[OutVoice] March 1977, when the White became "the home of the brave"+GLBT news

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                             THIS WAY OUT
             the international gay & lesbian radio magazine
                Program #1,001, distributed 06/04/07
          (hosted by Greg Gordon and produced with Lucia Chappelle)
  March 1977, when the White House was truly "the home of the brave";
     Moscow Pride petitioners are bashed and busted, "Tinky Winky"
    perseveres in Poland but a "Little Britain" gay smooch is cut,
"pretty repulsive" comments rile Northern Ireland, civil unions crack
   the "Granite State," gay bar bans embroil Melbourne and Montreal,
                       and more global GLBT news

* In "NewsWrap": A peaceful Pride protest in Moscow becomes a melee as 
anti-queer thugs punch and kick local activists and several foreign dignitaries as 
they speak with journalists, while riot police are slow to move in and then 
focus their arrests on Pride participants... a Government official worries that 
the "Teletubbies'" "Tinky Winky" is too gay for Polish television, while 
Northern Ireland Government Minister Ian Paisley, Jr. causes outrage for saying he's 
"pretty repulsed" by gays and lesbians... civil unions for same-gender 
couples become law in New Hampshire with the signature of Governor John Lynch... 
just who can patronize gay bars becomes a hot issue in Australia and Canada... 
and more GLBT news from around the world  (written by GREG GORDON, and reported 
this week by CHARLS HALL and RICK WATTS).

* As the traditional month of Pride brings out the fabulous floats, heavenly 
bods and marching bands, it's also the season for reflection on the progress 
of the movement for LGBT equality.  In March 1977, the administration of U.S. 
President Jimmy Carter hosted the first-ever meeting with LGBT activists at the 
White House.  In commemoration of that event, the NATIONAL GAY AND LESBIAN 
TASK FORCE brought some of the participants together for a telephonic press 
conference to recall the experience, and assess how its impact is still being felt 
in today's queer politics.   The conference call was moderated by current 
NGLTF Executive Director MATT FOREMAN, and featured comments by former Carter 
White House advisor MIDGE COSTANZA and her former assistant MARILYN HAFT, former 
U.S. Congressperson ELAINE NOBLE, the REV. TROY PERRY, and activists FRANK 
KAMENY, GEORGE REYA, CHARLOTTE BUNCH, and POKEY ANDERSON (edited by LUCIA 
CHAPPELLE).
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