“Romer” Remembered!

Timely recollections of North Carolina’s Colorado ancestor as our Countdown to This Way Out #1500 commemorates the 20th anniversary of the Romer versus Evans decision with vintage coverage of the U.S. Supreme Court’s overturning of Colorado’s discriminatory Amendment 2 in May 1996!

A Rainbow Minute reveals the bi ways of Broadway’s American hero! (Produced by Judd Proctor and Brian Burns, read by Jay White.)

And in NewsWrap: Wal-Mart settles for millions in queer spousal benefits claims, HB2-defending North Carolina governor concedes defeat, Trump’s hard right turns continue to concern, Greece’s Parliament approves expanded rights for queer couples, Malta leads Europe in banning “cure therapy,” and more international LGBT news reported this week by Wenzel Jones and Carole Meyers (produced by Steve Pride, written by Greg Gordon).

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“Fire Song” & Queer Parenting!

Writer/director Adam Garnet Jones previews his first feature film and discusses the Two-Spirit romance and indigenous issues that ignite Fire Song. (Interviewed by Steve Pride.)

Same-gender parents share their family secrets in four recent books: Gay Fathers, Their Children, and the Making of Kinship by Aaron Goodfellow (Fordham University Press); Saving Delaney: From Surrogacy to Family by Andrea and Keston Ott-Dahl (Cleis Press); Which One of You Is the Mother?: The Absolutely Positively True Adoption Story of Two Gay Guys by Sean Michael O'Donnell (CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform); Queerspawn In Love: A Memoir by Kellen Anne Kaiser (She Writes Press). (Queer Life & Literature commentator Janet Mason)

And in NewsWrap: Trump's cabinet picks shelve LGBT rights, voters end the reign of Gambia's homophobic Yahya Jammeh, a close UN vote saves its newly created LGBT rights watchdog, thousands march for equality with Pride in New Delhi and Hong Kong, South Australia's premier issues an unprecedented apology, and more international LGBT news reported this week by Jessica Andrea and Michael LeBeau (produced by Steve Pride, written by Greg Gordon).

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Trans-Formed Military & Two-Spirit Truths!

The U.S. Defense Dept. ends ban on transgender servicemembers (with reporting from Pacifica Evening News co-anchor Gabrielle Castellan and Feature Story News reporter Harry Horton and remarks by Defense Secretary Ash Carter and comments by LGBT military analyst Aaron Belkin)!

Native American “Two Spirit” questions raise not-so-simple answers (Minnesota activist/educator Lenny Hayes chats with correspondent Dixie Treichel)!

What A Doll! recalls when gay dolls came out of the closet in a Rainbow Minute (produced by Judd Proctor and Brian Burns and read by John DeBoer)!

And in NewsWrap: the U.N. creates an LGBT rights watchdog, India’s Supremes reject a celebrity appeal to overturn Section 377, the U.S. EEOC wins a landmark sexual orientation workplace bias lawsuit, and a federal judge overturns Mississippi’s "religious freedom" law, and more international LGBT news reported this week by Carole Meyers and Wenzel Jones (produced by Steve Pride, written by Greg Gordon).

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Pulse Massacre & A Stern Worldview!

Orlando, Florida LGBT club-goers slaughtered in an ISIS-inspired massacre are mourned by Mayor Buddy Dyer, President Barack Obama, MCC’s Rev. Elder Nancy Wilson, and Tony Award-winning Hamilton composer/star Lin-Manuel Miranda.

Outright Action International Executive Director Jessica Stern gives western activists insight into international strategies and recent developments, including Indonesia’s homophobic “moral panic.”

And in NewsWrap: Russia leads the elimination of queers from U.N. HIV/AIDS resolution, a leading Honduran activist is assassinated, Pink Dot success panics Singapore authorities, Ireland’s Presbyterian Church orders anti-equality wedding vows, Virginia’s bathroom case heads for the Supreme Court, and more international LGBT news reported this week by Michelle-Marie Gilkeson and Carole Meyers (produced by Steve Pride, written by Greg Gordon).

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Drag King Mo B. Dick

Week of July 7, 2014
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Entertainer Mo B. Dick (aka Maureen Fischer) drags in a different direction, taking correspondent Michelle-Marie Gilkeson into the world of male impersonators.

