[OutVoice] A DOMA-divided couple+"Gun Hill Road"+global LGBT news+more!

[This Way Out]

 "THIS WAY OUT: the international lesbian & gay radio magazine"
Program #1,220 - distributed 8/15/11
Airs on more than 200 local stations around the world... or
Listen now via our free podcasts at
http://www.thiswayout.org
(hosted this week by Greg Gordon and produced with Lucia Chappelle)
Transitions intersect on "Gun Hill Road";
A DOMA-driven decision divides a gay U.S.-Aussie bi-national couple;
Tales of immigration, injustice and love abound in "Torn Apart";
British unrest unleashes anti-gay rage, homophobes are kept in "Czech”
at Prague's first Pride, "cure" quacks proliferate in Africa and
Europe, Aussies keep parenting & marriage in mind, and more LGBT news

- In "NewsWrap": London's venerable Gay's the Word bookstore is among the businesses targeted and damaged during riots that rocked Britain this week, as are "Gay Village" clubs and shops in Birmingham and Manchester... thousands celebrate Pride for the first time in Prague, despite Czech government leaders' "deviant" critiques, while the Dutch Defense Ministry floats its own boat for the first time in Amsterdam's unique Pride procession down one of the city's historic canals... the Presbyterian Church of Ghana announces that it's opening "therapy centers" to "cure" and "rehabilitate" gays and lesbians, and the promotion of discredited "reparative therapy" spreads in Europe... Chilé’s politically conservative President Sebastián Piñera formally sends a bill to Congress that would create civil unions for same-gender and heterosexual couples... openly lesbian Australian Finance Minister Penny Wong, who has consistently supported her Labor Party's opposition to marriage equality, announces that her longtime partner is expecting a child, and the gay male couple featured in a controversial condom promotion in Queensland hopes civil marriage for Australian same-gender couples becomes a reality sometime soon as they become foster parents of a 9-year-old boy... and more LGBT news from around the world (written by GREG GORDON, produced by STEVE PRIDE, and reported this week by NATALIE PEOPLES and JOHN TORRES).

- The Obama Administration may consider the DEFENSE OF MARRIAGE ACT unconstitutional, but its own immigration agency is still using the law to hammer bi-national lesbian and gay couples. AUSTRALIAN citizen ANTHONY JOHN MAKK has been ordered to leave the U.S., and his husband of many years, BRADFORD WELLS, by August 25th. Citizenship and Immigration Services refused to acknowledge that Makk is the sole caregiver for Wells, who has AIDS. In response to the couple's application for Makk's permanent residency, CIS said only that DOMA prevented the federal government from qualifying their 2004 Massachusetts civil marriage for benefits. Wells and Makk hope an appeal of the decision will buy them more time, but at this point there could be a nasty ending to the compelling tale they told “Current TV's” David Shuster this week.

- Other stories of immigration and injustice are recounted in "TORN APART: UNITED BY LOVE, DIVIDED BY LAW" by Judy Rickard. The recently published book caught the eye of "This Way Out" commentator JANET MASON. 

- A finalist for the esteemed Jury Award at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival "GUN HILL ROAD" was selected to open both of the top U.S. LGBT Film Festivals (Frameline in San Francisco and Outfest in Los Angeles) on its way to U.S. theaters this month. The much buzzed about film is the story of a family in transition. It's the story of a young man exploring his gender and sexuality in an intolerant and judgmental world, and his exploration's impact on his relationship with his parents and himself. Along with preview clips featuring HARMONY SANTANA as "Michael/Vanessa" and ESAI MORALES as her father "Enrique," "This Way Out's" STEVE PRIDE brings the 411 from the multi-award-winning film's writer/director RASHAAD ERNESTO GREEN [www.gunhillroad.com].
********************************************************
=> Please log on to www.thiswayout.org to contribute to our nonprofit group [a tax-deductible charitable donation in the U.S.].  We literally can't go on without you!

"This Way Out" is a U.S. tax-exempt 501(c)(3) charitable nonprofit under the corporate name of OVERNIGHT PRODUCTIONS (INC.), and is also supported in part by a grant from THE KICKING ASSETS FUND OF THE TIDES FOUNDATION.
********************************************************
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.
********** Thank you for supporting "This Way Out"! *********