Homophobia for Export

Week of March 17, 2014
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How the U.S. provided the inspiration for Ugandan persecution: trace the birth of the East African nation’s draconian Anti-Homosexuality Act through "educational seminars" hosted by Massachusetts evangelical Christian minister Scott Lively, his follower Stephen Langa of Uganda’s Family Life Network and Ugandan parliamentary research director Charles Tuhaise.

Plus: syndicated columnist Abby Dees encourages her younger self.

And in NewsWrap: Ugandan human rights activists challenge the new anti-gay law's constitutionality, Nigerian Justice "jails the gays" for their own good, Rainbow Russian colors clash with homophobic thugs, same-gender Brits married elsewhere get early equality start, Obamacare offers insurance parity to U.S. lesbian and gay families, and more news reported by Johnnie Torres and Michelle-Marie Gilkeson (produced by Wenzel Jones and Steve Pride).

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NewsWrap for the week ending April 21, 2012

SUMMARY

Pride 2, Cops 0 - Budapest Metropolitan Court overrules last week's police ban on the planned July 7th Pride parade in the Hungarian capital city …

Never Saw It, Get Rid of It - report by Russia's state-owned news agency about proposed legislation to ban so-called "gay propaganda" reveals that 94 percent of survey respondents say they've never been exposed to it, but 86 percent approve of a ban on positive portrayals of same-gender relationships …

Coerced Confession - U.K. man sentenced to 3 years in prison in Dubai last week for having public gay sex tells the Scottish Sun that in reality "it was just a kiss and a cuddle" and that he plans to appeal …

Queer Child Left Behind - Saudi Arabia bans what it calls "gays and tom-boys" from attending government schools and universities …

Hush Up, Bad - "Don't say gay" bill in the U.S. state of Tennessee to ban any discussion of human sexuality in elementary and middle schools other than heterosexuality wins narrow approval in a House committee, while a similar measure is introduced in the Missouri legislature …

Hush Up, Good - 17th annual National Day of Silence against anti-LGBT bullying is observed on more than 8,000 U.S. school campuses …

Mazel Tov - Israel's Conservative Jewish movement decides to open its rabbinical seminary to gay and lesbian students …

Sisters of Perpetual Revolution - Vatican demands reform of a leading organization of U.S. nuns whose "radical feminist themes" challenge Church doctrine …

Not Sheepish - outspoken anti-equality Archbishop J. Peter Sartain, who's charged with spurring those reforms, is rebuffed by six Seattle parishes who reject his call to participate in signature gathering efforts to qualify a petition for the November ballot to repeal the state's recently-enacted law opening civil marriage to same-gender couples …

Chapter and Verse - veteran Anglican priest Paul Oestreicher is sure to upset conservative Christians of all denominations by writing in Britain's Guardian newspaper that Jesus and his disciple John were "what we today call gay" ….

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NewsWrap for the week ending October 8, 2011

SUMMARY

The Right Way - British P.M. David Cameron tells a Conservative Party conference that "I don't support gay marriage in spite of being a conservative, I support gay marriage because I am a conservative" …

Parental Controls - U.K. gay and lesbian parents will soon be able to identify themselves on passport forms for their children as "parent one" and "parent two" instead of "mother" and "father" …

Dining and Dancing - U.S. President Barack Obama keynotes the Human Rights Campaign National Dinner, saying that "every single American deserves to be treated equally in the eyes of the law" while stopping short of endorsing civil marriage equality, but takes Republican presidential wannabes to task for staying silent when the crowd at a recent GOP candidates debate booed a gay soldier serving in Iraq [with an excerpt from that rebuke] …

Your Tax Dollars for Discrimination - the Republican-led House's modified contract with the D.C. law firm defending the Defense of Marriage Act in federal court triples to $1.5 million …

Last Call - Uganda's only "out" bar for sexual minorities is padlocked by the landlord because it attracted "strange" people …

Effective Terrorism - police officials in Belgrade, backed by the Serbian government, ban the city's second Pride march, fearing a repeat of the violence at last year's event …

Russian Recidivism - police try to separate the activists from the violent counter-demonstrators among the 40 people detained in Moscow at one of Russia's first sanctioned LGBT rights rallies …

OcQUEERpation - U.S. LGBT people across the country are a visible part of the growing street protests against corporate greed and government gridlock that began with New York's "Occupy Wall Street" ….

Complete NewsWrap text and this week's podcast to be posted October 10th.