From greggordon2003 at yahoo.com Tue Feb 2 16:20:26 2016 From: greggordon2003 at yahoo.com (Greg Gordon) Date: Tue, 2 Feb 2016 22:20:26 +0000 (UTC) Subject: [OutVoice] "Trans Welcome" 2 + "Carol" + global LGBT news! References: <1631308296.744257.1454451626764.JavaMail.yahoo.ref@mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <1631308296.744257.1454451626764.JavaMail.yahoo@mail.yahoo.com> "Trans Welcome" 2 + "Carol" + global LGBT news!THIS WAY OUTthe international LGBT radio magazinefor the week of 02?01-16(hosted this week by Lucia Chappelle and produced with Greg Gordon)Everything you wanted to know about welcoming trans folks;Cate and Rooney discuss their love affair with "Carol";Mexico's high court issues another state marriage equality ruling,a Romanian Orthodox-led inequality drive starts strong, Italy rallieson both sides of a civil unions bill, Portugal's outgoing presidentblocks adoption rights, and more global LGBT news! - In "NewsWrap" - Mexico's Supreme Court continues the country's torturous march down the equality aisle by declaring the ban on civil marriages for same-gender couples in the state of Jalisco to be unconstitutional; Romanian Orthodox priests lead other Christian fundamentalist groups in a petition drive to constitutionally define civil marriage in the country as heterosexual only; large rallies for and against a civil unions law for lesbian and gay couples in Italy preview parliamentary debate on the proposal; New Taipei City and Tainan join 3 other municipalities in Taiwan to allow same-gender couples to register their relationships; outgoing Portuguese President Anibal Cavaco Silva vetoes a bill to open adoptions to gay and lesbian couples; Indonesia?s Higher Education Minister Muhammad Nasir wants to ban out LGBT students on the nation?s university campuses [government Child Protection Commission spokesperson ERLINDA and sociologist MUSNI UMAR express their support for Nasir's controversial remarks]; and twice-Oscar-nominated out British actor SIR IAN McKELLEN weighs in on protests over the recent lack of diverse Academy Awards acting nominations (produced by STEVE PRIDE, written by GREG GORDON, and reported this week by JOHN DYER V and CAROLE MEYERS). - In a dialog between retired gay EPISCOPAL BISHOP GENE ROBINSON and transgender BAPTIST PASTOR ALLYSON ROBINSON, the Center for American Progress introduced the new resource "TRANSGENDER WELCOME" last week on "This Way Out". In part two of our coverage of that event, the two unrelated Robinsons and members of the audience discuss practical tips for religious groups that want to encourage inclusion (with music from "My Prayer" written and performed live by African-American transgender singer/songwriter DIANA VANDERBILT with JD SEBASTIAN).[www.americanprogress.org] - The stars of the lesbian romance "CAROL" have each received acting nominations in several Hollywood awards ceremonies this year. The film itself has also garnered several "Best Picture" nods. Set in 1950s New York City and adapted from the landmark novel "The Price of Salt" by Patricia Highsmith, "Carol" follows the developing romance between a woman trapped in a loveless heterosexual marriage, played by Best Lead Actress nominee CATE BLANCHETT, and a young department store clerk, portrayed by Best Supporting Actress nominee ROONEY MARA. The two stars discussed the film's history and social relevance during a YouTube-posted "Variety" Screening Series interview (with instrumental intro music from the "Carol" motion picture soundtrack).[www.carolfilm.com]========================= * ================================"This Way Out" is a U.S. tax-exempt 501(c)(3) charitable nonprofit under the corporate name of OVERNIGHT PRODUCTIONS (INC.), and is supported by the Yavanna Foundation, a bequest from the estate of Christopher David Trentham, and donations from our listener-supporters.Thank you!=> Please log on to thiswayout.org to add your support [a tax-deductible charitable donation in the U.S.].? We truly can't go on without you!