[OutVoice] A musical treasure+Navi v. Nigeria+more LGBT news

Greg Gordon greggordon2003 at yahoo.com
Tue Jul 9 13:51:12 CDT 2013


"THIS WAY OUT: the international lesbian & gay radio magazine"
Program #1,319 - distributed 07/08/13
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(hosted by Greg Gordon and produced with Lucia Chappelle)
Discovering everything possible about "Everything Possible";
The UN Rights leader has her say about Nigeria's "Jail the Gays" bill;
LGBT Pride deploys to Kandahar, and "Everyone Is Gay";
A bouquet of lawsuits bloom from the U.S. Supreme Court DOMA decision,
marriage equality slips past Costa Rican lawmakers, Pink Dot takes aim
at Singapore's penal code, and more global LGBT news

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 In "NewsWrap": In the wake of last week's U.S. Supreme Court ruling 
striking down a key provision of the federal Defense of Marriage Act 
(DOMA), the Pentagon announces that the spouses of married gay and 
lesbian service members will soon enjoy all the military benefits of 
their heterosexual peers, deportation proceedings against gay and 
lesbian foreigners in legal marriages with American same-gender partners
 end, green cards are going out to foreign spouses in U.S. bi-national 
same-gender couples, and gay and lesbian Americans can now sponsor their
 foreign-born same-gender spouses for citizenship… the ACLU and NCLR 
file suit in New Mexico arguing that the state's gender-neutral civil 
marriage laws open the institution to same-gender couples, New Jersey 
couples press their marriage equality case with the state Supreme Court,
 and a federal judge green-lights a lawsuit challenging Michigan's 
constitutional marriage ban, while 11 same-gender couples file suit 
against Arkansas' ban… Costa Rican lawmakers "accidentally" approve the 
legal recognition of same-gender couples… a record pink-attired crowd of
 21,000 lights up Singapore night skies at the annual Pink Dot LGBT 
rights festival, while Istanbul Pride unexpectedly rides the waves of 
Turkey's pro-democracy movement.. and more LGBT news from around the 
world (written by GREG GORDON, produced this week by STEVE PRIDE & 
ANGELA BROOKS, and reported by JENN MAHONEY & CHARLIE BAUER).

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 More than 6800 miles from the site of the Stonewall Uprising, U.S. 
service members have observed the first LGBT Pride Event in a deployed 
environment at KANDAHAR AIRFIELD, AFGHANISTAN. This official US Defense 
Department report captured the spirit of the celebration (intro music 
from SUGARBEACH's "Living Out Proud")...
[segues directly to:]
- "EVERYONE IS GAY" by A GREAT BIG WORLD.
[www.EveryoneIsGay.com]

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 Another anti-homophobia cyber campaign targeted NIGERIA this week when 
Irish "hacktivist" "Paddy Hack" took down the government's official 
website, demanding that President Goodluck Jonathan "renounce and veto" 
an extreme measure that goes much farther than ostensibly just banning 
marriage equality. Referred to as the "Jail All the Gays Bill", the law 
passed by Parliament in late May would imprison known LGBT people for up
 to 14 years, and slap heavy sentences on anyone who knows, supports or 
even provides services to them. UNITED NATIONS HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSIONER
 NAVI PILLAY laid down her organization's most explicit challenge yet to
 the draconian proposal in response to questions from DAVIS MAC-IYALLA 
of Changing Attitudes Nigeria on the "BBC World Have Your Say" program.

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 Singer-songwriter FRED SMALL became a "straight ally" long before there
 was a name for that with a much-loved contribution to LGBT culture. 
Queer music maestro JD DOYLE wanted to know everything possible about 
Small's signature song "EVERYTHING POSSIBLE" (with music by MICHAEL 
CALLEN and THE FLIRTATIONS).
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