Dawn of the Donald!

Activist-author-radio commentator Michelangelo Signorile and veteran L.A. writer-news reporter-“life coach” Karen Ocamb perform a queer Trump victory post mortem and point to the way forward (interviewed by Abby Dees and Wenzel Jones)!

And in NewsWrap: Israel’s Chief Rabbi calls for homosexual executions, the Ivory Coast uses public indecency laws to jail two gay men, a leading queer rights activist is nabbed in Turkey’s political crackdown, Sydney Mardi Gras organizers turn on Turnbull, Manning supporters petition Obama for time served, the Obamas honor Ellen and a queer youth theater group as their era ends, and more international LGBT news reported this week by Wenzel Jones and Michelle-Marie Gilkeson (produced by Steve Pride, written by Greg Gordon).

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Trump-Shock!

Our queer eye on the Presidential upset that re-set U.S. politics includes comments by Speaker of the House Paul Ryan (R-Wis.), former Senator Russ Feingold (D-Wis.), Russian President Vladimir Putin, French President Francois Hollande, New South Wales MP Jeremy Buckingham (Greens), out-going UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon, former Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton, president-elect Donald Trump, Washington Post columnist Jonathan Capehart, MSNBC anchor Rachel Maddow, and LGBT Trump California Co-Chair Charles Moran, plus on-scene coverage of anti-Trump street protests!

And in NewsWrap: Mexican lawmakers turn down their president’s marriage proposal, Northern Ireland’s ruling party quashes marriage bill advance, Canada offers gender options for foreign visitors, LGBT workers rights upheld in U.S. district court, and more international LGBT news reported this week by Frances O’Brien and John Dyer V (produced by Steve Pride, written by Greg Gordon).

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Trans-Ally Questions & "Carol"!

Everything you wanted to know about welcoming trans folks is discussed in the conclusion of our two-part coverage of the release of the Center for American Progress pamphlet Transgender Welcome, featuring comments by its author retired openly-gay Episcopal Bishop Gene Robinson and trans Baptist Pastor Allyson Robinson, with questions from the audience (part 2 of 2).

Stars Cate Blanchett and Rooney Mara tell all about their love affair with Carol at a recent Variety Screening Series gathering.

And in NewsWrap: Mexico's high court issues another state marriage equality ruling, a Romanian Orthodox-led inequality drive starts strong, Italy rallies on both sides of a civil unions bill, Taiwan's marriage equality quest continues, Portugal's outgoing president blocks adoption rights, Sir Ian McKellen comments on the Oscars color controversy, and more international LGBT news reported this week by John Dyer V and Carole Meyers (produced by Steve Pride, written by Greg Gordon).

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Aussie Wedding Waltz & Mad MS Moms!

The latest developments in Australia's marriage equality struggle are defined by drama and dissent.

Super-lawyer Roberta Kaplan takes up the cause of same-gender Mississippi parents fighting the last adoption ban in the U.S.

And in NewsWrap: Mexico's high court overturns state adoption restrictions, Costa Rica considers common law equality, Chelsea Manning charged with possessing treacherous toothpaste, Ugandans celebrate Pride under the radar, Reykjavik rolls out a rainbow road, and more international LGBT news reported this week by Wenzel Jones and Chrisanne Eastwood (produced by Steve Pride, written by Greg Gordon).

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Aussie Quixote & Hello, Caitlyn!

Week of June 8, 2015

Labor's love lost on an Australian marriage equality bill introduced by opposition leader Bill Shorten. Peta Donald’s report from Canberra includes comments by MPs Tanya Plibersek, Christopher Pyne, Sarah Hanson-Young and Matt Canavan, and PFLAG mom Shelley Argent.

The Daily Show with Jon Stewart welcomes Caitlyn Jenner to the wonderful world of misogyny.

Plus: Everyone Was At Stonewall! with singer/songwriter Sandy Rapp.

