[OutVoice] Appropriate Bi-havior+global LGBT news+more!

[Greg Gordon]

"THIS WAY OUT: the international LGBT radio magazine"
Program #1,430 - distributed 08/24/15
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(hosted this week by Lucia Chappelle and produced with Greg Gordon)
A bisexual Iranian-American filmmaker ponders "Appropriate Behavior";
Delightful memoirs travel "Out of Orange" and into "Bettyville";
Smoke bombs scatter Ukrainian activists in Odessa, Chelsea Manning is
punished for expired toothpaste and Caitlyn contraband, the White
House hires its first trans staffer, out pro baseball & rugby players
get sporting chances, glitter spooks an Aussie Senator's staff, more!

- In "NewsWrap": Masked thugs invade a forum on LGBT rights, hurling smoke bombs at the participants, in the Ukrainian city of Odessa, while the ultra-Orthodox Jew who stabbed 6 people at the Jerusalem Pride march, one of whom later died, is deemed fit to stand trial… trans U.S. whistleblower Chelsea Manning is convicted of four seemingly-trumped-up charges of violating military prison rules, setting back her efforts to be jailed in a minimum security facility, while equality activists in East Los Angeles rally against escalating violence against transgender and gender-non-conforming people in the U.S. [with brief comments by some of the participants]… Raffi Freedman-Gurspan becomes the first transgender White House staff member, David Denson becomes the first openly gay player on a team affiliated with Major League Baseball, and Keegan Hirst becomes Britain's first out gay Rugby League player… a Chinese lesbian college student sues the Ministry of Education over its endorsement of antiquated psychology textbooks… a glitter-filled letter from an LGBT advocacy group prompts the paranoid staff member of an Aussie MP who opposes marriage equality to call the police, who call the fire department, who call a Hazmat team, who call in the bomb squad… out entertainer ELLEN DEGENERES celebrates her 7th wedding anniversary with actress Portia de Rossi on the same evening she's named Choice Comedian at the TEEN CHOICE AWARDS [with an excerpt from her thank you remarks]… and more LGBT news from around the world (produced by STEVE PRIDE, written by GREG GORDON, and reported this week by ABBY DEES and JASON PROCTOR).

- For literary commentator JANET MASON, *memoirs* are made of these: "OUT OF ORANGE" by CLEARY WOLTERS and "BETTYVILLE" by GEORGE HODGMAN.
[www.amusejanetmason.com]

- Bisexual Iranian-American filmmaker DESIREE AKHAVAN discusses "APPROPRIATE BEHAVIOR" with our Entertainment Correspondent STEVE PRIDE (includes preview clips, and music from the film performed by MILLIONYOUNG and NATALIE GARDINER).
[www.appropriatebehaviormovie.com; www.prideonscreen.com]
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