When The Black Cat Scratched!

Los Angeles honors the 50th anniversary of a pioneering pre-Stonewall protest action with now 80-year-old Alexi Romanoff, one of the 1967 demonstration organizers, who shares his personal and political story with Abby Dees (production assistance by Steve Pride)!

And in NewsWrap: an Australian Senate committee steers toward civil marriage equality, Washington Supremes wilt a florist’s refusal to serve a gay couple, Japan bans anti-LGBTQ harassment by government workers, the Trump administration continues to giveth and taketh away, the Chinese government funds a gay dating app, and more international LGBT news reported this week by Michael LeBeau and Tanya Kane-Parry (produced by Steve Pride, written by Greg Gordon).

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Gay Iraqis: Refuge in Love!

Out of Iraq heroes’ tale of true love is a five-year saga of romance, repression, a heart-warming reunion … and a (hopefully) “happily ever after” in the U.S.A. (interviewed by Steve Pride)!

A Rainbow Minute finds queer strands in Alfred Hitchcock’s Rope (produced by Judd Proctor and Brian Burns, read by John DeBoer)!

And in NewsWrap: Chile’s President tests marriage equality waters, a gay Bermudian sues to wed his Canadian fiancé, a Japanese trans man challenges forced sterilization, more Trump Cabinet picks threaten LGBT rights, a high-profile trans Cub Scout changes packs, and more international LGBT news reported this week by Frances O'Brien and Danny Cruz (produced by Steve Pride, written by Greg Gordon).

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Anti-Trans Violence & Queer India!

Week of November 24, 2014
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Political priorities and Eighteen trans-forming moments in a poem by activist Andrea Jenkins, shared with correspondent Dixie Treichel.

"Sapphic Nomads" Maggie Young and Katie Cook get Mumbai psychologist/activist Deepak Kashyap's coming out in India story -- one with a happy ending!

And in NewsWrap: Gambia joins Africa's "jail the gays for life" club, LGBT Iraqis are trapped between the Islamic State and pro-government vigilantes, South Carolina and Montana tie the knots, two U.S. country stars come out in harmony, Benjy the gay Irish bull makes bail with the help of a Bart Simpson benefactor, and more news reported this week by Michael LeBeau and Greg Gordon (produced by Wenzel Jones and Steve Pride).

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NewsWrap for the week ending November 22, 2014

SUMMARY

Sinking to Their Level - With a new law punishing "aggravated homosexuality" with life in prison, Gambia joins notorious fellow African nations Uganda and Nigeria as one of the most horrific places for LGBT people on the continent …

No One Hears Them Scream - LGBT Iraqis caught between forces of the Islamic State and pro-government Muslim militia face "imminent risk of death" …

Count Two More - new actions this week open civil marriage to same-gender couples in South Carolina and Montana …

Passing the Ball - the first out NCAA Division I men's basketball player Derrick Gordon has a successful debut, while the first pro basketball player to come out, 35-year-old Jason Collins, announces his retirement …

Standing By Their Men - country music stars Ty Hendron and Billy Gilman come out separately on the same day …

Bart's Bail Bondsman - "Simpsons" co-creator Sam Simon saves Benjy the gay Irish bull from becoming "a sandwich" ….

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S-G Ban Ki-moon & Gov. Martin O'Malley

Speaking at the Human Rights Council in Geneva, the U.N.'s Secretary-General blesses a groundbreaking conference on violence and discrimination against LGBT people.

The governor of Maryland, who signed civil marriage equality into law, looks toward the future of a ballot initiative effort to repeal the measure in November.

Lesbian TV talk-show host Ellen DeGeneres takes up the cause of a Michigan teenager who is spearheading a petition drive to change the rating of the documentary Bully so that it can be shown in middle and high schools.

Plus -- justice-seeking young LGBTs unite to say I Want To Know What It's Like in Ryan James Yezak's popular YouTube video.

And in NewsWrap: Iraqi militia target queer youth for death, Belarus president would "rather be a dictator than gay," Vatican-inspired anti-equality crusades continue, and more news reported by Jacob Anderson-Minshall and Sarah Sweeney (produced by Steve Pride).

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NewsWrap for the week ending March 10, 2012

SUMMARY

Emo to the Slaughter - Multiple sources report that as many as a hundred young people perceived to be LGBT have been brutally murdered by religious militia in Iraq during the last month …

Scapegoated in Syria - the UK's "Pink News" reports that an inflammatory article in a popular newspaper in Syria claims that gays have been "prospering" from the uprising against the entrenched regime of President Bashar al-Assad …

Your EU Wears Army Boots - Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko responds to comments by Germany's openly gay Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle that Lukashenko's government is the "last dictatorship in Europe" by saying that it's "better to be a dictator than gay" …

Papal Army Recruited, Indulgences Offered? - Roman Catholic Pope Benedict XVI continues his crusade against marriage equality with a warning to visiting American bishops this week of "the powerful political and cultural currents seeking to alter the legal definition of marriage" …

Incitement to Riot - two senior Roman Catholic bishops in the UK tell parishioners that they have a "duty" to "ensure" that same-gender couples are never allowed to marry, while comments by Scotland's Roman Catholic Cardinal Keith O'Brien calling the idea of marriage equality "grotesque" are applauded by Zimbabwe's state-run "Herald" newspaper …

Hush Little Baby, Don't Say a Word - what's come to be known as the "Don't Say Gay" bill in Tennessee, which would ban any discussion of homosexuality in public schools, continues to percolate in the US state's legislature …

Don't Ask, Don't Teach - Utah lawmakers pass legislation that not only bans classroom discussion of homosexuality, but also of contraception and sexual activity outside of marriage, and requires any school sex education to be abstinence-only, all of which one opposing legislator calls "a mandate against reality" ….

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