[OutVoice] The many songs of Robert Patrick + global LGBT news

[This Way Out]

 "THIS WAY OUT: the international lesbian & gay radio magazine"
Program #1,248 - distributed 02/27/12
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(hosted this week by Greg Gordon and produced with Lucia Chappelle)
Out and Off-Off-Broadway with proud playwright/singer/songwriter Robert Patrick;
Marriage equality becomes the law of Mary-land, Maine advocates push to
restore theirs at the ballot box, another U.S. federal court disses
DOMA, registered Queensland couples get recognized, marriage equality
is on the menu for Australia's P.M., India's government does damage
control after its legal mouthpiece messes up, and more LGBT news
  
  
- In "NewsWrap": Washington becomes the 8th U.S. state to open civil marriage to lesbian and gay couples, a New Jersey judge expands a lawsuit challenging the state's ban on marriage for same-gender couples and its less-than-equal civil unions, while Maine LGBT advocates turn in far more than enough petition signatures to qualify a measure for the November ballot to restore marriage equality in their state... a U.S. District Court judge rules that the Defense of Marriage Act violates constitutional equal protection provisions [with a brief excerpt from analysis by Lambda Legal's JON DAVIDSON on "Free Speech Radio News"]... hundreds of same-gender couples in Queensland begin to register their relationships under the Australian state's new civil partnerships law, while three same-gender couples dine with marriage equality-opposing Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard... India's government scrambles to contradict statements by one of its top lawyers at a Supreme Court review of a ruling decriminalizing gay sex that such acts are "highly immoral and against the social order"... and more LGBT news from around the world (written by GREG GORDON, produced by STEVE PRIDE, and reported this week by VASH BODDIE & SARAH SWEENEY).
  
- The LGBT community has made so many significant contributions to society, most of which sadly go unknown. But if gay people are to be seen as equal, those contributions have to be shared and celebrated – and, like recently enacted but controversial legislation in California, that includes teaching LBGT history in schools. "This Way Out" correspondent VASH BODDIE's spotlight on venerable openly gay playwright, poet, and singer/songwriter ROBERT PATRICK ("Kennedy's Children", "Camera Obscura", "The Haunted Host", "T-Shirts", "Michelangelo's Models", and dozens more) is a good example of why that's so important.
[find Robert Patrick on YouTube at Robert Patrick singing,
Robert Patrick song, or Robert Patrick play]
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