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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Dad & Daughter “Skirtchasers”!

Veteran sitcom writer Stan Zimmerman (The Golden Girls), actor-turned-director Amanda Bearse (Married With Children), and star Elizabeth Keener (The L Word) announce a TV pilot from their comedy web series about a newly-single lesbian working it out with her philandering father (Barry Bostwick) and wise-cracking mother (Meredith Baxter)! (Interviewed by Steve Pride and Wenzel Jones.)

And in NewsWrap: Pride parades with purpose in Sao Paulo and Tel Aviv, a trans legal victory in Virginia nudges North Carolina, Mississippi’s messianic governor crusades for religious bias, Mormons mess with Mexican marriage equality, Canadian Conservatives raise a white flag on the rainbow weddings front, and more international LGBT news reported this week by Tanya Kane-Parry and John Dyer V (produced by Steve Pride, written by Greg Gordon).

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Uganda Upset & "The Animals"

Week of August 4, 2014
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Uganda's Constitutional Court kills the infamous Anti-Homosexuality Law on a technicality! LGBT activist Frank Mugisha and homophobia proponent Pastor Martin Ssempa share their views on the victory for human rights … and the reality that the fight isn't over.

Acclaimed portrait artist Don Bachardy, the longtime spouse of esteemed writer Christopher Isherwood, talks about the intimate character of a collection of their love letters, "The Animals." (interviewed by Charlie Bauer, PhD. Part 2 of 2)

Queer life and literature commentator Janet Mason goes inside Edmund White’s latest memoir, Inside A Pearl: My Years in Paris.

Televangelist Pat Robertson responds to the lost cause of a Colorado cakeshop with a suspect Sunday School seminar.

And in NewsWrap: Chinese gay man shocked into suing a "cure" clinic; peacefull Prides in Russia, India, and the Faroe Islands; another U.S. federal court finds marriage equality appealing; English teacher fired due to homophonic bias; more news reported this week by Wenzel Jones and Michelle-Marie Gilkeson (produced by Steve Pride).

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NewsWrap for the week ending August 2, 2014

SUMMARY

Technical Knock-Out - Uganda's Constitutional Court overturns the country's infamous Anti-Homosexuality Law, but only on a legal technicality …

Reparative Litigation - a now-happily gay man in China sues the psychology clinic that used electroshock "therapy" to "convert" him to heterosexuality …

Somethings to Celebrate - a violence-free Pride rally is held in St. Petersburg, Kochi hosts the Indian state of Kerala's annual Pride parade for the first time, and one in ten Faroe Islanders celebrate Pride in the capital city of Torshavn …

For Lovers - the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals becomes the latest federal appeals court to strike down a state's ban on civil marriage for same-gender couples – this time the Commonwealth of Virginia's …

Rather Than Seem - North Carolina Attorney General Roy Cooper, whose state also falls under the jurisdiction of the 4th Circuit, announces that he'll stop defending his state's marriage equality ban …

South of Stubborn - Attorney General Alan Wilson of South Carolina, over which the 4th Circuit also holds sway, says he'll continue to defend their heterosexuals only marriage law …

Just Couldn't Bare It - the owner of a Utah-based English as a Second Language school worries that a lesson on homophones (words that are pronounced the same but have different meanings) implies that his school promotes gay sex ….

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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

SUMMARY

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.

NewsWrap for the week ending March 16, 2013

SUMMARY

Chill the Champagne - The second time is one charm away from marriage equality in New Zealand …

Like Before The Others Came - upstate Michigan Native American tribe becomes the third in America to marry same-gender couples …

Nearing the Summit - civil unions for lesbian and gay couples are all but a done deal in Colorado …

Tossing the Leftovers - federal appeals court overturns Virginia's sodomy statute citing the U.S. Supreme Court's 2003 Lawrence v. Texas decision ruling that state's law to be unconstitutional …

Nonprofit Orientation Cured - U.S. Internal Revenue Service revokes the tax-exempt status of the gay "cure"-peddling National Association for Research and Therapy of Homosexuality (NARTH) because the group had failed to submit required tax forms for three years …

Half-Hearted Wave - much anticipated speech on human rights by Britain's Queen Elizabeth II that activists expected to be LGBT-inclusive buries them instead in "other grounds" …

Keep It Down - holy landlords! Italy's biggest gay sauna shares space with priestly housing …

Two Peas in a Priory - "meet the new Pope, same as the old Pope" ….

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