[OutVoice] Analyzing Canada's Conservative conversion+Jimmy Somerville "evolves"

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                           The week of 02/06/06 on
                          T H I S    W A Y    O U T
             the international gay & lesbian radio magazine
   (hosted this week by Greg Gordon and produced with Lucia Chappelle)
      Queers calculate the impact of Canada's Conservative conversion;
    A Portuguese lesbian couple "courts" marriage equality, bi-national
couples register their British civil partnerships in Australia, but Czechs
  expect a presidential veto of limited partnership rights, Bush equates
 marriage equality with political corruption, plus more global GLBT news;
 and "Smalltown Boy" Jimmy Somerville "Evolves" musically and politically.

* In "NewsWrap":  A lesbian couple very publicly brings the marriage equality 
issue to Portugal, the British army blesses its first lesbian civil 
partnership, and a British/Aussie bi-national lesbian couple is the first in Australia 
to enjoy Britain's civil partnerships... the Czech Republic president will 
likely veto a bill passed by parliament to create a limited form of registered 
partnerships, but California's 3rd District Appellate Court upholds the state's 
domestic partnership laws, and Maryland's House of Delegates rejects a state 
constitutional amendment banning same gender marriage... George W. Bush equates 
political corruption and same gender marriage in his annual State of the 
Union address... axe-wielding gun-toting teenager Jacob Robida wreaks havoc at a 
gay bar in New Bedford, Massachusetts... and more GLBT news from around the 
world (written this week by GREG GORDON and reported by SHERI LUNN and JON 
BEAUPRE).

* It's been a banner decade for gays, lesbians and bisexuals in CANADA.  It 
started back in 1996, when the federal government outlawed discrimination based 
on sexual orientation.  It peaked last year when the country became the 
fourth in the world to legalize same gender marriage.  But the future of LGBT 
rights seemed in doubt last month as the country headed into a January 23rd federal 
election.  The queer-positive Liberal Party, which had ruled the country for 
almost 13 years, seemed destined to go down to defeat to the one party in the 
country that has opposed marriage equality -- the Conservatives.  This Way Out 
correspondent HEATHER KITCHING ["Queer FM"/CiTR-Vancouver] offers some 
post-elections analysis, with comments by gay Conservative organizer GARY MITCHELL 
and LAURIE ARRON of EGALE, the country's leading queer advocacy group.

* When the legendary Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras throws its gala event 
this year, the legendary JIMMY SOMERVILLE will be the headline act.  The 
openly gay Somerville came to fame with mid-80s BRONSKI BEAT hits "Smalltown Boy" 
and "(Tell Me) Why".  He's also bringing his new "Evolve" show to Sydney and 
Melbourne, joined by each city's Gay & Lesbian Choir.  This Way Out 
correspondent JOHN FRAME ["Queer Radio"/4ZZZ-Brisbane] shared a pre-tour and pre-bedtime 
cup of tea with Somerville, chatting about his latest CD "Home Again", the 
nonsense of unequal age of consent laws, boy band "outings" -- and his heartfelt 
belief in humanity (with music from "Come On" from "Home Again" and Bronski 
Beat's "Why").
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