Wolfe Video: Stand and Distribute!

LGBT film distribution pioneer Kathy Wolfe chats with Entertainment Correspondent Steve Pride about the serendipitous success of Wolfe Video!

And in NewsWrap: India’s queers stay outlaws under archaic sex code, Greece’s civil partnerships opened to same-gender couples, Slovenian voters vanquish marriage equality, adoption rights advance in New Zealand and Italy, Malawi gays freed following international outcry, gays jailed in Tunisia and Senegal, and more international LGBT news reported this week by Wenzel Jones and John Dyer V (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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Marriage Momentum: Alabama to Ireland!

 Week of February 16, 2015
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The "Segregation Forever" state's Chief Justice Roy Moore stands in the wedding chapel doors (coverage of this week's chaos in Alabama by Comedy Central and MSNBC, plus words from a minister arrested for "attempted marrying").

Out Irish Senator Katherine Zappone urges a "yes" vote on marriage equality in the upcoming May referendum.

Queer Life and Literature Commentator Janet Mason reviews marriage equality fact and fiction in Redeeming the Dream (by David Boies and Ted Olson) and All I Love and Know (by Judith Frank).

Grammy-winning single Sam Smith and his Lonely quadruplets visit Ellen.

And in NewsWrap: disinterest defeats a homophobic Slovakian referendum, a Tokyo district pushes a partnership plan, there's no cure for a fake disease in New Jersey, and more news reported this week by Michael LeBeau and Natalie Peoples (produced by Steve Pride, written by Greg Gordon).

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NewsWrap for the week ending February 14, 2015

SUMMARY

Not Worth the Vote - Regressive anti-LGBT proposals fail in a Slovakia referendum for lack of interest …

Pasta Al Dente - Italy’s top court rules that the country’s constitution does not require opening civil marriage to same-gender couples …

Balancing the Fairness Books - the new Greek government proposes civil unions for queer couples …

Honorable Mention - the Tokyo district of Shibuya plans to offer “partnership certificates," which would be the first-ever recognition of lesbian and gay couples in Japan …

Fake Diseases Can't Be Cured - a New Jersey judge rules that businesses pushing “change therapy” to make gays and lesbians heterosexual are violating the state’s Consumer Fraud Act …

Partisan Bullies' Pulpit - a Republican-controlled U.S. House committee kills proposals to protect LGBT students …

Bias Unbound - Arkansas lawmakers ban enactment of city or county laws in the state to protect LGBT people from discrimination …

Straight Scandal Yields Bi First - Oregon Secretary of State Kate Brown is set to become the first openly bisexual governor in the United States …

Risks of Brownbacking - Jon Stewart reminds us how much we’ll miss him when he leaves “The Daily Show” later this year with his searing satirical report about GOP Kansas Governor Sam Brownback rescinding state anti-bias protections for LGBT people ….

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Daley's Splash & "Brand New Christmas"

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British Olympian Tom Daley announces his dive into a gay relationship.

Aussie crooner Nathan Leigh Jones re-invents holiday classics, and tells Queer Music Heritage honcho JD Doyle how he does it.

Plus: Dr. Brown's Prescription for early 1970s U.S. activism is recounted in a Rainbow Minute (produced by Judd Proctor and Brian Burns, read by Dan Roberts).

And in NewsWrap:  Russia's highest court upholds "no promo homo" laws, Croatian voters and the Greek government slam same-gender couples, U.S. and U.K. courts order bias-free public services, and more news reported by Michael LeBeau and Tanya Kane-Parry (produced by Steve Pride).

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NewsWrap for the week ending December 7, 2013

SUMMARY

Ironclad Bias - Russia's highest court rules that laws criminalizing the dissemination of "propaganda of non-traditional sexual relations to minors" do not violate the national constitution, while a court in Murmansk is believed to be the first to convict violators of the federal "no promo homo" law …

Who's Gaming Now - representatives of several Russian LGBT advocacy groups have an unsatisfying meeting with new IOC President Thomas Bach in Paris about Russian President Putin's vague assurances that LGBT athletes and spectators will be safe at the Winter Games in Sochi …

Bench Warmers - major corporate sponsors of those Games are being pressured to overtly oppose Russia's repressive attacks on gay rights …

Heart on Your Sleeve - American Apparel teams up with two LGBT advocacy groups for a "Principle 6" clothing line …

Homophobia in Hrvatska - to no one's surprise, heavily Roman Catholic Croatians overwhelmingly vote a ban on marriage equality into their national constitution …

