NewsWrap for the week ending October 5, 2013

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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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Manning’s Mea Culpa

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Trans whistleblower Bradley Manning’s explanatory apology is analyzed by Firedoglake trial-watcher Kevin Gosztola (with Free Speech Radio News reporter Alice Ollstein) and independent journalist Alexa O'Brien (with Amy Goodman and Nakeem Shaikh of Democracy Now!).

Plus: a musical Rainbow [More-Than-A] Minute celebrates the advent this month of marriage equality in Minnesota and Rhode Island.

And in NewsWrap: U.S. evangelical charged with Ugandan crimes against humanity, Prop 8 propelled to ninth circle of hell, German Evangelicals marry unionized same-gender couples, Russian TV anchor fired for coming out on the air, WWE Superstar pins closet, and more news reported by Jenn Mahoney and Jason Proctor (produced by Steve Pride).

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NewsWrap for the week ending August 17, 2013

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Thou Shalt Not Bear False Witness - In a precedent-setting lawsuit, professional Massachusetts-based homophobe Scott Lively is ordered to stand trial in U.S. federal court for "fomenting" crimes against humanity in Uganda …

R.I.Prop. - the California Supreme Court drives the final nail into the coffin of the state's marriage equality-banning Proposition 8 …

Blessed Union - Germany's Protestant Church sanctions its first marriage ceremony for a same-gender couple …

Rock and Hard Place Event - the International Olympic Committee vows to punish any athlete at the Sochi Winter Games in February who violates Russia's law banning "gay propaganda" …

Broken News - prominent Russian TV newscaster Anton Krasovsky comes out on the air and is promptly fired …

Double-Dare - a few competitors at this week's track and field Moscow Athletics World Championships test the "no promo homo law" …

Different Bells - out Puerto Rican pro featherweight boxer Orlando Cruz announces his engagement …

Smooth Move - World Wresting Entertainment (WWE) Superstar Darren Young casually comes out to TMZ ….

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NewsWrap for the week ending July 15, 2013

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Cracking the Wall - A civil court judge in Bogota is set to preside over the first marriage of a same-gender couple in Colombia…

Toothpaste Leaving Tube - three same-gender couples are suing for the right to wed in Costa Rica after lawmakers "accidentally" approved marriage equality legislation on July 1st …

Barn Door Won't Close - riding the wave of the U.S. Supreme Court's DOMA and Prop 8 rulings, lawsuits filed this week push for marriage equality in three more states – Illinois, Pennsylvania and North Carolina – while a legal demand for marriage equality is being planned in Virginia …

Sexual Diversity Yes, Violence No - an estimated 1500 LGBT people and their supporters participate in the 12th annual Kolkata Rainbow Pride Walk in India …

One For Our Side - a regional court in Russia declares that the rough arrests of some 60 people trying to rally for LGBT Pride in St. Petersburg on June 29th violated their right to freedom of assembly …

Irrational Motive - Israeli authorities charge an apparent religious fanatic with murder and attempted murder as hate crimes in the 2009 shooting rampage at a weekly youth group meeting at Tel Aviv's LGBT Center that left two dead and 11 injured …

Frightening Conclusion - new research suggests that homophobia may be at least partially rooted in a fear of unwanted same-gender sexual advances …

No Accounting For Taste - global accounting giant Ernst & Young didn't realize that their new "E-Y" brand is the same name as a Spanish magazine catering to gay men that features plenty of young guys posing in their underwear ....

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NewsWrap for the week ending July 6, 2013

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In the Wake of DOMA & Prop 8 - the Pentagon announces that the spouses of married gay and lesbian service members will soon enjoy all the military benefits of their heterosexual peers, deportation proceedings against gay and lesbian foreigners in legal marriages with American same-gender partners end, green cards are going out to foreign spouses in U.S. bi-national same-gender couples, and gay and lesbian Americans can now sponsor their foreign-born same-gender spouses for citizenship, just as their heterosexual peers have been able to do for decades …

Edie, Warrior Princess - successful DOMA plaintiff Edith Windsor awaits a refund -- plus interest -- of the reported $678,000 in estate taxes she had to pay to the IRS and state of New York after her longtime spouse Thea Spyer died …

Wag the Finger, Suck the Thumb - the Supreme Court also rejects the appeal by Arizona Governor Jan Brewer of a lower court ruling overturning a law that had revoked the domestic partner benefits of gay and lesbian state employees, and refuses a request by Nevada's Coalition for the Protection of Marriage to fast-track a so far-unsuccessful challenge to that state's constitutional ban on marriage equality …

