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Obama Comes Out for Equality

noreply@blogger.com (This Way Out: Intl LGBT Radio) — Fri, 18 May 2012 08:54:56 PDT

President Barack Obama's long "evolution" regarding same-gender marriage finally proves the "survival of the fairest" theory. His historic statement affirming civil marriage equality receives cogent analysis by Evan Wolfson of Freedom To Marry; U.S. Congressman Barney Frank; Newark, New Jersey Mayor Cory Booker; and longtime North Carolina lesbian couple Lennie Gerber and Pearl Berlin.

Plus "out" singer/songwriter Sean Chapin's tribute tune, You Say You Want An Evolution.

And in NewsWrap: Tarheels stomp unmarried North Carolinians, new Socialist president pledges French family equality, Colombia's top court passes priest's pension to surviving gay partner, Chile enacts anti-bias law after high-profile bashing murder, fired lesbian den mother questions Scouts' honor, and more news reported by Wenzel Jones and Natalie Peoples (produced by Steve Pride).

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NewsWrap for the week ending May 12, 2012

noreply@blogger.com (This Way Out: Intl LGBT Radio) — Fri, 18 May 2012 06:10:40 PDT

SUMMARY

Survival of the Fairest - U.S. President Barack Obama "evolves" to support civil marriage equality …

Tarheel Tragedy - North Carolina voters constitutionally ban legal recognition of any relationship that's not heterosexual marriage …

Hand-to-Hand Combat - a civil unions bill in Colorado that appeared to have majority bipartisan support is blocked from consideration by the House's GOP leader as the legislative session ends, but the state's Democratic governor calls for a special session to decide the issue …

Plus Ca Change - it remains to be seen if France's new Socialist President Francois Hollande can deliver on his election campaign support of civil marriage equality and adoption rights …

Requiescat in Pace - Colombia's Constitutional Court rules that the longtime gay partner of a deceased Roman Catholic priest is entitled to his lover's pension …

Purchased Freedom Delivered - spurred by the high profile horrific murder of a young gay man in March, Chile's Congress breaks a seven-year logjam to approve an anti-discrimination bill that includes sexual orientation and gender identity as protected categories …

Assassination - Honduran journalist and LGBT rights activist Erick Martinez is found strangled to death two days after being reported missing …

The Power to Name - Argentina lawmakers approve a measure allowing transgender citizens to change the gender on their government documents without first getting reassignment surgery or a judge's approval …

In the Best Interest - well-known actors and the cast of "Glee" join a "Change.org" campaign for the reinstatement of Bridgeport, Ohio Cub Scouts den mother Jennifer Tyrrell, who was fired because she's a lesbian ….

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Romney's Gay Retreat & Estelle Brown

noreply@blogger.com (This Way Out: Intl LGBT Radio) — Fri, 11 May 2012 01:21:44 PDT

It was a short stay for GOP presidential contender Mitt Romney's gay as "out" national security and foreign policy spokesman Richard Grenell was "out" of a job almost as soon as he arrived. Comedy Central's The Daily Show with Jon Stewart skewers America Family Association mouthpiece Bryan Fischer in its take on the widely reported story.

The lesbian member of Elvis' legendary back-up group the Sweet Inspirations talks with Steve Pride about her journey from harmony to unity.

And in NewsWrap: Kenyan human rights group seeks sex law reform, Russian "no promo" foes busted in St. Petersburg, Methodists keep United versus "incompatible" homos, hetero kissing banned in Copenhagen gay bar, and more news reported by Michael LeBeau and Sarah Sweeney (produced by Steve Pride).

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NewsWrap for the week ending May 5, 2012

noreply@blogger.com (This Way Out: Intl LGBT Radio) — Fri, 11 May 2012 01:09:57 PDT

SUMMARY

Barking Watchdog - Kenya's National Human Rights Commission urges the decriminalization of same-gender sex and prostitution …

Let Them Eat Grass - Gambia's President Yahya Jammeh renews his vitriolic condemnation of gay people …

Russian Rainbow Retort - seventeen LGBT activists and their supporters who waved rainbow flags or sported rainbow suspenders or pins are singled out by police and arrested at a May Day march and rally in St. Petersburg organized by Russia's political opposition movement, while prominent activist Nikolai Alekseev is the first person to be convicted of violating that city's recently enacted law banning "gay propaganda" …

