NewsWrap for the week ending November 2, 2013

SUMMARY

Taipei Tipping Point - A marriage equality bill is introduced in Taiwan's legislature the day after more than 50,000 parade with Pride in Taipei …

Rings and Rainbows - hundreds demonstrate for marriage rights in Hanoi …

Experts Notwithstanding - a marriage equality proposal fails for the second time in the Australian state of Tasmania …

Who Do They Say That I Am? - the Vatican distributes an unprecedented worldwide survey asking for input from local Roman Catholic parishes about such contentious social issues as abortion, divorce, and marriage equality …

Cold Shoulder - Thomas Bach, the new head of the International Olympic Committee, refuses to meet with LGBT advocates during his visit to the Russian site of the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi …

A League of Their Own - a group of Russian activists is planning a major sporting event in Moscow right after the Sochi Olympics that will be open to people of all sexual orientations …

He Blinded Me With Junk Science - discredited homophobic American psychologist Paul Cameron gives "expert" testimony before the Russian parliament claiming that one in three gay men has sex with children or wants to …

Open the Flood Gates - former U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates, who oversaw the dismantling of Don't Ask Don't Tell, is tapped to lead the soon-to-be partially-gay-welcoming Boy Scouts of America ….

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"Out In The Dark" & "A Piece of the Sky"

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Set against the backdrop of one of the most difficult situations in the world, co-writer/director Michael Mayer's new film puts a different face on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

Her new CD and upcoming tour prove that Tret Fure's four-decade career as a music industry trailblazer is still on the move.

And in NewsWrap: Christie surrenders to New Jersey marriage equality, Tasmanian equity gets constitutional okay, four neo-Nazis convicted of killing "Chile's Matthew Shepard," Cairo cops raid alleged gay bathhouse, public service puppets "Sheka and Teka" spark controversy in Israel, and more news reported by Michael Allan and Abby Dees (produced by Steve Pride).

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Nona Hendryx: "Mutatis Mutandis"

The legendary lesbian singer/songwriter recalls her musical roots and discusses her first album in 20 years during a U.K. visit with Rosie Wilby (produced with Sabine Schereck for Resonance-FM's Out in South London); Tea Party, the first track on the album, is featured.

And in NewsWrap: Tasmania's Upper House narrowly nixes marriage proposal, same-gender bi-national couples living in U.S. get official deportation protection, New York appeals court hears lesbian widow's DOMA appeal, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad says gays engage in "very ugly behavior," the Pope says they threaten "life and the family," and more news reported by Abby Dees and Rick Watts (produced by Steve Pride).

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NewsWrap for the week ending September 29, 2012

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Close But No Wedding Cigar - Tasmania's upper house defeats a bill that would have made the island state the first in Australia to open civil marriage to lesbian and gay couples …

Homeland Is Where the Heart Is - Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano confirms a change in American immigration policy to define long-term bi-national same gender couples living in the U.S. as families and therefore "low priorities" for deportation proceedings …

As Time Runs Out - a U.S. federal appeals court considers "judicial scrutiny" as 83-year-old lesbian widow Edith Windsor challenges DOMA's constitutionality …

Peanut Gallery - Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Roman Catholic Pope Benedict XVI, the Vatican's U.N. observer Archbishop Silvano Tomasi, and St. Petersburg, Russia lawmaker Vitaly Milonov make sad but predictable pronouncements about "the gay" ….

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Romanovsky & Phillips / Gay Games @ 30

Tracing the tunes and the times of the music and comedy duo with Dixie Treichel. Plus: Romanovsky & Phillips sing The Prince Charming Tango.

Remembering the 30th Anniversary of the Gay Games with on-scene coverage from the first quadrennial event in 1982 by Debi Fidler and Joan Sprague.

And in NewsWrap: New Zealand's Parliament pops the question, Tasmanian lawmakers also propose marriage, gay-affirming play shuttered in Uganda, anti-gay/anti-woman planks signal dry rot in GOP platform, Christian conservatives blame gays for Hurricane Isaac, and more news reported by Abby Dees and Wenzel Jones (produced by Steve Pride).

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NewsWrap for the week ending September 24, 2011

SUMMARY

Final Minutes - Countdown celebrations in LGBT venues across the country culminating at the stroke of midnight on September 20th cheer the official repeal of Don't Ask Don't Tell, the 18-year-old U.S. military policy that kept lesbian and gay service members in the closet …

Dear Dad - YouTube video of a private stationed at an Air Force base in Germany coming out to his father in Alabama on the day of repeal gets more than two million views …

He Who Waits - a gay World War II veteran wins a decades-long battle to have his discharge officially changed from "undesirable" to "honorable" …

A Few Good Queers - Marine recruiters make U.S. military history by visiting an LGBT center in Tulsa, Oklahoma to sign up new enlistees …

I Was A Male War Bride - a justice of the peace in Vermont declares a gay lieutenant "officially out" as he pronounces the Naval Academy graduate legally married to his longtime partner seconds after midnight on the day of repeal …

Now to Win the Peace - the Obama administration fights an effort to get equal separation pay for gays and lesbians honorably discharged under Don't Ask Don't Tell, another lawsuit to formally declare the policy unconstitutional …

Let's Jail the Hero - the "fierce advocate's" team also opposes a "vindictive prosecution" defense allowed by a federal judge hearing "failure to obey a lawful police order" charges against military equality advocate Lt. Dan Choi for chaining himself to the White House fence to protest Don't Ask Don't Tell before its Congressional repeal …

Best Wishes, Despite the Above - President Obama himself does issue a statement hailing the demise of the policy and briefly voices support for gays and lesbians around the world during his speech the following day at the U.N. General Assembly …

The Prop 8 Shore - a federal judge allows the release of video recordings of last year's landmark Proposition 8 trial – though his decision will almost certainly be appealed …

Equally Protected - a state judge in Alaska rules that lesbian and gay couples are entitled to the same senior citizen and disabled veteran property tax exemptions as the state's heterosexual couples …

Long Engagement - government officials in the U.K. say they're planning initial discussions on full civil marriage equality legislation in March 2012 with an enactment goal of 2015 …

Leaning on Labor - Tasmania's lower house of parliament passes a resolution urging the Australian federal government to open civil marriage to same-gender couples …

Lynch Pin - "out" Emmy winner and host of this year's telecast Jane Lynch peppers her comments with lesbian references throughout the ceremony, including the lavish opening musical number, during which she slyly discusses recent social progress and the battles yet to be won with the cast of the 1960s era-set Mad Men ….

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