Kenyan Rap Wars & #HarlemNoHate

Kenyan musicians Art Attack (Same Love Remix) and Grammo Suspect (Our Love Is Valid) face showdowns with the government. (You can defy the authorities too by sharing their controversial videos about love and equality!)

Carl Siciliano of the Ali Forney Center for LGBT youth closes in on Harlem homophobe ATLAH Church Pastor James David Manning, to the delight of Comedy Central's The Daily Show correspondent Jessica Williams.

And in NewsWrap: Indonesia's anti-queer crackdown gets even worse, Russia considers forced "treatment" for its LGBT citizens, but a trio of U.S. advocacy groups challenge so-called "change therapy" nationwide, childless civil unions pass in the Italian Senate, Israeli lawmakers reject several LGBT rights bills, Germany opens safe shelters for queer Syrian refugees, and more international LGBT news reported this week by Wenzel Jones and Michael LeBeau (produced by Steve Pride, written by Greg Gordon).

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U.S. Marriage Mission Accomplished!

Week of June 29, 2015

The Supreme Court rings wedding bells across the U.S.A.! Our comprehensive coverage of the historic ruling on marriage equality includes comments by lead plaintiff Jim Obergefell, President Barack Obama, trailblazing attorneys Evan Wolfson and Mary Bonauto, and many others.

And in NewsWrap: New Jersey "conversion" crooks are found guilty of consumer fraud, a "no promo homo" bill advances in Kyrgyzstan, civil partners seek civil marriage rights in Northern Ireland, and anxious Aussies plan to celebrate a straight couple's threatened anti-equality protest divorce, reported this week by Wenzel Jones and Chrisanne Eastwood (produced by Steve Pride, written by Greg Gordon).

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NewsWrap for the week ending June 27, 2015

SUMMARY

Victory! - The U.S. Supreme Court opens civil marriage to same-gender couples nationwide …

Guilty! - a New Jersey jury unanimously decides that practitioners of so-called “conversion therapy” are committing consumer fraud …

Backwards! - a “no promo homo” bill worse than Russia’s is one reading away from becoming law in Kyrgyzstan …

Forward! - two same-gender couples sue for marriage rights in Northern Ireland …

Self-Destruct! - about 200,000 people cheer the impending protest divorce of an Australian “Christian” couple if marriage equality arrives …

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NewsWrap for the week ending May 23, 2015

SUMMARY

Big Yes - Voters in Ireland make it the first country in the world to establish marriage equality through a popular vote …

Heavens Opened - the Church of Scotland moves toward welcoming legally-married gay ministers, while the United Protestant Church of France approves blessing same-gender marriages …

Be Prepared - Boy Scouts of America national president Robert Gates urges the organization to lift its ban on openly gay adult leaders and volunteers …

Curing Quackery - Oregon’s openly bisexual Governor Kate Brown makes her state the third in the country to ban so-called “conversion therapy” for minors, while minority Democrats in the U.S. House introduce a bill to ban such “therapy” for all ages as fraud under federal law …

Betting Against Bullies - Nevada’s Republican Governor Brian Sandoval signs an LGBT-inclusive anti-bullying bill …

Calculated Hate - Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal bids for the far-right vote in his quest for the GOP presidential nomination by issuing an executive order allowing religious-based bias only hours after the state legislature rejects such a measure …

Second Down - after failing to make professional teams in St. Louis and Dallas, Missouri college defensive standout Michael Sam, the first out gay football player in the NFL, heads north to the Canadian Football League’s Montreal Alouettes …

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NewsWrap for the week ending May 9, 2015

SUMMARY

Belated Proposal - It took two years, but the Cyprus Cabinet finally sends a civil partnerships bill to Parliament …

Heal Thyself of Homophobia - Costa Rica’s Supreme Court rules that professional associations (such as lawyers and doctors) must give members’ same-gender spouses equal access to their recreational facilities …

