[OutVoice] Ireland I-Do's + Billy Gilman Live! + more LGBT news

[Greg Gordon]

"THIS WAY OUT: the international LGBT radio magazine"
Program #1,417 - distributed 05/25/15
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(hosted this week by Lucia Chappelle and produced with Greg Gordon)
A landslide of love brings marriage equality to Ireland;
Billy Gilman gives voice to country queers;
The Church of Scotland and France's United Protestants advance a gay
agenda, President Robert Gates tells U.S. Boy Scouts to "be prepared",
LGBT youth get protections in Oregon and Nevada, rightwing Governor
Jindal grandstands in Louisiana, Michael Sam heads north, more news!

- In "NewsWrap": Voters in Ireland make it the first country in the world to establish marriage equality through a popular referendum… the Church of Scotland moves toward welcoming legally-married gay ministers, while the United Protestant Church of France approves blessing same-gender marriages… Boy Scouts of America national president Robert Gates urges the organization to lift its ban on openly gay adult leaders and volunteers… Oregon's openly bisexual Governor Kate Brown makes her state the third in the country to ban so-called "conversion therapy" for minors, while Nevada's Republican Governor Brian Sandoval signs an LGBT-inclusive anti-bullying bill, but Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal bids for the far-right vote in his quest for the GOP presidential nomination by issuing an executive order allowing religious-based bias only hours after the state legislature rejects such a measure… after failing to make professional teams in St. Louis and Dallas, Missouri college defensive standout Michael Sam, the first out gay football player in the NFL, heads north to the Canadian Football League's Montreal Alouettes… and more LGBT news from around the world (produced by STEVE PRIDE, written by GREG GORDON, and reported this week by MICHAEL LEBEAU and WENZEL JONES).

- IRISH PRIME MINISTER ENDA KENNY and more than 60% of his compatriots said "Yes" to marriage equality on May 22nd loudly enough for the whole world to hear. "This Way Out" correspondent SCOTT DE BUITLÉIR reports from DUBLIN.

- The voice of BILLY GILMAN was heard across the country music scene when he came out last year. Gilman was still on a high note when he was honored at the opening of West Hollywood's first country-western themed gay bar, Flaming Saddles Saloon, where our CHRISANNE EASTWOOD lassoed him for an interview (with production assistance by STEVE PRIDE, and intro/outro music from "One Voice" performed live in concert by BILLY GILMAN).
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