Love Wins … Late!

The 41-year love story of Tony Sullivan and Richard Adams planted the seed of the marriage equality movement. Producer/director Tim Miller (interviewed by Steve Pride) captured it in the documentary Limited Partnership, which includes comments by former Boulder, Colorado County Clerk Clela Rorex and Sullivan himself; reporter Troy Masters tells Abby Dees and Wenel Jones the bittersweet conclusion.

Broadway stars serenade Orlando on a benefit single of Burt Bacharach’s enduring What the World Needs Now is Love!

And in NewsWrap: serving in silence ends for U.S. transgender military personnel, tear gas and rubber bullets shut down defiant Istanbul expressions of Pride, Italy’s High Court advances adoption rights, a Kenyan court legalizes anal probes to "confirm" gay sex, the Stonewall National Monument is christened, and more international LGBT news reported this week by Michael LeBeau and Jessica Andrea (produced by Steve Pride, written by Greg Gordon).

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Tar Heel & Natural States’ Strife!

North Carolina Governor Pat McCrory digs in despite derision from critics including Equality North Carolina’s Chris Srgo, Charlotte employment attorney Kevin Murphy, Democratic lawmaker Billy Richardson, and Daniel Cook’s YouTube-posted McCrory parody (with a report by Pacifica Radio’s Mark Mericle).

Trans LGBT rights advocate Rev. Gwen Fry defends Arkansas’ local anti-bias laws (interviewed by Abby Dees).

And in NewsWrap: activists attack the constitutionality of Kenya’s sex code, a court in China rules against a marriage equality lawsuit, the Roman Catholic Church pressures some 800 big Australian businesses to stop promoting marriage equality, anti-LGBT laws continue to roil Mississippi and Tennessee, Greg Louganis finally gets his Wheaties box, and more international LGBT news reported this week by Carole Meyers and John Dyer V (produced by Steve Pride, written by Greg Gordon).

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Kenyan Rap Wars & #HarlemNoHate

Kenyan musicians Art Attack (Same Love Remix) and Grammo Suspect (Our Love Is Valid) face showdowns with the government. (You can defy the authorities too by sharing their controversial videos about love and equality!)

Carl Siciliano of the Ali Forney Center for LGBT youth closes in on Harlem homophobe ATLAH Church Pastor James David Manning, to the delight of Comedy Central's The Daily Show correspondent Jessica Williams.

And in NewsWrap: Indonesia's anti-queer crackdown gets even worse, Russia considers forced "treatment" for its LGBT citizens, but a trio of U.S. advocacy groups challenge so-called "change therapy" nationwide, childless civil unions pass in the Italian Senate, Israeli lawmakers reject several LGBT rights bills, Germany opens safe shelters for queer Syrian refugees, and more international LGBT news reported this week by Wenzel Jones and Michael LeBeau (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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NewsWrap for the week ending July 25, 2015

SUMMARY

We're Human, It's a Right - The European Court of Human Rights decides for the first time that same-gender couples are entitled to some form of legal recognition …

Inviolable Identity - Italy’s highest court rules and the lower house of the Polish parliament decides that a trans-person can change their legal gender without having reassignment surgery …

Marry Us! - Taiwan’s capital city of Taipei petitions the island’s high court to open civil marriage to same-gender couples …

New Boss, Old Boss, Etc. - Nigeria’s new president Muhammadu Buhari rejects anti-LGBT law reform during a state visit to the U.S. …

Bringing It Home - President Barack Obama pushes LGBT rights in Kenya and Ethiopia …

The Vote's On You - the Texas state Supreme Court orders the city of Houston to put its 2014 City Council-enacted LGBT anti-bias ordinance to a public vote …

Over the Rainbow - a Saudi Arabian educator and his school apparently violate Islamic “anti-rainbow” ideology …

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NewsWrap for the week ending May 9, 2015

SUMMARY

Belated Proposal - It took two years, but the Cyprus Cabinet finally sends a civil partnerships bill to Parliament …

