[OutVoice] Cameroon refugee + poetic lesbian mysteries + LGBT news

Greg Gordon greggordon2003 at yahoo.com
Tue Apr 1 15:07:38 CDT 2014


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(hosted by Greg Gordon and produced with Lucia Chappelle)
A lesbian activist escapes from Cameroon;
Mysterious lesbian poetry meets poetic lesbian mystery;
Equal wedding bells ring in the U.K., Puerto Rican lesbians demand
marriage recognition, Russian homophobes assault leprechauns,
Tennessee lawmakers legalize anti-gay bias but Maryland
protects transgender people from discrimination, and more LGBT news

-
 In "NewsWrap": Lesbian and gay couples begin civilly marrying in 
England and Wales, while a lesbian couple who live in Puerto Rico but 
legally wed in Massachusetts files suit to require the U.S. territory to
 legally recognize the marriage… a group of students in a flashmob 
celebration of St. Patrick's Day in the Siberian city of Irkutsk are 
assaulted by homophobic thugs thinking it was a gay event, while 
Russia-like "no promo homo" laws are pending in the former Soviet 
republic of Kyrgyzstan -- with harsher penalties for violators than the 
Russian version -- and are being considered in Lithuania and Ukraine… 
activists in Uganda report on the increasingly dire situation for sexual
 minorities in the East African country, while preachers begin a series 
of "abolish homosexuality" marches [with brief sound of participants in 
West Budama chanting "no gays!"]… a "religious freedom" bill to 
"protect" Tennessee students from charges of anti-LGBT bias is headed to
 the governor's desk, with opponents calling it a "license to 
discriminate”… Maryland Governor Martin O’Malley is expected to sign 
into law a bill to protect transgender people in the state from 
discrimination… fringe opponents of marriage equality in the U.K. warn 
of apocalyptic consequencesthat include a resurrected Jesus being forced
 to marry a man and gay people digging up corpses on "National 
Necrophilia Day"… and more LGBT news from around the world (produced by 
STEVE PRIDE, written by GREG GORDON, and reported this week by MICHAEL 
LEBEAU and KRISTIN MELLIAN).

- Our queer life and literature 
commentator JANET MASON discovers mysterious lesbian poetry (NICOLE 
BROSSARD's "White Piano"/Coach House Books), and a poetic lesbian 
mystery (GATO [JOAN] TIMBERLAKE's "No Corpse Is an Island"/Blue Feather 
Books). 
[amusejanetmason.com]

- Think of the west central 
African REPUBLIC OF CAMEROON as a twisted microcosm of the continent: 
there's varied geography, cultural diversity, government corruption and 
official homophobia. It takes courage to be a political activist there –
 but still, sometimes the best strategy is retreat. That became the only
 option for lesbian GERTRUDE MELONG, who shared her story with "This Way
 Out's" STEVE PRIDE (with thanks to translator KARIMOU OLATOUNDJI, and 
"Gimme Shelter" outro music from "PLAYING FOR CHANGE").
[bornthiswaydocumentary.com; playingforchange.com]
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