[OutVoice] Mika, Wishing Chair & Nick Granato in the "Audiofile" + Housing homeless LGBT youth + global news

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"THIS WAY OUT: the international lesbian & gay radio magazine
Program #1,130 - distributed 11/23/09
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(produced and hosted this week by Greg Gordon)
"The Boy Who Knew Too Much" sings with "Stand Up 8" "In Real Life";
Homeless LGBT youth seek open hearts and safe shelter;
Austria proposes civil partnerships, U.S. lesbigay couples sue for
equality, Philippine election officials damn an "immoral" LGBT
political party, India's hijra voters get an option to "male" and
"female", the world mourns two murdered gay teens, and more LGBT news

- In "NewsWrap": Austria's coalition government compromises with same-gender couple civil partnerships; a federal judge orders health benefits for a 9th Circuit Court lawyer and his husband, Massachusetts queer couples challenge DOMA, New York's highest court okays state recognition of legal same-gender marriages performed elsewhere, and lesbigay Arizona state workers sue over stripped domestic partner benefits... Philippine election officials reject an "immoral" LGBT political party but hijra voters in India can now check "O" for "other"... the brutal murders of gender-variant gay teens Jorge Steven Lopez Mercado in Puerto Rico and Jason Mattison Jr. in Maryland inspire global vigils and calls for justice, while the 11th annual Transgender Day of Remembrance is marked in cities around the world... and more LGBT news (written by GREG GORDON, and reported this week by TAREN JAMES and RICK WATTS).

- Last time on "This Way Out", correspondents DIXIE TREICHEL and JOHN TOWNSEND [from "Fresh Fruit" on KFAI-FM/Minneapolis-St. Paul, Minnesota] detailed many of the challenges confronting homeless LGBT youth, and some possible solutions in the state of Minnesota. In this week’s conclusion of a special 2-part feature, we learn about HOST HOME/AVENUES FOR YOUTH, and meet QAMAR, a formerly homeless gay teen, and VI, the compassionate man who took him in [www.avenuesforyouth.org/HostHomehtml].

- In this month's "AUDIOFILE", the second album from a bisexual British singer offers no apologies (excerpts from "We Are Golden" and "Good Gone Girl" from MIKA's "THE BOY WHO KNEW TOO MUCH"), the eighth offering from an enduring lesbian duo is named for a Japanese proverb ("Love Won't Let Me" and "Rainin'" from WISHING CHAIR's "STAND UP 8"), and a gay Florida-based vocalist wants his latest CD to inspire hope and perseverance ("That's Just What Love Does" and "Living Out Loud" from NICK GRANATO's "IN REAL LIFE") (with comments by the artists, hosted by JD DOYLE & CHRIS WILSON, and written and produced with CHRISTOPHER DAVID TRENTHAM) [www.audiofile.org].
= artist-supplied contact info =
 MIKA                             WISHING CHAIR          NICK GRANATO
 www.mikasounds.com  www.wishingchair.com   www.nickgranato.com
                                      info at wishingchair.com  nickgranato at songharbor.com
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