RuPaul DragCon 2016 + more US bathroom battles: Jun 01, 2016: 3pm - 3:30 pm

Drag icons convene at RuPaul s DragCon 2016; anti-equality states revolt against Obama s bathroom guidelines; Japan plans LGBT-friendly workplace policies, a gay South Korean power couple appeals thei...

Rev. Gwen's story + GOP conspiracy: May 25, 2016: 3pm - 3:30 pm

The transfiguration of an Episcopal transition; U.S. House Republicans vote for discrimination; an international celebration of LGBT rights fights phobias, Bolivia enacts a progressive trans rights bi...

North Carolina vs. The Feds: May 18, 2016: 3pm - 3:30 pm

The Obama administration joins U.S. transgender bathroom battles; Italy's civil unions law is a glass half-full, Bermuda sets the date for a referendum on same-gender unions, Tokyo Pride peaks as Japa...

Tim Moore, Neil Bartlett : May 11, 2016: 3pm - 3:30 pm

"Stella" steals the show at Brighton; Russian activists are busted where Neo-Nazis march free, U.S. Methodist ministers defy Church policy ahead of a marriage equality vote, Obama s Justice Department...

Another Week in North Carolina: May 04, 2016: 3pm - 3:30 pm

North Carolina conflict cranks up; marriage equality becomes reality in Colombia, same-gender couples march down 2 island aisles, Aussie P.M. Turnbull predicts marriage plebiscite triumph, Egypt impri...

World of Wonder + RuPaul's Dolls: Apr 27, 2016: 3pm - 3:30 pm

Drag artists and other "outsiders" orbit the World of Wonder; RuPaul and his dolls are profiled in a "Rainbow Minute"; pressure builds in Uganda for a revived Anti-Homosexuality Act, Jerusalem s Pride...

Tar Heel & Natural State Strife: Apr 20, 2016: 3pm - 3:30 pm

A trans LGBT rights advocate defends Arkansas local anti-bias laws; North Carolina s governor digs in despite derision; activists attack the constitutionality of Kenya's sex code, a court in China rul...

Queer Wondercon + Booming US Bias: Apr 13, 2016: 3pm - 3:30 pm

Queer geeks gather at WonderCon; a U.S. bias bills boon sparks backlashes against bigotry; Colombia's high court comes out for marriage equality, the new Pope's old Vatican vows to never bless same-ge...

Tarnished Tar Heels + more global LGBT news: Apr 06, 2016: 3pm - 3:30 pm

North Carolina toilets overflow with injustice; Saudis threaten death for gay online liaisons, marriage equality finally comes to Greenland, Mississippi s last-in-the nation adoption ban bombs in fede...

Dominica Pride and Carolina Prejudice: Mar 30, 2016: 3pm - 3:30 pm

Activists organize despite danger in Dominica; North Carolina Tar Heels stomp on equality; world shrinks prescribe a cure for anti-LGBT laws, Ukrainian thugs kill the Lviv Equality Festival, Kansas ce...

Celebrating Audre + NYC St. Pat's Parade history: Mar 23, 2016: 3pm - 3:30 pm

The International LGBT Radio Magazine by Overnight Productions. People's poets praise "Sister Outsider"; Queer Irish come home to the Big Apple; the Australian government guts its Safe Schools anti-bu...

Tangerine's Mya & Sean + Hillary's "history" : Mar 16, 2016: 3pm - 3:30 pm

Tangerine's tiny camera tracks colorful trans stories; Hillary faces scorn for her Reagan praise; India's archaic sodomy law withstands another repeal effort, homophobic terror engulfs Indonesia, a re...

Queer Kenyan Rap, Harlem's Homophobe + LGBT News!: Mar 02, 2016: 3pm - 3:30 pm

Kenyan rappers defy challenges to their Same Love/Valid Love videos; LGBT youth activists close in on a Harlem homophobe; Indonesia's anti-queer crackdown worsens, Russia considers forced "treatment"...

Jordan Raskopoulos, Roberta Kaplan, Ann Northrop & Andy Humm: Feb 24, 2016: 3pm - 3:30 pm

The life and crimes of Justice Antonin Scalia; Australia's marriage ban crosses Jordan's awesome axis; Indonesia's homophobic "moral panic" escalates, politics and piety stall Italy's civil unions, Pa...

James David Manning, Qais Munhazim, Meg Christian: Feb 17, 2016: 3pm - 3:30 pm

A gay Afghan refugee escapes gender role prison; Christian sings and McKellen remembers "Mouse's" mail to his mom; Malawi's High Court declares open season on gay men, Portugal's parliament rescues ve...

Queen Latifah, Pastor James David Manning, Janet Mason: Feb 10, 2016: 3pm - 3:30 pm

The closet and national security collide in "Naz & Maalik"; a homophobic Harlem church faces queer judgment day; photos depicting gender fluidity are worth more than a thousand words; India's Supreme...

Sir Ian McKellen, Bishop Gene Robinson, Pastor Allyson Robinson: Feb 03, 2016: 3pm - 3:30 pm

Everything you wanted to know about welcoming trans folks; Cate and Rooney discuss their love affair with "Carol"; Mexico's high court issues another state marriage equality ruling, a Romanian Orthodo...