Plus: queer life and literature commentator Janet Mason bids a fond arrivederci to Philadelphia LGBT/feminist bookstore Giovanni’s Room.

And in NewsWrap: U.N. equalizes spousal benefits, federal court finds marriage equality not harmful to Kentucky heterosexuals, SCOTUS nixes conversion and contraception, freed Zambian gays face fuzzy future, Dorothy's friend unveils homophobe housing plan, and more news reported this week by Wenzel Jones and Gary Shaw (produced by Wenzel Jones and Steve Pride).

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NewsWrap for the week ending July 5, 2014

SUMMARY

Peace and Security - The United Nations extends spousal benefits to its legally married lesbian and gay workers equal to those given to married heterosexual employees …

Big Fish Worth Fishing - a Finnish parliamentary committee again rejects a marriage equality proposal …

War of Weddings - Kentucky's state ban on civil marriage for same-gender couples is the latest in the U.S. to be declared unconstitutional, an appeals court stops gay and lesbian marriages in Indiana, and Colorado's Attorney General squares off against a marriage license-distributing Boulder County Clerk …

Conversion & Contraception - the U.S. Supreme Court refuses to hear an appeal of a lower court ruling upholding California's ban on so-called "reparative therapy" for minors, but sides with closely-held businesses like Hobby Lobby that want to deny birth control options for its female workers based on religious belief – which could open the door to religious-based bias against LGBT people …

Freed to Fuzzy Future - Zambia frees two young men charged with engaging in illegal homosexual acts due to lack of evidence …

Marching Backwards - an estimated 25,000 Jamaicans rally against LGBT rights in Kingston …

Homophobe Housing Plan - Seattle, Washington drag queen "Mama Tits" warns homophobic religious protesters at the Emerald City's annual Pride parade to watch out for falling houses ….

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Interior: Leather Bar. & Texphobia

Week of June 16, 2014
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Modern-day filmmaker Travis Mathews goes Cruising with actor/co-director James Franco for the 1980 movie’s deleted sex scenes, called "pornography" by William Friedkin, who directed the original (Steve Pride interviews Mathews about the newly-released "hybrid docu-fiction").

Texas Republicans want to "repair" LGBT people: Governor Rick Perry chimes in on the state party's platform, and CNN's Anderson Cooper challenges the "cure" assertions of state Representative Bryan Hughes.

And in NewsWrap: U.N. General Assembly elects homophobic figurehead; Malaysian trans-women are jailed, fined and shorn; Wisconsin marrieds join the legal limbo line; Pride promotes couples' rights in Rome, Tel Aviv and Bucharest; lesbian wins Premier position in Ontario; more news reported this week by Chrisanne Eastwood and Michael LeBeau (produced by Steve Pride).

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NewsWrap for the week ending June 14, 2014

SUMMARY

Head Hater in Charge - Foreign Minister Sam Kutesa of homophobic Uganda is elected to the presidency of the United Nations General Assembly …

Caution: Hate Zone - Zambia's Foreign Minister Gabriel Namulambe warns diplomats to respect his "Christian nation's" homophobia …

Busted, Fined & Shorn - seventeen trans-women are jailed in Malaysia for violating sharia law …

Paper Tigers - Denmark makes it easier for trans people to change the gender on their legal documents …

Seven Days in June - the federal judge who overturned Wisconsin's ban on civil marriage for same-gender couples on June 6th stops their weddings a week later …

Pride & Love - 200,000 celebrants in Rome, 100,000 in Tel Aviv, and 400 in Bucharest parade with Pride and demand the legal recognition of lesbian and gay relationships …

LGBTouchdown - Michael Sam, the first out college football player drafted in the U.S. National Football League, signs a four-year $2.65 million contract with the St. Louis Rams …

Canadian Ceiling Cracked - lesbian Kathleen Wynne is elected Ontario's first female leader and Canada's first out provincial premier ….

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Support Your Lesbian Police Chief!

Week of April 21, 2014
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Fired Latta, South Carolina lesbian police chief Crystal Moore has lots of friends in town, but there's no ENDA in sight to protect her job from the homophobic mayor (MSNBC's Ari Melber gets her story).

