Indonesian Horror & McGregor Slams Court!

The harrowing details of Indonesia’s terrifying infection of homophobic hatred (Nicole Curby, KBR/Jakarta, reports)!

Trans cricket reporter Cate McGregor turns the other cheek in response to Australian tennis icon turned fundamentalist Christian pastor Margaret Court’s homophobic and trans-phobic comments!

And in NewsWrap: a gay Irish-Indian will be Ireland’s next P.M., a U.S. federal appeals court finds the trans-boy’s bathroom, Moldovans marching “Without Fear” stopped by religious violence, France welcomes a gay Chechen refugee while Macron pressures Putin, progressive German Muslims challenge Merkel on marriage equality, and more international LGBT news reported this week by Wenzel Jones and Monique Lukens (produced by Steve Pride, written by Greg Gordon).

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Ellen's “Puppy” Anniversary!

Ellen DeGeneres celebrates the 20th anniversary of her historic sit-com coming out on her afternoon TV talk show, and we add our original coverage of that event in 1997!

And in NewsWrap: CHECHNYA: gay holocaust victims and concentration camps triple! An HIV-positive gay Russian man fights for U.S. asylum, a gay Hong Kong couple wins civil service benefits, Japan nixes an LGBT-inclusive public school curriculum, a marriage equality foe makes the presidential run-off in France, Canada's world pole vault champ comes out, and more international LGBT news reported this week by Jessica Andrea and Michael LeBeau (produced by Steve Pride, written by Greg Gordon).

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Oz Pleb Dead & March Into History!

Australia’s Opposition pulls the plug on Turnbull’s wheezing civil marriage plebiscite (with remarks by Bill Shorten, George Brandis, Penny Wong, Malcolm Turnbull and Alex Greenwich)!

Indelible highlights from Allen Ginsberg, Kate Millett, Blackberri, Robin Tyler, Holly Near with Meg Christian and Mary Watkins, "and a cast of thousands" at Washington’s first queer mega-march honor LGBT History Month!

And in NewsWrap: sexual and gender minorities are shut out of the UN’s "New Urban Agenda," Russia’s government shuts down an LGBT teen support website, a U.S. appeals court agrees to rehear an Indiana lesbian’s workplace bias lawsuit, France advances transgender rights, North Carolina gubernatorial candidates clash over HB2, and more international LGBT news reported this week by Tanya Kane-Parry and Frances O’Brien (produced by Steve Pride, written by Greg Gordon).

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Irish YES & Gilman Live!

Week of May 25, 2015

A landslide of love brings marriage equality to Ireland (Scott De Buitléir reports from Dublin on the country's historic referendum).

Singer Billy Gilman gives voice to country queers (a night-out interview with Chrisanne Eastwood, produced by Steve Pride).

And in NewsWrap: the Church of Scotland and France's United Protestants advance a gay agenda, President Gates tells U.S. Boy Scouts to "Be Prepared," LGBT youth get protections in Oregon and Nevada, rightwing Jindal grandstands in Louisiana, Canada intercepts Michael Sam, and more news reported this week by Wenzel Jones and Abby Dees (produced by Steve Pride, written by Greg Gordon).

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NewsWrap for the week ending May 23, 2015

SUMMARY

Big Yes - Voters in Ireland make it the first country in the world to establish marriage equality through a popular vote …

Heavens Opened - the Church of Scotland moves toward welcoming legally-married gay ministers, while the United Protestant Church of France approves blessing same-gender marriages …

Be Prepared - Boy Scouts of America national president Robert Gates urges the organization to lift its ban on openly gay adult leaders and volunteers …

Curing Quackery - Oregon’s openly bisexual Governor Kate Brown makes her state the third in the country to ban so-called “conversion therapy” for minors, while minority Democrats in the U.S. House introduce a bill to ban such “therapy” for all ages as fraud under federal law …

Betting Against Bullies - Nevada’s Republican Governor Brian Sandoval signs an LGBT-inclusive anti-bullying bill …

Calculated Hate - Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal bids for the far-right vote in his quest for the GOP presidential nomination by issuing an executive order allowing religious-based bias only hours after the state legislature rejects such a measure …

Second Down - after failing to make professional teams in St. Louis and Dallas, Missouri college defensive standout Michael Sam, the first out gay football player in the NFL, heads north to the Canadian Football League’s Montreal Alouettes …

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Identity, Activism and Allyship!