Heal Thyself of Homophobia - Costa Rica’s Supreme Court rules that professional associations (such as lawyers and doctors) must give members’ same-gender spouses equal access to their recreational facilities …

And Baby Makes Four - Buenos Aires makes 3-parent Latin American history by registering the names of the the lesbian mom and her partner and sperm donor dad on the baby’s birth certificate …

Surrogate Snatcher - a judge in Britain awards custody of their baby girl to a gay dad and his partner over the dishonest surrogate mother …

Parliament in Pink - British voters elect what could be the world’s largest number of out MPs …

No Room at the Inn - Kenya’s Deputy President tells a church service that there’s “no room for gays” in his country …

Who Let Them In? - some 600 self-identified Russian LGBT people and their allies are surprisingly allowed to march in St. Petersburg’s huge May Day Parade despite the protestations of Vitaly Milonov, the author of the local and national bans on “gay propaganda” …

Tell It To Your Therapist - the U.S. Supreme Court refuses to hear the appeal by two self-identified Christian counseling services of a New Jersey law that bans so called “conversion” therapy for patients under 18 …

Devil's Advocate - a Nebraska woman sues “all homosexuals” on behalf of “plaintiffs God and Jesus Christ” demanding that same-gender-loving people be declared legally sinful …

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Ex-F.O.B. & Jokes On Them!

Week of April 27, 2015

Veteran rights activist David Mixner recalls the "Don't Ask" double-cross (in conversation with Steve Pride).

Matt Baume of the American Foundation for Equal Rights, Jon Stewart of Comedy Central’s The Daily Show, and stand-up "comic in chief" Barack Obama use pro-equality humor to herald historic U.S. Supreme Court hearings.

And in NewsWrap: rights trump religion in Kenya's top court, a trans rights bill passes India's upper house, a well-known Japanese lesbian duo defiantly weds, U.S. Republicans still swim against the marriage equality tide, Dallas does "Hooters" the gay way, and more news reported this week by Abby Dees and Michael LeBeau (produced by Steve Pride, written by Greg Gordon).

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NewsWrap for the week ending April 25, 2015

SUMMARY

Rights Trump Religion - Kenya’s High Court orders the government to allow LGBT groups to register as NGOs …

Revised Repression - a proposal in Uganda would essentially outlaw LGBT NGOs "in the public interest" …

Protections Pending - India’s upper house passes a ground breaking transgender rights bill …

Acting On Their Own - a celebrity lesbian couple symbolically weds in Tokyo …

Not In My Constitution - two far-right politicians push anti-marriage equality bills in the U.S. Congress …

2 + 2 = 900,000 - a Utah lawyer claims that opening civil marriage to gay and lesbian couples will lead to 900,000 more abortions …

Whack-A-Mole - a few cities in Arkansas push back against the recently-enacted law banning them from enacting LGBT anti-bias protections, and Little Rock’s City Attorney believes a state anti-bullying law already provides those protections …

Give a Kid a Break - Arizona’s governor overturns a policy denying adoption and foster parenting to legally-married same-gender couples …

Sun Shines In - Florida Senate leaders shelve a bill that would have allowed taxpayer-funded adoption agencies to use “religious belief” to discriminate against prospective LGBT parents …

Who Needs It - with the dust yet to fully settle over contentious so-called “religious liberty” bills in Indiana and Arkansas, North Carolina’s House leader says his chamber won’t debate a similar measure this year …

Toilet Training - the Nevada Assembly rejects a bill to require transgender students to use school bathrooms and locker rooms corresponding to their biological gender …

Naked Lunch - Tallywackers, a male version of “Hooters”, is scheduled to open in May in Dallas, Texas’ Oak Lawn gayborhood  …

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Beeching's Lively Debate & "The Dog"

Week of August 18, 2014
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Newly-out Christian musician and scholar Vicky Beeching rocks the Bible going toe-to-toe with infamous evangelical homophobe Scott Lively on British television.

