Calpernia Addams As Herself

Week of June 9, 2014
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The new adventures of the irrepressible trans activist/actress/entertainer, whose tragic backstory was portrayed on the screen in the award-winning 2003 film Soldier's Girl, including her work with Felicity Huffman for Transamerica and Jared Leto for Dallas Buyers Club, her experiences on the lecture circuit, her music (with a taste from the title track of her album Stunning) and her frustrations with the Hollywood stereotypes of both trans characters and trans actors. (Interviewed in the studios of KPFK-Los Angeles by Steve Pride, Steve Reigns and Ian MacKinnon of IMRU.

      

 Plus a brief survey of recent top trans-related news stories.

And in NewsWrap: backroom deal bans marriage equality in Slovakia, British consulates host same-gender nuptials, Wisconsin couples rush to wed while North Dakota's journey begins, pleasant Pride surprise in Nicosia, Puerto Rico's governor trusts lesbian's judgment,new generation emerges in California city's elections, and more news reported this week by Ryan Pest and Tanya Kane-Parry (produced by Steve Pride).

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NewsWrap for the week ending June 7, 2014

SUMMARY

Behind the People's Backs - Lawmakers in Slovakia overwhelmingly vote to constitutionally ban marriage equality …

Belly of the Bear - same-gender couples can now marry at British consulates in 23 countries – including Russia …

Almost Losing Count - a federal judge makes Wisconsin the latest U.S. state with an unconstitutional ban on civil marriage for lesbian and gay couples …

Final Holdout - seven couples challenge the marriage equality ban in North Dakota, which had been the only state in the union without such a lawsuit …

The More the Married-er - Idaho's governor asks the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court to meet en banc rather than assign a more typical three-judge panel to hear that state's marriage equality case …

Marry Up and Wait - Utah gets a stay of a judge's order to recognize the marriages of more than 1300 same-gender couples who legally wed during the 17-day period they could in the state from late December through early January …

Before Somebody Drops A House On You Too - a Florida judge rules that three anti-equality groups have no standing to defend that state's marriage ban …

Not A NOM To Stand On - the U.S. Supreme Court affirms a lower court ruling that the notoriously anti-equality National Organization for Marriage (NOM) had no standing to intervene in the Oregon case, and NOM loses a lawsuit against the I.R.S. after claiming that the agency intentionally published the names and amounts of its donors …

Proudly Beyond Expectations - thousands celebrate a reasonably-peaceful first Pride event in Cyprus …

Solid Judgement - Puerto Rico's governor taps out lesbian Maite Oronoz Rodríguez to become the first openly-queer judge on any U.S. state or territorial Supreme Court …

The Next Generation - Peruvian immigrant Robert Garcia becomes the first out, the first Latino, and the youngest-ever Mayor of Long Beach, California ….

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