Butch Is Not a Dirty Word!

Madelaine Imber and Tandiwe Aebi-Moyo of the swaggering new Australian ‘zine talk about the complex lives of gender non-conforming women (produced by 3CR Melbourne, Australia’s Accent of Women program host Jiselle Hanna)!

And in NewsWrap: India’s High Court privacy rights ruling signals sodomy law repeal, Finland retains its infertility rule for legal gender change, trans U.S. troops enlist in lawsuits to fight Trump’s service ban, Australia’s plebiscite on love predictably descends into hate, Ugandan activists defiantly celebrate Pride underground, and more international LGBT news reported this week by John Dyer V and Michele Yeater (produced by Steve Pride, written by Greg Gordon).

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"Margarita With A Straw"

Disability meets sexuality in writer/director Shonali Bose's coming of age story from India! Our Abby Dees chats with the award-winning indy filmmaker and lead actress Kalki Koechlin.

And in NewsWrap: Hong Kong makes diversity pretty in pink, hundreds are detained for

being proud in Kampala, Haitian authorities halt an LGBT Afro-Caribbean culture fest, homophobic arrests surging under India's reinstated sex code, HB2 fallout still plagues North Carolina, no more injustice from Chief Justice Moore, and more international LGBT news reported this week by Carole Meyers and Jason Proctor (produced by Steve Pride, written by Greg Gordon).

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Pride Goes West & Canada's "Queer Decade" 2!

Pride lands on the beaches of Venice, California with the eccentric enclave’s inaugural LGBT celebration (Matthew McLaughlin was on the scene)!

Redefining "spouse" sets the stage for Canadian equality in Part 2 of Heather Kitching’s Queer Decade: 1995-2005!

More medals, media and a shocking loss for Team LGBT at the Rio Olympics!

And in NewsWrap: Uganda’s Ethics Minister promises persistent persecution of "homos,” Odessa celebrates its first Pride, a U.S. district court denies civil rights to transgender people, the LGBT-supportive NBA moves its 2017 All-Star Game from Charlotte to New Orleans, and more international LGBT news reported this week by Carole Meyers and John Dyer V (produced by Steve Pride, written by Greg Gordon).

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Queer Hollywood History & #Injustice!

The Hollywood Museum’s Reel to Real: Portrayals and Perceptions of Gays in Hollywood exhibit displays Tinseltown at its queerest perceptions (with L.A. City Councilman Mitch O'Farrell, Rev. Troy Perry, Katharine "Kat" Kramer, Erin "Tabatha" Murphy, and Julie "Catwoman" Newmar at the grand opening.

Lionhearted lesbian poet Grammo Suspect unwraps Kenyan "#Injustice" on her new single.

Gay Aussie Olympian Matthew Mitcham’s dramatic dive is regaled in a Rainbow Minute.

And in NewsWrap: religious right pushes a gay sex ban in Indonesia's top court, Kampala Pride crushed by Ugandan cabinet minister’s vengeful vow, Tanzania's Health Minister bans lube, new reports detail horrific homophobia in the Middle East, and more international LGBT news reported this week by Wenzel Jones and Jason Proctor (produced by Steve Pride, written by Greg Gordon).

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Aussie Wedding Waltz & Mad MS Moms!

The latest developments in Australia's marriage equality struggle are defined by drama and dissent.

Super-lawyer Roberta Kaplan takes up the cause of same-gender Mississippi parents fighting the last adoption ban in the U.S.

And in NewsWrap: Mexico's high court overturns state adoption restrictions, Costa Rica considers common law equality, Chelsea Manning charged with possessing treacherous toothpaste, Ugandans celebrate Pride under the radar, Reykjavik rolls out a rainbow road, and more international LGBT news reported this week by Wenzel Jones and Chrisanne Eastwood (produced by Steve Pride, written by Greg Gordon).

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Ex-F.O.B. & Jokes On Them!

Week of April 27, 2015

Veteran rights activist David Mixner recalls the "Don't Ask" double-cross (in conversation with Steve Pride).

Matt Baume of the American Foundation for Equal Rights, Jon Stewart of Comedy Central’s The Daily Show, and stand-up "comic in chief" Barack Obama use pro-equality humor to herald historic U.S. Supreme Court hearings.