John The Dog Wojtowicz gets his day in Allison Berg and Frank Keraudren's new documentary about the real story of the gay man at the center of the 1975 cinema classic Dog Day Afternoon (Steve Pride, interviewer).

And in NewsWrap: dozens busted in Lebanon's anti-gay crackdown, complex Ugandan politics slow the race to renew Anti-Homosexuality Law, Kenyan lawmakers decide against death by stoning for LGBTs, U.S. marriage equality clock turned back in Tennessee, Gay Games great-great granny sets world record and more news reported this week by Michael LeBeau and Sarah Sweeney (produced by Steve Pride).

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NewsWrap for the week ending August 16, 2014

SUMMARY

Beirut Bathhouse Busts - A new crackdown on gay men appears to have started in Lebanon …

Competing Concerns - Ugandan President Musevini seems to be trying to slow down a rush to reinstatement of his country's horrific Anti-Homosexuality Law …

Kenyans in Glass Houses - proposed bill in neighboring Kenya to stone gays to death reportedly dies in a parliamentary committee …

Always Has To Be One - Roane County circuit judge breaks a pattern established by more than 30 other U.S. state and federal courts and upholds Tennessee's ban on civil marriage for lesbian and gay couples …

Bias Ballot - voters in Chattanooga, Tennessee repeal a City Council-passed ordinance extending healthcare benefits to the same-gender partners of municipal workers …

Shaking a Red Stick at Progress - lawmakers in a Baton Rouge, Louisiana parish reject a proposal to ban bias based on sexual orientation or gender identity …

Sue If They Won't Sign - opponents of an anti-bias ordinance in Houston, Texas who fell short of the required number of signatures on a repeal petition sue out Mayor Annise Parker and the city to allow voters to decide the issue …

Another Inane Nazi Comparison - far-right Liberty Council founder Mat Staver says that U.S. lawmakers who fail to oppose marriage equality are the same as those who stayed silent during the Holocaust in Nazi Germany …

Gay Games & Great-Great Granny - U.S. President Barack Obama's video message welcomes athletes from more than 45 countries around the world to the Cleveland/Akron, Ohio area for the quadrennial Gay Games, and 99-year-old New York great-great grandmother Ida Keeling sets a certified world record at the Games in the 100-meter dash ….

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Christopher and His "Kitty"

Week of July 21, 2014
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Portrait artist Don Bachardy talks about The Animals, a collection of love letters from his 33-year relationship with literary giant Christopher Isherwood (part 1 of 2, with Charlie Bauer, PhD).

Queer Life and Literature Commentator Janet Mason discovers a lesbian truth in the fiction of S. Renee Bess (The Rules) and the essays of Judith K. Witherow (Strong Enough to Bend).

Representative Michelle Bachmann (R-Minn.) signals another homophobic U.S. presidential run in a Right Wing Watch-flagged conversation with conservative radio talk show host Dave Garrison.

And in NewsWrap: Russia plays spy games with LGBT activists, Turkey's top court slams "p" word, Kenyan trans group wins NGO status, U.S. federal court blasts Colorado's civil marriage ban, Stonestreet snubs Santorum, and more news reported this week by Chrisanne Eastwood and Michael Allan (produced by Steve Pride).

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NewsWrap for the week ending July 26, 2014

SUMMARY

Spy Games - A judge declares St. Petersburg-based LGBT advocacy group Coming Out Russia "foreign agents", while officials in the same city tell organizers to dump (or landfill) Pride …

The "P" Word - Turkish court rules that calling someone a "pervert" is hate speech …

Trans Advocates Upheld - Kenya's high court orders the government to accept the registration of the group Transgender Education and Advocacy as a non-governmental organization …

