[OutVoice] Coming out renews family ties+Novel teens probe bullying+LGBT news

[This Way Out]

 "THIS WAY OUT: the international lesbian & gay radio magazine"
Program #1,177 - distributed 10/18/10
Airs on more than 200 local stations around the world... or
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(hosted by Greg Gordon and produced with Lucia Chappelle)
Coming out and recovery bring Trevor's leader full circle;
Mystery and support slip through high school's "Side Door";
Obama's Justice fights a "Don't Ask" injunction and DOMA-dumping
rulings, Belgrade homophobes riot against Pride, 11 Bronx gang-bangers
are busted in brutal hate beatings, another teen suicides while the
right blames the equality movement, and more global LGBT news
  
- In "NewsWrap": The Obama Justice Department moves to block a California federal judge's injunction that would bar enforcement of "Don't Ask Don't Tell" two days after it was issued, and also files notices of appeal of two rulings by a Massachusetts federal court that DOMA, the Defense of Marriage Act, is unconstitutional... elaborating on our late-breaking bulletins last week: hundreds of rampaging homophobes battle police in Serbia's capital of Belgrade in a failed attempt to attack the first LGBT Pride march in the city in nine years, and a total of 11 Bronx gang members are charged with felony assault, sexual abuse and hate crimes for brutally beating two teens and an adult whom they perceived to be gay... in Norman, Oklahoma, 19-year-old Zach Harrington becomes at least the tenth U.S. teen reported to have committed suicide in the last month because of homophobic abuse, while Family Research Council President Tony Perkins blames the suicides on the LGBT equality movement...  Essence.com, the online version of the venerable African-American women's magazine, features a lesbian couple for the first time in its "Bridal Bliss" section... and more LGBT news from around the world (written by GREG GORDON, and reported this week by JOHN TORRES and ROBERT LEBLANC).
  
- "This Way Out" commentator JANET MASON recalls her own high school days in this review of "THE SIDE DOOR" by Jan Donely (published by Spinsters, Inc.), a young adult mystery novel that addresses bullying and teen suicide and features a "dynamic duo" of queer protagonists.
  
- The Trevor Project has been helping troubled LGBT young people for 12 years. Its 24-hour crisis and suicide prevention hotline is the only one of its kind. The "coming out" story of its Executive Director CHARLES ROBBINS serves as a model of perseverance and hope. He shared that story with "This Way Out" correspondent SHERI LUNN in his West Hollywood office. And even though they met before the string of highly publicized gay teen suicides, their chat speaks loudly to those stunning tragedies (with intro music from "Come Out Everybody" by jazzy Irish duo ZRAZY).
  
- On screen, LGBT ally DANIEL RADCLIFFE plays a kid who gets bullied and abused for being different - until he discovers the awesome powers his difference holds. "HARRY POTTER" has a message for any kid who's struggling with self-acceptance in this public service announcement for THE TREVOR PROJECT [www.thetrevorproject.org; 1-866-4-U-TREVOR].
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