From greggordon2003 at yahoo.com  Tue Mar  1 16:13:32 2016
From: greggordon2003 at yahoo.com (Greg Gordon)
Date: Tue, 1 Mar 2016 22:13:32 +0000 (UTC)
Subject: [OutVoice] Queer Kenyan rap+Harlem's homophobe+global LGBT news!
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Queer Kenyan rap+Harlem's homophobe+global LGBT news!THIS WAY OUTthe international LGBT radio magazine?Program #1,457, distributed on 02/29/16(hosted this week by Lucia Chappelle and produced with Greg Gordon)Kenyan rappers defy challenges to their Same Love/Valid Love videos;LGBT youth activists close in on a Harlem homophobe;Indonesia's anti-queer crackdown worsens, Russia considersforced "treatment" for its LGBT citizens but a trio of U.S. advocacygroups challenge so-called "change therapy" nationwide, childless civilunions pass in the Italian Senate, and more global LGBT news!
- In "NewsWrap" - Indonesia's all-out assault on the lives of sexual minorities gets even worse, with one prominent official calling for their executions? the Russian government proposes nationwide "cure clinics" for LGBT people, while a landmark Federal Trade Commission complaint could put all so-called "change therapy" practitioners in the U.S. out of business? Italy's Senate approves a civil unions bill for same-gender couples only after dumping an adoptions provision? Israel's parliament rejects several bills to advance LGBT rights a day after declaring the country's first-ever LGBT Rights Day? Berlin opens a shelter for LGBT Syrian refugees that will house up to 120 people? and more LGBT news from around the world (produced by STEVE PRIDE, written by GREG GORDON, and reported this week by WENZEL JONES & MICHAEL LEBEAU).
- A new mix of Macklemore and Ryan Lewis' Grammy-winning "SAME LOVE" could land KENYAN rap group ART ATTACK in jail at any time; an actor in their YouTube video promoting the performance fled the country after the Art Attack remix was banned by the Kenya Film Classification Board. But you can find their "Same Love" Remix video on YouTube ? and hear it this week on "This Way Out?!
- PASTOR JAMES DAVID MANNING has been a Comedy Central cable channel favorite, but someone else may get the last laugh on his ATLAH World Missionary Church. "Daily Show" correspondent JESSICA WILLIAMS was surprised to get some seriously Good News when she recently revisited Harlem?s herald of homophobic hate (with additional comments by Ali Forney Center director CARL SICILIANO, and intro music from "The Daily Show with Trevor Noah" and brief outro music performed by the late CORY MONTEITH on TV's "Glee?).
- Like her fellow Kenyan rappers Art Attack, lesbian artist GRAMMO SUSPECT is putting her career, and maybe even her life on the line, to explore the African continent's real LGBT history with "OUR LOVE IS VALID".=========================================================="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 greggordon2003 at yahoo.com  Tue Mar  8 15:18:53 2016
From: greggordon2003 at yahoo.com (Greg Gordon)
Date: Tue, 8 Mar 2016 21:18:53 +0000 (UTC)
Subject: [OutVoice] Sam Smith's "history-free" Oscar+Intersex 101+global
	LGBT news!
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Sam Smith's "history-free" Oscar+Intersex 101+global LGBT news!THIS WAY OUTthe international LGBT radio magazine?Program #1,458, distributed on 03/07/16(hosted this week by Greg Gordon and produced with Lucia Chappelle)Writer/activist Hida Viloria introduces "Intersex 101";Sam Smith wins "razzies" for his history-free Oscars homage;A backdoor marriage equality ban fails in Switzerland, theEuroCourt "reunifies" same-gender couples, Bermuda's governmentmixes a civil unions proposal with a marriage equality referendum,a South Dakota anti-trans "bathroom bill" craps out, and lots more!
