[OutVoice] Aussie "Big Brother" star David Graham+the Capote-Cather friendship+GLBT news

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                            THIS WAY OUT
                the international gay & lesbian radio magazine
                    Program #980 - the week of 01/08/07
       (hosted by Greg Gordon and produced with Lucia Chappelle)
 Aussie "Big Brother" star David Graham heeds the calls of rural youth;
  The accidental friendship of writers Truman Capote and Willa Cather;
 Conservative U.S. Episcopalians defect to Nigerian leadership, senior
  Swiss sweethearts celebrate the country's first civil union, but a
 Colombian legislative quorum crumbles before their civil union vote,
 Massachusetts lawmakers advance a marriage ban, and more GLBT news

* In "NewsWrap": At least 21 conservative parishes have left the Episcopal 
Church USA in recent weeks and affiliated with an alternative Anglican group 
lead by vocally-anti-queer Nigerian Archbishop Peter Akinola, while news that 
over 50 Church of England priests have registered their relationships under the 
Civil Partnership act further fuels traditionalist Anglican angst... a senior 
citizen couple celebrates Switzerland's first registered same-gender civil 
union, but a civil union bill dies for lack of a quorum in Colombia's House, and 
Massachusetts lawmakers advance a proposed constitutional amendment to end 
marriage equality... a 5-yeoar-old Canadian boy now has 3 legal parents... and 
more GLBT news from around the world (written by GREG GORDON, and reported this 
week by RICK WATTS and SHERI LUNN).

* In this reflection on the enduring friendship of "infamous" gay writer 
TRUMAN CAPOTE and celebrated lesbian novelist WILLA CATHER, This Way Out 
commentator JANET MASON reminds us that you never know what might happen while hailing 
a cab in New York.

* AUSTRALIANS got to know DAVID GRAHAM as a leading contestant on that 
country’s 2006 edition of "Big Brother."  For three months, the openly gay 
27-year-old QUEENSLAND sheep farmer devoted much of his TV screen time to raising 
public consciousness about the issues confronting queer and questioning rural 
youth.  As Graham’s own story demonstrates, the only thing standing between many of 
these young people and suicide is the existence of LGBT community-supported 
telephone hotlines and counseling services.  In an appropriately natural 
setting in the inner suburban New Farm Park along the Brisbane River, and serenaded 
by a cornucopia of crows, This Way Out correspondent JOHN FRAME met with David 
Graham under a huge Moreton Bay fig tree to talk about the dangers of 
isolation and depression in rural areas, and the unique role of telephone counseling 
in rescuing LGBT youth [www.farmerdave.com.au].
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