[OutVoice] Out in small towns + Prop 8 debate + Lynch's Emmy + lots more!

[This Way Out]

 "THIS WAY OUT: the international lesbian & gay radio magazine"
Program #1,171 - distributed 9/6/10
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)
A fateful homecoming becomes an educational campaign;
Prop 8 in court again and back on the campaign trail;
Aussie voters push Labor towards a Greener future, Texas won't put
asunder a Massachusetts marriage, Fidel takes the blame for Cuba's old
anti-gay purges, African Anglicans push Canterbury to settle the homo-
schism, U.S. Lutheran throwbacks birth a splinter church, and more news
  
- In "NewsWrap": The marriage equality-supportive minority Australian Green Party reportedly allies itself with Labor's efforts to form a new government following inconclusive national elections... a Texas appeals court upholds the state's ban on same-gender marriage in rejecting a Massachusetts-married gay man's divorce petition... former Cuban President Fidel Castro blames himself for the round-up and labor camp internment of gay men by his revolutionary government in the 1960s and early 70s... African Anglican bishops press the Communion's titular leader  to resolve the festering schism over the inclusion of LGBT people in church life, while a splinter group opposed to last year's decision by the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America to welcome partnered gay clergy forms the rival North American Lutheran Church... New Zealand's Charitable Commission rejects the application of the Kiwi affiliate of the so-called "ex-gay" group Exodus International because it offers no "public benefit"... and more LGBT news from around the world (written by GREG GORDON, and reported this week by RICK WATTS and MICHAEL LEBEAU).
  
- As one of CALIFORNIA's two women serving in the U.S. Senate, BARBARA BOXER is facing a lavishly bankrolled re-election challenge in November from former Hewlett Packard CEO CARLY FIORINA. The conservative Republican newcomer went toe to toe on the issues during a televised debate this week with the long-serving Boxer - including the  contentious question of marriage equality.
  
- What happens when the mother of a gay teen who’s being tormented at school in a conservative small town begs for help from outsiders? That was the inspiration behind "OUT IN THE SILENCE" for first-time documentarians DEAN HAMER and JOSEPH WILSON. "This Way Out's" STEVE PRIDE talks with the couple about the film, and their campaign to take it across the U.S. – one small town at a time.
[www.outinthesilence.com]
  
- U.S. television celebrated itself this week at the annual EMMY AWARDS. The trophy at the Hollywood gala for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series went to real-life lesbian-partnered parent JANE LYNCH for her role as "Glee's" fearsome cheerleading coach "Sue Sylvester".
  
- There are some traditions you just don't mess with. That's what Principal Garry Martin of MELBOURNE's Lepage Primary School found out when he told his students to substitute the word "fun" for the word "gay" in the iconic AUSTRALIAN children's song "KOOKABURRA SITS IN THE OLD GUM TREE" (performed by the WORLD CHILDREN'S CHOIR). 
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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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