Oz Goes Postal!

Australian activists challenge the government’s proposed mail-in marriage equality plebiscite (Sydney correspondent Barry Mackay reviews last week’s roller-coaster developments featuring Alex Greenwich, Emma Alberici, Mathias Cormann, Karl Stevanovic, Bronwyn Bishop, Tony Abbott, Christine Forster, Penny Wong, Malcolm Turnbull, Dr. Liz Allen, James Brechney, Michael Kirby, David Koch, Scott Morrison, Bill Shorten, Lyle Shelton and Andrew Wilkie, plus Tim Minchin’s viral satirical song)! 

And in NewsWrap: Presidential saber rattling temporarily trumps U.S. trans military ban, Kuwait deports gay men in a massage parlor rub-out, a "gay-looking" Russian wins a rare job bias lawsuit, Canada’s Defense Minister dances on Vancouver "Pride of Bollywood" float, Ireland’s gay P.M.’s presence at a Belfast Pride breakfast gives D.U.P. indigestion, and more international LGBT news reported this week by Michael LeBeau and Michele Yeater (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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Manning Gets Mercy!

U.S. Army trans whistleblower Private Chelsea Manning’s shameful sentence is commuted by out-going President Barack Obama, who reflects on his LGBT rights legacy (including First Amendment activist Evan Greer, and Manning’s attorneys Chase Strangio and Nancy Hollander)!

Plus "Queer Life and Lit" commentator Janet Mason says “thank you" to the 44th U.S. president!

And in NewsWrap: Sri Lanka keeps its laws against same-gender sex, Ireland lifts its gay blood ban for currently active men, Gambia’s genocidal Jammeh reluctantly relinquishes power, Trump touts patriotism and picks a pro-HB2 Civil Rights head, comic relief is coming from Will & Grace to help survive Trumped-up times, and more international LGBT news reported this week by John Dyer V and Jessica Andrea (produced by Steve Pride, written by Greg Gordon).

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Pulse Massacre & A Stern Worldview!

Orlando, Florida LGBT club-goers slaughtered in an ISIS-inspired massacre are mourned by Mayor Buddy Dyer, President Barack Obama, MCC’s Rev. Elder Nancy Wilson, and Tony Award-winning Hamilton composer/star Lin-Manuel Miranda.

Outright Action International Executive Director Jessica Stern gives western activists insight into international strategies and recent developments, including Indonesia’s homophobic “moral panic.”

And in NewsWrap: Russia leads the elimination of queers from U.N. HIV/AIDS resolution, a leading Honduran activist is assassinated, Pink Dot success panics Singapore authorities, Ireland’s Presbyterian Church orders anti-equality wedding vows, Virginia’s bathroom case heads for the Supreme Court, and more international LGBT news reported this week by Michelle-Marie Gilkeson and Carole Meyers (produced by Steve Pride, written by Greg Gordon).

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Hay’s “Gay Window”!

Pioneering LGBT archivist/historian/activist Jim Kepner questions the original Radical Faerie, Harry Hay, in a 1975 conversation about the political analysis and liberation philosophy that led to what’s now known as “queer theory.”

And in NewsWrap: Irish eyes smile at the country's first weddings of lesbian and gay couples, adoption reform expands Portugal's same-gender-parent families, Kenyan lawmakers reject a "kill the gays" bill, the world observes the 16th annual Transgender Day of Remembrance, a North Carolina school axes all student clubs to block an LGBT support group, 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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"Trucker Patti"!

Activist/ex-sailor/ex-drag queen/trucker Patti Spangler takes our Steve Pride for a ride on the transformation trail!

And in NewsWrap: a Zimbabwe Labor Court rules in favor of a fired gay man's employment rights, Ireland makes marriage equality official, Malaysian trans-women fight escalating arrests, high-profile confabs feign "family values" in Rome and Salt Lake City, a defrocked gay Polish priest blasts Vatican hypocrisy, and more international LGBT news reported this week by Tanya Kane-Parry and Michael LeBeau (produced by Steve Pride, written by Greg Gordon).

