Equality Double-Play & Pink Freud

Week of May 26, 2014
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Marriage equality comes to two more U.S. states: Oregon and Pennsylvania. NBC News Justice Correspondent Pete Williams, attorney Ted Boutrous, Pennsylvania's first out lawmaker Rep. Brian Sims, and MSNBC's Chris Matthews and Rachel Maddow provide analysis and predict future developments.

Commentator Charlie Bauer PhD talks about G-men, the L-word, and making it in a hetero-centric world.

CNN's Anderson Cooper has a special "honor" for the TV personality who piously protested pro-football's first gay kiss, but had previously appeared in a prurient pose with a posse of Chippendale strippers.

Plus: political humorist Bill Maher wishfully declares the victorious end to "the culture wars"!

And in NewsWrap: global actions fight homophobia and transphobia, Africa's first out gay black lawmaker takes office, Canada denies visas to Ugandan activists invited to World Pride Conference in Toronto, mixed judicial signals keep Utah's married same-gender couples in legal limbo, "stayin' tuned" in Idaho and Wisconsin, and more news reported by Michael LeBeau and Pam Marshall (produced this week by Steve Pride).

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NewsWrap for the week ending May 24, 2014

SUMMARY

A World Against Hate - Millions around the world mark the 10th annual International Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia (IDAHOT) with states-people statements and a variety of actions in such locales as Costa Rica, Australia, Paraguay, Belgium, Albania, Russia, Cambodia and China …

Africa's Harvey Milk - South Africa swears in Member of Parliament Zakhele Mbhele as the first black openly gay elected official on the continent …

Game of Keep Away - activists rail against Canadian Immigration after the agency reportedly denies visitors visas to 10 Ugandan activists invited to a World Pride Conference in Toronto because officials feared that they'd all seek asylum …

Two By Two - another week, and another couple of U.S. states getting civil marriage equality: Oregon becomes the 18th and Pennsylvania the 19th …

Married, But Not Family - a federal judge orders Utah to recognize the more than 1300 civil marriages legally performed in the state during the brief period they could, while the Utah Supreme Court approves a request by Attorney General Sean Reyes to block those lesbian and gay marrieds from adopting children …

Staying Tuned - a federal appeals court agrees to a permanent stay of a lower court ruling overturning Idaho's ban on civil marriage for same-gender couples while the state appeals, but expedites the review process …

Flood Insurance - Wisconsin Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen asks the federal judge hearing the challenge to his state's ban to stay her ruling even before she's made it …

The Cheese Stands Alone - with lawsuits filed by same-gender couples in Alaska, Montana, and South Dakota, North Dakota becomes the last state in the union without a legal challenge to its civil marriage ban – for now ….

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NewsWrap for the week ending October 5, 2013

SUMMARY

Full Parental Assault - A Russian court overturns a regional "no promo homo" law, but a bill is introduced in parliament to remove children from homes headed by lesbian or gay parents, adoptions of Russian children by married Swedes are prohibited, and the visiting president of America's notoriously anti-equality National Organization for Marriage tells Russian lawmakers and television viewers that gays and lesbians are unfit to raise children …

EU Ticket Pride - Serbia's president promises the Council of Europe, which his nation is eager to join, that this year's ban on an LGBT Pride march won't be repeated next year, while skeptical equality activists demonstrate with pride anyway in a virtually impromptu late-evening rally outside the Prime Minister's office in Belgrade …

Another Loh Blow - the same Singapore High Court judge who upheld the city-state's law criminalizing consensual adult gay sex in April again passes the buck to legislators in a second legal challenge to the colonial era sodomy statute …

Virtue, Liberty and Independence Duke It Out - Pennsylvania's Montgomery County appeals a state court order that stopped it from continuing to issue marriage licenses to same-gender couples, Republican Governor Tom Corbett defends the state law banning matrimonial equality by comparing the marriages of gay or lesbian couples to incest, but out Representative Brian Sims co-authors a marriage equality bill in the state legislature …

Marriage Champions Ride Again - the victorious attorneys in California's Prop 8 case set their sites on Virginia …

Don't Touch Me - Evan Mantel of the rabidly homophobic Media Research Center grouses about being moved by the charming TV engagement of gay couple Mitchell and Cam in the season opener of Modern Family ….

