[OutVoice] NJ rights ruling seeks a name, sparks new debate + cool queer music

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                            THIS WAY OUT
                 the international gay & lesbian radio magazine
                      Program #970 - the week of 10/30/06
          (hosted by Greg Gordon and produced with Lucia Chappelle)
  The New Jersey Supreme Court couples rights ruling waits for a name, but
voters in 8 more U.S. states may ban wedding plans, while Washington's high
 court breaks off engagement with equality activists, South Africa's Rights
  Commission decries Civil Union segregation, Canadian conservatives want
           continued marriage "study," and more global GLBT news;
     plus jazzy women, chamber pop and queer hip-hop in the "Audiofile"

* In "NewsWrap": The New Jersey Supreme Court rules that lesbigay couples are 
entitled to the same rights as their heterosexually-married counterparts, but 
leaves it to the state legislature to decide what to call those unions... 
Washington's Supreme Court refuses to reconsider its July ruling upholding the 
state's ban on same-gender marriage... South Africa's Human Rights Commission 
calls the government's pending Civil Union Bill for gay and lesbian couples 
discriminatory and stigmatizing... opponents of Canada's 2005 marriage equality 
legislation ask for more "study" before the upcoming parliamentary vote on 
whether or not to revisit the issue... Austria's LGBT advocacy group Rechtskomitee 
LAMBDA celebrates its 15th anniversary in style... and more GLBT news from 
around the world (written by GREG GORDON and reported this week by RICK WATTS and 
KAREEM FERGUSON).

* "Sanctity," a RON ROMANOVSKY ditty about marriage's real salvation + The 
good news for gays and lesbians is that the New Jersey Supreme Court has decided 
that same-gender couples deserve "the same rights and benefits enjoyed by 
opposite-sex couples under the civil marriage statutes."  The bad news is that 
the ruling could galvanize the forces against marriage equality just ahead of 
the November 7th U.S. mid-term elections.  Voters in eight states will be 
handing down their own verdicts on the issue, and what they do at the ballot box 
could have a huge impact on the future of legal recognition for lesbian and gay 
couples.  Despite the track record of previous ballot initiatives to ban 
marriage equality, analysts say that at least a couple of the current measures may 
fail.  FREE SPEECH RADIO NEWS reporter DARBY HICKEY examines some of the 
initiatives, and how the marriage debate affects the elections overall.

* Next up in our continuing LGBT history series "THE RAINBOW MINUTE": The 
founding of P-FLAG [produced by JUDD PROCTOR & BRIAN BURNS at WRIR/Richmond, 
Virginia, and read by MARY GAY HUTCHERSON].

* A San Francisco Bay Area band of women (excerpts from "Brownsville Express" 
and "String of Pearls" from the self-titled MONTCLAIR WOMEN'S BIG BAND), a 
New York transplant from the same neighborhood ("Flash & Click" and "So Much 
Soul" from REUBEN BUTCHART's "GOLDEN BOY"), and a Texas honey cashing in on her 
name ("Best Friend" and "I Don't Act Right" from MISS MONEY's "THE LOVE OF 
MONEY") share their music and inspiration in this month's "AUDIOFILE" [with 
comments by the artists, hosted by CHRIS WILSON & JD DOYLE, and written and produced 
with CHRISTOPHER DAVID TRENTHAM/www.audiofile.org].
                           = artist contact info =
MONTCLAIR WOMEN'S BIG BAND     REUBEN BUTCHART           MISS MONEY
2740 De La Briandais Ct.       95 Jackson St.            P.O. Box 321302
Pinole, CA 94564               Brooklyn, N.Y. 11211      Houston, TX 77221
EllenSeeling at msn.com           reuben at reubenbutchart.com money at missmoney.net
www.montclairwomensbigband.com www.reubenbutchart.com    www.missmoney.net
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