[OutVoice] Equality Rockers rally for Social Security rights + global LGBT news + more!

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 [A note to our podcast listeners: tech problems prevented last week's show from being uploaded. Featuring our usual global LGBT newscast, the documentary "Prodigal Sons" and Shelly Goldstein's marriage equality-promoting song parody, that show is now also available, as is *this* week's show:]
  
"THIS WAY OUT: the international lesbian & gay radio magazine"
Program #1,150 - distributed 4/12/10
Airs on more than 200 local stations around the world... or
Listen now via our free podcast at www.thiswayout.org
(hosted by Greg Gordon and produced with Lucia Chappelle)
Equality rockers rally against U.S. Social Security robbery;
Which U.S. First Lady wrote love letters to a female sportswriter?
An LGBT rights group can Party in the Philippines, Portugal marriage
parity awaits its president's "I Do," the O.A.S. court demands rights
for queer Chilean parents, a ruling is set for Malawi's "indecently
engaged" gay couple, and more global LGBT news
  
- In "NewsWrap": The Philippine Supreme Court rules that the LGBT advocacy group Ang Ladlad qualifies as a legitimate political party that can field candidates in the upcoming national elections, while Portugal's Constitutional Court ratifies marriage equality, the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights chastises Chile's Supreme Court for denying child custody to a lesbian mom, and Russia's Constitutional Court upholds a ban on "exposing minors to homosexual propaganda"... a Malawi magistrate announces that he'll issue a verdict on May 18th in the case of a gay couple charged with "gross indecency" for hosting a public engagement party... Mississippi high school senior Constance McMillen continues to be lauded by LGBT activists and shunned by her peers for wanting to take her girlfriend to prom... and more LGBT news from around the world (written by GREG GORDON, and reported this week by CHRISTOPHER GAAL and TANYA KANE-PARRY).
  
- Venerable U.S. First Lady/humanitarian ELEANOR ROOSEVELT is the answer to this "Who Said That?" question in a "RAINBOW MINUTE" (produced by JUDD PROCTOR and BRIAN BURNS at the studios of WRIR-FM in Richmond, Virginia and read by DUSTIN RICHARDSON).
  
- At the signing ceremony for the Social Security Act of 1935, President Franklin D. Roosevelt said, "We can never insure one hundred percent of the population against one hundred percent of the hazards and vicissitudes of life, but we have tried to frame a law which will give some measure of protection to the average citizen and... family... against poverty-ridden old age." As This Way Out's STEVE PRIDE reports, some excluded "average citizens" are demanding their own equal measure of that protection: 74-year-old ALICE HERMAN tells her story, and U.S. REPRESENTATIVE LINDA SANCHEZ – a member of the House Subcommittee on Social Security – promises legislative redress at an April 11th "Rock For Equality" rally in Hollywood, California (with music by BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN) [www.rockforequality.org].
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