[OutVoice] Some original sounds of Stonewall + global LGBT news

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"THIS WAY OUT: the international lesbian & gay radio magazine
Program #1,107 - distributed 6/15/09
(hosted this week by Greg Gordon and produced with Lucia Chappelle)
Why we parade and party with Pride: The Stonewall Riots of June 1969;
Shanghai celebrates China's first, Tel Aviv holds its 11th, Zurich
hosts the annual Europride festival, tracking U.S. LGBT equality bills
as Obama's "fierce advocacy" is questioned, why Harvey Milk would be
proud of a California 6th grader, and more global LGBT news

- In "NewsWrap":  Though it was not without official intervention, Shanghai celebrates a week of Pride – mainland China's first... tens of thousands dance in the streets of Tel Aviv for that city's 11th such celebration, while Zurich draws at least 50,000 to the annual continent-wide Europride festival and parade... despite an official Pride proclamation issued by President Barack Obama, LGBT equality advocates are growing increasingly impatient with him over his failure to act on several campaign promises, and angry over his administration's support this week of Don't Ask, Don't Tell and the Defense of Marriage Act [with Obama's "fierce advocate for LGBT rights" 2008 campaign comments]... a California 6th grader gets an apology from the school that had banned her presentation about Harvey Milk because it violated its "sex education" policy... and more LGBT news from around the world  
(written by GREG GORDON, and reported this week by CHRIS COLEMAN and CHRIS WILSON).

- Maybe it was the sweltering summer heat in New York City.  Perhaps it was the last straw for her legion of gay fans mourning the recent death of Judy Garland.  But the world would never be the same after the last weekend of June in 1969.  It was illegal in many U.S. cities then to serve alcohol to homosexuals or for two men to dance together.  Lesbigay bars were often run by organized crime, drink prices were inflated, and police raids and subsequent public ruination were routine.  All that changed when the queer patrons of the STONEWALL INN on CHRISTOPHER STREET in New York City's Greenwich Village finally had enough.  Sadly, accounts of the pivotal event in the contemporary queer movement for equality won't be found in most history textbooks, and too many LGBT people -- especially the up-and-coming-out younger generation –- know little about what the annual Pride celebrations commemorate.  "This Way Out's" GREG GORDON and LUCIA CHAPPELLE address that problem with this audio montage about the GENESIS OF PRIDE.  Included: excerpts from "Pride," written and performed by JON GILBERT LEAVITT; DEBBIE LEMPKE's "Gay and Proud" performed by the BERKELEY WOMEN'S MUSIC COLLECTIVE, and lesbian-feminist icon JUDY GRAHN reading from her "A History of Lesbianism" (both from the historic 1977 Olivia Records compilation "Lesbian Concentrate"); excerpts from a January 1969 gay radio program (six months before the Sto
newall Rebellion) on Pacifica Radio's WBAI in New York City, during which BAIRD SEARLES and KERMIT LAMB lament the lack of pride and courage in "the homosexual community"; excerpts from a 1970 audio documentary about the Stonewall Rebellion narrated by BRETT ARTERY and featuring an eyewitness account by pioneering activist CRAIG RODWELL; an edited version of "Long Hot Summer", a raucous ode to the Stonewall Rebellion by legendary British rockers THE TOM ROBINSON BAND (from their groundbreaking album "Power In The Darkness"); reporter GABRIELLE ANTOLOVICH's vox pop from an annual Pride parade on the streets of West Hollywood, California; and "Gay History Rap", a rappin' retelling of the Stonewall tale by AGE OF CONSENT.
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