Rocky Climb - Colorado's is the latest U.S. state ban on civil marriage for same-gender couples to be declared unconstitutional by a federal court, while a separate court rules that Boulder County can continue to offer marriage licenses to lesbian and gay couples, over the continuing objections of Republican Attorney General John Suthers …

Sun Shines In - second South Florida circuit court declares that state's civil marriage ban unconstitutional, but both rulings are stayed pending appeal …

Penguin Porn - with all copies of one title already destroyed, two of the three LGBT-positive children's books ordered to meet the same fate by Singapore's National Library Board are saved following several days of public outcry, but will now only be available in the adult literature section …

Foot in the Door - new owner steps in at the last minute to save Philadelphia's iconic LGBT bookstore Giovanni's Room from closure …

Torchwood: Osculation Day - tongues wag over out performer John Barrowman's man-on-man kiss during the Opening Ceremonies of the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow …

Cam's Rampage - otherwise affable "Modern Family" star Eric Stonestreet refuses to be photographed with one rabidly anti-gay U.S. politician ….

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NewsWrap for the week ending March 15, 2014

SUMMARY

Fight Back - A coalition of Ugandan human rights groups are joined by LGBT activists, commentators, scholars and politicians in a lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of the country's "Anti-Homosexuality Act"…

For Your Own Good - Nigeria's Justice Minister claims his country's so-called "Jail All the Gays" law was enacted to protect them from vigilante violence …

Copycat Hatred - politicians in the Democratic Republic of Congo and in Kenya each push for harsher laws against LGBT people …

Learning Curbed - Zimbabwe activists are arrested in Harare for conducting a media training workshop …

Ovo-Phobo-Demo - machete-wielding Russian thugs pelt LGBT participants in Moscow's March 8th International Women's Day March with raw eggs, but are arrested before they can do more serious damage …

Queer Queueing - thanks to a quirk in the U.K. marriage equality law, same-gender couples legally married in other jurisdictions are now considered to be legally married at home, while never-married couples will still have to wait until March 29th to tie the knot …

ObamaQare - the U.S. Health and Human Services Department tells insurance providers that beginning next year they must offer the same coverage to legally married same-gender couples as they do to heterosexually-married couples …

Mysterious Ways - charges are unexpectedly dropped against United Methodist Church Rev. Dr. Thomas Ogletree for officiating the wedding of his son to another man …

Tennessee Hospitality - a U.S. federal judge orders Tennessee to recognize the legal marriages of same-gender couples contracted in other states …

Bet on a Losing Race - Kentucky's Governor authorizes the payment of 100,000 taxpayer dollars to outside attorneys to defend a ban on out-of-state same-gender marriages …

Pry Open the Window - same-gender couples in Utah who civilly married during a brief period of time that they could legally do so ask a federal judge to order the state to recognize their marriages …

Please Knock Loudly - new lawsuits challenging state bans on marriage equality filed in Arizona, Florida, and Indiana join more than 50 others working their way through the court system in several states ….

Complete NewsWrap text and this week's podcast to be posted March 18, 2014.

Museveni's Science & Arizona's Reprieve

Week of March 3, 2014
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President Yoweri Museveni defends the highly questionable "research" behind Uganda's Anti-Homosexuality Law in an interview with CNN’s Zain Verjee.

Arizona's "bias license" gets a dramatic "thumbs down” from Governor Jan Brewer, whose veto announcement prompts howls from the American Family Association's Bryan Fischer and right-wing radio talker Rush Limbaugh; Emory University law professor Timothy Holbrook provides analysis.

And in NewsWrap: courts in Zimbabwe and Zambia each acquit leading LGBT activists, oppressive legislation creeps into Kenya, Jordan cops bust 10 gays and lesbians for getting acquainted, post-Olympic "Open Games" leaps hurdles in Moscow, a U.S. federal judge tosses Texas' marriage inequality law, and more news reported by Jason Proctor and Natalie Peoples (produced by Steve Pride).