***************************************************************On the air since April 1988, "This Way Out" is the multi-award-winning internationally distributed weekly gay and lesbian radio news magazine. The program currently airs on more than 200 local community radio stations around the world, globally distributed at www.radio4all.net, to Pacifica Radio station affiliates in North America, and in Australia via the Community Radio Network.? Listeners can also hear "This Way Out"?through our podcasts at thiswayout.org; on iTunes, Soundcloud, and Stitcher; across Europe, Africa/the Middle East, and Asia/Pacific regions on the World Radio Networks (wrn.org); and on audio CD by individual subscription. For lots of other information about "This Way Out" please visit www.thiswayout.org, email TWOradio at aol.com, or write to PO Box 1065, Los Angeles, CA 90078, USA.********** Thank you for $upporting "This Way Out"! ********** From greggordon2003 at yahoo.com Tue Feb 9 13:17:01 2016 From: greggordon2003 at yahoo.com (Greg Gordon) Date: Tue, 9 Feb 2016 19:17:01 +0000 (UTC) Subject: [OutVoice] Pastoral vulgarity+"Naz & Maalik"+global LGBT news+more! References: <1076209931.1673914.1455045422007.JavaMail.yahoo.ref@mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <1076209931.1673914.1455045422007.JavaMail.yahoo@mail.yahoo.com> Pastoral vulgarity+"Naz & Maalik"+global LGBT news+more!THIS WAY OUTthe international LGBT radio magazine?Program #1,454, distributed on 02/08/16(hosted this week by Greg Gordon and produced with Lucia Chappelle)The closet and national security collide in "Naz & Maalik";A homophobic Harlem church faces queer judgment day;Photos depicting gender fluidity are worth more than a thousand words;India's Supreme Court agrees to hear a "curative" sodomy lawchallenge, marriage inequality referenda are proposed in Taiwan andBermuda, the U.N. issues stamps of LGBT approval, and more news! - In "NewsWrap?: India's highest court agrees to review its December 2013 ruling that restored the British colonial-era sodomy law and re-criminalized millions of LGBT people in the world's second-most-populous nation? referendums to ban civil marriage equality are proposed in both Taiwan and Bermuda? 5 more Muslim Middle Eastern countries ban the biopic about pioneering transwoman Lili Elbe, "The Danish Girl", for "moral depravity", while the rightwing governor of Maine, Paul LePage, blocks an initiative to legally protect trans students? the United Nations postal service unveils 6 new commemorative stamps that for the first time promote LGBT rights*? and rumored-bisexual performer QUEEN LATIFAH ends her acceptance speech for Female Actor in a TV movie or miniseries for portraying bisexual blues singer Bessie Smith by urging listeners to "do you!" at the annual Screen Actors Guild Awards on January 30th [with an excerpt from her remarks]? and more LGBT news from around the world (produced by STEVE PRIDE, written by GREG GORDON, and reported this week by SARAH SWEENEY and MICHAEL LEBEAU).[*www.unstamps.org] - It looks like God will have the last laugh on a controversial anti-LGBT church in Harlem, New York. ATLAH Worldwide Missionary Church has become infamous for its marquees questioning President Obama?s sexual orientation and its Internet broadcasts proclaiming that Starbucks? lattes are laced with sodomite semen.?? Now the church is sinking into the fiery pit of bankruptcy, and LGBT activists are raising money to buy the building at public auction.? The Ali Forney Center and the inclusive Rivers of Living Waters Church are teaming up to turn Harlem?s homophobic hotbed into a queer youth shelter and parish building. ATLAH?s PASTOR JAMES DAVID MANNING responded with his inimitable theological acumen (with music from ANITA BRYANT and WARNER BROTHERS STUDIOS).[http://aliforneycenter.donordrive.com]/;?https://www.gofundme.com/riversnewhome] - ?Queer Life and Literature" commentator JANET MASON finds that representations of gender fluidity are worth more than a thousand words in 3 new photo books from Daylight Books: "Every Breath We Drew" by? Jess T. Dugan; "Gays?In The Military: Photographs and Interviews" by Vincent Cianni; and "Trans Cuba"? by Mariette Pathy Allen.