World-Shaking Wedding Day!

An LGBT History Month Happy 15th Anniversary for marriage equality brings back correspondent Jackie Carver's on-scene coverage of the world’s first civil marriages of gay and lesbian couples in Amsterdam on April 1, 2001!

And in NewsWrap: top U.S. court tackles trans teen toilet rights, LGBT advocates challenge Utah’s "no promo homo" classroom ban, Mormons toss "same-sex attracted" people a bone, Google sees red over Singapore’s Pink Dot restrictions, Britain’s House of Commons rejects a bill to pardon all men convicted of gay sex before it was legal, and more international LGBT news reported this week by Frances O’Brien and Wenzel Jones (produced by Steve Pride, written by Greg Gordon).

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Pulse Massacre & A Stern Worldview!

Orlando, Florida LGBT club-goers slaughtered in an ISIS-inspired massacre are mourned by Mayor Buddy Dyer, President Barack Obama, MCC’s Rev. Elder Nancy Wilson, and Tony Award-winning Hamilton composer/star Lin-Manuel Miranda.

Outright Action International Executive Director Jessica Stern gives western activists insight into international strategies and recent developments, including Indonesia’s homophobic “moral panic.”

And in NewsWrap: Russia leads the elimination of queers from U.N. HIV/AIDS resolution, a leading Honduran activist is assassinated, Pink Dot success panics Singapore authorities, Ireland’s Presbyterian Church orders anti-equality wedding vows, Virginia’s bathroom case heads for the Supreme Court, and more international LGBT news reported this week by Michelle-Marie Gilkeson and Carole Meyers (produced by Steve Pride, written by Greg Gordon).

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NewsWrap for the week ending June 20, 2015

SUMMARY

Kiss and Jail - Two men get four month jail terms in Morocco for kissing in public, and perhaps up to 20 men are arrested in the Moroccan city of Agadir for homosexuality …

Uninvited Guests - Saudi Arabian "morality police" net several arrests in simultaneous early morning raids on two "gay parties" in Jeddah …

March Today, Miss Tomorrow - Israeli lawmakers reject an LGBT anti-bias bill …

Greens Left Lonely - Austria's National Assembly overwhelmingly votes down a marriage equality resolution …

2 For 2 - Taipei becomes the second city in Taiwan to symbolically recognize same-gender couples …

Where God Won't See You - the largest Protestant denomination in the U.S., the Southern Baptist Convention, publishes a guide on to how to avoid hiring LGBT people and how to defend charges of bias by former LGBT workers, while Convention President Ronnie Floyd tilts at marriage equality windmills …

Duel to the Demonstration - a Seoul court overturns a police ban of the 15th annual Korea Queer Culture Festival's event-capping Pride parade …

Big Pink - record crowds light up Singapore's annual Pink Dot rally for LGBT rights …

Organic Organizer - a Baltimore, Maryland widow defiantly responds to a neighbor's complaint of having a "relentlessly gay" garden — with a little help from her friends …

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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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Christopher and His "Kitty"

Week of July 21, 2014
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Portrait artist Don Bachardy talks about The Animals, a collection of love letters from his 33-year relationship with literary giant Christopher Isherwood (part 1 of 2, with Charlie Bauer, PhD).

Queer Life and Literature Commentator Janet Mason discovers a lesbian truth in the fiction of S. Renee Bess (The Rules) and the essays of Judith K. Witherow (Strong Enough to Bend).

Representative Michelle Bachmann (R-Minn.) signals another homophobic U.S. presidential run in a Right Wing Watch-flagged conversation with conservative radio talk show host Dave Garrison.

And in NewsWrap: Russia plays spy games with LGBT activists, Turkey's top court slams "p" word, Kenyan trans group wins NGO status, U.S. federal court blasts Colorado's civil marriage ban, Stonestreet snubs Santorum, and more news reported this week by Chrisanne Eastwood and Michael Allan (produced by Steve Pride).