Don't Say Vote - the sponsor of Tennessee's so-called "Don't Say Gay" bill to ban any discussion of sexual orientation in public schools decides to withdraw his proposal after state education officials assure him that the subject will not be broached, and he recognizes that "some people... didn't want to vote on it" …

He Showed Them - Missouri Republican lawmaker Zach Wyatt comes out as a gay man as he comes out against a "Don't Say Gay" bill recently introduced in his state …

The Biased Life - Nebraska Attorney General Jon Bruning issues an opinion that local governments can't adopt ordinances to protect LGBT people from discrimination because state law fails to do so …

Madness in Their Methodism - delegates to the quadrennial General Conference of the United Methodist Church soundly reject a proposal to change the denomination's doctrine that same-gender sexual relationships are "incompatible with Christian teaching" …

Sinking to Their Level - there's controversy in Copenhagen over a gay bar owner's decision to ban heterosexuals from kissing in his establishment ….

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Williams Inst. Update & NC Marriage Ads

noreply@blogger.com (This Way Out: Intl LGBT Radio) — Wed, 02 May 2012 16:51:46 PDT

The Williams Institute at the UCLA School of Law, a prominent LGBT think tank, offered an assessment of LGBT political power at its Annual Update Conference. Legal correspondent Abby Dees reports.

TV ads for and against the equality-banning Amendment One are giving North Carolinians an earful on marriage.

And in NewsWrap: U.S. trans workers win rights under sex discrimination rules, DADT-discharged vets drowning in paperwork, civil unions step down the Colorado Senate aisle, marriage equality foes team up for the Maine event, California considers state "cure" ban, Hong Kong pop star Anthony Wong comes out "tongzhi," and more news reported by Vash Boddie and Wenzel Jones (produced by Steve Pride).

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NewsWrap for the week ending April 28, 2012

noreply@blogger.com (This Way Out: Intl LGBT Radio) — Wed, 02 May 2012 13:08:05 PDT

SUMMARY

Under the Table Bias Relief - The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission rules that gender identity-based workplace bias constitutes sex discrimination under Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, which leaves gays and lesbians without protections and waiting for passage of the Employment Non-Discrimination Act, or ENDA, by a more receptive Congress …

Don't Ask Keeps Telling - three U.S. Senators ask Defense Secretary Leon Panetta to expedite the process for veterans kicked out of the service under Don't Ask Don't Tell to delete that specific reason, which virtually "outs" them to prospective employers, from their discharge documents …

Court Martial the Messenger - a military judge advances the court martial of Private First Class Bradley Manning, variously described as gay or "gender confused," for providing Wikileaks with reams of sensitive documents in what's been called the largest leak of government secrets in U.S. history …

Scaling the Rockies - Colorado's Senate provisionally approves a bipartisan civil unions bill that probably faces stiffer opposition in the GOP-controlled House …

The Maine Event - the infamously anti-gay National Organization for Marriage teams up with the Christian Civic League of Maine to fight a marriage equality measure on the November state ballot …

Cure for the "Cure" - a bill introduced in the California Senate would ban so-called "reparative therapy" for anyone under the age of 18 …

In Franklin's Footsteps - Brian Sims is all but on his way to Harrisburg as the first openly gay member of Pennsylvania's House of Representatives …

Tongzhi Power - pop star Anthony Wong comes out as a gay man to thousands of fans during the closing night of a series of concerts at the Hong Kong Coliseum …

No Promo Homo Convicto - the movement to prevent minors from being exposed to so-called "gay propaganda" spreads across Russia, while the first man arrested for violating such a law in St. Petersburg is only convicted of refusing to comply with a police order to stop violating the law ….

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Gay Bar, Platformance Anxiety & Museveni Denial

noreply@blogger.com (This Way Out: Intl LGBT Radio) — Fri, 27 Apr 2012 02:10:18 PDT

Historian Will Fellows (interviewed by Steve Pride) updates the memoir of 1950s Los Angeles Gay Bar owner Helen Branson.

Los Angeles Mayor and Democratic Party Convention Chair Antonio Villaraigosa and MSNBC's Rachel Maddow discuss the political challenges for President Obama as his colleagues consider a platform plank supporting marriage equality.

President Yoweri Museveni assures CNN International's Christiane Amanpour that there really isn't any anti-LGBT discrimination in Uganda -- and certainly no deadly intentions behind the Anti-Homosexuality ("kill the gays") Bill.

