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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 ….

Complete NewsWrap text and this week's podcast to be posted April 29, 2014.