From Outlaws to In-Laws

A 65-minute audio CD compilation of feature reports on the U.S. Supreme Court’s rulings in the Lawrence v. Texas sodomy law case and the Proposition 8 and Obergefell marriage equality cases, as well as the “marriage equality resistance syndrome” suffered by the right in response. Includes the voices of plaintiffs John Lawrence, Edith Windsor, James Obergefell and Kris Perry; attorneys Kate Kendall, Ted Olson, Evan Wolfson and Mary Bonauto; GOP presidential hopefuls Sen. Ted Cruz, Gov. Mike Huckabee and Donald Trump; U.S. President Barack Obama, California Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom, ACLU Exec. Dir. Anthony Romero, and many more!

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High Noon at the High Court!

Week of May 4, 2015

Highlights from the U.S. Supreme Court's marriage equality hearing -- the justices, the lawyers, the plaintiffs, the analysts … and the heckler!

And in NewsWrap: Nepal's killer quake cracks queer HQ in Kathmandu, Ecuador's civil unions law passes without apocalypse, marriage equality loses its fourth fight in Northern Ireland, the EuroCourt seals France’s stringent gay/bi blood ban, Tokyo Pride toasts rights recognition, and gay choral compadres harmonize U.S.-Cuba relations, and more news reported this week by Matthew McLaughlin and Carole Meyers (produced by Steve Pride, written by Greg Gordon).

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Courting Marriage 2014

Week of December 22, 2014
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Several major legal developments advanced marriage equality in the United States during the past 12 months. At the end of 2013, 14 states and the District of Columbia had opened civil marriage to same-gender couples. How did that number more than double this year?

Featured: Indiana Solicitor General Thomas Fischer; 7th US Circuit Court of Appeals Judges Richard Posner, Ann Claire Williams and David Hamilton; legal eagles Camilla Taylor and Kenneth Falk: journalist Chris Gender; marriage equality activist Evan Wolfson; MSNBC's Rachel Maddow; The American Family Association's Bryan Fischer; Comedy Central's Stephen Colbert; U.S. House Speaker John Boehner; Newsy's Christian Bryant; NPR's Nina Totenberg; Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

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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.