[OutVoice] Bent-Con+"Daily Penetration"+global LGBT news

Greg Gordon greggordon2003 at yahoo.com
Tue Feb 5 15:27:48 CST 2013


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(hosted by Greg Gordon and produced with Lucia Chappelle)
Bent-Con celebrates queer super heroes;
Jon Stewart analyzes "Unprecedented Penetration";
Marriage equality "c'est bon" in France's National Assembly, U.S.
Senator John McCain nixes gay-inclusive immigration reform, Ontario's
Kathleen Wynne becomes Canada's first female and first "out" provincial
premier, Tennessee's "Don't Say Gill Bill" lives again, and more news

- In "NewsWrap": France's National Assembly says "absolument!" to a 
critical marriage equality bill component, but U.S. Senator John McCain 
calls inclusion of lesbian and gay bi-national couples in immigration 
reform discussions "a red herring"... Ontario's Kathleen Wynne becomes 
Canada's first female and first "out" provincial premier, while a small 
Canadian study finds that "out" gay and bisexual men are generally 
happier than their heterosexual peers... the once dead "Don't Say Gay 
Bill" is resurrected in the Tennessee legislature... San Francisco's 
Twin Peaks Tavern scales new heights... and more LGBT news from around 
the world (written by GREG GORDON, produced by STEVE PRIDE, and reported
 this week by VASH BODDIE and MICHAEL LEBEAU).

- While important battles certainly remain to be won, the long moral arc
 of the universe does finally seem to be bending towards justice for the
 LGBT rights movement in the U.S. Just this week, marriage equality 
continued on the march in Illinois and Hawai'i. A ban on equality 
stalled in Indiana, and church groups in Omaha, Nebraska were unable to 
gather enough petition signatures to repeal that city's new LGBT 
anti-bias bill. Many people are also citing word this week that the 
venerable Boy Scouts of America may drop its national policy banning 
openly gay leaders and scouts – although reports suggest that the 
organization will still allow local chapters, many of whom are sponsored
 by Mormon and Roman Catholic church groups, to maintain the 
discriminatory policy. The progressive trend was nevertheless noted this
 week in "Gaywatch – Unprecedented Penetration Edition" on Comedy 
Central's "THE DAILY SHOW with JON STEWART" (includes comments by FRANK 
S. PAGE, President of the Southern Baptist Convention, and Baltimore 
Ravens linebacker BRENDON AYABANDEJO).
[www.thedailyshow.com]

- There's a little super hero in all of us, and there's a special event 
for LGBT people to celebrate the history, and the future, of queer 
comics. BENT CON has been bringing artists, writers, gamers, actors and 
producers together to explore all facets of the art form for three years
 now. "This Way Out" correspondent ANGELA BROOKS was in Burbank, 
California for the most recent gathering (with comments by JUSTIN HALL; 
ABRAHAM LEE and P.K. EISELT from Minus Zero Productions; MICHAEL DERRY; 
ASTRID LYDIA HOHANSEN; and ZAN CHRISTIANSEN; and with intro music from 
the unreleased "Superheroes Can't Be Gay" from a skit performed on the 
Norwegian TV series "Collective", and outro music from "Superhero" 
performed by CANDYE KANE).
[justinhallcomics.com; troycomics.com; ellejohara.com; 
prismcomics.org]
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