[OutVoice] Queer India, Identities, Allies + global LGBT news

[Greg Gordon]

"THIS WAY OUT: the international LGBT radio magazine"
Program #1,386 - distributed 10/20/14
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(hosted by Greg Gordon and produced with Lucia Chappelle)
India's activists engage in culture wars;
Critics offer words on identity and ally-ship;
Roman Catholic bishops pull a proposed pastoral LGBT welcome mat,
Kyrgyzstan continues down a repressive road but Palau decriminalizes
gay sex, same-gender Scots plan New Year's Eve weddings, Taiwanese
scientists christen a diversity poster-snail, and more global LGBT news

-
 In "NewsWrap": An extraordinary gathering of Roman Catholic Church 
bishops in Rome considers an LGBT semi-welcoming document*… Kyrgyzstan 
lawmakers overwhelmingly approve a worse-than-Russia's "no promo homo" 
bill that punishes offenders with up to a year in prison, but the 
Pacific island nation of Palau decriminalizes gay sex… Scotland will 
celebrate marriage equality on New Year's Eve, while Arizona, Alaska and
 Wyoming join the growing number of U.S. marriage equality states – and 
related developments in several other states… Taiwan LGBT activists 
pressure lawmakers to unjam a marriage equality bill, while the name 
Taiwanese scientists have given to a newly-discovered species of land 
snail endemic to the island honors the struggle for civil marriage 
rights… and more LGBT news from around the world (produced by STEVE 
PRIDE, written by GREG GORDON, and reported this week by NATALIE PEOPLES
 & MICHAEL LEBEAU) + *Update: Roman Catholic Bishops reject nice 
words about LGBT people (voiced by GREG GORDON).

- Who you are is
 the topic of two non-fiction picks from "Queer Life & Literature" 
commentator JANET MASON: "A POSITIVE VIEW OF LGBTQ" by Ellen D.B. Riggle
 & Sharon S. Rostosky [Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.] 
and "LIVING OUT ISLAM" by Scott al-Haqq Kugle [New York University 
Press] (with brief intro music from "I Am What I Am" performed by JOHN 
BARROWMAN) [www.amusejanetmason.com].

- We last heard from 
"Sapphic Nomads" MAGGIE YOUNG & KATIE COOK on their visit to INDIA. 
The intrepid documentarians stayed a while longer to spend some time 
with MUMBAI-based psychologist and couples therapist DEEPAK KASHYAP 
[www.nomaddocumentary.com].

- BROOKLYN, NEW YORK-based 
Black/Trans/Queer/Rowdy-as-Hell Poet J MASE III has a few words for 
shaky equality supporters as she performs "#ALLY FAIL" at the Capturing 
the Fire 2014 Queer Spoken Word Summit & Slam. 
[http://jmaseiii.com/]
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