Leslie Jordan, "Show Pony"

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The Emmy-winning entertainer is a short star with some tall Hollywood tales for correspondents Steve Pride, Abby Dees and Chris Wilson.

Plus a couple of Rainbow Minutes devoted to the Comings and Goings of 2013 (produced by Judd Proctor and Brian Burns, read by Dustin Richardson).

And in NewsWrap:  nightmare anti-LGBT laws pass in Nigeria and Uganda, Cuban lesbians and gays get workplace anti-bias protections, a U.S. Supreme Court stay stymies Utah marriage equality, the high court in the "Land of Enchantment" opens civil marriage to same-gender couples, an unrepentant United Methodist Church pastor gets defrocked for Christmas, and more news reported by Wenzel Jones and Pam Marshall (produced by Steve Pride).

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NewsWrap for the week ending January 4, 2014

SUMMARY

Nightmares in Waiting - A so-called "Jail The Gays" bill in Nigeria and an apparently less lethal version of the infamous "Kill The Gays" bill in Uganda each win legislative approval and await the signatures of their respective presidents, Goodluck Jonathan and Yoweri Musevini …

Enigmatic Reprieve - British code-breaking World War II hero and father of the modern computer Alan Turing gets a posthumous royal pardon of his "gross indecency" conviction in 1952 that forced his chemical castration and probably drove him to suicide two years later …

Cuba Mas Libre - a Labor Code change in Cuba banning sexual orientation-based workplace bias is the first law in the island nation to protect gays and lesbians …

Busy as a Beehive - a U.S. federal judge declares the ban on civil marriage equality in mostly Mormon Utah unconstitutional, sending hundreds of same-gender couples to county clerk's offices across the state to get licenses, while both the ruling-issuing judge and the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals deny Utah's request for an emergency stay to stop them, which state officials then ask Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor, the high court judge for that part of the country who handles emergency requests, to do …

Enchanted Judiciary - the New Mexico Supreme Court orders marriage equality across the state, validating the licenses already issued to same-gender couples since August by 8 of the state's 33 counties …

Of Their Own Free Will - the Los Angeles Times notes that, contrary to popular right-wing howls against so-called "activist judges" imposing their personal beliefs on an unwilling public, only seven of the 18 U.S. states with marriage equality as 2014 began got there by court order …

Crucified and Risen Again - Lebanon, Pennsylvania United Methodist Church Reverend Frank Schaefer is defrocked for not repenting officiating his gay son's wedding in 2007, but may have a new job in California …

Anticlimax - keen observers noticed that the sky didn't fall on January 1st, the first day of the new semi-inclusive policy welcoming openly gay young men into the ranks of the Boy Scouts of America ….

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NewsWrap for the week ending October 26, 2013

SUMMARY

Legislative Time Out - Proposed legislation in Russia to remove children from the homes of their gay or lesbian parents is withdrawn, but not forgotten …

200 Overcome 1500 - violent attacks by right-wing extremists on the first-ever Pride march in Montenegro's capital of Podgorica end with several injuries and multiple arrests …

Aussies At Odds - the federal government challenges the latest effort to enact marriage equality in the Australian Capital Territory, anti-equality P.M. Tony Abbott's out lesbian sister announces her engagement, and lawmakers consider marriage equality bills in the Australian states of New South Wales and Tasmania …

Tar Heel Tap Dancing - an official in Buncombe County, North Carolina tests that U.S. state's hetero-only marriage law, while same-gender couples legally married elsewhere demand recognition of their marriages there …

Clarity To Come - a ruling is expected by year's end by the New Mexico Supreme Court after it hears arguments this week in a marriage equality case …

Forever Hold Your Peace - France's Constitutional Council -- the country's highest court – rules that mayors opposed to marriage equality cannot refuse to officiate at weddings of same-gender couples …

Skater Won't Let Russia Slide - out U.S. figure skating champion Johnny Weir retires from competition, but not from LGBT rights advocacy –- including sharp criticism of Russia's so-called "no promo homo law" --  when he serves as a figure skating analyst for the NBC TV Network's coverage of the February 2014 Winter Olympics in the Russian seaside city of Sochi ….