And in NewsWrap: a Guam federal court grants same-gender wedding rights, Supreme statement moves Mexico's marriage equality, thugs assault Kiev Pride marchers, and more news reported this week by Tanya Kane-Parry and Wenzel Jones (produced by Steve Pride, written by Greg Gordon).

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NewsWrap for the week ending June 6, 2015

SUMMARY

Territorial Imperative - A federal judge makes Guam the first U.S. territory to open civil marriage to lesbian and gay couples …

Almost Enough Said - a ruling by its Supreme Court moves Mexico closer to nationwide marriage equality …

Uncommon Decision - a Costa Rica gay couple is granted common law marriage status, making them the first in Central America to have their relationship legally recognized …

Eastern Wind - thugs assault Kiev Pride marchers, and organizers - fearing the same - cancel this year’s Pride parade in Bratislava, while three Moscow activists are jailed for “attempted Pride” …

Accepting a Dare - organizers in Seoul vow to march with Pride as planned on June 28th despite a police ban …

Top of the World - Iceland tops the list of happiest places on earth for gay men …

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Matt’s Friend & “Freedom’s” Fools!

Week of April 20, 2015

Matthew Shepard, the icon of homophobic violence, is remembered as the guy they knew by his friend Michelle Josue and his dad Dennis in Josue's award-winning new documentary, Matt Shepard Is A Friend of Mine. (Interviewed by Steve Pride.)

U.S. Republican presidential wannabes (Senators Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio and Rand Paul, and former Florida Governor Jeb Bush) run rings around "religious freedom."

And in NewsWrap: Mexico's top court equalizes Sinaloa marriages, Egypt denies reentry to an allegedly gay Libyan student, Indiana struggles to regain its reputation, a children's picture book about same-gender penguin parents is banned again for its "homosexual agenda," and more news reported this week by John Dyer V and Michelle-Marie Gilkeson with Rick Watts (produced by Steve Pride, written by Greg Gordon).

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NewsWrap for the week ending April 18, 2015

 SUMMARY

Poquito Mas - A Mexican Supreme Court ruling orders marriage equality in the state of Sinaloa …

Still Proving a Point - an administrative court in Cairo upholds the Egyptian Interior Ministry’s denial of reentry to a Libyan student deported in 2008 for being gay …

Still Unscathed - the offices of the leading LGBT rights group in Kyrgyzstan, Labrys, are firebombed …

Still Stalling - Guam’s governor is “delaying” his promised decision on whether or not to allow the U.S. territory’s Public  Health Department - which deferred to him after the state Attorney General so ordered - to issue a marriage license to a lesbian couple who’ve sued in federal court for it …

Call In the Mad Men - Indiana Governor Mark Pence’s popularity plummets following his disastrous support for a so-called “religious freedom” law, while the CEO of well-known  Indiana-based consumer review website Angie’s List steps down to “fix” his state’s image, and state officials want to “fix” it by spending at least 2 million dollars on a public relations firm …

Hurricane Bobby - seemingly-oblivious Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal - expected to announce his GOP presidential aspirations sometime soon - pushes a “religious freedom” bill in his state’s legislature that critics say is even worse than the original Indiana law …

Avian Agenda - the penguin-loving children’s storybook "And Tango Makes Three" is again among the American Library Association’s Top 3 "Most Challenged Books" this year because it "promotes a homosexual agenda" …

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NewsWrap for the week ending January 17, 2015

SUMMARY

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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Unhidden McClellan & Home Outgrown

Week of September 8, 2014
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Fear Nothing, listeners! The Voice finalist Beverly McClellan sings I Can't Hide Me … and tells Dixie Treichel just why she can't.

The viral video of a family feud fuels support -- and funding -- for gay Georgia teen Daniel Ashley Pierce and Lost-n-Found Youth, an Atlanta-based non-profit serving homeless LGBT young people (as told to WXIA-TV).