Spreading Good News - the ACLU and NCLR file suit in New Mexico arguing that the state's gender-neutral civil marriage laws open the institution to same-gender couples, New Jersey couples press their marriage equality case with the state Supreme Court, and after waiting for the Supreme Court's DOMA decision, a federal judge green-lights a lawsuit challenging Michigan's constitutional marriage ban, while 11 same-gender couples file suit against Arkansas' ban …

Cue Mendelssohn - California lesbian and gay couples flock to city and county courthouses to get marriage licenses following the U.S. Supreme Court's Proposition 8 ruling, and a Delaware state Senator and her longtime spouse are the first to marry when marriage equality legislation there takes effect …

Metidas de Pata - Costa Rican lawmakers "accidentally" approve the legal recognition of same-gender couples …

Rosy Revolution - a record pink-attired crowd of 21,000 lights up Singapore night skies at the annual Pink Dot LGBT rights festival …

Contagious Liberation - Istanbul Pride unexpectedly rides the waves of Turkey's pro-democracy movement …

No Cure for Homophobia - a Brazilian bill to re-classify gays and lesbians as mentally disordered is gone, but not forgotten ....

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Prop 8 Down, DOMA Disabled!

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U.S. Supreme Court-ship brings happiness equally after to many -- but far from all!

Our special coverage includes on-scene reports by Free Speech Radio News' Alice Ollstein in Washington, D.C. and Pacifica Radio News' Christopher Martinez in San Francisco, as well as comments by American Civil Liberties Union Executive Director Anthony Romero; New York Congressman Jarrold Nadler; Defense of Marriage Act Plaintiff Edith Windsor; victorious Proposition 8 Attorney Ted Olson at the celebratory rally in West Hollywood; San Francisco City Attorney Dennis Herrera; "out" California State Assembly Speaker John Perez; and National Center For Lesbian Rights Executive Director Kate Kendall.

Then California Attorney General Kamala Harris marries Prop 8 lesbian plaintiff couple Kris Perry and Sandy Stier in San Francisco, and outgoing Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa marries Prop 8 gay plaintiff couple Paul Katami and Jeff Zarrillo in Los Angeles. (Plus music by the Chicago Gay Men's Chorus.)

And in NewsWrap: Prime Australian politics revive wedding wishes, Russian lawmakers and nationalists agree on homophobia, anti-gay Macedonian mob attacks Pride, Sao Paulo comes out to mock Brazil's "human wrongs" committee, magazine cover captures Bert and Ernie's bliss, and more news reported by Gary Shaw and Natalie Peoples (produced by Steve Pride).

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NewsWrap for the week ending June 29, 2013

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Wedding Planners Field Day - California lesbian and gay couples doubly benefit from the U.S. Supreme Court's two marriage equality rulings on June 26th, as the high court rejects the legal standing of the supporters of the state's marriage equality-banning Proposition 8 to defend it in court – followed in less than 48 hours by the first post-ruling legal marriages of gay and lesbian couples in the state – and in the case of 84-year-old New York widow Edith Windsor rules as unconstitutional a key provision of DOMA, the Defense of Marriage Act, that denies federal recognition to same-gender couples married in states where they're legal ...

Change Partners - newly pro-marriage equality and former Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd unseats anti-equality Julia Gillard to again take the country's helm in a snap election at the Labor Party caucus ...

Too Late to Discriminate - Australian lawmakers add sexual orientation, gender identity, and intersex  status – with worrisome religious exemptions – to the country's Sex Discrimination Act ...

Legislative and Literal Rocks - to no one's surprise, the upper chamber of Russia's parliament approves a bill criminalizing "propaganda of non-traditional sexual relations," a ban on the adoption of Russian orphans by foreign same-gender couples, and a three-year prison term for blasphemy, while dozens of outnumbered activists are assaulted by nationalist extremists and then arrested at an unsanctioned LGBT rights rally in St. Petersburg ...

Pride Endures - Macedonia Pride is marred by a mob assault on the building housing the Skopje LGBT Centre, and a mob spewing anti-gay obscenities and throwing objects at the house where a well-known openly gay Macedonian TV star cares for his ailing, elderly mother ...

Contraindications - thousands march to protest and mock a proposed "gay cure" bill in Brazil ...

