[OutVoice] DOMA debunked+a Rich life+global LGBT news

[This Way Out]

"THIS WAY OUT: the international lesbian & gay radio magazine"
Program #1,254 - distributed 04/09/12
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(hosted by Greg Gordon and produced with Lucia Chappelle)
Multiple U.S. marriage cases close in on DOMA;
Celebrating Mexico City civil unions in a "Rainbow Minute",
and an iconic lesbian-feminist poet who made the world a Richer place;
A hate group threatens the liberty of LGBT Liberians, activists are
attacked for "gay speak" in St. Petersburg and Yaounde, Malaysia pushes
TV back in the closet, Chile finally bans anti-LGBT bias, and more news


- In "NewsWrap": An anti-gay group in Liberia's capital city of Monrovia distributes fliers with what is being described as a "hit list" of people who support LGBT rights, while authorities in Cameroon's capital of Yaounde shut down a human rights workshop when they discover that the focus is on LGBT rights... two Russian gay activists become the first to be arrested in St. Petersburg under the city's recently enacted law criminalizing dissemination of LGBT "propaganda" to minors, while Malaysian government authorities announce a ban on state-owned radio and TV stations of any shows that feature gay characters... Chilean lawmakers pass a bill to ban sexual orientation- and gender identity-based bias 7 years after it was first introduced, but about a week after the highly-publicized brutal neo-Nazi gang beating death of "out" young man Daniel Zamudio...  citing several polling place irregularities, the ACLU of Alaska demands a formal review of municipal election results this week in Anchorage that included the overwhelming defeat of Proposition 5, which would have banned anti-LGBT bias... the Motion Picture Association of America changes the "R" rating of "Bully", the highly-praised documentary about anti-queer school bullying, to "PG-13", which will allow it to be seen by the film's target audience... and other LGBT news from around the world (written by GREG GORDON, produced by STEVE PRIDE, and reported this week by TANYA KANE-PARRY & GARY SHAW).

- Constitutional challenges to DOMA, the Defense of Marriage Act, reached a U.S. federal appeals court for the first time this week. The 1996 law that bans recognition of same-gender unions denies those couples more than a thousand federal benefits in areas ranging from healthcare, children and families to taxation, property, and inheritance rights. Three judges from the BOSTON-based UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE FIRST CIRCUIT heard attorneys for the state of MASSACHUSETTS and a group of seven legally married same-gender couples and three widowers urge them to uphold two lower court decisions from July 2010 that declared a key provision of DOMA to be a violation of the U.S. Constitution’s Due Process Clause. ALICE OLLSTEIN filed this report for "Free Speech Radio News" [with comments by Gay & Lesbian Advocates & Defenders (GLAD) Senior Staff Attorney VICKIE HENRY; Lambda Legal Marriage Project Director CAMILLA TAYLOR; and Massachusetts Attorney General MARTHA COAKLEY].
[www.fsrn.org]

- "Civil Unions Reach Mexico City" in a "RAINBOW MINUTE" (produced by JUDD PROCTOR & BRIAN BURNS at WRIR-FM in Richmond, Virginia and read by read by MAC PENCE).

- The Yale Young Poets prize, the National Book Award, the "Los Angeles Times" Book Award, the Ruth Lily Poetry Prize, the National Book Critics Circle Award... she would've received the National Medal for the Arts, too, but she turned that one down in 1997. In a note to President Bill Clinton, ADRIENNE RICH wrote that, "The radical disparities of wealth and power in America are widening at a devastating rate. A president cannot meaningfully honor certain token artists while the people at large are so dishonored." The recent passing of the iconic "out" lesbian-feminist writer is marked by "This Way Out's" RICK WATTS in a tribute produced by STEVE PRIDE featuring selected Rich readings, and excerpts from a Pacific Radio Archives interview with her conducted in 1983 by the noted feminist poet ELOISE KLEIN HEALY.
[www.pacificaradioarchives.org]
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