[OutVoice] TV's Leslie Jordan+"Drag King" Diane Torr+global LGBT news

[This Way Out]

 "THIS WAY OUT: the international lesbian & gay radio magazine"
Program #1,219 - distributed 8/8/11
Airs on more than 200 local stations around the world... or
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(hosted this week by Lucia Chappelle and produced with Greg Gordon)
Join "Will & Grace's" Leslie Jordan on his pink carpet ride;
All hail drag king queen Diane Torr;
Vandals violate Ugandan activists' HQ, scandal scuttles a gay
candidate's Irish presidential bid, Australia counts same-gender
couples who've married overseas, the American Psychological Association
strongly resolves to support marriage equality, and more LGBT news

- In "NewsWrap": Burglars break into and vandalize the office of Freedom and Roam Uganda, one of that notoriously homophobic nation's leading LGBT advocacy organizations, stealing valuable equipment and the group's membership lists... openly gay Irish Senator David Norris is forced to end his campaign for the presidency, which polls had him winning, after a controversy involving his former partner from 25 years ago makes headlines... in a national first, the next Australian census counts same-gender couples who've married overseas (although they can't marry in their home country), while the annual conference of the American Psychological Association, the world's largest such organization, approves a strong resolution to support marriage equality, as Washington state's Suquamish Tribal Council extends marriage rights to its lesbian and gay members (although they’ll only be recognized on the reservation), and U.S. country music megastar Dolly Parton apologizes to a lesbian couple who were hassled entering her Tennessee theme park Dollywood because one of them wore a T-shirt proclaiming that "Marriage is so gay"... and more LGBT news from around the world (written by GREG GORDON, produced by STEVE PRIDE, and reported this week by SARAH SWEENEY and VASH BODDIE).

- DIANE TORR's "Man for a Day Workshops" have made the bisexual gender transformation performance artist known around the world. You may have heard about the book she co-authored with Stephen J. Bottoms last year entitled "Sex, Drag, and Male Roles"... but you may not know about the feature film on her set for release in September. From her home in Scotland, Torr told her transforming story to "This Way Out" correspondent DIXIE TREICHEL [from "Fresh Fruit" on KFAI-FM/Minneapolis-St. Paul, MN) [http://dianetorr.com/].

- It's hard to call someone an "out" actor who's never been "in". Chattanooga, Tennessee-born Emmy winner LESLIE JORDAN packs a load of   talent and personality in his 4ft-11 frame. His prominent roles on TV shows like "Will and Grace," "Sordid Lives," "Ally McBeal," and "Star Trek: Voyager" have made him a welcome "guest" in homes world-wide, and he's currently on the big screen with a juicy role in "The Help" -- but Jordan is also an accomplished stage actor and playwright. His latest is an autobiographical one-man show based on the book of the same name entitled "MY TRIP DOWN THE PINK CARPET." He visited with ROSIE WILBY on her Resonance-FM "Out in South London" show during the West End run of his play earlier this year.
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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.  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.For lots of other information about "This Way Out" please visit www.thiswayout.org, email TWOradio at aol.com, or write to P.O. Box 38327, Los Angeles, CA 90038-0327.
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