[OutVoice] Gay "Golden Girls"/"Roseanne" writer tells all!+LGBT news+more!

[Greg Gordon]

   "THIS WAY OUT: the international LGBT radio magazine" 
 Program #1,418 - distributed 06/01/15 
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 (hosted this week by Greg Gordon and produced with Lucia Chappelle) 
 A gay "Golden Girls"-"Roseanne" writer tells all – or at least some! 
 Reading adventures in mystery, ladyboys and fidelity with Janet Mason; 
 Greenland warms up to marriage equality, the Irish landslide sparks 
 debate in Italy, Poland, Germany and Australia, Jamaica jams U.N. 
 calls for justice, Manitoba outlaws "conversion therapy", Alabama's 
 "marryin' minister" faces the music, and more global LGBT news! 
  
 - In "NewsWrap": Greenland becomes the 21st nation on the planet to open civil marriage to same-gender couples, while Italy's PM pushes for civil unions, Polish lawmakers refuse to consider them for the fourth time, and Germany's Chancellor rules out marriage equality, but more than 50 top Australian businesses push for it Down Under… Jamaica's Justice Minister rejects UN calls for the island nation to repeal its "buggery" laws, but Kazakhstan's Constitutional Council overrules a Russia-like "no promo homo" bill, and Manitoba becomes the first Canadian province to outlaw so-called "conversion therapy”… Alabama minister Anne Diprizio is sentenced for her "attempted marriage" of a lesbian couple [reported by MATT BAUME of the American Foundation for Equal Rights]… and more LGBT news from around the world (produced by STEVE PRIDE, written by GREG GORDON, and reported this week by CHRISANNE EASTWARD and JOHN DYER V) + Correction to last week's Ireland marriage sound story from Dublin (voiced by LUCIA CHAPPELLE).
 
 - "This Way Out" Queer Life & Literature commentator JANET MASON reviews 3 new LGBT books – about early 1950s gay San Francisco secrets ["Blackmail, My Love: A Murder Mystery" by Katie Gilmartin], Thailand's "ladyboys" ["Ladyboy and the Volunteer" by Susanne Aspley], and the secrets of successful long-term gay male couples ["Love Together" by Tim Clausen].
   [www.amusejanetmason.com] 
  
 - Our STEVE PRIDE meets STAN ZIMMERMAN, the gay guy whose "Golden Girls" gig made him a minion of TV's famous domestic goddess "Roseanne", for some behind-the-scenes dish.
   [zimmermanstan.com; prideonscreen.com] 
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