- In "NewsWrap": Swiss voters narrowly reject a stealth attempt to block the passage of any civil marriage equality proposal? the European Court of Human Rights rules that Council of Europe "family reunification" policies apply to migrating partners of same-gender couples? Bermuda's Government announces plans for a public vote on civil marriage equality for same-gender couples, and legislative measures to create civil unions for them and to strengthen existing heterosexual marriage statutes? the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission files its first-ever discrimination lawsuits against companies charged with bias against LGBT workers? South Dakota lawmakers fail to override the gubernatorial veto of a bill targeting transgender students? West Virginia Senators reject a "religious freedom" bill? hoping to educate her fellow envoys about the real lives of LGBT people, United Nations U.S. Ambassador Samantha Power takes 17 fellow UN ambassadors to a performance of the Tony-award-winning Broadway show "FUN HOME", which is based on lesbian-feminist Alison Bechdel's autobiographical graphic novels [introduced by a snippet from "Changing My Major (to Joan)" performed by ALEXANDRA SOCHA from the original cast recording]? and more global LGBT news (produced by STEVE PRIDE, written by GREG GORDON, and reported this week by TANYA KANE-PARRY & JOHN DYER V).
- Singer-songwriter SAM SMITH performed his Best Original Song-nominated "THE WRITING'S ON THE WALL" at the Motion Picture Academy's big OSCARS show on February 28th, crooning the tune he co-wrote with Jimmy Napes for the James Bond movie "Spectre". After he took the trophy, Smith turned himself into an Oscars controversy with his error-encumbered acceptance speech and fallacious follow-ups.
- The quickly obvious answer to this "RAINBOW MINUTE" "Who Said That?" is SIR IAN McKELLEN, profiled by DUSTIN RICHARDSON, recorded at the studios of WRIR-FM in Richmond, Virginia, and produced by JUDD PROCTOR and BRIAN BURNS).
- "This Way Out" correspondent VASH BODDIE breaks through the ignorance of the "I" in LGBTQI with writer/activist HIDA VILORIA (produced with STEVE PRIDE, and with intro/outro music from DAVID BOWIE's "Rebel, Rebel").[hidaviloria.com;?http://oii-usa.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!************************************************************

From greggordon2003 at yahoo.com  Tue Mar 15 13:26:47 2016
From: greggordon2003 at yahoo.com (Greg Gordon)
Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2016 18:26:47 +0000 (UTC)
Subject: [OutVoice] "Tangerine's" Mya & Sean + Hillary's "history"+ LGBT
	news!
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"Tangerine's" Mya & Sean + Hillary's "history"+ LGBT news!THIS WAY OUTthe international LGBT radio magazine?Program #1,459, distributed on 03/14/16(hosted this week by Lucia Chappelle and produced with Greg Gordon)"Tangerine's" tiny camera tracks colorful trans stories;Hillary faces scorn for her Reagan praise;India's archaic sodomy law withstands another repeal effort,homophobic terror engulfs Indonesia, a refugee controversy mixeswith 2 federal firsts at the 38th Sydney Gay & Lesbian Mardi Gras,Missouri advances bias, queer fears cancel Stockton's Easter, more!
- In "NewsWrap": Indian lawmakers reject the second effort in 3 months to repeal the country's notorious anti-gay Section 377, while the anti-queer crisis in Indonesia gets even worse, and a Kenyan YouTube remix of "Same Love" grows in popularity despite official efforts to quash it ? detention of LGBT refugees in anti-queer places creates controversy at Sydney?s 38th Gay & Lesbian Mardi Gras, while leaders of Australia's 2 major political parties make history with their presence ? a federal judge in the U.S. Commonwealth of Puerto Rico rules that the June 2015 high court marriage equality ruling doesn't apply there because Puerto Rico is not a state ? a constitutional amendment to allow people to deny services to same-gender couples because they object to marriage equality advances in the GOP-controlled Missouri legislature ? organizers cancel the 17th annual Easter Sunrise Service in the central California city of Stockton to avoid worshipping with accidentally-invited LGBT people ? and more global LGBT news (produced by STEVE PRIDE, written by GREG GORDON, and reported this week by WENZEL JONES and CAROLE MEYERS).
