Australians Say “I Do”!

On-scene coverage of Australia’s historic marriage equality victory! Sydney correspondent Barry McKay (with William Brougham) takes us to the celebrations following the landslide win in the controversial postal plebiscite, as activists prepare for what comes next! 

And in NewsWrap: Mozambique judges order government recognition of queer rights group, military doctors Trump president’s trans ban, Human Rights Watch condemns China’s shock treatment "cure,” California grade schools get a textbook education in equality, and more international LGBT news reported this week by Michael LeBeau and Monique Lukens (produced by Steve Pride, written by Greg Gordon).

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Obama Lang Syne!

We raise a toast to the outgoing 44th President of the United States with some of Barack Obama’s greatest LGBTQ hits! Meanwhile, departing Attorney General Loretta Lynch reminds us that “Yes we STILL can!”

And in NewsWrap: Israel’s top justices refuse to court civil marriage equality; support for equality advances in Peru, Portugal and Germany; Tory MPs block LGBT-inclusive British sex ed; a Chinese trans-man wins a landmark wrongful job dismissal lawsuit, and more international LGBT news reported this week by Carole Meyers and Christopher Gaal (produced by Steve Pride, written by Greg Gordon).

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Tar Heel & Natural States’ Strife!

North Carolina Governor Pat McCrory digs in despite derision from critics including Equality North Carolina’s Chris Srgo, Charlotte employment attorney Kevin Murphy, Democratic lawmaker Billy Richardson, and Daniel Cook’s YouTube-posted McCrory parody (with a report by Pacifica Radio’s Mark Mericle).

Trans LGBT rights advocate Rev. Gwen Fry defends Arkansas’ local anti-bias laws (interviewed by Abby Dees).

And in NewsWrap: activists attack the constitutionality of Kenya’s sex code, a court in China rules against a marriage equality lawsuit, the Roman Catholic Church pressures some 800 big Australian businesses to stop promoting marriage equality, anti-LGBT laws continue to roil Mississippi and Tennessee, Greg Louganis finally gets his Wheaties box, 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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Rabble-Rouser’s Requiem!

We mourn the passing and celebrate the life and legacy of Latina lesbian feminist "Outlaw" Jeanne Córdova, who died in Los Angeles on January 10th. Many of her accomplishments and exploits are recounted in an August 2012 interview with Steve Pride on her memoir, When We Were Outlaws.

And in NewsWrap: marriage equality marches into a Chinese court, Senegalese "wedding guests" escape charges and a lynch mob, Malawi and Fiji politicians break out in homophobia, Guyana's president opens the door to liberation, Washington state and New York City advance trans rights, Norman and Oklahoma City enact LGBT anti-bias protections, and more international LGBT news reported this week by Michelle-Marie Gilkeson and Tanya Kane-Parry (produced by Steve Pride, written by Greg Gordon).

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Global Shift for Rights Group!

IGLHRC (the International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission) changes its name to OutRight Action International to better reflect its mission, and Executive Director Jessica Stern discusses the diversity of queer human rights movements around the world with our Steve Pride. (part one of two)

Stephen Colbert dishes the One Million Moms for stirring up a plot of cold Campbell’s Soup.

And in NewsWrap: Catholic Italy considers civil unions, South Africa's Dutch Reformed Church blesses inclusion, Russia unexpectedly jails six violent homophobes, bogus "cures" are still peddled in China, the U.S. government prescribes a ban on “conversion therapy" nationwide, and more international LGBT news reported this week by Chrisanne Eastwood and Christopher Gaal (produced by Steve Pride, written by Greg Gordon).

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Rebellion Renewal & Presidential Denial-ability!

Veteran activist Martha Shelley keeps the Stonewall spirit alive during a press conference aimed at memorializing it instead (GayUSA's Andy Humm and Ann Northrup comment).

Zimbabwe's Mugabe and Russia's Putin misstate the obvious about homophobia in their countries.

Kim Davis is the model of a Modern Fundamentalist.

And in NewsWrap: Bali blasphemy charges follow a gay couple's Hindu cleansing, marriage equality advances in two British territories, a student's conviction calls Tunisia's sodomy law into question, homophobia is finally driven out of New York's St. Patrick's Day Parade, and more international LGBT news reported this week by Kristin Mellian and John Dyer V (produced by Steve Pride, written by Greg Gordon).

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NewsWrap for the week ending October 3, 2015

SUMMARY

Booked Up - A resort executive in Bali faces blasphemy charges for selling the hotel’s Hindu cleansing ceremony package to a gay couple that was widely reported as a “gay wedding” …

Isle of Two Men/Two Women? - the autonomous government of the British crown dependency Isle of Man begins a public consultation on opening civil marriage to same-gender couples …

Out For Good - a public forum on marriage equality reveals a sharp divide in British Overseas Territory Bermuda, but prompts a union official to come out …

Light Rail Romance - video of the marriage proposal of a gay man to his boyfriend on a Beijing subway is the talk of Chinese social media …

Student Teacher - Tunisia’s Justice Minister announces his support for repeal of the northern African nation’s sodomy law …

