[OutVoice] McCain's "straight talk" raises gay questions+ LGBT DNC coverage+more!

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"THIS WAY OUT: the international lesbian & gay radio magazine
Program #1,066 distributed 09/01/08
(hosted this week by Greg Gordon and produced with Lucia Chappelle)
A historic convention caps U.S. Democrats' primary process;
McCain's "straight talk" raises gay questions;
Comic Kate Clinton works on political anger management;
A unique Australian Laborite counters party policy by proposing marriage equality, a Belgian marriage becomes a Senegalese crime, adoption bias gets on the Arkansas ballot, and more global LGBT news

* In "NewsWrap": Hundreds of LGBT delegates help the Democrats make U.S. history in Denver at their quadrennial convention with the presidential nomination of Barak Obama [includes queer-related excerpts from speeches by openly gay DNC Treasurer ANDREW TOBIAS, U.S. SENATORS TED KENNEDY and HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON, former President BILL CLINTON, and from MICHELLE OBAMA's surprise appearance at an LGBT delegates luncheon]... the governing Australian Labor Party's newest Senator Louise Pratt, the first MP with a transsexual partner, uses her maiden speech to call for federal marriage law reform... trailblazing lesbian activist Del Martin dies in San Francisco at the age of 87... a Belgian man and his male Senegalese "domestic helper" are sentenced to 2 years in jail in the African country for "acts against nature" after their legal marriage certificate is discovered in a luggage search... a measure qualifies for the November ballot in Arkansas to ban lesbigay couples from becoming foster or adoptive parents... Aussie Olympian Matthew Mitcham thanks his man and his mum (hear him)... and more LGBT news from around the world (written by GREG GORDON, and reported this week by CHRISTOPHER DAVID TRENTHAM and GREG GORDON).

* The marathon presidential campaign in the U.S. will head for its final sprint as the Republican Party begins its nominating convention in St. Paul, Minnesota this week.? It's been a long race full of ups and downs for presumptive GOP nominee SENATOR JOHN McCAIN.? When it comes to support for LGBT-related issues, we've seen mostly downs.? McCain found himself "down one" back in April of 2007, as This Way Out's LUCIA CHAPPELLE reported [a recreation of McCain discussing HIV-preventing condom distribution with a reporter on his "Straight Talk Express" bus tour]... he scored poorly again when put to the "queer marriage test" by ELLEN DEGENERES on her daytime TV talk show in May of this year [audio from that exchange]... and McCain gave LGBT activists something else to worry about with his position on adoptions by lesbigays during a mid-July "New York Times" interview [hear his comments].

* Lesbian feminist humorist KATE CLINTON helped a Washington-area audience work out their political frustrations with the Bush administration last November, while looking forward to the November to come [from her latest comedy CD "Climate Change" [www.kate-clinton-dot-com].

* And finally this week, Democratic presidential nominee SENATOR BARACK OBAMA was queer-inclusive during his much-heralded August 28th acceptance speech in Denver, Colorado [hear a stirring excerpt][www.LGBTforObama.com].
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