room from closure …

Torchwood: Osculation Day - tongues wag over out performer John Barrowman's man-on-man kiss during the Opening Ceremonies of the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow …

Cam's Rampage - otherwise affable "Modern Family" star Eric Stonestreet refuses to be photographed with one rabidly anti-gay U.S. politician ….

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ObamENDA & Tutu's Heaven

Week of July 21, 2014

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An executive order from U.S. President Barack Obama creates anti-bias employment protections for LGBT people in the federal workforce -- without the religious exemptions many advocates worried would be added in the wake of the Supreme Court’s Hobby Lobby ruling. Meanwhile, U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder revealed the administration’s plan if and whenever a marriage equality case reaches the high court.

Australian Olympic swimmer <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian_Thorpe">Ian Thorpe</a> found the water in the coming out pool was just fine, and newly-minted NFL football rookie <a href="http://michaelsam.com/">Michael Sam</a> was gay visibility's most valuable player when he accepted the ESPN television network's Arthur Ashe Courage Award.

South Africa's preeminent representative of reconciliation and Nobel Prize winner <a href="http://www.tutu.org/home/">Archbishop Desmond Tutu</a> prophesizes that there is Pride beyond the pearly gates.

And in <i><a href="http://bit.ly/1nyGLvt">NewsWrap</a></i>: HIV/AIDS researchers and activists become victims of the Ukraine-Russia conflict; U.S. judges consider marriage equality in Oklahoma, Florida, Utah and Colorado; Croatian couples win almost-equality; Malawi cuts costs by ignoring same-gender sex; more news reported this week by Michael LeBeau and Sarah Sweeney (produced by Steve Pride).

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NewsWrap for the week ending July 19, 2014

SUMMARY

Hope Shot Down - Renowned Dutch HIV/AIDS researcher/activist Joep Lange and at least a few fellow scientists/activists traveling to the annual International AIDS Conference in Melbourne perish in the downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 over eastern Ukraine …

Wooing and Courting - the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals overturns Oklahoma's ban on civil marriage for same-gender couples, a circuit court judge declares Florida's ban unconstitutional, the U.S. Supreme Court decides not to force Utah to recognize the marriages of more than a thousand lesbian and gay couples who legally wed in the state during a brief time when that was possible, and Colorado's Supreme Court orders the Denver County clerk to stop issuing marriage licenses to same-gender couples, but doesn’t stop fellow rogue clerks in Boulder and Pueblo counties from continuing to do so …

Equality-Adjacent - Croatian lawmakers overwhelmingly approve a bill to create marriage-like but less-than-equal "life partnerships" for gay and lesbian couples …

The High Price of Persecution - Malawi's Justice Minister tell a U.N. human rights panel that her government has told police to stop arresting gay people, who can be and have been punished with up to 14 years in prison at hard labor -- but financial constraints seem to have been the practical motivation …

Closing the Books - Singapore's National Library Board takes heat for ordering the removal and destruction of all copies of the true-life penguin story "And Tango Makes Three" and two other LGBT-themed children's books ….

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NewsWrap for the week ending June 7, 2014

SUMMARY

Behind the People's Backs - Lawmakers in Slovakia overwhelmingly vote to constitutionally ban marriage equality …

Belly of the Bear - same-gender couples can now marry at British consulates in 23 countries – including Russia …

Almost Losing Count - a federal judge makes Wisconsin the latest U.S. state with an unconstitutional ban on civil marriage for lesbian and gay couples …

Final Holdout - seven couples challenge the marriage equality ban in North Dakota, which had been the only state in the union without such a lawsuit …

The More the Married-er - Idaho's governor asks the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court to meet en banc rather than assign a more typical three-judge panel to hear that state's marriage equality case …

Marry Up and Wait - Utah gets a stay of a judge's order to recognize the marriages of more than 1300 same-gender couples who legally wed during the 17-day period they could in the state from late December through early January …

Before Somebody Drops A House On You Too - a Florida judge rules that three anti-equality groups have no standing to defend that state's marriage ban …

Not A NOM To Stand On - the U.S. Supreme Court affirms a lower court ruling that the notoriously anti-equality National Organization for Marriage (NOM) had no standing to intervene in the Oregon case, and NOM loses a lawsuit against the I.R.S. after claiming that the agency intentionally published the names and amounts of its donors …

Proudly Beyond Expectations - thousands celebrate a reasonably-peaceful first Pride event in Cyprus …

Solid Judgement - Puerto Rico's governor taps out lesbian Maite Oronoz Rodríguez to become the first openly-queer judge on any U.S. state or territorial Supreme Court …

The Next Generation - Peruvian immigrant Robert Garcia becomes the first out, the first Latino, and the youngest-ever Mayor of Long Beach, California ….

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