[OutVoice] Un-censoring Whitman+fabulous fiddlers+global LGBT news

[Greg Gordon]

"THIS WAY OUT: the international lesbian & gay radio magazine"
Program #1,348 - distributed 01/27/14
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(hosted by Greg Gordon and produced with Lucia Chappelle)
A Whitman worshipper un-censors the great American poet;
A Well Strung boy band fiddles fabulously;
A lynch mob demands the quick execution of gay-accused Nigerians,
a Kenyan memoirist exits the closet, 7 more U.S. states grapple with
marriage equality, Russia's Prime Minister is deaf to LGBT screams,
Olympians diss Putin's "gay propaganda" prohibition, and more LGBT news

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 In "NewsWrap": Thousands of demonstrators stone a courtroom in northern
 Nigeria demanding quick executions of several men accused of belonging 
to gay advocacy groups as attacks on sexual minorities in Nigeria 
escalate following the mid-January enactment of draconian anti-gay 
legislation… well-known award-winning Kenyan writer Binjavanga Wainaina 
comes out to protest the anti-gay law in Nigeria and a similar law 
apparently still pending in Uganda… marriage equality actions in U.S. 
states continue to mushroom, with the latest actions coming in Virginia,
 Idaho, Nevada, Utah, Oregon and Florida… Russian Prime Minister Dmitry 
Medvedev tells "CNN" that he hasn't heard of any virtually-silenced LGBT
 person complaining about his country's law banning "gay propaganda", 
and falsely claims that it's not even being enforced… marriage 
equality-supportive female ice hockey star Hayley Wickenheiser is named 
by the Canadian Olympic Committee to be her nation's Opening Ceremonies 
flag bearer at the Winter Games in Sochi, while out Australian Olympic 
snow board cross rider Belle Brockhoff looks forward to the competition,
 and then to talking to anyone who will listen to her angry condemnation
 of Russian President Vladimir Putin for his defense of the so-called 
"no promo homo law”… and more LGBT news from around the world (produced 
by STEVE PRIDE, written by GREG GORDON, and reported this week by 
NATALIE PEOPLES & MICHAEL ALLAN).
- It's not too much to say that
 WALT WHITMAN changed western culture. The complex blending of 
spirituality, sexuality and the American experience in his poetry are 
indelible, despite the 19th Century mores that forced him to write 
cryptically about his relationships with men, and despite the literary 
straight-washing of later eras. That's what performance artist PATRICK 
SCULLY is trying to portray in his multi-disciplinary work-in-progress 
about Whitman's life and work.  Correspondents DIXIE TREICHEL and JOHN 
TOWNSEND ["Fresh Fruit"/KFAI-FM/Minneapolis-St. Paul) talked with Scully
 about the project.
[patrickscully.org]

- What do you get when
 you cross a string quartet with a boy band? "This Way Out" 
Entertainment Correspondent STEVE PRIDE finds out when he meets first 
violinist EDMUND BAGNELL, second violinist CHRISTOPHER MARCHANT, cellist
 DANIEL SHEVLIN and violist TREVOR WADLEIGH of WELL STRUNG (with 
excerpts from their music).
[well-strung.com]
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