[OutVoice] A Canadian boy's 3 parents+A Rainbow Minute & "Sprinkles"+LGBT news

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                            THIS WAY OUT
                the international gay & lesbian radio magazine
                    Program #982 - the week of 01/22/07
       (hosted by Greg Gordon and produced with Lucia Chappelle)
            Why a 5-year-old Canadian boy now has 3 parents;
   Czech gays win their first-ever job bias lawsuit, Taiwan activists
   agitate for civil rights progress, Italian advocates condemn Papal
 pronouncements, HRW warns against OutRage! Nigerian action, more news;
  A "Rainbow Minute" profiles a historic Canadian couple, and singer/
    songwriter Suzi Nash shakes things up with "Rainbow Sprinkles"!

* In "NewsWrap": A Czech court has for the first time issued a 
queer-favorable ruling in a sexual orientation discrimination lawsuit, while Taiwan 
activists rally at Parliament for an anti-bias jobs bill and couples' rights, 
andItalian queers commemorate a martyr's suicide and condemn Papal pronouncements... 
Human Rights Watch warns against OutRage! action in Nigeria... Iraq's 
government criticizes a U.N. report about civilian war casualties for including victims 
of anti-queer death squads... Britain's Education Secretary sings the praises 
of "Glad To Be Gay"... and more GLBT news from around the world  (written by 
GREG GORDON and reported this week by RICK WATTS and DON LUPO), immediately 
followed by a "TWO" I.D. by TOM ROBINSON [introduced by a brief excerpt from the 
Tom Robinson Band's "(Sing If You're) Glad To Be Gay"].

* The latest "RAINBOW MINUTE" profiles KEVIN BOURASSA AND JOE VARNELL, the 
first legally-wed couple there in "A MARRIAGE MADE IN CANADA" [produced by JUDD 
PROCTOR and BRIAN BURNS at WRIR-FM in Richmond, Virginia and read by DUSTIN 
RICHARDSON].

* Ontario, Canada's highest court rang in the New Year with a new perspective 
on the definition of "family."  The long-term lesbian partner of a 5-year-old 
boy's biological mother had sought legal recognition as the child's third 
parent, rather than going through an adoption process that would rob the couple's 
sperm-donor friend of his parental rights.  A lower court ruled that it would 
be contrary to the child's best interests to deprive him of the legal 
parentage of one of his mothers, and the appeals court agreed.  While the decision 
declared that "social conditions and attitudes have changed," the Institute for 
Canadian Values denounced what it called the "naked judicial activism" of a 
court bent on entrenching alternative family structures outside of the 
legislative process.  This Way Out correspondent HEATHER KITCHING [of 
CITR-FM/Vancouver's "Queer FM"] spoke this week with lead attorney JENNIFER MATHERS about the 
case and its ramifications [with an outro tag reporting a proposed new lesbian 
parenting law in Sweden]... segues directly into:

* "Rainbow Sprinkles," the title cut of a CD collection of music for the 
children of lesbigay parents by SUZI NASH [www.rainbowsprinklesonline.com].
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