[OutVoice] California's top court-ordered wedded equality is bliss - but not for everyone + other global LGBT news

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                              THIS WAY OUT
              the international gay & lesbian radio magazine
                   Program #1,051, distributed 05/19/08
   (hosted this week by Greg Gordon and produced with Lucia Chappelle)
 California’s Court-ordered wedded equality is bliss – but not for all;
A Swedish gay couple sues to import their Canadian marriage, homophobes
     assault activists in Moldova and Russia, Malaysian police raid a
   fitness facility/gay sex club, openly-lesbian South African national
      women’s soccer team member Eudy Simelane is brutally raped and
                    murdered, and more global LGBT news

* In "NewsWrap": Ruling that the state constitution demanded it, the 
California Supreme Court opens civil marriage to same-gender couples, although right 
wing groups appear to have successfully qualified an initiative for the 
November ballot to constitutionally ban them... a gay Swedish couple who married in 
Canada sues their government for recognition of that marriage... homophobes 
assault Pride celebrants in the Moldovan capital of Chisinau and queer 
demonstrators in the Russian cities of St. Petersburg and Novokuznetsk... police in 
Penang, Malaysia raid a fitness facility believed to be operating as a gay sex 
club... Eudy Simelane, an openly lesbian member of South Africa's national 
women's soccer team, is brutally raped and murdered by a gang of youths near 
Johannesburg... and other LGBT news from around the world (written by GREG GORDON, 
and reported this week by DONNA ANN WARD and ERICA SPRINGER).

* Queer Californians will forever remember May 15th, 2008 as the day the 
state Supreme Court accepted their marriage proposal. California now becomes the 
second U.S. state, after Massachusetts, to establish marriage equality – 
although a looming November state ballot measure to nullify the high court ruling 
brought concern with the celebration in the Golden State.   We begin our 
coverage with some specifics of the decision itself: KELLIA RAMARES' report from Free 
Speech Radio News includes comments by TERRY STEWART, Chief Deputy Attorney 
for the City of San Francisco.   The prospect of a bitter battle against the 
proposed ballot initiative didn’t dampen the enthusiastic response to the ruling 
at gatherings up and down the state: a report by DAN FRITZ of the KPFK-FM/Los 
Angeles Evening News includes remarks by LORI JEAN, CEO of the Los Angeles 
Gay and Lesbian Community Services Center; CLARE PASTORE, Counsel with the 
American Civil Liberties Union of Southern California; and Lambda Legal/Western 
Regional Office Director JON DAVIDSON and co-counsel DAVE CODELL.   BRYAN 
GOEBEL's report from San Francisco includes comments by plaintiff couple JEWELLE 
GOMEZ & DIANE SABIN; MAYOR GAVIN NEWSOM; GEOFFREY KORS of Equality California; 
plaintiff STUART GAFFNEY; and some Castro Street celebrants.   And LUCIA 
CHAPPELLE's report from Los Angeles includes remarks by REV. NEIL THOMAS, Senior 
Pastor of the Los Angeles Metropolitan Community Church, and plaintiff couples 
ROBIN TYLER & DIANE OLSON and REV. TROY PERRY & PHILLIP DE BLIECK.

* A brief program note about continuing our series celebrating the 25th 
anniversary of Vancouver, B.C.'s legendary Little Sister's Bookstore next week 
(with a short audio tease). 
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