[OutVoice] Steel Mongolians+"Tea Leaves" Down Under+LGBT news

[Greg Gordon]

"THIS WAY OUT: the international lesbian & gay radio magazine"
Program #1,294 - distributed 01/14/13
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(hosted by Greg Gordon and produced with Lucia Chappelle)
Morning dawns for the LGBT movement in Mongolia;
"Tea Leaves" travel to Australia;
Italy's top court supports same-gender parenting, a gay Serbian wins
his discrimination lawsuit, homosexuality convictions are quashed in
Cameroon, Sweden stops sterilizing trans surgery patients, equality
bells ring at Washington's National Cathedral, and more LGBT news


- In "NewsWrap": Italy's Supreme Court declares that same-gender couples can raise children just as well as heterosexual couples, an appeals court in Serbia becomes the first in the Balkan nation to punish someone for anti-gay discrimination, and the Court of Appeals in Cameroon frees 2 men after they'd served more than a year of 5-year "homosexuality" prison sentences... the Stockholm Administrative Court of Appeals overturns a 1972 law in Sweden that required involuntary sterilization in all gender reassignment surgeries... the Church of England says that "out" gay men in celibate civil partnerships can now become bishops, while the national seat of America's Episcopal Church, the iconic National Cathedral in Washington, D.C., will soon begin hosting the weddings of lesbian & gay couples... and more LGBT news from around the world (written by GREG GORDON and reported this week by ROBERT LEBLANC & PAMELA BROOKS).

- "This Way Out Queer Life and Literature" commentator JANET MASON's book tour for her memoir, "TEA LEAVES", has taken her to some North American cities, but to get to Australia she had to "fly" by phone. On the other end was GORDON WILSON at Joy 94.9, Melbourne's gay and lesbian radio station. LGBT baby boomers caring for their aging parents is a major theme of Janet's tale of mothers and daughters, so Gordon zeroed in on Janet's own experiences taking care of her mother during her final months of life.

- KATIE COOK and MAGGIE YOUNG quit their jobs to spend a year as "Sapphic Nomads", traveling the globe in search of LGBT people and material for a documentary film. They promised to send "This Way Out" audio postcards from the road, and sent their first late last year from Samoa. Their latest comes from the northern steppes of MONGOLIA.
[www.nomaddocumentary.com]
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