"Persistent Voices" & New Queer CDs

Now playing ... week of June 28, 2010

"Persistent Voices: Poetry by Writers Lost to AIDS" honors the rhymes and reasons of a lost literary generation. Janet Mason brings this review.

Debut releases by Mama's Black Sheep ("Unmarked Highway") and Ryan States ("Strange Town") are featured along with the blues-roots-reviving return of SONiA & disappear fear ("Blood, Bones & Baltimore") in our Audiofile. JD Doyle & Chris Wilson host with assistance from Christopher David Trentham.

And in NewsWrap: St. Petersburg busts break up Pride ban protest, rash of raids nab gay Syrians at private parties, EuroCourt rules marriage equality not a human right, same-gender marriage doesn't translate into German, Castro men wrestle against U.S. Gulf oil catastrophe, and more news.

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NewsWrap for the week ending June 26, 2010:

Summary: At least five activists are arrested at an unauthorized Pride demonstration in St. Petersburg, Russia ... about 600 LGBT people and their supporters survive anti-queer threats to march for Pride in Brno, the Czech Republic ... there are reports that Syrian authorities have arrested dozens for obscenity, illegal drugs and "encouraging" homosexuality in recent raids on private gay parties ... the European Court of Human Rights rejects a gay Austrian couple's bid for marriage equality, but acknowledges the need for legal recognition of and protections for same-gender families ... a Berlin court rules that same-gender couples who legally marry in other countries are not married in Germany, but are recognized under the country's registered partnerships law ... the U.S. Supreme Court's 8-to-1 ruling orders the public release of the names of those who'd signed petitions in the state of Washington to put Referendum 71, which would have revoked expanded domestic partner benefits, on the November 2008 ballot ... LGBT activists are hoping that newly-installed Australian P.M. Julia Gillard will be more open to marriage equality than her Labor Party predecessor Kevin Rudd ... gay men in San Francisco's Castro district get slippery to protest the BP Gulf oil spill


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Prop 8 Speeches Spoken & Cameron Takes Pride

Now playing ... week of June 21, 2010

The lawyers' last words close the U.S. federal trial testing the constitutionality of California's ban on marriage equality. Our comprehensive on-scene coverage from Mark Mericle and Christopher Martinez comes courtesy of Pacifica Radio's California Evening News.

British P.M. David Cameron commemorated Pride Month by announcing his newly-elected coalition government's commitments at an official reception for queer community leaders in the Rose Garden at Number 10 Downing Street. Not all activists are impressed with his promises.

And in NewsWrap: rising hate crimes raise concerns in Canada and Puerto Rico; three U.S. federal departments make incremental Pride month progress; bogus gay blood donation bans remain in the U.S., Canada, the U.K., France and Germany; Dublin artist's Papal portrait draws Catholic ire; more news!

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NewsWrap for the week ending June 19, 2010

Summary: Closing arguments cap the closely-watched federal trial in San Francisco challenging the constitutionality of California's marriage equality-banning Proposition 8 ... U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development requires funding applicants to comply with state and local laws banning anti-LGBT bias ... U.S. Department of Justice says that gays and lesbians abused by their domestic partners are protected under the Violence Against Women Act ... U.S. State Department issues new guidelines removing reassignment surgery as a precondition for the issuance of passports to trans people in their self-identified gender ... U.S. Food and Drug Administration panel recommends maintaining a ban on gay men donating blood, while policies about such donations in France, Germany, Canada, Australia, Japan, Sweden, Spain, and Italy are reviewed ... Statistics Canada reports a doubling of anti-queer hate crimes from 2007 to 2008, while the government of Puerto Rico creates a commission to examine anti-queer violence and how to curb it ... a painting of the Pope with a gay male couple riles Roman Catholic Church officials in Ireland and around the world.

