Out in the Night

Week of October 27, 2014

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Black lesbian friends out on the town find themselves Out in the Night -- their true story revealed in Blair Dorosh-Walther's acclaimed documentary film. Entertainment Correspondent Steve Pride talks with Renata Hill and Patreese Johnson, two of the New Jersey 4.

Right-wing U.S. televangelist Pat Robertson issues a neurotic "gay terrorism" alert.

And in NewsWrap: Liberian churchmen blame Ebola on homosexuality, a Nigerian court nixes a straight challenge to the country's draconian anti-gay laws, hooded vandals invade a Macedonian LGBT celebration, a trans veteran proves U.S. Army discrimination, a lonely Puerto Rican judge upholds the U.S. territory’s civil marriage ban, "Gandalf" fights school bullying, and more news reported this week by Wenzel Jones and Michael LeBeau (produced by Steve Pride).

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NewsWrap for the week ending October 25, 2014

SUMMARY

Contagious Hate Virus - Liberian Roman Catholic and Anglican leaders preach that Ebola is God's curse on the country for tolerating homosexuals …

Straight Down the Tubes - a Nigerian Federal High Court judge dismisses a challenge to the draconian anti-gay laws enacted in the country last year because the plaintiff is heterosexual and therefore not directly affected by them …

The Klan Rides Again - up to a dozen homophobic hooded hooligans create mayhem when they invade the 2nd anniversary party of an LGBT support center in the Macedonian capital of Skopje, sending at least one young woman to the hospital …

Passing Transmuster - disabled transgender veteran and civilian U.S. Army employee Tamara Lusardi wins a landmark federal discrimination case, and while transgender people are barred from U.S. military service, enlistees from 18 other countries gather in Washington, D.C. for a first-ever conferenced entitled "Perspective on Transgender Military Service from Around the Globe" …

Against the Tide - U.S. District Judge Perez Gimenez breaks with most of his peers and upholds the ban on civil marriage for same-gender couples in the U.S. territory of Puerto Rico …

States of Marriage - officials in Kansas, Montana and South Carolina, over which federal appeals court rulings overturning state marriage bans have jurisdiction, postpone the inevitable by refusing to issue marriage licenses to same-gender couples in their respective states unless a federal court specifically orders them to do so; other state marriage news from Alaska, Idaho, and Nevada …

The Family Way - the Utah Supreme Court opens adoption to legally-married same-gender couples …

Occupy Synchronicity - Hong Kong Pride organizers coincidentally adopt the umbrella as their official symbol this year and order 500 of them in rainbow colors weeks before the umbrella becomes the symbol of pro-democracy "Occupy Central" street protesters, who use them to defend against tear gas, pepper spray, and police batons …

Flame of Anor - out British actor/activist Sir Ian McKellan revives the wizardly "Gandalf" to encourage students at a school he’s visiting to properly prepare for their examinations or, he warns, "You shall not pass!"

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NewsWrap for the week ending April 7, 2012

SUMMARY

Targets on Their Backs - An anti-gay group in Liberia's capital city of Monrovia distributes fliers with what is being described as a "hit list" of people who support LGBT rights, whom one member said could be punished by "flogging and death" …

You Mean They're Human? - authorities in Cameroon's capital of Yaounde shut down a human rights workshop when they discover that the focus is on LGBT rights …

This Is Fascist - two Russian gay activists become the first to be arrested in St. Petersburg under the city's recently enacted law criminalizing dissemination of LGBT "propaganda" to minors for holding placards outside a popular youth center simply reading "Gay – this is normal" …

The Orientation Will Not Be Televised - Malaysian government authorities announce a ban on state-owned radio and TV stations of any shows that feature gay characters, although one official says male program hosts who appear effeminate are exempt "because they are born this way" …

Too Late for Daniel - Chilean lawmakers pass a bill to ban sexual orientation- and gender identity-based bias seven years after it was first introduced, but about a week after the highly-publicized brutal neo-Nazi gang beating death of "out" young man Daniel Zamudio …

Freezing Chads? - citing several polling place irregularities, the ACLU of Alaska demands a formal review of municipal election results this week in Anchorage that included the overwhelming defeat of Proposition 5, which would have banned anti-LGBT bias …

The Audacity of Political Pressure - the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund joins 72 members of Congress to urge President Obama to issue an executive order requiring federal contractors to have LGBT-inclusive non-discrimination policies …

Queers in Hoodies - 23 of the largest LGBT rights organizations in the U.S. sign on to a joint open letter condemning the shooting death in Florida of unarmed 17-year-old African-American teen Trayvon Martin …

Age Appropriate - after almost a half-million people petition the Motion Picture Association of America to protest the "R" rating of "Bully," the highly-praised documentary about anti-queer school bullying that would only allow viewers 17 and older to see it in theaters, filmmakers agree to cut the number of "f"-words from six to three to get a "PG-13" rating, which will allow movie houses to admit viewers aged 13 and older, and screenings in middle schools and high schools, so that it can be seen by the film's target audience ….

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