[OutVoice] Boys & girls "outside the box" + global LGBT news

[This Way Out]

 "THIS WAY OUT: the international lesbian & gay radio magazine"
Program #1,222 - distributed 8/29/11
Airs on more than 200 local stations around the world... or
Listen now via our free podcasts at www.thiswayout.org.
(hosted this week by Greg Gordon and produced with Lucia Chappelle)
Boys & girls who live "outside the box" and the families who love them;
A lesbian judge takes her custody case to the Inter-American Court,
hundreds march against South African township anti-lesbian hate crimes,
Uganda's cabinet is at odds with parliament on the "Kill the Gays"
bill, Sharia separates a married Indonesian lesbian couple, Australian
MPs and the PM palaver about marriage equality, and more LGBT news
  
  
- In "NewsWrap": The Inter-American Court of Human Rights hears its first-ever LGBT-related case as judge and lesbian mother Karen Atala tries to regain custody of the 3 daughters removed from her care by the Supreme Court of Chile... hundreds march on a Johannesburg, South Africa township police station demanding action against and full investigations of escalating so-called anti-queer "corrective" rapes and hate murders... the Ugandan cabinet and parliamentary representatives send mixed signals on the fate of the country's infamous "Kill the Gays" bill... authorities in the Sharia law-governed Indonesian province of Aceh annul the legal marriage of a lesbian couple and threaten them with beheading; several members of the Australian parliament discuss their constituents' views on marriage equality, while Prime Minister Julia Gillard  meets for the first time with LGBT activists and supporters to discuss the issue... analysis of the 2010 U.S. Census by the Williams Institute, a highly-regarded LGBT "think tank," reveals an over-all fifty percent increase across the nation during the last decade of self-identified cohabiting same-gender couples... and more LGBT news from around the world (written by GREG GORDON, produced by BEN CARON & STEVE PRIDE, and reported this week by BEN CARON & ROBERT LEBLANC, capped by a  personal message about his "TWO" website posting from veteran "NewsWrap" reporter RICK WATTS).
  
- The jury in the high-profile BRANDON MCINERNEY murder trial began its deliberations on August 26th in Southern California. There's no question that at age 14 McInerney shot his 15-year-old classmate LAWRENCE KING twice in the back of the head. McInerney's defense team argued that he and the other boys "did not feel safe in the school" because they were "victimized" and "humiliated" by King, who occasionally wore makeup and high-heeled boots. That's the most extreme version of the kind of irrational homo- and trans-phobia that THE YOUTH AND GENDER MEDIA PROJECT is designed to combat. SONALI KOLHATKAR hosted the man behind this unusual effort, director/editor JONATHAN SKURNICK, who shared clips from his two short films, "I'M JUST ANNEKE" and "THE FAMILY JOURNEY" (from "Uprising" on KPFK-FM/Los Angeles, with production assistance by MARTINA STEINER).
[youthandgendermediaprojct.org; genderspectrum.org;
newday.com; uprisingradio.org]
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