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NewsWrap for the week ending August 1, 2015

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Once Again With Murder - One Jerusalem Pride participant is dead and five are wounded by the same ultra-Orthodox Jew who stabbed three celebrants at the 2005 march, only weeks after being released from serving a 10-year attempted murder sentence for the previous attacks …

Slipknot - the Boy Scouts of America officially opens the organization to out adult gay leaders and volunteers, but with a large religious loophole …

Blarney Dispensed - Ireland’s Court of Appeals dismisses challenges to the landslide marriage equality vote in May’s referendum …

Island Weddings - same-gender couples score “firsts” as each tie the knot in two U.S. territories …

Un-Res-olved - most Native American gays and lesbians can’t legally marry their partner on tribal lands …

Soap A Dope - a Taiwanese homemade soap company is in trouble with authorities over its allegedly suggestive gay logo …

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Marriage Equality Rejection Syndrome!

Week of July 6, 2015

The U.S. Supreme Court's marriage equality ruling sparks right-wing rebellion (criticized and satirized by comedians Stephen Colbert and Jon Stewart, journalist Dahlia Lithwick, and attorney Douglas Hallward-Driemeier).

Jimmy Kimmel discovers that kids say the queerest things!

And in NewsWrap: same-gender love is no longer outlawed in Mozambique, Australia inches toward equality, Ireland's wedding march stalls, violent riot police halt Istanbul Pride, homophobic Jews rent New York Pride protesters, a Girl Scout Council's rejection of anti-trans cash wins big rewards, and more international LGBT news reported this week by Carole Meyers and Tanya Kane-Parry (produced by Steve Pride, written by Greg Gordon).

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NewsWrap for the week ending July 4, 2015

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No More Outlaws - Private consensual adult same-gender sex officially becomes legal in Mozambique …

Best Bet - a cross-party-sponsored bill planned for August may be Australia’s “strongest opportunity” to achieve marriage equality …

Stalled in the Aisle - despite overwhelming public support in a May referendum, Ireland’s same-gender couples may have to wait until next year to tie the knot …

Aborted Pride - police violently shut down Istanbul’s 13th annual Pride march before it can even begin …

Answer to Prayer - despite agitated Christian fundamentalist opposition and a police ban that needed to be overturned by court order, Seoul LGBT people and their allies march through the central city with Pride …

Rent a Hater - a rabidly anti-gay Jewish group hires a handful of non-Jewish Mexican day laborers to protest New York City’s annual Pride parade …

Praise Be - a lopsided vote by leaders of the Episcopal Church okays church weddings for lesbian and gay couples …

Mysterious Way - a Salt Lake City LGBT youth group gets a surprise donation from the Mormon Church …

No Means Yes - the Girl Scouts of Western Washington rejects a $100,000 donation with anti-transgender strings attached, but an online fundraising campaign to replace it exceeds that amount …

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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

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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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NewsWrap for the week ending April 11, 2015

SUMMARY

Early Adopters - Irish lawmakers approve adoptions equality for same-gender couples …

Parental Controlled - major changes in Nicaragua’s “Family Code” taking effect this week ban adoptions by same-gender couples, define civil marriage as exclusively heterosexual, and deny same-gender couples social security protections and other rights …

Suitors' Suit - a lesbian couple in the U.S. territory of Guam sues in federal court for a civil marriage license …

Popular Hate - voters in Springfield, Missouri repeal LGBT anti-bias protections …

Sacred Snub - the Vatican virtually rejects an openly gay diplomat named by France as its ambassador to the Holy See …

In Case You Thought We Liked You - Mormon officials denounce the “counterfeit lifestyle” of lesbians and gay men …

Obamacare Won't Cover It - the Obama administration officially opposes so-called “conversion therapy” for LGBT youth …

Stick to Acupuncture - South Korea’s government hosts “conversion” conferences by anti-LGBT hate groups …

Consider the Source - a Dublin paper company shreds virulently anti-marriage equality leaflets to make confetti for the weddings of gay and lesbian couples …

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Families Valued & Legislative Mass Hysteria!

