[OutVoice] A gay South African imam speaks "out"+new "Audiofile" music+global LGBT news

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"THIS WAY OUT: the international lesbian & gay radio magazine
Program #1,091 - distributed 2/23/09
(hosted this week by Greg Gordon and produced with Lucia Chappelle)
A dynamic duo, genre-bender, and grassroots soloist do the "Audiofile";
A gay South African Muslim imam's scholarship charms his critics;
Burundi's Senate rejects an anti-gay sex law, an AIDS conference in Hong Kong decries sodomy laws in Asia, Bolivia's new constitution bans anti-LGBT bias, Hungary's government gives partners legislation another try, Indiana Republicans nix a marriage ban amendment, and more global LGBT news

- In "NewsWrap": Burundi's Senate strips a law banning gay sex from new penal code reforms, while a Hong Kong AIDS conference urges countries in the region to repeal laws criminalizing "crimes against nature," and Beijing activists push for marriage rights on Valentine's Day... Bolivia's new constitution bans bias based on sexual orientation and gender identity, Hungary's government offers a new partners law for lesbigay couples only after the Constitutional Court nixes an earlier measure for all couples, while Indiana's state Senate Republican Caucus rejects a proposal to constitutionally ban same-gender marriage... and more LGBT news from around the world (written by GREG GORDON, and reported this week by CHRIS WILSON and MICHAEL LEBEAU).

- Just like the Hebrew Scriptures and the New Testament, the Holy Quran contains verses that lead traditional clerics to condemn homosexuality outright.? But there are those rare Islamic spiritual leaders, or imams, who are gay.? One of the first to come out publicly was IMAM MUHSIN HENDRICKS in SOUTH AFRICA.? "This Way Out" correspondent and Radio Netherlands human rights reporter ERIC BEAUCHEMIN asks him how he manages to resolve the apparent contradictions.

- A married musical match looks for its live sound (excerpts from "All I Long For" and "It's Okay" from JASON & DEMARCO's "SAFE"), a sultry Texas genre-bender tries something soulful ("Lover" and "Best of Me" from GINGER LEIGH's "DON'T BE SHY"), an independent kind of guy goes out on his own ("Can't Have It All" and "Bowlegged & Starving" from JAY BRANNAN's "GODDAMNED")... and they all wind up in this edition of the "AUDIOFILE" (with comments by the artists, hosted by CHRIS WILSON & JD DOYLE, and written and produced with CHRISTOPHER DAVID TRENTHAM).[www.audiofile.org]
= artist-supplied contact info =
JASON & DEMARCO
www.jasonanddemarco.com

GINGER LEIGH
www.gleigh.com
gingerleighmusic at gmail.com

JAY BRANNAN
www.jaybrannon.com
jaybrannan at gmail.com
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