The Queer Early '80s!

Recalling rise of the religious right, the first Gay Games, and the dawn of AIDS -- classic archival coverage celebrating LGBT History Month!

An expanded Rainbow Minute remembers the life and times of Olympian and Gay Games founder Dr. Tom Waddell (read by Dustin Richardson, produced by Judd Proctor and Brian Burns).

And in NewsWrap: Indonesia's President offers scant fresh air to choking queers, a Romanian marriage case divides top officials, Amsterdam's prosecutor investigates homophobic death threat leaflets, Australia seats its first out aboriginal MP, and more international LGBT news reported this week by Michael LeBeau and Sarah Sweeney (produced by Steve Pride, written by Greg Gordon).

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Canada’s Queer Decade #3!

Recalling the Little Sister’s Bookstore storm that brought a reading rainbow through Canada’s Customs authority in Part 3 of CiTR-Vancouver’s award-winning documentary Queer Decade: 1995-2005 produced by Heather Kitching (with comments by bookstore employee Ken Boesem, civil rights lawyer John Dixon, bookstore manager Janine Fuller, and Vancouver LGBT Muslim leader Imtiaz Popat).

A final wrap on the exploits of Team LGBT at the Rio Olympics precedes a Rainbow Minute about a 1956 gay Olympian who never was — none other than Johnny Mathis: Pop Music Icon (produced by Judd Proctor & Brian Burns and read by Gene Pembleton).

Commentator Janet Mason takes a novel look at queer life in the Middle East in her review of Guapa by Saleem Haddad.

And in NewsWrap: Australia’s marriage equality plebiscite meets political pandemonium, a Texas judge blocks Obama’s trans student guidelines, U.S. District Court clogs HB2’s plumbing as Charlotte Pride overfloweth, and more international LGBT news reported this week by Wenzel Jones and Tanya Kane-Parry (produced by Steve Pride, written by Greg Gordon).

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Pride Goes West & Canada's "Queer Decade" 2!

Pride lands on the beaches of Venice, California with the eccentric enclave’s inaugural LGBT celebration (Matthew McLaughlin was on the scene)!

Redefining "spouse" sets the stage for Canadian equality in Part 2 of Heather Kitching’s Queer Decade: 1995-2005!

More medals, media and a shocking loss for Team LGBT at the Rio Olympics!

And in NewsWrap: Uganda’s Ethics Minister promises persistent persecution of "homos,” Odessa celebrates its first Pride, a U.S. district court denies civil rights to transgender people, the LGBT-supportive NBA moves its 2017 All-Star Game from Charlotte to New Orleans, and more international LGBT news reported this week by Carole Meyers and John Dyer V (produced by Steve Pride, written by Greg Gordon).

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Canada's “Queer Decade”!

Part One of an award-winning radio documentary recalls the first equality case that kicked off Canada's Queer Decade: 1995 -2005. Produced by veteran This Way Out correspondent Heather Kitching for CiTR - Vancouver, B.C., it features comments by pioneering human rights attorney Barbara Findlay and national gay lobby leader Lawrence Aaronovitch.

Queer Life and Lit Commentator Janet Mason leafs through books about an Aussie drag queen (From Darkness to Diva by Skye High) and a trailblazing New York Times HIV/AIDS reporter (Dying Words: The AIDS reporting of Jeff Schmalz by Samuel G. Friedman with Kerry Donahue).

Team LGBT has Olympic moments of glory and ingloriousness this week in Rio!

And in NewsWrap: Belizean Chief Justice overturns anti-gay law against "carnal intercourse,” Georgia's president vetoes marriage equality referendum, Alabama’s Roy Moore may be less again, and more international LGBT news reported this week by Michael LeBeau and Jessica Andrea (produced by Steve Pride, written by Greg Gordon).

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Queer Hollywood History & #Injustice!

The Hollywood Museum’s Reel to Real: Portrayals and Perceptions of Gays in Hollywood exhibit displays Tinseltown at its queerest perceptions (with L.A. City Councilman Mitch O'Farrell, Rev. Troy Perry, Katharine "Kat" Kramer, Erin "Tabatha" Murphy, and Julie "Catwoman" Newmar at the grand opening.

Lionhearted lesbian poet Grammo Suspect unwraps Kenyan "#Injustice" on her new single.

Gay Aussie Olympian Matthew Mitcham’s dramatic dive is regaled in a Rainbow Minute.