Week of March 23, 2015
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You're on the red carpet at the Family Equality Council Los Angeles Awards Dinner with actor and dad Dan Bucatinsky, Houston, Texas Mayor Annise Parker, entertainer and dad Alec Mapa, "GLEEful" actor/singer Alex ("Unique") Newell, and Family Equality Council Executive Director Gabriel Blau (Chrisanne Eastwood reporting).

As crazy phobias proliferate in at least 26 U.S. states, Comedy Central's The Daily Show with Jon Stewart delivers a scathing perspective.

And in NewsWrap: the Presbyterian Church (USA) completes its long march down the aisle, American Reform rabbis elect a lesbian to lead them, Indonesian clerics issue a same-gender sex fatwa, Puerto Rico stops defending its civil marriage ban, Irish students ring their grannies for equality, and more news reported this week by Chrisanne Eastwood and Christopher Gaal (produced by Steve Pride, written by Greg Gordon).

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NewsWrap for the week ending March 21, 2015

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What God Has Joined - The Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) becomes the largest Protestant denomination in the country to bless the marriages of same-gender couples …

Reb Lesbian - out Rabbi Denise Eger is picked to lead the world’s largest rabbinical organization, the Reform branch of American Judaism …

Kill Order - top Muslim clerics in Indonesia issue a fatwa calling for the execution of anyone who engages in same-gender sex …

Why Fight It? - the government of the U.S. territory of Puerto Rico drops its opposition to marriage equality …

New York Blarney & Boston Jig - one token LGBT group marches in New York City’s contentious St. Patrick’s Day Parade, while organizers invite two LGBT groups to march in Boston’s parade …

GrannyGrams for Equality - Ireland’s #RingYourGranny campaign encourages younger people, who tend to favor it, to urge their elders, who are more likely to oppose it, to vote yes in the upcoming May 22nd Marriage Equality referendum  ….

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Mary Lambert & Texas One Step!

Week of February 23, 2015

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Mary Lambert, the singer/songwriter whose featured turn on Maclemore and Ryan Lewis' Same Love shares her Secrets and other tracks from her new album (interviewed by Chrisanne Eastwood).

Suzanne Bryant and Sarah Goodfriend become the lone lesbian married couple in the Lone Star State.

An Arkansas alert fails to activate LGBT activists and allies, but does not escape the attention of MSNBC's Jose Diaz Balart and the AP's Andrew DeMillo.

Best Adapted Screenplay Oscar winner Graham Moore (The Imitation Game) inspires weirdness.

And in <i><a href="http://bit.ly/1wi7Y5s">NewsWrap</a></i>: two-year betrothal for Finland's marriage equality, Ireland sets the date, much Moore to argue in Alabama, no religious trump card for discrimination in Washington,  and more news reported this week by Sarah Sweeney and John Dyer V (produced by Steve Pride, written by Greg Gordon).

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NewsWrap for the week ending February 21, 2015

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Long Betrothal - Finland's president signs a marriage equality bill into law that won't take effect until 2017   

A Day in May - Ireland's Prime Minister sets the date for the national marriage equality referendum for May 22nd …

Moore Arguments - some Alabama probate judges are still refusing to issue marriage licenses to same-gender couples …

Breaking With Convention - a second Tokyo district hints at offering partnership certificates to lesbian and gay pairs, and Japan's Prime Minister tells parliament that the constitution doesn't permit marriage equality …

Yours, Mine, But Not Theirs - Colombia's highest court allows same-gender couples to adopt their partner's biological offspring, but refuses to open adoption to lesbian and gay couples more generally …

Time Warped - two men in Baton Rouge, Louisiana are arrested for "crimes against nature," even though the U.S. Supreme Court declared such laws unconstitutional in 2003 …

First, A Pig Flies - a Wyoming Republican is ejected from a state House committee for trying to amend an LGBT anti-bias bill with an effective date of "when hell freezes over" …

Notrump Ruling - a Washington state judge rules that religious belief does not give a business open to the public a license to discriminate against gays and lesbians …

Bouncing Baby Bias - after "much prayer," a Detroit, Michigan pediatrician refuses to treat the 6-day-old baby daughter of a lesbian couple  ….

