[OutVoice] Staceyann Chin+more "Longjones"+LGBT news

[This Way Out]

"THIS WAY OUT: the international lesbian & gay radio magazine"
  Program #1,266 - distributed 07/02/12
  Airs on more than 200 local stations around the world -
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  (hosted by Greg Gordon and produced with Lucia Chappelle)
  A story of Ugandan Pride under pressure;
  A Jamaican-Chinese lesbian poet-activist's "Vanity" affair;
  A tour of European Pride in a "Rainbow Minute";
  Tense Bulgarian Pride parades peacefully in Sofia, Santiago's Equality
  March calls families out of the closet, DOMA discrimination sours
  Pentagon Pride, and more global LGBT news
  

- In "NewsWrap": Riot police protect a violence-threatened Pride parade in Sofia, and marchers are egged in Thessaloniki, but 80,000 celebrate at Santiago's twelfth annual parade, and in another sign of changing times, a first-ever U.S. Defense Department-sponsored LGBT Pride event packs the Pentagon Auditorium; a bill to address DOMA-created inequalities in the military benefits available to married same-gender service members is introduced in Congress, but House Republicans ask the U.S. Supreme Court to uphold the 1996 statute... the man charged with brutally murdering South African gay/trans activist Thapelo Makuthle tells the court that he acted alone, but shows no remorse... pioneering gay British mathematician, heralded World War II code-breaker and computer theorist Alan Turing may not have committed suicide, as is widely believed... and more LGBT news from around the world (written by GREG GORDON, produced by STEVE PRIDE, and reported this week by RICK WATTS and MISS BARBIE-Q).
  
- Europe celebrates "CHRISTOPHER STREET DAY" in a "RAINBOW MINUTE" (produced by JUDD PROCTOR & BRIAN BURNS at WRIR-FM in Richmond, Virginia and read by NANCY WALDO).
  
- Last time, our Steve Pride introduced us to UGANDAN activist JOHN "LONGJONES" WAMBERE, who discussed the uphill battle for LGBT rights in his homeland.  The conversation continues with "This Way Out" Associate Producer LUCIA CHAPPELLE, who talked with "Longjones" during his visit to Metropolitan Community Church in Los Angeles about being caught up in an infamous tabloid "outing" spree, how gay men and lesbians live and struggle in his country today, and the vital HIV/AIDS work he does with the organization Spectrum Uganda.
  
- Fierce Jamaican-Chinese lesbian poet-activist STACEYANN CHIN performs "If Only Out of Vanity" from "Russell Simmons' Def Poetry Jam".
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