And in NewsWrap: religious right pushes a gay sex ban in Indonesia's top court, Kampala Pride crushed by Ugandan cabinet minister’s vengeful vow, Tanzania's Health Minister bans lube, new reports detail horrific homophobia in the Middle East, and more international LGBT news reported this week by Wenzel Jones and Jason Proctor (produced by Steve Pride, written by Greg Gordon).

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Trans Thought & Trans Faith!

In a new resource booklet for religious groups, Transgender Welcome, retired gay Episcopal Bishop Gene Robinson gives practical advice for affirming congregations and explores the spiritual side of gender issues — for the transitioning and their would-be allies. He presents the Center for American Progress publication in a dialog with trans Baptist Pastor Allyson Robinson. (Lucia Chappelle reports.)

The University of Victoria’s inaugural Trans Studies Chair Dr. Aaron Devor talks about their new academic program — and the world’s largest transgender archives.

Gay Olympian Gus Kenworthy tells TBS TV’s late night talk show host Conan O'Brien why he didn't come out in Sochi.

And in NewsWrap: a poisonous amendment threatens Italy's civil unions bill, U.S. LGBT vets get spousal benefits equity, Britain closes a legal loophole that allowed a deceased gay honeymooner's death certificate in Australia say he was "never married,” a lesbian activist is Guatemala's first out Congressperson, a Russian city fears a "gay fish festival,” and more international LGBT news reported this week by Sarah Sweeney and Wenzel Jones (produced by Steve Pride, written by Greg Gordon).

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NewsWrap for the week ending September 29, 2014

SUMMARY

Allied Victory - The United Nations Human Rights Council approves a landmark resolution condemning anti-LGBT violence and harassment around the world …

Fair Play - the International Olympic Committee – not wanting to chance another Sochi – adds a provision to the standard host city contract requiring an affirmation of the rights of sexual- and gender-variant people …

It's Okay By Us - Russia's Constitutional Court upholds the nation's notorious law banning "the promotion of non-traditional sexual relations to minors" …

Assalamu 'Alaikum - South Africa's first mosque to welcome people regardless of gender or sexual orientation to worship together is shut down less than a week after it opens …

Undercover Avatars - as the crackdown on Egyptian gay men escalates, the meeting app Grindr warns its users in that country that police officers could be "posing as LGBT on social media to entrap you" …

Bundle of Justice - France's top court okays co-parent status for a lesbian couple, one of whom conceived via in vitro outside the country …

Uh, Ya Think? - a state judge in Louisiana declares that state's ban on civil marriage for same-gender couples unconstitutional …

Ready When You Are - U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder says the Justice Department will file briefs with the Supreme Court in support of marriage equality if and whenever the high court decides to hear a case  …

Bending the Arc - the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission charges two businesses with bias on the basis of gender identity in first-ever lawsuits citing Title VII of the U.S. Civil Rights Act of 1964 …

Dress For Success - skirted Brazilian schoolboys brilliantly support a brave transgender classmate ….

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NewsWrap for the week ending February 22, 2014

SUMMARY

St. Valentine's Day Massacre - A mob of 40 viciously attacks more than a dozen perceived to be gay young men in Nigeria's capital of Abuja in the early morning hours of February 14th as violence against LGBT people escalates following enactment of the so-called "Jail the Gays" law …

Exodus - LGBT people are reportedly fleeing equally inhospitable Uganda, as government leaders defy possible reduced foreign aid over the country's equally draconian "Anti-Homosexuality Act"….

Human Rights Repellent - Gambian President Yahya Jammeh calls gay people "vermin" during a nationally televised speech …

Love the Motherland - members of the pro-gay Russian punk band Pussy Riot are horsewhipped and doused with pepper spray under an Olympics promotional sign in Sochi as they try to perform an anti-Putin protest song …

In Full Regalia - transgender former Italian M.P. Vladimir Luxuria is arrested at least once outside an Olympic venue for wearing a rainbow-colorful headdress and outfit and carrying a sign saying "It's okay to be gay" …

If He Won, Who Lost? - President Putin hands out a "humanitarian" award to a popular newscaster who said the hearts of deceased gay people need to be burned or buried to avoid accidental transplantation …

Safe on a Technicality - Germany's top court evades a request to rule on the rights of civilly partnered same-gender couples to adopt non-biological children …

In Sight of the Finnish Line - Finland's parliament begins a process that activists hope will lead to marriage equality in the only Nordic country without it …

Resistance Is Futile - Oregon's Attorney General declines to defend her state's constitutional amendment banning marriage equality …

Rocking the Rockies - nine couples in Colorado challenge their state's ban in federal court …

Off the Back Burner - a federal court says that same-gender couples in Cook County don't have to wait for the June 1st implementation date of the Illinois marriage equality law to tie the knot …

Brewer Brews on Bias - will Arizona become the first U.S. state to enact a bill that allows discrimination against LGBT people by individuals and businesses if providing services would "substantially burden" the exercise of their sincerely held religious beliefs? ….