ABC's Cokie Roberts plays LGBT ally against religious right leaders Franklin Graham, Russell Moore and Ralph Reed … MSNBC's Rachel Maddow offers her unapologetically out perspective -- what the heck happened to mainstream news?

And in NewsWrap: same-gender couples win rights in Oaxaca and Alaska, North Korea critiques UN report with queer complaint, Brunei stalls on death by stoning, Boy Scouts excommunicate church over out scoutmaster, and more news reported by Rick Watts and Michelle-Marie Gilkeson (produced by Steve Pride).

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"Petunia" & Gay Games' Olympic Issues

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A dysfunctional family blooms in a new-to-DVD comedy featuring Tobias Segal, David Rasche, Christine Lahti and Michael Urie. They're all featured in scenes from the movie and Entertainment Correspondent Steve Pride chats with co-writer/director Ash Christian.

Shamey Cramer of the Federation of Gay Games explicates Olympic politics with Dixie Treichel.

And in NewsWrap: affirmations and accusations compete at the UN General Assembly, Costa Rican judge closes "accidental" marriage equality loophole, New Jersey judge slams civil unions inequality, international protests boil Italian pasta king's homophobia, and more news reported by Natalie Peoples and Charlie Bauer (produced by Steve Pride).

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NewsWrap for the week ending September 28, 2013

SUMMARY

Ring of Allies - Eleven countries and the European Union reaffirm their support for LGBT rights during the 68th session of the United Nations General Assembly in New York …

Worlds Apart - Gambian President Yahya Jammeh uses his address to the General Assembly to call gays & lesbians one of the three "biggest threats to human existence," Cameroon's Ambassador to the U.N. office in Geneva suggests that brutally-tortured and murdered gay activist Eric Lembembe had it coming, while Bangladesh also rejects a recommendation by the U.N. Human Rights Council to abolish its colonial-era sodomy law …

Slip-knotted Loophole - a family court judge in Costa Rica refuses to allow a gay couple to register as married even though legislators "accidentally" removed gender references in the country's marriage laws in July …

Second Place Not Good Enough - a Superior Court judge in New Jersey orders civil marriage opened to same-gender couples in the U.S. state on October 21st, though Republican Governor Chris Christie vows to appeal …

Old Friends - Republican former President George H.W. Bush officially witnesses the civil marriage of a lesbian couplenhn in Kennebunkport, Maine …

Credit Where It Isn't Due - notoriously rights-resistant ExxonMobil announces that the giant oil conglomerate will extend spousal benefits to the same-gender partners of its legally married gay and lesbian workers – but only because the U.S. Labor Department requires it …

Spaghetti Opera - CEO Guido Barilla gets his global pasta company in hot water by telling an Italian radio audience that their advertising will never feature a gay couple because "we like the traditional family," and "if gays don't like it they can buy another brand" …

Too Easily Satisfied - Amnesty International joins a chorus of global human rights groups criticizing the International Olympic Committee for being "completely satisfied" with Russian assurances that its "no promo homo" law won't put LGBT athletes or visitors to Sochi in harms way …

Frontlines - ten LGBT activists are arrested outside Russia's Olympic headquarters in Moscow for protesting the "no promo homo" statute …

Shades of Gray - prosecutors in the Russian region of Chelyabinsk assure a local citizen that a rainbow-colored lamppost does not violate the law ….

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Don't "Jail the Gays" & "Everything Possible"

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U.N. Human Rights Commissioner Navi Pillay has her say about Nigeria's "Jail the Gays" bill in response to Nigerian LGBT activist Davis Mac-Iyalla's questions on the BBC's World Have Your Say program.

JD Doyle discovers everything possible about Fred Small's Everything Possible, from his inspiration for the iconic song to Michael Callen and The Flirtations classic rendition of it -- Small's personal favorite!

LGBT Pride deploys to Kandahar (as reported by the U.S. Defense Department).

Plus: A Great Big World says Everyone Is Gay.

And in NewsWrap: lawsuit bouquets bloom from US Supreme Court DOMA decision, marriage equality slips past Costa Rican lawmakers, Pink Dot targets Singapore's penal code, Brazilian "cure" prescription expires, and more news reported by Jenn Mahoney and Charlie Bauer (produced by Steve Pride and Angela Brooks).