Aaron Devor, Bishop Gene Robinson, Pastor Allyson Robinson, Gus Kenworthy : Jan 27, 2016: 3pm - 3:30 pm

Faith groups tackle trans inclusion, while trans studies matriculate at the University of Victoria; Olympian Gus Kenworthy explains why he didn't come out in Sochi; a poisonous amendment threatens Ita...

Tab Hunter: Jan 20, 2016: 3pm - 3:30 pm

Show biz legend Tab Hunter's "Pride On Screen" – and off; marriage separates Episcopalians from the Anglican Communion, Scotland's Secretary of State opens his Cabinet door, a Lebanese trans-man wins...

Cindy Rosenthal, Mick Cornett, Jeanne Córdova: Jan 13, 2016: 3pm - 3:30 pm

Celebrating the life and lesbian-feminist legacy of "Outlaw" Jeanne Córdova, who lost her battle with cancer on January 10th; marriage equality marches into a Chinese court, Senegalese "wedding guests...

Kathy Wolfe: Jan 06, 2016: 3pm - 3:30 pm

The serendipitous success of Wolfe Video and in the news, India's same-gender loving citizens remain outlaws in the New Year, Greek lawmakers open civil partnerships to gay and lesbian couples but Slo...

Janet Mason, Steven Petrow: Dec 30, 2015: 3pm - 3:30 pm

Steve Pride chats with the author of "Steven Petrow's Complete Book of Gay and Lesbian Manners" to guide us all, gay and straight alike, to the true meaning of "respect"; commentator Janet Mason leafs...

Roberta Kaplan: Dec 23, 2015: 3pm - 3:30 pm

Correspondent Abby Dees explores the rise and fall of the U.S. Defense of Marriage Act, or "DOMA", with victorious Supreme Court attorney Roberta Kaplan. Kaplan discusses her own coming out story, the...

Janet Mason, David Cummer, Lucas Scheelk: Dec 16, 2015: 3pm - 3:30 pm

Disabilities are no handicap for "Queer Anthology" contributors; writers wrestle with U.S. Southern "inhospitality"; remembering LGBT luminaries we lost this year in an extended "Rainbow Minute"; an a...

Ted Cruz, Jessica Stern: Dec 09, 2015: 3pm - 3:30 pm

Syrian refugees are not all created equal; Ireland bans bias against gay schoolteachers, the Belfast High Court weighs partnerships versus marriage, civil unions are created in Cyprus and renewed in Q...

Dr. Michael Gottlieb: Dec 02, 2015: 3pm - 3:30 pm

On this week's special World AIDS Day commemoration – with production assistance by Steve Pride and some music from the heart of the epidemic – Rick Watts explores the past, present and future of HIV/...

Harry Hay, Jim Kepner: Nov 25, 2015: 3pm - 3:30 pm

A liberated librarian questions the original Radical Faerie; Irish eyes smile at the country's first weddings of lesbian and gay couples, adoption reform expands Portugal's same-gender-parent-headed f...

Ellen DeGeneres, Aaron Linford, Ted Cruz: Nov 18, 2015: 3pm - 3:30 pm

GOP hopefuls woo a "Kill the Gays" gadfly; same-gender families and friends lead a new Mormon migration; the Australian Senate pans the government's marriage equality plebiscite, Ukraine bans job bias...

Texas Lt. Governor Dan Patrick, Houston Mayor Annise Parker: Nov 11, 2015: 3pm - 3:30 pm

HERO's defeat repeals rights in Houston; yes but no to another Northern Ireland marriage proposal, Israeli LGBT activists petition for civility, Mormons shut the door while Reform Jews open a window,...

"Trucker Patti" Spangler: Nov 04, 2015: 3pm - 3:30 pm

"Trucker Patti" Spangler travels the transformation trail; a Zimbabwe Labor Court rules in favor of a gay man's employment rights, Ireland formalizes marriage equality, criminalized Malaysian trans-wo...

Jessica Stern, The Flirtations, Labi Siffre: Oct 28, 2015: 3pm - 3:30 pm

Outright Action International (formerly the International Gay & Lesbian Human Rights Commission) counts global equality gains and losses; the real story behind the queer anthem "(Something Inside) So...

Larry Sullivan & David Monahan, Jessica Stern: Oct 21, 2015: 3pm - 3:30 pm

IGLHRC becomes OutRight for global activism; One Million Moms stir a plot of Campbell's; Catholic Italy considers civil unions, South Africa's Dutch Reformed Church votes for inclusion, Russia unexpec...

Josh Earnest, Father Thomas Rosica, Yayo Grassi: Oct 14, 2015: 3pm - 3:30 pm

LGBT issues strain an already-conflicted Catholic Synod on the Family; new lesbian lit of note includes a historical couple's bio and a censored French classic; a British appeals court denies same-gen...

Robert Mugabe, Vladimir Putin, Martha Shelley: Oct 07, 2015: 3pm - 3:30 pm

A Stonewall veteran keeps the spirit alive; Mugabe and Putin misstate the obvious; Kim Davis is the model of a "Modern Fundamentalist"; Bali blasphemy charges follow a gay couple's Hindu cleansing, ma...