And in NewsWrap: Budapest court prefers Pride to police, "gays and tom-boys" barred from Saudi schools, Israel's Conservative Jews okay lesbian and gay rabbinical students, veteran Anglican priest concludes that Jesus was gay, and more news reported by Michael LeBeau and Miss Barbie-Q (produced by Steve Pride).

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NewsWrap for the week ending April 21, 2012

noreply@blogger.com (This Way Out: Intl LGBT Radio) — Fri, 27 Apr 2012 01:53:41 PDT

SUMMARY

Pride 2, Cops 0 - Budapest Metropolitan Court overrules last week's police ban on the planned July 7th Pride parade in the Hungarian capital city …

Never Saw It, Get Rid of It - report by Russia's state-owned news agency about proposed legislation to ban so-called "gay propaganda" reveals that 94 percent of survey respondents say they've never been exposed to it, but 86 percent approve of a ban on positive portrayals of same-gender relationships …

Coerced Confession - U.K. man sentenced to 3 years in prison in Dubai last week for having public gay sex tells the Scottish Sun that in reality "it was just a kiss and a cuddle" and that he plans to appeal …

Queer Child Left Behind - Saudi Arabia bans what it calls "gays and tom-boys" from attending government schools and universities …

Hush Up, Bad - "Don't say gay" bill in the U.S. state of Tennessee to ban any discussion of human sexuality in elementary and middle schools other than heterosexuality wins narrow approval in a House committee, while a similar measure is introduced in the Missouri legislature …

Hush Up, Good - 17th annual National Day of Silence against anti-LGBT bullying is observed on more than 8,000 U.S. school campuses …

Mazel Tov - Israel's Conservative Jewish movement decides to open its rabbinical seminary to gay and lesbian students …

Sisters of Perpetual Revolution - Vatican demands reform of a leading organization of U.S. nuns whose "radical feminist themes" challenge Church doctrine …

Not Sheepish - outspoken anti-equality Archbishop J. Peter Sartain, who's charged with spurring those reforms, is rebuffed by six Seattle parishes who reject his call to participate in signature gathering efforts to qualify a petition for the November ballot to repeal the state's recently-enacted law opening civil marriage to same-gender couples …

Chapter and Verse - veteran Anglican priest Paul Oestreicher is sure to upset conservative Christians of all denominations by writing in Britain's Guardian newspaper that Jesus and his disciple John were "what we today call gay" ….

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Mattachine Steps Dedication

noreply@blogger.com (This Way Out: Intl LGBT Radio) — Tue, 17 Apr 2012 16:25:17 PDT

A ceremony in the Silver Lake district of Los Angeles marks the "Hay Day" of the movement with the christening of a historical marker on the steps leading up to the home of gay rights pioneer Harry Hay, site of the first meetings of the Mattachine Society in the early 1950s. Celebrating the centennial of Hay's birth are fellow Radical Faerie and writer Mark Thompson, the Rev. Malcolm Boyd of the Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles, California Assemblyman Mike Gatto, local gay historical preservationist Wes Joe, Silver Lake Neighborhood Council member Elizabeth Bougart, longtime Hay neighbors David Byrd and Jolino Becerra, and L.A. City Councilman Eric Garcetti. Vash Boddie reports from the scene.

And in NewsWrap: Gambia goes after gays and lesbians, drunken Dubai dalliance draws stiff jail time, Budapest cops and Hungarian lawmakers try to silence LGBT people, Russia's delegation decries G8 rights declaration, studies show homophobes doth protest too much, "reparative therapy" supporter repudiates his research, Australian Greens' Brown bows out, and more news reported by Sarah Sweeney and Abby Dees (produced by Steve Pride and Vash Boddie).

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NewsWrap for the week ending April 14, 2012

noreply@blogger.com (This Way Out: Intl LGBT Radio) — Tue, 17 Apr 2012 16:17:15 PDT

SUMMARY

Hunting Season - More than a dozen "suspected homosexuals" are arrested for "indecent practices" in the west African nation of Gambia …

Let's Not Get Drunk And Screw - two men –- one from Britain and the other from the Seychelles –- are sentenced in Dubai to three years in jail for having consensual but drunken gay sex in public …

Don't Parade, Don't Promote - police in Hungary's capital of Budapest refuse to issue permits for a planned LGBT Pride march claiming that it would be impossible to redirect traffic around the chosen route, while bills are introduced in Hungary's parliament echoing similar legislation recently introduced in Russia's lower house of parliament making it a criminal offense to "promote" LGBT rights …

