"Trucker Patti"!

Activist/ex-sailor/ex-drag queen/trucker Patti Spangler takes our Steve Pride for a ride on the transformation trail!

And in NewsWrap: a Zimbabwe Labor Court rules in favor of a fired gay man's employment rights, Ireland makes marriage equality official, Malaysian trans-women fight escalating arrests, high-profile confabs feign "family values" in Rome and Salt Lake City, a defrocked gay Polish priest blasts Vatican hypocrisy, and more international LGBT news reported this week by Tanya Kane-Parry and Michael LeBeau (produced by Steve Pride, written by Greg Gordon).

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God For Gays in Ghana & Irish Marriage Broker!

Week of January 5, 2015
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"Sapphic Nomads" Maggie Young and Katie Cook meet Leonard Glover, a gay Ghanaian activist inspired by his rainbow faith.

"The Outing" founder Eddie McGuinness tells Chris Wilson about the Irish matchmaking festival that pairs gay and lesbian singles.

And in NewsWrap: Scotland and Luxembourg celebrate the New Year with marriage equality; a trans U.S. teen's suicide prompts abusive therapy charges; a Chinese court rules that there's no medical basis for claimed "cures" of homosexuality; unrelenting oppression continues in Zimbabwe, Gambia and Egypt; and more news reported this week by John Dyer V and Greg Gordon (produced by Steve Pride, written by Greg Gordon).

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NewsWrap for the week ending January 3, 2015

SUMMARY

Bells & Flowers - Same-gender couples begin legally marrying in Scotland and Luxembourg …

Courtships & Weddings - the U.S. Supreme Court will consider one or more marriage equality cases at its first conference of 2015 on January 9th, and a federal judge clears the way for the civil marriages of lesbian and gay couples in Florida to begin on January 6th …

"My Death Needs to Mean Something" - the gruesome suicide of 17-year-old Ohio transgender teen Leelah Alcorn sparks sadness, outrage, and resolve …

Shockingly Bad Medicine - a court in China issues a landmark ruling against a counseling center that claimed to "cure" homosexuality

Not Just Thugs - thirty-five members of Gays and Lesbians of Zimbabwe are injured as thugs invade a private holiday party …

Push Back - security forces in Gambia arrest three men on charges of homosexuality, even as the European Union and the U.S. sharply reduce financial aid because of the draconian anti-gay law signed by homophobic President Yahya Jammeh in October that prompted the arrests …

Pyramid Crackdown - more than two dozen men arrested for "perversion" and "debauchery" at an early December raid on a Cairo bathhouse purportedly orchestrated by a much-maligned TV journalist go on trial, but three-year sentences are reduced to one year for each of the eight men convicted in November of the same charges for appearing in a widely-viewed YouTube video that authorities called Egypt's first gay wedding ceremony …

Shaking the Dust Off Their Feet - Alexandria, Indiana's First United Methodist Church closes after some 80% of the congregation quits in protest of the firing of an openly gay choir director ….

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PureLand LIVE!

Week of April 21, 2014
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The lesbian classical-pop singing duo of Laurie Rubin and Jenny Taira perform live in-studio and discuss their new adventure into music with a message (with correspondent Abby Dees).

Early 20th century British composer and suffragist Ethel Smyth is profiled in a Rainbow Minute (read by Karen Burns, produced by Judd Proctor and Brian Burns).

And in NewsWrap: India's top court affirms and protects trans-people, Malta bans trans bias and okays civil unions, Ethiopia eschews Africa's trending homophobia while Zimbabwe's Mugabe reinforces it, new laws in Brunei punish consensual adult gay sex with death by stoning, and more news reported by Sarah Sweeney and Ryan Pest (produced by Steve Pride).

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NewsWrap for the week ending April 19, 2014

SUMMARY

When Two Aren't Enough - India's High Court declares trans-people to be a third gender entitled to rights, protections, and government benefits …

Whistling in the Dark - the conviction and 35-year prison sentence for Wiki-leaking U.S. Army Private Chelsea (formerly Bradley) Manning are upheld, sending her case to a military appeals court …

Twin Wins - Malta lawmakers protect transgender people from discrimination, and create marriage-like civil unions for same-gender couples that include adoption rights …

Time Out Corner - Ethiopia's government resists calls for harsher anti-gay laws than already exist, so a large church groups-organized anti-gay march in Addis Ababa is cancelled …

The Usual Suspect - Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe calls gays and lesbians "inhuman" and threatens to kick pro-gay foreign diplomats out of the country …

Trapped - defiance and fear mix among Ugandan LGBT and HIV/AIDS activists under the new "Jail the Gays" law as many of their lives are threatened and police hunt them, while a Namibian official says his country won't accept gay refugees fleeing Uganda …

Stoned Again - new laws in Brunei punish consensual adult gay sex with death by stoning …

