[OutVoice] Queer history and humor+global LGBT news!

[Greg Gordon]

"THIS WAY OUT: the international LGBT radio magazine"
Program #1,424 - distributed 07/13/15
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(hosted this week by Greg Gordon and produced with Lucia Chappelle)
Comic Wanda Sykes gets seriously funny about the past and the future;
Poetry and parables provide precedents for Pride;
Japanese petitioners approach the Bar for marriage equality, U.S.
Attorney General Lynch vows to deliver the "rights stuff", Israel's
Knesset nixes secular civil relationships, Michael Sam's pass at
marriage is incomplete, Lithuania's Army fears florists, more news!

- In "NewsWrap": Hundreds petition for marriage equality in Japan, while a high-profile South Korean gay couple sues for the legal recognition of their 2013 wedding, but Israel's parliament nixes both civil unions and civil marriages, while U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch says the Obama administration is working to be sure that legally wed same-gender couples in all 50 states have access to all federal marriage benefits… Michael Sam, the NFL's first out gay football player who's now with the Montreal Alouettes of the Canadian Football League, is reportedly dis-engaged from finance Vito Cammisano, but British raconteur Stephen Fry has an asteroid named after him… the Lithuanian Army allegedly tries to "weed out" gay male recruits by asking if they like to pick flowers and if they think about being a woman… and more LGBT news from around the world (produced by STEVE PRIDE, written by GREG GORDON, and reported this week by JOHN DYER V and SARAH SWEENEY).

- You can read history in textbooks, but there's more than one way for disenfranchised people to recall the road to empowerment.  We'll see how it works in fiction, film and formal festivities later in the program… but we first set the tone with JUDY GRAHN's classic poem "A HISTORY OF LESBIANISM" (from the herstoric Olivia Records "Lesbian Concentrate" LP).

- Our literary commentator JANET MASON has her own bookshelf of fictional prose – and they're anything but "prosaic" (Ann Bannon's "ODD GIRL OUT," the re-released pulp classic first published in 1957, and "UNDER THIS BEAUTIFUL DOME", a memoir of lesbian life by Terry Mutchler published in 2014).
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- A "RAINBOW MINUTE" recalls British gay actor "DIRK BOGARDE'S GROUNDBREAKING FILM" ("Victim") (produced by JUDD PROCTOR & BRIAN BURNS at WRIR-FM in Richmond, Virginia and read by TOM MILLER) and a bonus "RAINBOW MINUTE" remembers early 1960's U.S. activism "FROM PHILADELPHIA TO NEW YORK" (read by DUSTIN RICHARDSON). 

- The 50th anniversary of those "Annual Reminders" was celebrated in PHILADELPHIA on July 4th with a re-enactment of the original Independence Hall picket lines in 21st Century all-inclusive LGBT style. Plenty of activists, celebrities and entertainers were on hand, headlined by comedian WANDA SYKES (includes a flashback to her November 2008 coming out remarks at a Prop 8 protest) [with thanks for the July 4th sound to CATHY RENNA and TRACY BAIM].
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