[OutVoice] Edward Albee plays for keeps + Brisbane's Archbishop finds sin at St. Mary's + more global LGBT news

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"THIS WAY OUT: the international lesbian & gay radio magazine
Program #1,090 - distributed 2/16/09
(hosted this week by Greg Gordon and produced with Lucia Chappelle)
Scenes from life of the absurd with playwright-who's-gay Edward Albee;
Brisbane's Archbishop damns welcoming as sin at St. Mary's;
Moscow gays court presidential intervention, Iranian lesbigay refugees 
find safety in the UK and Canada, the US Congress gets a bill to unite 
binational couples, Freedom to Marry Week spreads love across America, 
New Zealand's PM boogies with drag queens, and more global LGBT news

- In "NewsWrap": Moscow Pride sues Russian President Dmitry Medvedev in 
the European Court of Human Rights for failing to intervene in their 
rights dispute with Mayor Yuri Luzhkov... an Iranian lesbian wins 
asylum in the U.K., and a gay male Iranian couple finds refuge in 
Canada...  a bill to allow American gays and lesbians to sponsor their 
foreign partners for residency in the country is again introduced in 
Congress, while same-gender couples and their supporters mark the 
annual Freedom to Marry Week with a variety of actions across the U.S., 
and Hawai'i's House of Representatives passes a civil unions bill... 
New Zealand Prime Minister John Key boogies with drag queens at 
Auckland's 10th annual Big Gay Out... and more LGBT news from around 
the world  (written by GREG GORDON, and reported
 this week by RICK 
WATTS and GREG GORDON).

- LGBT Catholics and their liberal compatriots have had plenty of bad 
news in recent weeks, including Pope Benedict XVI's Christmas message 
comparing lesbigay equality and gender rights to environmental 
degradation, the pontiff revoking the excommunication of an 
illegitimately ordained bishop who denies that there was a Holocaust, 
and promoting a priest who proclaimed that Hurricane Katrina was divine 
retribution on LGBT-friendly New Orleans.  Now the spotlight has fallen 
on the SOUTH BRISBANE, AUSTRALIA congregation of ST. MARY'S, where 
Archbishop John Bathersby has fired progressive parish priest Peter 
Kennedy.  Among Father Kennedy's "sins" are allowing lay people -- 
including women -- to preach, and cultivating a community that openly 
welcomes lesbians and gays. "This Way Out" correspondent MARK JEFFERY 
(from "Queer Radio"/4ZZZ-FM/Brisbane, with transmittal thanks to JOHN 
FRAME) commiserated with St. Mary's Community Council Gay and Lesbian 
Representative VINCE KNAUTH  (with intro/outro music from "Show Me" 
performed by CHRISTIAN ANDREASON).

- Coming up with a brief but clever introduction for EDWARD ALBEE is no 
doubt a fool's errand.  America's leading Pulitzer Prize and Tony 
Award-winning playwright provocateur, author of "The Zoo Story," "Who's 
Afraid of Virginia Woolf," and so many others, calls his plays "a stand 
against the fiction that everything in this slipping land of ours is 
peach
y-keen."  Albee had a delightful conversation about being gay – 
not to mention art, life and death - with "This Way Out" correspondents 
DIXIE TREICHEL and JOHN TOWNSEND (from "Fresh Fruit" on 
KFAI-FM/Minneapolis-St. Paul).
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