[OutVoice] Lively’s Uganda + global LGBT news + more!

[Greg Gordon]

"THIS WAY OUT: the international lesbian & gay radio magazine"
Program #1,355 - distributed 03/17/14
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(hosted by Greg Gordon and produced with Lucia Chappelle)
The U.S. provides inspiration for Ugandan persecution;
Nigerian Justice "jails the gays" for their own good, Rainbow Russian
colors clash with homophobic thugs, same-gender British couples
hitched elsewhere get an early start on equality, Obamacare offers
insurance parity to U.S. queer families, and more global LGBT news;
plus syndicated columnist Abby Dees encourages her younger self.

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 In "NewsWrap": A coalition of Ugandan human rights groups are joined by
 LGBT activists, commentators, scholars, and politicians in a lawsuit 
challenging the constitutionality of the country's "Anti-Homosexuality 
Act", while Nigeria's Justice Minister claims his country's so-called 
"Jail All the Gays" law was enacted to protect them from vigilante 
violence… machete-wielding Russian thugs pelt LGBT participants in 
Moscow's March 8th International Women's Day March with raw eggs but are
 arrested before they can do more serious damage… thanks to a quirk in 
the U.K. marriage equality law, same-gender couples legally married in 
other jurisdictions are now considered to be legally married at home, 
while never-married couples will still have to wait until March 29th to 
tie the knot… the U.S. Health & Human Services Department tells 
insurance providers that beginning next year they must offer the same 
coverage to legally married same-gender couples as they do to 
heterosexually-married couples… charges are unexpectedly dropped against
 United Methodist Church Rev. Dr. Thomas Ogletree for officiating the 
wedding of his son to another man [with brief comments by son THOMAS 
OGLETREE]… and more LGBT news from around the world (produced this week 
by WENZEL JONES & STEVE PRIDE, written by GREG GORDON, and reported 
by JOHNNIE TORRES & MICHELLE-MARIE GILKESON).

- So how did 
UGANDA's draconian "Anti-Homosexuality Act" come to be? "Save Our 
Children" was a slogan created by the backers of singer and orange juice
 huckster Anita Bryant in late 1970's Dade County, Florida in their 
fight to repeal a newly enacted ordinance banning discrimination against
 gays and lesbians. The ordinance opponents' fear-mongering pitch was 
that because gays couldn't procreate, they had to recruit children to 
replenish their numbers. It proved to be a winning national strategy for
 years. But as a new century dawned, the "culture war" over LGBT rights 
in the U.S. started to collapse. That's when these political preachers 
began their own recruiting -- going abroad to replenish their numbers. 
Their misbegotten message about threats to the young and their 
pseudo-scientific, pseudo-spiritual claims to "cure" homosexuality 
through therapy and prayer found fertile ground in the East African 
nation of Uganda. Massachusetts minister SCOTT LIVELY led the 
evangelical pack, making his first visit in 2002. As a proposed 
"Anti-Homosexuality Bill" began circulating in 2009, Lively returned to 
KAMPALA to give lengthy presentations about homosexuality. Influential 
members of the country's parliament and cabinet were among the 
attendees. He warned that Ugandan children were in jeopardy of being 
turned into homosexuals by predatory Westerners [>sound<]; 
Assemblies of God pastor STEPHEN LANGA, who leads Uganda's Family Life 
Network, helped spread the word at follow-up seminars by incorporating 
Lively's bizarre account of "gay history" into his definition of the 
"gay agenda" [>sound-<]; and the Director of Research for Uganda's
 parliament, CHARLES TUHAISE, complained that the nation's colonial-era 
anti-homosexuality laws made it difficult to punish gay activists 
[>sound<] (with thanks to Public Research Associates and "Mother 
Jones" magazine, intro music from "My Little Corner of the World" 
performed by ANITA BRYANT, and transition music from "Save the Children"
 performed by THE INTRUDERS, and "Get Up, Stand Up" performed by BOB 
MARLEY).

- Do you ever wish you could go back in time to 
encourage your younger self? Syndicated columnist and "This Way Out" 
commentator ABBY DEES does.
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