[OutVoice] Jamaica anti-queer violence escalates+new "Audiofile" music

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                            THIS WAY OUT
                the international gay & lesbian radio magazine
                    Program #987 - the week of 02/26/07
       (hosted by Greg Gordon and produced with Lucia Chappelle)
     Jamaican activists stand strong against a lynch mob mentality;
  New "Audiofile" music makes a roundtrip from Nashville to New York;
   Anglican leaders demand Episcopal acquiescence, Prodi's promised
 Italian civil unions are preempted by his coalition's collapse, the
Irish Republic rejects a UK-style partnership law, France's top court
   nixes a lesbian's co-parent adoption, and more global GLBT news

* In "NewsWrap": A tense meeting of global Anglican Communion bishops in 
Tanzania ends with member Episcopal Church USA being ordered to unequivocally ban 
blessings of same-gender unions and the ordination of openly-lesbigay bishops 
by September 30th... the center-left coalition government of Italian Prime 
Minister Romano Prodi collapses, and likely means the death of recently-proposed 
legislation to legally recognize same-gender couples... the Republic of 
Ireland's parliament soundly rejects a civil partnerships bill modeled on the 
measure that took effect in the U.K. in December 2005... France's highest court 
refuses to allow a woman to adopt and be the legal co-parent of the child 
conceived through artificial insemination by her lesbian partner... Texas lesbians 
become the first foreign couple to register their "civil solidarity union" under 
the new law recently enacted in the Mexican state of Coahuila... and more GLBT 
news from around the world (written by GREG GORDON, and reported this week by 
SHERI LUNN and CHARLS HALL).

* On Valentine's Day, GARETH, one of the leaders of J-FLAG, the JAMAICA FORUM 
FOR LESBIANS, ALL-SEXUALS, AND GAYS, was shopping in a St. Andrew's Parish 
pharmacy when all hell broke loose.  Three men of Gareth's acquaintance were 
followed into the store by a woman screaming anti-gay epithets, hollering that 
they should be killed.  She soon attracted a crowd, and the men were trapped 
inside by a mob of over 200 crying out for blood.  Meanwhile inside, Gareth was 
on the phone with his contacts in the New York offices of Human Rights Watch, 
one of the international groups that has documented homophobic violence in 
Jamaica.  They in turn mobilized activists in Geneva and Kingston to pressure the 
Jamaican Commissioner of Police and local authorities to intervene.   Over an 
hour later, as they left the store under the "protection" of the police, one 
of the men was hit in the head with a rock, prompting the police to fire tear 
gas into the crowd.  All the way to the station, the police continued to heap 
verbal abuse on the men they had "rescued," and Gareth was beaten for objecting 
to their treatment.  The Valentine's Day confrontation was no isolated 
occurrence.  Incredibly, the situation is worse now than it was two years ago, when 
Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch brought Gareth and his J-FLAG 
compatriot KARLENE to the U.S. to network with LGBT activists and lobby 
government officials for assistance.  Gareth and Karlene -- who could not then and 
cannot now use their last names -- talked with This Way Out's LUCIA CHAPPELLE 
about their organization and its dangerous mission (admin at jflag.org; 
RevRobertGriffin at MCCchurch.net; www.jflag.org).

* A country favorite's nostalgic salute (excerpts from "Halleluia" and "Where 
the Heck is Hopland?" from KITTY ROSE's "LIVE AT THE RYMAN"), and two debut 
artists ("Marlboro Man" and "Fishnet Sailor" from ROBERT GERMAN's "SIRENS OF 
BROOKLYN," and "My Nitch" and "The Whole World Is Fallin' in Love" from BRIAN 
GLENN's "ORIGINAL INTENT") take this month's "AUDIOFILE" on a roundtrip from 
Nashville to New York (with comments by each artist, hosted by CHRIS WILSON and 
JD DOYLE, and written and produced with CHRISTOPHER DAVID 
TRENTHAM/www.audiofile.org).
                      = artist contact info =
KITTY ROSE            ROBERT GERMAN           BRIAN GLENN
kitty at kittyrose.com   info at robertgerman.com   brian.glenn at comcast.net
www.kittyrose.com     www.robertgerman.com    www.brianglenn.com
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