Queer Women Take Washington!

Millions of Women walk all over Trump's Agenda in D.C. and March around the world (Chris Wilson and Pam Marshall report from the U.S. capitol)!

A Rainbow Minute remembers oft-forgotten gay British-born iconic horror film director James Whale (produced by Judd Proctor and Brian Burns, read by John Porter)!

And in NewsWrap: transpeople will finally count for something in Pakistan, Poland's President disavows civil marriage equality, the Philippines Armed Forces welcomes "well-behaved" LGBT recruits, Putin's "no promo homo" law melts Polar Pride, Utah's "no promo homo in schools" law blocks bully deterrence, and more international LGBT news reported this week by Frances O'Brien and Danny Cruz (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  …

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Lesbian Marrieds in Selma & Mardi Gras Moments!

Week of March 16, 2015
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Hijinks conquer homophobia at Sydney's Gay & Lesbian Mardi Gras Parade featuring a cast of thousands … and our friends at JOY94.9, Australia's LGBTIQ community radio station, with partners 2SER and SBS Radio!

Tori Wolfe-Sisson and Shanté Wolfe-Sisson, one of Alabama's first wedded same-gender couples, chat with Democracy Now!'s Amy Goodman at the Selma Weekend civil rights commemoration about crossing another historic bridge to equality!

And in NewsWrap: Peru's Roman Catholic Church-coerced Congress kills civil unions, Alberta blesses Gay/Straight Alliances, Swiss lawmakers extend bias ban to include LGBT people, EuroCourt nixes forced trans sterilization, and more news reported this week by Wenzel Jones and Natalie Peoples (produced by Steve Pride, written by Greg Gordon).

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NewsWrap for the week ending March 14, 2015

SUMMARY

Second Strike - A civil unions bill for same-gender couples dies in a Peruvian Congressional committee - again …

Studies in Support - the Canadian province of Alberta makes high school Gay-Straight Alliances on all publicly-funded campuses mandatory …

Good for Goose, Gander Not So Much - the “Utah Compromise” LGBT anti-bias bill enacted this week - with significant religious exemptions - may be good for the Mormon-dominated state, but would probably be considered a setback almost anywhere else …

Add to the Anti-Bias Equation - Swiss lawmakers vote to protect LGBT people from hate and discrimination …

Trans, Not Childless - the European Court of Human Rights rules that sterilization cannot be required of people seeking gender reassignment surgery …

Stop Trans Loss - a new U.S. Army directive makes it much more difficult for a transgender service member to be discharged …

You Mean We Can't Do That? - it took a few months after U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder confirmed that anti-trans workplace bias is illegal, but upscale retail giant Saks Fifth Avenue finally settles out of court a bias and retribution lawsuit filed by a fired transwoman  ….

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Ambush at the 7th Circuit

Week of September 1, 2014
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7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Judges Richard Posner, Ann Claire Williams and David Hamilton scoff at Indiana Solicitor General Thomas Fisher's "bad breeder behavior"-based inequality arguments, as attorneys Camilla Taylor and Kenneth Falk represented the plaintiffs. Buzzfeed's Chris Geidner and Freedom To Marry's Evan Wolfson comment on the hearing.

And in NewsWrap: Ecuador engages civil unions; Utah's marriage case climbs the Supreme Court ladder; Switzerland, Italy and Colombia each adopt rights for same-gender parents; Berlin's out mayor opts out; lipstick lesbians wear beauty queen crowns in Spain and Ireland; more news reported this week by Wenzel Jones and Carole Meyers (produced by Steve Pride).

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NewsWrap for the week ending August 30, 2014

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Engaged - Ecuador's President Rafael Correa announces the advent of civil unions for lesbian and gay couples …

Stairway to SCOTUS - equality-seeking plaintiffs in the challenge to Utah's ban on civil marriage for same-gender couples join state Attorney General Sean Reyes in asking the U.S. Supreme Court to review the case …

Blaming Breeders' Bad Behavior - a three-judge panel of the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals hearing challenges to Indiana's and Wisconsin's bans batters state lawyers with logic …

Moms, Dads and the Kids - coupled same-gender parents win adoption rights in Switzerland, Italy and Colombia …

Poor But Sexy, So Long! - Berlin, Germany's long-serving out Mayor Klaus Wowereit announces that he'll step down in December …

Ultimate Lipstick Lesbian - two-time Miss Universe entry from Spain Patricia Yurena Rodríguez comes out on Instagram …

Will Irish Eyes Be Squinting? - Philadelphia, Pennsylvania's Maria Walsh, the reigning Rose of Tralee, "a global celebration of Irish culture," comes out in an interview with the "Irish Sun" – which could make things a bit sticky for New York City's Ancient Order of Hibernians ….

