[OutVoice] A Loving Bachardy and a Barmy Bachmann + Lesbian Lit + more!

[Greg Gordon]

"THIS WAY OUT: the international LGBT radio magazine"
Program #1,374 - distributed 07/28/14
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(hosted by Greg Gordon and produced with Lucia Chappelle)
The love letters of Christopher and his "kitty";
New lesbian literature from two women of color;
Michelle Bachmann signals another homophobic U.S. presidential run;
Russia plays spy games with LGBT activists, a Turkish court overrules
homophobic hate speech, Kenya's high court orders NGO status for a trans
rights group, a US federal court blasts Colorado's marriage ban, more!

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 In "NewsWrap": A judge declares St. Petersburg-based LGBT advocacy 
group Coming Out Russia "foreign agents", while a Turkish court rules 
that calling someone a "pervert" is hate speech, and Kenya's high court 
orders the government to accept the registration of the group 
Transgender Education and Advocacy as a non-governmental organization; 
Colorado's state ban on civil marriage for same-gender couples is 
declared unconstitutional by a federal court, while a second South 
Florida circuit court declares that state's civil marriage ban 
unconstitutional… two of the 3 LGBT-positive children's books ordered 
destroyed by Singapore's National Library Board are saved following 
several days of public outcry, while a new owner steps in at the last 
minute to save Philadelphia's iconic LGBT bookstore Giovanni's Room from
 closure… tongues wag over out performer John Barrowman's man-on-man 
kiss during the Opening Ceremonies of the 2014 Commonwealth Games in 
Glasgow; and otherwise affable "Modern Family" star ERIC STONESTREET 
refuses to be photographed with one rabidly anti-gay U.S. politician 
[with brief comments by both RICK SANTORUM and Stonestreet] (produced by
 STEVE PRIDE, written by GREG GORDON, and reported this week by 
CHRISANNE EASTWOOD and MICHAEL ALLAN).

- Republican congressional
 representative from Minnesota and former U.S. presidential hopeful 
MICHELLE BACHMANN is reportedly harboring hopes of a homophobic re-run. 
Right Wing Watch highlighted a particularly odious snippet of Bachmann's
 conversation with conservative radio's “Faith & Liberty” host DAVE 
GARRISON, sharing her assessment of the LGBT "agenda" -- or 
"immorality," as Garrison calls it.

- "This Way Out" queer life 
and literature commentator JANET MASON finds emerging lesbian truth in 
the words of two women of color: Judith K. Witherow's "Strong Enough to 
Bend" and S. Renee Bess' "When I Read the Rules”.

- By 1953 
Christopher Isherwood had become an accomplished member of the British 
literati. He may be best known for his "Berlin Stories", which became 
the foundation for the musical "Cabaret". DON BACHARDY was a U.C.L.A. 
freshman destined to become a top portrait artist. To each other they 
became "horse" and "kitty" -- the pet names behind the curious title of 
their collected love letters, "The Animals". "This Way Out" 
correspondent CHARLIE BAUER PhD visited with Bachardy at the longtime 
home he shared with Isherwood in the Los Angeles area beach community of
 Santa Monica (Part 1 of 2, ending with a preview of Part 2).
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