[OutVoice] Bristol's LGBT past+Why Mongolians beef+LGBT news

[Greg Gordon]

"THIS WAY OUT: the international lesbian & gay radio magazine"
Program #1,299 - distributed 02/18/13
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(hosted by Greg Gordon and produced with Lucia Chappelle)
Determined Mongolians come out and get even;
Bristol's LGBT History Month observance brings tears and cheers;
Activism brings backlash in Belarus, there are wedding announcements in
four U.S. states but Thailand's "Town of Love" rejects marriage-seeking
same-gender couples, topless Parisian feminists celebrate Pope
Benedict's surprise departure, and more global LGBT news

- In "NewsWrap": Police in Minsk and other cities in Belarus raid gay 
nightspots and hold detainees overnight, while more than 60 LGBT rights 
activists are summoned to police stations for interrogation about their 
sex lives... 22 men are arrested under the 1951 Bombay Police Act for 
"public indecency" at a "gay party" in a suburb of Mumbai... France's 
National Assembly formally passes a bill to open civil marriage and 
extend adoption rights to same-gender couples... the Illinois Senate 
passes a marriage equality bill, while Oregon United for Marriage 
launches a signature-gathering campaign to qualify a November 2014 
marriage equality ballot measure, but a bill to open civil marriage to 
lesbian and gay couples dies in the Hawai'i House, although the Colorado
 Senate passes a civil unions bill for same-gender couples... gay and 
lesbian couples try to get marriage licenses in Thailand's "Town of 
Love", while legislative hearings in Bangkok consider a marriage-like 
civil partnership proposal... topless feminist activists chant "no more 
homophobe" inside Paris' Notre Dame Cathedral to celebrate Roman 
Catholic Pope Benedict XVI's surprise resignation... and more LGBT news 
from around the world (written by GREG GORDON, produced by STEVE PRIDE, 
and reported this week by GARY SHAW and NATALIE PEOPLES).

- February is LGBT History Month in many parts of the world, and the 
British city of BRISTOL is doing it up in grand style this year. 
Numerous events include a new education project and a major exhibition 
at M Shed, the city's unique museum that reflects the stories of Bristol
 locals and visitors throughout history. The excitement was just 
beginning when MARY MILTON of BCFM's "ShoutOut" programme sent us this 
report (featuring comments by exhibition visitors, and elected Bristol 
Mayor GEORGE FERGUSON; openly gay Lord Mayor PETER MAIN; Cabinet Member 
for Children and Young People CLARE CAMPION-SMITH; prominent playwright 
NEIL BARTLETT; award-winning "out" trans writer CHERYL MORGAN; and 
M-Shed's Curator of Public History CATHERINE LITTLEJOHNS).

- KATIE COOK and MAGGIE YOUNG have been sending "audio postcards" to 
"This Way Out" from their worldwide road-trip to find LGBT people for a 
documentary film. A few weeks ago we shared their first dispatch from 
MONGOLIA. What they discovered there just couldn't be contained in one 
communiqué, so we re-join the "SAPPHIC NOMADS" as they continue their 
visit with the descendants of Genghis Khan (with comments by OTGONBAATAR
 TSEDENDEMBEREL, Executive Director and co-founder of the LGBT Centre of
 Mongolia; ANARAA NYAMDORJ, LGBT Centre of Mongolia co-founder and 
co-owner of the only LGBT bar in the country, 100%; and with indigenous 
on-scene music) [www.nomaddocumentary.com].
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