Eight Minus One - Russia's delegation to the G8 Foreign Ministers meeting in Washington rejects language in a post-event document that included support for the humanity of sexual minorities …

Protesting Too Much - a series of studies of college students in the U.S., U.K. and Germany suggest that the most outspoken homophobes are often themselves repressed homosexuals …

Never Mind - leading U.S. psychiatrist Dr. Robert Spitzer repudiates controversial research he published in 2001 that seemed to support so-called "change therapy" …

Get Off the Bus - two groups in the U.K. who believe gay people can be turned straight are blocked by London's mayor from promoting their "ex-gay" programs in adverts on the sides of city buses …

Keep Discriminating For Now - despite mounting pressure from LGBT equality proponents, the White House tells reporters that President Obama will not be issuing an executive order "at this time" to require federal contractors to have LGBT anti-discrimination policies …

Lavender Sheep - Christine Forster, the 47-year-old sister of Australian Opposition leader Tony Abbott, comes out as lesbian, but Abbott maintains his opposition to marriage equality …

Gay Green Brown Goodbye - openly gay Greens chair and Senator Bob Brown unexpectedly announces his retirement after leading the progressive political party for the past 16 years from what the Australian Broadcasting Corporation called the "radical fringe to the center of power" ….

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DOMA Dogfights

noreply@blogger.com (This Way Out: Intl LGBT Radio) — Thu, 12 Apr 2012 06:18:27 PDT

Multiple marriage cases around the U.S. are closing in on the constitutionality of the Defense of Marriage Act. Alice Ollstein's Free Speech Radio News report includes comments by Gay & Lesbian Advocates & Defenders Senior Staff Attorney Vickie Henry, Lambda Legal Marriage Project Director Camilla Taylor, and Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley.

A tribute to the late iconic lesbian-feminist writer Adrienne Rich features excerpts from her readings and a 1983 Pacifica Radio Archives interview with her by poet Eloise Klein Healy.

Plus -- celebrating Mexico City civil unions in a Rainbow Minute produced by Judd Proctor and Brian Burns, read by Mac Pence.

And in NewsWrap: hate group threatens the liberty of LGBT Liberians, activists attacked for "gay speak" in Yaounde and St. Petersburg, Malaysia pushes TV back in the closet, Chile lawmakers finally ban anti-queer bias, and more news reported by Tanya Kane-Parry and Gary Shaw (produced by Steve Pride).

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NewsWrap for the week ending April 7, 2012

noreply@blogger.com (This Way Out: Intl LGBT Radio) — Thu, 12 Apr 2012 01:09:57 PDT

SUMMARY

Targets on Their Backs - An anti-gay group in Liberia's capital city of Monrovia distributes fliers with what is being described as a "hit list" of people who support LGBT rights, whom one member said could be punished by "flogging and death" …

You Mean They're Human? - authorities in Cameroon's capital of Yaounde shut down a human rights workshop when they discover that the focus is on LGBT rights …

This Is Fascist - two Russian gay activists become the first to be arrested in St. Petersburg under the city's recently enacted law criminalizing dissemination of LGBT "propaganda" to minors for holding placards outside a popular youth center simply reading "Gay – this is normal" …

The Orientation Will Not Be Televised - Malaysian government authorities announce a ban on state-owned radio and TV stations of any shows that feature gay characters, although one official says male program hosts who appear effeminate are exempt "because they are born this way" …

Too Late for Daniel - Chilean lawmakers pass a bill to ban sexual orientation- and gender identity-based bias seven years after it was first introduced, but about a week after the highly-publicized brutal neo-Nazi gang beating death of "out" young man Daniel Zamudio …

Freezing Chads? - citing several polling place irregularities, the ACLU of Alaska demands a formal review of municipal election results this week in Anchorage that included the overwhelming defeat of Proposition 5, which would have banned anti-LGBT bias …

The Audacity of Political Pressure - the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund joins 72 members of Congress to urge President Obama to issue an executive order requiring federal contractors to have LGBT-inclusive non-discrimination policies …

Queers in Hoodies - 23 of the largest LGBT rights organizations in the U.S. sign on to a joint open letter condemning the shooting death in Florida of unarmed 17-year-old African-American teen Trayvon Martin …

Age Appropriate - after almost a half-million people petition the Motion Picture Association of America to protest the "R" rating of "Bully," the highly-praised documentary about anti-queer school bullying that would only allow viewers 17 and older to see it in theaters, filmmakers agree to cut the number of "f"-words from six to three to get a "PG-13" rating, which will allow movie houses to admit viewers aged 13 and older, and screenings in middle schools and high schools, so that it can be seen by the film's target audience ….