And in NewsWrap: rights trump religion in Kenya's top court, a trans rights bill passes India's upper house, a well-known Japanese lesbian duo defiantly weds, U.S. Republicans still swim against the marriage equality tide, Dallas does "Hooters" the gay way, and more news reported this week by Abby Dees and Michael LeBeau (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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The Right and Left Hands of God

Week of February 2, 2015
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U.S. Republicans board a ship of fools with harbingers of hate from the American Family Association for a visit to Israel, as MSNBC's Rachel Maddow reports (including several outrageous pronouncements by AFA mouthpiece Bryan Fischer).

True love speaks spiritually to  James Alexander Langteaux, author of Gay Conversations With God (interviewed by Steve Pride).

And in <i><a href="http://bit.ly/1C8Jfm8">NewsWrap</a></i>: Mormons swap non-discrimination for religious exemption, Idaho lawmakers bounce a bias ban for the ninth year, an "outed" Chinese worker sues for wrongful termination, Nigerian birthday party guests are busted for "planning a gay wedding," an Egyptian appeals court formally clears "debauched" gay bathhouse arrestees, and more news reported this week by Michael Allan and Carole Meyers (produced by Steve Pride, written by Greg Gordon).

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NewsWrap for the week ending January 31, 2015

SUMMARY

For All The Saints - The Mormon Church supports anti-bias protections for LGBT people in the U.S., as long as there’s an exemption for “sincerely held religious belief” …

The Boys Still in Boise - Idaho lawmakers for the ninth year reject a proposal to ban discrimination in the state based on sexual orientation and gender identity …

Fairness Gusher - U.S.-based global oil giant ExxonMobil finally adds LGBT people to its workplace anti-bias policies ...

Spiritual Damages - a court in Shenzhen hears China’s first-ever gay workplace discrimination lawsuit …

Party to Persecution - twelve young men in northern Nigeria are busted by Islamic state police for “planning a gay wedding” …

Which Mob Do You Prefer? - nine young gay men in Uganda are attacked by a mob, arrested by police and tortured behind bars …

Cue Cops - an Egyptian appeals court closes the cases against 26 men who were charged with “debauchery” in December in an infamously-televised Cairo bathhouse raid …

On Your Honor - zsthe California Supreme Court bans all judges in the state from membership in any nonprofit youth organization that discriminates against LGBT people -- most notably the Boy Scouts of America …

A Road to Enigma - a Sicilian city names a road for gay British World War II Nazi code-breaker Alan Turing, whose achievements are celebrated in the Oscar-nominated “The Imitation Game”, and also memorialized in several locales in the U.K. - including a statue in a park bordering the “gay village” in Manchester ….

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NewsWrap for the week ending November 8, 2014

SUMMARY

Repression Walks Again - A new bill in Uganda seeks to revive the infamous "Anti-Homosexuality Act", and is being called "even more draconian" …

Many Happy Arrests - leading Nigerian LGBT rights and health advocate Ifeanyi Orazulike says he was arrested without charge on his birthday and threatened by police officials …

Hard Time for A Good Time - eight Egyptian men who appeared in a notoriously viral "gay wedding" video each get three year prison terms …

Success for Dress - Malaysian transwomen win the right to cross-dress, and the Irish government settles a 21-year legal battle with trans activist Dr. Lydia Foy …

Breaking the Wedding Ceiling - a contrary marriage equality ruling by the U.S. 6th Circuit Court of Appeals may finally force the Supreme Court to settle the issue, as state marriage equality battles continue to rage in Missouri, Kansas and Florida …

Not Laughing - Estonia becomes the region's third country to deny entry to Russian sitcom actor Ivan ("burn gays alive in ovens") Okhlobystin …

You're Out, I'm OUT - Latvian Foreign Minister Edgars Rinkevics, who banned the aforementioned Okhlobystin from his country last week, announces that he is "proud to be gay" on his official Twitter page …

Dropped Call - Russian officials tear down a six-foot interactive iPhone tribute to late Apple founder Steve Jobs on a St. Petersburg college campus after current CEO Tim Cook comes out, explaining that the memorial has now become "a public call to sodomy" ….

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Taiwan Queer Film Fest!

  Week of November 3, 2014
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The unique Asian island of Taiwan hosts its first International Queer Film Festival, highlighting human stories that make equality real. Festival coordinator Victor Stevenson explores the event, as well as the politics and culture of the country, with correspondent Keith Perron.

Texas Congressman Louie Gohmert "massages" the U.S. military -- and the foolishness rubs off on Comedy Central’s faux conservative commentator Stephen Colbert!

