[OutVoice] Kate Clinton returns + re-examining "failure" + global LGBT news

[This Way Out]

 "THIS WAY OUT: the international lesbian & gay radio magazine"
Program #1,190 - distributed 1/17/11
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(hosted and produced this week by Greg Gordon)
Career comedian Kate Clinton is still funny;
A gender and sexuality educator re-examines notions of "failure";
Ireland recognizes same-gender unions from abroad, national health-care
opens to spouses of Mexico City same-gender marrieds, the U.S. Justice
Department defends DOMA, 4 LGBT U.K. activists receive Queen's Honours,
a gay Tucsonan hero is honored, and more global LGBT news

- In "NewsWrap": Ireland recognizes same-gender marriages and civil partnerships legally performed in other countries, while Mexico's Institute of Social Security allows gays and lesbians legally married in Mexico City to insure their spouses in the national health-care system, but the U.S. Justice Department files its first appeal of two federal court rulings declaring a key provision of the so-called Defense of Marriage Act unconstitutional... the Log Cabin Republicans continues to pursue its lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of Don't Ask Don't Tell despite Congressional action in late December to authorize repeal... four LGBT activists are named Members of the Order of the British Empire in Queen Elizabeth II's New Year Honours... one of the life-saving heroes of the Tucson, Arizona mass shootings, DANIEL HERNANDEZ, who spoke at the memorial service for the victims and was honored by PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA there, is a proudly "out" young gay man [with brief coverage by MSNBC news commentator Rachel Maddow, and brief excerpts from both Hernandez's and Obama's remarks]... and other LGBT news from around the world (written by GREG GORDON, and reported this week by RICK WATTS and MICHAEL LEBEAU).

- JUDITH "JACK" HALBERSTAM is Professor of English and Director of The Center for Feminist Research at the University of Southern California. She teaches courses in queer studies, gender theory, art, literature and film, and is the author of "Female Masculinity", "The Drag King Book", and "In a Queer Time and Place: Transgender Bodies", among others. Her latest book, due for release this year, has the working title of "Failure as a Queer Way of Life". Halberstam challenges conventional wisdoms about sexuality and gender in conversation with "This Way Out" correspondent DIXIE TREICHEL ["Fresh Fruit" on KFAI-FM/ Minneapolis-St. Paul, Minnesota] [www.egomego.com/judith/home.htm].

- According to her website, "KATE CLINTON is a faith-based, tax-paying, America-loving political humorist and family entertainer. With a career spanning almost thirty years, she's worked through economic booms and busts, lesbian chic and queer eyes, and eight presidential inaugurals. She still believes that humor gets us through peacetime, wartime, scoundrel time and economic down times." "This Way Out's" STEVE PRIDE caught up with the always-entertaining comedian at the Out & Equal Workplace Summit in Los Angeles [www.kateclinton.com].
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