[OutVoice] "Candy Everybody Wants" + holy Maine marriage equality! + global LGBT news

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"THIS WAY OUT: the international lesbian & gay radio magazine
Program #1,102 - distributed 5/11/09
(hosted this week by Lucia Chappelle and produced with Greg Gordon)
A rehabilitated drag diva offers "Candy Everybody Wants";
Clergy help Maine join marriage equality states;
A Greek court tears Tilos matrimonial tests asunder, Lambda Istanbul 
wins an uneasy reprieve, activists challenge Botswana's same-gender sex 
ban, Moscow can't see Pride through Eurovision eyes, Giuliani jilts gay 
pals for the love of politics, and more global LGBT news

- In "NewsWrap": A Greek court annuls the country's first known 
same-gender civil marriages, which were performed on the small Aegean 
island of Tilos last year... a court in Turkey officially allows Lambda 
Istanbul to continue operating, but the LGBT advocacy group says it 
still doesn't feel safe, while Lesbians, Gays and Bisexuals of Botswana 
sues their government over the southern African nation's ban on 
consensual adult same-gender sex... Moscow officials ban yet another 
planned LGBT Pride event, but Russian lawmakers reject a bill to 
criminalize "a homosexual way of life and a homosexual orientation"... 
Maine's Governor signs a legislature-approved marriage equality bill... 
former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani puts politics before friendship by 
refusing to attend the Connecticut wedding of the gay couple who opened 
their home to him during his nasty second divorce in 2001... and more 
LGBT news from around the world  (written by GREG GORDON, with thanks 
to REX WOCKNER with BILL KELLEY, and reported this week by CHRIS WILSON 
and PAM MARSHALL).

- The biblical battle over same-gender marriage saw one of its finest 
moments in the state of MAINE this week. "This Way Out" correspondent 
AMY BROWNE [WERU-FM/Blue Hill and Bangor] reports on how religious 
leaders helped win the day for equality.

- English poet William Blake once said that "The road of excess leads 
to the palace of wisdom."  And there is no better poster boy for that 
adage than "Out" magazine columnist JOSH KILMER-PURCELL, whose real 
life adventures were documented in "I AM NOT MYSELF THESE DAYS: A 
MEMOIR".  Although his truth was stranger than fiction, he's turned to 
fiction with his novel "CANDY EVERYBODY WANTS".  Kilmer-Purcell chats 
with "This Way Out's" STEVE PRIDE about his journey from being a 
drunken drag diva with a crack-addicted prostitute boyfriend to a 
gentleman goat farmer living with Martha Stewart Vice President of 
Healthy Living Dr. Brent Ridge.
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