John Boehner, Andy Samberg, Jane Anderson: Sep 30, 2015: 3pm - 3:30 pm

Emmys honor lesbian filmmakers and a trans TV comedy; an out gay British radio host debates an Anglican "traditionalist" about the Communion's queer North-South divide; a peaceful Pride makes Belgrade...

Tanya Plibersek, Malcolm Turnbull, Cleary Wolters: Sep 23, 2015: 3pm - 3:30 pm

"Out of Orange" is the new book; Australia's new boss backs the old plan for marriage equality; Nepal includes LGBT rights in its new constitution, anti-LGBT bias becomes a crime in Thailand, Anglican...

Hawk Kincaid, Jeffrey Hurant, Danny Cruz: Sep 16, 2015: 3pm - 3:30 pm

Rentboys rally after the U.S. Homeland Security raid; Jerusalem cops are punished for not stopping the Pride murderer; an equality ally ousts Abbott in Australia; Davis in denial as same-gender couple...

Kim Davis, Dan Savage, Rachel Maddow: Sep 09, 2015: 3pm - 3:30 pm

A Kentucky clerk rebels against court-ordered equality; a reality podcaster captures humor and pathos; there's no lull in homophobic assaults in the Ukraine, a crackdown at Mandalay's moat nets 9 gay...

Jeffrey Hurant, Subhi Nahas, Samantha Power, Lily Tomlin: Sep 02, 2015: 3pm - 3:30 pm

Gay violence victims break U.N. Security Council silence; a day in the life of "Grandma" Lily Tomlin; activists demand release of the "Senegal Seven," an ex-Aussie PM "evolves" on marriage equality, a...

Desiree Akhavan, Ellen DeGeneres, Billy Bean: Aug 26, 2015: 3pm - 3:30 pm

A bisexual Iranian-American filmmaker ponders "Appropriate Behavior"; delightful memoirs travel "Out of Orange" and into "Bettyville"; smoke bombs scatter Ukrainian activists in Odessa, Chelsea Mannin...

Tony Abbott, George Brandis, Roberta Kaplan: Aug 19, 2015: 3pm - 3:30 pm

Dramatic dissent defines the marriage equality debate Down Under, while same-gender Mississippi parents fight the last adoptions ban in the U.S.; Mexico's high court overturns state adoption restricti...

Donald Trump, Rosie O’Donnell, Emily Rosenberg: Aug 12, 2015: 3pm - 3:30 pm

U.S. Republicans debate rights and wrongs; who's throwing bricks at the upcoming "Stonewall" movie? "Sweet Tooth" examines the challenges of adolescence; unprecedented Pride breaks through in Kingston...

Penny Wong, Pastor E. Dewey Smith: Aug 05, 2015: 3pm - 3:30 pm

Out Aussie MP Penny Wong speaks from the heart; an African-American pastor harangues homophobic hypocrites; a repeat hater kills at Jerusalem Pride, the Boy Scouts of America's abandoned ban on adult...

David Cicilline, John Lewis, Tammy Baldwin: Jul 29, 2015: 3pm - 3:30 pm

The U.S. Equality Act fights equality-phobias; San Francisco Catholic schoolteachers seek "morality" dispensation; the European Court of Human Rights rules for the legal recognition of same-gender cou...

Rachel Maddow, Tony Perkins, Caitlyn Jenner: Jul 22, 2015: 3pm - 3:30 pm

Caitlyn Jenner's courage captures the spirit of Arthur Ashe; John Oliver's humor highlights a trans rights primer; the U.S. Civil Rights Act of 1964 covers LGB job rights, the Pentagon plans to un-mix...

Judy Grahn, Wanda Sykes: Jul 15, 2015: 3pm - 3:30 pm

Comic Wanda Sykes gets seriously funny about the past and the future; poetry and parables provide precedents for Pride; Japanese petitioners approach the Bar for marriage equality, U.S. Attorney Gener...

Ted Cruz, Mike Huckabee, Donald Trump, Douglas Hallward-Driemeier: Jul 08, 2015: 3pm - 3:30 pm

The U.S. marriage equality ruling sparks rightwing rebellion; kids say the queerest things; same-gender love is no longer outlawed in Mozambique, Australia inches toward equality, Ireland's wedding ma...

James Obergefell, U.S. President Barack Obama, Others: Jul 01, 2015: 3pm - 3:30 pm

Wedding bells ring across the U.S.A.; 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 Nor...

David Mixner, Anita Bryant, John Briggs: Jun 24, 2015: 3pm - 3:30 pm

"Mixner-ing" it up with Bryant and Briggs; recalling early activism "From Philadelphia to New York City" in a "Rainbow Minute"; Moroccan men get jail for a kiss, Saudi Arabian morality cops target "ga...

Cornel West, Larry Hall, Kenneth M. Walsh: Jun 17, 2015: 3pm - 3:30 pm

Charting a blogger's big break from Middle America to Manhattan; faith complicates rights Down Under; hate holds sway in Michigan and North Carolina; Germany's upper house defies Merkel on marriage, c...