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"Test" & Divergent Christians

Week of June 30, 2014
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Writer/director Chris Mason Johnson's film Test brings the AIDS dance to the big screen (preview and interview with Steve Pride).

Christian conniptions and kudos conflict over LGBT rites: the American Family Association’s Bryan Fischer and novice movie mogul Rick Santorum fantasize about "re-education camps" for faith-based homophobes, Episcopal priest Cameron Partridge is the first transgender preacher at the U.S. National Cathedral, and United Methodist Church minister Frank Schaefer is "re-frocked" after his same-gender wedding conviction is overturned.

And in NewsWrap: appealing wins advance U.S. marriage equality in Utah and Colorado, Mexican Supremes okay one Baja California gay wedding, most U.S. citizens believe ENDA already exists, South Carolina town saves lesbian police chief,  and more news reported this week by Michelle Marie-Gilkeson and Wenzel Jones (produced by Steve Pride).

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NewsWrap for the week ending June 28, 2014

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Industry Takes the Lead - In a case involving Utah's ban on civil marriage for same-gender couples, the 10th U.S. Circuit of Appeals becomes the first appeals court since last year's Supreme Court DOMA ruling to affirm a district court decision striking down a state's constitutional ban on civil marriage for same-gender couples as federally unconstitutional …

Ahead of the Curve - Boulder, Colorado County Clerk Hillary Hall, citing the 10th Circuit ruling that also affects her state, starts handing out marriage licenses to lesbian and gay couples …

Ding, Ding, Ding - St. Louis, Missouri Mayor Francis Slay marries four same-gender couples in defiance of the state's ban on marriage equality …

Crossroads of History - a federal district court overturns Indiana's marriage ban, and with no immediate stay, hundreds of couples reportedly exchange vows before an appeals court stops them …

First Drop - Mexico's Supreme Court grants a civil marriage license to a gay couple from Baja California – but the ruling only affects that couple …

Fantasy Fairness - according to a YouGov/Huffington Post poll, 69% of the U.S. population falsely believes that federal law protects LGBT people from workplace discrimination …

Restoring the Peace - the "nightmare that will not stop" for "unprotected" openly lesbian Latta, South Carolina Police Chief Crystal Moore appears to finally be over ….

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NewsWrap for the week ending June 7, 2014

SUMMARY

Behind the People's Backs - Lawmakers in Slovakia overwhelmingly vote to constitutionally ban marriage equality …

Belly of the Bear - same-gender couples can now marry at British consulates in 23 countries – including Russia …

Almost Losing Count - a federal judge makes Wisconsin the latest U.S. state with an unconstitutional ban on civil marriage for lesbian and gay couples …

Final Holdout - seven couples challenge the marriage equality ban in North Dakota, which had been the only state in the union without such a lawsuit …

The More the Married-er - Idaho's governor asks the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court to meet en banc rather than assign a more typical three-judge panel to hear that state's marriage equality case …

Marry Up and Wait - Utah gets a stay of a judge's order to recognize the marriages of more than 1300 same-gender couples who legally wed during the 17-day period they could in the state from late December through early January …

Before Somebody Drops A House On You Too - a Florida judge rules that three anti-equality groups have no standing to defend that state's marriage ban …

Not A NOM To Stand On - the U.S. Supreme Court affirms a lower court ruling that the notoriously anti-equality National Organization for Marriage (NOM) had no standing to intervene in the Oregon case, and NOM loses a lawsuit against the I.R.S. after claiming that the agency intentionally published the names and amounts of its donors …

Proudly Beyond Expectations - thousands celebrate a reasonably-peaceful first Pride event in Cyprus …

Solid Judgement - Puerto Rico's governor taps out lesbian Maite Oronoz Rodríguez to become the first openly-queer judge on any U.S. state or territorial Supreme Court …

The Next Generation - Peruvian immigrant Robert Garcia becomes the first out, the first Latino, and the youngest-ever Mayor of Long Beach, California ….