Complete NewsWrap text and this week's podcast to be posted February 25, 2014.

Panti's Rant & "Uprising of Love"

Week of February 10, 2014
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Irish drag queen Panti Bliss (aka Rory O'Neill) responds to RTE Television's decision to settle libel lawsuits after she named the names of LGBT-haters with a poignant lesson on just what homophobia is … and what it does to people.

Lesbian rocker Melissa Etheridge sings for the right to love -- and donates the proceeds of her new single to the Russia Freedom Fund.

And in NewsWrap: Rainbow Russians qualify for Olympic arrests, Nigerian anti-LGBT law gets national bishops' blessing, Ugandan lawmakers insist there's a "cure," Scotland's Parliament pipes up for marriage equality, theater thugs disrupt Sarajevo LGBT film fest, Pride marches on in Melbourne and Mumbai, and more news reported by Sarah Sweeney and Rick Watts (produced by Steve Pride).
 

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NewsWrap for the week ending February 8, 2014

SUMMARY

Gold Medal Handcuffs - As many as two dozen LGBT rights activists are jailed in separate actions in Moscow and St. Petersburg on the eve of the Opening Ceremonies of the Winter Olympics in Sochi for violating Russia's so-called "no promo homo" law …

Prison Be Unto You - Nigeria's Roman Catholic Bishops Conference praises President Goodluck Jonathan for signing what's come to be known as the "Jail All the Gays" bill …

National Resistance Doctors Agree - Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni is reportedly getting "scientific" assurances from lawmakers in his ruling political party with medical backgrounds that gays can be "cured" so that he can sign the oppressive "Anti-Homosexuality" bill there …

Purple Heather - Scottish lawmakers overwhelmingly make their country the 17th in the world to open civil marriage to lesbian and gay couples …

Lovers on Hold - a U.S. federal judge promises a ruling "soon" following hearings on a lawsuit challenging Virginia's state ban on marriage equality …

Forward Looking - same-gender couples file suit this week challenging Wisconsin's ban …

Cinema Verite - hooded thugs invade a movie theater in the Bosnian capital of Sarajevo hosting an LGBT Film Festival injuring at least three people …

Hot-Footing Down Fitzroy - tens of thousands brave sweltering temperatures in Australia to applaud the annual LGBT Pride march in Melbourne …

Prideful Pushback - a record crowd defies India's Supreme Court with Pride in Mumbai …

Condolences - lesbian tennis legend Billie Jean King bows out of the official U.S. delegation to the Winter Olympics because of her mother Betty Moffitt's failing health, who died at 91 on the same day as the Opening Ceremonies in Sochi …

Torch of a Different Color - the London Gay Men's Chorus "serenades" the Russian Embassy to protest that country's "no promo homo" law during the hours that the Winter Games Opening Ceremonies are being held in Sochi ….

Complete NewsWrap text and this week's podcast to be posted February 11, 2014.

"Leaves of Grass -- Uncut" & Well Strung

Week of January 27, 2014
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Walt Whitman worshipper Patrick Scully un-censors the great American poet in a multi-disciplinary work-in-progress that he discusses with Dixie Treichel and John Townsend.

A Well Strung boy band fiddles (and sings) fabulously and chats with Entertainment Correspondent Steve Pride.

And in NewsWrap: lynch mob demands quick execution of gay-accused Nigerians, famed Kenyan memoirist exits closet, seven more U.S. states grapple with marriage equality, Russia's Prime Minister deaf to LGBT screams, Canadian and Australian Olympians diss Putin's "gay propaganda" prohibition, and more news reported by Natalie Peoples and Michael Allan (produced by Steve Pride).