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HRC: Honors & Outcries

noreply@blogger.com (This Way Out: Intl LGBT Radio) — Thu, 05 Apr 2012 04:38:27 PDT

The Human Rights Campaign doles out honors to allies and draws outcries over its romance with corporate vultures. Vash Boddie's inside/outside on-scene coverage of HRC's Los Angeles Gala features comments by actors Joe Manganiello and Charlize Theron; MSNBC's Hardball host Chris Matthews and his wife Kathleen; L.A. Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa; Occupy L.A. Queer Affinity Group member John Waiblinger; community organizer Dalila Ali Rajah.

And in NewsWrap: Russian lawmakers catch "no promo homo" contagion, a Serbian "death to gays" inciter goes to jail, Albania's P.M. defends parade rights, second-parent adoptions are rejected in Slovenia, the torture death of a young gay Chilean prompts national soul-searching, same-gender couples illegally marry en masse on two continents, and more news reported by Rick Watts and John Torres (produced by Steve Pride).

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NewsWrap for the week ending March 31, 2012

noreply@blogger.com (This Way Out: Intl LGBT Radio) — Thu, 05 Apr 2012 04:09:51 PDT

SUMMARY

Russian Bias Spreads - A national bill to criminalize exposing minors to pro-LGBT "propaganda" – much like the recently enacted measure in St. Petersburg – is introduced in the Russian parliament, while a judge in the Russian city of Sochi, which will host the 2014 Winter Olympics, upholds a ban on Pride House, a specific venue for LGBT athletes and their supporters that was introduced at the 2010 Winter Games in Vancouver …

Fighting Words - Mladen Obradovic, the leader of Serbia's extremist group Obraz, is sentenced to 10 months in prison for inciting violence against LGBT people …

STFU - Albania's Prime Minister Sali Berisha quickly counters calls by a deputy minister of defense for participants in the country's upcoming first-ever LGBT Pride march to be beaten with batons …

One Parent to a Customer - Slovenia voters approve a referendum to overturn a new family law that would have allowed same-gender couples to adopt the biological children of their partners …

Wake Up and Smell the Genocide - Chile confronts anti-gay brutality and the need for national anti-bias and hate crime protections following the horrific neo-Nazi gang beating death of 24-year-old "out" gay man Daniel Zamudio at a park in Santiago …

Not Made in Heaven - newly-released internal memos issued by the U.S. National Organization for Marriage expose the rabidly-anti-equality group's strategies to drive wedges between LGBT people and both African-Americans and Latinos …

Let's Pretend - in what organizers call "the largest illegal mass wedding ever held," more than 200 lesbian and gay couples say "I do" at a mall in Cleveland, Ohio, while Australian comedian Adam Hills presides over the mass weddings – though also not legal there – of 41 same-gender couples on his popular nationally-televised evening talk show to demonstrate to viewers that such marriages are not "as scary" as they might think they are ….

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Lively Lawsuit & MN School Settlement

noreply@blogger.com (This Way Out: Intl LGBT Radio) — Thu, 29 Mar 2012 08:11:37 PDT

Ugandan activists sue U.S. evangelical missionary Scott Lively (The Pink Swastika) for anti-gay persecution with help from the Center for Constitutional Rights. Attorney Pam Spees speaks with Dorian Merina of Free Speech Radio News.

Federal officials "school" Minnesota educators on bullying in the landmark conclusion of the long-running lawsuit against the Anoka-Hennepin school district. Jefferson Fietek is both a parent and a teacher there (and now a gay candidate for the state Senate), and he talks about the historic settlement with Dixie Treichel.

Plus: the Nazis burn a German gay pioneer's library in a Rainbow Minute.

And in NewsWrap: Chilean lesbian mom's custody wins an Inter-American Court first, Euro-Court rejects co-parenting and mandatory marriage equality, New Hampshire lawmakers defeat a marriage equality repeal bill, and more news reported by Christopher Gaal and Natalie Peoples (produced by Steve Pride).

