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Friday, July 25, 2008

SEGMENT #1: "NewsWrap": Police in Dubai arrest up to 40 men in a crackdown on cross-dressers, while Kuwaits campaign against "girlie boys" continues; the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe wants to go beyond anti-bias employment protections; the U.S. Senate votes to repeal the decades-old law banning visitors or immigrants with HIV; the California Supreme Court rejects a challenge to the legality of the November ballot initiative to constitutionally ban same-gender marriage, a new poll suggests it will be defeated, activists boycott a San Diego hotel whose owner is helping to finance the anti-queer measure, and United Methodist ministers in the Golden State are defying their Churchs policy against marrying same-gender couples; lesbigay Wisconsin couples who wed in California face jail time back home, while the Massachusetts Senate votes to repeal a 1913 law barring out-of-state same-gender couples from marrying there; Dutch officials create an alternative to "maiden name"; and a gay motorist wins a lawsuit against the Italian government for labeling him "disabled."

SEGMENT #2: Does the right to marry solve all the problems of U.S. same-gender couples and other non-traditional families? Feminist law professor NANCY POLIKOFF says "absolutely not" in her book "BEYOND (STRAIGHT AND GAY) MARRIAGE: VALUING ALL FAMILIES UNDER THE LAW" (Beacon Press). Polikoff discusses her critique of marriage, and what the alternatives might be including CANADAs solutions - with "This Way Out" correspondent JOSY CATOGGIO.

SEGMENT #3: When lesbian feminist humorist KATE CLINTON brought her "CLIMATE CHANGE" tour to Alexandria, Virginia last November, she served up some choice words for members of the outgoing Bush Administration in what she calls a "Buckshot Lunch" despite her attempt at an "attitude" change.

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