God For Gays in Ghana & Irish Marriage Broker!

Week of January 5, 2015
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"Sapphic Nomads" Maggie Young and Katie Cook meet Leonard Glover, a gay Ghanaian activist inspired by his rainbow faith.

"The Outing" founder Eddie McGuinness tells Chris Wilson about the Irish matchmaking festival that pairs gay and lesbian singles.

And in NewsWrap: Scotland and Luxembourg celebrate the New Year with marriage equality; a trans U.S. teen's suicide prompts abusive therapy charges; a Chinese court rules that there's no medical basis for claimed "cures" of homosexuality; unrelenting oppression continues in Zimbabwe, Gambia and Egypt; and more news reported this week by John Dyer V and Greg Gordon (produced by Steve Pride, written by Greg Gordon).

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NewsWrap for the week ending January 3, 2015

SUMMARY

Bells & Flowers - Same-gender couples begin legally marrying in Scotland and Luxembourg …

Courtships & Weddings - the U.S. Supreme Court will consider one or more marriage equality cases at its first conference of 2015 on January 9th, and a federal judge clears the way for the civil marriages of lesbian and gay couples in Florida to begin on January 6th …

"My Death Needs to Mean Something" - the gruesome suicide of 17-year-old Ohio transgender teen Leelah Alcorn sparks sadness, outrage, and resolve …

Shockingly Bad Medicine - a court in China issues a landmark ruling against a counseling center that claimed to "cure" homosexuality

Not Just Thugs - thirty-five members of Gays and Lesbians of Zimbabwe are injured as thugs invade a private holiday party …

Push Back - security forces in Gambia arrest three men on charges of homosexuality, even as the European Union and the U.S. sharply reduce financial aid because of the draconian anti-gay law signed by homophobic President Yahya Jammeh in October that prompted the arrests …

Pyramid Crackdown - more than two dozen men arrested for "perversion" and "debauchery" at an early December raid on a Cairo bathhouse purportedly orchestrated by a much-maligned TV journalist go on trial, but three-year sentences are reduced to one year for each of the eight men convicted in November of the same charges for appearing in a widely-viewed YouTube video that authorities called Egypt's first gay wedding ceremony …

Shaking the Dust Off Their Feet - Alexandria, Indiana's First United Methodist Church closes after some 80% of the congregation quits in protest of the firing of an openly gay choir director ….

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Hillary's Choices

Week of June 23, 2014

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Former US Secretary of State (and generally presumed future presidential candidate) Hillary Rodham Clinton expounds on international transgender rights and engages in a heated marriage equality debate that creates a continuing firestorm regarding her commitment to the cause.

Jon Stewart's The Daily Show "cures" the Texas Republican revival of "reparative therapy."

And in NewsWrap: Luxembourg jumps the broom, thousands promote pink families in Hong Kong, but there's little passion for marriage inequality in the U.S., Ugandan activists get last-minute visas for Toronto World Pride, the Obama administration hits the marriage recognition wall, pro-equality President Juan Manuel Santos is reelected in Colombia and more news reported this week by Christopher Gaal and Natalie Peoples (produced by Steve Pride).

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NewsWrap for the week ending June 21, 2014

SUMMARY

Take It To the Bank - Luxembourg lawmakers overwhelmingly approve civil marriage and adoption rights for lesbian and gay couples …

Stomping Grapes - Italian Senate is slated to debate a civil unions bill in September …

Thy Will Be Done - the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church (USA) blesses same-gender marriages …

Family Faire - Hong Kong doesn't like gay and lesbian couples tying the knot at the British consulate, even as thousands create a Pink Dot for Pride in the city's Tamar Park …

Not So Much - barely 2,000 homophobes rail against equality at the much-ballyhooed National Organization for Marriage rally in Washington, D.C. …

Second Thought Welcome - Canadian Immigration reverses itself and grants visas to several LGBT Ugandan activists to attend the World Pride 2014 Human Rights Conference in Toronto …

Up Against the Wall - the Obama administration has apparently gone as far as it can go in extending federal spousal benefits to married same-gender couples, leaving it up to Congress and/or the Supreme Court to finish the job …

Salud! - being in favor of marriage equality doesn't hurt the re-election bid of Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos ….

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NewsWrap for the week ending May 31, 2014

SUMMARY

Noose's Shadow - A mob breaks into the home of a gay man in Ghana, strips him, and lynches him – and reportedly wants to do the same thing to his boyfriend, who barely escapes the same fate …

Ready to Commit - Luxembourg appears poised to be the next country in Europe to open civil marriage to same-gender couples …

NOM de Guerre - the anti-LGBT National Organization for Marriage asks U.S. Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy to stop the marriages of lesbian and gay couples in Oregon, while Maine levies the largest ethics fine in state history against the group for violating election campaign laws during the 2009 effort to repeal Maine's marriage equality law …

No Happy ENDA - several national U.S. LGBT advocacy groups express opposition to the current incarnation of ENDA, which would federally ban workplace bias based on sexual orientation and gender identity, because of its overly broad religious exemptions…

Pol-OUT-ics - Lynne Brown becomes South Africa's -- and the continent's -- first out Cabinet Minister, while Carlos Bruce makes history as Peru's first out lawmaker ….

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NewsWrap for the week ending November 16, 2013

SUMMARY

Two For the Show - The out mayor of Luxembourg City Xavier Bettel is tapped to form a new federal government in the tiny European nation, and for the first time in the world he'll serve with an equally out Deputy Prime Minister, Etienne Schneider …

Almost Yes - a marriage equality proposal is narrowly rejected in the upper house of the Australian state of New South Wales …

The People Rule - proposed ballot initiatives in Arkansas would replace the U.S. state's constitutional definition of marriage as exclusively hetero with marriage equality …

The People's Welfare - Missouri Governor Jay Nixon executive-allows married gay and lesbian couples to file their state tax returns jointly – and voices support for state marriage equality …

Arrest Report - high-profile Senegalese lesbian activist Sene Dienge and four of her friends are arrested in Dakar and charged with breaking the West African nation's laws banning same-gender sex …

Law Without Order - leading Ugandan activist Sam Ganafa and three of his associates are behind bars after warrantless police searches of his home, but fellow activists still don't know what the men are being charged with …

All Ears - the Russian government has no shame in revealing that they bugged private meetings of local and global LGBT & human rights activists in a St. Petersburg hotel room to use audio excerpts in a nationally broadcast TV "expose" about "homosexualists who attempt to infiltrate our country" …

Death Toll - Europe’s Trans Murder Monitoring Project reports that at least 238 gender-variant men and women around the world have been murdered so far this year, with a spike in the killings of transgendered minors …

Pearl of Great Price - the lawmaker who spearheaded California sodomy law repeal in 1975 officiates at the marriage in San Francisco City Hall of Jonathan Moscone, the out son of former mayor George, where 35 years ago this month that mayor and out Supervisor Harvey Milk were assassinated ….

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