- Memories were selective as dozens of dignitaries gathered to lay former U.S. First Lady Nancy Reagan to rest on March 11th. Former First Lady and current Democratic candidate for president HILLARY CLINTON shared some revisionist recollections about her predecessor with a national television audience that brought down an avalanche of criticism from the LGBT community, and reaction from SENATOR BERNIE SANDERS, her rival for the Democratic nomination (with intro/outro music from the "Gigi" motion picture soundtrack).
- A first of its kind independent film and a first of her kind transgender actress made history at the film industry?s INDEPENDENT SPIRIT AWARDS on February 27th.??"TANGERINE" best supporting actress winner MYA TAYLOR recounted the rocky road she'd travelled to that night in her acceptance speech, and elaborated on her story backstage.??Our ace entertainment reporter STEVE PRIDE then chats with the film's director and co-writer SEAN BAKER about bringing his vision to the screen (with clips and music from the motion picture soundtrack, including "Toyland" performed by MYA TAYLOR).[http://www.magpictures.com/tanger]=========================================================="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 greggordon2003 at yahoo.com  Tue Mar 22 12:53:48 2016
From: greggordon2003 at yahoo.com (Greg Gordon)
Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2016 17:53:48 +0000 (UTC)
Subject: [OutVoice] Praising the Lorde+NYC St. Pat's Pride+LGBT news!
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Praising the Lorde+NYC St. Pat's Pride+LGBT news!THIS WAY OUTthe international LGBT radio magazine?Program #1,460, distributed on 03/21/16(hosted this week by Greg Gordon and produced with Lucia Chappelle)People's poets praise "Sister Outsider";Queer Irish come home to the Big Apple;The Australian government guts its Safe Schools anti-bullyingprogram, Botswana's ban on an LGBT advocacy group is overruled,?Kansas lawmakers approve anti-queer campus bias, a Vatican "thumbsdown" makes "Weekend" sizzle at the Italian box office, and more!
- In "NewsWrap": The government of Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull guts an LGBT-inclusive Safe Schools anti-bullying program, while Labor and Green parties continue to bicker in Parliament over who?s going to lead the charge to legislative marriage equality? Botswana?s highest court rejects a government bid to ban an LGBT advocacy group? lawmakers in the U.S. state of Kansas allow college groups to deny membership to anyone based on religious belief, while Georgia?s Republican Governor Nathan Deal hints that he?ll veto a more sweeping "license to discriminate" bill that?s passed in both chambers of his state legislature? the re-release in Italy of the acclaimed 2011 independent British film ?Weekend?, about a hook-up between 2 gay men that unexpectedly blossoms into romance, gets a thumbs down from the Vatican ? so, of course, it?s become one of the country?s major box office successes [with an audio snippet from the film]? and more LGBT news from around the world??(produced by STEVE PRIDE, written by GREG GORDON, and reported this week by CAROLE MEYERS & MICHAEL LEBEAU).
- The 255th annual NEW YORK CITY ST. PATRICK'S DAY PARADE on March 17th was historic, as out and proud self-identified LGBT Irish groups were welcomed for the first time in more than 25 years. This brief report includes comments by former City Council Speaker CHRISTINE QUINN, current Queens Councilman JIMMY VAN BRAMER, persistent Irish Queer activist BRENDAN FAY, and NEW YORK CITY MAYOR BILL DE BLASIO.
- "AUDRE LORDE: POET, ACTIVIST, EDUCATOR" is profiled in this "RAINBOW MINUTE" (read by REV. ROBIN GORSLINE and produced at WRIR-FM in Richmond, Virginia by JUDD PROCTOR & BRIAN BURNS).
- AUDRE LORDE reads from her poem "1984" while visiting BERLIN for the last time in 1992.
