Some of the people making LGBTQ news in 2024 including Taiwan’s LGBTQ-supportive incoming president Lai Ching-te, trans-supportive Missouri Rabbi Daniel Bogard, anti-LGBTQ Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, Philadelphia’s Guinness World Record-breaking Drag Queen Story Time, Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito’s pro-insurrectionist wife Martha Ann, Thailand’s pro-marriage equality lawmakers, U.S. Ambassador to Hungary David Pressman, predictably hostile national convention Republicans, Democrats nominating Kamala Harris for president, Australian officials on sexual orientation and gender identity questions in the 2026 Census, U.S. Supreme Court hearing on Tennessee’s ban on pediatric gender-affirming health care, and the “queenly” Sir Elton John.
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All this on the December 30, 2024 edition of This Way Out!
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Speaking of Queer News, 2024
NOTE: The NewsWrap crew is taking the holiday season off to enjoy the festivities. They’ll return on the This Way Out program of 13 January 2025. Special newly produced programming will fill this and the week of 1/6/25 shows.
Feature: A chronological review of some of the people making LGBTQ news in 2024 includes: queer-supportive Lai Ching-te is elected Taiwan’s next president, Rabbi Daniel Bogard fights anti-trans bills in Missouri, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban renews his feud with the European Union, 263 parents and kids set the Guinness World Record for most people at a Drag Queen Story Time in Philadelphia, Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito’s wife Martha Ann flies her true insurrectionist-support anti-queer flag, Thailand lawmakers finally approve a marriage equality bill after a two-decade struggle, U.S. Ambassador to Hungary David Pressman welcomes queer families to the residence he shares with his husband and children to celebrate Pride, Republicans predictably pick on queers at their national convention, Democrats scramble to nominate Kamala Harris to lead their presidential ticket, the Australian government bows to pressure and says they’ll include questions about sexual orientation and gender identity in the 2026 Census, the U.S. Supreme Court hears a historic challenge to Tennessee’s ban on pediatric gender-affirming health care, and Sir Elton John two-word quip brings the house down on CBS-TV’s The Late Show with Stephen Colbert.(written by GREG GORDON and LUCIA CHAPPELLE, produced by BRIAN DeSHAZOR, and reported by Michael LeBeau, Joe Boehnlein, Ava Davis, Sarah Montague, Marcos Najera, Michael Taylor Gray, Kalyn Hardman, John Dyer V, Tanya Kane-Parry, and Melanie Keller, with music from the RENT movie soundtrack + midway teases and promo for next week’s D’Arcy Drollinger revisit + weekly E-newsletter/Donor Thanks Promo [with a TCHAIKOVSKY music bed] and re-intro).
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