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Gay USA: Apr. 16-22 2010: The Embattled Vatican
Among this week's news, the embattled Vatican is now blaming the whole sex abuse scandal on gay people; Missoula, Montana has passed a gay rights bill; Portugal and Iceland are on the verge of approving same-sex marriage; President Obama has cut back AIDS funding for Africa, reversing a campaign promise; and Andy reviews two Broadway shows.
Email this pageGRITtv: Got Docs: Dreamland
Iceland's economy suffered one of the worst hits in our most recent global financial crisis, and the country is still struggling. In Dreamland, filmmakers Orfinnur Gunason and Andri Snr Magnason ask the question: "What do you own when you have sold everything?" They trace the way even "clean" energy brings in industry and foreign capital -- and compromises.
Gay USA: A Lesbian Head of State and Trouble in Portland
In the news: Iceland is poised to make an out lesbian head of state, a first for planet earth; the out gay mayor of Portland, OR refuses to resign after revelations that he lied about a sexual relationship with another man; Montana organizes non-gay people in all 50 of its districts to come out for LGBT rights; the new US Senator from NY comes out for marriage equality; AIDS pioneer Martin Delaney of Project Inform dies at 66; and Andy takes another look at "Billy Elliot: The Musical."
