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"THIS WAY OUT: the international lesbian & gay radio magazine

Program #1,121 - distributed 9/21/09

(hosted this week by Greg Gordon and produced with Lucia Chappelle)

Marching from the past into the future;

Violent threats wreck Belgrade Pride, an Indonesian province lashes out

at homosexuality, uncertainty arises around Uruguay's adoptions

advance, scurrilous ads sell marriage inequality in Maine, big

Washington bosses support the state's expanded partners law, "Mr. Sulu"

and his hubby navigate the "Newlywed Game," and more global LGBT news



- In "NewsWrap": Threats of violence by neo-Nazis and rightwing Serb
nationalist extremists force the cancellation of the September 20th
Belgrade Pride march, while the Sharia-governed Indonesian province of
Aceh makes homosexuality a crime punishable by public lashings and up
to 8 years in prison... questions emerge about whether Uruguay's
recently-revised adoptions law does, in fact, include same-gender
couples... broadcast ads urging repeal of Maine's marriage equality law
on the November 3rd ballot's Question 1 are a replay of California's
lying Prop 8 claims about the threat to children, while many of
Washington's largest employers issue a joint statement supporting a
"yes" vote on Referendum 71 to uphold the state's "everything but
marriage" domestic partnerships law... George "Mr. Sulu" Takei and his
husband Brad Altman will become the first
 gay couple on TV's venerable
"Newlywed Game"... and more LGBT news from around the world (written by
GREG GORDON, and reported this week by JOHN TORRES and MICHAEL LEBEAU).



- "To march or not to march?" That's the question that's been
confronting the LGBT community in the U.S. since a group of activists
announced their plans for a major demonstration in Washington, D.C. on
October 11th. With only a few months to organize the National Equality
March, the idea was met with skepticism by some and enthusiasm by
others. The reasons for and against marching on Washington were
remarkably similar to the debate before the first such action. In
FEBRUARY 1979 – at the kind of gathering critics of this year’s march
have found missing from the process – local activists from around the
country sent delegates to a national conference in PHILADELPHIA to make
the final decision (veteran radio journalist BILL BOGUN reported from
the City of Brotherly Love, with music from "We Shall Go Forth" by
MARGIE ADAM)...

[segues directly to:]

- After the decisive meeting in Philadelphia, the 1979 NATIONAL MARCH
ON WASHINGTON FOR LESBIAN & GAY RIGHTS took off like wildfire. And
at a time when there was virtually no queer visibility in many parts of
the U.S., a group of marchers who traveled across the country to
Washington aboard the "FREEDOM TRAIN" experienced the journey of a
lifetime (with music from "Woyaya" by ART GARFUNKEL).

[The complete hour-long 1979 NATIONAL MARCH ON WASHINGTON FOR

LESBIAN AND20GAY RIGHTS RADIO DOCUMENTARY is available at

www.thiswayout.org;

for information about the upcoming National Equality March, log on to

www.equalityacrossamerica.org] 

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