And Baby Makes Four - Buenos Aires makes 3-parent Latin American history by registering the names of the the lesbian mom and her partner and sperm donor dad on the baby’s birth certificate …

Surrogate Snatcher - a judge in Britain awards custody of their baby girl to a gay dad and his partner over the dishonest surrogate mother …

Parliament in Pink - British voters elect what could be the world’s largest number of out MPs …

No Room at the Inn - Kenya’s Deputy President tells a church service that there’s “no room for gays” in his country …

Who Let Them In? - some 600 self-identified Russian LGBT people and their allies are surprisingly allowed to march in St. Petersburg’s huge May Day Parade despite the protestations of Vitaly Milonov, the author of the local and national bans on “gay propaganda” …

Tell It To Your Therapist - the U.S. Supreme Court refuses to hear the appeal by two self-identified Christian counseling services of a New Jersey law that bans so called “conversion” therapy for patients under 18 …

Devil's Advocate - a Nebraska woman sues “all homosexuals” on behalf of “plaintiffs God and Jesus Christ” demanding that same-gender-loving people be declared legally sinful …

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NewsWrap for the week ending April 11, 2015

SUMMARY

Early Adopters - Irish lawmakers approve adoptions equality for same-gender couples …

Parental Controlled - major changes in Nicaragua’s “Family Code” taking effect this week ban adoptions by same-gender couples, define civil marriage as exclusively heterosexual, and deny same-gender couples social security protections and other rights …

Suitors' Suit - a lesbian couple in the U.S. territory of Guam sues in federal court for a civil marriage license …

Popular Hate - voters in Springfield, Missouri repeal LGBT anti-bias protections …

Sacred Snub - the Vatican virtually rejects an openly gay diplomat named by France as its ambassador to the Holy See …

In Case You Thought We Liked You - Mormon officials denounce the “counterfeit lifestyle” of lesbians and gay men …

Obamacare Won't Cover It - the Obama administration officially opposes so-called “conversion therapy” for LGBT youth …

Stick to Acupuncture - South Korea’s government hosts “conversion” conferences by anti-LGBT hate groups …

Consider the Source - a Dublin paper company shreds virulently anti-marriage equality leaflets to make confetti for the weddings of gay and lesbian couples …

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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 August 31, 2013

SUMMARY

Island Fever - Mob violence against LGBT people rises sharply in Jamaica, fueled by anti-sodomy preachers …

Health and Taxes - the reverberating effects this week of the U.S. Supreme Court's DOMA decision include the Internal Revenue Service announcing that it will treat married same-gender couples the same as their heterosexual peers, and the Health and Human Services Department declaring that same-gender couples will now have access to all the benefits of Medicare that had previously been reserved for heterosexual married couples …

About Face - a federal judge declares a U.S. statute that denies equal benefits to married lesbian and gay veterans unconstitutional …

Tipping Point - marriage equality is now enjoyed in more than half of New Mexico while its Association of Counties asks the state high court to issue a definitive ruling on the issue …

Oh, Grow Up! - Pennsylvania's Governor Tom Corbett compares gay and lesbian couples to 12-year-old children in his legal filing against an official in the state's Montgomery County who's also handing out marriage licenses to same-gender couples …

Thank Goodness for Small Favors - global retail behemoth WalMart extends domestic partner benefits to its 2.2 million employees around the world …

Keep Out of Reach of Children - the San Francisco-based Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upholds California's first-in-the-nation law banning so-called "conversion therapy" for minors …

Prisoner of Gender - the attorney for U.S. Army Private Chelsea (nee Bradley) Manning reports that the transgender soldier is doing well as she acclimates to life at the military prison in Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, but that the Army is denying her hormone therapy and other necessary treatment for gender dysphoria …

Justice of the Peace - Ruth Bader Ginsburg makes history as the first U.S. Supreme Court Justice to officiate at the wedding of a same-gender couple ….

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