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NewsWrap for the week ending June 12, 2010:

Summary: The Anglican Communion punishes its U.S. branch, the Episcopal Church, for consecrating a second openly-queer Bishop ... Canadian Anglicans again decide not to decide on blessing same-gender couples ... Iceland's parliament unanimously passes a marriage equality bill ... Teresa Pires and Helena Paixao become the first same-gender couple to legally wed in Portugal ... Malawi's embattled queer couple Tiwonge Chimbalanga and Steven Monjeza breaks up, and Monjeza is reportedly now dating a woman ... more than 3 million celebrate LGBT Pride in Sao Paulo in what's said to be the world's biggest such event ... an estimated 100,000 at Tel Aviv Pride honor the victims of last year's murderous rampage on a youth support group meeting at the city's LGBT Center ... about 3,000 at Athens Pride demand equality ... conservative U.S. House Democrat Ike Skelton of Missouri worries that repealing "Don't Ask Don't Tell" will force parents to discuss the existence of gays and lesbians with their children ....

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"8: The Mormon Proposition"

Now playing ... week of June 14, 2010

Entertainment Reporter Steve Pride's preview of the new documentary expose includes comments by producer and narrator Dustin Lance Black, Californians Against Hate founder Fred Karger, and Mormon mom of a married gay son Linda Stay.

And in NewsWrap: inclusive policies take Episcopalians out of the ecumenical conversation, Iceland lawmakers unanimously agree to marriage equality, pardoned Malawi men part under pressure, three million celebrate Pride in Sao Paulo, Tel Aviv Pride remembers the victims of a murderous attack, and more news.

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PROGRAM UPDATE:

Janet Mason's commentary on Persistent Voices is postponed so that we can extend our preview of the documentary 8: The Mormon Proposition.

Coming next week: Silenced poets and Mormon politics

Tune in the week of June 14th for a commentary on Persistent Voices: Poetry by Writers Lost to AIDS and a preview of the documentary 8: The Mormon Proposition with Fred Karger and Dustin Lance Black. The week's headlines include: Canterbury punishes naughty pro-queer Episcopalians ... Icelandic Parliament passes marriage equality ... Portuguese lesbians break wedding ceiling ... Pardoned Malawi man dumps transwoman for safer mate ... Three million proud in Sao Paulo ... Blue Dog fears DADT repeal will force honesty with children ...

O'Reilly's Rant & New Queer CDs

Now playing ... week of June 7, 2010

Fox News Channel commentator Bill O'Reilly gets slammed by LGBT rights groups for his response to a French McDonald's TV spot, in which he ranks gay teens with terrorists.

Lesbian and gay musicians Diana Di Gioia ("Out Late"), Richard Cortez ("Sleeping With Strangers"), and Amy Campbell ("Oh Heart, Oh Highway") have stories to tell and places to go in our Audiofile.

Plus a Rainbow Minute celebrating the father of modern American literature.

And in NewsWrap: the U.N.'s ECOSOC denies official NGO status to IGLHRC, Ghana protesters petition to ban homosexuality, Pakistani police storm alleged same-gender wedding, Obama ups federal worker partner benefits as Pride present, scientists confirm that "They see gay people," and more news.

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NewsWrap for the week ending June 5, 2010:

Summary: A committee of the United Nations Economic and Social Council rejects consultative status for the International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission ... more than a thousand mostly young Muslims stage a first-ever march against homosexuality in Ghana ... Tiwonge Chimbalanga & Steven Monjeza, the Malawi couple pardoned from their 14 years hard labor sodomy prison sentence by President Bingu wa Mutharika last week, make their first post-release public appearance ... a 42-year-old Pakistani man and his 19-year-old transwoman friend are arrested in a raid on the teen's birthday party in Peshawar and are being charged with sodomy ... U.S. President Barack Obama issues an official LGBT Pride Month proclamation and issues a memo outlining the benefits he ordered last year for the partners and children of lesbigay federal workers ... military veterans Dan Choi and Jim Pietrangelo end their week-long hunger strike protesting the slow progress of "Don't Ask Don't Tell" repeal but say they might do it again ... Dutch airline KLM refuses the request of its gay flight attendants to not have to work on flights to queer-dangerous Iran ... Dutch researchers say they may have discovered evidence that "gaydar" actually exists.

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