[OutVoice] Remembering "Matt"+Squirming GOP prez-wannabes+LGBT news

[Greg Gordon]

"THIS WAY OUT: the international LGBT radio magazine"
Program #1,412 - distributed 04/20/15
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(hosted by Greg Gordon and produced with Lucia Chappelle)
Matt Shepard's friend remembers the guy she knew in a new documentary;
U.S. GOP presidential wannabes run rings around "religious freedom";
Mexico's top court equalizes Sinaloa marriages, Egypt denies reentry
to an allegedly gay Libyan student, Indiana struggles to regain its
reputation, a children's picture book about same-gender penguin
parents is banned again for its "homosexual agenda", and more news!

- In "NewsWrap": A Mexican Supreme Court ruling orders marriage equality in the state of Sinaloa, but an administrative court in Cairo upholds the Egyptian Interior Ministry’s denial of reentry to a Libyan student deported in 2008 for being gay, and the offices of the leading LGBT rights group in Kyrgyzstan, Labrys, are firebombed… Indiana Governor Mark Pence’s popularity plummets following his disastrous support for a so-called "religious freedom" law, while the CEO of well-known  Indiana-based consumer review website Angie’s List steps down to “fix” his state’s image, and state officials want to “fix” it by spending at least 2 million dollars on a public relations firm… the penguin-loving children’s storybook "And Tango Makes 3" is again among the American Library Association’s Top 3 "Most Challenged Books" this year because it "promotes a homosexual agenda”… and more LGBT news from around the world (with an assist from “VOG” Rick Watts, produced by STEVE PRIDE, written by GREG GORDON, and reported this week by JOHN DYVER V and MICHELLE-MARIE GILKESON).

- The one and only U.S. SENATOR TED CRUZ is the one and only defender of what he calls "religious liberty" among the officially declared candidates for the 2016 Republican presidential nomination. Many of the other hopefuls are not quite so sure, including former FLORIDA governor JEB BUSH and, as MSNBC commentator RACHEL MADDOW discovered, SENATORS MARCO RUBIO and RAND PAUL.
[www.msnbc.com]

- A horrific murder in 1998 galvanized the world and put a new face on the LGBT movement. The person behind that face is the subject of a new documentary made by the people closest to him. "This Way Out's" STEVE PRIDE talks with documentarian and Matt's high school BFF MICHELLE JOSUE and with Matt's father DENNIS SHEPARD about "MATT SHEPARD IS A FRIEND OF MINE".
[www.mattshepardisafriendofmine.com]
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