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NewsWrap for the week ending March 24, 2012

noreply@blogger.com (This Way Out: Intl LGBT Radio) — Thu, 29 Mar 2012 08:04:02 PDT

SUMMARY

Her Kids Are All Right - After her eight-year legal struggle, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights awards custody of her three children to Chilean lesbian judge Karen Atala …

Continental Regression - the European Court of Human Rights upholds French court rulings that denied a lesbian the right to become the legal co-parent of her long-time partner's daughter, and also decides that the European Convention on Human Rights does not require member states to offer civil marriage to same-gender couples …

Not That Right - Italy's Supreme Court rules that same-gender couples have the "right to a family life," but that a gay couple who legally wed in The Netherlands cannot be recognized as married in Italy …

Two Down - New Hampshire lawmakers soundly defeat an effort to repeal the U.S. state's two-year-old marriage equality law, while a bill to constitutionally ban civil marriage for lesbian and gay couples is killed in the Pennsylvania legislature …

Not This 1 - U.S. President Barack Obama and North Carolina Governor Beverly Perdue each announce their opposition to Amendment 1, a May 8th state ballot measure to constitutionally ban same-gender unions …

Exes Say Aye - Minnesotan Walter Mondale, former Vice President and 1984 Democratic presidential candidate, speaks out against a similar constitutional amendment to be voted on in his state this November, while former President Jimmy Carter endorses civil marriage equality, echoing a previous announcement by former President Bill Clinton …

Tongues Untied - Utah Governor Gary Herbert unexpectedly vetoes a bill that would have banned any discussion of sexual orientation or contraception in the state's public schools …

Somewhere My Love - Omar Sharif, Jr., the grandson of the famed Egyptian actor, worries about his native country's political future since the so-called "Arab Spring" and comes out as a half-Jewish gay man in the April issue of The Advocate ….

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Cleve Jones vs. "Gay, Inc."

noreply@blogger.com (This Way Out: Intl LGBT Radio) — Sat, 24 Mar 2012 06:29:02 PDT

The veteran human rights/AIDS activist takes on "Gay, Incorporated" and looks beyond the "gay agenda" in a compelling conversation with This Way Out's Steve Pride.

And in NewsWrap: LGBT advocacy outlawed in St. Petersburg, Ugandan activists sue "inflammatory" American missionary, Clementi's webcam snoop convicted of hateful privacy invasion, Tennessee hushes "don't say gay" bill, Denmark plans June same-gender weddings, ice cream appellation honors Britain's marriage proposal, and more news reported by Vash Boddie and Michael LeBeau (produced by Steve Pride).

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NewsWrap for the week ending March 17, 2012

noreply@blogger.com (This Way Out: Intl LGBT Radio) — Tue, 20 Mar 2012 18:33:04 PDT

SUMMARY

Nyet Promo Homo - St. Petersburg's governor makes his the fourth Russian region to make it a criminal offense to "promote" the existence of LGBT people, while Canada's Foreign Minister warns his country's gays and lesbians who plan to travel to the popular tourist destination to avoid "displaying affection in public (or) conspicuous behavior" …

Sue the Messenger - Ugandan activists file an attention-getting lawsuit in U.S. district court charging notorious anti-gay American evangelist Scott Lively with violations of international law for fomenting hysteria during several visits to the African country by warning that homosexuals wanted to recruit its children …

College HateTube Conviction - a Middlesex County, New Jersey jury convicts former Rutgers University student Dharun Ravi of invasion of privacy and bias intimidation for secretly webcaming private gay sexual encounters of his dorm roommate Tyler Clementi, who killed himself after learning about it a few days later …

Shut Your Mouth - Tennessee's so-called "don't say gay" bill to ban any discussion of sexual orientation in public schools apparently dies in the state legislature, but an even more restrictive bill awaits the signature of Utah's governor …

Catching the Bouquet - Denmark's Prime Minister predicts that her government's proposed marriage equality bill will take effect on June 15th …

Weighing the Differences - the British government launches a 12-week consultation to open civil marriage to its same-gender couples …

Sweet Victory - multi-national ice cream giant Ben & Jerry's celebrates the hoped-for nuptials by changing the name of one of its U.K. flavors from "Oh! My! Apple Pie!" to "Apple-y Ever After" that portrays a wedding cake-topping tuxedoed gay couple on the carton ….

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S-G Ban Ki-moon & Gov. Martin O'Malley

noreply@blogger.com (This Way Out: Intl LGBT Radio) — Wed, 14 Mar 2012 13:20:29 PDT

Speaking at the Human Rights Council in Geneva, the U.N.'s Secretary-General blesses a groundbreaking conference on violence and discrimination against LGBT people.

The governor of Maryland, who signed civil marriage equality into law, looks toward the future of a ballot initiative effort to repeal the measure in November.

