[OutVoice] 4 U.S. states of marriage + other LGBT news

[Greg Gordon]

"THIS WAY OUT: the international lesbian & gay radio magazine"
Program #1,285 - distributed 11/12/12
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(hosted by Greg Gordon and produced with Lucia Chappelle)
 Perfection at the polls in Maine, Washington, Minnesota and Maryland for U.S. marriage;
Tammy takes the Senate, and a few disappointments don't sour dozens of
electoral successes for other "out" candidates;
and the Aussie "Big Brother" winner's heartwarming en-gay-gement!

- In "NewsWrap": LGBT rights supporters celebrate historic victories in this week's U.S. elections, including a 2nd term win by "Ally in Chief" President Barack Obama, and TAMMY BALDWIN of Wisconsin becoming the first open lesbian or gay person elected to the U.S. Senate [with brief Baldwin election night comments]... Maine voters re-open civil marriage to same-gender couples, voters in Maryland and Washington each affirm the marriage equality votes of their respective state legislatures, and Minnesotans reject a proposal to constitutionally ban same-gender marriage... more than a hundred "out" LGBT candidates win state and local elections across the country and nearly double their number on Capitol Hill... "Big Brother Australia" winner Benjamin Norris proposes to his boyfriend on national television... and more LGBT news (written by GREG GORDON, produced by STEVE PRIDE, and reported this week by JASON PROCTOR and NATALIE PEOPLES).

- Barack Obama was on to something when he said during the waning days of the presidential campaign that, "Voting is the best revenge." And after 32 losses that began in 1998 when marriage for same-gender couples was on the ballot, equality supporters savored *their* revenge in all four states where it was an issue this year. Voters in MAINE made it the first to open civil marriage to gay and lesbian couples by a popular vote: AMY BROWNE reports from WERU-FM in East Orland. Even though anti-gay opponents didn't concede defeat until two days after the election because WASHINGTON votes by mail, the electorate there made it one of two states in the U.S. this week to confirm marriage equality legislation that had been enacted by their state government: QUENTIN MAHONEY reports from KAOS in Olympia. Meanwhile, voters in Minnesota made it the first state in the nation to reject a proposal to define marriage as exclusively heterosexual in their state
 constitution: MICHELLE ALIMORADI (with production assistance by DIXIE TREICHEL) reports from KFAI in Minneapolis/St. Paul. Voters in MARYLAND can lay claim to being the first in the U.S. to uphold their state government's enactment of civil marriage equality: JOEL McCORD reports from WYPR in Baltimore. And during his election night victory speech, PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA echoed one of the themes in his speech at the 2004 Democratic National Convention that catapulted him into the national political spotlight (with intro music from a "rough mix" of "Victory Day" performed by JAY SPEARS, with PAUL HOBBS, DOUG SMITH and PHILIP GOUGH).
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