This Way Out (Gay)

Obama's "evolution" proves survival of the fairest; Tarheels stomp on unmarried North Carolinians, a new Socialist president pledges French family equality, Colombia's top court passes a priest's pension to his surviving gay partner, Chile enacts an anti-bias law after a high-profile bashing murder, a fired lesbian den mother questions Scouts' honor, and more global LGBT news.

A prominent think tank measures LGBT political power; North Carolinians get an earful on marriage equality; U.S. trans workers win rights under sex discrimination rules, DADT-discharged vets are drowning in paperwork, civil unions take a step down the Colorado Senate aisle, marriage equality foes team up for the Maine event, California considers a state "cure" ban, Hong Kong pop star Anthony Wong comes out "tongzhi", and more global LGBT news.

An updated memoir recalls 1950s L.A. "Gay Bar" closet culture; there's Democratic "platformance anxiety" over marriage equality; President Yoweri Museveni denies Uganda's deadly discrimination; a Budapest court prefers Pride to police, "gays and tom-boys" are barred from Saudi schools but Israel's Conservative Jews okay lesbian and gay rabbinical students, a veteran Anglican priest concludes that Jesus was gay, and more global LGBT news.

Multiple U.S. marriage cases close in on "DOMA"; celebrating Mexico City civil unions in a "Rainbow Minute", and an iconic lesbian-feminist poet who made the world a "Richer" place; a hate group threatens the liberty of LGBT Liberians, activists are attacked for "gay speak" in Yaounde and St. Petersberg, Malaysia pushes TV back in the closet, but Chile lawmakers finally ban anti-queer bias, and more global LGBT news.

Ugandan activists sue a U.S. missionary for anti-gay persecution; U.S. feds "school" Minnesota educators on bullying; the Nazis burn a German gay pioneer's library in a "Rainbow Minute"; a Chilean lesbian mom's custody win is an Inter-American Court first, the Euro-Court rejects co-parenting and mandatory marriage equality, New Hampshire lawmakers defeat a marriage equality repeal bill, and more global LGBT news.

An all-star cast stages the Prop 8 trial transcript; how "Tennessee's Sons" pioneered Louisiana liberty; St. Petersburg, Russia's mayor weighs anti-LGBT repression; Liberia doubles down on anti-gay legislation, Cameroon arrests alleged lesbians for the first time, surveys in Iowa, New Jersey and California show a surge in support for same-gender weddings, a Texas judge won't marry hetero couples until equality walks down the aisle, and more global LGBT news.

Governor Gregoire gives Washington a great wedding gift, India's religious fundamentalists appeal a landmark rights ruling, Islamic U.N. countries decline to discuss sexual minorities, African nations intensify LGBT repression, but Australian parliamentarians circulate marriage equality proposals, and more global LGBT news; and a hit U.K. song assures queer youth that "It Does Get Better".

A "cyber-preneur" dots the gays; a Lakota lesbian lassos a seat in the Minnesota legislature; pioneering U.S. lesbians rise to power in a "Rainbow Minute"; U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon blasts African bias and brutality, South African lesbian killers draw heavy sentences, marriage equality advances in Washington and New Jersey, betrothed Barney challenges serial groom Newt to a "sanctity of marriage" debate, and more global LGBT news.

Slave traffickers trick Kenyan gay men into the Persian Gulf sex trade; Janet Mason's review of two lesbian coming of age stories from Bywater Books finds something new in the tried and true; "A Stamp for Alan Turing" is celebrated in a "Rainbow Minute"; Cuba considers civil unions, a gay Aussie MP plans Spanish nuptials, two U.S. states consider constitutional marriage bans, 80 mayors from 25 U.S. states sign on to a resolution endorsing civil marriage equality, a U.K. court convicts hate...

Something "Wiki" this way comes: the case against Pvt. Bradley Manning; Jamaica's new P.M. calls for sodomy law review, lesbian and gay couples plan their Cancun weddings as Hungary constitutionally bans them, a gay Malaysian national's Irish civil partnership sparks outrage in his homeland, a pioneering "sodomite" passes away, Washington's governor proposes marriage equality, and more global LGBT news.

In the late 1990s, the quiet little revolution of a local Nebraska pastor rocked the United Methodist Church. The denomination tried him twice for performing same-gender commitment ceremonies, and ultimately withdrew his ordination credentials in 1999. But that's not the part of his story the Reverend Jimmy Creech focuses on - not in print in his recently-published memoir, "Adam's Gift" - and not from the pulpit of Metropolitan Community Church-Los Angeles, where he distinguished God from...

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton makes U.N. history with an LGBT rights-promoting speech in Geneva; President Barack Obama issues a memorandum outlining American support for LGBT rights around the world, there's no waffling in Belgium over the world's first openly gay Prime Minister, Australia claims the Western world's first intersex public official, the U.S. Ninth Circuit hears even more about Prop 8, a Honolulu lesbian couple sues for marriage equality, a rights vote looms in...

A wide-ranging conversation about LGBT struggles in Africa and other parts of the world fills this week's special "This Way Out", with good and bad news from Uganda, Rwanda, Malawi, Kenya, South Africa, Jamaica, the Philippines, Iran, and India.

High school halls house slammin' trans-teen Ryan Cassata; Michigan's Senate passes a "License to Bully" bill; Poland christens gay and trans lawmakers, a cornucopia of queer candidates win in U.S. elections, DOMA repeal gets its first green light, global petitioners challenge Ecuador's anti-lesbian "torture clinics", "pair-bonded" penguins are split up to propagate, and more LGBT news from around the world.

A final entry in the Frank Kameny collection; a disabled U.S. lesbian vet fights DOMA-directed benefits bias, a rightwing challenge to California's LGBT history lessons law fizzles, Poland's fledgling political party propels a transwoman into parliament, the Presbyterian Church (USA) ordains its first openly gay pastor, Rio celebrates Pride, and more LGBT news from around the world.