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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 7, 2015

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Hollow Honor - “Stone the Gays” Brunei is back in the news with the withdrawal by singer/songwriter John Legend from a pre-Grammys party in his honor at the Sultan of Brunei-owned Beverly Hills Hotel …

Safety Net Equality - U.S. President Barack Obama’s 2016 budget includes a proposal to guarantee Social Security benefits for all legally married same-gender couples, even if they live in a state that doesn’t recognize their marriage …

Just Married (A While Ago) - Michigan recognizes gay and lesbian couples who married in the state during a brief period late last year when they could …

Suspense - same-gender couples in Alabama were expected to begin getting marriage licenses on February 9th, barring a last-minute intercession by the US Supreme Court …

Short Change - queer-supportive Denver, Colorado Mayor Michael Hancock cancels his appearance at the 27th annual National LGBTQ Task Force Creating Change Conference in his city after activists storm the stage to protest the Denver Police shooting death of transgender Latina teen Jessie Hernandez …

Cream of the Crop - out Houston, Texas Mayor Annise Parker is named the best city leader in America …

Sally and The Gipper - California lawmakers propose a statue in the nation’s capitol honoring posthumously-lesbian U.S. astronaut Sally Ride …

A Million Women Getting Married - a high-strung Irishman opposed to marriage equality defines “laughingstock” during a TV3 Ireland “The Peoples Debate” broadcast ….

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NewsWrap for the week ending January 17, 2015

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SCOTUS Engaged - The U.S. Supreme Court agrees to hear a challenge to the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals decision that upheld bans on civil marriage for same-gender couples in Kentucky, Michigan, Ohio, and Tennessee, but turns down the direct appeal of a district court ruling that upheld Louisiana's ban …

Marital Judgements - a federal judge orders Michigan to recognize the marriages of some 300 same-gender couples who tied the knot during a brief period of time when they could and a Kentucky judge grants a first-ever divorce to a lesbian couple who married in Massachusetts, even though Kentucky bans civil marriage equality, while the 9th U.S. Circuit rejects appeals for a rehearing of its 3-judge panel's decision striking down the bans in Nevada and Idaho, and a federal judge overturns South Dakota's ban …

Pushing the Borders - a gay couple who legally wed in England sues for recognition of the marriage in their native Northern Ireland, while a gay Mexicali couple's months-long march down the aisle concludes …

Parenting in Sin - Austria's highest court opens adoption to same-gender couples, even though they can't legally marry in the country …

Not Debauched Enough - 26 Egyptian men caught up in a much-ballyhooed raid on a Cairo bathhouse are unexpectedly acquitted of "debauchery" …

Hint Dropper - U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon criticizes India's Section 377, the law that forbids private consensual adult gay sex, during his visit to New Delhi, but the ruling party might finally support repeal …

An Ideas Whose Time Has Passed - an official in the Indian state of Goa draws jeers for proposing centers to make LGBT people "normal," and then claims to have been "misquoted" …

Wrong Way - Russian officials "clarify" an edict issued last week saying that all transgender people would be denied driver's licenses ….

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Tough Times & Golden Moments!

Week of January 12, 2015
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Turkish lesbian activist Sedef Cakmak looks to the UN for support, as she tells UN Radio: Women's Stephanie Castro.

Maggie Young and Katie Cook's "Sapphic Nomads" sojourn comes to an end (at least for now) in Ghana, where gays and lesbians like activist Anita Confidence live "illegal" lives.

Transparent and The Normal Heart score queer Golden Globe Awards (with excerpts from comments by winners Jill Soloway, Matt Bomer, and Jeffrey Tambor)…

Trans Eurovision Contest winner Conchita Wurst sings for the Heroes in the new single from her forthcoming album.

And in NewsWrap: a club assault kicks Russian gays in the apathy, 26 Egyptian men are tried for "debauchery," Vietnam okays same-gender weddings, an Irish priest comes out for equality, and more news reported this week by Michelle-Marie Gilkeson and Michael LeBeau (produced by Steve Pride, written by Greg Gordon).

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