Global Shift for Rights Group!

IGLHRC (the International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission) changes its name to OutRight Action International to better reflect its mission, and Executive Director Jessica Stern discusses the diversity of queer human rights movements around the world with our Steve Pride. (part one of two)

Stephen Colbert dishes the One Million Moms for stirring up a plot of cold Campbell’s Soup.

And in NewsWrap: Catholic Italy considers civil unions, South Africa's Dutch Reformed Church blesses inclusion, Russia unexpectedly jails six violent homophobes, bogus "cures" are still peddled in China, the U.S. government prescribes a ban on “conversion therapy" nationwide, and more international LGBT news reported this week by Chrisanne Eastwood and Christopher Gaal (produced by Steve Pride, written by Greg Gordon).

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Out in Africa

International Gay & Lesbian Human Rights Commission Executive Director Cary Alan Johnson and Kenyan-born activist Lourence Misedah discuss LGBT struggles on the Mother Continent and beyond, including good and bad news from Uganda, Rwanda, Malawi, Kenya, South Africa, Jamaica, the Philippines, Iran, and India.

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NewsWrap for the week ending June 5, 2010:

Summary: A committee of the United Nations Economic and Social Council rejects consultative status for the International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission ... more than a thousand mostly young Muslims stage a first-ever march against homosexuality in Ghana ... Tiwonge Chimbalanga & Steven Monjeza, the Malawi couple pardoned from their 14 years hard labor sodomy prison sentence by President Bingu wa Mutharika last week, make their first post-release public appearance ... a 42-year-old Pakistani man and his 19-year-old transwoman friend are arrested in a raid on the teen's birthday party in Peshawar and are being charged with sodomy ... U.S. President Barack Obama issues an official LGBT Pride Month proclamation and issues a memo outlining the benefits he ordered last year for the partners and children of lesbigay federal workers ... military veterans Dan Choi and Jim Pietrangelo end their week-long hunger strike protesting the slow progress of "Don't Ask Don't Tell" repeal but say they might do it again ... Dutch airline KLM refuses the request of its gay flight attendants to not have to work on flights to queer-dangerous Iran ... Dutch researchers say they may have discovered evidence that "gaydar" actually exists.

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