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IN THE NEWS:
Florida passes an anti-bullying law
The Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff anticipates the repeal of Don't Ask, Don't Tell
We pay tribute to civil rights pioneer Mildred Loving
The American Psychiatric Association cancels a "gay v. ex-gay" stupid forum
A straight family values Congressman is exposed as a drunk and a philanderer
A good court decision in NY on same-sex marriage
Reviews of a bunch of new plays, including some with gay themes
We'll show you a touching marriage proposal from one man to another from "Brothers and Sisters" in our entertainment news segment.
And we celebrate the 140th anniversary of the "invention" of homosexuality
This week at the halfway point in the show, we are proud to have as our guest Arsham Parsi, leader of the Iranian Queer Organization, who has devoted himself to helping LGBT people in his homeland of Iran and aiding LGBT Iranians seeking asylum around the world. Parsi fled Iran in 2005 to Turkey and now does his lifesaving work as a volunteer from Toronto. He'll talk about gay life in Iran under President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, hiding gay Iranians in safe houses in Turkey, his outlook on US threats against Iran, and his hopes for the future of his native land. You can learn more about him and his group and how to support his efforts at www.irqo.net
IN THE NEWS THIS WEEK:
- The Human Rights Campaign endorses a Republican Senator in Maine and withholds their endorsement from a competitive out gay Democratic candidate for Senate in North Carolina
- We'll have updates from California, Arizona, Colorado and New Jersey
- Did Hillary Clinton stand by while gay people were slurred by a supporter?
- A Chinese transgendered woman comes out in China
- A different view on Jeremiah Wright and AIDS
- Luke and Noah get to kiss again on "As the World Turns"
- Andy will have reviews of new shows by Harvey Fierstein and John Waters, as well as one about the late Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall
This week, we will talk about Hillary Clinton's invocation of "San Francisco" versus Barack Obama, Obama's gay supporters, plans for the Day of Silence on April 25, and multiple but small protests against Pope Benedict--most of which were illegally kept away from him by the New York Police Department.
We have good news from Latin America, storm clouds over California and Arizona, and a good play about ex-offenders to recommend.
LGBT protests of the Pope's visit
Bishop Desmond Tutu speaks out for LGBT rights (we have tape)
Log Cabin Club praises CA Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger for coming out against the referendum banning same-sex marriage
Gayle King tells David Letterman that she and Oprah are not lesbians (we have tape)
Prison sentences for five gay men in Egypt
A stunning story from New York Magazine about the fall of a hero AIDS doctor
We'll review Paul Rudnick's new play, "The New Century" at Lincoln Center
And we will tell you about a terrific new lesbian-themed German movie opening in New York
We are honored this week to have as our guest Matt Foreman, executive director of the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force, who is stepping down from that post after five years to run the Evelyn and Walter Haas, Jr. Fund out of San Francisco.
Matt will talk about his triumphs and trials at NGLTF as well as his take on the state of the LGBT movement.
IN THE NEWS:
A gay soldier killed in Iraq is closeted by the media
An American gay married couple maligned by the Polish president were flown to Poland by the Polish media in an incident that has provoked a huge discussion on gay rights there
An anti-gay group admits it went too far in advocating the "export" of gay people
The CDC, under pressure, owns up to higher numbers of Americans infected with HIV
Andy gives high praise to "Something You Did" at Primary Stages in NY
THIS WEEK ON GAY USA, we'll give you our take on the sex scandals that deposed NY's Gov. Eliot Spitzer, hit the new governor, David Paterson, on his first day, and that still plague former NJ Gov. Jim McGreevey who is going through a messy divorce.
IN THE NEWS:
A lesbian couple is trying to get Missouri to dissolve their Massachusetts marriage
Ellen, in her new political vein, speaks out on the anti-gay ranting of Oklahoma Rep. Sally Kern
Progress for transgendered people in the regulations for the federal Real ID Act
A temporary reprieve for the young Iranian gay man seeking asylum in Britain
Lily Tomlin talks on Good Morning America about how she became a producer of "The Beebo Brinker Chronicles," based on the lesbian pulp fiction novels by Ann Bannon in the 1950s and 1960s. The terrific show is running at the 37 Arts Theatre in Manhattan.