- It was during her Berlin farewell that Lorde and her surviving partner Dr. Gloria Joseph discussed the comprehensive look at her work that would become "THE WIND IS SPIRIT". The publication of Joseph?s combination anthology/biography was celebrated at the FIRST ANNUAL PROFESSOR AUDRE LORDE MEMORIAL BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION at Hunter College on February 18th. Spoken word performer STACEYANN CHIN and NEW YORK CITY FIRST LADY and poet CHIRLANE McCRAY were among those who came to honor Lorde.================================================================"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 greggordon2003 at yahoo.com  Tue Mar 29 14:00:50 2016
From: greggordon2003 at yahoo.com (Greg Gordon)
Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2016 19:00:50 +0000 (UTC)
Subject: [OutVoice] (no subject)
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THIS WAY OUTthe international LGBT radio magazine?Program #1,461, distributed on 03/28/16(hosted this week by Lucia Chappelle and produced with Greg Gordon)Activists organize despite danger in Dominica;North Carolina Tar Heels stomp on equality;World shrinks prescribe a cure for anti-LGBT laws, Ukrainian thugs killthe Lviv Equality Festival, Kansas celebrates campus religious bias,trans families triumph over a Tennessee "bathroom bill", Antarctica isproclaimed the world?s first queer-friendly continent, and more news!
- In "NewsWrap": The 200,000-member World Psychiatric Association calls for the decriminalization of private consensual adult same-gender sex, the banning of so-called "conversion therapy", and the passage of anti-LGBT hate crime laws ? an Equality Festival scheduled for the Ukrainian tourist city of Lviv is cancelled after homophobic thugs surround the hotel venue shouting "kill kill kill" ? U.S. PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA?s historic visit to Cuba includes the promotion of LGBT rights [with a brief excerpt from his speech in Havana], and a reading by out Obama inaugural Cuban-American poet RICHARD BLANCO [with a brief excerpt]; North Carolina?s dominant Republicans pass what may be the worst anti-LGBT laws in recent memory, while far right Republican Kansas Governor Sam Brownback signs a bill allowing student groups to deny membership to individuals they don?t like based on "sincerely held religious belief" ? progressive Planting Peace activists raise a rainbow flag in Antarctica and declare it to be the world?s first LGBT-friendly continent ? and more global LGBT news (produced by STEVE PRIDE, written by GREG GORDON, and reported this week by JOHN DYER V and SARAH SWEENEY).
- When CHARLOTTE, NORTH CAROLINA?s City Council added LGBT people to its anti-discrimination protections, it so alarmed the state?s Republican-dominated legislature and Republican Governor Pat McCrory that they forced taxpayers to finance a special session this week to overturn it before it could take effect on April 1st. They even went so far as to forbid any other local government from enacting laws that don?t mirror what?s already in state law. North Carolina offers no anti-bias protections for LGBT people. The new legislation also bans transgender people from using the public facilities that correspond to their gender identity. McCrory signed the package of bills into law within hours of passage on March 24th. Scorn and condemnation from the business sector, professional sports associations, and other high-profile groups and individuals soon followed. "BuzzFeed?s" DOMINIC HOLDEN explored the implications of the new laws on the March 24th edition of the "PBS News Hour"; CHARLOTTE MAYOR JENNIFER ROBERTS discussed what lies ahead for her city, and news anchor CHRIS HAYES comments on the hateful legislation on his "All In" MSNBC program; ends with a faux commercial for North Carolina tourism by the folks at FUNNY OR DIE.
- The Caribbean HIV/AIDS Partnership, or CHAP, is tackling the tough job of providing services to LGBTQI people in a largely hostile region, and no place is more difficult than the island of DOMINICA. Coordinating Director of CHAP Dominica SYLVESTER BAPTISTE talks about gay life and activism in his homeland with This Way Out correspondent VASH BODDIE (with brief intro music from "Get Up, Stand Up" by BOB MARLEY, and production assistance by STEVE PRIDE).====================================================================="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!************************************************************