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Ricky Martin at the UN

The international pop star enjoyed La Vida Activista at a Human Rights Day press conference with UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, who called for an end to anti-LGBT violence and discrimination around the world.

Queer Life and Literature Commentator Janet Mason reveals the SAGE wisdom hidden in her Tea Leaves.

Plus: Extended Rainbow Minutes review some leading lights who came out in 2012, and some who flickered out.

And in NewsWrap: Uruguay lawmakers leap for marriage equality in landslide, equality activists summon Obama to Supreme showdown, Ukrainian homophobes attack "no promo" demo, Uganda's Parliament won't "Kill the Gays" this year, and more news reported by Christopher Gaal and Pamela Brooks (produced by Steve Pride).

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"Strong Love" & "Rhapsody"/"Tea Leaves"

Aussie producer Guy Blackman's new tribute compilation features trailblazing 1970s gay artists from the UK and US. JD Doyle of Queer Music Heritage reviews the album and interviews Blackman.

Queer Life and Literature Commentator Janet Mason waxes rhapsodic about KG MacGregor's new lesbian romance novel Rhapsody.

Gordon Wilson reports from Melbourne's Joy 94.9 on his reading of Janet Mason's recently published Tea Leaves.

And in NewsWrap: UN moves to block trans executions, gay couples sue for happiness in Singapore and Taiwan, Nevada federal judge decides that marriage equality scares off straights, and more news reported by Johnnie Torres and Tanya Kane-Parry (produced by Steve Pride).

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S-G Ban Ki-moon & Gov. Martin O'Malley

Speaking at the Human Rights Council in Geneva, the U.N.'s Secretary-General blesses a groundbreaking conference on violence and discrimination against LGBT people.

The governor of Maryland, who signed civil marriage equality into law, looks toward the future of a ballot initiative effort to repeal the measure in November.

Lesbian TV talk-show host Ellen DeGeneres takes up the cause of a Michigan teenager who is spearheading a petition drive to change the rating of the documentary Bully so that it can be shown in middle and high schools.

Plus -- justice-seeking young LGBTs unite to say I Want To Know What It's Like in Ryan James Yezak's popular YouTube video.

And in NewsWrap: Iraqi militia target queer youth for death, Belarus president would "rather be a dictator than gay," Vatican-inspired anti-equality crusades continue, and more news reported by Jacob Anderson-Minshall and Sarah Sweeney (produced by Steve Pride).

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NewsWrap for the week ending February 18, 2012

SUMMARY

Talk to the Hand - The UN's Organization of Islamic Cooperation notifies the world body's top human rights agencies that its 56-member nations object to the scheduled March 7th meeting on violence against sexual minorities because "abnormal sexual behavior" has "nothing to do with fundamental human rights" …

The Race Stops Here - Libya's newly-reinstated delegate tells the UN Human Rights Council that promoting LGBT rights threatens "the continuation and reproduction of the human race" …

Not in My Backyard - Tunisia's Human Rights Minister tells a national TV audience that sexual minorities have no rights in his country, and Gambia's President says recognizing the rights of LGBT people would "destroy our culture" …

Raid on Entebbe - Uganda's Minister for Ethics and Integrity leads a police raid on what local media describe as "a secret gay rights activists conference" in Entebbe …

Kill 'Em Here, Too - Liberia's former first lady and now senator follows Uganda's lead by introducing a bill to punish gay sex with execution …

Menage A Trois - three bills to open civil marriage to same-gender couples are introduced in Australia's parliament …

Patch Applied - the Canadian government makes good on a promise to close a legal loophole that questions the legitimacy of marriages of foreign lesbian and gay couples performed there …

Don't Ask, Don't DOMA - the U.S. Justice Department advises Congress that it will not defend the Defense of Marriage Act, which bans federal recognition of same-gender unions, in lawsuits demanding equal military benefits for married gay and lesbian service members …

Next Stop, Marry-land - with passage in Maryland's House of Delegates, a marriage equality bill clears what most believe to have been its biggest hurdle and sets the stage for the U.S. state to become the eighth to open civil marriage to lesbian and gay couples …

Garden Snake - New Jersey Governor Chris Christie makes good on his vow to veto a marriage equality bill approved by both legislative chambers, and repeats his call for a public vote on the issue ….

