[OutVoice] US "gayxperts" to Uganda?+Dead Fred+NYC St Pats protest+more!
Greg Gordon
greggordon2003 at yahoo.com
Tue Mar 25 14:28:32 CDT 2014
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(hosted by Greg Gordon and produced with Lucia Chappelle)
Can U.S. science save Uganda from the sin of homophobia?
Some "grossest hits" of the infamous (and now late) Fred Phelps;
Green and lavender clash again in New York City;
Competing family factions face off in Taipei's Freedom Square,
Gibraltar rocks civil partnerships, Australia's largest "ex-gay" group
exits, an Idaho anti-bias advocate comes out of a closet, and more news
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In "NewsWrap": Opponents and proponents of Taiwan marriage equality
face off and occasionally scuffle at dueling rallies in Taipei's Freedom
Square, while lawmakers in Gibraltar approve a civil partnerships bill
for both heterosexual and same-gender couples, but a similar proposal
dies in Romania's Chamber of Deputies… Australia's largest "pray the gay
away" ministry, Living Waters, shuts down for lack of interest…
chairman Mohammed Naseem of Birmingham Central Mosque, one of the
largest in Europe, compares gay people to "compulsive murderers,
gamblers and pedophiles", while infamous "God Hates Fags" preacher FRED
PHELPS of Topeka, Kansas' fringe Westboro Baptist Church goes to his
final reward [with a brief audio sample]… a U.S. federal judges makes
Michigan the 14th consecutive state since last June's Supreme Court DOMA
ruling to have its ban on civil marriage for same-gender couples
declared unconstitutional… former Idaho lawmaker Nicole LeFavour
literally comes out of a closet in the Senate chamber to protest the
refusal of the Republican leadership to even consider protecting LGBT
people in the state's anti-discrimination laws… and more LGBT news from
around the world (produced by STEVE PRIDE, written by GREG GORDON, and
reported this week by ABBY DEES & WENZEL JONES).
- The world
-- including Ireland -- has changed dramatically in the last twenty
years. But the ST. PATRICK'S DAY PARADES in Boston and NEW YORK CITY
have remained discriminatorily the same since the first protests against
the exclusion of LGBT marchers began in the early 1990s. But things
heated up again this year with both Boston Mayor Martin Walsh and New
York Mayor Bill de Blasio refusing to participate. However a few
dignitaries still lent their shoe leather to the traditional events.
Boston's former Police Chief Bill Bratton now serves in New York, where
he marched in uniform on St. Patrick's Day. It's probably no coincidence
that law enforcement was on the minds of some of the people "This Way
Out" correspondent KELLY COGSWELL spoke with as they demonstrated
against the 5th Avenue festivities in the Big Apple (with brief intro
music from "Monday Monday" by THE MAMAS & THE PAPAS).
[http://kellycogswell.com/]
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The 84-year-old patriarch of the most notoriously anti-gay family in
the United States – and perhaps the world – is dead. According to
online posts by relatives, the REVEREND FRED PHELPS, SENIOR of the
infamously anti-gay WESTBORO BAPTIST CHURCH died in a TOPEKA, KANSAS
area hospice from an undisclosed illness late in the evening of March
19th – though an official Church media release called it "natural
causes." "This Way Out's" GREG GORDON brings a bio, some comments by
Topeka residents, and samples of Fred's inflammatory invectives (with
intro music from "Onward Christian Soldiers" performed by ST. PATRICKS
BRASS AND REED BAND KILKENNY, and transition music from "Whole Lotta
Love" by LED ZEPELLIN).
- Can U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry
"cure" UGANDAN PRESIDENT YOWERI MUSEVENI's homophobia? MSNBC's RACHEL
MADDOW finds the prospect for a unique kind of diplomatic mission
fascinating… and only fair, since, as Maddow points out, the critical
conditions for LGBT people in Uganda began with the visits of
professional U.S. homophobe SCOTT LIVELY (also features brief comments
by President Musevini, and intro music from "Misunderstanding" by
GENESIS).
[www.msnbc.com]
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