[OutVoice] Obama’s order/Thorpe’s outing/Sam’s win/Tutu’s heaven+more!

[Greg Gordon]

"THIS WAY OUT: the international LGBT radio magazine"
Program #1,373 - distributed 07/21/14
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(hosted by Greg Gordon and produced with Lucia Chappelle)
Obama's order, Holder's vow, Thorpe's outing, Sam's win,
and Tutu's heaven;
HIV/AIDS researchers and activists become victims of the Ukraine-
Russia conflict, U.S. judges consider marriage equality in Oklahoma,
Florida, Utah and Colorado, Croatian couples win almost-equality,
Malawi cuts costs by ignoring same-gender sex, and more LGBT news

-
 In "NewsWrap": Renowned Dutch HIV/AIDS researcher/activist Joep Lange 
and at least a few fellow scientists/activists traveling to the annual 
International AIDS Conference in Melbourne perish in the downing of 
Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 over eastern Ukraine… the 10th U.S. Circuit 
Court of Appeals overturns Oklahoma's ban on civil marriage for 
same-gender couples, a circuit court judge declares Florida's ban 
unconstitutional, the U.S. Supreme Court decides not to force Utah to 
recognize the marriages of more than a thousand lesbian and gay couples 
who legally wed in the state during the brief time that was possible, 
and Colorado's Supreme Court orders the Denver County clerk to stop 
issuing marriage licenses to same-gender couples, but doesn’t stop 
fellow rogue clerks in Boulder and Pueblo counties from continuing to do
 so; Croatian lawmakers overwhelmingly approve a bill to create 
marriage-like but less-than-equal "life partnerships" for gay and 
lesbian couples; Malawi's Justice Minister tell a U.N. human rights 
panel that her government has told police to stop arresting gay people, 
who can be and have been punished by up to 14 years in prison at hard 
labor -- but financial constraints seem to have been the practical 
motivation… Singapore's National Library Board takes heat for ordering 
the removal and destruction of all copies of the true-life penguin story
 "And Tango Makes Three" and two other LGBT-themed children's books 
[with brief comments by "Tango" co-author JUSTIN RICHARDSON]… and more 
LGBT news from around the world (produced by STEVE PRIDE, written by 
GREG GORDON, and reported this week by MICHAEL LEBEAU and SARAH 
SWEENEY).

- On July 21st U.S. PRESIDENT BARAK OBAMA made good on 
his Pride Month promise to issue executive orders adding federal 
anti-bias employment protections for LGBT people (an excerpt from Mr. 
Obama's remarks during the official Pride reception at the White House 
on June 30th, followed by details of the executive order); meanwhile, 
U.S. ATTORNEY GENERAL ERIC HOLDER talked with PIERRE THOMAS on ABC-TV's 
"This Week" about the Obama administration's plan if and whenever a 
marriage equality case reaches the U.S. Supreme Court.

- There 
were two main events on the coming out scorecard this week. After years 
of questions, AUSTRALIAN Olympic swimmer IAN THORPE finally took the 
plunge during a national TV interview with British broadcaster SIR 
MICHAEL PARKINSON [hear an excerpt]; also this week, newly minted U.S. 
NFL football sensation and St. Louis Rams rookie MICHAEL SAM was gay 
visibility's most valuable player when he accepted the ESPN television 
network's Arthur Ashe Courage Award (with intro music from "Olympic 
Fanfare and Theme" and outro music from "Summon the Heroes", each 
performed by JOHN WILLIAMS and the BOSTON POPS ORCHESTRA).

- With
 the renewed wave of official and violent homophobia sweeping across the
 African continent, Russia and many other parts of the world, SOUTH 
AFRICA's preeminent representative of reconciliation and Nobel Prize 
winner ARCHBISHOP DESMOND TUTU cannot be silent. He spoke out against 
homophobia during an NBC-TV News interview with ANN CURRY (with 
intro/outro music from "Spirit In The Sky" by NORMAN GREENBAUM).
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