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"THIS WAY OUT: the international lesbian & gay radio magazine

Program #1,085 - distributed 1/12/09

(hosted by Greg Gordon and produced with Lucia Chappelle)

Writer Augusten Burroughs recalls a father who never knew best;

A gay Muslim Egyptian exile fights for liberation;

Uganda's High Court sides with lesbian activists, gay Senegalese AIDS

educators are jailed for "conspiracy" to prevent HIV, Larry Craig

throws in the towel on his bathroom bust, same-gender parental rights

are argued in Louisiana and Arkansas, and more global LGBT news



- In "NewsWrap": In the first ruling affirming the constitutional
rights of LGBT people in Uganda, the country's High Court awards
damages to 2 activist victims of a 2007 police raid on one of their
homes, while 9 men in Senegal, including a leading HIV/AIDS activist,
are sentenced to 8 years in prison for engaging in homosexual acts and
criminal conspiracy, but African transgender activists hold a first
meeting of its kind in Cape Town... former Republican Senator Larry ("I
am not gay") Craig of Idaho gives up trying to overturn his disorderly
conduct conviction arising from a 2007 sex sting arrest at a Minnesota
airport restroom...  the ACLU files suit to invalidate Arkansas' Act 1,
a measure approved by state voters in November to ban foster and
adoptive parenting by same-gender couples, while a U.S. federal court
orders Louisiana to recognize a gay couple's New York adoption of a=0
Ababy boy... British Queen Elizabeth II's New Years Honour's list
includes a knighthood for Nick Partridge of the AIDS organization
Terrence Higgins Trust and an OBE for Ben Summerskill of the LGBT
advocacy group Stonewall... and more LGBT news from around the world
(written by GREG GORDON and reported this week by SHERI LUNN and GREG
GORDON).



- Homosexuality is not specifically prohibited in EGYPT.  Still, gay
men are regularly arrested on charges of "debauchery" or offenses
against "public morality" in the predominantly Muslim country.
28-year-old MAZIN was among 23 men convicted and sentenced to between
one and five years hard labor arising from an infamous 2001 raid on The
Queen Boat, a well-known gathering place for gays in Cairo.  He spoke
with RADIO NETHERLANDS human rights reporter JONATHAN GROUBERT (with
thanks to RN's ERIC BEAUCHEMIN).



- Where did AUGUSTEN BURROUGHS get his vengeful wit? The author of
"Running with Scissors" blunts his well-known sharp-edged humor in his
new memoir, "A WOLF AT THE TABLE," as he dissects a horrifyingly
disturbing relationship with his father. "This Way Out" queer lit
commentator Janet Mason called it "clever, contained and courageous." 
Now we hear from the openly gay writer himself, during his Australian
book tour, in conversation with our Brisbane correspondent JOHN FRAME
(ends with a tease from next week’s concluding Part 2).

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