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Trump Threatens CA Funding Over 1 Trans Athlete + More News

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Some news items you might have missed: • The Advocate: Donald Trump has threatened to yank California’s federal funding over one trans student’s sports participation. He doesn’t have that power, but the state sports authority made a change to its rules anyway. • Outsports: Jason Collins, the first publicly out active gay NBA player, married his husband, film producer Brunson Green, over the weekend in Austin, Texas. Continue reading “Trump Threatens CA Funding Over 1 Trans Athlete + More News”

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Podcast: Shot & Paralyzed Outside Gay Nightclub, Discrimination Costs Jamaica Billions, Sebastian LaCause

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The Randy Report podcast delivers the week's top stories in a quick, convenient podcast - 'the 60 Minutes of gay news - only shorter' In this week’s podcast: • A young man standing outside a gay nightclub in North Carolina was shot leaving him paralyzed, and people all over the world come together to help with his recovery. Crowdfunding link: www.gofundme.com/f/hope-for-pedro • A new report shows LGBTQ discrimination costs Jamaica over $11 billion a year • A lawmaker won her bid to become the first female and first LGBTQ mayor of Bogota in Colombia, considered the second most important office in the country after the president • On the 5th anniversary of his public coming out, Apple CEO Tim Cook has no regrets • Award-winning writer/director Sebastian LaCause has a new indie film project – ‘Holy Water.’ Video pitch link: kck.st/35n6y2s Hustling trailer link: youtu.be/MWhbQ3nBDjU All that and more in this episode of The Randy Report

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Marriage Equality Could Come To Colombia Soon

It appears marriage equality could be only two votes from reality in Colombia.

From The Perchy Bird:

Sources close to the Court say that the magistrates will vote against one conservative judge’s proposal to annul marriages registered by lower courts, keep civil unions as the only option for couples, and state that only Congress can change marriage laws. The expected vote is 6-3 to defeat this opinion.

Next would come the final vote on a counter-opinion to legalize same-sex marriage. The same 6 out of 9 judges are expected to extend the right to marry to gay couples.

The two pending votes may come on two different days. The media says that everyone will have to wait until after Holy Week for any final action.

(h/t JMG)

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Marriage equality advances in Colombian Senate vote

A Colombian Senate committee has approved a marriage equality measure, advancing it for further consideration, On Top reports:

With a 10-5 vote, the First Committee (Comision Primera) has approved Senator Armando Benedetti’s proposed measure. Benedetti’s proposal originally sought to create civil unions for gay and lesbian couples. He has since altered the language to marriage. However, Benedetti’s bill would not give married gay couples the right to adopt children.

Tuesday’s vote is the first of four needed for the measure to become law.

“In this country homosexuals already have economic rights and social security, therefore it is time to move toward matrimony,” Benedetti is quoted as saying by El Espectador.

In July 2011, Colombia’s Constitutional Court ruled that the legislature must pass a same-sex marriage bill within two years or the courts will legalize it.