ObamENDA & Tutu's Heaven

Week of July 21, 2014

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An executive order from U.S. President Barack Obama creates anti-bias employment protections for LGBT people in the federal workforce -- without the religious exemptions many advocates worried would be added in the wake of the Supreme Court’s Hobby Lobby ruling. Meanwhile, U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder revealed the administration’s plan if and whenever a marriage equality case reaches the high court.

Australian Olympic swimmer <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian_Thorpe">Ian Thorpe</a> found the water in the coming out pool was just fine, and newly-minted NFL football rookie <a href="http://michaelsam.com/">Michael Sam</a> was gay visibility's most valuable player when he accepted the ESPN television network's Arthur Ashe Courage Award.

South Africa's preeminent representative of reconciliation and Nobel Prize winner <a href="http://www.tutu.org/home/">Archbishop Desmond Tutu</a> prophesizes that there is Pride beyond the pearly gates.

And in <i><a href="http://bit.ly/1nyGLvt">NewsWrap</a></i>: HIV/AIDS researchers and activists become victims of the Ukraine-Russia conflict; U.S. judges consider marriage equality in Oklahoma, Florida, Utah and Colorado; Croatian couples win almost-equality; Malawi cuts costs by ignoring same-gender sex; more news reported this week by Michael LeBeau and Sarah Sweeney (produced by Steve Pride).

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NewsWrap for the week ending July 19, 2014

SUMMARY

Hope Shot Down - Renowned Dutch HIV/AIDS researcher/activist Joep Lange and at least a few fellow scientists/activists traveling to the annual International AIDS Conference in Melbourne perish in the downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 over eastern Ukraine …

Wooing and Courting - the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals overturns Oklahoma's ban on civil marriage for same-gender couples, a circuit court judge declares Florida's ban unconstitutional, the U.S. Supreme Court decides not to force Utah to recognize the marriages of more than a thousand lesbian and gay couples who legally wed in the state during a brief time when that was possible, and Colorado's Supreme Court orders the Denver County clerk to stop issuing marriage licenses to same-gender couples, but doesn’t stop fellow rogue clerks in Boulder and Pueblo counties from continuing to do so …

Equality-Adjacent - Croatian lawmakers overwhelmingly approve a bill to create marriage-like but less-than-equal "life partnerships" for gay and lesbian couples …

The High Price of Persecution - Malawi's Justice Minister tell a U.N. human rights panel that her government has told police to stop arresting gay people, who can be and have been punished with up to 14 years in prison at hard labor -- but financial constraints seem to have been the practical motivation …

Closing the Books - Singapore's National Library Board takes heat for ordering the removal and destruction of all copies of the true-life penguin story "And Tango Makes Three" and two other LGBT-themed children's books ….

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NewsWrap for the week ending April 12, 2014

SUMMARY

Party Off - Thirty-five men are arrested by Saudi Arabia religious police for being at a "gay party" in Jeddah, while four gay men are jailed in Egypt for "debauchery" …

Tuscan Triumph - an Italian court orders the country's first-ever recognition of the marriage of a same-gender couple legally performed abroad …

Last Rights - a U.S. federal court orders the state of Indiana to recognize the Massachusetts marriage of a lesbian couple, one of whom has terminal cancer …

Line Starts Here - a three-judge panel of the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals hears Utah's case challenging a lower court decision declaring the state's ban on civil marriage for same-gender couples unconstitutional – and Oklahoma's challenge will be heard by the same three judges in the coming week …

Safe Bet - Virginia Attorney General Mark Herring sides with marriage equality-seeking same-gender couples in their lawsuit challenging the "heterosexuals only" state ban, and only five U.S. states with bans have escaped court challenges …

Bullies Begone - Minnesota Governor Mark Dayton signs an LGBT-inclusive state anti-bullying bill …

Solemn Oath - Seattle, Washington city officials and his troop's church sponsor stand behind ousted-because-he's-out Boy Scout leader Geoff McGrath ….

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Abaria's "Underdogs" & King's Olympic Stand

Week of January 20, 2014
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Andrew Abaria chats with our impressaria Chris Wilson about his personal and musical journeys, with the title track and Kiss Me Till They Find Us from his We Are The Underdogs EP.

A Sochi-bound Billie Jean King gets fierce with ersatz TV commentator Stephen Colbert.

And in NewsWrap:  Nigeria's anti-LGBT law unleashes reign of terror, Museveni declines to sign Uganda's draconian anti-gay bill, GALZ wins rare Zimbabwe High Court victory, Oklahoma's marriage equality ban struck down, same-gender marrieds ride Utah rights roller coaster, canned Indiana choirmaster causes congregational exodus, and more news reported by Michael Le Beau and Michelle-Marie Gilkeson (produced by Steve Pride).
 

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NewsWrap for the week ending January 18, 2014

SUMMARY

Who's Knocking? - Sexual minorities now live in dangerous times amidst increasing arrests in Nigeria after President Goodluck Jonathan signs a draconian "Jail All the Gays" bill …

Not a Family Gathering - six men arrested in Gabon for participating in a "gay wedding" are released without charge after prosecutors determine that no "real marriage" had occurred …

Call Names, Dodge Action - President Yoweri Museveni declines to sign a draconian "Anti-Homosexuality Bill" in Uganda, but only for legal reasons, calling gay people "disgusting" and "abnormal" …

Vindication - Gays & Lesbians of Zimbabwe wins a rare legal victory in the country's High Court …

Okie-Dokie - Oklahoma's hetero only marriage law is the latest state statute to be declared unconstitutional by a federal judge …

Internal Inconsistencies - Utah's legally wed same-gender couples are told they can file joint state tax returns if they were married by December 31, 2013, even though the state refuses to recognize their unions and has a new $200,000 hired gun leading its defense of the marriage ban in the 10th Circuit …

Out of Egypt - 80 percent of the congregants of the First United Methodist Church in Alexandria, Indiana quit after the choir director of six years is dismissed for being gay ….

Complete NewsWrap text and this week's podcast to be posted January 21, 2014.