Perfection at the Polls

Reports from last week's U.S. elections, which featured stunning victories for marriage equality in Maine (Amy Browne for WERU - Blue Hill & Bangor), Washington (Quentin Mahoney for KAOS - Olympia), Minnesota (Michelle Alimoradi for KFAI - Minneapolis/St. Paul), and Maryland (Joel McCord for WYPR - Baltimore).

And in NewsWrap: Tammy takes the Senate, two rabid reps return to House, two Kansas cities rescind bias protections, equality affirming Iowa judge retained, Aussie "Big Brother" winner's heartwarming "en-gay-gement," and more news reported by Jason Proctor and Natalie Peoples (produced by Steve Pride).

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NewsWrap for the week ending November 10, 2012

SUMMARY

Chapter Two - LGBT rights supporters celebrate historic victories in this week's U.S. elections, including a second term win by "Ally in Chief" President Barack Obama …

Dyke on the Hill - Tammy Baldwin of Wisconsin becomes the first open lesbian or gay person elected to the U.S. Senate …

Bad Pennies - Congressional homophobes Bachmann and Foxx are re-elected ..

Choosing to Discriminate - voters in Salina and Hutchinson, Kansas rescind anti-bias ordinances passed by their respective city councils …

Court of Public Opinion - Iowa Supreme Court Justice David Wiggins survives efforts to have him removed from the bench for supporting marriage equality …

Grand Slam - Maine voters re-open civil marriage to same-gender couples, voters in Maryland and Washington each affirm the marriage equality votes of their respective state legislatures, and Minnesotans reject a proposal to constitutionally ban same-gender marriage …

Like Wildfire - more than a hundred "out" LGBT candidates win state and local elections across the country and nearly double their number on Capitol Hill …

Empire Stakes - one of the four Republican Senators who voted for marriage equality in New York last year is re-elected, another did not seek re-election, the third lost his primary election, and the fourth loses to a Democrat …

Happy Ending - "Big Brother Australia" winner Benjamin Norris proposes to his boyfriend on national television ….

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Sapphic Nomads in Samoa & Rev. Rebecca Voelkel

In the first of a series of "on the road" reports, traveling lesbian documentarians Maggie Young and Katie Cook explore fa'afafine life in Independent Samoa.

A Minnesota United Church of Christ minister and LGBT ally prays for marriage equality with correspondent Dixie Treichel.

Plus -- admirers Lily Tomlin, Jane Lynch, and Steve Harvey "Mark" Ellen DeGeneres' "Twain" at Washington, DC's John F. Kennedy Center.

And in NewsWrap: gay activists take Jamaican sex laws to court, Cameroon legal advocates get death threats, marriage equality appeal rejected in New York, a Viking "voices" his support for it, and more news reported by Rick Watts and Michael LeBeau (produced by Steve Pride).

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MN Marriage Billboard & "October Mourning"

The campaign to keep the "one man, one woman" Minnesota Marriage Amendment from constitutionally banning equality got a boost from the Guerrilla Girls … and, of all people, Michelle Bachman! Minneapolis organizers Joan Vorderbruggen (http://www.artistsinstorefronts.com), Erin Sayer (http://www.cultstatusgallery.com), and Robyn Hendrix (http://www.thewarm.org) take Dixie Treichel to the streets to view their grand undertaking. (View the billboard here … and p.s.: they take on the Voter ID Amendment, too!)

Leslea Newman's (Heather Has Two Mommies) new book is subtitled A Song for Matthew Shepard, and This Way Out life and literature commentator Janet Mason finds it to be an evocative and powerful remembrance of the slain gay Wyoming youth.

Plus: Brian Houston sings his own Ballad of Matthew Shepard.

And in NewsWrap: Ukraine moves on "no promo homo" bill, Russia's top court upholds "gay prop" ban, no luck for Northern Ireland marriage equality, California's "cure" ban sickens rightwing groups, Puerto Rican boxer Orlando Cruz KO's the closet, and more news reported by Jason Proctor and Abby Dees (produced by Steve Pride).

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