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NewsWrap for the week ending October 19, 2013

SUMMARY

Wedding Garden - In U.S. state marriage equality news, the New Jersey Supreme Court green-lights marriage licenses for same-gender couples beginning October 21st …

Awaiting Enchantment - New Mexico's high court is scheduled to hear arguments on October 23rd in a marriage equality case there …

Great Lakes Front - a U.S. District court judge schedules oral arguments for February 2014 in a challenge to Michigan's hetero-only constitutional marriage statute …

Beaver State Breaks Dam - Oregon's chief operating officer orders state agencies to recognize the marriages of same-gender couples conducted in other jurisdictions where they're legal …

Perpetuated in Righteousness - Hawai'i lawmakers begin a special session to consider marriage equality on October 28th …

Prairie Justice - activists are hoping for debate to be held in the coming week on a marriage equality proposal in Illinois …

Fertile Ground for Faithfulness - two Australian constitutional law experts conclude that the state of Tasmania can enact marriage equality without being in conflict with the federal Marriage Act …

On Matthew Shepard's Anniversary - four alleged neo-Nazis are convicted of last year's brutal torture and murder of Chilean student Daniel Zamudio …

Devil Made Them Do It - at least 14 men are arrested for "practicing homosexuality" in a raid of a Cairo "health club" …

Romantic Sparks - speculation rises about the sexual orientation of "Plug" and "Socket," a pair of male puppets that have been promoting the Israel Electric Corporation for more than a decade, after the arrival of a baby puppet in their latest ad ….

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NewsWrap for the week ending September 14, 2013

SUMMARY

Re-engagement - Hawai'i's governor calls a special session of the state legislature to pass a marriage equality bill …

Arrest That County - a judge in Pennsylvania orders Montgomery County to stop issuing marriage licenses to lesbian and gay couples in defiance of a state ban against them …

Ask the Ref - the New Mexico Supreme Court agrees to issue a statewide marriage equality ruling after several counties begin issuing licenses to same-gender couples …

Two Spirit Day - Washington state's Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation becomes the fifth Native American tribe to open marriage to gay and lesbian couples …

Ganbei - more than 1200 equality supporters celebrate a traditional "wedding banquet" outside the presidential palace in Taipei to push the Taiwan government toward enacting marriage equality …

Good for the Wild Goose - out filmmaker Kim Jho Gwang-Soo symbolically marries his longtime partner Kim Seung-Hwan on a bridge in Seoul in Korea's first-ever public gay wedding …

Could It Be ... Saaa-tin??? - Greek Orthodox Church Patriarch Bartholomew I condemns same-gender unions as "sinful, reprehensible," and a "new invention," while Roman Catholic Archbishop of Minneapolis-St. Paul, Minnesota John Nienstedt thinks that marriage equality is the Devil's handiwork …

Don't Rain on My Parade - the organizer of the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi pleads with the IOC to find a way to stop the global outcry over Russia's so-called "no promo homo" law because it's overshadowing his preparations for the upcoming Games …

Pied Piper - a Russian lawmaker proposes legislation to deny child custody to gay and lesbian parents and to even remove from their homes kids who are already living with gay or lesbian parents …

Psycho - Tony Perkins of the U.S. Family Research Council, a Southern Poverty Law Center-certified hate group, bakes up another rightwing boycott against another pro-LGBT company in a widely-distributed radio diatribe against Minnesota-based Betty Crocker  ….

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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

SUMMARY

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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NewsWrap for the week ending August 24, 2013

SUMMARY

Winning Weddings - New Zealand becomes the fourteenth country in the world to begin legally marrying same-gender couples …

Countdown Crescendo - Australians push for equality ahead of their September 7th national elections …

Will It Grow As It Goes? - officials in two counties in the U.S. state of New Mexico issue marriage licenses to lesbian and gay couples, which has Republican lawmakers howling …

Independently for Virtuous Liberty - an official in Montgomery County defies Pennsylvania's specific law banning them to issue marriage licenses to gay and lesbian couples, as oral arguments are set to begin in an ACLU lawsuit challenging the law …

Weeding the Garden State - New Jersey Republican Governor Chris Christie signs a second-in-the-nation bill to ban so-called "reparative therapy" for minors, becoming the second-in-the-nation state to be sued by the rightwing Liberty Counsel for enacting it, joining California, which was the first …

California Class Conflict - the Golden State now braces for an effort to challenge a recently-passed bill requiring equal access for transgender students to programs and facilities in public schools …

Baby Unbestimmt - Germany becomes the first country in the world to allow alternatives to "male" or "female" on the birth certificates of intersex babies …

Welcome to Jail - topping this week's Russia/Olympics confluence, the International Olympic Committee appears satisfied with Russian government reassurances that "everyone will be welcome at the Games in Sochi," although the same statement reaffirms that the recently enacted law criminalizing "the promotion of non-traditional sexual relationships" will be enforced against competitors and fans alike, as Russian President Vladimir Putin issues an ostensibly "antiterrorism" edict banning "gatherings, rallies, demonstrations, marches and pickets" in Sochi during the Olympics …

She Has A Point - a Swedish high jumper's rainbow-colored nails turn red with love ….

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