[www.amusejanetmason.com] - Against a background of anti-Muslim suspicion, our STEVE PRIDE introduces us to a new movie that examines a closet-full of contradictions: "NAZ & MAALIK" (with comments by producer MARGARET KATCHER & writer/director JAY DOCKENDORF, and audio clips featuring lead actors KERWIN JOHNSON, JR. & CURTISS COOK, JR.).[www.nazandmaalik.com/]==================================================================="This Way Out" is a tax-exempt 501(c)(3) charitable nonprofit as OVERNIGHT PRODUCTIONS (INC.), and has been supported by grants from the Kicking Assets Fund of the Tides Foundation, the Yavanna Foundation, a generous bequest by the estate of Christopher David Trentham, voluntary PROGRAM ACQUISITION PAYMENTS FROM YOU, OUR STATIONS, and by tax-deductible donations from our listeners.Please visit www.thiswayout.org to contribute via PayPal.>Thank you for your financial support to keep our program on the air!<------------------------------------------------------------------On the air since April 1988, "This Way Out" is the multi-award-winning internationally distributed weekly LGBT radio newsmagazine.The program currently airs on more than 200 local community radio stations around the world, is globally distributed at www.radio4all.net, www.indymedia.org, to Pacifica Radio station affiliates in North America via Audioport, and in Australia via the Community Radio Network. Listeners can also hear "This Way Out" via our podcasts at?www.thiswayout.org, or on iTunes or Stitcher; across Europe, Africa/the Middle East, and Asia/Pacific regions on the World Radio Network (www.wrn.org); and on postal-mailed audio CDs by subscription.For lots of other information about "This Way Out" please visit www.thiswayout.org, email TWOradio at aol.com, or write to PO Box 1065, Los Angeles, CA 90078, USA.************************************************************Thanks for $upporting THIS WAY OUT!************************************************************ From drew at drewparalic.com Mon Feb 15 14:41:09 2016 From: drew at drewparalic.com (drew at drewparalic.com) Date: Mon, 15 Feb 2016 15:41:09 -0500 Subject: [OutVoice] Drew Paralic's New Compilation CD, "Lyrics Without Words" Released Digitally Message-ID: Apart from more iTunes, Amazon and youtube choices for my listeners, I am now on Spotify and Pandora as well! Just type "paralic" in the search box for whatever digital site you fancy... Drew www.drewparalic.com Any artist or any knowledgable listener care to speak about their streaming experiences? I suppose it is the wave of the future (I am not a pioneer when it comes to technology!). From greggordon2003 at yahoo.com Tue Feb 16 13:19:43 2016 From: greggordon2003 at yahoo.com (Greg Gordon) Date: Tue, 16 Feb 2016 19:19:43 +0000 (UTC) Subject: [OutVoice] A gay Afghan refugee+"Mama" messages+global LGBT news! References: <470487691.5257498.1455650383680.JavaMail.yahoo.ref@mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <470487691.5257498.1455650383680.JavaMail.yahoo@mail.yahoo.com> A gay Afghan refugee+"Mama" messages+global LGBT news! THIS WAY OUTthe international LGBT radio magazine?Program #1,455, distributed on 02/15/16(hosted this week by Lucia Chappelle and produced with Greg Gordon)A gay Afghan refugee escapes gender role prison;Christian sings and McKellen remembers "Mouse's" mail to his mom;Malawi's High Court declares open season on gay men, Portugal's parliament rescues vetoed adoption rights, Bermuda's government unveilsits civil unions plan, a youth group raises cash for a homophobicchurch conversion, Barack ditches Michelle for Ellen, and more news! - In "NewsWrap" - Malawi?s High Court lifts a moratorium on enforcement of the country?s law criminalizing gay sex, but Portugal lawmakers override a presidential veto to open adoptions to legally married same-gender couples? Bermuda?s government reportedly unveils a civil unions bill that?s bound to be vigorously opposed by church-based groups? Indonesia virtually bans LGBT emojis from all social media sites operating in the country? New York?s Ali Forney Center for LGBTQ homeless youth announces that it has reached its $200,000 fundraising goal to bid in a foreclosure auction for the ATLAH World Missionary Church property in Harlem led by obnoxiously homophobic and deeply in debt PASTOR JAMES DAVID MANNING [with a mercifully brief sample of his "pastoring?]