[OutVoice] US-Kato killing connections+an Iowa teen loves his moms+more!

[This Way Out]

 "THIS WAY OUT: the international lesbian & gay radio magazine"
Program #1,193 - distributed 2/07/11
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(hosted by Greg Gordon and produced with Lucia Chappelle)
Are there U.S. ties to a Ugandan gay activist's murder?
An Iowa lesbian couple's son celebrates his family's values;
A "Rainbow Minute" honors two U.S. women who pioneered childcare;
Angry Egyptian gays join anti-government protests, U.S. equality
activists protest a Family Breakfast, Russia appeals the EuroCourt's
Pride-positive ruling, and more global LGBT news

- In "NewsWrap": LGBT Egyptians, who've been specifically targeted by government oppression, join the massive anti-Mubarak protests in Cairo and other cities... Ugandan police claim that the suspect in the murder of David Kato bludgeoned him to death with a hammer after the high profile gay activist refused to pay him for sex, and had nothing to do with Kato's activism – an assertion sharply questioned by International Gay & Lesbian Human Rights Commission Executive Director CARY ALAN JOHNSON in an excerpt from an interview on "GritTV with Laura Flanders"... LGBT activists demonstrate against the secretive right-wing Christian group The Family, longtime sponsors of the annual National Prayer Breakfast in Washington, D.C., because of their ties to the promotion of homophobia in Uganda (with brief comments to Joe Sudbay of "gayamericablog.com" by protest organizer MICHAEL DIXON of GetEQUAL)... Russia appeals the October 2010 European Court of Human Rights ruling that declared the bans on LGBT Pride events in Moscow illegal... and more LGBT news from around the world (written by GREG GORDON, and reported this week by SHERI LUNN and CHRIS WILSON).

- Anti-equality forces technically won a round in IOWA this week, but the moral victory went the other way. Although the state's HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES passed a constitutional amendment to ban legal recognition of all same-gender couples, it came despite the testimony of one young man, 19-year-old university student ZACH WAHLS, who did gay and lesbian families proud (with outro music from "Love Is All It Takes" by ROMANOVSKY & PHILLIPS).

- "[Ethel] DUNHAM, [Martha] ELIOT, AND THE KIDS" celebrates the U.S. lesbian couple that changed the way children are cared for in this "RAINBOW MINUTE" (produced by JUDD PROCTOR & BRIAN BURNS at WRIR-FM in Richmond, Virginia and read by DUSTIN RICHARDSON).

- The murder of UGANDA's best-known gay activist, DAVID KATO, is becoming a story of empowerment rather than victimization. RACHEL MADDOW's expanded coverage on MSNBC adds both damning and inspiring details to what we reported last week [www.msnbc.com].
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