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NewsWrap for the week ending January 25, 2014

SUMMARY

Lynching Season - Thousands of demonstrators stone a courtroom in northern Nigeria demanding quick convictions and executions of several men accused of belonging to gay advocacy groups as attacks on sexual minorities in Nigeria escalate following the mid-January enactment of draconian anti-gay legislation …

New Chapter - well-known award-winning Kenyan writer Binjavanga Wainaina comes out to protest the anti-gay law in Nigeria and a similar law apparently still pending in Uganda …

Charging Generals - marriage equality actions in U.S. states continue to mushroom, with Virginia's new Attorney General announcing that he would not defend his state's ban on civil marriage for same-gender couples, while Idaho and Nevada Attorneys General each defend their state's ban in federal lawsuits …

Slow Ski Lift - Utah gets more time to prepare its defense of the state's marriage ban, while four legally wed same-gender couples who married during the 17 days that they could file suit for state recognition of their marriages …

Fitting for Wedding Suits - a federal judge in Oregon consolidates two marriage equality lawsuits while rights activists push a petition to get the issue on the November state ballot, while six same-gender couples file suit for the right to marry in Florida …

Shell Game - thanks to what Democrats call a "power play" by Republican Indiana House Speaker Brian Bosma, a bill to constitutionally outlaw marriage for same-gender couples passes in committee and heads to the full chamber …

Homophobia Ain't So Bad - Russian anti-gay thug Maxim Martsinkevich is arrested in Cuba and heads home to stand trial for "extremism" – though his online video postings of gangs trapping and abusing young gay men are apparently not part of the charges against him …

I Hear Nothing … Nothing - Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev tells "CNN" that he hasn't heard of any virtually-silenced LGBT person complaining about his country's law banning "gay propaganda," and falsely claims that it's not even being enforced …

Audacious Olympians - marriage equality-supportive female ice hockey star Hayley Wickenheiser is named by the Canadian Olympic Committee to be her nation's Opening Ceremonies flag bearer at the Winter Games in Sochi, while out Australian Olympic snow board cross rider Belle Brockhoff looks forward to the competition, and then to talking to anyone who will listen to her angry condemnation of Russian President Vladimir Putin for his defense of the so-called "no promo homo law" ….

Complete NewsWrap text and this week's podcast to be posted January 28, 2014.

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 11, 2014

SUMMARY

Russia Roundup - Russia's politically powerful Orthodox Church calls for a public referendum to re-criminalize gay sex; NBC Sports anchor Bob Costas tells reporters that he wants to ask Vladimir Putin to defend his country's "no promo homo" law during the network's Winter Olympics coverage next month in Sochi, while the U.S. State Department warns LGBT visitors to keep it on the "down low" …

Slow Backtrack - the Indian government asks the nation's Supreme Court to reconsider its December 11th ruling that recriminalized gay sex …

As Night Is Falling - just the threat of Uganda's draconian anti-gay law, yet to be signed by the president, is already making life more difficult for HIV/AIDS workers and the sexual minorities they serve …

The Sun Also Rises - civil unions for Chile's same-gender couples may be just a few weeks away after the Senate overwhelmingly approves a bill to create them …

Feds Buzz Bees - Utah's Republican Governor Gary Herbert nixes state recognition of the 1,360 lesbian and gay couples who legally wed in the state during the 17 days that they could, but U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder says that the federal government will recognize those couples …

Courting Rituals - four same-gender couples challenge Arizona's constitutional marriage equality ban in federal court, and a federal court in Austin will soon begin hearings on a challenge to the ban in Texas …

Disenchanted - an effort by opponents of New Mexico marriage equality to pass a constitutional amendment to overturn the state Supreme Court ruling establishing it as the law of the land in December are not given much chance of success …

Celebrity News - Germany's retired high-profile international football [soccer] star Thomas Hitzlsperger comes out, while Joseph Lown, the San Angelo, Texas mayor who resigned in 2009 to move to Mexico to live with his undocumented gay partner legally marries him in a Mexico City ceremony …

And That's the Truth - comedy icon Lily Tomlin and her creative/life partner of 42 years Jane Wagner finally make honest women of each other on New Year's Eve in New York City ….

Complete NewsWrap text and this week's podcast to be posted January 13, 2013.

Daley's Splash & "Brand New Christmas"

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British Olympian Tom Daley announces his dive into a gay relationship.

Aussie crooner Nathan Leigh Jones re-invents holiday classics, and tells Queer Music Heritage honcho JD Doyle how he does it.

Plus: Dr. Brown's Prescription for early 1970s U.S. activism is recounted in a Rainbow Minute (produced by Judd Proctor and Brian Burns, read by Dan Roberts).