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NewsWrap for the week ending July 26, 2014

SUMMARY

Spy Games - A judge declares St. Petersburg-based LGBT advocacy group Coming Out Russia "foreign agents", while officials in the same city tell organizers to dump (or landfill) Pride …

The "P" Word - Turkish court rules that calling someone a "pervert" is hate speech …

Trans Advocates Upheld - Kenya's high court orders the government to accept the registration of the group Transgender Education and Advocacy as a non-governmental organization …

Rocky Climb - Colorado's is the latest U.S. state ban on civil marriage for same-gender couples to be declared unconstitutional by a federal court, while a separate court rules that Boulder County can continue to offer marriage licenses to lesbian and gay couples, over the continuing objections of Republican Attorney General John Suthers …

Sun Shines In - second South Florida circuit court declares that state's civil marriage ban unconstitutional, but both rulings are stayed pending appeal …

Penguin Porn - with all copies of one title already destroyed, two of the three LGBT-positive children's books ordered to meet the same fate by Singapore's National Library Board are saved following several days of public outcry, but will now only be available in the adult literature section …

Foot in the Door - new owner steps in at the last minute to save Philadelphia's iconic LGBT bookstore Giovanni's Room from closure …

Torchwood: Osculation Day - tongues wag over out performer John Barrowman's man-on-man kiss during the Opening Ceremonies of the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow …

Cam's Rampage - otherwise affable "Modern Family" star Eric Stonestreet refuses to be photographed with one rabidly anti-gay U.S. politician ….

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ObamENDA & Tutu's Heaven

Week of July 21, 2014

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An executive order from U.S. President Barack Obama creates anti-bias employment protections for LGBT people in the federal workforce -- without the religious exemptions many advocates worried would be added in the wake of the Supreme Court’s Hobby Lobby ruling. Meanwhile, U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder revealed the administration’s plan if and whenever a marriage equality case reaches the high court.

Australian Olympic swimmer <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian_Thorpe">Ian Thorpe</a> found the water in the coming out pool was just fine, and newly-minted NFL football rookie <a href="http://michaelsam.com/">Michael Sam</a> was gay visibility's most valuable player when he accepted the ESPN television network's Arthur Ashe Courage Award.

South Africa's preeminent representative of reconciliation and Nobel Prize winner <a href="http://www.tutu.org/home/">Archbishop Desmond Tutu</a> prophesizes that there is Pride beyond the pearly gates.

And in <i><a href="http://bit.ly/1nyGLvt">NewsWrap</a></i>: HIV/AIDS researchers and activists become victims of the Ukraine-Russia conflict; U.S. judges consider marriage equality in Oklahoma, Florida, Utah and Colorado; Croatian couples win almost-equality; Malawi cuts costs by ignoring same-gender sex; more news reported this week by Michael LeBeau and Sarah Sweeney (produced by Steve Pride).

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NewsWrap for the week ending July 19, 2014

SUMMARY

Hope Shot Down - Renowned Dutch HIV/AIDS researcher/activist Joep Lange and at least a few fellow scientists/activists traveling to the annual International AIDS Conference in Melbourne perish in the downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 over eastern Ukraine …

Wooing and Courting - the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals overturns Oklahoma's ban on civil marriage for same-gender couples, a circuit court judge declares Florida's ban unconstitutional, the U.S. Supreme Court decides not to force Utah to recognize the marriages of more than a thousand lesbian and gay couples who legally wed in the state during a brief time when that was possible, and Colorado's Supreme Court orders the Denver County clerk to stop issuing marriage licenses to same-gender couples, but doesn’t stop fellow rogue clerks in Boulder and Pueblo counties from continuing to do so …

Equality-Adjacent - Croatian lawmakers overwhelmingly approve a bill to create marriage-like but less-than-equal "life partnerships" for gay and lesbian couples …

The High Price of Persecution - Malawi's Justice Minister tell a U.N. human rights panel that her government has told police to stop arresting gay people, who can be and have been punished with up to 14 years in prison at hard labor -- but financial constraints seem to have been the practical motivation …

Closing the Books - Singapore's National Library Board takes heat for ordering the removal and destruction of all copies of the true-life penguin story "And Tango Makes Three" and two other LGBT-themed children's books ….

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Same Grammy Love

Week of February 3, 2014
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Macklemore & Ryan Lewis were joined by Mary Lambert, Trombone Shorty and Orleans Avenue, and Madonna, with Queen Latifah officiating at a Same Love surprise ceremony at the music industry's Grammy Awards. 

After the big night, Ellen DeGeneres chatted with Macklemore & Ryan Lewis about their "awarding" experience.

As the religious right looked at the Grammys in horror, ersatz conservative commentator Stephen Colbert worried about "accidental gay marriages."

