[OutVoice] James Baldwin "Waiting for Giovanni"+"The Collected Works of Jane Bowles"+LGBT news

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                              THIS WAY OUT
              the international gay & lesbian radio magazine
                   Program #1,045, distributed 04/07/08
   (hosted this week by Greg Gordon and produced with Lucia Chappelle)
 A play-in-progress portrays pivotal events in James Baldwin's life;
Thoughts on the collected works of lesbian literary icon Jane Bowles;
   Queer Euro-partners win pensions parity, Ireland activists demand
parental rights, Greek lawmakers consider civil unions, Beijing police
raid several gay venues, a married gay Massachusetts man must be single
         again to get a U.S. passport, and more global GLBT news

*In "NewsWrap": The European Court of Justice rules that companies offering 
pension benefits to their workers' married partners must extend them to legally 
recognized same-gender partners, while LGBT advocacy groups in Ireland are 
challenging the government to include parental rights in its proposed Civil 
Partnership Bill, and Greek lawmakers are said to be considering civil ceremonies 
to legally recognize same-gender couples... Beijing police reportedly raid 
popular bathhouses and other gay venues;   an oversight panel in the U.S. state 
of Arizona approves domestic partner benefits for lesbigay and unmarried 
heterosexual state employees and retirees... a legally wed gay Massachusetts man 
refused a U.S. passport under his hyphenated married name agrees to change it 
back so he can work at orphanages in Ghana as an HIV/AIDS counselor... and more 
LGBT news from around the world (written by GREG GORDON, and reported this week 
by SHERI LUNN and LEIGH MOORE).

* Lesbian writer JANE BOWLES and her gay husband Paul Bowles, who lived in 
Morocco from the 1950s to 70s, forged an unusual platonic and artistic 
partnership.   "This Way Out" commentator JANET MASON illuminates their lives together, 
and reflects on "MY SISTER'S HAND IN MINE: THE COLLECTED WORKS OF JANE 
BOWLES".

* "WAITING FOR GIOVANNI" is a play-in-progress about pivotal moments in the 
life of pioneering gay African-American civil rights activist and writer JAMES 
BALDWIN.   "This Way Out" correspondents DIXIE TREICHEL and JOHN TOWNSEND 
[from "Fresh Fruit" on KFAI-FM-Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota] talk with actor 
HARRY WATERS, JR. and playwright JEWELLE GOMEZ about their unique collaboration, 
and the people and events in Baldwin's life that are inspiring it.
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