Week of October 20, 2014
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Sapphic Nomads Maggie Young and Katie Cook stop in Mumbai to delve into India's culture wars -- fundamental to women's and LGBT liberation -- with psychologist and activist Deepak Kashyap.

Reading A Positive View of LGBTQ (Ellen D.B. Riggle and Sharon S. Rostosky) and Living Out Islam (Scott Siraj al-Haqq Kugle), Queer Life & Literature Commentator Janet Mason finds that identity is an ongoing process for everyone.

Brooklyn, New York-based Black/Trans/Queer/Rowdy-as-Hell Poet J Mase III has some worthwhile words for shaky supporters with #AllyFail.

And in NewsWrap: Roman Catholic bishops pull proposed pastoral LGBT welcome mat, Kyrgyzstan continues down repressive road, Palau decriminalizes gay sex, same-gender Scots plan New Year's Eve weddings, marriage equality continues marching across the U.S., Taiwanese scientists christen a diversity poster-snail, and more news reported this week by Natalie Peoples and Michael LeBeau (produced by Steve Pride).

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NewsWrap for the week ending October 18, 2014

SUMMARY

Gratus Interruptus - An extraordinary gathering of Roman Catholic Church bishops in Rome considers an LGBT semi-welcoming document, but the move is so controversial that even a compromise attempt ultimately fails …

Dancing With Draco - Kyrgyzstan lawmakers overwhelmingly approve a worse-than-Russia's "no promo homo" bill that punishes offenders with up to a year in prison …

Free To Be - the Pacific island nation of Palau decriminalizes gay sex …

Slate Cleaning - New South Wales looks to join the states of Victoria and South Australia to expunge criminal records of those arrested for consensual adult gay sex before the law's repeal …

Love's Lasting Flame - Paris memorializes the last gay couple in France who were burned at the stake for homosexuality …

Auld Lang Syne - Scotland will celebrate marriage equality on New Year's Eve …

Weddings March - Arizona, Alaska and Wyoming join the growing number of U.S. marriage equality states – and related developments …

Steadfast in the Streets - Taiwan LGBT activists pressure lawmakers to unjam a marriage equality bill …

Aegista Diversifamilia - the name Taiwanese scientists have given to a newly-discovered species of land snail endemic to the island honors the struggle for civil marriage rights ….

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NewsWrap for the week ending September 29, 2014

SUMMARY

Allied Victory - The United Nations Human Rights Council approves a landmark resolution condemning anti-LGBT violence and harassment around the world …

Fair Play - the International Olympic Committee – not wanting to chance another Sochi – adds a provision to the standard host city contract requiring an affirmation of the rights of sexual- and gender-variant people …

It's Okay By Us - Russia's Constitutional Court upholds the nation's notorious law banning "the promotion of non-traditional sexual relations to minors" …

Assalamu 'Alaikum - South Africa's first mosque to welcome people regardless of gender or sexual orientation to worship together is shut down less than a week after it opens …

Undercover Avatars - as the crackdown on Egyptian gay men escalates, the meeting app Grindr warns its users in that country that police officers could be "posing as LGBT on social media to entrap you" …

Bundle of Justice - France's top court okays co-parent status for a lesbian couple, one of whom conceived via in vitro outside the country …

Uh, Ya Think? - a state judge in Louisiana declares that state's ban on civil marriage for same-gender couples unconstitutional …

Ready When You Are - U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder says the Justice Department will file briefs with the Supreme Court in support of marriage equality if and whenever the high court decides to hear a case  …

Bending the Arc - the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission charges two businesses with bias on the basis of gender identity in first-ever lawsuits citing Title VII of the U.S. Civil Rights Act of 1964 …

Dress For Success - skirted Brazilian schoolboys brilliantly support a brave transgender classmate ….

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"Before You Know It"

Week of July 14, 2014

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Documentarian P J Raval and his subjects Tyler, Dennis, and Robert talk about their award-winning film celebrating gay seniors' gusto (interviewed by Steve Pride).

Americans For Truth About Homosexuality’s Peter LaBarbera and Harlem's All The Land Anointed Holy (ATLAH) church pastor James David Manning pander to gay sex paranoia with an expose of "cheap orgasms" and Obama's "obsession" with homosexuality.

