Unhidden McClellan & Home Outgrown

Week of September 8, 2014
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Fear Nothing, listeners! The Voice finalist Beverly McClellan sings I Can't Hide Me … and tells Dixie Treichel just why she can't.

The viral video of a family feud fuels support -- and funding -- for gay Georgia teen Daniel Ashley Pierce and Lost-n-Found Youth, an Atlanta-based non-profit serving homeless LGBT young people (as told to WXIA-TV).

And in NewsWrap: Coahuila becomes the first Mexican state to legislate marriage equality, the U.S. 7th Circuit slams marriage bans with lightning speed, a gay man challenging Jamaica's "buggery" statute withdraws after death threats, Uganda's draconian Anti-Homosexuality Law looms again, and more news reported this week by Natalie Peoples and Jason Proctor (produced by Steve Pride).

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NewsWrap for the week ending September 6, 2014

SUMMARY

Free Unions With Full Consent - Coahuila becomes the first state in Mexico to legislatively open civil marriage to same-gender couples …

With All Due Haste - the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals rapidly rules that bans on civil marriage for lesbian and gay couples in Indiana and Wisconsin violate the U.S. Constitution …

Judicial Choices Refutation - a federal judge in Louisiana bucks the tide and upholds that state's ban, calling marriage equality "lifestyle choices recognition" …

Plaintiff Intimidation - Jamaican activist Javed Jaghai withdraws his Supreme Court challenge to the island nation's anti-gay buggery laws after receiving death threats to him and his family …

New Improved Hate - a possibly-revised form of Uganda's infamous Anti-Homosexuality Law is headed for parliament …

Emerald Ops - organizers of New York City's annual St. Patrick's Day Parade bend a 253-year ban by announcing that they’ll allow one – but only one - LGBT-identified organization, as it happens the employee group of one of its major sponsors, to march in the Parade next year …

Ride 'Em, Cowboy - the St. Louis Rams cut Michael Sam, the first out player drafted into the professional ranks of the U.S. National Football League, due to an over-abundance of other defensive end talent, but the Dallas Cowboys quickly hire Sam for their practice squad, a possible gateway to his first regular season debut …

Laced With Pride - the Australian Football League (AFL) endorses marriage equality, and top British professional football stars will soon be sporting rainbow laces in support of out players and fans ….

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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

SUMMARY

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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NewsWrap for the week ending July 12, 2014

SUMMARY

Economical Excuse - Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni blames reduced Western aid over the draconian "Anti-Homosexuality Law" for having to raise taxes, which LGBT activists fear will add even more fuel to the homophobic fire in the country …

Unending Ugandan Nightmare - a statement by the Ugandan government insists that the so-called "Jail All The Gays" law is not meant to punish gay people but only to curb "the open promotion of homosexuality," but recent actions by government agencies contradict that assertion, and five Ugandans – including 16- and 18-year old students – suffer torturous "anal probes" to supposedly confirm their homosexuality after being charged with "promoting" it "to minors" …

Not On the Guest List - a bouncer at Kiev's Pamada Club rebuffs an attempt by neo-Nazi skinheads to invade the gay nightspot in the Ukrainian capital after its mayor's cancellation of a Pride parade over safety concerns …

Mile-High Marriage Dogfight - Colorado is the latest state to have its ban on civil marriage for same-gender couples declared federally unconstitutional, while rogue county clerks led by Boulder's Hillary Hall issue licenses to lesbian and gay couples despite being ordered not to by the state Attorney General …

Straight to the Top - Utah officials announce a direct challenge to the U.S. Supreme Court of the appeals court ruling overturning that state's ban …

Shut Your Eyes - Indiana's governor orders state officials not to recognize the legal marriages of same-gender couples …

Forward March - Wisconsin's Attorney General formally challenges a district court ruling striking down his state's ban in a federal appeals court …

Voting on Vows - Irish Prime Minister Enda Kenny officially announces that a planned national referendum on marriage equality will be held within the first four months of 2015 …

Storming the Bastille - a landmark ruling by France's top administrative court clears the way for the marriage of an immigrant Senegalese man to his gay French partner ….

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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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Calpernia Addams As Herself

Week of June 9, 2014
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The new adventures of the irrepressible trans activist/actress/entertainer, whose tragic backstory was portrayed on the screen in the award-winning 2003 film Soldier's Girl, including her work with Felicity Huffman for Transamerica and Jared Leto for Dallas Buyers Club, her experiences on the lecture circuit, her music (with a taste from the title track of her album Stunning) and her frustrations with the Hollywood stereotypes of both trans characters and trans actors. (Interviewed in the studios of KPFK-Los Angeles by Steve Pride, Steve Reigns and Ian MacKinnon of IMRU.

      

 Plus a brief survey of recent top trans-related news stories.

And in NewsWrap: backroom deal bans marriage equality in Slovakia, British consulates host same-gender nuptials, Wisconsin couples rush to wed while North Dakota's journey begins, pleasant Pride surprise in Nicosia, Puerto Rico's governor trusts lesbian's judgment,new generation emerges in California city's elections, and more news reported this week by Ryan Pest and Tanya Kane-Parry (produced by Steve Pride).

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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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