[OutVoice] Festival fave "Fat Girls" gets wide release+"Dragonfly Stories" cultivate queer culture+global GLBT news

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                              THIS WAY OUT
              the international gay & lesbian radio magazine
                 Program #1,024, distributed 11/12/07
        (hosted by Greg Gordon and produced with Lucia Chappelle)
        Ash Christian's "phat" film fest fave wins wider release;
               "Dragonfly Stories" cultivate queer culture;
An edited ENDA wins in the House but leaves a community divided, Howard
     offers a desperation election pledge to queer Australian voters,
    conservative Christians sway Seoul away from inclusive anti-bias
 legislation, a gay driver defends his "poofter" plates, and more news

*In "NewsWrap": Passage of the lesbigay-only Employment Non-Discrimination 
Act in the U.S. House is both significant and Pyrrhic, a last-ditch effort by 
Australian P.M. John Howard to win LGBT votes in upcoming national elections is 
greeted with disdain by most activists... pressured by the country's 
burgeoning conservative Christian movement, the South Korean government strips LGBT 
people from proposed new anti-discrimination protections... the Department of 
Motor Vehicles in the U.S. state of Virginia orders a man with "poofter" license 
plates to return them... and more GLBT news from around the world   (written 
by GREG GORDON and reported this week by CHRISTOPHER GAAL and RICK WATTS).

* Two dozen up queer and personal recollections make up “DRAGONFLY STORIES,” 
the first offering from a Kansas City, Missouri-based publishing company 
called RAINBOW LEGENDS.   The new "you'll laugh, you'll cry" book touches on love 
and hate crimes, coming out and building community, courage, faith, and 
families.   It's about transgender and cross gender, dating, living with HIV -- and 
most of all about accepting oneself.   Rainbow Legends co-founder JOYCE CASCIO 
chats with This Way Out correspondent DIXIE TREICHEL [from “Fresh Fruit“ on 
KFAI-FM/Minneapolis-St. Paul] about the anthology and the company's future 
plans (with intro/outro music from "Not Enough" performed by GWENDY JOYSEN) 
[www.rainbowlegends.com, www.gwendyjoysen.com].

* Born and raised in the small town of Paris, Texas, ASH CHRISTIAN began his 
journey as an entertainer in local community theater.   At the age of 
seventeen the gay actor left high school and moved, alone, to Los Angeles, where he 
quickly began turning up on shows such as ABC's "Ugly Betty", FOX's "Standoff", 
HBO’s “Six Feet Under”, CBS’s “Cold Case”, WB’s “Jack and Bobby”, Lifetime’
s “The Division” and FOX’s “Boston Public”.   In 2005, at age twenty, Ash 
directed, produced and starred in the indie feature film “FAT GIRLS” alongside 
Jonathan Caouette (“Tarnation”) and Robyn DeJesus (“Camp”).   A hit at the 
2006 Tribeca Film Festival and at a number of LGBT film festivals last year, “
Fat Girls” is just now being released in theaters by Regent Entertainment.   
This Way Out’s STEVE PRIDE sat down with the “wunder-gay“ to talk about his 
amazing journey and his inner “fat girl” [www.ashchristian.com, 
www.fatgirls-themovie.com].
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