[OutVoice] Queers Out West + Obama's "Don't Ask" tell + global LGBT news

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 "THIS WAY OUT: the international lesbian & gay radio magazine"
Program #1,140 - distributed 2/1/10
Airs on more than 200 local stations around the world... or
Listen now via our free podcast at www.thiswayout.org
(hosted this week by Greg Gordon and produced with Lucia Chappelle)
Queer cowpokes saddle up Out West;
Obama States the Union will dump Don't Ask;
The Prop 8 defense rests on two weak witnesses, Hawai'ian lawmakers
kill a civil unions bill, Mexican feds challenge their capital's
marriage equality law, Russia's government stalls a EuroCourt Pride
confrontation, and more global LGBT news

- In "NewsWrap": Testimony concludes in the third week of the closely-watched U.S. federal trial determining the constitutionality of California's marriage equality-banning Proposition 8... the Hawai'i state House kills a civil unions bill, while the Indiana state Senate passes a constitutional ban on same-gender marriages and civil unions... federal prosecutors announce that they will challenge Mexico City's marriage and adoptions equality law in the country's Supreme Court... a European Court of Human Rights lawsuit challenging the bans on LGBT Pride by Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhkov is delayed by the Russian government's inability to file a response in a timely fashion, even as Luzhkov this week repeats his description of such events as "satanic"... 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 JOHN TORRES).

- When the President of the United States mentions your cause in the annual State of the Union address, it's a notable occasion. Bill Clinton was the first to bring up LGBT issues -- that was in 1999, six years after he had established the Don't Ask, Don't Tell policy on gay and lesbian military personnel. In his first State of the Union speech, PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA vowed to end that policy. But his oft-repeated promise left many LGBT activists cold (with an excerpt from the President's speech, and music from "Action Speaks Louder Than Words" performed by CHOCOLATE MILK).

- A lonesome cowboy caresses a pair of shirts near the end of the film "Brokeback Mountain." Where are those shirts now? They're hanging in the Gene Autry Museum of Western Heritage in Los Angeles. How they got there is just part of this compelling campfire tale spun by This Way Out's STEVE PRIDE (with comments by filmmaker and historian GREGORY HINTON; DIANA OSSANA, co-screenwriter/co-producer of "Brokeback Mountain" and its star, the late HEATH LEDGER; a reading from the original Annie Proulx short story by actor CAMPBELL SCOTT; and music from "A Cowboy Needs A Horse" from the venerable "Mickey Mouse Club" TV show, and from "He Was A Friend of Mine" performed by WILLIE NELSON from the "Brokeback Mountain" soundtrack)[www.theautry.org].
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