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NewsWrap for the week ending March 1, 2014

SUMMARY

Off the Hook - LGBT rights activists are acquitted on bogus charges in Zimbabwe and Zambia …

Laws of Mobs Rule - the war on sexual minorities continues unabated in Nigeria and Uganda …

How to Make Friends - Kenyan leaders call for their own similarly harsh anti-gay legislation …

Acquaintance Raid - ten lesbians and gay men at a "getting to know each other" gathering at a party hall in Amman, Jordan are arrested in a prophylactic prevention of "disturbing the peace" …

High Hurdles - more than 200 athletes from 11 countries endure bomb threats, cancelled-at-the-last-minute venues and hotels, smoke bombs, and "technical problems" at an ice skating rink to compete in the inaugural Russian LGBT Sports Federation's Open Games in Moscow …

Hellish Law Burned - Arizona Governor Jan Brewer vetoes a so-called "religious freedom" bill …

No Legitimate Governmental Purpose - a federal judge declares the Texas law defining civil marriage as exclusively heterosexual to be a violation of the U.S. Constitution …

Clearly Demeaning - a federal judge makes final his ruling declaring as unconstitutional Kentucky's refusal to recognize the civil marriages of same-gender couples performed elsewhere …

Reality Check - retired National Football League Hall of Famer and TV sports commentator Deion Sanders tells "The Arsenio Hall Show" that there were gay players on all five teams he played on during his career, and says of out pro prospect Michael Sam "if he can make plays, he can play the game" ….

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"Leaves of Grass -- Uncut" & Well Strung

Week of January 27, 2014
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Walt Whitman worshipper Patrick Scully un-censors the great American poet in a multi-disciplinary work-in-progress that he discusses with Dixie Treichel and John Townsend.

A Well Strung boy band fiddles (and sings) fabulously and chats with Entertainment Correspondent Steve Pride.

And in NewsWrap: lynch mob demands quick execution of gay-accused Nigerians, famed Kenyan memoirist exits closet, seven more U.S. states grapple with marriage equality, Russia's Prime Minister deaf to LGBT screams, Canadian and Australian Olympians diss Putin's "gay propaganda" prohibition, and more news reported by Natalie Peoples and Michael Allan (produced by Steve Pride).

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NewsWrap for the week ending January 25, 2014

SUMMARY

Lynching Season - Thousands of demonstrators stone a courtroom in northern Nigeria demanding quick convictions and executions of several men accused of belonging to gay advocacy groups as attacks on sexual minorities in Nigeria escalate following the mid-January enactment of draconian anti-gay legislation …

New Chapter - well-known award-winning Kenyan writer Binjavanga Wainaina comes out to protest the anti-gay law in Nigeria and a similar law apparently still pending in Uganda …

Charging Generals - marriage equality actions in U.S. states continue to mushroom, with Virginia's new Attorney General announcing that he would not defend his state's ban on civil marriage for same-gender couples, while Idaho and Nevada Attorneys General each defend their state's ban in federal lawsuits …

Slow Ski Lift - Utah gets more time to prepare its defense of the state's marriage ban, while four legally wed same-gender couples who married during the 17 days that they could file suit for state recognition of their marriages …

Fitting for Wedding Suits - a federal judge in Oregon consolidates two marriage equality lawsuits while rights activists push a petition to get the issue on the November state ballot, while six same-gender couples file suit for the right to marry in Florida …

Shell Game - thanks to what Democrats call a "power play" by Republican Indiana House Speaker Brian Bosma, a bill to constitutionally outlaw marriage for same-gender couples passes in committee and heads to the full chamber …

Homophobia Ain't So Bad - Russian anti-gay thug Maxim Martsinkevich is arrested in Cuba and heads home to stand trial for "extremism" – though his online video postings of gangs trapping and abusing young gay men are apparently not part of the charges against him …

I Hear Nothing … Nothing - Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev tells "CNN" that he hasn't heard of any virtually-silenced LGBT person complaining about his country's law banning "gay propaganda," and falsely claims that it's not even being enforced …

Audacious Olympians - marriage equality-supportive female ice hockey star Hayley Wickenheiser is named by the Canadian Olympic Committee to be her nation's Opening Ceremonies flag bearer at the Winter Games in Sochi, while out Australian Olympic snow board cross rider Belle Brockhoff looks forward to the competition, and then to talking to anyone who will listen to her angry condemnation of Russian President Vladimir Putin for his defense of the so-called "no promo homo law" ….

