[OutVoice] An AZ couples win tempers a WI loss+LOGO's Jason Bellini+GLBT news

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                            THIS WAY OUT
                 the international gay & lesbian radio magazine
                      Program #972 - the week of 11/13/06
          (hosted by Greg Gordon and produced with Lucia Chappelle)
Arizona's marriage ban bust balances Wisconsin's bitter ballot blow;
 War correspondent Jason Bellini leaves the trenches to anchor LOGO's news;
    Mexico City civil unions promote a progressive Latin American trend,
Jerusalem Pride rallies under "protective custody," anti-queers are flushed
out in Bush backlash balloting, LGBT candidates fare well in state and local
elections, Massachusetts pols spurn an anti-marriage proposal, and more news

* In "NewsWrap": Mexico City lawmakers approve a civil unions registry for 
same-gender couples... ongoing Middle East tensions force Jerusalem LGBT 
activists to settle for a Pride rally instead of an already twice-postponed parade... 
a wave of dissatisfaction with the Iraq War and Republican corruption 
scandals sweep Democrats into power in both the House and Senate in U.S. midterm 
elections... a ballot measure to deny any legal recognition to unmarried couples 
is defeated in Arizona, but initiatives to ban same gender marriage and civil 
unions win in Colorado, Wisconsin, Idaho, South Carolina, Tennessee, South 
Dakota and Virginia... a procedural move by Massachusetts legislators appears to 
have doomed a proposed 2008 state ballot measure to define marriage as hetero 
only;  openly-lesbigay U.S. Congressmembers Barney Frank of Massachusetts and 
Tammy Baldwin of Wisconsin easily win reelection, and there are first-ever 
state electoral victories by "out" candidates in Alabama, Arkansas, Oklahoma, and 
Missouri... plus more GLBT news from around the world (written by GREG GORDON, 
and reported this week by RICK WATTS and DON LUPO).

* Voters in more than 2 dozen U.S. states since 2002 have passed amendments 
to their constitutions making marriage a strictly heterosexual institution, and 
it's an issue that's consistently rallied the religious fundamentalist wing 
of the Republican Party to the polls.  Among the 8 states where such measures 
were on the ballot this week, LGBT activists nationwide looked to WISCONSIN and 
ARIZONA as having the best chances of turning back the tide.  This Way Out 
correspondent JOHN QUINLAN [WORT-FM/Madison] analyzes the disappointing loss in 
the Dairy State (with comments by reelected "out" U.S. Congressmember TAMMY 
BALDWIN and MIKE TATE of Fair Wisconsin, the group formed to fight the 
amendment), and KYRSTEN SINEMA and STEVE MAY of Arizona Together, and JOE YUHAS of 
Riester, a political consulting firm that worked with the LGBT-led group fighting 
that ballot measure, discuss the reasons for success in their state.

* From 1998 to 2005, JASON BELLINI worked as a field producer for CNN 
International.  He was in Kosovo to cover the NATO air strikes against Yugoslavia.  
In New York City he spent months covering the aftermath of the September 11th 
terrorist attacks, then traveled to Central Asia to report on the story from 
Afghanistan.  He covered the Kashmir conflict from India and the 
Israeli-Palestinian conflict from the Holy Land.  In 2003, as one of CNN's 18 embedded 
journalists during "Operation Iraqi Freedom," Bellini reported, often from the 
frontlines, from his position with the U.S. Marines.  But in 2005 Jason Bellini's 
career took a sharp gay turn when he became the lead anchor for CBS News on 
LOGO, the LGBT Cable Channel.  The reporter becomes the subject as This Way Out's 
STEVE PRIDE chats with Bellini about his journalistic past, present and 
future [www.logoonline.com; www.prideonscreen.com].
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