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Hague: We want Winter Olympic Games to be successful
CNN's Christiane Amanpour talks to UK Foreign Secretary about the Winter Olympic Games in Sochi, Russia.
Billie Jean King to gay Russians: ‘You are not alone’
By Mick Krever, CNN
Billie Jean King told CNN’s Christiane Amanpour in an exclusive interview on Thursday that rather than boycott the Winter Olympics in Russia over gay issues, perhaps athletes and representatives should engage in civil disobedience.
“Maybe we should wave rainbow flags or something, I don’t know,” she said, drawing an analogy to the Black Power salute – a raised fist – given by two American athletes at the 1968 Mexico City Olympics.
“As long as we’re not being malicious,” she said, “we can show our feelings.”
President Obama named the former tennis champion, who is gay, to the American delegation at the Olympics earlier this week.
“I'm very proud to go as an athlete, and as a gay woman,” she said. “I'm thrilled.”
Elton John and Billie Jean King: 40 years of friendship, philanthropy, activism
Part 1: Billie Jean King & Elton John
CNN's Christiane Amanpour speaks with Tennis legend Billie Jean King and musician Elton John.
Part 2: Billie Jean King & Elton John
CNN's Christiane Amanpour speaks with Tennis legend Billie Jean King and musician Elton John.
Part 3: Billie Jean King & Elton John
CNN's Christiane Amanpour speaks with Tennis legend Billie Jean King and musician Elton John.
By Ken Olshansky and Mick Krever, CNN
When Billie Jean King first met Elton John, she nearly fainted.
“We met at a party,” King says.
It was 1973 and King was at the height of her fame as the premiere female tennis champion. She asked the host of the event what the reason for the party was.
“And he goes, ‘Oh, it's for Elton John,’” King recalls. “And I about fainted, because Elton was my favorite, but I'd never met him.”
“I'm so old,” John said as King chuckled, “I started playing [tennis] with a wooden racquet and hitting a ball up against a wall.”
Billie Jean King and Elton John spoke with CNN’s Christiane Amanpour in an exclusive interview that aired on Tuesday.
They are two revolutionaries, two comrades in arms, and this year they have two very special anniversaries.
Will gay American exiles return after Supreme Court ruling?
By Samuel Burke, CNN
“I am so proud of my country today,” Brandon Perlberg told CNN’s Christiane Amanpour on Wednesday just after the Supreme Court ruled that the government needed to recognize gay marriages for federal benefits. “Whether I'm coming back is a different question and is a difficult question to answer.”
For months, Amanpour has been tracking the story of how the Defense of Marriage Act, which was overturned, forced Perlberg, a gay American, to choose between love and country.
Perlberg and his British partner, Benn Storey, used to live in New York. Even though that state allows gay marriage, DOMA prevented Brandon from getting his partner American citizenship – the way a straight couple has always been able to. FULL POST
EXCLUSIVE: Amanpour and Robert Gates
The former head of both the CIA and Pentagon, Robert Gates, weighed in on the events surrounding fugitive leaker Edward Snowden in an exclusive interview with CNN’s Christiane Amanpour on Wednesday.
“If you can’t ultimately trust people then you’re in real trouble,” Gates told Amanpour. “And the consequence of that is you will have a narrowing and a narrowing of the information that’s made available to people for analysis, and for decision making, as people try to protect that information. And you will be back in the same kind of situation that we apparently had prior to 9/11, where you don’t have the ability for people with the broad enough access to connect the dots.” FULL POST
The American columnist who can't live in America
By Richa Naik, CNN
Blogger and columnist Glenn Greenwald may have broken the biggest American story of the year, but the American can’t even live in America.
Greenwald, a gay man, moved to Brazil so he could be with his spouse since the U.S. government does not recognize same-sex couples when applying for residency visas. Greenwald said that this experience has allowed him to cast a critical eye on the subjects he reports on.
“When you grow up with any kind of real challenge that forces you to evaluate your relationship to these conventions and the things that you’re taught…you start to question what that system is.” Greenwald said. “Is it really valid in the way that it’s rejecting me or is it the system itself that is corrupted? I think that lends itself to a much more critical eye that you end up casting upon things that you’re taught are indisputably true.”
In the video above you can watch Christiane Amanpour's interview with Greenwald.
Isn't France liberal about sexual issues?
CNN's Christiane Amanpour explores why same-sex marriage in France – a country that most perceive to be liberal in regard to sexual issues – caused such an uproar.
Meet the rapper who says gay love is “Same Love”
By Samuel Burke, CNN
When it comes to accepting the American gay-rights movement, courts and politicians have lagged behind pop culture.
But hip-hop has remained one corner of the entertainment world where homophobia has strongly persisted. Now, even that appears to be changing.
A turning point came last year when singer Frank Ocean professed his sexual attraction to men and stunned the music world.
The American rapper Macklemore, whose real name is Ben Haggerty and is the voice behind the hugely popular song "Thrift Shop," has created his own sensation, with the his gay-rights anthem "Same Love."
The accompany music video went viral online, in which he raps, “If I was gay, I would think hip-hop hates me; Have you read the YouTube comments lately?”
Gay Americans forced to choose between love and country
By Mick Krever & Claire Calzonetti, CNN
Love or country – it’s a decision many gay Americans with foreign partners are forced to make.
It may seem counterintuitive; in the past few years, a wave of American states have legalized gay marriage.
But because of a 1996 federal law, the Defense of Marriage Act, the federal government does not recognize those unions.
The result is that a heterosexual American can sponsor his or her partner for U.S. visa, but a gay American cannot.
Rather than break the law or split up, many gay couples are leaving American shores.
That was precisely the situation that Brandon Perlberg found himself in when his British partner, Benn Storey, who had been in the U.S. legally on temporary visas, was told it was unlikely he would ever obtain a green card to stay.
The couple had lived in New York for seven years, but upended their lives and moved to the United Kingdom to stay together.
“We never considered separating,” Storey told CNN’s Christiane Amanpour from London on Thursday.
“We had always thought that this was going to be our backup plan,” his partner, Perlberg, added. “At the beginning of last year, it became certain that if we did not move now, we really faced the risk of being indefinitely separated. And that wasn't a risk we were willing to face.”
In New York, Perlberg had been a practicing attorney. But his expertise in New York and American law was not valued in London, and he struggled to find a job.
“That was one of the most difficult parts of this process for me,” he said. “I spent eleven months hemorrhaging financially, burning through savings and going on interviews.”
President Obama has made immigration overhaul a top priority for his second term. Part of his proposal is to recognize, for the first time ever, gay partnerships when evaluating visa applications.
Perlberg, the American, said he is conflicted about his feelings for the U.S.
“On the one hand,” he said, “I love my country and I've never felt more personally attached and involved in its future as I do right now, as there's a debate going on as to immigration and a debate going on as to same-sex marriage. At the same time, I cannot shake this feeling of resentment that I have, that our lives were taken away from us.”
Unlike many intra-national gay couples forced to choose between love and country, they had a fallback, because Storey happened to be from a country, the U.K., that allows gay citizens to bring in their foreign partners.
“We are very much the lucky ones,” Storey said. “There are people who have no option but to go back to their home country and separate from their partner.”
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