[OutVoice] "Beginners" + GOPers 4 marriage= + Ryan States 4 singing out + global LGBT news + more!

[This Way Out]

 "THIS WAY OUT: the international lesbian & gay radio magazine"
Program #1,210 - distributed 6/6/11
Airs on more than 200 local stations around the world... or
Listen now via our free podcasts at
http://www.thiswayout.org
(hosted by Lucia Chappelle and produced with Greg Gordon)
On-screen father-son "Beginners" share a late love story;
Big Republican donors support marriage equality in New York;
Celebrating a gravelly-voiced writer/actor in a "Rainbow Minute";
AIDS prevention ads are attacked by the Australian Christian Lobby,
Nepal's head count of "third genders" may be a world first, "It Gets
Batter" with pro baseball teams' anti-bullying plays, and more news

- In "NewsWrap": An Aussie safe sex campaign is saved from homophobic Christian opposition... South Africa's recently-appointed ambassador to Uganda Jon Qwelane is convicted of anti-gay hate speech... Nepal becomes what may be the world's first country to count sexual minorities in its census... dozens of couples get licensed in Illinois on the first day the state's new civil unions law takes effect, while Connecticut and Nevada governors each sign bills protecting transgender people from discrimination; and the 2010 U.S. baseball champion San Francisco Giants become the first professional sports franchise to contribute a supportive video to the "It Gets Better" LGBTQ teen suicide prevention campaign [hear the audio track]... and more LGBT news from around the world (written by GREG GORDON, produced by STEVE PRIDE, and reported this week by TANYA KANE-PARRY and MICHAEL LEBEAU).

- Conservative voices in favor of same-gender marriage are being heard more and more often. To the surprise of some, major Republican donors known more for their support of conservative candidates than progressive social causes are kicking in big bucks to push for marriage equality in New York (BILL NEWMAN of the ACLU of Massachusetts has the story in this "CIVIL LIBERTIES MINUTE").

- "HARVEY FIERSTEIN'S VOICE" celebrates the pioneering "out" writer/actor in this "RAINBOW MINUTE" (produced by JUDD PROCTOR & BRIAN BURNS at WRIR-FM in Richmond, Virginia and read by Sonia of disappear fear).

- Singer-songwriter RYAN STATES talks about how listening to "This Way Out" helped inspire him to be an "out" performer (with an excerpt from his "Better (When You're Older)", and special thanks to JD DOYLE) + "TWO" I.D. by iconic lesbian singer/songwriter JANIS IAN.

- From writer/director MIKE MILLS comes "BEGINNERS", a comedy/drama about how deeply funny and transformative life can be, even at its most serious moments. Borrowing from his experience with his own late father, Mills crafts an endearing drama about an elderly widower (CHRISTOPHER PLUMMER) who announces that he's gay to his son (EWAN MCGREGOR) and that he "plans to do something about it." "This Way Out's" STEVE PRIDE chats with Mills and McGregor and shares clips from the film.
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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.
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