? BARACK OBAMA becomes the first sitting U.S. president to make an in-studio appearance on TV?s most popular daytime talk show, "Ellen" ? and it?s a mutual love fest between the guest and host ELLEN DEGENERES [with LGBT-relevant excerpts from their conversation]? and more global LGBT news from around the world (produced by STEVE PRIDE, written by GREG GORDON, and reported this week by WENZEL JONES and TANYA KANE-PARRY) + Scalia death bulletin (voiced by LUCIA CHAPPELLE). - AFGHANISTAN-born gay Muslim poet, writer, photographer QAIS MUNHAZIM has come a long way from a PAKISTAN refugee camp to the University of MINNESOTA where he?s a political science PhD student. He shared his story with correspondents JOHN TOWNSEND & DIXIE TREICHEL [from "Fresh Fruit" on KFAI-FM/Minneapolis-St. Paul, Minnesota]. - "Song to My Mama" by MEG CHRISTIAN segues to a stage reading by SIR IAN McKELLEN from a fictional "Dear Mama" letter written by "Michael 'Mouse' Tolliver" in Armistead Maupin's "Tales of the City" at LONDON's Freemasons' Hall this week as part of the prestigious "Letters Live" series, capped by a "TWO" I.D. by "Tales of the City" author ARMISTEAD MAUPIN (with brief intro music from the TV miniseries theme).=========================================================="This Way Out" is a tax-exempt 501(c)(3) charitable nonprofit as OVERNIGHT PRODUCTIONS (INC.), and has been supported by grants from the Kicking Assets Fund of the Tides Foundation, the Yavanna Foundation, a generous bequest by the estate of Christopher David Trentham, voluntary PROGRAM ACQUISITION PAYMENTS FROM YOU, OUR STATIONS, and by tax-deductible donations from our listeners.Please visit www.thiswayout.org to contribute via PayPal.>Thank you for your financial support to keep our program on the air!<------------------------------------------------------------------On the air since April 1988, "This Way Out" is the multi-award-winning internationally distributed weekly LGBT radio newsmagazine.The program currently airs on more than 200 local community radio stations around the world, is globally distributed at www.radio4all.net, www.indymedia.org, to Pacifica Radio station affiliates in North America via Audioport, and in Australia via the Community Radio Network. Listeners can also hear "This Way Out" via our podcasts at?www.thiswayout.org, or on iTunes or Stitcher; across Europe, Africa/the Middle East, and Asia/Pacific regions on the World Radio Network (www.wrn.org); and on postal-mailed audio CDs by subscription.For lots of other information about "This Way Out" please visit www.thiswayout.org, email TWOradio at aol.com, or write to PO Box 1065, Los Angeles, CA 90078, USA.************************************************************Thanks for $upporting THIS WAY OUT!************************************************************ From pinkproductions at shaw.ca Fri Feb 19 22:18:55 2016 From: pinkproductions at shaw.ca (Marlee and Tully) Date: Fri, 19 Feb 2016 20:18:55 -0800 Subject: [OutVoice] Fw: new message Message-ID: <0000eab2dc93$6c3fc962$d6de1e55$@shaw.ca> Hey! Open message Marlee and Tully From pinkproductions at shaw.ca Fri Feb 19 22:18:55 2016 From: pinkproductions at shaw.ca (Marlee and Tully) Date: Fri, 19 Feb 2016 20:18:55 -0800 Subject: [OutVoice] Fw: new message Message-ID: <0000eab2dc93$6c3fc962$d6de1e55$@shaw.ca> Hey! Open message Marlee and Tully From len at stonewallsociety.com Mon Feb 22 16:43:23 2016 From: len at stonewallsociety.com (Len Rogers) Date: Mon, 22 Feb 2016 16:43:23 -0600 Subject: [OutVoice] OutVoice Top Ten Songs of 2015! Message-ID: Congratulations to the artists of the OutVoice Top Ten Songs of 2015! Many thanks for the emails and cards! Daily PT over now, and can get back to work, YAY! Huge Congratulations to the artists: Run Jenny, Craymo, Nhojj Song, Tom Goss, Shawn Thomas, Sugarbeach, Derek Bishop, Rev. Yolanda Roger Anthony Mapes, and Levi Leviticus Kreis! The chart is online at www.outvoice.net Feeling