Lesbian TV talk-show host Ellen DeGeneres takes up the cause of a Michigan teenager who is spearheading a petition drive to change the rating of the documentary Bully so that it can be shown in middle and high schools.

Plus -- justice-seeking young LGBTs unite to say I Want To Know What It's Like in Ryan James Yezak's popular YouTube video.

And in NewsWrap: Iraqi militia target queer youth for death, Belarus president would "rather be a dictator than gay," Vatican-inspired anti-equality crusades continue, and more news reported by Jacob Anderson-Minshall and Sarah Sweeney (produced by Steve Pride).

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NewsWrap for the week ending March 10, 2012

noreply@blogger.com (This Way Out: Intl LGBT Radio) — Wed, 14 Mar 2012 13:15:30 PDT

SUMMARY

Emo to the Slaughter - Multiple sources report that as many as a hundred young people perceived to be LGBT have been brutally murdered by religious militia in Iraq during the last month …

Scapegoated in Syria - the UK's "Pink News" reports that an inflammatory article in a popular newspaper in Syria claims that gays have been "prospering" from the uprising against the entrenched regime of President Bashar al-Assad …

Your EU Wears Army Boots - Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko responds to comments by Germany's openly gay Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle that Lukashenko's government is the "last dictatorship in Europe" by saying that it's "better to be a dictator than gay" …

Papal Army Recruited, Indulgences Offered? - Roman Catholic Pope Benedict XVI continues his crusade against marriage equality with a warning to visiting American bishops this week of "the powerful political and cultural currents seeking to alter the legal definition of marriage" …

Incitement to Riot - two senior Roman Catholic bishops in the UK tell parishioners that they have a "duty" to "ensure" that same-gender couples are never allowed to marry, while comments by Scotland's Roman Catholic Cardinal Keith O'Brien calling the idea of marriage equality "grotesque" are applauded by Zimbabwe's state-run "Herald" newspaper …

Hush Little Baby, Don't Say a Word - what's come to be known as the "Don't Say Gay" bill in Tennessee, which would ban any discussion of homosexuality in public schools, continues to percolate in the US state's legislature …

Don't Ask, Don't Teach - Utah lawmakers pass legislation that not only bans classroom discussion of homosexuality, but also of contraception and sexual activity outside of marriage, and requires any school sex education to be abstinence-only, all of which one opposing legislator calls "a mandate against reality" ….

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Prop 8 Onstage & Tennessee's Sons On Film

noreply@blogger.com (This Way Out: Intl LGBT Radio) — Thu, 08 Mar 2012 06:55:22 PST

Excerpts from an all-star cast's live L.A. reading from the transcript of the Proposition 8 trial featuring George Clooney as Prop 8-challenging lawyer Ted Boies, Kevin Bacon as Prop 8 backers' attorney Charles Cooper, John C. Reilly as Prop 8 supporter David Blankenhorn of the Institute for American Values, and George Takei as Prop 8 proponent Dr. William Tam of the Traditional Family Coaltion.

Entertainment Correspondent Steve Pride discovers how The Sons of Tennessee Williams pioneered Louisiana liberty in conversation with the documentary's writer/director Tim Wolff and one of his interview subjects, Albert Carey.

And in NewsWrap: Liberia doubles down on anti-gay legislation; Cameroon arrests alleged lesbians for the first time; St. Petersburg, Russia's mayor weighs anti-LGBT repression; surveys in Iowa, New Jersey and California show surge in support for same-gender weddings; Texas judge won't marry hetero couples until equality walks down the aisle, and more news reported by Tanya Kane-Parry and Rick Watts (produced by Steve Pride).

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NewsWrap for the week ending March 3, 2012

noreply@blogger.com (This Way Out: Intl LGBT Radio) — Thu, 08 Mar 2012 06:40:20 PST

SUMMARY

Opposite of Liberation - A second bill to punish private consensual adult same-gender sex with prison time is introduced in Liberia …

Female Trouble - several women have reportedly been arrested for engaging in lesbian sex in Cameroon …

Pigs, Dogs and Cameron - Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe says "to hell with you" to rights-supporting British Prime Minister David Cameron …

Post in a Prominent Place - the first-ever gay-supportive billboard in Africa promotes the upcoming Mr. Gay World competition in Johannesburg …

When You Can't Say Something Nice - lawmakers in St. Petersburg, Russia give final approval to a bill to criminalize the public advocacy of LGBT rights …

Good News/Bad News - Maryland Governor Martin O'Malley signs a measure making his state the eighth to open civil marriage to same-gender couples – though a November ballot challenge is expected …

Dawn Breaking - recent public opinion polls show significantly increased support for marriage equality in Iowa, New Jersey and California …

Get In Line - Dallas County, Texas Judge Tonya Parker, the first openly lesbian African-American elected official in the state, refuses to marry heterosexual couples until gays and lesbians have the same right ….