And finally, rising young country singer Hunter Hayes debuted his anti-bullying anthem, Invisible.
 

And in NewsWrap: human rights crisis engulfs Kyrgyzstan, Ivory Coast crackdown sends activists into hiding, India's Supreme Court lets gay sex ban stand, Singapore's PM can't tell rights from wrong, Northern Cyprus repeals sodomy law, President Musevini stalls Uganda's Anti-Homosexuality Bill for science, Bulgarian lawmakers back down on criminalizing coming out, and more news reported by Michael LeBeau and Natalie Peoples (produced by Steve Pride).

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NewsWrap for the week ending February 1, 2014

SUMMARY

Torture, Blackmail and Intimidation - Rampant police abuse with impunity is creating "nightmarish" conditions for gay and bisexual men in Kyrgyzstan …

Wrecking Crew - a homophobic mob breaks into and overruns the office of Alternative Cote d'Ivoire, the leading LGBT advocacy group in the Ivory Coast, seriously injuring a security guard and stealing most everything they didn't vandalize …

No Second Thoughts - India's Supreme Court refuses to reconsider its two-judge panel December ruling that recriminalized private consensual adult gay sex …

Don't Look At Us - Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong says it's not the government's responsibility to protect gay rights …

Last Straw - lawmakers in Northern Cyprus remove the last vestige of laws that banned gay sex in Europe …

Hide the Package - Islamic courts in Nigeria will resume in secret the prosecutions of 10 men charged with belonging to a gay group – now a criminal offense thanks to sweeping anti-gay legislation signed by President Goodluck Jonathan – to avoid repeats of the stone throwing execution-demanding assault on one of the courts in Bauchi last week …

Back to the Laboratory - Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni now says he wants scientific proof that being gay "is not genetic, but a behavior that is acquired" before he'll sign the draconian "Anti-Homosexuality Bill" there …

No Armored Closets - Bulgarian lawmakers reject a bill that would have outlawed just being out, although one of the measure's backers worries about how his children would be affected by seeing what he calls "those half-naked buggers with psychotic abnormalities" ….

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"Face Off HIV" & "The Happy Sad"

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Keith Pederson started to do a coffee table book featuring the rich and diverse stories of Minnesotans living with HIV and AIDS … then came the web project … and soon there will be a movie, too! He talks with Dixie Treichel about getting people to put the ribbon back on.

Film festival fans favor bi-curious couples in director Rodney Evans new movie starring Leroy McClain, who share a preview with Steve Pride.

Plus syndicated lesbian columnist Abby Dees answers a question that never seems to get old, Who's The Man?

And in NewsWrap: Russian lesbian's regional "no promo homo" conviction overturned, Belgrade Pride seems to be Serbia's E.U. membership ticket, second ruling by the same judge upholds Singapore's gay sex ban, homophobes hate being moved by Modern Family, and more news reported by Michael LeBeau and Carole Meyers (produced by Steve Pride).

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NewsWrap for the week ending October 5, 2013

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Full Parental Assault - A Russian court overturns a regional "no promo homo" law, but a bill is introduced in parliament to remove children from homes headed by lesbian or gay parents, adoptions of Russian children by married Swedes are prohibited, and the visiting president of America's notoriously anti-equality National Organization for Marriage tells Russian lawmakers and television viewers that gays and lesbians are unfit to raise children …

EU Ticket Pride - Serbia's president promises the Council of Europe, which his nation is eager to join, that this year's ban on an LGBT Pride march won't be repeated next year, while skeptical equality activists demonstrate with pride anyway in a virtually impromptu late-evening rally outside the Prime Minister's office in Belgrade …

Another Loh Blow - the same Singapore High Court judge who upheld the city-state's law criminalizing consensual adult gay sex in April again passes the buck to legislators in a second legal challenge to the colonial era sodomy statute …

Virtue, Liberty and Independence Duke It Out - Pennsylvania's Montgomery County appeals a state court order that stopped it from continuing to issue marriage licenses to same-gender couples, Republican Governor Tom Corbett defends the state law banning matrimonial equality by comparing the marriages of gay or lesbian couples to incest, but out Representative Brian Sims co-authors a marriage equality bill in the state legislature …

Marriage Champions Ride Again - the victorious attorneys in California's Prop 8 case set their sites on Virginia …

Don't Touch Me - Evan Mantel of the rabidly homophobic Media Research Center grouses about being moved by the charming TV engagement of gay couple Mitchell and Cam in the season opener of Modern Family ….

