[OutVoice] Coming out trumps the convent + new queer music + global LGBT news

[This Way Out]

 "THIS WAY OUT: the international lesbian & gay radio magazine"
Program #1,178 - distributed 10/25/10
Airs on more than 200 local stations around the world... or
Listen now via our free podcasts at
http://www.thiswayout.org
(hosted by Greg Gordon and produced with Lucia Chappelle)
Soulful pop, bluesy country and a spiritual arrival in the "Audiofile";
A feminist activist picks coming out over the convent;
"Don't Ask" rides a roller coaster as Obama defends discrimination, the
"Hang Them!" headline forces "100 of Uganda's Top Homos" into hiding,
the EuroCourt convicts Russia of Moscow Pride ban rights violations,
gay Florida dads have "saved *their* children," and more LGBT news

- In "NewsWrap": This week's Don't Ask Don't Tell drama moves from a federal district court (an injunction against its enforcement) to the Obama administration (a successful appeals court move to stay the injunction) to the Pentagon (new guidelines from Defense Secretary Robert Gates about how discharges will now be decided)... a Ugandan newspaper splashes the names, photos and addresses of "100 of Uganda's Top Homos" on its front page with a banner reading "Hang Them!"... the European Court of Human Rights unanimously rules that the bans of Moscow Pride marches in 2006, 2007 and 2008 violated the European Convention on Human Rights... the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals announces that oral arguments in California's Proposition 8 case will be heard on December 6th... Florida's 33-year-old state law banning gays and lesbians from becoming adoptive parents is now officially dead... and more LGBT news from around the world (written by GREG GORDON, and reported this week by BEN CARON and RICK WATTS).

- Many people come out of the closet feeling extremely isolated in rural communities. Others come to terms with their sexual orientation in a huge metropolis, sometimes even surrounded by progressive activists. Does that minimize all of the usual challenges? KATHERINE ACEY, Executive Director of the Astraea Lesbian Foundation for Justice, says there were still plenty of issues for her to deal with. She's one of the coming out "specimens" our SHERI LUNN has been gathering during her recent travels [www.astraeafoundation.org/].

- A dance artist sings a new tune (excerpts from "I Am Changing" and the title track from JASON WALKER's "LEAVE IT ALL BEHIND"), a bluesy woman bares all ("Make Myself Laugh" and "Not Sleeping" from SEAN WIGGINS' "NAKED THURSDAYS"), and  a pop-rocker goes for irony ("Save Me" and "Missing You" from KYLE PUCCIA's "SELL OUT") in this month's "AUDIOFILE" (with comments by each artist, hosted by JD DOYLE & CHRIS WILSON, and written and produced with CHRISTOPHER DAVID TRENTHAM).
[www.audiofile.org]
= artist-supplied contact info =
JASON WALKER               SEAN WIGGINS          KYLE PUCCIA
rjoartists at gmail.com       wigoutsl at aol.com      rjoartists at gmail.com
www.jasonwalkermusic.com   www.seanwiggins.com   www.kylepuccia.com
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On the air since April 1988, "This Way Out" is the multi-award-winning internationally distributed weekly gay and lesbian radio newsmagazine.
The program currently airs on more than 200 local community radio stations around the world, globally distributed at www.radio4all.net, www.indymedia.org, to Pacifica Radio station affiliates in North America, and "Down Under" through distribution by the Community Broadcasting Association of Australia's ComRadSat.  Listeners can also hear "This Way Out"  on short wave via Costa Rica-based global station RFPI (Radio For Peace International/www.rfpi.org), across Europe, Africa/the Middle East, and Asia/Pacific regions on the World Radio Network (www.wrn.org), and on audio CD by individual subscription.
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