Andrea Gilbert, an organizer with Athens Pride, will tell us how in the twenty years since she emigrated from Brooklyn to Greece she became a leading lesbian activist there and about plans for the fourth LGBT Pride March in Athens set for June 7.
The news this week is terrible. This past week, a 15-year old gender variant gay boy was allegedly murdered in front of horrified classmates by a 14-year old fellow student in an eighth grade classroom in Oxnard, California. We will tell you about the killing of Lawrence King, the state's intent to try his adolescent alleged killer as an adult, outpourings of grief from the student and LGBT communities, and the roots of these kinds of crimes.
Our guest in the second half of our program is out lesbian New York City Council Speaker Christine Quinn, who holds the second most powerful office in the city. She will talk about her support for Hillary Clinton for President, her future political plans, her stands on such issues as the anti-gay St. Patrick's Day Parade, getting anti-bullying programs in the schools, the lack of good AIDS education in the schools, and the Bloomberg administration's record on civil liberties. We will offer the opportunity for an Obama surrogate to appear on a future program.
This week, Andy will review the "Macbeth" at BAM with Patrick Stewart, a play called "Grace" about atheism with Lynn Redgrave at the Lucille Lortel on Christopher Street, and one about race called "Unconditional" at the Public Theatrer.
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This week on Gay USA, our guest is eminent gay law professor Arthur Leonard who will take us through the big win for same-sex marriage rights in an appellate court in New York State making it clear that legal same-sex marriages performed elsewhere such as in Canada MUST be recognized as legal marriage in New York, even though the state does not perform them. We will talk about that important case and others with Professor Leonard. You can read his analysis of this case and others online here.
We will kick off the show with analysis of the Super Duper Tuesday primary election results and how LGBT and AIDS issues and voters figured into the contests. Florida looks as if it is getting an anti-gay marriage ballot initiative this November. We will show you how the new domestic partners system is working in Oregon where it just kicked off. We’ll discuss the ex-gay movement and the progress of ex-ex-gays. There’s a Florida high school trying to ban mention of gay issues. HRC faces a transgender rights picket in Philadelphia. Andy has a review of a new off-Broadway play about how Iraqis who worked for Americans in Iraq have been thrown to the wolves.
This week on "Gay USA," we start off once again on the campaign trail where LGBT issues came up in remarks by Barack Obama in the Democratic debate and in his King Day speech and in a question to Hillary Clinton on the Tyra Banks show. On the Republican side, Mike Huckabee made what is essentially a gay rape joke in defense of the Confederate flag.
In other news, Cameroon is locking people up just for being gay. Andy will tell you how he was defamed in the New York Times. We will have an extended discussion on the staph infection scare and how it has been covered in the press, offering some useful advice on how to avoid infection. And we celebrate the best short documentary Academy Award nomination for Cynthia Wade's "Freeheld," about police Lt. Laurel Hester's fight for partner benefits in New Jersey as she also battled cancer.
We taped this week's "Gay USA" just before the news broke that Heath Ledger, whose breakthrough role was as a gay cowboy in "Brokeback Mountain," had tragically died at 28. We will talk about his legacy on next week's show.
We kick off this week's "Gay USA" with our analysis of the results of the Iowa caucuses and New Hampshire primary, as well as gay and AIDS issues in the campaigns.
We'll also tell you about the grisly murder of a gay man in Connecticut by hooked up with online on Christmas Eve.
We'll listen to an interview with financial writer Suze Orman on the Larry King show where she talks about how she is discriminated against as a person in a same-sex couple.
Ann will tell you how Senator Larry Craig has finally come out. And Andy will review the plays he saw in London last week--full of gay themes and actors.
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