[OutVoice] A queer take on Iranian turmoil + Sotomayor's marriage challenge + global LGBT news

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"THIS WAY OUT: the international lesbian & gay radio magazine
Program #1,112 - distributed 7/20/09
(hosted this week by Greg Gordon and produced with Lucia Chappelle)
"Non-existent" gays join Iranian protests;
Obama's Supreme Court pick is "judicial" about same-gender marriage;
Lithuania's parliament overrides its president's "no promo homo" veto,
Pakistan's high court orders trans-equality, Mongolia's LGBT Center is
nixed for its name, Episcopalians defy Anglican admonitions, Mormons
defend their land against gay lip-locks, and more global LGBT news

- In "NewsWrap":? Lithuania's parliament overrides the presidential veto of a free speech-censoring "no promo homo" law... Pakistan's Supreme Court orders equal access to social welfare programs for gender-variant minorities, but IGLHRC reports increased violence against LGBT people following the military coup in Honduras, and Mongolia's Government refuses to legally register the Ulan Bator-based Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Center... the U.S. Episcopal Church, at its General Convention in Anaheim, California, exacerbates years-old tensions with its theologically-traditionalist global Anglican Communion colleagues by voting to drop its pledge not to ordain openly gay or lesbian ministers, and to develop specific liturgies to bless same-gender unions... a new gay kissing controversy erupts in Salt Lake City, Utah... and more LGBT news from around the world? (written by GREG GORDON, and reported this week by MICHAEL LEBEAU and CHRIS COLEMAN).

- In her quest for the post of Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, JUDGE SONIA SOTOMAYOR fielded several questions regarding marriage equality during her confirmation hearings this week.? Conservatives on the Senate Judiciary Committee like REPUBLICAN JOHN CORNYN of TEXAS tried to manipulate President Obama's first nominee to the high court into taking positions on controversial issues [hear an excerpt from their exchange].? National Center for Lesbian Rights Executive Director KATE KENDELL discussed Sotomayor's testimony with Pacifica Radio's MITCH JESERICH.

- Despite the government crackdown, IRANIANS continue to protest the contested re-election of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.? Not surprisingly, LGBT people are taking an active role in the renewed movement for democracy in the Islamic Republic.? For a perspective from someone with considerable knowledge of the situation, "This Way Out" correspondent HEATHER KITCHING [of "Queer-FM"/CiTR-Vancouver, B.C.] spoke to gay Iranian exile ARSHAM PARSI, who, with the many contacts he has in his native country, has been using his Facebook page to distribute video, news and information about the continuing turmoil.
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