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                            THIS WAY OUT
                the international gay & lesbian radio magazine
                    Program #986 - the week of 02/19/07
       (hosted by Greg Gordon and produced with Lucia Chappelle)
           Meet the man in the middle of the Anglican crisis:
        openly gay New Hampshire Episcopal Bishop Gene Robinson;
      Nigerian lawmakers play politics with horrifying anti-queer
  legislation, Putin proclaims respect for Russia's sexual minorities,
 engaging Valentine actions mark the 10th annual U.S. Freedom To Marry
 Day, an Argentine lesbian couple "courts" marriage equality, more news

* In "NewsWrap": A committee of the Nigerian House of Representatives holds 
public hearings on what may be the most draconian, homophobic legislation ever 
proposed anywhere in the world, while Russian President Vladimir Putin makes 
his first-ever public comments about gays and lesbians...  queer Valentine's 
Day actions include same-gender couples seeking marriage licenses across the 
U.S. on the 10th annual Freedom To Marry Day, a lesbian couple in Argentina being 
denied a marriage license in Buenos Aires vowing to take their case to court, 
more than 100 couples holding an "engagement party" in Mexico City's central 
plaza in advance of a civil unions law taking effect there in mid-March, and a 
half-dozen lesbians and gay men demonstrating for marriage equality in 
Beijing... and more GLBT news from around the world (written by GREG GORDON, and 
reported this week by RICK WATTS and DON LUPO).

* GENE ROBINSON may have hoped that the election of Katherine Jefferts 
Schorri would take him out of the spotlight, but it didn't work out that way.  When 
the EPISCOPAL CHURCH USA made Jefferts Schorri its first female presiding 
bishop, her gender and her staunch support of openly gay bishop of New Hampshire 
Robinson did nothing to cool the rage of the conservative Anglicans threatening 
schism.  Jefferts Schorri is in the hot seat this week at a world conference 
of Anglican bishops in Tanzania, where conservatives have refused to take 
Communion with her and are demanding that both she and the U.S. church be 
disciplined for elevating Robinson.  The meeting may go down as the most fractious in 
modern Anglican history.  Meanwhile, Bishop Robinson has been occupying a 
different kind of hot seat.  As one of the stars of "For the Bible Tells Me So," a 
documentary about LGBT families and the impact of religion, he was among the 
most popular celebrities at this year's Sundance Film Festival.  When you sit 
down and talk with him face-to-face, as This Way Out correspondent VIVIAN 
MARIE did, it's hard to figure out why this warm, loving man scares the vestments 
off his Anglican peers. [www.nhepiscopal.org]
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