Greeced Pig - the Greek government caves to conservative and religious pressure by scrapping a proposal to open the country's civil unions to same-gender couples …

Wedding Window - gay and lesbian couples start legally marrying in the Australian Capital Territory on December 7th, but they could all be annulled by a High Court ruling on December 12th …

Happy Homomoon - researchers estimate a 217 million dollar tourism bonanza for Hawai'i over the next three years with the advent of marriage equality in the "Aloha State" on December 2nd …

Madiba's Rainbow - LGBT people join the world in mourning the death of iconic South African human rights advocate Nelson Mandela, who created a "Rainbow Nation" with the help of the late gay anti-apartheid and AIDS activist Simon Nkoli …

Glad to Accommodate -a court in the U.S. state of Colorado and the U.K. Supreme Court each decide that gay and lesbian couples deserve to be treated equally under the law ….

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ENDA-fatigable & "The New Black"

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The Employment Nondiscrimination Act's U.S. Senate success hits a House roadblock, but Senators Tammy Baldwin and Jeff Merkley will never call it quits on the federal job rights bill.

Documentary director Yoruba Richen (interviewed by Steve Pride) went into the midst of Maryland's marriage equality initiative campaign to examine civil rights frictions as  The New Black evolves.

And in NewsWrap: Euro-Courts support African asylum-seekers and Greek partners, Ireland and Croatia plan marriage equality votes, A.C.T. counts down to  High Court marriage hearing, Illinois and Hawai'i march down the aisle with 14 other U.S. states, and more news reported by Pamela Brooks and Wenzel Jones (produced by Steve Pride).

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NewsWrap for the week ending November 9, 2013

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Escape Hatch - The European Court of Justice rules that claimants from three African nations have the right to seek asylum in The Netherlands due to persecution based on sexual orientation in their homelands …

Greece the Wheels - European Court of Human Rights orders Greece to open its currently hetero-only civil unions to same-gender couples …

Shedding Excess Hate - the Russian region of Arkhangelsk repeals its local "no promo homo" law, but only because a similar federal law was enacted in June …

Voting Rites - the cabinet of the Republic of Ireland agrees to hold a marriage equality referendum in 2015, and Croatia will ask its voters to approve a constitutional amendment to define marriage as "matrimony between a man and a woman" …

Countdown - Australia's High Court announces that it will hear the federal government's challenge to the marriage equality law enacted in the Australian Capital Territory on December 3rd, just five days before it's scheduled to take effect …

15 … 16 … - lawmakers in Illinois and Hawai'i each approve marriage equality bills that will be enthusiastically signed into law by their respective governors …

State Scorecard - anti-marriage equality New Jersey Republican Governor Chris Christie wins re-election, but pro-gay Democrat Terry McAuliffe defeats rabidly homophobic Republican Ken Cuccinelli to win the governor's race in Virginia

Cityscape - openly gay Democratic state Senator Ed Murray is elected mayor in Seattle, Washington, out lesbian Democratic Mayor Annise Parker wins her third term in Houston, Texas, and openly gay Republican Don Guardian defeats the Democratic incumbent to become the mayor of Atlantic City, New Jersey, while the Victory Fund counts additional mayoral victories for out candidates in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, Salisbury, Maryland, and Holyoke, Massachusetts …

Hometown Goodness - Royal Oak, Michigan voters uphold an LGBT rights ordinance passed by the City Commission earlier this year …

Dubious Distinction - the U.K.'s leading LGBT advocacy group Stonewall anoints U.S. televangelist Pat Robertson its "Bigot of the Year" ….

Complete NewsWrap text and this week's podcast to be posted November 12, 2013.

Invisible Athletes & Aversion Survivor

Sports pros Patrick Burke, Esera Tuaolo, Becca Lindquist, and Nick Kleidon liberate the locker room (in a panel discussion excerpted by Dixie Treichel).

Meet Stuart, a gay man who lived to tell the story of the 1950's British quack "cures" to David Rigby in Bristol.

Plus: prospective trendsetters Heather Beason, Jessica Caviness, and Denise Davis confirm that lesbians become "chic" at last (Michelle-Marie Gilkeson, reporting).

And in NewsWrap: queer F-words bomb in Mexico's top court, Singapore's second sodomy law challenge heard, Michigan moms await Prop 8 ruling for adoption rights, Greek trans-people win hate crime protections, and more news reported by Christopher Gaal and Michelle-Marie Gilkeson (produced by Steve Pride).

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