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NewsWrap for the week ending July 12, 2014

SUMMARY

Economical Excuse - Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni blames reduced Western aid over the draconian "Anti-Homosexuality Law" for having to raise taxes, which LGBT activists fear will add even more fuel to the homophobic fire in the country …

Unending Ugandan Nightmare - a statement by the Ugandan government insists that the so-called "Jail All The Gays" law is not meant to punish gay people but only to curb "the open promotion of homosexuality," but recent actions by government agencies contradict that assertion, and five Ugandans – including 16- and 18-year old students – suffer torturous "anal probes" to supposedly confirm their homosexuality after being charged with "promoting" it "to minors" …

Not On the Guest List - a bouncer at Kiev's Pamada Club rebuffs an attempt by neo-Nazi skinheads to invade the gay nightspot in the Ukrainian capital after its mayor's cancellation of a Pride parade over safety concerns …

Mile-High Marriage Dogfight - Colorado is the latest state to have its ban on civil marriage for same-gender couples declared federally unconstitutional, while rogue county clerks led by Boulder's Hillary Hall issue licenses to lesbian and gay couples despite being ordered not to by the state Attorney General …

Straight to the Top - Utah officials announce a direct challenge to the U.S. Supreme Court of the appeals court ruling overturning that state's ban …

Shut Your Eyes - Indiana's governor orders state officials not to recognize the legal marriages of same-gender couples …

Forward March - Wisconsin's Attorney General formally challenges a district court ruling striking down his state's ban in a federal appeals court …

Voting on Vows - Irish Prime Minister Enda Kenny officially announces that a planned national referendum on marriage equality will be held within the first four months of 2015 …

Storming the Bastille - a landmark ruling by France's top administrative court clears the way for the marriage of an immigrant Senegalese man to his gay French partner ….

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Still Ask, Still Tell & Lounge Lizard Laughs

Week of May 19, 2014
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The U.S. military signals an "about face" on its ban on transgender service members with comments by U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel. Navy veteran Landon Wilson and filmmaker Fiona Dawson discuss a possible pending policy change on MSNBC's Ronan Farrow Daily.

"America's best, least-known lounge act," Mack & Poppy (aka Tod Macofsky and Christopher Michael Graham, share their music and mirth with correspondent Steven Reigns.

And in NewsWrap: India's elections keep retro sodomy law in place, marriage equality inspires increased assaults in France, Gambia's leader vows to kill fleeing gay refugees, Conchita's victory lap riles Russians, and more news reported by Kristin Mellian and Gary Shaw (produced this week by Wenzel Jones and Steve Pride).

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NewsWrap for the week ending May 17, 2014

SUMMARY

Post-Landslide Legal Limbo - India's law criminalizing gay sex is likely to stay in force for at least five years – unless it's overturned by the Supreme Court – following national elections that swept the anti-gay, opposition party to power …

Wedding Wrangling - Arkansas joins Utah and Michigan with hundreds of civilly-married same-gender couples in legal limbo after an appeals court stays a lower court ruling authorizing them, while an appeals court stays a similar ruling in Idaho to avoid such uncertainties …

Backlash - anti-gay violence spikes sharply in France after marriage equality becomes the law of the land there in mid-2013 …

Floodgates of Hate - abuse of and violent assaults on people perceived to be LGBT continue to mushroom in Uganda since the February enactment of the draconian Anti-Homosexuality Law …

Don't Feel Threatened Or I'll Kill You - Gambia's President Yahya Jammeh calls anyone seeking asylum by claiming anti-gay persecution in his country "liars," warning that "If I catch them I will kill them"…

Pork Prize - the sky has yet to fall following bearded gay Austrian drag queen Conchita Wurst's celebrated win at the Eurovision Song Contest as a butcher in her hometown creates a top-selling special sausage featuring the singer's portrait that he calls "extra spicy, just like she is" …

Razor's Edge - although Russian lawmakers call for a "gay free" competition, and one apocalyptically laments "the end of Europe," several men in Russia and in Eastern Europe reportedly shave their beards to protest Conchita's win, and social media lampoons priests in the Conchita-condemning Russian Orthodox Church as "bearded men in dresses opposing bearded men in dresses" ….

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Girl Scouts from Hell & GOP Optimism?

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“Good Christian” internet broadcasters Kevin Swanson and Dave Buehner urge a cookie boycott against the "ungodly" organization that teaches young women to be independent (horrors!).

American Unity Fund senior adviser Jeff Cook-McCormac tries to counter Rachel Maddow's (MSNBC) cynicism about whether Republicans will follow as New Jersey Governor Chris Christie capitulates to the inevitability of marriage equality.

