Post-Pulse Politics & Writers’ Rituals!

Queer youth trace the troubling Trump trail back to Orlando’s Pulse (featuring Brianna of Outcasting public radio show, produced by Marc Sophos).

Queer Life and Lit commentator Janet Mason sits down To Drink From The Silver Cup, put on a Straight Face and introduce us to A Faithful Son, as religion preys on authors Anna Redsand, Brandon Wallace and Michael Scott Garvin.

Plus trailblazing U.K. singer/songwriter Tom Robinson updates his late 1970s anthem Glad To Be Gay!

And in NewsWrap: no High Court road to marriage equality in Northern Ireland, Pakistan lawmakers ponder protections for trans people, Texas Speaker re-flushes the Governor’s "bathroom bill,” skinheads pepper spray St. Petersburg Pride-sters, Iceland asexuals expand the queer acronym, and more international LGBT news reported this week by Frances O'Brien and Wenzel Jones (produced by Steve Pride, written by Greg Gordon).

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Queer Women Take Washington!

Millions of Women walk all over Trump's Agenda in D.C. and March around the world (Chris Wilson and Pam Marshall report from the U.S. capitol)!

A Rainbow Minute remembers oft-forgotten gay British-born iconic horror film director James Whale (produced by Judd Proctor and Brian Burns, read by John Porter)!

And in NewsWrap: transpeople will finally count for something in Pakistan, Poland's President disavows civil marriage equality, the Philippines Armed Forces welcomes "well-behaved" LGBT recruits, Putin's "no promo homo" law melts Polar Pride, Utah's "no promo homo in schools" law blocks bully deterrence, and more international LGBT news reported this week by Frances O'Brien and Danny Cruz (produced by Steve Pride, written by Greg Gordon).

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NewsWrap for the week ending June 5, 2010:

Summary: A committee of the United Nations Economic and Social Council rejects consultative status for the International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission ... more than a thousand mostly young Muslims stage a first-ever march against homosexuality in Ghana ... Tiwonge Chimbalanga & Steven Monjeza, the Malawi couple pardoned from their 14 years hard labor sodomy prison sentence by President Bingu wa Mutharika last week, make their first post-release public appearance ... a 42-year-old Pakistani man and his 19-year-old transwoman friend are arrested in a raid on the teen's birthday party in Peshawar and are being charged with sodomy ... U.S. President Barack Obama issues an official LGBT Pride Month proclamation and issues a memo outlining the benefits he ordered last year for the partners and children of lesbigay federal workers ... military veterans Dan Choi and Jim Pietrangelo end their week-long hunger strike protesting the slow progress of "Don't Ask Don't Tell" repeal but say they might do it again ... Dutch airline KLM refuses the request of its gay flight attendants to not have to work on flights to queer-dangerous Iran ... Dutch researchers say they may have discovered evidence that "gaydar" actually exists.

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