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NewsWrap for the week ending May 24, 2014

SUMMARY

A World Against Hate - Millions around the world mark the 10th annual International Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia (IDAHOT) with states-people statements and a variety of actions in such locales as Costa Rica, Australia, Paraguay, Belgium, Albania, Russia, Cambodia and China …

Africa's Harvey Milk - South Africa swears in Member of Parliament Zakhele Mbhele as the first black openly gay elected official on the continent …

Game of Keep Away - activists rail against Canadian Immigration after the agency reportedly denies visitors visas to 10 Ugandan activists invited to a World Pride Conference in Toronto because officials feared that they'd all seek asylum …

Two By Two - another week, and another couple of U.S. states getting civil marriage equality: Oregon becomes the 18th and Pennsylvania the 19th …

Married, But Not Family - a federal judge orders Utah to recognize the more than 1300 civil marriages legally performed in the state during the brief period they could, while the Utah Supreme Court approves a request by Attorney General Sean Reyes to block those lesbian and gay marrieds from adopting children …

Staying Tuned - a federal appeals court agrees to a permanent stay of a lower court ruling overturning Idaho's ban on civil marriage for same-gender couples while the state appeals, but expedites the review process …

Flood Insurance - Wisconsin Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen asks the federal judge hearing the challenge to his state's ban to stay her ruling even before she's made it …

The Cheese Stands Alone - with lawsuits filed by same-gender couples in Alaska, Montana, and South Dakota, North Dakota becomes the last state in the union without a legal challenge to its civil marriage ban – for now ….

Complete NewsWrap text and this week's podcast to be posted May 27, 2014.

"The Gay Rub" & Derrick Gordon

Week of April 14, 2014
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Poet/collector Steven Reigns invites people around the world to join him gathering impressions of LGBT history (interviewed by Steve Pride).

Coming out is a slam-dunk for top tier U.S. college basketball player Derrick Gordon! The University of Massachusetts sophomore talks with ESPN's Kate Fagan, while sports legends Bill Russell and Jim Brown each briefly weigh in on out athletes.

And in NewsWrap: Saudi cops bust 35 "gay party"-goers to promote "virtue," Italian court recognizes gay couple's New York marriage, Utah's marriage equality case heard in federal appeals court, Minnesota moves against bullying, Seattle stands with ousted gay scoutmaster, and more news reported by Michael Allan and Carole Meyers (produced by Steve Pride).

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NewsWrap for the week ending April 12, 2014

SUMMARY

Party Off - Thirty-five men are arrested by Saudi Arabia religious police for being at a "gay party" in Jeddah, while four gay men are jailed in Egypt for "debauchery" …

Tuscan Triumph - an Italian court orders the country's first-ever recognition of the marriage of a same-gender couple legally performed abroad …

Last Rights - a U.S. federal court orders the state of Indiana to recognize the Massachusetts marriage of a lesbian couple, one of whom has terminal cancer …

Line Starts Here - a three-judge panel of the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals hears Utah's case challenging a lower court decision declaring the state's ban on civil marriage for same-gender couples unconstitutional – and Oklahoma's challenge will be heard by the same three judges in the coming week …

Safe Bet - Virginia Attorney General Mark Herring sides with marriage equality-seeking same-gender couples in their lawsuit challenging the "heterosexuals only" state ban, and only five U.S. states with bans have escaped court challenges …

Bullies Begone - Minnesota Governor Mark Dayton signs an LGBT-inclusive state anti-bullying bill …

Solemn Oath - Seattle, Washington city officials and his troop's church sponsor stand behind ousted-because-he's-out Boy Scout leader Geoff McGrath ….

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NewsWrap for the week ending January 25, 2014

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Lynching Season - Thousands of demonstrators stone a courtroom in northern Nigeria demanding quick convictions and executions of several men accused of belonging to gay advocacy groups as attacks on sexual minorities in Nigeria escalate following the mid-January enactment of draconian anti-gay legislation …

New Chapter - well-known award-winning Kenyan writer Binjavanga Wainaina comes out to protest the anti-gay law in Nigeria and a similar law apparently still pending in Uganda …

Charging Generals - marriage equality actions in U.S. states continue to mushroom, with Virginia's new Attorney General announcing that he would not defend his state's ban on civil marriage for same-gender couples, while Idaho and Nevada Attorneys General each defend their state's ban in federal lawsuits …

Slow Ski Lift - Utah gets more time to prepare its defense of the state's marriage ban, while four legally wed same-gender couples who married during the 17 days that they could file suit for state recognition of their marriages …