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Gregoire's Gift & India's High Court

noreply@blogger.com (This Way Out: Intl LGBT Radio) — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 02:11:51 PST

Gov. Christine Gregoire gives Washington a great wedding gift in her exuberant marriage equality bill signing ceremony remarks.

Religious fundamentalists appeal a landmark rights ruling that, as Indu Vashist reports from New Dehli for Free Speech Radio News, gave LGBTs in India their visibility.

Plus: the L Project's U.K. chart-topping music video sensation assures queer youth that It Does Get Better.

And in NewsWrap: Islamic U.N. countries decline to discuss sexual minorities, African nations intensify LGBT repression, Australian parliamentarians circulate marriage equality proposals, and more news reported by Tanya Kane-Parry and Rick Watts (produced by Steve Pride).

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NewsWrap for the week ending February 18, 2012

noreply@blogger.com (This Way Out: Intl LGBT Radio) — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 02:00:17 PST

SUMMARY

Talk to the Hand - The UN's Organization of Islamic Cooperation notifies the world body's top human rights agencies that its 56-member nations object to the scheduled March 7th meeting on violence against sexual minorities because "abnormal sexual behavior" has "nothing to do with fundamental human rights" …

The Race Stops Here - Libya's newly-reinstated delegate tells the UN Human Rights Council that promoting LGBT rights threatens "the continuation and reproduction of the human race" …

Not in My Backyard - Tunisia's Human Rights Minister tells a national TV audience that sexual minorities have no rights in his country, and Gambia's President says recognizing the rights of LGBT people would "destroy our culture" …

Raid on Entebbe - Uganda's Minister for Ethics and Integrity leads a police raid on what local media describe as "a secret gay rights activists conference" in Entebbe …

Kill 'Em Here, Too - Liberia's former first lady and now senator follows Uganda's lead by introducing a bill to punish gay sex with execution …

Menage A Trois - three bills to open civil marriage to same-gender couples are introduced in Australia's parliament …

Patch Applied - the Canadian government makes good on a promise to close a legal loophole that questions the legitimacy of marriages of foreign lesbian and gay couples performed there …

Don't Ask, Don't DOMA - the U.S. Justice Department advises Congress that it will not defend the Defense of Marriage Act, which bans federal recognition of same-gender unions, in lawsuits demanding equal military benefits for married gay and lesbian service members …

Next Stop, Marry-land - with passage in Maryland's House of Delegates, a marriage equality bill clears what most believe to have been its biggest hurdle and sets the stage for the U.S. state to become the eighth to open civil marriage to lesbian and gay couples …

Garden Snake - New Jersey Governor Chris Christie makes good on his vow to veto a marriage equality bill approved by both legislative chambers, and repeats his call for a public vote on the issue ….

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Prop 8 Out

noreply@blogger.com (This Way Out: Intl LGBT Radio) — Fri, 17 Feb 2012 02:31:41 PST

A U.S. appeals court concludes that the Constitution can't Prop up 8! Our enhanced coverage features highlights from Pacifica Radio's California Evening News anchors John Hamilton and Mark Mericle with reporters Christopher Martinez and Dan Fritz. We'll also hear comments by San Francisco City Attorney Dennis Herrera and Deputy City Attorney Therese Stewart; Marriage Equality USA Legal Director John Lewis; Prop 8-challenging co-counsel Theodore Olson, lead plaintiff couple Kris Perry and Sandy Stier, and their 17-year-old son Spencer; American Foundation for Equal Rights Board President Chad Griffin. Then we close with brief excerpts from The Rachel Maddow Show's (MSNBC) exclusive interview with Olson.

And in NewsWrap: marriage equality crosses threshold in Washington state, St. Petersburg bill would outlaw LGBT advocacy, Britain jails Muslim anti-gay hate leafleters, EuroCourt rejects Swedish homophobes' free speech claims, Northern Cyprus' sex law conflict becomes Euro rights case, and more news reported by Vash Boddie and Christopher Gaal (produced by Steve Pride).

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