Better! Len StoneWall Society / OutVoice Rainbow World Radio / GLBT Hall Of Fame www.stonewallsociety.com From greggordon2003 at yahoo.com Tue Feb 23 14:23:07 2016 From: greggordon2003 at yahoo.com (Greg Gordon) Date: Tue, 23 Feb 2016 20:23:07 +0000 (UTC) Subject: [OutVoice] (no subject) References: <1835382196.9046635.1456258987957.JavaMail.yahoo.ref@mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <1835382196.9046635.1456258987957.JavaMail.yahoo@mail.yahoo.com> THIS WAY OUTthe international LGBT radio magazine?Program #1,456, distributed on 02/22/16(hosted this week by Greg Gordon and produced with Lucia Chappelle)The life and crimes of Justice Antonin Scalia;Australia's marriage ban crosses Jordan's awesome axis;Indonesia's homophobic "moral panic" escalates, politics and pietystall Italy's civil unions, Panasonic propels Japan's queer couples,religious bias passes for freedom in Mississippi and Georgia, trans-phobic bills plague other U.S. state legislatures, and more news! - In "NewsWrap" - Indonesia's government and Muslim leaders escalate their attacks on LGBT rights? yet another civil unions proposal stalls yet again in Italy's legislature, but Japan's electronics giant Panasonic offers spousal benefits to its same-gender-partnered workers? Mississippi and Georgia each advance so-called "religious freedom" bills, while South Dakota leads America's growing war on transgender people? a Republican Texas state School Board candidate claims that President Barack Obama is pro-gay because he was a gay sex worker in his younger days? and more LGBT news from around the world (produced by STEVE PRIDE, written by GREG GORDON, and reported this week by JOHN DYER V & WENZEL JONES). - JORDAN RASKOPOULOS of the Australian comedy trio AXIS OF AWESOME was clearly not joking with a special announcement released on YouTube February 14th.??Partners Lee Naimo and Benny Davis joined Raskopoulos with their own endorsement at the end of the video entitled "What Happened to Jordan's Beard". And as she told Channel 10's "The Project", Australian law would force Jordan to throw her biggest backer under the bus.[http://www.insert-coin.com; www.youtube.com/user/axisofawesome] - The accolades abounded as the U.S. Supreme Court's arch-conservative firebrand was memorialized this week. But "GAY USA's" ANN NORTHROP and ANDY HUMM come to bury JUSTICE ANTONIN SCALIA, not to praise him (with music from??"Dies Irie" from Mozart's "Requiem" performed by the BERLIN PHILHAROMINC conducted by CLAUDIO ABBADO).[www.gayusatv.org]=========================================================="This Way Out" is a tax-exempt 501(c)(3) charitable nonprofit as OVERNIGHT PRODUCTIONS (INC.), and has been supported by grants from the Kicking Assets Fund of the Tides Foundation, the Yavanna Foundation, a generous bequest by the estate of Christopher David Trentham, voluntary PROGRAM ACQUISITION PAYMENTS FROM YOU, OUR STATIONS, and by tax-deductible donations from our listeners.Please visit www.thiswayout.org to contribute via PayPal.>Thank you for your financial support to keep our program on the air!<------------------------------------------------------------------On the air since April 1988, "This Way Out" is the multi-award-winning internationally distributed weekly LGBT radio newsmagazine.The program currently airs on more than 200 local community radio stations around the world, is globally distributed at www.radio4all.net, www.indymedia.org, to Pacifica Radio station affiliates in North America via Audioport, and in Australia via the Community Radio Network. Listeners can also hear "This Way Out" via our podcasts at?www.thiswayout.org, or on iTunes or Stitcher; across Europe, Africa/the Middle East, and Asia/Pacific regions on the World Radio Network (www.wrn.org); and on postal-mailed audio CDs by subscription.For lots of other information about "This Way Out" please visit www.thiswayout.org, email TWOradio at aol.com, or write to PO Box 1065, Los Angeles, CA 90078, USA.************************************************************Thanks for $upporting THIS WAY OUT!************************************************************