[OutVoice] Introducing Russia's Nikolai Alekseev+LGBT news+more!

[This Way Out]

 "THIS WAY OUT: the international lesbian & gay radio magazine"
Program #1,205 - distributed 5/2/11
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(hosted by Lucia Chappelle and produced with Greg Gordon)
Russian activist Nikolai Alekseev goes another round for Moscow Pride;
Veteran US activist Frank Kameny is celebrated in 2 "Rainbow Minutes";
Uganda removes the death penalty from its still-harsh anti-gay bill,
a South African lesbian activist is slaughtered in a "corrective rape"
attack, a gay writer wins a Japanese municipal election, Congress' DOMA
defender quits his pro-LGBT law firm, and more global LGBT news

- In "NewsWrap": The death penalty may have been dropped from the proposed Anti-Homosexuality Bill in Uganda, but the draconian measure still punishes same-gender sex with life in prison and may still be voted on in parliament before its session ends on May 12th... lesbian activist Noxolo Nogwaza is sexually assaulted and brutally murdered in another case of so-called "corrective rape" in South Africa... Taiga Ishikawa becomes Japan's first openly gay elected official by winning a seat on the Tokyo area Toshima Ward Assembly... King and Spalding, the law firm hired by the U.S. House of Representatives to defend the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), bows out, but its senior partner Paul Clement, who was its lead attorney and wants to continue that defense, resigns and brings the case to another law firm... supporters of Proposition 8 file a motion to have U.S. District Court Judge Vaughn Walker's ruling overturning the marriage equality-banning California measure thrown out after he comes out as a partnered gay man soon after retiring... the U.K. Equal Love Campaign asks newlywed royals William and Kate to support same-gender marriage [with comments by venerable British activist PETER TATCHELL]... and more LGBT news from around the world  (written by GREG GORDON, produced by STEVE PRIDE, and reported this week by PAM MARSHALL and JENN MAHONEY).

- "FRANK KAMENY - GRANDFATHER OF THE [U.S.] GAY MOVEMENT" is profiled and "FRANK KAMENY CLEANS OUT HIS ATTIC" adds to the saga in these two "RAINBOW MINUTES" (produced by JUDD PROCTOR and BRIAN BURNS at WRIR-FM in Richmond, Virginia and read, respectively, by TOM MILLER and CHRIS DELBOM).

- MOSCOW's first sanctioned Pride event may be happening at the end of May... but then again, it may not. If Pride does break out in the RUSSIAN capital this year, it'll be largely due to the efforts of NIKOLAI ALEKSEEV, the country's best-known LGBT activist. Public Pride gatherings have been banned in Moscow since 2006, but Alekseev went to the European Court of Human Rights, which found those bans in violation of the EU's freedom of assembly provisions. This week Alekseev announced on his website plans for a May 28th action, saying that Moscow authorities had given the green light for it. However, Mayor Sergei Sobyanin has said that he would not support a march through the city. We'll update the situation as it develops in the next few weeks. Meanwhile, "This Way Out's" STEVE PRIDE [with thanks for production assistance to RICK WATTS] explores the past, present and future of Russian LGBT civil rights in the first of a special series of conversations with Alekseev himself.
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