[OutVoice] Trans-rock, lesbi-folk and a return to pop+Gays in Cameroon+global news

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"THIS WAY OUT: the international lesbian & gay radio magazine
Program #1,075 - distributed 11/3/08
(hosted this week by Greg Gordon and produced with Lucia Chappelle)
Songs of the "Zodiac" are "Comin' Alive" and "Free" in the "Audiofile";
Gay Cameroonians are prisoners inside prisons;
A bisexual U.S. founding father is profiled in a "Rainbow Minute";
Bangalore cops bust trans-women and their defenders, Guatemalan activists get teargassed, anti-queer hate crimes rise in Scotland and the U.S., the Pope clamps down on "homosexual tendencies," and more news

- In "NewsWrap": Dozens of LGBT activists are arrested during peaceful demonstrations protesting an apparent crackdown on hijras – male-to-female transsexuals – in the third most populous Indian city of Bangalore, while a tear gas bomb sickens participants at an HIV/AIDS prevention event in the Guatemalan city of Samayac Suchitepequez... an alarming increase in anti-lesbigay hate crimes is reported in Scotland, and while the FBI reports a slight decrease in overall hate crimes in 2007 in the U.S., anti-LGBT hate incidents increased... the Vatican issues new guidelines to weed out priesthood candidates with "strong homosexual tendencies"... a small outdoor LGBT rights demonstration scheduled for this month in Singapore is postponed until early next year after the organizer receives greater than expected positive response from sexual minority communities... and more LGBT news from around the world (written by GREG GORDON, and reported this week by TANYA KANE-PARRY and DONNA-ANN WARD).

- A mounting number of gay men in CAMEROON have been arrested and held without charge in recent times, or sentenced to hard labor in trumped-up trials.  Young lesbians have been targeted for expulsion from school.  Earlier this year Amnesty International went to bat for a teenager who was denied asylum in Switzerland despite a U.N. ruling that Cameroon was violating the international Covenant on Civil and Political Rights.  Such cases have received media attention and worldwide public support, but few outsiders have gone behind the headlines like ERIC BEAUCHEMIN, who originally filed this report for Radio Netherlands.

-  Bisexual "ALEXANDER HAMILTON – THE FIRST U.S. SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY" is profiled in a "RAINBOW MINUTE" (produced by JUDD PROCTOR & BRIAN BURNS at the studios WRIR-FM in Richmond, Virginia and read by JAY WHITE).

-  Trans-rock (excerpts from "Goodbye" and "We've Never Had It So Good" from JENNY SLATER's "ZODIAC"), lesbi-folk ("Starving Artist" and "What I Want" from KATE REID's "COMIN' ALIVE"), and a return to pop ("War on War" and the title track from SAM HARRIS' "FREE") tune up the latest edition of the "AUDIOFILE" [with comments by each artist, hosted by CHRIS WILSON & JD DOYLE and written and produced with CHRISTOPHER DAVID TRENTHAM/www.audiofile.org]. . . . . . .   7:54
                   = artist-supplied contact info =
 JENNY SLATER                KATE REID              SAM HARRIS
 info at jennyslater.co.uk      kate at katereid.net      www.samharris.com
 www.jennyslater.co.uk       www.katereid.net
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