"Leaves of Grass -- Uncut" & Well Strung

Week of January 27, 2014
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Walt Whitman worshipper Patrick Scully un-censors the great American poet in a multi-disciplinary work-in-progress that he discusses with Dixie Treichel and John Townsend.

A Well Strung boy band fiddles (and sings) fabulously and chats with Entertainment Correspondent Steve Pride.

And in NewsWrap: lynch mob demands quick execution of gay-accused Nigerians, famed Kenyan memoirist exits closet, seven more U.S. states grapple with marriage equality, Russia's Prime Minister deaf to LGBT screams, Canadian and Australian Olympians diss Putin's "gay propaganda" prohibition, and more news reported by Natalie Peoples and Michael Allan (produced by Steve Pride).

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NewsWrap for the week ending May 12, 2012

SUMMARY

Survival of the Fairest - U.S. President Barack Obama "evolves" to support civil marriage equality …

Tarheel Tragedy - North Carolina voters constitutionally ban legal recognition of any relationship that's not heterosexual marriage …

Hand-to-Hand Combat - a civil unions bill in Colorado that appeared to have majority bipartisan support is blocked from consideration by the House's GOP leader as the legislative session ends, but the state's Democratic governor calls for a special session to decide the issue …

Plus Ca Change - it remains to be seen if France's new Socialist President Francois Hollande can deliver on his election campaign support of civil marriage equality and adoption rights …

Requiescat in Pace - Colombia's Constitutional Court rules that the longtime gay partner of a deceased Roman Catholic priest is entitled to his lover's pension …

Purchased Freedom Delivered - spurred by the high profile horrific murder of a young gay man in March, Chile's Congress breaks a seven-year logjam to approve an anti-discrimination bill that includes sexual orientation and gender identity as protected categories …

Assassination - Honduran journalist and LGBT rights activist Erick Martinez is found strangled to death two days after being reported missing …

The Power to Name - Argentina lawmakers approve a measure allowing transgender citizens to change the gender on their government documents without first getting reassignment surgery or a judge's approval …

In the Best Interest - well-known actors and the cast of "Glee" join a "Change.org" campaign for the reinstatement of Bridgeport, Ohio Cub Scouts den mother Jennifer Tyrrell, who was fired because she's a lesbian ….

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NewsWrap for the week ending May 14, 2011

SUMMARY

Kill Bill Vol. 3 - Uganda's parliament adjourns without considering the infamous "Kill The Gays" bill, but its sponsor, David Bahati, vows to revive it in the next parliamentary session ...

Answered Prayer - after 33 years of debate and deliberation, the Presbyterian Church (USA) opens its clergy to partnered gays and lesbians ...

The Congressional Front - the Armed Services Committee of the GOP-controlled U.S. House of Representatives attaches three amendments to the annual Defense Authorization Bill in an effort to at least slow down repeal of Don't Ask Don't Tell, which one LGBT military advocate calls "a shameful and embarrassing waste of time" ...

The Judicial Front - the gay advocacy group Log Cabin Republicans asks a federal appeals court to lift its hold on a lower court order to abolish Don't Ask Don't Tell, and the Obama administration fights the ACLU's lawsuit challenging the Pentagon policy that gives gay men and lesbians honorably discharged under Don't Ask Don't Tell only half of the separation pay other honorably discharged veterans receive ...

Beneficial Decision - the European Court of Justice rules that gays and lesbians in legal civil unions or registered partnerships in E.U. member states are entitled to the same pension benefits as their heterosexually married colleagues ...

True Hate - LGBT advocates in Taiwan file a slander lawsuit against the Union for True Love, charging the right wing group with spreading inflammatory falsehoods about the Ministry of Education's proposal to include discussion of sexual orientation and family diversity in elementary and junior high school curricula

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