And in NewsWrap: Coahuila becomes the first Mexican state to legislate marriage equality, the U.S. 7th Circuit slams marriage bans with lightning speed, a gay man challenging Jamaica's "buggery" statute withdraws after death threats, Uganda's draconian Anti-Homosexuality Law looms again, and more news reported this week by Natalie Peoples and Jason Proctor (produced by Steve Pride).

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NewsWrap for the week ending September 6, 2014

SUMMARY

Free Unions With Full Consent - Coahuila becomes the first state in Mexico to legislatively open civil marriage to same-gender couples …

With All Due Haste - the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals rapidly rules that bans on civil marriage for lesbian and gay couples in Indiana and Wisconsin violate the U.S. Constitution …

Judicial Choices Refutation - a federal judge in Louisiana bucks the tide and upholds that state's ban, calling marriage equality "lifestyle choices recognition" …

Plaintiff Intimidation - Jamaican activist Javed Jaghai withdraws his Supreme Court challenge to the island nation's anti-gay buggery laws after receiving death threats to him and his family …

New Improved Hate - a possibly-revised form of Uganda's infamous Anti-Homosexuality Law is headed for parliament …

Emerald Ops - organizers of New York City's annual St. Patrick's Day Parade bend a 253-year ban by announcing that they’ll allow one – but only one - LGBT-identified organization, as it happens the employee group of one of its major sponsors, to march in the Parade next year …

Ride 'Em, Cowboy - the St. Louis Rams cut Michael Sam, the first out player drafted into the professional ranks of the U.S. National Football League, due to an over-abundance of other defensive end talent, but the Dallas Cowboys quickly hire Sam for their practice squad, a possible gateway to his first regular season debut …

Laced With Pride - the Australian Football League (AFL) endorses marriage equality, and top British professional football stars will soon be sporting rainbow laces in support of out players and fans ….

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"Test" & Divergent Christians

Week of June 30, 2014
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Writer/director Chris Mason Johnson's film Test brings the AIDS dance to the big screen (preview and interview with Steve Pride).

Christian conniptions and kudos conflict over LGBT rites: the American Family Association’s Bryan Fischer and novice movie mogul Rick Santorum fantasize about "re-education camps" for faith-based homophobes, Episcopal priest Cameron Partridge is the first transgender preacher at the U.S. National Cathedral, and United Methodist Church minister Frank Schaefer is "re-frocked" after his same-gender wedding conviction is overturned.

And in NewsWrap: appealing wins advance U.S. marriage equality in Utah and Colorado, Mexican Supremes okay one Baja California gay wedding, most U.S. citizens believe ENDA already exists, South Carolina town saves lesbian police chief,  and more news reported this week by Michelle Marie-Gilkeson and Wenzel Jones (produced by Steve Pride).

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NewsWrap for the week ending June 28, 2014

SUMMARY

Industry Takes the Lead - In a case involving Utah's ban on civil marriage for same-gender couples, the 10th U.S. Circuit of Appeals becomes the first appeals court since last year's Supreme Court DOMA ruling to affirm a district court decision striking down a state's constitutional ban on civil marriage for same-gender couples as federally unconstitutional …

Ahead of the Curve - Boulder, Colorado County Clerk Hillary Hall, citing the 10th Circuit ruling that also affects her state, starts handing out marriage licenses to lesbian and gay couples …

Ding, Ding, Ding - St. Louis, Missouri Mayor Francis Slay marries four same-gender couples in defiance of the state's ban on marriage equality …

Crossroads of History - a federal district court overturns Indiana's marriage ban, and with no immediate stay, hundreds of couples reportedly exchange vows before an appeals court stops them …

First Drop - Mexico's Supreme Court grants a civil marriage license to a gay couple from Baja California – but the ruling only affects that couple …

Fantasy Fairness - according to a YouGov/Huffington Post poll, 69% of the U.S. population falsely believes that federal law protects LGBT people from workplace discrimination …

Restoring the Peace - the "nightmare that will not stop" for "unprotected" openly lesbian Latta, South Carolina Police Chief Crystal Moore appears to finally be over ….

