[OutVoice] Queer India+JC got better+Sapphic Nomads+more!

Greg Gordon greggordon2003 at yahoo.com
Tue Sep 23 13:13:40 CDT 2014


"THIS WAY OUT: the international LGBT radio magazine"
Program #1,382 - distributed 09/22/14
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(hosted by Greg Gordon and produced with Lucia Chappelle)
India's government courts repression as bi life emerges;
"It Got Better" for Jason Collins, but it gets worse with Tony Perkins;
US Supreme Court Justice Ginsberg makes marriage equality predictions,
Egypt "grinds" gay men into entrapment, Russia's "no promo homo" pol
poisons the opening of St. Petersburg's "QueerFest", Texas hotels "86"
Museveni, but a Ugandan gay activist wins US asylum, and more LGBT news

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 In "NewsWrap": India's government challenges the nation's recent 
Supreme Court ruling legally recognizing trans-people as a third gender;
 U.S. SUPREME COURT JUSTICE RUTH BADER GINSBERG points to a pending 
ruling by the 6th Circuit Court of Appeals that could determine when the
 high court might consider nationwide marriage equality [with her brief 
comments about the situation]; Egypt uses Grindr and other social media 
platforms to escalate its crackdown on gay men… Vitaly Milonov, the 
Russian M.P. behind the country's infamous "no promo homo" law, leads a 
gang of thugs to disperse an unidentified gas that sends 16 people to 
the hospital in an attempt to disrupt the opening event of St. 
Petersburg's "QueerFest", while the Australian Football League cancels 
its sponsorship deal with Royal Brunei Airlines because of the tiny 
Southeast Asian country's pending laws that call for gay people to be 
stoned to death… faced with expected demonstrations protesting the east 
African nation's draconian Anti- Homosexuality Law wherever he stays, 
Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni struggles to find accommodations in 
Irving, Texas for a conference promoting tourism and investment in his 
country, while longtime Ugandan LGBT activist JOHN LONGJONES WAMBERE 
tentatively wins political asylum in the U.S. [with brief comments about
 the environment for equality advocates in his homeland]… and more 
global LGBT news (produced by STEVE PRIDE, written by GREG GORDON and 
reported this week by CAROLE MEYERS and WENZEL JONES).

- A major 
collection of LGBT-relevant papers, photographs, and other items of 
historical significance has been donated to the National Museum of 
American History, part of the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, 
D.C.  Along with scripts, props and set decor from a groundbreaking TV 
series they received in August, curators announced this week that 
they're hoping to add anti-LGBT material to the collection, such as a 
Westboro Baptist Church "God Hates Fags" placard.  If they're looking 
for audio to add to that collection, may we suggest this rabid radio 
rant by well-known right-winger TONY PERKINS of the Family Research 
Council (includes brief intro music from the "Will & Grace" TV 
theme).

- A popular project that's been bringing hope to harassed
 LGBT youth since 2010 has inspired a documentary called "It Got 
Better." Our correspondent CHRISANNE EASTWOOD was there for the 
"Outfest" premiere in LOS ANGELES, and chatted briefly with one of its 
featured celebrities, out pro basketball player JASON COLLINS (with 
intro music from "It Gets Better" by BROADWAY SINGS FOR THE TREVOR 
PROJECT).

- They quit their jobs to travel the world for a year 
in search of LGBT communities for a film documentary. That's how KATIE 
COOK AND MAGGIE YOUNG became the "SAPPHIC NOMADS". They've been sending 
"audio postcards" to "This Way Out" along the way. Their latest dispatch
 comes from the world’s second most populous nation, and it's the second
 of their 2-part conversation with bi INDIAN activist SHRUTA.
[www.nomaddocumentary.com]
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