[OutVoice] Russian gays post-Olympics+Sam vs. "pro-mophobia"+more news

[Greg Gordon]

"THIS WAY OUT: the international lesbian & gay radio magazine"
Program #1,351 - distributed 02/17/14
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(hosted by Greg Gordon and produced with Lucia Chappelle)
Russia's LGBTs prepare for a post-Olympics apocalypse;
A newly out U.S. college football star hopes to sack "pro-mophobia";
Science fiction fuels Uganda's "Anti-Homosexuality" law, El Salvador is
spared from a marriage inequality amendment, the U.S. Justice
Department reaffirms federal rights for married same-gender couples,
Kansas considers a bias loophole law, and more global LGBT news

-
 In "NewsWrap": The Ugandan government announces the signature of 
President Yoweri Museveni on the draconian "Anti-Homosexuality Bill" 
after lawmakers with medical backgrounds from his ruling political party
 assure him that it's a "social behavior" and not a genetic 
predisposition… El Salvador lawmakers reject a constitutional amendment 
defining civil marriage as exclusively heterosexual, while U.S. ATTORNEY
 GENERAL ERIC HOLDER orders his Justice Department to defend all the 
rights, responsibilities and benefits of marriage currently available to
 legally married same-gender couples [with a :24 excerpt from his speech
 at the Human Rights Campaign New York fundraising dinner]… a U.S. 
federal court overturns Virginia's constitutional ban on marriage 
equality, Nevada's Attorney General decides that defending her state's 
ban in a federal appeals court is a losing proposition, a federal court 
in Kentucky rules that that state's law banning the recognition of 
same-gender couples legally married elsewhere violates the U.S. 
Constitution…the Kansas state House approves a bill to allow businesses 
and government agencies to deny service to same-gender couples based on 
"their sincerely held religious beliefs" -- described by opponents as a 
"license to discriminate" — and more LGBT news from around the world 
(produced by STEVE PRIDE, written by GREG GORDON, and reported this week
 by MICHAEL ALLAN and NATALIE PEOPLES).
- The Olympics are going 
strong in Sochi, but RUSSIA is not playing games when it comes to 
quashing LGBT rights. While hosting the international festivities, the 
government has not been too busy to enact new legislation reinforcing 
its ban on adoptions by same-gender couples and adoptions of Russian 
children by single people from marriage equality countries. Violent 
homophobic attacks continue on the rise, as documented just before the 
Olympic Opening Ceremonies in the U.K. Channel 4 film "Hunted" that drew
 bitter criticism from the Russian ambassador in London. Many activists 
fear the situation will deteriorate even further after the Olympics are 
over. Russian lesbian journalist MASHA GESSEN has profiled President 
Vladimir Putin, and U.S. writer and college professor JEFF SHARLET 
reports about Russian repression in the current issue of “GQ” magazine. 
On the eve of the Opening Ceremonies, they each shared their concerns on
 MSNBC's "All In with CHRIS HAYES”.
[msnbc.com]

- The Super 
Bowl may have fallen short of expectations, but the U.S. National 
Football League now has another media extravaganza leading up to its new
 player draft in May. Graduating University of Missouri Tiger MICHAEL 
SAM is expected to be a high-ranking pick -- but will the award-winning 
defensive end still be in demand now that he's come out as gay? He's 
gotten "out-standing" support from his team and his schoolmates, who 
even fended off a protest from the "God Hates You-know-who" Westboro 
Baptist Church outside a Tigers basketball game this week, while inside 
the arena Sam enjoyed a standing ovation. However some NFL insiders have
 expressed doubts about whether the locker room is ready to be 
liberated. ESPN's CHRIS CONNELLY broke the story in an interview with 
Sam on "Outside the Lines".
[espn.com]
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