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"THIS WAY OUT: the international lesbian & gay radio magazine
Program #1,093 - distributed 3/9/09
(hosted this week by Greg Gordon and produced with Lucia Chappelle)
A "Project Runway" winner faces fashion's real world in "11 Minutes";
Turkish gays navigate a complex culture;
A "Rainbow Minute" celebrates rock's "messenger";
Jamaica's P.M. won't budge on buggery, but Britain's P.M. hosts LGBT 
equality advocates at 10 Downing Street, California's Supremes hear the 
pros and cons of Prop 8, and more global LGBT news

- In "NewsWrap": Jamaica's Prime Minister Bruce Golding vows to oppose 
any attempts to decriminalize consensual adult same-gender sex to 
"protect" his country, but British Prime Minister Gordon Brown welcomes 
LGBT activists to a first-ever reception at 10 Downing Street...  
California's Supreme Court hears oral arguments in the lawsuits 
challenging the constitutionality of the same-gender marriage-banning 
Proposition 8... LGBT activists in Belarus sue the city of Gomel for 
banning an anti-homophobia demonstration... and more LGBT news from 
around the world  (written by GREG GORDON, and reported this week by 
DONNAANN WARD and RICK WATTS).

- It wouldn't take much for TURKEY to top its regional neighbors when 
it comes to acceptance of gays and lesbians.  Although the country is 
predominantly Muslim, it’s a secular republic where homosexuality is 
not off
icially illegal.  Still, harassment by the public and the police 
occurs on a regular basis.  The offices of Lambda Istanbul, the 
country’s leading LGBTadvocacy group, were raided last year, and a 
local court agreed with authorities that the organization should be 
shut down for violating "morality" and "family values."  That ruling 
was overturned by the country’s Supreme Court of Appeal, but activists 
remain concerned about its legal ramifications.  So what’s it like to 
"come out" in Turkey?  Radio Netherlands human rights reporter JONATHAN 
GROUBERT asked a young man named EMERCAN  (with transmittal thanks to 
RN's ERIC BEAUCHEMIN).

- "He Will, He Will Rock You" celebrates the life of Zanzibar-born lead 
singer FREDDIE MERCURY of the British rock band Queen in a "RAINBOW 
MINUTE"  (produced by JUDD PROTCTOR & BRIAN BURNS at WRIR-FM in 
Richmond, Virginia and read by TINY STEVENS).

- An ongoing legal battle between Lifetime, Bravo and the Weinstein 
Company has delayed the premiere of the sixth season of U.S. reality 
TV's "PROJECT RUNWAY", so if you're a devotee of gay reality cat fights 
you may be in serious withdrawal.  But according to "This Way Out" 
entertainment reporter STEVE PRIDE, the new documentary feature "ELEVEN 
MINUTES," chronicling the hectic post-victory life of the show’s first 
winner, JAY McCARROLL, might be just the interim fix you need.   Steve 
chats briefly with the film's produc
er/director MICHAEL SELDITCH 
("Fixing Frank," "Project Jay," "Open Bar," "Queer Eye for the Straight 
Guy") – and at length with the larger-than-life McCarroll himself, 
about fashion, sexuality, and supermodels named Heidi  (with film 
clips, and outro music from "What's It Like To Be You" by PAXTON) 
[www.PrideOnScreen.com].
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