[OutVoice] Fighting Jamaica's homophobic heritage+"Gray Matters" preview+news

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                            THIS WAY OUT
                the international gay & lesbian radio magazine
                    Program #989 - the week of 03/12/07
       (hosted by Greg Gordon and produced with Lucia Chappelle)
     Jamaica activists fight their homeland's homophobic heritage;
      The brother-sister triangle at the heart of "Gray Matters";
 Euro-mayors criticize their Moscow counterpart's blatant bias, Riga's
new mayor supports Pride, inclusive Irish exit NYC for Dublin's St. Pat
parade, U.S. Equality Riders get a rough welcome at Christian colleges,
  a Turkish activist escapes porn charges, and more global GLBT news

* In "NewsWrap": The openly gay mayors of Berlin and Paris and the 
queer-friendly mayor of London criticize Pride-banning homophobic Moscow Mayor Yuri 
Luzhkov during their annual summit, but the new mayor of the Latvian capital of 
Riga green-lights a march there, while New York City's openly lesbian 
Irish-American Council Speaker chooses Dublin over her own city to celebrate St. 
Patrick's Day;  Soulforce students face ugly opposition as their second annual 
Equality Ride begins, while right-wing U.S. columnist Ann Coulter discovers there's 
a price to be paid for using the ugly "f-word"... the editor of Turkey's only 
gay magazine is acquitted on pornography charges... and other GLBT news from 
around the world (written by GREG GORDON, and reported this week by JON BEAUPRE 
and CHRISTOPHER GAAL).

* Jamaican queers have seen little improvement in their lot since 2005, when 
two representatives of the JAMAICA FORUM FOR LESBIANS, ALL-SEXUALS, AND GAYS, 
or J-FLAG, came to the U.S. to network with activists and lobby government 
officials.  However, contacts that GARETH and KARLENE made on that trip, with the 
assistance of Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch, have been paying 
off in the wake of a violent Valentine's Day incident.  Gareth himself was one 
of four gay men trapped inside a St. Andrew's Parish store by a homophobic 
mob of over 200.  Police were slow to intervene until J-FLAG's foreign allies 
applied the pressure, and there’s an ongoing international campaign to insure 
the continued safety of the victims, and the human rights of all Jamaican LGBT 
people.  Breaking through their society's profoundly anti-lesbigay attitudes is 
an almost overwhelming task, as Gareth and Karlene explain to This Way Out's 
LUCIA CHAPPELLE in the conclusion of this 3-part series [HPM at opm.gov.jm; 
admin at jflag.org; RevRobertGriffin at MCCchurch.net; www.jflag.org].

* Can good gay movies come from non-gay artists?  Our award-winning 
entertainment reporter STEVE PRIDE considers that question in his preview of "GRAY 
MATTERS," described as "a romantic comedy about a brother, a sister, and the girl 
of their dreams" (includes comments by writer/director SUE KRAMER and stars 
HEATHER GRAHAM and TOM CAVANAGH, and clips from the film also featuring MOLLY 
SHANNON and BRIDGET MOYNAHAN) [www.graymattersmovie.com, www.prideonscreen.com].
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