And in NewsWrap: Russia's child removal plan pulled for "revisions," Podgorica police protect Pride from protestors, A.C.T. marriage measure and his lesbian sister's engagement pressure Australian P.M. Abbott, resistant French mayors ordered to marry same-gender couples, and more news reported by Sarah Sweeney and Greg Gordon (produced by Steve Pride).

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NewsWrap for the week ending October 26, 2013

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Legislative Time Out - Proposed legislation in Russia to remove children from the homes of their gay or lesbian parents is withdrawn, but not forgotten …

200 Overcome 1500 - violent attacks by right-wing extremists on the first-ever Pride march in Montenegro's capital of Podgorica end with several injuries and multiple arrests …

Aussies At Odds - the federal government challenges the latest effort to enact marriage equality in the Australian Capital Territory, anti-equality P.M. Tony Abbott's out lesbian sister announces her engagement, and lawmakers consider marriage equality bills in the Australian states of New South Wales and Tasmania …

Tar Heel Tap Dancing - an official in Buncombe County, North Carolina tests that U.S. state's hetero-only marriage law, while same-gender couples legally married elsewhere demand recognition of their marriages there …

Clarity To Come - a ruling is expected by year's end by the New Mexico Supreme Court after it hears arguments this week in a marriage equality case …

Forever Hold Your Peace - France's Constitutional Council -- the country's highest court – rules that mayors opposed to marriage equality cannot refuse to officiate at weddings of same-gender couples …

Skater Won't Let Russia Slide - out U.S. figure skating champion Johnny Weir retires from competition, but not from LGBT rights advocacy –- including sharp criticism of Russia's so-called "no promo homo law" --  when he serves as a figure skating analyst for the NBC TV Network's coverage of the February 2014 Winter Olympics in the Russian seaside city of Sochi ….

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"Gay News" As History & Tony Stars

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The venerable 70s to 80s UK LGBT newspaper's then-Features Editor Keith Howes talks about his new YouTube series of archival gems with Sydney, Australia correspondent Barry McKay.

Acceptance speeches from Larry Kramer and Billy Porter light up the "gayest ever" 67th annual Tony Awards.

Plus: a pair of Rainbow Minutes find the spirit of Prides past.

And in NewsWrap: bigotry unanimous in Russia's Duma, murderous homophobes stalk French streets, Nepal LGBT group gets belated government approval, trickle of relief for partnered U.S. queer service members, Harry saves gay soldier from infantry, and more news reported by Wenzel Jones and Michelle-Marie Gilkeson (produced by Steve Pride).

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NewsWrap for the week ending June 15, 2013

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Unanimously Bigoted - Russia's parliament votes 436-0 to outlaw "propaganda of nontraditional sexual relations," which if eventually signed by President Vladimir Putin will effectively ban public expressions of support for LGBT rights across the country, a move swiftly condemned by global human rights groups …

Backhands to Backlash - a few shirtless men who oppose already-enacted civil marriage equality disrupt the French Open tennis finals, but in a far more serious demonstration of growing homophobia in the country, five suspects with ties to an ultra-nationalist group face manslaughter charges in the brutal bashing murder in Paris of promising 18-year-old student and gay activist Clemenet Meric …

Cash for Diamonds - after a 7-month delay while founder Sunil Pant and his Blue Diamond Society were ostensibly being investigated for corruption, Nepal's leading LGBT rights group finally gets its charity license renewed …

Chowder, Dogs and Sushi - U.S. professional basketball player Jason Collins stands "out" in Boston's annual LGBT Pride parade, record crowds celebrate Motor City Pride in downtown Detroit, and an estimated 400,000 hit the streets of West Hollywood for that city's annual festivities …

Fairer Fight - partnered U.S. lesbian and gay military personnel will get some of the benefits of their heterosexual peers starting September 1st, and a New York Congressman pushes legislation to make the past sexuality-based dishonorable discharges of gays and lesbians honorable …

Royal Ally - Britain's Prince Harry saves a military subordinate from an almost-certain gay bashing ….

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Union Cup & Lara's Scout Oaths

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Europe's gay ruggers take the pitch for the Union Cup in Bristol, UK with BCFM's ShoutOut host Mary Milton and her station compatriots Cheryl Morgan, Natalie Newbury and Paul Davis on the scene.

California State Senator Ricardo Lara vows to defeat youth group bias by targeting the tax exempt status of discriminating organizations like the Boy Scouts of America.

Plus: the American Family Association's Bryan Fischer rants against the "Boy Sodomizers of America."

