[OutVoice] Jodie's Golden Outing+P-FLAG's 1st Mom+global LGBT news

[Greg Gordon]

"THIS WAY OUT: the international lesbian & gay radio magazine"
Program #1,295 - distributed 01/21/13
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(hosted by Greg Gordon and produced with Lucia Chappelle)
Words of wisdom from P-FLAG's first mom;
Movie icon Jodie Foster goes on a Golden outing;
Thousands protest gay rights in Hong Kong and marriage equality in
Paris, Australia's P.M. assures the country's Christian Lobby that it
can continue to discriminate against LGBT people but the EuroCourt
rules that secular rights trump religious belief, and more LGBT news


- In "NewsWrap": Tens of thousands rally against anti-discrimination protections for sexual minorities in Hong Kong and against marriage equality in Paris... P.M. Julia Gillard reportedly assures the Australian Christian Lobby that religious exemptions from anti-bias laws -- including schools and hospitals -- will continue under updated federal anti-discrimination statutes, but the European Court of Human Rights rules in the case of two devout British Christians that religious belief cannot be used to justify discrimination against gays and lesbians... well-known Canadian-born character actor Victor Garber comes out in the shadow of Jodie Foster... and more LGBT news from around the world (written by GREG GORDON, produced by STEVE PRIDE, and reported this week by CHRIS WILSON and JASON PROCTOR).

- Veteran moviemaker JODIE FOSTER, who’s done critically-acclaimed work in front of and behind the camera for nearly five decades, finally broke her lesbian silence while accepting the Hollywood Foreign Press Association’s Cecil B. DeMille Lifetime Achievement Award at the annual GOLDEN GLOBE AWARDS in LOS ANGELES on January 13th. It was the first time Foster has spoken publicly about what had been an open secret to many. Nevertheless, acknowledging her sexual orientation to a worldwide TV audience during a sometimes-rambling thank you speech seemed to have been a last-minute decision (with brief intro music from "I’m Coming Out" performed by DIANA ROSS).

- Parents, Families, and Friends of Lesbians and Gays – widely-known as P-FLAG – always gets some of the loudest cheers at LGBT Pride parades.  It began when the group’s founding mother, JEANNE MANFORD, proudly marched with her son at New York’s Christopher Street Liberation Day Parade in 1972. Jeanne Manford died in her Daly City, California home on January 8th at the age of 92. Rachel Maddow delivered a touching eulogy on her MSNBC cable show a few days later (includes comments by Manford and by PRESIDENT BARACK OBMA, with outro music from "Mother Mother" performed by CRIS WILLIAMSON).
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