Green Light - Irish Queers and allied groups win a 25-year battle to march as self-identified LGBT groups in New York City’s St. Patrick’s Day Parade …

Till It's Over - a fond farewell to U.S. baseball legend, English language mangler and little-known LGBT ally Yogi Berra …

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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 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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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 May 10, 2014

SUMMARY

Paranoid Puzzle Box - Nervous about the impending 25th anniversary of the military's democracy-crushing Tiananmen Square action, Chinese authorities detain nine gay activists who were preparing to lead a Beijing seminar critically examining "civil society and the state" …

Watch Out for PrideWatch.tw - a new marriage equality lobbying group is born in Taiwan …

Another "Beat the Stay" Race - lesbian and gay couples race to the altar in Arkansas as it becomes the latest of the United States to have its same-gender civil marriage ban declared unconstitutional …

The Guest & The Refugee - Uganda President Yoweri Musevini takes heat at a U.K.-Uganda business conference in London, while high-profile Ugandan gay activist John "Longjones" Wambere seeks asylum in the U.S. …

Forever Sticking It Out - the U.S. Postal Service prepares to issue a first class "forever" stamp honoring trailblazing gay politician Harvey Milk on what would have been his 84th birthday …

Still Whipping Up A Frenzy - international demand for Tom of Finland's homoerotic images on a series of Finnish first class stamps crashes the website selling them ….

Complete NewsWrap text and this week's podcast to be posted May 13, 2014.

NewsWrap for the week ending June 8, 2013

SUMMARY

Praise the Lords - Overwhelming approval in Britain's House of Lords of the "Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Bill" in its second reading, following full approval in the House of Commons, all but assures its ultimate passage, so the Church of England abandons its efforts to defeat the measure and says it will now work to "improve it" …

Two in One - the 4-million-member Evangelical Lutheran Church in America elects Reverend Dr. R. Guy Erwin of Southern California as its first openly gay and first Native American bishop …

Follow the Money - Germany's highest court rules that tax laws that treat same-gender couples unequally are unconstitutional …

Wǒ Yǒu Yǒng Qì - Changsha, a city in central China's Henan province, hosts about 80 brave activists at what organizers call the largest-ever public demonstration for LGBT rights in the country's history …

Para o armário, nunca mais! - more than a million people celebrate in the Brazilian city of Sao Paulo at what's billed as the world's largest LGBT Pride event …

Choose the Right - supportive Mormons and unauthorized uniformed Boy Scouts highlight the annual Pride march in Salt Lake City, Utah …

New Pride, Old Wounds - record crowds celebrate Pride in Tel Aviv, while speakers reflect on the breaking news of arrests in the horrific 2009 shooting spree at the Israeli city's LGBT center …

"Serena Morena?" - 59-year-old Mexican soap star Sebastian Ligarde tells a national magazine that "I'm gay, and I say this with pride" ….

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Longjones of Uganda pt. 1 & Trans-literacy

Ugandan activist John "Longjones" Wambere discusses the uphill battle for LGBT rights in his homeland with our Steve Pride.

Queer Life & Literature Commentator Janet Mason studies The Lives of Transgender People by Genny Beemyn and Susan Rankin and Transgender 101: A Simple Guide to a Complex Issue by Nicholas M. Teich.

Plus -- Queen Elizabeth II Honors David Hockney in a Rainbow Minute (produced by Judd Proctor & Brian Burns and read by Heide Trepanier).

And in NewsWrap: Beijing hosts landmark Chinese LGBT leadership conference, Kenyan bars bar patrons who don't "pass as straight," Australian marriage equality counts on MP consciences, Ohio "Buckeye" damns bisexual trees, and more news reported by Sarah Sweeney and Gary Shaw (produced by Steve Pride).

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NewsWrap for the week ending June 23, 2012

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Wall Coming Down - A groundbreaking two-day LGBT leadership conference in Beijing makes Chinese history …

Big Flap Yields Little Win - Ugandan Ethics Minister Simon Lokodo orders police to shut down an "illegal" LGBT workshop in Kampala ironically intended to train activists on how to report human rights abuses, Lokodo then threatens to ban 38 local and international NGOs that he says are funding "homosexual recruitment," but international criticism prompts a hastily issued statement that may be the first-ever Ugandan government affirmation of the basic rights of LGBT people …

Bearded Bar-hopping - gay bars in Kenya are reportedly barring entry to LGBT people who can't "pass as straight," but Pride is celebrated for the first time at the U.S. Embassy in Nairobi …

Parliament Bringing Up the Rear - despite overwhelming public support, two bills in the Australian Parliament to open civil marriage to lesbian and gay couples don't appear to have enough votes for passage …

Rushing DOMA to the Hospital - the high-priced attorneys hired by GOP House leadership to defend the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) in federal court reportedly ask the U.S. Supreme Court to fast-track their appeal of a federal appeals court decision calling a key provision of DOMA unconstitutional, and ask that a pending district court case be put on hold because a Supreme Court DOMA ruling would address the issues raised in that lawsuit …

We Thought the Swings Were IN the Trees - a letter to the editor of the Findlay, Ohio "Courier" damns "shameful" bisexual trees ….

Complete NewsWrap text and this week's podcast to be posted June 26th.