Poster Boys - Bert and Ernie's Moment of Joy covers The New Yorker to celebrate the demise of Prop 8 and DOMA ....

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High Court, High Noon

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Marriage equality champions square off with their opponents before the Supreme Court of the United States! Voices that will ring throughout LGBT history include U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts and Justices Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan, Steven Bryer, Antonin Scalia, Anthony Kennedy, and Ruth Bader Ginsburg; Proposition 8 defense attorney Charles Cooper, opposing counsel Ted Olson, and lead plaintiff Kristen Perry; Defense of Marriage Act defense attorney Paul Clement, opposing counsel Roberta Kaplan, U.S. Solicitor General Donald Verrilli, and plaintiff Edith Windsor; law professor Kenji Yoshino; and attorney Shannon Minter.

And in NewsWrap: gay U.S. military activist Lt. Dan Choi convicted of a law-breaking White House fence-chaining Don't Ask Don't Tell demonstration, Paris police protect presidential palace from anti-equality protest, Russian activist beaten after his Pride is banned, Brits turn out for Turing, and more news reported by Pamela Brooks and Wenzel Jones (produced by Steve Pride).

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NewsWrap for the week ending March 30, 2013

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Supreme Test - The U.S. Supreme Court hears two historic days of oral arguments on marriage equality cases – the first involving California's Proposition 8, and the second challenging DOMA, the federal Defense of Marriage Act …

Decorated, Damaged, Delinquent - PTSD takes its toll on gay Army hero Lt. Dan Choi as he's convicted of a criminal misdemeanor for chaining himself to the White House fence in a 2010 protest against Don't Ask Don't Tell …

Shields Up - French "family values" types "put the kids in front" as hundreds of thousands march against marriage equality - and police - in Paris …

The Whole World Is Watching - Pride is banned in another Russian city and its organizer is beaten as TV cameras roll …

Poisoned Apple Pie - the "Universal Machine," (ultimately persecuted) gay mathematician Alan Turing's forerunner to the modern computer, is named the greatest British innovation of the 20th century ….

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Invisible Athletes & Aversion Survivor

Sports pros Patrick Burke, Esera Tuaolo, Becca Lindquist, and Nick Kleidon liberate the locker room (in a panel discussion excerpted by Dixie Treichel).

Meet Stuart, a gay man who lived to tell the story of the 1950's British quack "cures" to David Rigby in Bristol.

Plus: prospective trendsetters Heather Beason, Jessica Caviness, and Denise Davis confirm that lesbians become "chic" at last (Michelle-Marie Gilkeson, reporting).

And in NewsWrap: queer F-words bomb in Mexico's top court, Singapore's second sodomy law challenge heard, Michigan moms await Prop 8 ruling for adoption rights, Greek trans-people win hate crime protections, and more news reported by Christopher Gaal and Michelle-Marie Gilkeson (produced by Steve Pride).

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Manning's Plea & Obama's Brief

The possible consequences of Private Bradley Manning's truth is assessed by journalist Kevin Gosztola following the whistle-blowing Wikileaker's February 28th court martial proceedings (with Dorian Merina of Free Speech Radio News).

President Barack Obama explains the "evolutionary" embrace of equality evidenced in his administration's Prop 8 Supreme Court brief (taken from a March 1st news conference).

Plus: The U.S. Congress passes -- finally -- an inclusive Violence Against Women Act! Arizona Democratic Congresswoman Ann Kirkpatrick, Rape Abuse Incest National Network founder Scott Berkowitz, and Wisconsin Democratic Congresswoman Gwen Moore speak out on the issues for LGBT people, Native Americans and undocumented women in Alice Ollstein's report for Free Speech Radio News.

And in NewsWrap: marriage equality proposal flops in Finland, three "civil partnership" tries and you're out in Poland, bills advancing marriage rites progress in the U.K. and New Zealand, Canada's Supreme Court finds an anti-gay street preacher guilty of hate speech, and more news reported by Pamela Brooks and Michael LeBeau (produced by Steve Pride).

