[OutVoice] Russia Cameroon Zimbabwe + more LGBT news

[Greg Gordon]

"THIS WAY OUT: the international lesbian & gay radio magazine"
Program #1,322 - distributed 07/29/13
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(hosted by Greg Gordon and produced with Lucia Chappelle)
Russian repression threatens the Olympic torch;
Cameroon activists mourn assassinated leader Eric Lembembe;
Updating Zimbabwe's long hard slog against ignorance and hate;
Moldova surprises rights groups with its own "no promo homo" law, death
threats and stones greet Montenegro's first-ever LGBT Pride march,
a Super Mario satire stings Spanish language media, and more LGBT news

- In "NewsWrap": A scathing rebuke of President Vladimir Putin in the 
"New York Times" kicks off an LGBT week dominated by news in or about 
Russia: the apoplectic leader of the Russian Orthodox Church warns that 
marriage equality is a "dangerous sign of the apocalypse", a St. 
Petersburg appeals court judge upholds a backbreaking fine against the 
"Side By Side" LGBT Film Festival for violating a new national "foreign 
agent" law, a neo-Nazi group uses the Russian version of "Facebook" to 
lure young gay men to a supposed date that turns into videotaped 
torture, beatings, and humiliation, and 4 Dutch nationals become the 
first non-Russians to be punished for violating the new national law 
against the "promotion of non-traditional sexual relations"… Moldova 
secretly enacts its own "no promo homo" law, protestors chanting "kill 
the gays" and throwing stones and bottles greet Pride marchers in 
Montenegro, while eggs are the thrown objects of choice in Lithuania… 
Luigi and Mario aren't Brothers, they're really a gay couple… and more 
LGBT news from around the world (written by GREG GORDON, produced by 
STEVE PRIDE, and reported this week by CHRISTOPHER GAAL and TANYA 
KANE-PARRY).

- It took a "New York Times" op-ed piece by the multi-award-winning 
playwright-performer-author-activist HARVEY FIERSTEIN to put the 
spotlight on RUSSIA's fierce crackdown on LGBT rights. In recent weeks 
President Vladimir Putin has signed laws banning LGBT-positive speech, 
and adoptions of Russian children by parents from marriage equality 
countries -- and more repressive laws are said to be in the works. 
Shocking violence against gays and lesbians and their allies is clearly 
on the rise. Fierstein took his dire warning to LAWRENCE O'DONNELL's 
"The Last Word" on MSNBC.
[www.msnbc.com]

- Dangers loom heavily over the heads of African LGBT activists, with 
CAMEROON and Zimbabwe as two of the critical hotspots. "Free Speech 
Radio News" featured reports from both countries this week, starting 
with coverage of the murder of ERIC LEMBEMBE, executive director of the 
Cameroonian human rights group CAMFAIDS. NGALA KILLIAN CHIMTOM has the 
story from YAOUNDE (including comments by leading Cameroonian human 
rights lawyer ALICE NKOM).

- ZIMBABWE activists have been engaged in a struggle for LGBT rights for
 decades. GARIKAI CHAUNZA of "Free Speech Radio News" has the latest 
from HARARE (includes comments by UN Human Rights Commissioner NAVI 
PILLAY).
[www.fsrn.org]
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