Plebiscite Prognosis!

The "Yes" campaign is taking no chances, despite the polls predicting a victory for equality in Australia's postal marriage plebiscite. This Way Out Sydney correspondent Barry McKay takes a closer look - in the news and on the ground - to see if the optimism is well-founded.

Two Rainbow Minutes celebrate the advent of marriage equality in Spain and South Africa (read by Bill Lupoletti and Allen Browne, produced by Judd Proctor and Brian Burns).

And in NewsWrap: Egypt's "rainbow flag crackdown" mushrooms into mass arrests and a media blackout, Azerbaijan’s LGBTQ victims describe brutal assaults, same-gender couples begin married life in Germany, Anglicans sanction Scottish Episcopals for queer nuptials, Trump triples-down on opposing LGBTQ rights, and more international LGBT news reported this week by John Dyer V and Michele Yeater (produced by Steve Pride, written by Greg Gordon).

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Out of Dhaka & Caravan of Love!

Gay Bangladeshi blogger Mahamood Rakibul Hasan’s harrowing tale of fleeing tells for his life, finding temporary refuge in Nepal (an interview by Asia Calling's Rajan Parajuli, produced by Nicole Curby)!

Rejected Muslim and queer minorities rally around revolutionary love, organized by University of Minnesota gay Muslim Afghan political science doctoral candidate Nur Jibran (interviewed by KFAI’s Dixie Treichel and John Townsend)!

A Rainbow Minute special delivery celebrates Sweden’s Pride postage stamp (produced by Judd Proctor and Brian Burns, read by Robyn Bentley)!

And in NewsWrap: Europe’s human rights court slams Russia’s "no promo homo" law, a U.S. federal appeals court blesses Mississippi’s "religious freedom" law, rubber bullets stop banned Istanbul Pride march, Berlin’s mosque for all inaugurates Friday prayers, peaceful Prides prevail in Sao Paulo, Kyiv and Beersheba, and more international LGBT news reported this week by Frances O’Brien and Christopher Gaal (produced by Steve Pride, written by Greg Gordon).

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Proud Resistance!

Pride #ResistMarches take D.C. and WeHo (speakers include Charlie Carver, Asia Kate Dillon, Chase Strangio, Rep. Adam Schiff, Rep. Nancy Pelosi, Rep. Maxine Waters, America Ferrera, Jose Guevara, Patrisse Cullors, Christopher Jackson and Councilmember John Duran)!

And in NewsWrap: Germany welcomes its first gay Chechen asylum-seeker, a federal court clears but condemns a hate-exporting U.S. evangelical, Scottish Episcopalians choose marriage equality over schism threats, U.S. Methodists unite around a gender non-conforming deacon, and more international LGBT news reported this week by Abby Dees and Wenzel Jones (produced by Steve Pride, written by Greg Gordon).

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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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Obama Lang Syne!

We raise a toast to the outgoing 44th President of the United States with some of Barack Obama’s greatest LGBTQ hits! Meanwhile, departing Attorney General Loretta Lynch reminds us that “Yes we STILL can!”

And in NewsWrap: Israel’s top justices refuse to court civil marriage equality; support for equality advances in Peru, Portugal and Germany; Tory MPs block LGBT-inclusive British sex ed; a Chinese trans-man wins a landmark wrongful job dismissal lawsuit, and more international LGBT news reported this week by Carole Meyers and Christopher Gaal (produced by Steve Pride, written by Greg Gordon).

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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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Ambush at the 7th Circuit

Week of September 1, 2014
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7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Judges Richard Posner, Ann Claire Williams and David Hamilton scoff at Indiana Solicitor General Thomas Fisher's "bad breeder behavior"-based inequality arguments, as attorneys Camilla Taylor and Kenneth Falk represented the plaintiffs. Buzzfeed's Chris Geidner and Freedom To Marry's Evan Wolfson comment on the hearing.

