[OutVoice] Underdogs anthem+Sochi-bound Billie Jean+global LGBT news

[Greg Gordon]

"THIS WAY OUT: the international lesbian & gay radio magazine"
Program #1,347 - distributed 01/20/14
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(hosted by Greg Gordon and produced with Lucia Chappelle)
Out Filipino-American Andrew Abaria sings for the "Underdogs";
Putin meets his match in Billie Jean;
Nigeria's anti-LGBT law unleashes reigns of terror, Musevini
declines to sign Uganda's draconian anti-gay bill, GALZ wins a rare
Zimbabwe High Court victory, Oklahoma's marriage equality ban is struck
down, a canned choirmaster causes a congregational exodus, more news

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 In "NewsWrap": Sexual minorities now live in dangerous times amidst 
increasing arrests in Nigeria after President Goodluck Jonathan signs a 
draconian "Jail All the Gays" bill… President Yoweri Museveni declines 
to sign a draconian "Anti-Homosexuality Bill" in Uganda, but only for 
legal reasons, calling gay people "disgusting" and "abnormal”… Gays 
& Lesbians of Zimbabwe wins a rare legal victory in the country's 
High Court… Oklahoma's hetero only marriage law is the latest state 
statute to be declared unconstitutional by a federal judge [with brief 
comments by the author of the state's 2004 marriage amendment former 
Senator JAMES WILLIAMSON, and notoriously homophobic current State 
Representative SALLY KERN], while same-gender marrieds ride a rights 
roller coaster in Utah… 80 percent of the congregants of the First 
United Methodist Church in Alexandria, Indiana quit after the choir 
director of 6 years is dismissed for being gay [with comments by former 
choir director ADAM FRALEY]… and more LGBT news from around the world 
(produced by STEVE PRIDE, written by GREG GORDON, and reported this week
 by MICHAEL LE BEAU and MICHELLE-MARIE GILKESON).
- Sochi-bound 
BILLIE-JEAN KING gets fierce with ersatz TV commentator STEPHEN COLBERT 
on Comedy Central's "The Colbert Report" (with an intro and brief outro 
from the show's theme music by CHEAP TRICK).
[comedycentral.com]

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 Gay Filipino classical pianist turned pop singer/songwriter ANDREW 
ABARIA chats with "This Way Out's" CHRIS WILSON about his personal and 
musical journeys, bookended by two cuts from his "WE ARE THE UNDERDOGS" 
EP: the title track and "Kiss Me Till They Find Us”.
[andrewabaria.com]
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