[OutVoice] How "Gay L.A." foreshadowed Stonewall + a loving ode to mother Sappho

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                            THIS WAY OUT
                the international gay & lesbian radio magazine
                    Program #981 - the week of 01/15/07
       (hosted by Greg Gordon and produced with Lucia Chappelle)
     How "Gay L.A." foreshadowed Stonewall and 1960s queer activism;
 A journey through time and place rediscovers the mother of lesbianism;
 Catholic Mexico confronts a state of civil unions, religious opponents
  aim to torch U.K. anti-bias laws, former U.S. military leaders about
  face on "Don't Ask, Don't Tell," a gay Montana cop heads to Kabul to
 teach diversity, West Village people save the Stonewall Inn, more news

* In "NewsWrap": Legislation to create civil unions for same-gender couples 
passes in the northern Mexican state of Coahuila, but despite Civil 
Partnerships, U.K. gays and lesbians are still trying to secure basic anti-bias 
protections... Britian's Royal Air Force targets gay and lesbian recruits, while 
prominent former U.S. Defense Department officials call for repeal of "Don't 
Ask/Don't Tell"... a gay Montana cop travels to Kabul to help train police in 
mostly-Muslim Afghanistan... an unnamed couple may be Canada's first legally married 
lesbian prisoners... West Village businessmen reportedly spearhead the 
salvation of the Stonewall Inn... and other GLBT news from around the world (written 
by GREG GORDON, and reported this week by TANYA KANE-PARRY and CHARLS HALL).

* The Stonewall Inn in New York City will always be revered as the 
"birthplace" of the modern LGBT struggle for equality, but a new book reveals that the 
movement's long "pregnancy" was spent on the opposite U.S. coast.  In "GAY 
L.A.: A HISTORY OF SEXUAL OUTLAWS, POWER POLITICS, AND LIPSTICK LESBIANS" 
[published by Basic Books], acclaimed historians Lillian Faderman and STUART TIMMONS 
paint a vibrant portrait of the stand-out people and events -- literally going 
back centuries -- that helped lay the groundwork for the explosion of activism 
in the 1960s.  This Way Out correspondent VIVIAN MARIE chats with Timmons 
about how he and Faderman came to see Los Angeles as such a hotspot in queer 
history.

* Who was known simply as "The Poetess"?  Knowing the answer to that question 
may depend on your generation.  This Way Out's JANET MASON takes a journey 
through time and place to rediscover SAPPHO, the undisputed mother of lesbianism.
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