Obama Lang Syne!

We raise a toast to the outgoing 44th President of the United States with some of Barack Obama’s greatest LGBTQ hits! Meanwhile, departing Attorney General Loretta Lynch reminds us that “Yes we STILL can!”

And in NewsWrap: Israel’s top justices refuse to court civil marriage equality; support for equality advances in Peru, Portugal and Germany; Tory MPs block LGBT-inclusive British sex ed; a Chinese trans-man wins a landmark wrongful job dismissal lawsuit, and more international LGBT news reported this week by Carole Meyers and Christopher Gaal (produced by Steve Pride, written by Greg Gordon).

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Lesbian Marrieds in Selma & Mardi Gras Moments!

Week of March 16, 2015
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Hijinks conquer homophobia at Sydney's Gay & Lesbian Mardi Gras Parade featuring a cast of thousands … and our friends at JOY94.9, Australia's LGBTIQ community radio station, with partners 2SER and SBS Radio!

Tori Wolfe-Sisson and Shanté Wolfe-Sisson, one of Alabama's first wedded same-gender couples, chat with Democracy Now!'s Amy Goodman at the Selma Weekend civil rights commemoration about crossing another historic bridge to equality!

And in NewsWrap: Peru's Roman Catholic Church-coerced Congress kills civil unions, Alberta blesses Gay/Straight Alliances, Swiss lawmakers extend bias ban to include LGBT people, EuroCourt nixes forced trans sterilization, and more news reported this week by Wenzel Jones and Natalie Peoples (produced by Steve Pride, written by Greg Gordon).

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NewsWrap for the week ending March 14, 2015

SUMMARY

Second Strike - A civil unions bill for same-gender couples dies in a Peruvian Congressional committee - again …

Studies in Support - the Canadian province of Alberta makes high school Gay-Straight Alliances on all publicly-funded campuses mandatory …

Good for Goose, Gander Not So Much - the “Utah Compromise” LGBT anti-bias bill enacted this week - with significant religious exemptions - may be good for the Mormon-dominated state, but would probably be considered a setback almost anywhere else …

Add to the Anti-Bias Equation - Swiss lawmakers vote to protect LGBT people from hate and discrimination …

Trans, Not Childless - the European Court of Human Rights rules that sterilization cannot be required of people seeking gender reassignment surgery …

Stop Trans Loss - a new U.S. Army directive makes it much more difficult for a transgender service member to be discharged …

You Mean We Can't Do That? - it took a few months after U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder confirmed that anti-trans workplace bias is illegal, but upscale retail giant Saks Fifth Avenue finally settles out of court a bias and retribution lawsuit filed by a fired transwoman  ….

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Gore Vidal Cures Amnesia

Week of June 2, 2014
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Director Nicholas Wrathall talks about The United States of Amnesia, his documentary on the elegant, acerbic all-around man of letters who presided with a certain relish over what he declared to be the end of American civilization (interviewed by Steve Pride).

Janet Mason reviews Heal This Way written by Little Monsters and photographed by Tracey B. Wilson, and Coming Around: Parenting Lesbian, Gay and Transgender Kids by Anne Dohrenwend.

And in NewsWrap: mob lynches gay man in Ghana and hunts for his boyfriend, Luxembourg's Parliament leans toward marriage equality, NOM takes on Oregon after record fines in Maine, religiously-weakened ENDA draws U.S. activists' fire, Peruvian Congressman comes out, and more news reported by Natalie Peoples and Jason Proctor (produced this week by Steve Pride).

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NewsWrap for the week ending May 31, 2014

SUMMARY

Noose's Shadow - A mob breaks into the home of a gay man in Ghana, strips him, and lynches him – and reportedly wants to do the same thing to his boyfriend, who barely escapes the same fate …

Ready to Commit - Luxembourg appears poised to be the next country in Europe to open civil marriage to same-gender couples …

NOM de Guerre - the anti-LGBT National Organization for Marriage asks U.S. Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy to stop the marriages of lesbian and gay couples in Oregon, while Maine levies the largest ethics fine in state history against the group for violating election campaign laws during the 2009 effort to repeal Maine's marriage equality law …

No Happy ENDA - several national U.S. LGBT advocacy groups express opposition to the current incarnation of ENDA, which would federally ban workplace bias based on sexual orientation and gender identity, because of its overly broad religious exemptions…

Pol-OUT-ics - Lynne Brown becomes South Africa's -- and the continent's -- first out Cabinet Minister, while Carlos Bruce makes history as Peru's first out lawmaker ….

Complete NewsWrap text and this week's podcast to be posted June 3, 2014.