[OutVoice] Indigo Amy nurtures LGBT musicians+visiting Picano's "Village"+global LGBT news

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"THIS WAY OUT: the international lesbian & gay radio magazine
Program #1,081 - distributed 12/15/08
Indigo Amy's road life leads to communities of LGBT musicians;
Tales of a gay publisher who helped build a "Village" of queer literati;
A human rights anniversary inspires an LGBT-positive U.N. statement, Turkey's high court finds no crime in Lambda, a marriage lawsuit tests Iowa equality while New Hampshire and New Jersey question civil unions, Italian TV breaks the "Back" of the "gay cowboy movie," and more news

[FYI: There won't be a "NewsWrap" on the "This Way Out" programs for the weeks of 12/29/08 and 1/5/09.  We'll be celebrating the holiday season with our traditional annual "Audiofile Year in Review" and "Pride On Screen" special programs on those respective weeks.]

- In "NewsWrap": LGBT organizations join other advocacy groups around the world marking the 60th anniversary of the United Nations' Universal Declaration of Human Rights, while a landmark statement spearheaded by France calling for countries to keep LGBT people safe is expected to be submitted to the U.N. General Assembly sometime soon, and Turkey's Supreme Court upholds the right of the country's leading LGBT rights group, Lambda Istanbul, to exist... in the U.S., Iowa's Supreme Court becomes the latest to hear a marriage equality lawsuit, a New Hampshire legislator vows to introduce a marriage equality bill next year, and a New Jersey commission concludes that the state's 2-year-old ci
vil unions law has been a failure... Italian TV censors the broadcast of "Brokeback Mountain"... and more LGBT news from around the world  (written by GREG GORDON, and reported this week by TANYA KANE-PARRY and LEIGH MOORE).

- "This Way Out" queer lit commentator JANET MASON takes a trip down memoir lane with writer FELICE PICANO's latest, "ART AND SEX IN GREENWICH VILLAGE: GAY LITERARY LIFE AFTER STONEWALL".

– The Indigo Girls' AMY RAY brings every voice she has to her third solo offering.  She talks about "DIDN'T IT FEEL KINDER," and the political importance of independent music, with "This Way Out" correspondents DIXIE TREICHEL and JOHN TOWNSEND [from "Fresh Fruit" on KFAI-FM/Minneapolis-St. Paul] (with excerpts from "Blame is a Killer" and "Stand and Deliver" from "Didn't It Feel Kinder") [www.amy-ray.com].

- Promo for the "Audiofile Year in Review" [coming the week of 12/29] (voiced by CHRIS WILSON & JD DOYLE and produced with CHRISTOPER DAVID TRENTHAM).
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