(Gay USA) Progress and Regress!

IN THE NEWS THIS WEEK WITH ANN AND ANDY (taped 3/18/15):

• Progress to report in Iowa, Alabama, Arizona, Puerto Rico, Michigan, Washington, DC, and East Grand Rapids, MI.
• Regress to report in Alabama, Florida, and Indiana.
• Reform Jews elect their first out gay or lesbian leader.
• The Presbyterian Church opens marriage to same-sex couples as rightwing fundamentalist Christians mobilize to take over the country.
• Former gay couple Dolce and Gabbana inspire calls for a boycott of their products over their condemnation of gay families and children born through IVF.
• LGBT groups march in St. Patrick’s Day parades in Boston, Washington, DC, and New York for the first time, but New York still bans Irish gay groups from an Irish parade.
• Andy reviews Helen Mirren as Queen Elizabeth II in THE AUDIENCE and Kristen Chenoweth in the revival of ON THE TWENTIETH CENTURY.