And in NewsWrap: Ecuador engages civil unions; Utah's marriage case climbs the Supreme Court ladder; Switzerland, Italy and Colombia each adopt rights for same-gender parents; Berlin's out mayor opts out; lipstick lesbians wear beauty queen crowns in Spain and Ireland; more news reported this week by Wenzel Jones and Carole Meyers (produced by Steve Pride).

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NewsWrap for the week ending August 30, 2014

SUMMARY

Engaged - Ecuador's President Rafael Correa announces the advent of civil unions for lesbian and gay couples …

Stairway to SCOTUS - equality-seeking plaintiffs in the challenge to Utah's ban on civil marriage for same-gender couples join state Attorney General Sean Reyes in asking the U.S. Supreme Court to review the case …

Blaming Breeders' Bad Behavior - a three-judge panel of the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals hearing challenges to Indiana's and Wisconsin's bans batters state lawyers with logic …

Moms, Dads and the Kids - coupled same-gender parents win adoption rights in Switzerland, Italy and Colombia …

Poor But Sexy, So Long! - Berlin, Germany's long-serving out Mayor Klaus Wowereit announces that he'll step down in December …

Ultimate Lipstick Lesbian - two-time Miss Universe entry from Spain Patricia Yurena Rodríguez comes out on Instagram …

Will Irish Eyes Be Squinting? - Philadelphia, Pennsylvania's Maria Walsh, the reigning Rose of Tralee, "a global celebration of Irish culture," comes out in an interview with the "Irish Sun" – which could make things a bit sticky for New York City's Ancient Order of Hibernians ….

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Supreme Expectations & Juno Turns a Page

Week of February 24, 2014
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New York University law professor Kenji Yoshino discusses the various U.S. marriage equality cases being considered in the states and prospects for an ultimate Supreme Court ruling with MSNBC's Rachel Maddow.

Juno star Ellen Page comes out at the Human Rights Campaign’s "Time to Thrive" conference and encourages their work with LGBTQI youth.

Plus: Dallas TV sportscaster Dale Hansen celebrates out National Football League prospect Michael Sam.

And in NewsWrap: homophobic hysteria spreads on the African continent, Germany's top court evades an adoptions rights question on a technicality, Arizona's governor ponders a "license to discriminate," and more news reported by Tanya Kane-Parry and Wenzel Jones (produced by Steve Pride).

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NewsWrap for the week ending February 22, 2014

SUMMARY

St. Valentine's Day Massacre - A mob of 40 viciously attacks more than a dozen perceived to be gay young men in Nigeria's capital of Abuja in the early morning hours of February 14th as violence against LGBT people escalates following enactment of the so-called "Jail the Gays" law …

Exodus - LGBT people are reportedly fleeing equally inhospitable Uganda, as government leaders defy possible reduced foreign aid over the country's equally draconian "Anti-Homosexuality Act"….

Human Rights Repellent - Gambian President Yahya Jammeh calls gay people "vermin" during a nationally televised speech …

Love the Motherland - members of the pro-gay Russian punk band Pussy Riot are horsewhipped and doused with pepper spray under an Olympics promotional sign in Sochi as they try to perform an anti-Putin protest song …

In Full Regalia - transgender former Italian M.P. Vladimir Luxuria is arrested at least once outside an Olympic venue for wearing a rainbow-colorful headdress and outfit and carrying a sign saying "It's okay to be gay" …

If He Won, Who Lost? - President Putin hands out a "humanitarian" award to a popular newscaster who said the hearts of deceased gay people need to be burned or buried to avoid accidental transplantation …

Safe on a Technicality - Germany's top court evades a request to rule on the rights of civilly partnered same-gender couples to adopt non-biological children …

In Sight of the Finnish Line - Finland's parliament begins a process that activists hope will lead to marriage equality in the only Nordic country without it …

Resistance Is Futile - Oregon's Attorney General declines to defend her state's constitutional amendment banning marriage equality …

Rocking the Rockies - nine couples in Colorado challenge their state's ban in federal court …

Off the Back Burner - a federal court says that same-gender couples in Cook County don't have to wait for the June 1st implementation date of the Illinois marriage equality law to tie the knot …

Brewer Brews on Bias - will Arizona become the first U.S. state to enact a bill that allows discrimination against LGBT people by individuals and businesses if providing services would "substantially burden" the exercise of their sincerely held religious beliefs? ….