And in  NewsWrap: Singapore barrels backwards on homosexuality, sodomy charges against Ugandan activist dismissed as new anti-gay law gets fast-tracked, Sri Lanka claims constitutional LGBT protections while defending sodomy law, Latvia bans hateful Russian sitcom star, and more news reported this week by Natalie Peoples and Ryan Pest (produced by Wenzel Jones and Steve Pride).

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NewsWrap for the week ending November 1, 2014

SUMMARY

Step Back, Pass Buck - Singapore's highest court upholds the Southeast Asian island city-state's colonial-era sodomy law …

Out of the Frying Pan - cases against three men charged with violating Uganda's sodomy law are dismissed, but a new version of the East African nation's notorious Anti-Homosexuality Bill gets fast-tracked in Parliament …

Gross Equality - the Sri Lankan government tells the U.N. Human Rights Committee that LGBT people are protected from bias in the South Asian island nation's constitution, but defends its colonial-era "gross indecency" law by claiming that it doesn't specifically target them …

Trick or Exorcist - Jordan's government bans Hallowe'en to avoid a repeat of riots in Amman by fundamentalist Muslims the past two years who call the holiday "homosexual and Satanic" …

Back in the Pulpit Again - a U.S. United Methodist Church jury reinstates pastor Franklin Schaefer, who was defrocked for officiating at his gay son's wedding …

Dunking the Quacks - the Southern Baptist Convention, America's largest protestant denomination, now renounces so-called "reparative therapy" to make gays and lesbians straight, but reaffirms Biblical edicts about homosexuality and marriage …

Computer Virus Hoax - Apple CEO Tim Cook officially comes out to almost universal acclaim – except for Vitaly Milonov, the "father" of Russia's infamous "no promo homo" law, who wants Cook banned from entering the country because he might bring "the Ebola virus, AIDS (or) gonorrhea" with him …

No Tolerance, No Service - Latvia bans homophobic Russian sitcom actor Ivan Okhlobystin from entering the country for a one-man show in Riga because he's called for all LGBT people to be "burned alive" ….

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Pride -- The Movie!

Week of October 6, 2014
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The unlikely true story of the 1980s Thatcher-era pairing of striking Welsh coalminers and London LGBT activists comes to the screen in the Cannes Film Festival Queer Palm award-winning Pride, written by Stephen Beresford and directed by Matthew Warchus. Mary Milton of ShoutOut Bristol chats with union organizer David "Dai" Donovan, one of the real life characters portrayed in the movie destined to become a classic!

And in NewsWrap: marriage equality advances in the U.S. but stalls in Australia, Belgrade clears the way for a thousand Serbs to parade with Pride, trade pressure gives Museveni pause on Uganda's pending Anti-Homosexuality Bill, the Philippines' Quezon City and Spain's Catalonia region block bias and hate, drag queens fight Facebook's names game, and more news reported this week by Michelle-Marie Gilkeson and Rick Watts (produced by Steve Pride).

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NewsWrap for the week ending October 4, 2014

SUMMARY

Timing Troubles - A civil marriage equality bill stalls yet again in the Australian parliament …

Don't Ask Us - equality activists and opponents alike were awaiting word on whether the U.S. Supreme Court would hear one or more civil marriage cases – but the Justices take a pass …

How Many More Shoes to Drop? - a Missouri Circuit Court judge is the latest to overturn a state's ban on civil marriage for same-gender couples …

Safe, Not Silent - more than a thousand LGBT people and their supporters march in the first peaceful Pride parade in four years in the Serbian capital of Belgrade …

Bad for Business - Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni is apparently having second thoughts about the latest version in parliament of the possibly trade-killing "Anti-Homosexuality Law" …

"Enormous Step Backwards" - the semi-autonomous Indonesian province of Aceh, which operates under Islamic law, enacts a new statute to punish same-gender sex with public caning …

Development Over Discrimination - Quezon City, the biggest in the Philippines, expands its LGBT anti-bias protections to include education, insurance, access to goods and services, and accommodations …

Hate Gets the Spanish Boot - the Spanish region of Catalonia approves a bill levying heavy fines on perpetrators of anti-LGBT hate crimes …

We Are Not Amused - social media giant "Facebook" learns the hard way that you don't mess with drag queens ….

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Queer India Now & Collins Gets Better

Week of September 22, 2014
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As the news breaks that India’s government will challenge the recent Supreme Court ruling that legally recognized trans-people as a third gender, we hear "Sapphic Nomads" Katie Cook and Maggie Young's second audio postcard from Mumbai.

