[OutVoice] Beebo Brinker's "mom" + a proud Aussie eunuch + global LGBT news
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"THIS WAY OUT: the international lesbian & gay radio magazine
Program #1,099 - distributed 4/20/09
(hosted this week by Greg Gordon and produced with Lucia Chappelle)
The U.S. pulp pioneer who launched modern lesbian literature;
A proud Australian eunuch challenges gender assumptions;
Jamaicans blast a U.S.-born boycott, rights groups demand Iraqi
government action as anti-gay killings escalate, a Day of Silence tries
to hush homo-hatred, partner benefits expand in Washington and
Maryland, and more global LGBT news
- In "NewsWrap": Jamaica's leading LGBT advocacy group expresses
concern over boycotts against their homophobic country launched by some
gay activists in New York City and San Francisco... posters in Sadr
City listing alleged homosexuals by name and targeting them for death
underscore escalating violence against gay people in Iraq, where dozens
have already reportedly been murdered, but the government has thus far
failed to respond to appeals by Amnesty International and the
International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission to take action to
stop the brutality... the 13th annual National Day of Silence on the
campuses of thousands of U.S. middle schools, high schools and colleges
to protest harassment and cruelty against students perceived to be
LGBT... Washington's legislature expands its 2007 domestic partnersh
ip
law to give same-gender couples all the state rights of marriage, and
Maryland's legislature approves a bill to exempt registered gay and
lesbian domestic partners from state inheritance tax when property
changes hands – each of which has their governor's support – but Nevada
Governor Jim Gibbons vows to veto a just-introduced measure to grant
some marriage-like rights to his state's same-gender couples... and
more LGBT news from around the world (written by GREG GORDON, and
reported this week by DONNA-ANN WARD and CHRISTOPHER GAAL).
- NORRIE MAY WELLBY refuses to do something most people take for
granted. She refuses to be categorized as either male or female. Born
a boy, Norrie grew up feeing more feminine. As a youth she dressed in
women's clothes, and identified as more female than male. The Sydney,
Australia-based iconoclast now proudly calls herself a eunuch.
Reporter DHEERA SUJAN of Radio Netherlands (with transmittal thanks to
Eric Beauchemin) chats with Norrie about how she's stayed true to
herself in an often hazardous world.
- ANN BANNON is the pen name of Ann Weldy, an American author who wrote
six lesbian pulp fiction novels from 1957 to 1962 known as THE BEEBO
BRINKER CHRONICLES. The books' enduring popularity and impact on
lesbian identity has earned her the title "Queen of Lesbian Pulp
Fiction". She chats with our STEVE PRIDE about being a "June Cleaver"
housewife with
a secret life as a lesbian icon – long before she came
out herself (the first of a special 2-part feature interview, with an
outro tag and tease for next week's conclusion).
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