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NewsWrap for the week ending August 24, 2013

SUMMARY

Winning Weddings - New Zealand becomes the fourteenth country in the world to begin legally marrying same-gender couples …

Countdown Crescendo - Australians push for equality ahead of their September 7th national elections …

Will It Grow As It Goes? - officials in two counties in the U.S. state of New Mexico issue marriage licenses to lesbian and gay couples, which has Republican lawmakers howling …

Independently for Virtuous Liberty - an official in Montgomery County defies Pennsylvania's specific law banning them to issue marriage licenses to gay and lesbian couples, as oral arguments are set to begin in an ACLU lawsuit challenging the law …

Weeding the Garden State - New Jersey Republican Governor Chris Christie signs a second-in-the-nation bill to ban so-called "reparative therapy" for minors, becoming the second-in-the-nation state to be sued by the rightwing Liberty Counsel for enacting it, joining California, which was the first …

California Class Conflict - the Golden State now braces for an effort to challenge a recently-passed bill requiring equal access for transgender students to programs and facilities in public schools …

Baby Unbestimmt - Germany becomes the first country in the world to allow alternatives to "male" or "female" on the birth certificates of intersex babies …

Welcome to Jail - topping this week's Russia/Olympics confluence, the International Olympic Committee appears satisfied with Russian government reassurances that "everyone will be welcome at the Games in Sochi," although the same statement reaffirms that the recently enacted law criminalizing "the promotion of non-traditional sexual relationships" will be enforced against competitors and fans alike, as Russian President Vladimir Putin issues an ostensibly "antiterrorism" edict banning "gatherings, rallies, demonstrations, marches and pickets" in Sochi during the Olympics …

She Has A Point - a Swedish high jumper's rainbow-colored nails turn red with love ….

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NewsWrap for the week ending August 17, 2013

SUMMARY

Thou Shalt Not Bear False Witness - In a precedent-setting lawsuit, professional Massachusetts-based homophobe Scott Lively is ordered to stand trial in U.S. federal court for "fomenting" crimes against humanity in Uganda …

R.I.Prop. - the California Supreme Court drives the final nail into the coffin of the state's marriage equality-banning Proposition 8 …

Blessed Union - Germany's Protestant Church sanctions its first marriage ceremony for a same-gender couple …

Rock and Hard Place Event - the International Olympic Committee vows to punish any athlete at the Sochi Winter Games in February who violates Russia's law banning "gay propaganda" …

Broken News - prominent Russian TV newscaster Anton Krasovsky comes out on the air and is promptly fired …

Double-Dare - a few competitors at this week's track and field Moscow Athletics World Championships test the "no promo homo law" …

Different Bells - out Puerto Rican pro featherweight boxer Orlando Cruz announces his engagement …

Smooth Move - World Wresting Entertainment (WWE) Superstar Darren Young casually comes out to TMZ ….

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Lawrence v. Texas 10th Anniversary

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A look back at the June 2003 U.S. Supreme Court sodomy ruling puts the present in perspective. Our coverage from the time features: Lambda Legal Defense & Education Fund Legal Director Ruth Harlow; Dallas Gay & Lesbian Alliance President Roger Wedell; Peter Sprigg of the Family Research Council, Robert Knight of the Culture & Family Institute, National Clergy Council President Rev. Rob Schenk, and televangelist Rev. Jerry Falwell; Kate Kendall of the National Center for Lesbian Rights, Jennifer Pizer of the San Francisco-area Lambda Legal office, and openly-gay San Francisco Supervisor Tom Ammiano; litigants John Lawrence and Tyron Garner, their local attorney Mitchell Katine, and venerable Houston activist Ray Hill.

