[OutVoice] Jamaican activist seeks Canadian refuge+"Audiofile" goes country, fun and equestrian

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                              THIS WAY OUT
              the international gay & lesbian radio magazine
                   Program #1,039, distributed 02/25/08
   (hosted this week by Greg Gordon and produced with Lucia Chappelle)
          A hunted Jamaican activist seeks Canada's protection;
 Queer music comes out country, fun, and equestrian in the "Audiofile";
    LGBT rights could evolve in a post-Fidel Cuba, queer quake claims
 rattle the Knesset, a Spanish judge is slammed for his biased custody
    ruling, a thousand marchers honor a slain gay California teen, a
marriage equality champion gets Canada's top honor, and more LGBT news

*In "NewsWrap": There have been hopeful signs of change in the lives of 
Cuba's LGBT people that could be hastened by Fidel Castro's resignation;   an 
Israeli lawmaker blames gay people for recent earthquakes in the region, while 
queer groups cheer the resignation of homophobic Ian Paisley, Junior from the 
Northern Ireland Executive... Spain's General Council for Judicial Power suspends 
a judge for telling a mother that she had to choose between her children and 
her lesbian lover... almost a thousand young people pay tribute to slain 
Oxnard, California gay teen Lawrence King in a march for tolerance and acceptance... 
same-gender couple-marrying Toronto Metropolitan Community Church Reverend 
Brent Hawkes is invested into the Order of Canada, the country's highest 
civilian honor... and more LGBT news from around the world (written by GREG GORDON, 
and reported this week by RICK WATTS and GREG GORDON) + Late-breaking queer 
OSCARS news about "Freeheld" and "No Country's" Scott Rudin.

* With life for gays and lesbians in JAMAICA getting more desperate by the 
day, one leading activist decided it was time for him to leave.   A year ago he 
was one of four men trapped inside a pharmacy by an angry mob... and that was 
just one of the high profile, escalating anti-gay attacks that have injured 
and killed dozens.   So GARETH HENRY of J-FLAG, the Jamaica Forum for Lesbians, 
All-Sexuals and Gays, has fled the ongoing threats from police and homophobic 
vigilantes to seek refugee status in CANADA.   In the first of a two-part 
special feature, "This Way Out" correspondent HEATHER KITCHING ["Queer FM" on 
CiTR-FM/Vancouver, B.C.] talks with Gareth in Toronto, where since January 26th 
he's been sheltered by the LGBT organization EGALE.

* One artist makes his debut (excerpts from the title track and "Downhill" 
from LARRY BLOCK's "LOSING TOWN"), and two stalwarts of queer musicdom add to 
their discographies ("The Sanctity of Marriage" and "The Day the Homos 
Disappear" from RON ROMANOVSKY's "TURN UP THE FUN"; and "Every Woman" and "Can't Break 
My Heart" from HORSE's "RED HAIRED GIRL") in this month's "AUDIOFILE" (with 
comments by each artist, hosted this month by CHRIS WILSON & CHRISTOPHER DAVID 
TRENTHAM, and written and produced with JD DOYLE) [www.audiofile.org].
                   = artist-supplied contact info =
LARRY BLOCK           RON ROMANOVSKY                   HORSE
larryblock at mac.com    ron at romanovskyandphillips.com    Tom at costacomm.com
www.larryblock.com    www.romanovskyandphillips.com    www.randan.org
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