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Support Your Lesbian Police Chief!

Week of April 21, 2014
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Fired Latta, South Carolina lesbian police chief Crystal Moore has lots of friends in town, but there's no ENDA in sight to protect her job from the homophobic mayor (MSNBC's Ari Melber gets her story).

ABC's Cokie Roberts plays LGBT ally against religious right leaders Franklin Graham, Russell Moore and Ralph Reed … MSNBC's Rachel Maddow offers her unapologetically out perspective -- what the heck happened to mainstream news?

And in NewsWrap: same-gender couples win rights in Oaxaca and Alaska, North Korea critiques UN report with queer complaint, Brunei stalls on death by stoning, Boy Scouts excommunicate church over out scoutmaster, and more news reported by Rick Watts and Michelle-Marie Gilkeson (produced by Steve Pride).

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NewsWrap for the week ending April 26, 2014

SUMMARY

Cracked Wedding Ceiling - Mexico's Supreme Court rules in favor of 39 same-gender couples seeking civil marriage in the state of Oaxaca …

Early Thaw - Alaska's Supreme Court orders limited property tax equality for same-gender, civilly-married couples …

NOM's Away - a federal judge allows a last-minute intervention by the National Organization for Marriage to defend the constitutionality of Oregon's exclusively heterosexual civil marriage law since state officials refuse to do so …

Poor Excuse - North Korea's official news agency condemns a U.N. report critical of human rights abuses in the insulated Asian nation by calling lead investigator, openly gay former Australian High Court Justice Michael Kirby, "a disgusting old lecher" …

Wait Till Your Sultan Gets Home - Brunei delays enforcing –- but perhaps not for long -- a new penal code that punishes consensual adult gay sex with death by stoning …

Another Shot - the Chief Justice of India's Supreme Court announces that the "curative petition" filed by opponents of the country's law banning "unnatural sex" will be heard by a five-judge panel headed by three of the bench's most senior justices …

Wiki Update - the whistleblowing transgender U.S. Army private formerly known as Bradley legally becomes Chelsea Manning …

Excommunication - the Boy Scouts of America revokes the charter of Seattle, Washington-area Rainier Beach United Methodist Church because the congregation and its pastor refuse to fire openly gay scoutmaster Geoff McGrath …

Snitch on the Sick - draft guidelines from the Ugandan government reportedly suggest that the recently-enacted "Anti-Homosexuality Law" requires healthcare workers –- including those at HIV/AIDS clinics -- to report all gay clients to the police …

Meta-Homophobia - a critic of Ugandan anti-gay crusader Pastor Martin Ssempa says the gay-porn-showing zealot himself should be charged with violating that law ….

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London Calling & Rudd's Anti-Homophobe Hymn

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Brits bang the drum against Russian repression at a big pre-G20 anti-Putin demonstration (covered by correspondent Kathy Caton).

Now-outgoing Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd meets a Christian challenger regarding biblical support for marriage equality.

Plus -- Queer Life and Literature Commentator Janet Mason says poet Richard Blanco's Looking for the Gulf Motel is mesmerizing.

And in NewsWrap: Scots pipe up for wedding rights, marriage equality by microns in Mexico and New Mexico, U.S. National Guard benefits trapped in state marriage prisons, fictional lesbian superhero sinks while a real one swims long-distance, and more news reported by Jason Proctor and Michelle-Marie Gilkeson (produced by Steve Pride).

