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Week of April 27, 2015

Veteran rights activist David Mixner recalls the "Don't Ask" double-cross (in conversation with Steve Pride).

Matt Baume of the American Foundation for Equal Rights, Jon Stewart of Comedy Central’s The Daily Show, and stand-up "comic in chief" Barack Obama use pro-equality humor to herald historic U.S. Supreme Court hearings.

And in NewsWrap: rights trump religion in Kenya's top court, a trans rights bill passes India's upper house, a well-known Japanese lesbian duo defiantly weds, U.S. Republicans still swim against the marriage equality tide, Dallas does "Hooters" the gay way, and more news reported this week by Abby Dees and Michael LeBeau (produced by Steve Pride, written by Greg Gordon).

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NewsWrap for the week ending April 25, 2015

SUMMARY

Rights Trump Religion - Kenya’s High Court orders the government to allow LGBT groups to register as NGOs …

Revised Repression - a proposal in Uganda would essentially outlaw LGBT NGOs "in the public interest" …

Protections Pending - India’s upper house passes a ground breaking transgender rights bill …

Acting On Their Own - a celebrity lesbian couple symbolically weds in Tokyo …

Not In My Constitution - two far-right politicians push anti-marriage equality bills in the U.S. Congress …

2 + 2 = 900,000 - a Utah lawyer claims that opening civil marriage to gay and lesbian couples will lead to 900,000 more abortions …

Whack-A-Mole - a few cities in Arkansas push back against the recently-enacted law banning them from enacting LGBT anti-bias protections, and Little Rock’s City Attorney believes a state anti-bullying law already provides those protections …

Give a Kid a Break - Arizona’s governor overturns a policy denying adoption and foster parenting to legally-married same-gender couples …

Sun Shines In - Florida Senate leaders shelve a bill that would have allowed taxpayer-funded adoption agencies to use “religious belief” to discriminate against prospective LGBT parents …

Who Needs It - with the dust yet to fully settle over contentious so-called “religious liberty” bills in Indiana and Arkansas, North Carolina’s House leader says his chamber won’t debate a similar measure this year …

Toilet Training - the Nevada Assembly rejects a bill to require transgender students to use school bathrooms and locker rooms corresponding to their biological gender …

Naked Lunch - Tallywackers, a male version of “Hooters”, is scheduled to open in May in Dallas, Texas’ Oak Lawn gayborhood  …

Read the complete NewsWrap text here.