Fitting for Wedding Suits - a federal judge in Oregon consolidates two marriage equality lawsuits while rights activists push a petition to get the issue on the November state ballot, while six same-gender couples file suit for the right to marry in Florida …

Shell Game - thanks to what Democrats call a "power play" by Republican Indiana House Speaker Brian Bosma, a bill to constitutionally outlaw marriage for same-gender couples passes in committee and heads to the full chamber …

Homophobia Ain't So Bad - Russian anti-gay thug Maxim Martsinkevich is arrested in Cuba and heads home to stand trial for "extremism" – though his online video postings of gangs trapping and abusing young gay men are apparently not part of the charges against him …

I Hear Nothing … Nothing - Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev tells "CNN" that he hasn't heard of any virtually-silenced LGBT person complaining about his country's law banning "gay propaganda," and falsely claims that it's not even being enforced …

Audacious Olympians - marriage equality-supportive female ice hockey star Hayley Wickenheiser is named by the Canadian Olympic Committee to be her nation's Opening Ceremonies flag bearer at the Winter Games in Sochi, while out Australian Olympic snow board cross rider Belle Brockhoff looks forward to the competition, and then to talking to anyone who will listen to her angry condemnation of Russian President Vladimir Putin for his defense of the so-called "no promo homo law" ….

Complete NewsWrap text and this week's podcast to be posted January 28, 2014.

Abaria's "Underdogs" & King's Olympic Stand

Week of January 20, 2014
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Andrew Abaria chats with our impressaria Chris Wilson about his personal and musical journeys, with the title track and Kiss Me Till They Find Us from his We Are The Underdogs EP.

A Sochi-bound Billie Jean King gets fierce with ersatz TV commentator Stephen Colbert.

And in NewsWrap:  Nigeria's anti-LGBT law unleashes reign of terror, Museveni declines to sign Uganda's draconian anti-gay bill, GALZ wins rare Zimbabwe High Court victory, Oklahoma's marriage equality ban struck down, same-gender marrieds ride Utah rights roller coaster, canned Indiana choirmaster causes congregational exodus, and more news reported by Michael Le Beau and Michelle-Marie Gilkeson (produced by Steve Pride).
 

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NewsWrap for the week ending January 18, 2014

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Who's Knocking? - Sexual minorities now live in dangerous times amidst increasing arrests in Nigeria after President Goodluck Jonathan signs a draconian "Jail All the Gays" bill …

Not a Family Gathering - six men arrested in Gabon for participating in a "gay wedding" are released without charge after prosecutors determine that no "real marriage" had occurred …

Call Names, Dodge Action - President Yoweri Museveni declines to sign a draconian "Anti-Homosexuality Bill" in Uganda, but only for legal reasons, calling gay people "disgusting" and "abnormal" …

Vindication - Gays & Lesbians of Zimbabwe wins a rare legal victory in the country's High Court …

Okie-Dokie - Oklahoma's hetero only marriage law is the latest state statute to be declared unconstitutional by a federal judge …

Internal Inconsistencies - Utah's legally wed same-gender couples are told they can file joint state tax returns if they were married by December 31, 2013, even though the state refuses to recognize their unions and has a new $200,000 hired gun leading its defense of the marriage ban in the 10th Circuit …

Out of Egypt - 80 percent of the congregants of the First United Methodist Church in Alexandria, Indiana quit after the choir director of six years is dismissed for being gay ….

Complete NewsWrap text and this week's podcast to be posted January 21, 2014.

Puerto Rican LGBTs & Kluwe's Kick

Week of January 13, 2014
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Activists Margarita Lopez, Luis Santiago and Rosie Mendez talk about being out and Puerto Rican on the front lines in New York City (correspondent Kelly Cogswell).

America's National Football League gets a (Chris) Kluwe about equality from the player who says he was fired by "two cowards and a bigot" (correspondents Abby Dees and Wenzel Jones).

Commentator Janet Mason gets ready to buy stamps with Harvey Milk.

And in NewsWrap:  Russia's Orthodox Church prays for homo sex ban, dangers rise as LGBT Ugandans await pending homophobic law, Chile moves closer to civil unions, U.S. feds foil Utah's effort to nix marriage rights, and more news reported by Sarah Sweeney and Rick Watts (produced by Wenzel Jones and Steve Pride).