And in NewsWrap: Nigeria's Jonathan pressured to sign world's worst anti-LGBT law, first French gay couple makes it legal as violent protests persist, marriage equality stalls in Australia and Illinois, rights marches make history in Croatia and the Ukraine, and more news reported by Jason Proctor and Tanya Kane-Parry (produced by Steve Pride).

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NewsWrap for the week ending June 1, 2013

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No Peace, Less Progress - Nigeria legislators pass what could be the most draconian anti-LGBT laws in Africa – if not the world …

Felicitations - the first gay couple legally weds in France, but violent opposition continues …

Pre-Election Jitters - there'll be no marriage equality vote in Australia on June 6th as expected …

Triskaidekaphobia - the Illinois House ends its spring session without voting on a bill that had been expected to make it the 13th U.S. state with marriage equality …

Lots of Kolaci - 400 would-be brides and grooms march for equality in conservative Croatia …

Maiden Voyage - Kyiv hosts prominent foreigners and brave local souls at the first-ever Pride parade in the Ukraine …

Russian Winter - dozens of arrests mark unsanctioned rallies for LGBT rights in Moscow …

Not Laying Down - a small demonstration in Georgia demands the prosecution of those responsible for leading the violent disruption of a small LGBT rights rally in Tblisi in mid-May by tens of thousands of ultra-conservative religious fundamentalists …

Balls in the Air - Jallen Messersmith becomes the first still-playing mens college basketball player in America to come out, and formerly retired but newly-acquired L.A. Galaxy Major League Soccer player Robbie Rogers becomes the first openly gay man to play in a professional U.S. team sport [with brief stadium introduction] ….

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NewsWrap for the week ending May 18, 2013

SUMMARY

IDA Hot - The annual International Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia (IDAHOT) is observed on May 17th by the United Nations [with brief comments by U.N. Human Rights Commissioner Navi Pillay and Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon], and in a variety of events across Asia …

IDA Cold - police shut down an IDAHOT march in Nairobi and a rally on the same day in St. Petersburg, while several people are injured as religious extremists violently attack an IDAHOT rally in the Georgian capital of Tbilisi …

Squeaky Wheel - anti-gay demonstrators in Kiev succeed in getting a proposed bill in the Ukrainian parliament to ban sexual orientation-based workplace bias shelved indefinitely …

Blows Count - according to a largest-of-its-kind survey by the European Union's Fundamental Rights Agency, virtually one in two LGBT people on the continent have been discriminated against or attacked during the last year for being who they are …

Who Needs Enemies - a young Russian man is brutally tortured and murdered in Volgograd after reportedly coming out to two of his drinking buddies, although one news source says his parents claim that he wasn't gay …

Lindo Maravilhoso! - a near-unanimous ruling by Brazil's National Council of Justice virtually opens civil marriage to same-gender couples in Latin America's largest country …

Voilà, ça y est! - President Francois Hollande signs legislation to open civil marriage and extend adoption rights to French same-gender couples the day after a ruling by the nation's highest court clears the way …

Freer By the Dozen - Governor Mark Dayton's signature officially makes Minnesota the 12th U.S. state with marriage equality …

Internal Struggle - Italy's new Prime Minister Enrico Letta quashes a proposal by his own Equality Minister Josefa Idem to create some form of legal recognition for lesbian and gay couples …

Two Toppings - Italy's lower house of parliament extends health insurance coverage to its members' same-gender partners, and a court in Milan recognizes the British civil partnership of an Italian gay couple as a legal union ….

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Martin Duberman & Marriage in FRA and RI

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Author-historian Martin Duberman eschews liberalism and reconsiders the gay movement in his Kessler Award lecture, Acceptance at What Price? The Gay Movement Reconsidered (excerpted). Has the marriage equality strategy annulled our radical roots?

Dateline Paris -- France finalizes its Marriage for All bill! Celebrations in the streets … and homophobic violence spreads from outside the parliament around the country.

Dateline Providence -- State Senator Maryellen Goodwin is a Roman Catholic, but she converted to equality to vote to open civil marriage to Rhode Island's same-gender couples.

And in NewsWrap: the fourteenth country and tenth U.S. state okay marital parity, Nevada Senators begin to un-DOMA their constitution, Colombian marriage activists are undaunted by legislative rejection, Cuba's sex ed head is denied an "Ally" award, ignorance muddies Mongolian activists' magic moment, and more news reported by Sarah Sweeney and Michelle-Marie Gilkeson (produced by Steve Pride).

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