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NewsWrap for the week ending March 2, 2013

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Finn Flop - A marriage equality proposal dies in a Finnish parliamentary committee …

And You're Out - three different bills creating civil partnerships for same-gender couples in Poland each fail to survive a first legislative reading …

Hand in Cookie Jar - the UK's most senior Roman Catholic cleric, "Bigot of the Year" Cardinal Keith O'Brien, resigns amidst charges of sexual improprieties with several male priests, but his replacement is equally bigoted …

Calling the Caterers - marriage equality measures, each with strong religious exemptions, pass committee muster in both British and New Zealand parliaments …

With Friends Like These - an avalanche of "friend of the court" briefs, from political leaders to business and labor leaders and professional associations, meet the filing deadline and urge the U.S. Supreme Court to declare California's Proposition 8 and the federal Defense of Marriage Act unconstitutional …

It's Legal, Just Shut Up - Russia's Foreign Minister defends his country's proposed bill to ban "homosexual propaganda" …

Just Saying - a court in Balti, the second biggest city in Moldova, reportedly overturns a local "no homo promo" law as an unconstitutional violation of human rights …

It Ain't Necessarily So - Canada's Supreme Court rules that the inflammatory anti-gay fliers of a "cured by religion" street preacher constitute hate speech …

Meet Marryin' Soham - the new Groom Wanted website in India promises gay men "the freedom to express themselves" ….

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NewsWrap for the week ending February 2, 2013

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C'est Bon - France's National Assembly says "absolument!" to a critical marriage equality bill component …

Get Off My Lawn - U.S. Senator John McCain calls inclusion of lesbian and gay bi-national couples in immigration reform discussions "a red herring" …

Accidents Don't Happen - attorneys defending the U.S. Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) and California's marriage equality-banning Proposition 8 at the Supreme Court each oddly argue that gay and lesbian couples are not entitled to civil marriage because they "don't present a threat of irresponsible procreation" …

Hers To Discover - Ontario's Kathleen Wynne becomes Canada's first female and first "out" premier …

Greener Grass - small Canadian study finds that "out" gay and bisexual men are generally happier than their heterosexual peers …

"Equal Rights" State Doesn't Want Them - Wyoming's state House rejects both marriage equality and domestic partnership proposals …

Repeat Performance - once dead "Don't Say Gay Bill" is resurrected in the Tennessee legislature …

First Bar None - San Francisco's Twin Peaks Tavern scales new heights ….

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NewsWrap for the week ending January 12, 2013

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Parental Permission - Italy's Supreme Court declares that same-gender couples can raise children just as well as heterosexual couples …

First Bias Hit - an appeals court in Serbia becomes the first in the Balkan nation to punish someone for anti-gay discrimination …

Liquor License - the Court of Appeals in Cameroon frees two men after they'd served more than a year of five-year "homosexuality" prison sentences for, among other "offenses," drinking Bailey's Irish Cream …

Reproductive Rights - the Stockholm Administrative Court of Appeals overturns a 1972 law in Sweden that required involuntary sterilization in all gender reassignment surgeries …

Oyez Oyez - the U.S. Supreme Court announces that it will hear oral arguments in the Proposition 8 case on March 26th and on the DOMA case the following day …

If You Don't, You Can - the Church of England says that "out" gay men in celibate civil partnerships can now become bishops …

Faithful Servant, Well Done - the first openly-gay bishop in the Episcopal Church, New Hampshire's Gene Robinson, retires after almost a decade in that post …

Capital Equality Bells - the national seat of the Episcopal Church, the iconic National Cathedral in Washington, D.C., will soon begin hosting the weddings of lesbian & gay couples ….

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SCOTUS to Mull Marriage

Comprehensive coverage and analysis of the U.S. Supreme Court's December 6th announcement that it will hear both the case against California's Proposition 8 and a challenge to a key provision of the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA).

And in NewsWrap: Mexican Supreme Court's Oaxaca ruling portends national wedding rights, elder lesbians first in line for Washington marriage license, Black gay couple joins Jet set, Israeli gay couple finally gets permission to end Canadian union, "Sulu" advocates among the "Archies," and more news reported by Wenzel Jones and Carole Meyers (produced by Steve Pride).

