[OutVoice] Ray Bradbury's gayest play + learning from Tribal Elders + global LGBT news

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"THIS WAY OUT: the international lesbian & gay radio magazine
Program #1,089 - distributed 2/9/09
(hosted by Greg Gordon and produced with Lucia Chappelle)
Gallivanting gays galvanize Ray Bradbury's land of blarney;
Tribal elders offer advice for social change;
A U.S. appeals court throws doubt on DOMA while 5 states entertain marriage equality ideas, Czechs check into registered couple stats, agitated Anglicans remain contentious in Alexandria, a retiring gay Aussie High Court judge rules for coming out, and more global LGBT news

- In "NewsWrap":? Two U.S. 9th Circuit rulings on spousal benefits for gay and lesbian federal court workers suggest that DOMA, the Defense of Marriage Act, won't withstand constitutional scrutiny if directly challenged in other federal courts... marriage equality bills are on the move in Vermont, Maine and New Hampshire, civil unions legislation advances in Hawai'i, but Wyoming's House rejects a heterosexual-only constitutional marriage amendment... Hillary and Julie Goodridge, the lead plaintiff couple in Massachusetts' historic marriage equality case, file for divorce, but gay and lesbian registered partners in the Czech Republic stay together far more often than their heterosexual married counterparts... bishops at the latest meeting of the global Anglican Communion find no resolution to contentious LGBT issues...? Australia's first openly gay High Court Judge Michael Kirby retires... and more LGBT news from around the world? (written by GREG GORDON, and reported this week by DONNA ANN WARD and CHRIS WILSON).

- As a veteran of the avant-garde film movement of the 1970s, STEVEN SOLBERG is something of a gay pioneer in his own right.? He's currently finishing a video called "STANDING ON THE BONES OF OUR ANCESTORS: EXPLORING THE ROLE OF THE QUEER TRIBAL ELDER."?? And as "This Way Out" correspondents DIXIE TREICHEL and JOHN TOWNSEND discovered (from "Fresh Fruit" on KFAI-FM/Minneapolis-St. Paul), Solberg is documenting more than history [www.StandingOnTheBones.com].

- RAY BRADBURY's many celebrated novels include "The Martian Chronicles," "Fahrenheit 451," "The Illustrated Man," and "Something Wicked This Way Comes."? But "This Way Out's" CHRIS WILSON discovered that something delightful this way comes when she sat down with the iconic American writer to discuss the surprising gay twists in one of his early theatrical works, 1954's "FALLING UPWARD."? The play, set in the contemporary IRELAND of that era, will enjoy a major revival in Los Angeles later this month, and there are also plans to take the show on the road (with music by KEN O'MALLEY, and written and produced with CHRISTOPHER DAVID TRENTHAM) [www.RayBradburysFallingUpward.com].
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