And in NewsWrap: U.K. marriage equality gets Lords' blessing; Evangelical Lutherans in America choose gay indigenous bishop; Germany's highest court orders tax equity for same-gender couples; Pride parades in Changsa, Sao Paulo, Salt Lake City and Tel Aviv; arrests finally made in the 2009 Tel Aviv LGBT youth group killings; and more news reported by Michelle-Marie Gilkeson and Charlie Bauer (produced by Steve Pride).

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NewsWrap for the week ending June 8, 2013

SUMMARY

Praise the Lords - Overwhelming approval in Britain's House of Lords of the "Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Bill" in its second reading, following full approval in the House of Commons, all but assures its ultimate passage, so the Church of England abandons its efforts to defeat the measure and says it will now work to "improve it" …

Two in One - the 4-million-member Evangelical Lutheran Church in America elects Reverend Dr. R. Guy Erwin of Southern California as its first openly gay and first Native American bishop …

Follow the Money - Germany's highest court rules that tax laws that treat same-gender couples unequally are unconstitutional …

Wǒ Yǒu Yǒng Qì - Changsha, a city in central China's Henan province, hosts about 80 brave activists at what organizers call the largest-ever public demonstration for LGBT rights in the country's history …

Para o armário, nunca mais! - more than a million people celebrate in the Brazilian city of Sao Paulo at what's billed as the world's largest LGBT Pride event …

Choose the Right - supportive Mormons and unauthorized uniformed Boy Scouts highlight the annual Pride march in Salt Lake City, Utah …

New Pride, Old Wounds - record crowds celebrate Pride in Tel Aviv, while speakers reflect on the breaking news of arrests in the horrific 2009 shooting spree at the Israeli city's LGBT center …

"Serena Morena?" - 59-year-old Mexican soap star Sebastian Ligarde tells a national magazine that "I'm gay, and I say this with pride" ….

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"Struck By Lightning" & "Shakesqueer"

Glee’s Chris Colfer is the Executive Producer, Screenwriter and Star of a new movie about a hapless high-schooler zapped before his time (Entertainment Correspondent Steve Pride).

The bawdy bard gets a perfect companion in Shakesqueer: A Queer Companion to the Complete Works of Shakespeare (Queer Life & Literature Commentator Janet Mason).

Plus: we devote a Rainbow Minute to U.K. gay rights pioneer Allan Horsfall (Producers Judd Proctor and Brian Burns, Reader Tom Miller).

And in NewsWrap: adoption laws liberated in Austria and Germany, problems in Puerto Rico for same-gender parents, Australian federal judge sees no bias in hetero-only Marriage Act, "Associated Press" back in style with "husbands" and "wives," and more news reported by Johnnie Torres and Michelle-Marie Gilkeson (produced by Steve Pride).

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NewsWrap for the week ending February 23, 2013

SUMMARY

Two Mothers Day - The European Court of Human Rights rules for same-gender couple second parent adoption rights in a case brought by an Austrian lesbian couple …

Kinder, Kuche, Queerche - Germany's highest court strengthens adoption rights same-gender couples already have there …

Late Adopters - Puerto Rico's Supreme Court rules that gay and lesbian couples aren't entitled to adoption rights of any kind …

Hot Sauce With That - Mexico's highest court affirms a marriage equality decision justices hinted at in December …

Equality By Extension - opponents of California's Proposition 8 argue in their brief filed with the U.S. Supreme Court this week that same-gender couples are entitled to civil marriage in every state of the union, not just California …

Balance or Bias - federal judge in Australia rules that a national law denying civil marriage to same-gender couples is not bias because it discriminates equally against gay men and lesbian women …

Watch Your Language - new "Associated Press" Stylebook entry directs that legally-married gay and lesbian spouses should not generally be referred to in A.P. stories as "husband" or "wife," but revises that guideline after escalating protests from grassroots activists and major LGBT organizations ...