It Got Better for pro-basketball player Jason Collins after he came out, as he tells Chrisanne Eastwood at the OutFest screening of the docu-series on the LGBT youth support project.

Plus: right-winger Tony Perkins' homophobic radio rant against the Smithsonian Institution.

And in NewsWrap: Justice Ginsberg makes U.S. marriage equality predictions, Egypt grinds gay men into entrapment, Russia's "no promo homo" pol poisons  opening of St. Petersburg's QueerFest, Texas hotels "86" Museveni, Ugandan gay activist wins U.S. asylum, and more news reported this week by Carole Meyers and Wenzel Jones (produced by Steve Pride).

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NewsWrap for the week ending September 20, 2014

SUMMARY

Something Wrong With Justice - India's government challenges the nation's recent Supreme Court ruling legally recognizing trans-people as a third gender …

Supreme Speculation - U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg points to a pending ruling by the 6th Circuit Court of Appeals that could determine when the high court might consider nationwide marriage equality …

Grounds for Arrest - Egypt uses Grindr and other social media platforms to escalate its crackdown on gay men …

Bashers in Custody - three men are arrested in Belgrade for the harrowing caught-on-camera assault of a gay German man attending an LGBT conference in the Serbian capital …

Violence Off-Screen - Vitaly Milonov, the Russian M.P. behind the country's infamous "no promo homo" law, leads a gang of thugs to disperse an unidentified gas that sends 16 people to the hospital in an attempt to disrupt the opening event of St. Petersburg's "QueerFest" …

Trojan Horse - the Finnish news agency YLE tests Russia's "no promo homo" law by sending a package plastered with the homoerotic images of Tom of Finland – now the country's all-time postal sales leader – which is delivered in Moscow with no questions asked …

Rainbow Parachute - the Australian Football League cancels its sponsorship deal with Royal Brunei Airlines because of the tiny Southeast Asian country's pending laws that call for gay people to be stoned to death …

No Vacancy - faced with expected demonstrations protesting the east African nation's draconian Anti- Homosexuality Law wherever he stays, Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni struggles to find accommodations in Irving, Texas for a conference promoting tourism and investment in his country …

Safe House - longtime Ugandan LGBT activist John "Longjones" Wambere tentatively wins political asylum in the U.S. ….

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St. Pat's Ploy & Love Is Strange

Week of September 15, 2014
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Mature marriage meets separation anxiety in the new Ira Sachs film starring Alfred Molina and John Lithgow (interview by Steve Pride).

The organizers of the New York City St. Patrick's Day Parade try to green-wash their bias, but they can't fool Gay USA's Ann Northrup and Chris Cooper.

And in NewsWrap: Ugandan repression migrates to Gambia, Cairo cops hunt down viral video "gay wedding" guests, the Australian Football League rethinks its deal with the Sultan, mounting marriage equality cases compel U.S. Supreme Court consideration, and more news reported this week by Michael LeBeau and Kristin Mellian (produced by Steve Pride).

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NewsWrap for the week ending September 13, 2014

SUMMARY

Hateful Contagion - Gambia lawmakers approve a draconian Uganda-like anti-LGBT law, while seven men arrested in Cairo for appearing in a viral video that allegedly shows Egypt's first gay wedding ceremony "test negative" for homosexuality …

Deal With the Sultan - the Australian Football League "reassesses" its major sponsorship deal with Royal Brunei Airlines in view of the pending laws in the tiny Southeast Asian country that call for gay people to be stoned to death …

Supreme Suspense - all eyes will be on the U.S. Supreme Court on September 29th when justices meet behind closed doors to consider hearing appeals of marriage equality rulings in Indiana, Oklahoma, Virginia, Wisconsin, and Utah, while three other federal appeals courts ponder marriage equality cases in Kentucky, Michigan, Ohio, Tennessee, Texas, Idaho, Nevada, and Hawai'i …

Clobbering Quackery - a federal appeals court upholds New Jersey's ban on so-called "reparative therapy" for patients under the age of 18 that claims to turn gay people straight …

Dishonorable Bias - a Republican-controlled panel of the U.S. House of Representatives rejects a bill to provide lesbian and gay military veterans with spousal benefits equal to their heterosexual counterparts, even if they live in states that don't recognize their legal marriages …

Taming the Beast - professional homophobes Mat Staver and Matt Barber of the "Faith and Freedom" radio show use a "heterosexual men are pigs" argument to keep civil marriage exclusively heterosexual ….

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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

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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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