WEDNESDAY WITH WIT

Originally started during Summer 2013 with Thomas Witt, executive director, Equality Kansas the largest premier statewide organization for the LGBT communities.

Program Summary: Amanda Marcotte’s outstanding “RH Reality Check” from the vital news web site RH Reality Check. On this episode of Reality Cast, host Amanda Marcotte looks at the year ahead in reproductive rights and wonders whether NPR is back to drawing false equivalence between pro-choice and anti-choice activism in its abortion coverage. In addition, a representative from Guttmacher explains how the anti-choice movement is selective about when it claims abortion is contraception. (30 min.)

Segment Summary: “This Way Out” the international gay and lesbian radio magazine. (30 min.) A gay Ghanaian activist is inspired by his rainbow faith; a unique Irish festival matches gay and lesbian singles; Scotland and Luxembourg celebrate the New Year with marriage equality, a trans U.S. teen's suicide prompts abusive therapy charges while a Chinese court rules that there's no medical basis for claimed "cures" of homosexuality, unrelenting oppression continues in Zimbabwe, Gambia and Egypt, and more LGBT news from around the world.

2nd Hour: Exclusive from Canadian radio  "Between the Lines Radio" magazine and "American Sniper - The Reality" from the Taylor Report.