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Becoming Santa & 2011's Outstanding "Outings"

"Santa Jack" Sanderson's documentary on his experiences at Santa School makes the yuletide gay for correspondent Vash Boddie.

Athletes, actors, authors and others came streaming out of the closet this year. Rainbow Minute producers Judd Proctor and Brian Burns have Robert Friedline read some of their stories.

Plus: Proctor and Burns return to reveal the truth about Mrs. Claus & Miss Bates … the Gay Liberation Quire of Sydney and the Therapy Sisters sing songs to brighten the holidays.

And in NewsWrap: U.N. documents LGBT human wrongs, Malawi reviews sodomy statutes, lesbian Australian Finance Minister adds baby, Philippines activists carol Catholic Bishops, Michigan kids can again "don … gay apparel," and more news reported by Sheri Lunn and Gary Shaw (produced by Steve Pride).

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Sec'y Clinton Tells the World

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton makes history with her December 6th address to the U.N. Human Rights Council in Geneva on international LGBT rights.

And in NewsWrap: U.S. President Barack Obama issues a memorandum outlining American support for global LGBT rights, although extremist televangelist Pat Robertson damns the move; no waffling in Belgium over the world's first openly gay PM; Australia claims the Western world's first intersex public official; U.S. Ninth Circuit hears even more about Prop 8; Honolulu lesbian couple sues for marriage equality; rights vote looms in Anchorage; Riverdale's Kevin Keller gets hitched; and more news reported by Vash Boddie and Rick Watts (produced by Steve Pride).

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NewsWrap for the week ending July 30, 2011

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Put An ECOSOC On It - It took 17 years, but the U.N. Economic & Social Council has restored the consultative status of ILGA, the International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Association ...

It's Ba-ack! - multiple reports warn of the resurrection and impending consideration in Uganda’s newly-seated parliament of the internationally infamous "kill the gays" bill ...

Dead Law Walking - the arrest of two men in Nicosia for "unnatural intercourse" renews calls by Northern Cyprus activists for repeal of the island nation’s British colonial era sodomy law ...

Bias Permission - the Italian parliament’s lower house defeats a bill to ban discrimination based on sexual orientation or gender identity ...

Coulda Been Worse - some four thousand celebrants enjoy the 10th annual Pride and Tolerance parade in Jerusalem absent (for the most part) the usual violent protests by religious fundamentalists ...

Green With Envy - a right-wing Christian preacher fails to deter thousands from marching with Pride in Belfast ...

Summer of Love, East - hundreds of gay & lesbian couples begin marrying in New York at the stroke of midnight on June 24th – the first day the law creating civil marriage equality in the Empire State takes effect ...

Does Cheese Stand Alone? - the California Supreme Court schedules oral arguments for September 6th to decide if sponsors of Proposition 8 have legal standing in the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals to challenge a lower court ruling, if the state refuses to do so, that the marriage equality-banning measure violates the U.S. Constitution ...

Keep Trying - Colombia’s Constitutional Court gives lawmakers two years to extend civil marriage rights to same-gender couples, but six previous bills in Congress to do that have failed ...

International Incident - Taiwan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs upsets a diplomatic official for refusing to extend to his gay partner the same diplomatic immunity given to heterosexual spouses ...

Hlín & Gná to the Rescue - lesbian couple Hege Dalen and Toril Hansen become nautical Norwegian heroes for braving the bullets of mass murderer Anders Breivik and ferrying in four separate trips as many as 40 of his bloodied and terrified young targets to safety in their small boat ...

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Activist v. The Establishment & UNHCHR Navi Pillay

Controversial Russian gay activist Nikolai Alekseev creates a "Gay Inc" stink in the conclusion of his four-part conversation with Steve Pride.

United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay condemns anti-LGBT violence and calls for all governments to treat their citizens with compassionate equality in a special message circulated to coincide with May 17th's International Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia.

And in NewsWrap: worldwide IDAHO demonstrations denounce homo- and trans-phobia, Roman Catholic bishops stop blaming gays for clerical child abuse, new survey "Gallups" toward U.S. marriage equality, string of self-outings mark sports figures' personal bests, and more news reported by Jenn Mahoney and Rick Watts.

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