NewsWrap for the week ending June 14, 2014

SUMMARY

Head Hater in Charge - Foreign Minister Sam Kutesa of homophobic Uganda is elected to the presidency of the United Nations General Assembly …

Caution: Hate Zone - Zambia's Foreign Minister Gabriel Namulambe warns diplomats to respect his "Christian nation's" homophobia …

Busted, Fined & Shorn - seventeen trans-women are jailed in Malaysia for violating sharia law …

Paper Tigers - Denmark makes it easier for trans people to change the gender on their legal documents …

Seven Days in June - the federal judge who overturned Wisconsin's ban on civil marriage for same-gender couples on June 6th stops their weddings a week later …

Pride & Love - 200,000 celebrants in Rome, 100,000 in Tel Aviv, and 400 in Bucharest parade with Pride and demand the legal recognition of lesbian and gay relationships …

LGBTouchdown - Michael Sam, the first out college football player drafted in the U.S. National Football League, signs a four-year $2.65 million contract with the St. Louis Rams …

Canadian Ceiling Cracked - lesbian Kathleen Wynne is elected Ontario's first female leader and Canada's first out provincial premier ….

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Supreme Expectations & Juno Turns a Page

Week of February 24, 2014
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New York University law professor Kenji Yoshino discusses the various U.S. marriage equality cases being considered in the states and prospects for an ultimate Supreme Court ruling with MSNBC's Rachel Maddow.

Juno star Ellen Page comes out at the Human Rights Campaign’s "Time to Thrive" conference and encourages their work with LGBTQI youth.

Plus: Dallas TV sportscaster Dale Hansen celebrates out National Football League prospect Michael Sam.

And in NewsWrap: homophobic hysteria spreads on the African continent, Germany's top court evades an adoptions rights question on a technicality, Arizona's governor ponders a "license to discriminate," and more news reported by Tanya Kane-Parry and Wenzel Jones (produced by Steve Pride).

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Whither Russia & NFL Pro-mophobia

Week of February 17, 2014
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Russian lesbian author Masha Gessen (The Man Without a Face: The Unlikely Rise of Vladimir Putin) and Dartmouth College professor Jeff Sharlet (who wrote the GQ article "Inside the Iron Closet: What It's Like to Be Gay in Putin's Russia") share their concerns about a post-Olympics apocalypse for Russia's LGBTs with MSNBC's Chris Hayes.

University of Missouri Tiger Michael Sam intercepted the possibility of being outed for a proud first down, but can the award-winning defensive end sack the shower sensitivities in the National Football League to score high in the upcoming draft?

And in NewsWrap: science fiction fuels Uganda's Anti-Homosexuality law, El Salvador saved from marriage inequality amendment, U.S. Justice Dept. reaffirms federal rights for same-gender marrieds, three up and one down for U.S. wedlock parity, Kansas considers bias loophole law, and more news reported by Michael Allan and Natalie Peoples (produced by Steve Pride).

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