Equal in the Eyes of the Retailer - giant online retailer Amazon had already seen the handwriting on the AP wall, and debuted a commercial with a gendered twist ….

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NewsWrap for the week ending September 1, 2012

SUMMARY

One Down - Legislation to open civil marriage to New Zealand same-gender couples wins overwhelming approval in the first of three readings in Parliament …

Optimistic Suspense - the lower house in the Australian state of Tasmania passes a marriage equality bill and sends it to an uncertain future in parliament's upper house …

Say Oui - French Prime Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault tells fellow Socialists that his government plans to introduce a marriage equality measure in Parliament in October …

Say Nein - German Chancellor Angela Merkel rejects taxation equality for lesbian and gay couples …

Theater of Cruelty - authorities in Kampala shut down a gay-affirming play before it could be staged as planned at the National Theatre of Uganda …

The Busted Network - Egyptian police reportedly track down a man they say is responsible for operating a "gay sex network" …

Didn't Say Gay - right-wing homophobes and "pro-life" factions have to read between the lines in speeches at the Republican National Convention in Tampa, Florida to find the virulently anti-gay anti-woman planks spelled out in the party's platform …

Bipartisan Cooperation - an enterprising local gay bathhouse offers free admission and discreet back door entry and exit to GOP delegates

You Don't Need a Weatherman - Southern Decadence begets Hurricane Isaac?

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"Eminent Outlaws" & "No Straight Lines"

Author Christopher Bram examines the gay lives and literary times of "the gay writers who changed America" with Richard Wolinsky on KPFA-Berkeley's Bookwaves program.

Editor Justin Hall's collection documenting "four decades of queer comics" gets high praise from Dyke To Watch Out For Alison Bechdel as Steve Pride braves Comic-Con International.

And in NewsWrap: registered German partners' real rights advance, U.S. federal judge denies marriage equality to Hawai'ian lesbian and gay couples, courageous Ugandan activists brave police harassment to celebrate Pride, Madonna defies St. Petersburg's "no promo homo" law, and more news reported by Jason Proctor and Sarah Sweeney (produced by Steve Pride).

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NewsWrap for the week ending August 11, 2012

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Real Estate Rights - Germany's highest court rules that a 2010 law giving same-gender couples in registered partnerships the same land transfer tax exemptions as married heterosexual couples can be applied retroactively …

The Ball's in Your … - a U.S. federal judge in Hawai'i rules that opening civil marriage to gay and lesbian couples is the province of state lawmakers or a popular vote, not the courts …

Place Your Bets - oral arguments in a lawsuit filed by eight same-gender couples seeking marriage equality in Nevada are scheduled for late November …

Kill the Fatted Peking Duck - Malaysian-born gay minister who married his African-American boyfriend in New York last year fulfills a vow to hold a traditional Chinese wedding banquet in his native country …

Daddy Landmark - married gay male couple scores an Argentinean "first" by being listed as the two fathers on the birth certificate of their surrogate-delivered newborn baby boy …

Proud to Party with Police - courageous Ugandan LGBT activists brave police harassment and widespread homophobia to celebrate Pride in Entebbe with a weekend of parties, a small film festival, and a beach parade …

Making Waves - hundreds of thousands cheer Amsterdam's 17th annual Pride flotilla along the Dutch city's historic canals …

Political Girl - pop diva Madonna makes good on her promise to defy a St. Petersburg ban on "promotion of homosexuality to minors" during a concert in Russia's second-largest city …

Kidnapping for Jesus - American Family Association mouthpiece Bryan Fischer calls on his radio show for an "Underground Railroad... to deliver innocent children from same-sex households" ….

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