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NewsWrap for the week ending July 20, 2013

SUMMARY

Crowning Achievement - The Queen's Royal Assent makes England and Wales the 16th and 17th countries in the world to open civil marriage to same-gender couples …

The Money Pit - U.S. House Republicans stop wasting taxpayer money defending DOMA …

Elope with Pride - gay Aussie couple wins a "dream wedding" in New Zealand, and the first kiwi same-gender couple to wed may do so at 30,000 feet …

Unintended Consequences - Alistair Stewart of Britain's Kaleidoscope Trust warns that advances in the West like marriage equality have lead to a "perverse" worsening of LGBT freedoms in the developing world …

Martyrs' Roll Call - Cameroon gay and AIDS activist Eric Lembembe is horrifically tortured to death, while 20-year-old Hashim al-Asimi is shot to death in Yemen for being gay …

We Are Trayvon, Too - key witness in the high-profile Florida trial of George Zimmerman tells CNN that 17-year-old victim Trayvon Martin may have worried that wannabe cop Zimmerman was following him with rape in mind, while 35 American LGBT organizations issue a joint statement calling for a Justice Department probe into the killing because "Trayvon Martin deserves justice and his civil rights" …

Numero Uno - singer and gay bar owner Benjamin Medrano is elected mayor in Fresnillo, Zacatecas, a rural northern city of about 230,000, becoming Mexico's first "out" mayor …

Island Hopping - Pink Dot Singapore begets Pink Dot Okinawa ....

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Don't "Jail the Gays" & "Everything Possible"

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U.N. Human Rights Commissioner Navi Pillay has her say about Nigeria's "Jail the Gays" bill in response to Nigerian LGBT activist Davis Mac-Iyalla's questions on the BBC's World Have Your Say program.

JD Doyle discovers everything possible about Fred Small's Everything Possible, from his inspiration for the iconic song to Michael Callen and The Flirtations classic rendition of it -- Small's personal favorite!

LGBT Pride deploys to Kandahar (as reported by the U.S. Defense Department).

Plus: A Great Big World says Everyone Is Gay.

And in NewsWrap: lawsuit bouquets bloom from US Supreme Court DOMA decision, marriage equality slips past Costa Rican lawmakers, Pink Dot targets Singapore's penal code, Brazilian "cure" prescription expires, and more news reported by Jenn Mahoney and Charlie Bauer (produced by Steve Pride and Angela Brooks).

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NewsWrap for the week ending July 6, 2013

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In the Wake of DOMA & Prop 8 - the Pentagon announces that the spouses of married gay and lesbian service members will soon enjoy all the military benefits of their heterosexual peers, deportation proceedings against gay and lesbian foreigners in legal marriages with American same-gender partners end, green cards are going out to foreign spouses in U.S. bi-national same-gender couples, and gay and lesbian Americans can now sponsor their foreign-born same-gender spouses for citizenship, just as their heterosexual peers have been able to do for decades …

Edie, Warrior Princess - successful DOMA plaintiff Edith Windsor awaits a refund -- plus interest -- of the reported $678,000 in estate taxes she had to pay to the IRS and state of New York after her longtime spouse Thea Spyer died …

Wag the Finger, Suck the Thumb - the Supreme Court also rejects the appeal by Arizona Governor Jan Brewer of a lower court ruling overturning a law that had revoked the domestic partner benefits of gay and lesbian state employees, and refuses a request by Nevada's Coalition for the Protection of Marriage to fast-track a so far-unsuccessful challenge to that state's constitutional ban on marriage equality …

Spreading Good News - the ACLU and NCLR file suit in New Mexico arguing that the state's gender-neutral civil marriage laws open the institution to same-gender couples, New Jersey couples press their marriage equality case with the state Supreme Court, and after waiting for the Supreme Court's DOMA decision, a federal judge green-lights a lawsuit challenging Michigan's constitutional marriage ban, while 11 same-gender couples file suit against Arkansas' ban …

Cue Mendelssohn - California lesbian and gay couples flock to city and county courthouses to get marriage licenses following the U.S. Supreme Court's Proposition 8 ruling, and a Delaware state Senator and her longtime spouse are the first to marry when marriage equality legislation there takes effect …

Metidas de Pata - Costa Rican lawmakers "accidentally" approve the legal recognition of same-gender couples …

Rosy Revolution - a record pink-attired crowd of 21,000 lights up Singapore night skies at the annual Pink Dot LGBT rights festival …

Contagious Liberation - Istanbul Pride unexpectedly rides the waves of Turkey's pro-democracy movement …

No Cure for Homophobia - a Brazilian bill to re-classify gays and lesbians as mentally disordered is gone, but not forgotten ....