Can You Hear Me Now? - the 10th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals considers Oklahoma's challenge to a lower federal court ruling declaring the state's ban on civil marriage for same-gender couples unconstitutional in the second such hearing in as many weeks …

Don't Save the Children - Utah's Attorney General asks the state Supreme Court to stop same-gender couples who legally married during the brief few days that they could from getting second parent adoption approval …

What Constitution? - despite the U.S. Supreme Court 2003 ruling overturning state sodomy laws, Louisiana lawmakers vote to keep their statute on the books because residents believe gay people to be "dangerous, unhealthy and immoral" …

Southern Hospitality - in response to enactment of a state law to "protect religious freedom" that opponents called a veiled anti-LGBT "license to discriminate," hundreds of Mississippi business owners and shop keepers are welcoming them as customers with rainbow window stickers declaring "We Don't Discriminate" ….

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NewsWrap for the week ending March 15, 2014

SUMMARY

Fight Back - A coalition of Ugandan human rights groups are joined by LGBT activists, commentators, scholars and politicians in a lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of the country's "Anti-Homosexuality Act"…

For Your Own Good - Nigeria's Justice Minister claims his country's so-called "Jail All the Gays" law was enacted to protect them from vigilante violence …

Copycat Hatred - politicians in the Democratic Republic of Congo and in Kenya each push for harsher laws against LGBT people …

Learning Curbed - Zimbabwe activists are arrested in Harare for conducting a media training workshop …

Ovo-Phobo-Demo - machete-wielding Russian thugs pelt LGBT participants in Moscow's March 8th International Women's Day March with raw eggs, but are arrested before they can do more serious damage …

Queer Queueing - thanks to a quirk in the U.K. marriage equality law, same-gender couples legally married in other jurisdictions are now considered to be legally married at home, while never-married couples will still have to wait until March 29th to tie the knot …

ObamaQare - the U.S. Health and Human Services Department tells insurance providers that beginning next year they must offer the same coverage to legally married same-gender couples as they do to heterosexually-married couples …

Mysterious Ways - charges are unexpectedly dropped against United Methodist Church Rev. Dr. Thomas Ogletree for officiating the wedding of his son to another man …

Tennessee Hospitality - a U.S. federal judge orders Tennessee to recognize the legal marriages of same-gender couples contracted in other states …

Bet on a Losing Race - Kentucky's Governor authorizes the payment of 100,000 taxpayer dollars to outside attorneys to defend a ban on out-of-state same-gender marriages …

Pry Open the Window - same-gender couples in Utah who civilly married during a brief period of time that they could legally do so ask a federal judge to order the state to recognize their marriages …

Please Knock Loudly - new lawsuits challenging state bans on marriage equality filed in Arizona, Florida, and Indiana join more than 50 others working their way through the court system in several states ….

Complete NewsWrap text and this week's podcast to be posted March 18, 2014.

Museveni's Science & Arizona's Reprieve

Week of March 3, 2014
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President Yoweri Museveni defends the highly questionable "research" behind Uganda's Anti-Homosexuality Law in an interview with CNN’s Zain Verjee.

Arizona's "bias license" gets a dramatic "thumbs down” from Governor Jan Brewer, whose veto announcement prompts howls from the American Family Association's Bryan Fischer and right-wing radio talker Rush Limbaugh; Emory University law professor Timothy Holbrook provides analysis.

And in NewsWrap: courts in Zimbabwe and Zambia each acquit leading LGBT activists, oppressive legislation creeps into Kenya, Jordan cops bust 10 gays and lesbians for getting acquainted, post-Olympic "Open Games" leaps hurdles in Moscow, a U.S. federal judge tosses Texas' marriage inequality law, and more news reported by Jason Proctor and Natalie Peoples (produced by Steve Pride).

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NewsWrap for the week ending March 1, 2014

SUMMARY

Off the Hook - LGBT rights activists are acquitted on bogus charges in Zimbabwe and Zambia …

Laws of Mobs Rule - the war on sexual minorities continues unabated in Nigeria and Uganda …

How to Make Friends - Kenyan leaders call for their own similarly harsh anti-gay legislation …

Acquaintance Raid - ten lesbians and gay men at a "getting to know each other" gathering at a party hall in Amman, Jordan are arrested in a prophylactic prevention of "disturbing the peace" …

High Hurdles - more than 200 athletes from 11 countries endure bomb threats, cancelled-at-the-last-minute venues and hotels, smoke bombs, and "technical problems" at an ice skating rink to compete in the inaugural Russian LGBT Sports Federation's Open Games in Moscow …

Hellish Law Burned - Arizona Governor Jan Brewer vetoes a so-called "religious freedom" bill …

No Legitimate Governmental Purpose - a federal judge declares the Texas law defining civil marriage as exclusively heterosexual to be a violation of the U.S. Constitution …

Clearly Demeaning - a federal judge makes final his ruling declaring as unconstitutional Kentucky's refusal to recognize the civil marriages of same-gender couples performed elsewhere …

Reality Check - retired National Football League Hall of Famer and TV sports commentator Deion Sanders tells "The Arsenio Hall Show" that there were gay players on all five teams he played on during his career, and says of out pro prospect Michael Sam "if he can make plays, he can play the game" ….

