[OutVoice] "Don't Ask" hysteria + global LGBT news + Happy 80th, Harvey!

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 "THIS WAY OUT: the international lesbian & gay radio magazine"
Program #1,157 - distributed 5/31/10
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(hosted by Greg Gordon and produced with Lucia Chappelle)
Getting back to basics on Harvey Milk Day;
Pending "Don't Ask" repeal prompts telling homophobic hysteria;
International pressure wins pardons for a Malawi gay couple, arrested
Zimbabwe activists are out on bail, Pride marches under tight security
in Bucharest but skinheads shut down Bratislava's parade, Moscow
activists outwit a ban and busts, and more global LGBT news
    
- In "NewsWrap": Malawi President Bingu wa Mutharika pardons and orders the immediate release of Tiwonge Chimbalanga and Steven Monjeza, the gay couple sentenced to 14 years hard labor for publicly celebrating their love... the two staffmembers arrested during a raid on the offices of Gays and Lesbians of Zimbabwe, are released after six days in a Harare jail... the U.S. House of Representatives and a key Senate committee each approve legislation to conditionally repeal "Don't Ask Don't Tell", but not all queer activists are celebrating... about 350 LGBT people and their allies successfully march with Pride under tight security in the Romanian capital of Bucharest, violent attacks by skinheads in Slovakia's capital of Bratislava force the cancellation of a Pride march there, but Moscow activists use "flashmob" organizing to elude police and stage Pride demonstrations in the Russian capital (written by GREG GORDON, and reported this week by CHRISTOPHER DAVID TRENTHAM and BEN CARON).
    
- This week the votes of the full U.S. House of Representatives and a key Senate committee paved the way for the repeal of the military's 17-year-old "Don't Ask Don't Tell" policy. The pending bill would allow the Pentagon and the White House to conduct further study and ultimately to determine the policy's extinction process -- and that has homophobic right wing dinosaurs howling hysterically at the idea that gays and lesbians will one day be able to serve openly. MSNBC commentator KEITH OLBERMANN exposed some of the most extreme examples this week on his "Countdown" program (with comments by queer writer/activist DAN SAVAGE[www.msnbc.com].
    
- May 22nd marked the first official HARVEY MILK DAY in the state of CALIFORNIA. The birthday of the assassinated gay San Francisco Supervisor became an annual "day of special significance" in the Golden State with Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger's signature late last year. TANNER EFFINGER, a member of the Governing Board of Equality Across America, organized a Milk Day celebration in LOS ANGELES. "This Way Out's" STEVE PRIDE was among those who came out for the event (with a brief postscript from the archives by HARVEY MILK, and intro/outro music from "This Kind of Love" by MEG HENTGES).
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