[OutVoice] Murder in Uganda + Obama tells + Nhojj sings + much more!

[This Way Out]

 "THIS WAY OUT: the international lesbian & gay radio magazine"
Program #1,192 - distributed 1/31/11
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(hosted by Greg Gordon and produced with Lucia Chappelle)
Tabloid-targeted Ugandan activist David Kato is brutally murdered;
Obama's State of the Union tells of "Don’t Ask" repeal;
Cameroonian activists fight growing threats, France's Constitutional
Court fails to find marriage equality, U.S. states address couples
rights, and more global LGBT news;
and singer/songwriter Nhojj performs "The Gay Warrior Song"

- In"NewsWrap": Leading Uganda gay activist David Kato is brutally murdered in his home in what police call a robbery but what LGBT rights advocates worry may have been a homophobic hate-motivated killing, while expatriate Uganda lesbian Brenda Namiggade wins an 11th hour court-ordered reprieve from being deported from the UK... official government condemnation and physical harassment increase against leading Cameroon activist Alice Nkom and her Association for the Defense of Homosexuality after the E.U. awards the group a grant for "support and training for sexual minorities"... France's Constitutional Court rules against a lesbian couple seeking marriage rights... same gender couples rights are either protected, advanced, or road-blocked in Iowa, Wyoming, Illinois, Hawai'i, and Montana... Italy's first accredited university gay studies course counters ignorance... and more LGBT news from around the world (written by GREG GORDON and reported this week by TANYA KANE-PARRY and CHRISTOPHER GAAL).

- The state of the U.S. lesbian and gay union definitely changed from one annual presidential address to the next. PRESIDENT BARRACK OBAMA's speech before Congress on January 25th reflected a year packed with ups and downs that often strained the relationship between his administration and the LGBT community. But in the waning hours of its final session, the Senate managed to send Obama the authorization to repeal "DON'T ASK, DON'T TELL" for his signature. Most activists did not begrudge the president his State of the Union victory lap, but they did not hesitate to note that the job is far from complete (with relevant excerpts from Obama's first State of the Union address on January 27, 2010 and from this years speech).

- Heroic UGANDAN gay activist DAVID KATO made a name for himself speaking out against the "Anti-Homosexuality Act," a bill -- inspired by U.S. evangelicals -- that would impose the death penalty in some cases for convictions of private consensual adult same-gender sex. The 43-year-old Advocacy Officer for Sexual Minorities Uganda apparently paid for *his* convictions with his life this week. Anchor MARK MERICLE reported the activist's brutal murder on the January 27th edition of Pacifica's California Evening News (with coverage by Al Jazeera's Lynn Jhani [sp?] in KAMPALA)...
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- "THE GAY WARRIOR SONG" performed by NHOJJ [www.nhojj.com].
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