Complete NewsWrap text and this week's podcast to be posted January 28, 2014.

Romney's Gay Retreat & Estelle Brown

It was a short stay for GOP presidential contender Mitt Romney's gay as "out" national security and foreign policy spokesman Richard Grenell was "out" of a job almost as soon as he arrived. Comedy Central's The Daily Show with Jon Stewart skewers America Family Association mouthpiece Bryan Fischer in its take on the widely reported story.

The lesbian member of Elvis' legendary back-up group the Sweet Inspirations talks with Steve Pride about her journey from harmony to unity.

And in NewsWrap: Kenyan human rights group seeks sex law reform, Russian "no promo" foes busted in St. Petersburg, Methodists keep United versus "incompatible" homos, hetero kissing banned in Copenhagen gay bar, and more news reported by Michael LeBeau and Sarah Sweeney (produced by Steve Pride).

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NewsWrap for the week ending May 5, 2012

SUMMARY

Barking Watchdog - Kenya's National Human Rights Commission urges the decriminalization of same-gender sex and prostitution …

Let Them Eat Grass - Gambia's President Yahya Jammeh renews his vitriolic condemnation of gay people …

Russian Rainbow Retort - seventeen LGBT activists and their supporters who waved rainbow flags or sported rainbow suspenders or pins are singled out by police and arrested at a May Day march and rally in St. Petersburg organized by Russia's political opposition movement, while prominent activist Nikolai Alekseev is the first person to be convicted of violating that city's recently enacted law banning "gay propaganda" …

Don't Say Vote - the sponsor of Tennessee's so-called "Don't Say Gay" bill to ban any discussion of sexual orientation in public schools decides to withdraw his proposal after state education officials assure him that the subject will not be broached, and he recognizes that "some people... didn't want to vote on it" …

He Showed Them - Missouri Republican lawmaker Zach Wyatt comes out as a gay man as he comes out against a "Don't Say Gay" bill recently introduced in his state …

The Biased Life - Nebraska Attorney General Jon Bruning issues an opinion that local governments can't adopt ordinances to protect LGBT people from discrimination because state law fails to do so …

Madness in Their Methodism - delegates to the quadrennial General Conference of the United Methodist Church soundly reject a proposal to change the denomination's doctrine that same-gender sexual relationships are "incompatible with Christian teaching" …

Sinking to Their Level - there's controversy in Copenhagen over a gay bar owner's decision to ban heterosexuals from kissing in his establishment ….

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Kenyan Sex Slavery & New Lesbian Fiction

The shocking -- under-reported -- story of how slave traffickers are tricking gay and bi Kenyan men into the sex trade in the Persian Gulf is discussed by Paul Canning of the U.K.-based LGBT Asylum News and correspondent Steve Pride.

Janet Mason's review of two lesbian coming of age stories from Bywater Books (What's Best for Jane by Bett Norris and The Girls Club by Sally Bellerose) finds something new in the tried and true.

Plus: A Stamp for Alan Turing is celebrated in a Rainbow Minute (produced by Judd Proctor and Brian Burns, and read by Cris Cox).

And in NewsWrap: Cuba considers civil unions, gay Aussie MP plans Spanish nuptials, two U.S. states consider constitutional marriage bans, 80 mayors from 25 U.S. states sign resolution endorsing civil marriage equality, U.K. court convicts hate leaflet distributors, and more news reported by Gary Shaw and Natalie Peoples (produced by Steve Pride).

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