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THIS WAY OUT
the international gay & lesbian radio magazine
Program #1,040, distributed 03/03/08
(hosted this week by Greg Gordon and produced with Lucia Chappelle)
Jamaican resistance warrior Gareth Henry flees to fight again;
Honoring pioneering US social worker Jane Addams in a "Rainbow Minute";
Sydney's celebrated Mardi Gras floats its 30th, African lesbians call
for a continental shift, Maltese activists petition the ruling party
for equality, gays campaign for seats in Nepal's Parliament, a Dutch
royal is the first to attend an LGBT conference, and more global news
* In "NewsWrap": More than 300,000 Aussies and tourists celebrate queer pride
at Sydney's 30th annual Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras Parade, while a weeklong
conference in Mozambique hosted by the Coalition of African Lesbians demands an
end to homophobia and the repeal of anti-queer laws on the continent... the
Malta Gay Rights Movement petitions the ruling Nationalist Party for queer
rights, while at least five gay men are running for seats in Nepal's Parliament...
in what activists call a worldwide royal first, the future Queen of the
Netherlands attends a nationwide conference in support of full societal equality
for LGBT people, while in what may be the first ruling of its kind in the U.S.,
a New York judge says that a state ban on same-gender marriage doesn't prevent
a Manhattan lesbian who legally married her partner in Canada from filing for
divorce... and more LGBT news from around the world (written by GREG GORDON,
and reported this week by ERICA SPRINGER and GREG GORDON).
* The many accomplishments of "JANE ADDAMS: SOCIAL WORK PIONEER AND PEACE
ACTIVIST" are celebrated in another "RAINBOW MINUTE" (produced by JUDD PROCTOR &
BRIAN BURNS at the studios of WRIR-FM in Richmond, Virginia and read by MARY
GAY HUTCHERSON).
* As GARETH HENRY says himself, being a leader of J-FLAG, the JAMAICA Forum
for Lesbians, All-Sexuals and Gays, is "a high risk job." The risk became so
high that Gareth had to escape the official and unofficial threats to his life
and leave the country. Last time on "This Way Out,” and only a few weeks
after arriving in TORONTO, he talked with correspondent HEATHER KITCHING ["Queer
FM" on CiTR-FM/Vancouver, B.C.] about why he's seeking asylum in Canada –
with the assistance of the LGBT organization EGALE. In this week's conclusion,
Gareth shares his remarkable story of survival and commitment (with an outro
tag briefly reporting the case of Michael Hayden, another gay Jamaican seeking
Canadian asylum; a possible first sign of governmental acknowledgment that
serious problems exist for queers in the Caribbean nation; and how the
Metropolitan Community Church is lobbying Jamaican authorities for change).
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