[OutVoice] Leslie Jordan dish + 2013 Comings & Goings + global LGBT news

[Greg Gordon]

~ ~ Happy 2014! ~ ~
"THIS WAY OUT: the international lesbian & gay radio magazine"
Program #1,345 - distributed 01/06/14
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(hosted by Greg Gordon and produced with Lucia Chappelle)
Entertainer Leslie Jordan dishes Hollywood with "Show Pony" tales;
"Rainbow Minutes" remember queer comings and goings in 2013;
Nightmare anti-gay laws pass in Nigeria and Uganda, Cuban lesbians and
gays get workplace anti-bias protections, a U.S. Supreme Court stay
stymies Utah marriage equality, an unrepentant United Methodist Church
pastor gets defrocked for Christmas, and more global LGBT news

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 In "NewsWrap": A so-called "Jail The Gays" bill in Nigeria and an 
apparently less lethal version of the infamous "Kill The Gays" bill in 
Uganda each win legislative approval and await the signatures of their 
respective presidents, Goodluck Jonathan and Yoweri Musevini… a Labor 
Code change in Cuba banning sexual orientation-based workplace bias is 
the first law in the island nation to protect gays and lesbians… a U.S. 
federal judge declares the ban on civil marriage equality in mostly 
Mormon Utah unconstitutional, sending hundreds of same-gender couples to
 county clerk's offices across the state to get licenses, while both the
 ruling-issuing judge and the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals deny 
Utah's request for an emergency stay to stop them, which state officials
 then ask Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor, the high court judge 
for that part of the country who handles emergency requests, to do*… the
 New Mexico Supreme Court orders marriage equality across the state, 
validating the licenses already issued to same-gender couples since 
August by 8 of the state's 33 counties… Lebanon, Pennsylvania United 
Methodist Church Reverend Frank Schaefer is defrocked for not repenting 
officiating his gay son's wedding in 2007, but may have a new job in 
California… keen observers noticed that the sky didn't fall on January 
1st, the first day of the new semi-inclusive policy welcoming openly gay
 young men into the ranks of the Boy Scouts of America… and more LGBT 
news from around the world (produced STEVE PRIDE, written by GREG 
GORDON, and reported this week by WENZEL JONES and PAM MARSHALL).

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 *In late-breaking news, the U.S. Supreme Court has temporarily blocked 
the ruling of a federal judge that freed same-gender couples to marry in
 Utah, pending the state's appeal. Filings in the 10th U.S. Circuit 
Court of Appeals are due by the end of February. For developments in 
other states, we turn to the year-ending YouTube-posted "Marriage News 
Watch" from MATT BAUME of the LGBT legal advocacy group American 
Foundation for Equal Rights.

- The first of two "RAINBOW MINUTES"
 looking back at the past year chronicles some of those "COMING OUT IN 
2013" (produced by JUDD PROCTOR & BRIAN BURNS at the studios of 
WRIR-FM in Richmond, Virginia and read by DUSTIN RICHARDSON).

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Want the queerest dish in Hollywood about out TV writers like "Sordid 
Lives'" Del Shores and "Glee" and "American Horror Story" creator Ryan 
Murphy, not to mention "The Big Bang Theory's" Chuck Lorre, and actors 
like George Clooney, Luke Perry, Frances Conroy and Jessica Lange? 
Correspondents STEVE PRIDE, ABBY DEES and CHRIS WILSON know who to ask: 
always-entertaining Emmy-winning actor/storyteller LESLIE JORDAN  (with 
intro music from the "Will and Grace" TV theme song).
[www.thelesliejordan.com]

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 "REMEMBERING SOME OF THOSE WHO DIED IN 2013" in this second of two 
"RAINBOW MINUTES" (produced by JUDD PROCTOR & BRIAN BURNS at WRIR-FM
 in Richmond, Virginia and read by DUSTIN RICHARDSON).
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