[OutVoice] Janis Ian celebrates her musical journey + why Augusten Burroughs isn't "proud" to be gay + global LGBT news

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"THIS WAY OUT: the international lesbian & gay radio magazine
Program #1,086 - distributed 1/19/09
(hosted by Greg Gordon and produced with Lucia Chappelle)
Lesbian singer/songwriter Janis Ian celebrates her musical journey;
Writer Augusten Burroughs explains why he's not "proud" to be gay;
Anti-Prop 8 briefs bombard California's top court, a global email list
supports LGBT youth, right wing U.S. Christian lawyers invade Europe,
anti-trans violence escalates in Honduras, jailed gay Senegalese AIDS
workers get U.N. support, and more global LGBT news

- "NewsWrap": A flurry of friend of the court briefs come in by the January 16th deadline from literally hundreds of labor, faith, legal, people of color and women's groups asking the California Supreme Court to overturn Proposition 8... a new global Web site is created to help young LGBT activists around the world organize and work for equality [www.iglyo.com, www.ilga.org]... the rabidly anti-gay U.S. Christian legal group Alliance Defense Fund tries to thwart pro-LGBT progress in the European Parliament while Human Rights Watch draws attention to increasing violence against trans-people in Honduras, but the first same-gender civil union is celebrated in the most rural borough of Mexico City, and the head of the United Nations AIDS agency condemns Senegal for jailing 9 gay HIV educators... and more LGBT news from around the world  (written by GREG GORDON and reported this week by LEIGH MOORE and JOHN TORRES).=0
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- Last time on "This Way Out," author AUGUSTEN BURROUGHS described the destructive relationship with his father that forms the basis for his latest work, "A WOLF AT THE TABLE."  Unlike the immensely popular "Running with Scissors," this time Burroughs was not laughing.  He explains why he’s not "proud" to be gay, and delights at the blurring of sex and gender in the conclusion of his chat with our Brisbane correspondent JOHN FRAME.

- She was dubbed a female Bob Dylan when she burst on the scene as a young teen in 1965, and singer-songwriter JANIS IAN has been bursting the consciousness of her listeners ever since.  Now she's chronicled her remarkable journey with an autobiography and an accompanying double-CD set.  She talks about "Society's Child: My Autobiography," the double-CD set "Best of Janis Ian: The Autobiography Collection," and a new TV documentary about her with "This Way Out" correspondents DIXIE TREICHEL and JOHN TOWNSEND (from "Fresh Fruit" on KFAI/Minneapolis-St. Paul, Minnesota)  (with intro music from 1967's "Society's Child" & outro music from 2006's "Danger, Danger") [www.janisian.com].
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