(2013/08/21) Steps forward, steps back (LGBTQ)
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Jay Tomlinson
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🗓️ 21 August 2013
⏱️ 68 minutes
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Summary
Edition #748
Steps forward, steps back
Ch. 1: Intro - Theme: A Fond Farewell, Elliott Smith
Ch. 2: Act 1: The Long Fight For Equality Is Not Over Yet - Dan Savage - Air Date: 7-9-13
Ch. 3: Song 1: Together we fight alone - Darlings
Ch. 4: Act 2: Judge Orders Ohio to Recognize Gay Couple's Marriage on Death Certificate - Majority Report - Air Date: 07-24-13
Ch. 5: Song 2: Anita Bryant - F. Virtue
Ch. 6: Act 3: Change is Happening - Rachel Maddow - Air Date: 07-24-13
Ch. 7: Song 3: Something good can work - Two Door Cinema Club
Ch. 8: Act 4: Co-founders and dads - The Gay Dad Project - Air Date: 08-03-13
Ch. 9: Song 4: New normal - Phil Joel
Ch. 10: Act 5: Boycotts Spark Over Russia Anti-Gay Laws - Majority Report - Air Date: 08-15-13
Ch. 11: Song 5: One day - Matisyahu
Ch. 12: Act 6: Use Activism Rather Than Boycotting During Upcoming Olympics - Citizen Radio - Air Date 8-14-13
Ch. 13: Song 6: Hero - Enrique Iglesias
Ch. 14: Act 7: Fighting Russia’s LGBT Criminalization - UnFuck it Up Project
Ch. 15: Song 7: I didn't fuck it up - Katie Goodman
Ch. 16: Act 8: Pope Francis: 'Who Am I to Judge' Gays? - The Young Turks - Air Date: 07-31-13
Ch. 17: Final comments on Desmoid Tumors 101
Closing Music:
Here We Are - Patrick Park
Amanda's Desmoid Tumor fundraising page:
http://www.firstgiving.com/fundraiser/TeamAmandaHoffman/runningforanswers
Desmoid Tumor Research Foundation:
http://www.DTRF.org
Activism:
http://www.advocate.com/sports/2013/08/13/olympics-who-can-force-russia-change-its-ways?page=0,2
http://www.dumprussianvodka.com
Information for this segment can be found at:
https://www.facebook.com/LGBT.Russia
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/08/15/boycott-putin-not-the-sochi-olympics.html
https://www.facebook.com/comingoutspb.ru
http://video.msnbc.msn.com/all-in-/52759660#52759660
http://video.msnbc.msn.com/all-in-/52759660#52759697
http://www.hrc.org/press-releases/entry/ioc-shouldnt-accept-verbal-promises-from-putin
http://rusalgbt.com
http://queernationny.org
http://www.thestranger.com/slog/archives/2013/07/24/why-im-boycotting-russian-vodka
Sponsored by the UnFuck it Up Project: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Unfuck-It-Up/196389490396988
Katie Goodman, creator: http://katiegoodman.com
Katie Klabusich, director: http://katiespeak.com
Produced by:
Jay! Tomlinson
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| 0:15.6 | from Dan Savage, the Majority Report, to Rachel Maddo Show, the Gay Dad Project, Citizen Radio, |
| 0:20.9 | the Unfucked Up Project, and the Young Turks. And a note for those faint of heart, |
| 0:25.0 | the second act of this episode contains a reference to right-wingers having been correct. |
| 0:30.0 | So be prepared. |
| 0:33.8 | What basically went down for anybody out there who hasn't been paying attention for the last |
| 0:37.0 | 20 years was in 1996, around about the time that gay marriage advocates began to see some success |
| 0:44.1 | in states and Hawaii and Massachusetts, Vermont, some court decisions, some Supreme Court |
| 0:50.0 | decisions in the states, affirming that same-sex couples are entitled to a quality under the law |
| 0:55.7 | and should be entitled to marry, just as opposite-sex couples are entitled to marry, |
| 1:00.8 | and should be afforded the same rights and responsibilities and protections of marriage. |
| 1:03.7 | At that time, when we began to see some progress on marriage rights for same-sex couples, |
| 1:10.3 | Congress passed the Defense of Marriage Act in 1996, signed by then-president Bill Clinton, |
| 1:17.2 | that really did something unprecedented, that the federal government had never done before, |
| 1:21.4 | instituted a kind of federal definition of marriage. |
| 1:24.0 | And the Defense of Marriage Act did a couple of things. It told states that they didn't have to |
| 1:28.4 | recognize marriages performed in other states for same-sex couples, even if they were legal, |
| 1:33.2 | which has never been the case. In some states, it's illegal for first cousins to marry, |
| 1:38.6 | and other states, it is legal for first cousins to marry. If first cousins marry in a first |
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