[OutVoice] Thomas Glave's "Words To Our Now"+ ex-Gardener marries + more news

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                          THIS WAY OUT
               the international gay & lesbian radio magazine
                    Program #956 - the week of 7/24/06
         (hosted by Greg Gordon and produced with Lucia Chappelle)
                         THIS WAY OUT
               the international gay & lesbian radio magazine
               RUNDOWN for Program #956, distributed 07/24/06
         (hosted by Greg Gordon and produced with Lucia Chappelle)
 Jamaican American writer Thomas Glave turns life lessons into literature;
 There's a Massachusetts separation but a former Savage Garden-er marries;
Middle East hostilities cripple Jerusalem World Pride, a Latvian mob dumps
dung on Pride proponents, executed Iranian teens are remembered worldwide,
Zimbabwe criminalizes queer affection, the U.S. Congress rejects the GOP's
 Federal Marriage Amendment proposal - again - and more global GLBT news

* In "NewsWrap": Jerusalem police deny a parade permit for World Pride, and 
organizers agree to cancel it in view of hostilities in the region, but vow to 
hold several other events there during the week of August 6th as planned... 
Riga officials cite security concerns to ban the city's Pride parade, but 
protestors shout obscene anti-queer slogans during an organizers' press conference 
and pelt supporters with eggs and bags of feces as they leave a church service 
for sexual minorities in the Latvian capital... the hangings of two gay 
teenagers in Iran on July 19, 2005 are remembered in protests, vigils and other 
events in cities around the world... the government of Zimbabwe's 
virulently-homophobic dictator Robert Mugabe makes any public expression of same gender love 
-- including hand-holding, hugging, and kissing -- a criminal offense, but 
Fiji's High Commissioner confirms an "unofficial policy change" that men engaging 
in consensual gay sex there will no longer be arrested... the so-called 
Federal Marriage Amendment -- resurrected again during this election year by the 
Republican leadership -- again fails to get the required votes for passage in the 
U.S. Congress... and other GLBT news from around the world (written by GREG 
GORDON, and reported this week by JON BEAUPRE and CHARLS HALL) +  A marriage 
"brief": Massachusetts' Goodridges separate/former Savage Garden lead singer 
Darren Hayes marries (with an excerpt from Hayes' latest single "So Beautiful").

* THOMAS GLAVE is the only Black gay writer besides James Baldwin to win the 
prestigious O. Henry Prize for fiction.  The "New York Times" dubbed him "a 
gifted stylist" after the publication of his widely acclaimed first book, "Whose 
Song? And other Stories."  His most recent work, "WORDS TO OUR NOW," is a 
collection of powerful essays that earned Glave this year's Lambda Literary Award 
for non-fiction.  The essays draw upon his experiences as a politically 
committed Jamaican American.  This Way Out's BRYAN GOEBEL caught up with Glave 
during his recent visit to San Francisco (Glave reads excerpts from and comments 
on "Re-recalling Essex Hemphill" and "On the Difficulty of Confiding in Some 
Heterosexual 'Friends'"; includes brief excerpts from Hemphill's spoken-word 
performances in the films "Tongues Untied" and "Anthem", and a "TWO" I.D. by 
ESSEX HEMPHILL).
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