Pulse Massacre & A Stern Worldview!

Orlando, Florida LGBT club-goers slaughtered in an ISIS-inspired massacre are mourned by Mayor Buddy Dyer, President Barack Obama, MCC’s Rev. Elder Nancy Wilson, and Tony Award-winning Hamilton composer/star Lin-Manuel Miranda.

Outright Action International Executive Director Jessica Stern gives western activists insight into international strategies and recent developments, including Indonesia’s homophobic “moral panic.”

And in NewsWrap: Russia leads the elimination of queers from U.N. HIV/AIDS resolution, a leading Honduran activist is assassinated, Pink Dot success panics Singapore authorities, Ireland’s Presbyterian Church orders anti-equality wedding vows, Virginia’s bathroom case heads for the Supreme Court, and more international LGBT news reported this week by Michelle-Marie Gilkeson and Carole Meyers (produced by Steve Pride, written by Greg Gordon).

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Families Valued & Legislative Mass Hysteria!

Week of March 23, 2015
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You're on the red carpet at the Family Equality Council Los Angeles Awards Dinner with actor and dad Dan Bucatinsky, Houston, Texas Mayor Annise Parker, entertainer and dad Alec Mapa, "GLEEful" actor/singer Alex ("Unique") Newell, and Family Equality Council Executive Director Gabriel Blau (Chrisanne Eastwood reporting).

As crazy phobias proliferate in at least 26 U.S. states, Comedy Central's The Daily Show with Jon Stewart delivers a scathing perspective.

And in NewsWrap: the Presbyterian Church (USA) completes its long march down the aisle, American Reform rabbis elect a lesbian to lead them, Indonesian clerics issue a same-gender sex fatwa, Puerto Rico stops defending its civil marriage ban, Irish students ring their grannies for equality, and more news reported this week by Chrisanne Eastwood and Christopher Gaal (produced by Steve Pride, written by Greg Gordon).

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NewsWrap for the week ending March 21, 2015

SUMMARY

What God Has Joined - The Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) becomes the largest Protestant denomination in the country to bless the marriages of same-gender couples …

Reb Lesbian - out Rabbi Denise Eger is picked to lead the world’s largest rabbinical organization, the Reform branch of American Judaism …

Kill Order - top Muslim clerics in Indonesia issue a fatwa calling for the execution of anyone who engages in same-gender sex …

Why Fight It? - the government of the U.S. territory of Puerto Rico drops its opposition to marriage equality …

New York Blarney & Boston Jig - one token LGBT group marches in New York City’s contentious St. Patrick’s Day Parade, while organizers invite two LGBT groups to march in Boston’s parade …

GrannyGrams for Equality - Ireland’s #RingYourGranny campaign encourages younger people, who tend to favor it, to urge their elders, who are more likely to oppose it, to vote yes in the upcoming May 22nd Marriage Equality referendum  ….

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