[OutVoice] Kenji, Dale, and Ellen + global LGBT news

[Greg Gordon]

"THIS WAY OUT: the international lesbian & gay radio magazine"
Program #1,352 - distributed 02/24/14
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(hosted by Greg Gordon and produced with Lucia Chappelle)
U.S. marriage equality cases heat towards a Supreme boil;
A Dallas sportscaster celebrates Sam;
The "Juno" star turns a Page;
Homophobic hysteria spreads on the African continent, Germany's top
court evades an adoptions rights question on a technicality, Arizona's
governor ponders a "license to discriminate", and more global LGBT news

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 In "NewsWrap": A mob of 40 viciously attacks more than a dozen 
perceived to be gay young men in Nigeria's capital of Abuja in the early
 morning hours of February 14th as violence against LGBT people 
escalates following enactment of the so-called "Jail the Gays" law, 
while LGBT people are reportedly fleeing equally inhospitable Uganda, as
 government leaders defy possible reduced foreign aid over the country's
 equally draconian "Anti-Homosexuality Act", and Gambian President Yahya
 Jammeh calls gay people "vermin" during a nationally televised speech… 
Russian President Putin hands out a "humanitarian" award to a popular TV
 newscaster who said the hearts of gay people need to be burned or 
buried to avoid accidental transplantation… Germany's top court evades a
 request to rule on the rights of civilly partnered same-gender couples 
to adopt non-biological children, but Finland's parliament begins a 
process that activists hope will lead to marriage equality in the only 
Nordic country without it… will Arizona become the first U.S. state to 
enact a bill that allows discrimination against LGBT people by 
individuals and businesses if providing services would "substantially 
burden" the exercise of their "sincerely held religious beliefs"? and 
more LGBT news from around the world (produced by STEVE PRIDE, written 
by GREG GORDON, and reported this week by TANYA KANE-PARRY and WENZEL 
JONES).
- Developments are happening so fast on the U.S. marriage 
equality front, it's hard to know in which state same-gender couples 
will start marching down the aisle next!  MSNBC's RACHEL MADDOW took 
stock of the rapidly advancing situation in mid-February with KENJI 
YOSHINO, the Chief Justice Earl Warren Professor of Constitutional Law 
at New York University School of Law [msnbc.com].
- For the past few 
weeks the sports world has been hashing over University of Missouri 
football star Michael Sam's pre-draft "I'm gay" announcement. The ESPN 
sports network polled National Football League players about having a 
gay teammate.  Happily for Sam, it wouldn't be a problem for most of 
them. A small but significant number of respondents, however, wondered 
if Sam would find a truly welcoming atmosphere. Meanwhile, one ringing 
endorsement from well-known DALLAS, TEXAS TV sportscaster DALE HANSEN 
has become a YouTube sensation (with brief instrumental intro music from
 "Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin)" performed by SLY & THE 
FAMILY STONE).

- Coming out is sounding better all the time, but 
it's never easy. "Juno" star ELLEN PAGE took her next step at the Human 
Rights Campaign's "Time to Thrive" conference to benefit LGBT youth 
(with intro and outro music from the Oscar-nominated "Let It Go" 
performed by IDINA MENZEL from the Disney film "Frozen").
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