[OutVoice] A transgender triad in the "Audiofile"+Protesting Poland homophobia+news

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                           The week of 12/05/05 on
                          T H I S    W A Y    O U T
   (hosted this week by Greg Gordon and produced with Lucia Chappelle)
Transworld classics, collective creativity & rock roll in the "Audiofile";
                 Protests mount over repression in Poland;
   South Africa's top court tolls wedding bells for same gender couples,
Belgium's lower house okays adoptions for lesbigay marrieds, the ACT steps
    forward while two Aussie states step back, the Vatican releases its
   anticipated "Instruction" against gay seminarians, and more GLBT news

* In "NewsWrap": South Africa's Constitutional Court orders that marriage 
equality for same gender couples be enacted by parliament within 12 months...  
Belgium's lower house passes a bill to give gay and lesbian couples adoptions 
equality...  the government of the Australian Capital Territory announces its 
intention to introduce a civil unions bill in the Legislative Assembly, but 
Tasmania's state parliament votes down a proposal to allow consideration of 
marriage equality, and a bill to give queer couples financial rights equivalent to 
marriage stalls in South Australia's state legislature... some 26 men arrested 
during the raid of an alleged gay marriage party in the United Arab Emirates 
face not only Muslim law-ordered lashings and prison time but forced hormone 
treatments... the formal release of the Vatican's already much-discussed 
"Instruction" banning gay men from Roman Catholic seminaries leaves several questions 
unanswered... and other GLBT news from around the world (written this week by 
LUCIA CHAPPELLE and GREG GORDON and reported by CHRISTOPHER GAAL and SHERI 
LUNN).

* Homophobia and freedom of speech are becoming the focal points for action 
by the opposition to POLAND's new Law and Justice Party government.  Late 
November rallies in Gdansk, Lodz, Krakow and other cities protested the banning of 
a gay rights march in Poznan.  A cross-section of human rights activists 
joined in to demand tolerance and freedom of speech from the country's new 
conservative leaders.  Poland is already under a warning from the European Union not 
to limit the rights of gays and lesbians.  New President Lech Kaczynski himself 
banned two local Gay Pride marches while he was mayor of WARSAW, and his 
campaign was peppered with anti-gay rhetoric.  But people in the capitol would not 
be silenced this time, as DANUTA SZAFRANIEC of Free Speech Radio News reports 
from the streets of Warsaw.

* Some sultry vocals (excerpts from "Black Diamond Days" and "Angel From 
Montgomery", a duet with Mark Weigle, from VERONICA KLAUS' "LIVE AT THE LODGE");  
a band's reunion ("Male Privledge" and "Gender" from FEMME MESSIAH's "ORCHIDS 
IN THE ARCTIC");  and a roots rock activist ("Backs Against the Wall" and 
"Road to Trinidad" from GEORGIE JESSUP's "WOMAN IN A MAN'S SUIT") all have one 
thing in common to make for an interesting set from the "AUDIOFILE" [with 
comments by the artists about their music, hosted by CHRIS WILSON & JD DOYLE and 
written and produced with CHRISTOPHER DAVID TRENTHAM/www.audiofile.org]. 
                          = artist contact info =
VERONICA KLAUS             FEMME MESSIAH            GEORGIE JESSUP
500 Oak Apt #2             Gallae Records           7711 Apple Ave
San Francisco, CA 94102    P.O. Box 65              Jessup, MD 20794
veronica at veronicaklaus.com Kensington, MD 20895 georgie at georgiejessup.com
www.veronicaklaus.com      galla at gallaerecords.com  www.georgiejessup.com
                           www.gallaerecords.com
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