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NewsWrap for the week ending January 11, 2014

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Russia Roundup - Russia's politically powerful Orthodox Church calls for a public referendum to re-criminalize gay sex; NBC Sports anchor Bob Costas tells reporters that he wants to ask Vladimir Putin to defend his country's "no promo homo" law during the network's Winter Olympics coverage next month in Sochi, while the U.S. State Department warns LGBT visitors to keep it on the "down low" …

Slow Backtrack - the Indian government asks the nation's Supreme Court to reconsider its December 11th ruling that recriminalized gay sex …

As Night Is Falling - just the threat of Uganda's draconian anti-gay law, yet to be signed by the president, is already making life more difficult for HIV/AIDS workers and the sexual minorities they serve …

The Sun Also Rises - civil unions for Chile's same-gender couples may be just a few weeks away after the Senate overwhelmingly approves a bill to create them …

Feds Buzz Bees - Utah's Republican Governor Gary Herbert nixes state recognition of the 1,360 lesbian and gay couples who legally wed in the state during the 17 days that they could, but U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder says that the federal government will recognize those couples …

Courting Rituals - four same-gender couples challenge Arizona's constitutional marriage equality ban in federal court, and a federal court in Austin will soon begin hearings on a challenge to the ban in Texas …

Disenchanted - an effort by opponents of New Mexico marriage equality to pass a constitutional amendment to overturn the state Supreme Court ruling establishing it as the law of the land in December are not given much chance of success …

Celebrity News - Germany's retired high-profile international football [soccer] star Thomas Hitzlsperger comes out, while Joseph Lown, the San Angelo, Texas mayor who resigned in 2009 to move to Mexico to live with his undocumented gay partner legally marries him in a Mexico City ceremony …

And That's the Truth - comedy icon Lily Tomlin and her creative/life partner of 42 years Jane Wagner finally make honest women of each other on New Year's Eve in New York City ….

Complete NewsWrap text and this week's podcast to be posted January 13, 2013.

Leslie Jordan, "Show Pony"

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The Emmy-winning entertainer is a short star with some tall Hollywood tales for correspondents Steve Pride, Abby Dees and Chris Wilson.

Plus a couple of Rainbow Minutes devoted to the Comings and Goings of 2013 (produced by Judd Proctor and Brian Burns, read by Dustin Richardson).

And in NewsWrap:  nightmare anti-LGBT laws pass in Nigeria and Uganda, Cuban lesbians and gays get workplace anti-bias protections, a U.S. Supreme Court stay stymies Utah marriage equality, the high court in the "Land of Enchantment" opens civil marriage to same-gender couples, an unrepentant United Methodist Church pastor gets defrocked for Christmas, and more news reported by Wenzel Jones and Pam Marshall (produced by Steve Pride).

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NewsWrap for the week ending January 4, 2014

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Nightmares in Waiting - A so-called "Jail The Gays" bill in Nigeria and an apparently less lethal version of the infamous "Kill The Gays" bill in Uganda each win legislative approval and await the signatures of their respective presidents, Goodluck Jonathan and Yoweri Musevini …

Enigmatic Reprieve - British code-breaking World War II hero and father of the modern computer Alan Turing gets a posthumous royal pardon of his "gross indecency" conviction in 1952 that forced his chemical castration and probably drove him to suicide two years later …

Cuba Mas Libre - a Labor Code change in Cuba banning sexual orientation-based workplace bias is the first law in the island nation to protect gays and lesbians …

Busy as a Beehive - a U.S. federal judge declares the ban on civil marriage equality in mostly Mormon Utah unconstitutional, sending hundreds of same-gender couples to county clerk's offices across the state to get licenses, while both the ruling-issuing judge and the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals deny Utah's request for an emergency stay to stop them, which state officials then ask Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor, the high court judge for that part of the country who handles emergency requests, to do …

Enchanted Judiciary - the New Mexico Supreme Court orders marriage equality across the state, validating the licenses already issued to same-gender couples since August by 8 of the state's 33 counties …

Of Their Own Free Will - the Los Angeles Times notes that, contrary to popular right-wing howls against so-called "activist judges" imposing their personal beliefs on an unwilling public, only seven of the 18 U.S. states with marriage equality as 2014 began got there by court order …

Crucified and Risen Again - Lebanon, Pennsylvania United Methodist Church Reverend Frank Schaefer is defrocked for not repenting officiating his gay son's wedding in 2007, but may have a new job in California …

Anticlimax - keen observers noticed that the sky didn't fall on January 1st, the first day of the new semi-inclusive policy welcoming openly gay young men into the ranks of the Boy Scouts of America ….

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