[OutVoice] PureLand’s global radio debut + LGBT news + more!

[Greg Gordon]

"THIS WAY OUT: the international lesbian & gay radio magazine"
Program #1,360 - distributed 04/21/14
Airs on more than 200 local stations around the world -
Check the "Affiliate Stations" list on our website, or
 listen now via our free podcasts at www.thiswayout.org*, or on iTunes.
*http://www.radio4all.net/index.php/program/75334
(hosted by Greg Gordon and produced with Lucia Chappelle)
PureLand sings out as "the girls they are";
A British suffragist and composer is remembered in a "Rainbow Minute";
India's top court affirms trans-people, Malta bans trans bias and okays
civil unions, Ethiopia eschews Africa's trending homophobia while
Zimbabwe's Mugabe reinforces it, new laws in Brunei punish consensual
adult gay sex with death by stoning, and more global LGBT news

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 In "NewsWrap": India's High Court declares trans-people to be a third 
gender entitled to rights, protections, and government benefits, while 
the conviction and 35-year prison sentence for Wiki-leaking U.S. Army 
Private Chelsea Manning (formerly Bradley) are upheld, sending her case 
to a military appeals court, and Malta lawmakers protect transgender 
people from discrimination, and create marriage-like civil unions for 
same-gender couples that include adoption rights… Ethiopia's government 
resists calls for harsher anti-gay laws than already exist, so a large 
church groups-organized anti-gay march in Addis Ababa is cancelled, but 
Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe calls gays and lesbians "inhuman" and 
threatens to kick pro-gay foreign diplomats out of the country… Utah's 
Attorney General asks the state Supreme Court to stop same-gender 
couples who legally married during the brief few days that they could 
from getting second parent adoption approval… and more LGBT news from 
around the world (produced by STEVE PRIDE, written by GREG GORDON, and 
reported this week by SARAH SWEENEY and RYAN PEST).

- "ETHYL 
SMYTH, ENGLISH COMPOSER AND SUFFRAGIST" is remembered in this "RAINBOW 
MINUTE" (produced by JUDD PROCTOR and BRIAN BURNS at WRIR-FM in 
Richmond, Virginia and read by KAREN BURNS).

- A blind, lesbian 
opera singer is pretty unique, but LAURIE RUBIN and her professional and
 life partner JENNY TAIRA are taking on another musical genre. As 
PURELAND, the duo is exploring pop music with a message. They discussed 
their new direction for the first time with "This Way Out" correspondent
 ABBY DEES (with an excerpt from their new single, "THE GIRL I AM", and a
 live in-studio performance of "NOSE JOB").
[www.pure-land.com]
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