Of Disabilities & Dixie!

There are no handicaps for QDA: A Queer Disabled Anthology contributors David Cummer and Lucas Scheelk (interviewed by correspondents Dixie Treichel and John Townsend).

The writers featured in Crooked Letter I: Coming Out in the South wrestle with U.S. Southern inhospitality (reviewed by Queer Life & Literature commentator Janet Mason).

Remembering some LGBT luminaries we lost this year in an extended Rainbow Minute (produced by Judd Proctor and Brian Burns, read by Mary Wallace).

And in NewsWrap: an activist/attorney renews the challenge to Jamaica's "buggery" law, out candidates score electoral firsts in Venezuela and Australia, the U.K. and U.S. each set out the welcome mat for LGBT Syrian refugees, a 4-year old Swiss boy demands the legal recognition of both his dads in the European Court of Human Rights, and more international LGBT news reported this week by Michael LeBeau and Carole Meyers (produced by Steve Pride, written by Greg Gordon).

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Gilman Says He Will!

Week of December 8, 2014
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Country star Billy Gilman talks about coming out and shares some of his new CD Say You Will with correspondent Steve Pride.

There’s Christmas coal for the cold-hearted: Governor Mike Huckabee, radio-talker Linda Harvey and Pastor Steven Anderson.

And in NewsWrap: EuroCourt of Justice outlaws asylum-seeker queer "tests," Putin defends homophobia as Russian LGBT refugees skyrocket, dozens of Bangalore hijras busted for begging, Finns flee Archbishop's marriage equality glee, Polish city pooh-poohs Winnie's nakedness, and more news reported this week by Natalie Peoples and Rick Watts (produced by Steve Pride).

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NewsWrap for the week ending December 6, 2014

SUMMARY

In the Pudding - The European Court of Justice tells all E.U. member nations that they can't require gay and lesbian refugees fleeing persecution in their homelands to "prove" their sexual orientation to get asylum …

All Good … Not - Russian President Vladimir Putin tells the UN that his country is getting a "bad rap" when it comes to LGBT rights, and that recent homophobic legislation merely "protects children" and "the traditional family" – even as applications by Russian LGBT people for asylum in the U.S. skyrocket …

More ISIL Executions - two young men perceived to be gay are stoned to death in separate incidents in Syria by members of the Islamic State …

Crime of Poverty - 167 transgender women are rounded up in the Indian city of Bangalore for breaking anti-begging laws …

Revolt Against Archbishop - thousands of Finns have left the state-sponsored Evangelical Lutheran Church of Finland after parliament passes a bill to open civil marriage to same-gender couples …

Will You Marry Us? - Slovakia sets the date for a referendum on marriage equality …

More States, More Cakes - U.S. federal judges overturn marriage bans in Arkansas and Mississippi, and homophobic Florida officials are running out of time to stop lesbian and gay couples from getting married in the "Sunshine State" …

Gratulacje - Robert Biedron becomes Poland's first elected openly gay mayor …

Tuszyn Has Brain - the Polish town of Tuszyn bans depictions of Winnie the Pooh on a new school playground because of his "dubious sexuality" and "bear bottom" ….

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NewsWrap for the week ending March 10, 2012

SUMMARY

Emo to the Slaughter - Multiple sources report that as many as a hundred young people perceived to be LGBT have been brutally murdered by religious militia in Iraq during the last month …

Scapegoated in Syria - the UK's "Pink News" reports that an inflammatory article in a popular newspaper in Syria claims that gays have been "prospering" from the uprising against the entrenched regime of President Bashar al-Assad …

Your EU Wears Army Boots - Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko responds to comments by Germany's openly gay Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle that Lukashenko's government is the "last dictatorship in Europe" by saying that it's "better to be a dictator than gay" …

Papal Army Recruited, Indulgences Offered? - Roman Catholic Pope Benedict XVI continues his crusade against marriage equality with a warning to visiting American bishops this week of "the powerful political and cultural currents seeking to alter the legal definition of marriage" …

Incitement to Riot - two senior Roman Catholic bishops in the UK tell parishioners that they have a "duty" to "ensure" that same-gender couples are never allowed to marry, while comments by Scotland's Roman Catholic Cardinal Keith O'Brien calling the idea of marriage equality "grotesque" are applauded by Zimbabwe's state-run "Herald" newspaper …

Hush Little Baby, Don't Say a Word - what's come to be known as the "Don't Say Gay" bill in Tennessee, which would ban any discussion of homosexuality in public schools, continues to percolate in the US state's legislature …

Don't Ask, Don't Teach - Utah lawmakers pass legislation that not only bans classroom discussion of homosexuality, but also of contraception and sexual activity outside of marriage, and requires any school sex education to be abstinence-only, all of which one opposing legislator calls "a mandate against reality" ….

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