[OutVoice] Baldwin, Mercury, Wilde, & Parker+global LGBT news

[Greg Gordon]

"THIS WAY OUT: the international lesbian & gay radio magazine"
Program #1,321 - distributed 07/22/13
Airs on more than 200 local stations around the world -
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(hosted by Greg Gordon and produced with Lucia Chappelle)
A gay countertenor sings the praises of "Oscar";
James Baldwin's "Notes of a Native Son" get a timely reissue;
A "Rainbow Minute" remembers Jim and Freddie;
A political poet schools "The Straight Folks";
Queen Elizabeth crowns marriage equality, Mexico has its first out
mayor, Okinawa dots its "i" in pink, and more LGBT news

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 In "NewsWrap": The Queen's Royal Assent makes England and Wales the 
16th and 17th countries in the world to open civil marriage to 
same-gender couples, U.S. House Republicans stop wasting taxpayer money 
defending DOMA, a gay Aussie couple wins a "dream wedding" in New 
Zealand, and the first kiwi same-gender couple to wed may do so at 
30,000 feet… Cameroon gay and AIDS activist Eric Lembembe is 
horrifically tortured to death, while 20-year-old Hashim al-Asimi is 
shot dead in Yemen for being gay… singer and gay bar owner Benjamin 
Medrano becomes Mexico's first "out" mayor, while Pink Dot Singapore 
begets Pink Dot Okinawa… and more LGBT news from around the world 
(written by GREG GORDON, produced this week by ANGELA BROOKS & STEVE
 PRIDE, and reported by PAM MARSHALL & MICHAEL LEBEAU).

- The
 acquittal of George Zimmerman in the shooting death of black teenager 
Trayvon Martin has prompted even President Barack Obama to speak openly 
about the experiences of African American men. No one has ever done that
 quite like author and activist JAMES BALDWIN, whose "NOTES OF A NATIVE 
SON" has recently been re-issued. "This Way Out Queer Life and 
Literature" commentator JANET MASON takes a new look at the iconic 
classic.

- "JIM HUTTON REMEMBERS FREDDIE MERCURY" in a "RAINBOW 
MINUTE" (produced by JUDD PROCTOR & BRIAN BURNS at WRIR-FM in 
Richmond, Virginia and read by GENE PEMBLETON).

- Gay American 
countertenor DAVID DANIELS stars this month in the SANTA FE (NEW MEXICO)
 OPERA's world premier of a new work about the last years of gay British
 literary icon Oscar Wilde. SPENCER BECKWITH [of "Performance New 
Mexico" on KUNM-FM at the University of New Mexico] chats with Daniels 
about his collaborative effort with composer Theodore Morrison and 
librettist John Cox to bring "OSCAR" to life (introduced by a brief 
excerpt from Daniels singing "He Was Despised" from Handel's "Messiah").
[www.KUNM.org]

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 The late lamented Black lesbian-feminist poet and activist PAT PARKER's
 still-timely classic "FOR THE STRAIGHT FOLKS (WHO DON'T MIND GAYS BUT 
WISH THEY WEREN'T SO BLATANT)".
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