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[This Way Out]

 "THIS WAY OUT: the international lesbian & gay radio magazine"
Program #1,255 - distributed 04/16/12
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(hosted by Greg Gordon and produced with Lucia Chappelle)
A Silver Lake ceremony marks the "Hay Day" of the movement;
Gambia goes after gays and lesbians, a drunken Dubai dalliance draws
stiff jail time, Budapest cops and Hungarian lawmakers want to silence
LGBT people, Russia's delegation decries a G8 rights declaration,
studies show homophobes doth protest too much, a "reparative therapy"
supporter repudiates his research, and more global LGBT news
  
  
- In "NewsWrap": More than a dozen "suspected homosexuals" are arrested for "indecent practices" in the west African nation of Gambia, while two men – one from Britain and the other from the Seychelles – are sentenced in Dubai to three years in jail for having consensual but drunken gay sex in public... police in Hungary's capital of Budapest refuse to issue permits for a planned LGBT Pride march, while bills are introduced in Hungary's parliament echoing similar legislation recently introduced in Russia's lower house of parliament making it a criminal offense to "promote" LGBT rights, and Russia's delegation to the G8 Foreign Ministers meeting in Washington rejects language in a post-event document that included support for the humanity of sexual minorities... a series of studies of college students in the U.S., U.K. and Germany suggest that the most outspoken homophobes are often themselves repressed homosexuals, while leading U.S. psychiatrist Dr. Robert Spitzer repudiates controversial research he published in 2001 that seemed to support so-called "change therapy"... openly gay Australian Greens chair and Senator Bob Brown unexpectedly announces his retirement after leading the progressive political party for the past 16 years from what the Australian Broadcasting Corporation called the "radical fringe to the center of power"... and more LGBT news from around the world (written by GREG GORDON, produced this week by VASH BODDIE & STEVE PRIDE, and reported by SARAH SWEENEY and ABBY DEES).
  
- Nestled in the steep foothills between downtown Los Angeles and Hollywood, a pivotal front in the LGBT revolution was born in 1950.  The steps that lead from SILVER LAKE Boulevard up to the house where pioneer Radical Faerie HARRY HAY hosted the first meetings of the Mattachine Society has now been christened a historic site of the city. Dignitaries, politicians, neighborhood activists, and community leaders spoke at the April 7th dedication ceremony. "This Way Out’s" VASH BODDIE was there (includes remarks by longtime friend, Radical Faerie, and prolific writer MARK THOMPSON; the REV. MALCOLM BOYD representing the Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles; California ASSEMBLYMAN MIKE GOTTO; local gay historical preservationist WES JOE; Chair, Urban Design & Preservation Committee of the Silver Lake Neighborhood Council ELIZABETH BOUGART; Hay neighbors DAVID BYRD & JOLINO BECERRA; and L.A. CITY COUNCILMAN ERIC GARCETTI).
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