[OutVoice] Maupin's "Mouse" makes "family" matter + protecting "Ugly Ducklings"

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                             THIS WAY OUT
             the international gay & lesbian radio magazine
                Program #1,016, distributed 09/17/07
  (hosted this week by Greg Gordon and produced with Lucia Chappelle)
         Armistead Maupin and his "Mouse" make "family" matter;
             Kids confront harassment of "Ugly Ducklings";
        "The Fate of We'Wha" is revealed in a "Rainbow Minute";
   Queer Canadian couples boom despite objectionable boxes, an anti-
 discrimination declaration is pending in the Southern Common Market,
   Halifax high schoolers protest in pink, and more global GLBT news

* In "NewsWrap": According to Statistics Canada's 2006 Census report, 
same-gender couples are marrying in the country at a much higher rate than their 
heterosexual counterparts – although the numbers may require an asterisk... 
Northern Ireland's highest court overturns the anti-harassment provisions of the 
recently-enacted Sexual Orientation Regulations, but the European Court of Human 
Rights upholds the right of a Lithuanian transgender person to gender 
reassignment surgery, and the human rights committee of South America's Southern 
Common Market issues a declaration urging an end to all discrimination against 
sexual and gender minorities in its member nations... students at a Halifax, Nova 
Scotia high school respond to the bullying of a perceived-to-be-gay freshman 
by getting "pretty in pink"... and more GLBT news from around the world 
(written by GREG GORDON, and reported this week by TANYA KANE-PARRY and RICK WATTS).

* There's a silence that masks the fact that suicide is one of the major 
causes of death for teens and young adults... and an even more eerie silence 
surrounds the tragic truth that queer and questioning youth are four times more 
likely to take their own lives than their heterosexual counterparts.  It's not 
their sexual orientation itself -- it's harassment by their peers and rejection 
by their families that drive these kids to such desperate means.  One project 
aimed at addressing this serious problem involves the play "UGLY DUCKLINGS" by 
lesbian-feminist performer-director-activist CAROLYN GAGE.  A production of 
"Ugly Ducklings" is the subject of a documentary by Oscar-nominated filmmaker 
Fawn Yacker.  That DVD will be distributed throughout the U.S., with other 
educational materials, as part of an anti-harassment campaign.  Gage spoke with 
DIXIE TREICHEL in Minneapolis on KFAI-FM’s "Fresh Fruit" program about the 
project, and the impact the show had when it was first produced in Maine.
[www.carolyngage.com, donteraseyourqueerfuture.org, 866-4U-TREVOR]

* "THE FATE OF WE'WHA" follows up on last week's profile of the Native 
American "princess" in another "RAINBOW MINUTE"  (produced by JUDD PROCTOR & BRIAN 
BURNS at WRIR-FM in Richmond, Virginia and read by TALL FEATHERS) . . . . . .   
1:03

* "Tales of the City" novelist ARMISTEAD MAUPIN returns to his roots with his 
latest book "MICHAEL TOLLIVER LIVES," revisiting the older but hopefully 
wiser character affectionately known as "Mouse".  Last time on "This Way Out," our 
JOSY CATOGGIO began a conversation with one of queerdom’s favorite writers 
about his new book, the unique challenges of HIV survivors, "daddies," and San 
Fran transfolk.  The conversation continues in the second of this special 
3-part feature interview with an exploration of various "family" dynamics.
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