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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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NewsWrap for the week ending August 24, 2013

SUMMARY

Winning Weddings - New Zealand becomes the fourteenth country in the world to begin legally marrying same-gender couples …

Countdown Crescendo - Australians push for equality ahead of their September 7th national elections …

Will It Grow As It Goes? - officials in two counties in the U.S. state of New Mexico issue marriage licenses to lesbian and gay couples, which has Republican lawmakers howling …

Independently for Virtuous Liberty - an official in Montgomery County defies Pennsylvania's specific law banning them to issue marriage licenses to gay and lesbian couples, as oral arguments are set to begin in an ACLU lawsuit challenging the law …

Weeding the Garden State - New Jersey Republican Governor Chris Christie signs a second-in-the-nation bill to ban so-called "reparative therapy" for minors, becoming the second-in-the-nation state to be sued by the rightwing Liberty Counsel for enacting it, joining California, which was the first …

California Class Conflict - the Golden State now braces for an effort to challenge a recently-passed bill requiring equal access for transgender students to programs and facilities in public schools …

Baby Unbestimmt - Germany becomes the first country in the world to allow alternatives to "male" or "female" on the birth certificates of intersex babies …

Welcome to Jail - topping this week's Russia/Olympics confluence, the International Olympic Committee appears satisfied with Russian government reassurances that "everyone will be welcome at the Games in Sochi," although the same statement reaffirms that the recently enacted law criminalizing "the promotion of non-traditional sexual relationships" will be enforced against competitors and fans alike, as Russian President Vladimir Putin issues an ostensibly "antiterrorism" edict banning "gatherings, rallies, demonstrations, marches and pickets" in Sochi during the Olympics …

She Has A Point - a Swedish high jumper's rainbow-colored nails turn red with love ….

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Rudd's Word, Rejecting Russia & Keller's Parent

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Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd and his main reelection challenger Tony Abbott briefly debate marriage equality during their first face-to-face campaign match-up.

U.S. President Barack Obama condemns Russia's "no promo homo" law, but nixes a protest boycott of the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi … and Georgetown University Professor Charles King tells MSNBC's Rachel Maddow why the Olympics controversy is fostering increased global support for gay rights.

Our Steve Pride chats with cartoonist Dan Parent at Comic-Con 2013 in San Diego about creating the popular Archie Comics gay teen character "Kevin Keller."

And in NewsWrap: celebrity gay couple gets Uruguay's first same-gender marriage license, Pennsylvania county leaps to "right side of history," Pride blooms in Hanoi and Entebbe, Stockholm and Amsterdam offer surrogate Pride to Russian visitors, anti-gay suppression fails in Armenia and Lithuania, and more news reported by Pamela Brooks and Charlie Bauer (produced by Steve Pride).

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NewsWrap for the week ending August 10, 2013

SUMMARY

Felicitaciones y los Mejores Deseos! - Uruguay begins offering marriage licenses to same-gender couples, becoming the second country in South America with such equality nationwide …

Penn's Spirit - Pennsylvania's Montgomery County defies the U.S. state's heterosexuals-only marriage law …

Even in Vietnam and Uganda - LGBT Pride celebrates its second birthday in both Hanoi and Entebbe …

Brakes on Bigotry - a "no promo homo" law is proposed and then quickly withdrawn in Armenia, while Lithuanian officials reject holding a referendum on such a law there …

Payback is a ... -  Putin's Russia continues to suffer economic and political backlash against government promises to enforce its law banning "gay propaganda" among native and foreign athletes and spectators alike when it hosts the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi …

Välkomna! - Pride in Stockholm puts out the welcome mat for beleaguered celebrants from Russia …

Float You, Vladimir! - more than a half-million watch Amsterdam float its condemnation of Putin and support for a homophobia-free sports world …

Marching to the Russian Front - a pair of Canadian Olympians march in support of diversity in the 35th annual Pride parade in Vancouver, British Columbia ….

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