And in NewsWrap:  Russia's highest court upholds "no promo homo" laws, Croatian voters and the Greek government slam same-gender couples, U.S. and U.K. courts order bias-free public services, and more news reported by Michael LeBeau and Tanya Kane-Parry (produced by Steve Pride).

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NewsWrap for the week ending December 7, 2013

SUMMARY

Ironclad Bias - Russia's highest court rules that laws criminalizing the dissemination of "propaganda of non-traditional sexual relations to minors" do not violate the national constitution, while a court in Murmansk is believed to be the first to convict violators of the federal "no promo homo" law …

Who's Gaming Now - representatives of several Russian LGBT advocacy groups have an unsatisfying meeting with new IOC President Thomas Bach in Paris about Russian President Putin's vague assurances that LGBT athletes and spectators will be safe at the Winter Games in Sochi …

Bench Warmers - major corporate sponsors of those Games are being pressured to overtly oppose Russia's repressive attacks on gay rights …

Heart on Your Sleeve - American Apparel teams up with two LGBT advocacy groups for a "Principle 6" clothing line …

Homophobia in Hrvatska - to no one's surprise, heavily Roman Catholic Croatians overwhelmingly vote a ban on marriage equality into their national constitution …

Greeced Pig - the Greek government caves to conservative and religious pressure by scrapping a proposal to open the country's civil unions to same-gender couples …

Wedding Window - gay and lesbian couples start legally marrying in the Australian Capital Territory on December 7th, but they could all be annulled by a High Court ruling on December 12th …

Happy Homomoon - researchers estimate a 217 million dollar tourism bonanza for Hawai'i over the next three years with the advent of marriage equality in the "Aloha State" on December 2nd …

Madiba's Rainbow - LGBT people join the world in mourning the death of iconic South African human rights advocate Nelson Mandela, who created a "Rainbow Nation" with the help of the late gay anti-apartheid and AIDS activist Simon Nkoli …

Glad to Accommodate -a court in the U.S. state of Colorado and the U.K. Supreme Court each decide that gay and lesbian couples deserve to be treated equally under the law ….

Complete NewsWrap text and this week's podcast to be posted December 10, 2013.

On With ENDA & "Kill Your Darlings”

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Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid advances the Employment Nondiscrimination Act -- but what will happen in the House? Meanwhile, Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel orders non-compliant states to issue IDs to National Guard members for same-gender spousal benefits.

Michael C. Hall and Daniel Radcliffe star in John Krokidas and Austin Bunn's Beat poet murder mystery movie involving Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, William Burroughs and the enigmatic Lucien Carr (a preview by Steve Pride).

Plus -- a Rainbow Minute crowns the not-so-closeted King James I and His Favorite (produced by Judd Proctor and Brian Burns, read by Phil Pollard).

And in NewsWrap: Taiwan takes a look at marriage equality, Vatican vets social questions in  global survey, I.O.C. snubs Russian LGBT activists, ex-Defense Secretary may open the Gates to the Boy Scouts, and more news reported by Christopher Gaal and Michelle-Marie Gilkeson (produced by Wenzel Jones and Steve Pride).

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NewsWrap for the week ending November 2, 2013

SUMMARY

Taipei Tipping Point - A marriage equality bill is introduced in Taiwan's legislature the day after more than 50,000 parade with Pride in Taipei …

Rings and Rainbows - hundreds demonstrate for marriage rights in Hanoi …

Experts Notwithstanding - a marriage equality proposal fails for the second time in the Australian state of Tasmania …

Who Do They Say That I Am? - the Vatican distributes an unprecedented worldwide survey asking for input from local Roman Catholic parishes about such contentious social issues as abortion, divorce, and marriage equality …

Cold Shoulder - Thomas Bach, the new head of the International Olympic Committee, refuses to meet with LGBT advocates during his visit to the Russian site of the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi …

A League of Their Own - a group of Russian activists is planning a major sporting event in Moscow right after the Sochi Olympics that will be open to people of all sexual orientations …

He Blinded Me With Junk Science - discredited homophobic American psychologist Paul Cameron gives "expert" testimony before the Russian parliament claiming that one in three gay men has sex with children or wants to …

Open the Flood Gates - former U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates, who oversaw the dismantling of Don't Ask Don't Tell, is tapped to lead the soon-to-be partially-gay-welcoming Boy Scouts of America ….

Complete NewsWrap text and this week's podcast to be posted November 5, 2013.

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 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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