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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

SUMMARY

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.

Troubles in Russia, Cameroon and Zimbabwe

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Venerable writer/activist Harvey Fierstein takes aim at President Vladimir Putin in a New York Times op-ed  as an outbreak of Russian repression threatens the Olympic torch (Fierstein appeared on MSNBC's The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell.)

Cameroon activists mourn assassinated LGBT leader Eric Lembembe (Ngala Killian Chimtom of Free Speech Radio News reports from Yaounde.)

Zimbabwe's long hard slog against hate continues (Free Speech Radio News reporter Garikai Chaunza has the latest from Harare.)

And in NewsWrap: news in or about Russia dominates this week's LGBT headlines, Moldova surprises rights groups with "no promo homo" law, death threats and stones greet Montenegro's first LGBT Pride march, dignitaries pelted with eggs at Lithuania's second Pride, Super Mario satire stings Mexican media, and more news reported by Christopher Gaal and Tanya Kane-Parry (produced by Steve Pride).

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And in NewsWrap: Zimbabwe activists "screened" for discussing discrimination, hacktivists post Pride to Ugandan government websites, Lebanese activists protest gay detainee humiliation, Canada's top Protestant church elects mainstream Christianity's first openly gay leader, thousands agitate for marriage equality across Australia, Squarepants-Winky conspiracy threatens Ukrainian kids, and more news reported by Abby Dees and John Torres (produced by Steve Pride).

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NewsWrap for the week ending August 18, 2012

SUMMARY

Harassing While Intoxicated - Harare police raid the headquarters of Gays And Lesbians of Zimbabwe (GALZ) and detain 44 members overnight for "screening" …

Fawke the Homophobes - Anonymous hacks Ugandan government websites to demand the end of arrests and harassment of LGBT people …

Prob-ity Protest - demonstrators in Lebanon's capital of Beirut protest the arrests of 36 men at a gay movie house who were forced to undergo anal probes to determine it they'd engaged in homosexual acts …

99 1/2 Years To Go - a challenge to the 100-year ban on LGBT Pride events issued by Moscow's municipal government earlier this year appears destined for the European Court of Human Rights …

God's Will - the United Church of Canada – the country's largest Protestant denomination – elects Rev. Gary Paterson as its first openly gay moderator …

Aussie Anniversary Agitation - thousands mark the eighth anniversary of the passage of Australia's federal Marriage Amendment Bill that denies civil marriage to same-gender couples with protest marches and rallies across the country, while the premiers of South Australia and Tasmania vow to legislate their own marriage equality laws …

Spongebob Subversivepants - a Ukrainian Commission charged with protecting "public morality" warns that several animated television shows, including "Family Guy," "The Simpsons," "Futurama," and "Spongebob Squarepants" -- the latter of whom Commission "experts" identify as "gay" -- are "aimed at the destruction of the family" and will turn the country's children into "criminals and perverts" ….

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NewsWrap for the week ending October 29, 2011

SUMMARY

Made in Taiwan - A record crowd numbering as many as 50,000 colorfully march in Taipei in the Taiwanese capital's 9th annual Pride parade …

Like a Bad Penny - Uganda's infamous "Kill the Gays" bill is apparently back on the front burner …

Bad to Worse - Nigerian lawmakers consider harsher laws against homosexuality in their country …

Constitutional Conversion - Zimbabwe's Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai does an about-face from his support last year of President Robert Mugabe's position and now favors the inclusion of sexual minority rights in the new constitution now being drafted …

Everybody Samba! - Brazil's top appeals court becomes the highest court in Latin America's most populous nation to rule in favor of marriage equality …

Elevation to Equality - Denmark's government announces a proposal to upgrade currently-available registered partnerships for gay and lesbian couples to full marriage equality, and to allow their wedding ceremonies in the Church of Denmark …

For Starters - a civil unions bill is introduced in the Australian state of Queensland's parliament …

Backward Motion - the Republican-controlled legislature in New Hampshire is on track to repeal the U.S. state's 2009 marriage equality law and revert to a form of inferior civil unions for same-gender couples that had been established in 2007, although Governor John Lynch, a Democrat, has vowed to veto any repeal measure …

Goodnight, Mrs. Calabash - leading Russian gay rights activist Nikolai Alekseev announces his resignation from the advocacy groups he's led since 2005 …

Bus Driver's Honeymoon - U.S. Freedom to Marry activist Evan Wolfson finally ties his own knot in New York ….

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