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NewsWrap for the week ending September 7, 2013

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Cue the Pipes - A civil marriage equality bill moves toward predicted passage in Scotland …

Poquito Mas - a gay couple in Chihuahua get a court-ordered marriage license …

Manhattan Marriage Project - a judge in New Mexico makes Los Alamos the eighth county in the U.S. state to offer marriage licenses  to same-gender couples …

Gaining on 'Em - one in three marriage licenses issued in Minnesota in August went to lesbian and gay couples …

Guard the Guardians - U.S. National Guard commanders in Texas, Mississippi and Louisiana hinder the efforts of their married gay and lesbian enlistees to get equal military benefits …

Immersed in Bigotry - the Southern Baptist Convention bans their U.S. military chaplains from any action, including performing or attending the wedding of a same-gender couple, that "gives the appearance of accepting the homosexual lifestyle" …

Abandoned at the Altar -  the writers of GLAAD award-winning DC Comics' "Batwoman" quit after being told that "Kate Kane" (the lesbian caped crusader's real name) can't marry her police officer girlfriend "Maggie Sawyer," to whom she proposed in the February issue …

Super Sapphic Swimmer - why the sexual orientation of 64-year-old record-breaking Cuba to Florida long-distance lesbian swimmer Diana Nyad needs to be part of the story ….

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Baldwin's Native "Notes" & "Oscar" the Opera

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Queer Life and Literature Commentator Janet Mason reviews the timely reissue of James Baldwin's Notes of a Native Son.

Gay countertenor David Daniels talks about his title role in Oscar, a new opera based on the last years of Oscar Wilde.

A Rainbow Minute remembers Jim Hutton and Freddie Mercury (produced by Judd Proctor & Brian Burns and read by Gene Pembleton).

Plus: the late, lamented lesbian political poet Pat Parker schools The Straight Folks Who Don't Mind Gays (But Wish They Weren't So Blatant).

And in NewsWrap: Queen Elizabeth crowns marriage equality, Mexico has its first out mayor, Okinawa dots its "i" in pink, and more news reported by Pam Marshall and Michael LeBeau (produced by Angela Brooks and Steve Pride).

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NewsWrap for the week ending July 20, 2013

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Crowning Achievement - The Queen's Royal Assent makes England and Wales the 16th and 17th countries in the world to open civil marriage to same-gender couples …

The Money Pit - U.S. House Republicans stop wasting taxpayer money defending DOMA …

Elope with Pride - gay Aussie couple wins a "dream wedding" in New Zealand, and the first kiwi same-gender couple to wed may do so at 30,000 feet …

Unintended Consequences - Alistair Stewart of Britain's Kaleidoscope Trust warns that advances in the West like marriage equality have lead to a "perverse" worsening of LGBT freedoms in the developing world …

Martyrs' Roll Call - Cameroon gay and AIDS activist Eric Lembembe is horrifically tortured to death, while 20-year-old Hashim al-Asimi is shot to death in Yemen for being gay …

We Are Trayvon, Too - key witness in the high-profile Florida trial of George Zimmerman tells CNN that 17-year-old victim Trayvon Martin may have worried that wannabe cop Zimmerman was following him with rape in mind, while 35 American LGBT organizations issue a joint statement calling for a Justice Department probe into the killing because "Trayvon Martin deserves justice and his civil rights" …

Numero Uno - singer and gay bar owner Benjamin Medrano is elected mayor in Fresnillo, Zacatecas, a rural northern city of about 230,000, becoming Mexico's first "out" mayor …

Island Hopping - Pink Dot Singapore begets Pink Dot Okinawa ....

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Invisible Athletes & Aversion Survivor

Sports pros Patrick Burke, Esera Tuaolo, Becca Lindquist, and Nick Kleidon liberate the locker room (in a panel discussion excerpted by Dixie Treichel).

Meet Stuart, a gay man who lived to tell the story of the 1950's British quack "cures" to David Rigby in Bristol.

Plus: prospective trendsetters Heather Beason, Jessica Caviness, and Denise Davis confirm that lesbians become "chic" at last (Michelle-Marie Gilkeson, reporting).

And in NewsWrap: queer F-words bomb in Mexico's top court, Singapore's second sodomy law challenge heard, Michigan moms await Prop 8 ruling for adoption rights, Greek trans-people win hate crime protections, and more news reported by Christopher Gaal and Michelle-Marie Gilkeson (produced by Steve Pride).

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