[OutVoice] How Canada's Little Sister's Bookstore defied Customs of the day + global LGBT news

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                              THIS WAY OUT
              the international gay & lesbian radio magazine
                   Program #1,049, distributed 05/05/08
   (hosted this week by Greg Gordon and produced with Lucia Chappelle)
   How Canada's Little Sister's Bookstore defied Customs of the day;
    Australian queer couple law reforms stop well short of marriage,
 Uruguay finally sees its first civil union, Nepal gay activist Sunil
Pant goes to Parliament, two mainstream Christian denominations remain
conflicted over homosexuality, Lesbos livers are livid over "lesbians,"
                        and more global LGBT news

* In "NewsWrap": The Australian Government announces plans to reform about 
100 laws that financially discriminate against same-gender couples, but keep 
marriage out of the equation [with brief comments by ATTORNEY GENERAL ROBERT 
MCCLELLAND and OPPOSITION LEADER BRENDAN NELSON], while the Australian Capital 
Territory remains at loggerheads with the feds over civil unions, but Uruguay 
finally sees its first civil union more than 3 months after the first such law in 
Latin America creating them came into force... Blue Diamond Society leader 
Sunil Pant becomes Nepal's first openly gay candidate elected to Parliament... 
delegates at the annual United Methodist Church General Conference vote to 
retain policy that homosexual acts are "incompatible with Christian teaching," 
while openly lesbian minister Jane Spahr's censure for marrying same-gender 
couples is lifted by the high court of the Presbyterian Church USA because such 
ceremonies "cannot be a marriage"... 3 Lesbos islanders are suing the advocacy 
group Homosexual and Lesbian Community of Greece demanding that only residents 
be allowed to define themselves as "lesbian"... and more LGBT news from around 
the world (written by GREG GORDON, and reported this week by TANYA KANE-PARRY 
and JON BEAUPRE) +   brief update of Aussie feds vs. ACT story (voiced by GREG 
GORDON).

* It's getting harder and harder to find a bookstore like VANCOUVER, B.C.'s 
LITTLE SISTER'S BOOK AND ART EMPORIUM.   As the legendary landmark celebrates 
its 25th anniversary, many of its kind are no longer in business - despite 
their pivotal role in the development of both the early LGBT literary scene and 
burgeoning queer movement.   In this first of a multi-part series, "This Way 
Out" correspondent HEATHER KITCHING ["Queer FM"/CiTR-Vancouver] commemorates 
Little Sister's silver milestone with co-founder JIM DEVA (and intro music from 
"Resilience" by ANNABELLE CHVOSTEK). 
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