[OutVoice] The Gay-mazing Randi+Remembering "Victim"+global LGBT news!

[Greg Gordon]

"THIS WAY OUT: the international LGBT radio magazine"
Program #1,416 - distributed 05/18/15
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(hosted this week by Lucia Chappelle and produced with Greg Gordon)
"An Honest Liar" leaves no con unturned;
A "Rainbow Minute" honors the breakthrough British film "Victim";
A Kenyan tabloid targets "top gays and lesbians," Gambia's president
wants to "slit your throat", an Arkansas town's bias ban defies state
law, Matthew's legacy finally yields Laramie protections, U.S. Girl
Scouts earn a merit badge for welcoming trans-girl members, more news!

- In "NewsWrap": The Nairobi-based "Weekly Citizen" tabloid endangers "top gays, lesbians in Kenya" with a headlined front-page photo spread, while Gambia's President Yahya Jammeh threatens gay with a promise to "slit their throats”… voters in Eureka Springs, Arkansas defy state law to uphold a local LGBT anti-bias ordinance, while Laramie becomes the first municipality in the state of Wyoming to enact a similar measure 17 years after the horrific gay-bashing death of college student Matthew Shepard there… self-identified "Christian conservatives" howl over the Girl Scouts of America policy welcoming transgender girls as members, while far-right 'phobes scurrilously claim that the sexuality of openly-gay Amtrak engineer Brandon Bostian contributed to the disastrous Philadelphia Amtrak derailment… and more LGBT news from around the world (produced by STEVE PRIDE, written by GREG GORDON, and reported this week by WENZEL JONES and ABBY DEES, with a cameo by Chubby Checker).

- The breakthrough British film "VICTIM" is remembered in a "RAINBOW MINUTE" (produced by JUDD PROCTOR & BRIAN BURNS at WRIR-FM in Richmond, Virginia and read by TOM MILLER).

- Now openly-gay JAMES (THE AMAZING) RANDI is profiled as "AN HONEST LIAR" by filmmaker JUSTIN WEINSTEIN and loved by his longtime partner DEYVI PEÑA – as verified by award-winning "This Way Out" entertainment reporter STEVE PRIDE (with intro/outro music from "If You Could Read My Mind" by VIOLA WILLS).
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