Intersex 101 & Smith's “Historic” Oscar (Not)!

Writer/activist Hida Viloria dots the “I” in LGBTQI (with correspondent Vash Boddie).

A history-free homage from Sam Smith wins "razzies" to go with his Oscar for The Writing's on the Wall — because he apparently didn’t read it!

Plus a Rainbow Minute quoting the real words (see above!) of Sir Ian McKellen (produced by Judd Proctor and Brian Burns, read by Dustin Richardson).

And in NewsWrap: a backdoor marriage equality ban fails in Switzerland, the EuroCourt reunifies same-gender couples, Bermuda's government mixes a civil unions proposal with a marriage equality referendum, a South Dakota anti-trans "bathroom bill" craps out, U.N. ambassadors visit a Fun Home, and more international LGBT news reported this week by Tanya Kane-Parry and John Dyer V (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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Driftwood Declarations & Talkin' Trans!

Week of March 2, 2015
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I'm From Driftwood website founder Nathan Manske shares stories about the project's effort to personalize politics (interviewed by Steve Pride).

The University of Minnesota’s Tretter Collection seeks transgender testimonies for a new oral history project under the direction of curator Lisa Vecoli (interviewed by Dixie Treichel and John Townsend).

Plus 8-year-old QBDOO reports from Brooklyn about his trans life!

And in NewsWrap: Kazakhstan's Senate passes a "no promo homo" bill, another U.S. Native American tribe votes for marriage equality, Northern Ireland's Roman Catholic Church religiously supports bias loophole bill, the U.K. is first in the world to approve three-parent babies, and more news reported this week by Michael LeBeau and Tanya Kane-Parry (produced by Steve Pride, written by Greg Gordon).

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NewsWrap for the week ending February 28, 2015

SUMMARY

Still Soviet After All These Years - Kazakhstan’s Senate approves a “no promo homo” bill …

Equality Watch - a Swiss legislative panel overwhelmingly votes to advance a marriage equality proposal …

Native Intelligence - the Tlingit and Haida Indian Tribes of Alaska has become at least the 11th Native American group in the U.S. to open civil marriage to same-gender couples …

Faith in Hate - Northern Ireland’s politically-powerful Roman Catholic Church pushes for an LGBT bias-enabling “religious freedom” bill …

Discrimination Liberation - religious exemption measures are percolating in more than a dozen U.S. states, most recently advancing in the North Carolina and Indiana Senates, but surprisingly opposed by former Georgia Attorney General Michael Bowers and quashed in Arkansas …

State of Rebellion - the Arkansas bill to ban local anti-bias ordinances that don’t comport with state law will officially take effect in September, but Little Rock leads at least three Arkansas cities that have defied the ban or plan to, and an Arkansas-like "no local anti-bias bills" bill is killed in West Virginia …

Judge Bad Penny - Don Davis, the same Mobile, Alabama probate judge who was forced by a direct court order to issue a marriage license to Kim McKeand and Cari Searcy, the lesbian couple who successfully sued the state for marriage equality, refuses to grant Searcy’s second-parent adoption application for the son born to McKean in 2006 and being raised by both women …

Three's the Charm - the U.K. becomes the first country in the world to allow in-vitro fertilization clinics to replace defective DNA in one woman’s egg with healthy DNA from another’s, which will virtually result in 3-parent babies - a dad and two moms …

X Marks the Spot - while the Human Rights Campaign, Americans for the Separation of Church and State, and the AARP(!) are on the American Family Association’s "hit list," the Center for Inquiry, which supports the rights of Christians, atheists and others, is miffed at not being included in the way-far-right group’s “bigotry map” identifying organizations around the U.S. that “openly display bigotry toward the Christian faith”  ….

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Ambush at the 7th Circuit

Week of September 1, 2014
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7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Judges Richard Posner, Ann Claire Williams and David Hamilton scoff at Indiana Solicitor General Thomas Fisher's "bad breeder behavior"-based inequality arguments, as attorneys Camilla Taylor and Kenneth Falk represented the plaintiffs. Buzzfeed's Chris Geidner and Freedom To Marry's Evan Wolfson comment on the hearing.

And in NewsWrap: Ecuador engages civil unions; Utah's marriage case climbs the Supreme Court ladder; Switzerland, Italy and Colombia each adopt rights for same-gender parents; Berlin's out mayor opts out; lipstick lesbians wear beauty queen crowns in Spain and Ireland; more news reported this week by Wenzel Jones and Carole Meyers (produced by Steve Pride).

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NewsWrap for the week ending August 30, 2014

SUMMARY

Engaged - Ecuador's President Rafael Correa announces the advent of civil unions for lesbian and gay couples …

Stairway to SCOTUS - equality-seeking plaintiffs in the challenge to Utah's ban on civil marriage for same-gender couples join state Attorney General Sean Reyes in asking the U.S. Supreme Court to review the case …

Blaming Breeders' Bad Behavior - a three-judge panel of the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals hearing challenges to Indiana's and Wisconsin's bans batters state lawyers with logic …

Moms, Dads and the Kids - coupled same-gender parents win adoption rights in Switzerland, Italy and Colombia …

Poor But Sexy, So Long! - Berlin, Germany's long-serving out Mayor Klaus Wowereit announces that he'll step down in December …

Ultimate Lipstick Lesbian - two-time Miss Universe entry from Spain Patricia Yurena Rodríguez comes out on Instagram …

Will Irish Eyes Be Squinting? - Philadelphia, Pennsylvania's Maria Walsh, the reigning Rose of Tralee, "a global celebration of Irish culture," comes out in an interview with the "Irish Sun" – which could make things a bit sticky for New York City's Ancient Order of Hibernians ….

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