Queer India Now & Collins Gets Better

Week of September 22, 2014
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As the news breaks that India’s government will challenge the recent Supreme Court ruling that legally recognized trans-people as a third gender, we hear "Sapphic Nomads" Katie Cook and Maggie Young's second audio postcard from Mumbai.

It Got Better for pro-basketball player Jason Collins after he came out, as he tells Chrisanne Eastwood at the OutFest screening of the docu-series on the LGBT youth support project.

Plus: right-winger Tony Perkins' homophobic radio rant against the Smithsonian Institution.

And in NewsWrap: Justice Ginsberg makes U.S. marriage equality predictions, Egypt grinds gay men into entrapment, Russia's "no promo homo" pol poisons  opening of St. Petersburg's QueerFest, Texas hotels "86" Museveni, Ugandan gay activist wins U.S. asylum, and more news reported this week by Carole Meyers and Wenzel Jones (produced by Steve Pride).

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NewsWrap for the week ending September 20, 2014

SUMMARY

Something Wrong With Justice - India's government challenges the nation's recent Supreme Court ruling legally recognizing trans-people as a third gender …

Supreme Speculation - U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg points to a pending ruling by the 6th Circuit Court of Appeals that could determine when the high court might consider nationwide marriage equality …

Grounds for Arrest - Egypt uses Grindr and other social media platforms to escalate its crackdown on gay men …

Bashers in Custody - three men are arrested in Belgrade for the harrowing caught-on-camera assault of a gay German man attending an LGBT conference in the Serbian capital …

Violence Off-Screen - Vitaly Milonov, the Russian M.P. behind the country's infamous "no promo homo" law, leads a gang of thugs to disperse an unidentified gas that sends 16 people to the hospital in an attempt to disrupt the opening event of St. Petersburg's "QueerFest" …

Trojan Horse - the Finnish news agency YLE tests Russia's "no promo homo" law by sending a package plastered with the homoerotic images of Tom of Finland – now the country's all-time postal sales leader – which is delivered in Moscow with no questions asked …

Rainbow Parachute - the Australian Football League cancels its sponsorship deal with Royal Brunei Airlines because of the tiny Southeast Asian country's pending laws that call for gay people to be stoned to death …

No Vacancy - faced with expected demonstrations protesting the east African nation's draconian Anti- Homosexuality Law wherever he stays, Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni struggles to find accommodations in Irving, Texas for a conference promoting tourism and investment in his country …

Safe House - longtime Ugandan LGBT activist John "Longjones" Wambere tentatively wins political asylum in the U.S. ….

Complete NewsWrap text and this week's podcast to be posted September 23, 2014.