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NewsWrap for the week ending December 8, 2012

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Wedding Win - Mexico's Supreme Court overturns a law in the state of Oaxaca that defined marriage as exclusively heterosexual …

Supreme Showdown - U.S. Supreme Court agrees to review both California's marriage equality-banning Proposition 8 and one of several eligible cases challenging the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) …

Separating Church and State - county judge rejects a request by church groups and a right-wing "family" group to intervene in a lawsuit challenging Illinois' ban on civil marriage for lesbian and gay couples …

Al-ki Is Now - longtime lesbian couple becomes the first to get a marriage license in the state of Washington at the stroke of midnight on December 6th, the first hour that they became available to same-gender couples …

Taking "Dirigo" Seriously - Portland plans to be the first city in Maine to issue licenses to and perform weddings of gay and lesbian couples when that state's marriage equality law takes effect at midnight on December 29th …

Choosing the Harder Right - lesbian West Point graduate marries her longtime partner in the U.S. Military Academy's iconic Cadet Chapel, becoming the first same-gender couple to wed there since the repeal of "Don't Ask Don't Tell" and the advent of marriage equality in the state of New York …

Jet Set - gay male couple becomes the first to have their wedding celebrated in the pages of "Jet," the venerable biweekly magazine aimed primarily at African-American readers …

Crossing A Great Divide - family court judge in Israel approves the first divorce of a Canadian-married gay couple whose legal union had been recognized by order of Israel's High Court of Justice …

At the Helm - the iconic Hikaru Sulu beams down to the mythical comic book town of Riverdale ….

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Ivy's League (pt. 1 of 2)

The legendary exploits of the now 86-year-old pioneering lesbian-feminist activist Ivy Bottini (the first of a two-part interview with Abby Dees).

And in NewsWrap: Nigeria and Uganda weigh heavy anti-gay laws, Uruguay and France argue marriage equality, Spain's top court nixes nuptial naysayers, U.S. Supreme Court delays Prop 8 and DOMA decisions, critics challenge lesbian moms book and gay penguins play, Danish birds don't duck dads' responsibilities, and more news reported by Tanya Kane-Parry and Christopher Gaal (produced by Steve Pride).

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The Ninth on 8 & Lea DeLaria

California's marriage equality-banning Proposition 8 suffers a new defeat at the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, where the justices have decided to stand pat on an earlier ruling that the measure is unconstitutional (Pacifica Radio's Tina Bachemin reports).

The lesbian comic/singer/Broadway star is all jazzed up with everywhere to go, including the studios of Resonance-FM for a visit with Rosie Wilby of Out in South London for an entertaining discussion about her origins and future plans.

Plus a Rainbow Minute on this year's history-making "Mr. Gay World" contest in South Africa.

And in NewsWrap: Denmark weds civil marriage equality to religious rites, "DOMA" dies again in U.S. federal court, Moscow bans Pride for a century, Mormon allies build bridges to Salt Lake Pride, and more news reported by Tanya Kane-Parry and John Torres (produced by Steve Pride).

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NewsWrap for the week ending June 9, 2012

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Danish Treat - Denmark becomes the eleventh country in the world to open marriage to same-gender couples …

How Many Stakes Will It Take? - yet another U.S. federal court declares DOMA unconstitutional, this time in a case involving 83-year-old lesbian widower Edie Windsor …

What Part of "No" … - the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals refuses to reconsider it three-judge panel's February ruling that California's Proposition 8 violates the U.S. Constitution …

Century of Shame - the Moscow City Court bans Pride for 100 years …

From Warsaw to Riga - Poland's capital of Warsaw and Latvia's capital of Riga each host peaceful Pride marches …

From Mexico City to Tel Aviv - as many as 30,000 party with Pride in Mexico City and a like number do it in Tel Aviv …

To Detroit and Beyond - a Chevy Volt "comes out" for Detroit's Motor City Pride …

For All the Saints - supportive Mormons make history with Pride in Salt Lake City, Utah ….

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Prop 8 Onstage & Tennessee's Sons On Film

Excerpts from an all-star cast's live L.A. reading from the transcript of the Proposition 8 trial featuring George Clooney as Prop 8-challenging lawyer Ted Boies, Kevin Bacon as Prop 8 backers' attorney Charles Cooper, John C. Reilly as Prop 8 supporter David Blankenhorn of the Institute for American Values, and George Takei as Prop 8 proponent Dr. William Tam of the Traditional Family Coaltion.

Entertainment Correspondent Steve Pride discovers how The Sons of Tennessee Williams pioneered Louisiana liberty in conversation with the documentary's writer/director Tim Wolff and one of his interview subjects, Albert Carey.

And in NewsWrap: Liberia doubles down on anti-gay legislation; Cameroon arrests alleged lesbians for the first time; St. Petersburg, Russia's mayor weighs anti-LGBT repression; surveys in Iowa, New Jersey and California show surge in support for same-gender weddings; Texas judge won't marry hetero couples until equality walks down the aisle, and more news reported by Tanya Kane-Parry and Rick Watts (produced by Steve Pride).

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