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Queer in Kyrgyzstan & Matt Fishel

"Sapphic Nomads" Katie Cook and Maggie Young's latest "audio postcard" comes from Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, where tradition fights liberation.

LGBT music expert JD Doyle features British singer/songwriter Matt Fishel's debut gay political power pop album, Not Thinking Straight, featuring his "radio friendly" hit.

And in NewsWrap: France and Uruguay both on the cusp of marriage equality; controversial clash derails debate on marriage proposal in Colombia; Zambian activist arrested for demanding decriminalization; Singapore, Montana and Virginia each confront sodomy laws; "wizardly tribute" to the "Iron Lady" makes news in Britain, and more news reported by Tanya Kane-Parry and Michael LeBeau (produced by Steve Pride).

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NewsWrap for the week ending April 13, 2013

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Edge of Our Seats - Legislators in France and Uruguay each push marriage and adoptions equality to the brink of reality …

Who Started It? - Colombia's Senate President blames "disruptive" LGBT people for indefinitely postponing a marriage equality bill there …

Profile in Courage - brave Zambian gay activist Paul Kasonkomona is jailed for "inciting the public to take part in indecent activities" …

Taking the Loh Road - Singapore High Court Justice Quentin Loh upholds the city-state's sodomy law …

Grizzly Come Lately - lawmakers in the U.S. state of Montana repeal sodomy law …

That Vaginal Probe Homophobe, Again - Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli loses a federal appeals court bid to keep the sodomy law on the books in his state …

Really Most Sincerely Dead - less-than-fans of recently deceased former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher boost a "tribute song" (of sorts) from a 1939 MGM movie starring one of history's most enduring gay icons onto BBC Radio 1's Top 40 Music Chart ….

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Invisible Athletes & Aversion Survivor

Sports pros Patrick Burke, Esera Tuaolo, Becca Lindquist, and Nick Kleidon liberate the locker room (in a panel discussion excerpted by Dixie Treichel).

Meet Stuart, a gay man who lived to tell the story of the 1950's British quack "cures" to David Rigby in Bristol.

Plus: prospective trendsetters Heather Beason, Jessica Caviness, and Denise Davis confirm that lesbians become "chic" at last (Michelle-Marie Gilkeson, reporting).

And in NewsWrap: queer F-words bomb in Mexico's top court, Singapore's second sodomy law challenge heard, Michigan moms await Prop 8 ruling for adoption rights, Greek trans-people win hate crime protections, and more news reported by Christopher Gaal and Michelle-Marie Gilkeson (produced by Steve Pride).

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NewsWrap for the week ending March 9, 2013

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F-Word Bombs in Court - Mexico's Supreme Court rules that offensive homophobic words such as "maricone" and "punal" ("faggot" in English) are not constitutionally protected speech …

Colonized Sexuality - Singapore's High Court hears a second challenge to the nation-state's antiquated sodomy statute …

Domino Effect - a federal judge in Michigan delays ruling on a lesbian couple's second parent adoption case until the U.S. Supreme Court rules on California's Proposition 8 …

Unchanging Rights - transgender people win legal protections in Greece, and Transgender Equality Uganda begins its rights fights in one of the world's most hostile-to-sexual-minorities countries …

No Knock - 20 trans-women living together for mutual security are arrested in a bust-down-their-doors police raid of an allegedly unauthorized brothel in Istanbul …

Solidarity Not Forever - revered former Polish President Lech Walesa takes heat for a televised interview during which he makes homophobic statements including "a minority should not impose itself on the majority" …

Precious Bodily Fluids - Uzbek President Islam Karmiov reportedly calls homosexuality "disgusting" and a violation of his nation's "moral purity" …

Fox to Henhouse - a notoriously racist and homophobic deputy is elected by the Brazil House of Representatives to chair its Committee on Human Rights and Minorities ….

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