THIS WAY OUT the international gay & lesbian radio magazine Program #702, distributed 09/10/01: (hosted this week by Greg Gordon and produced with Lucia Chappelle) Brit activist Tatchell's stormy history with Zimbabwe's 'phobic Mugabe; Tampa, Florida lesbian cop's widow fights for pension benefits; London lovers christen the city's new partner registry, Australia's Senate resolves to protect gays & lesbians, while a fertility fracas reaches that country's High Court, European Union applicants are pushed on anti-gay laws, Turkish transgenders attack a government official, & other GLBT news * In "NewsWrap": In a ceremony attended by Mayor Ken Livingstone, the first gay and lesbian couples sign up with the new London Partnership Registry, making them the first registered same-gender partners in the UK... Australia's Senate passes a resolution agreeing in principle on the need for national laws to prohibit sexual orientation discrimination, while the country's High Court hears arguments in a case brought by Catholic Bishops who want to ban access to fertility treatment for lesbians and other women not in relationships with men... the European Parliament calls on EU applicants Bulgaria, Cyprus, Hungary and Romania to eliminate their anti-gay laws as a condition of membership... angered by official neglect, police abuse and other problems, transgenders attack the entourage of a Turkish Minister in Istanbul... Belarussian gays and lesbians parade with Pride in Minsk... and other GLBT news from around the world [written by CINDY FRIEDMAN and anchored by KELLI BLANCHFIELD and CHRISTOPHER GAAL].(about 9:30) * The city of Tampa, Florida is reconsidering its government pension rules now that the widow of LOIS MARRERO, a lesbian police officer killed in the line of duty, is fighting for her benefits. As This Way Out's RANDI ZIMMERMAN reports, surviving partner MICKIE MASHBURN, who is also a policewoman, may have to carry her argument all the way to the state legislature (includes comments by Mashburn and her attorney KAREN DEERING).(about 4:30) * Whether or not human rights are on the official agenda at the British Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) in October in Brisbane, Queensland (Australia), at which outspokenly homophobic Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe is expected, such issues will be on the minds of many observers around the world. As we discovered on last week's "This Way Out", British activist PETER TATCHELL plans to attempt his third citizen's arrest of Mugabe when the African country's head of state arrives in Brisbane. Tatchell's controversial direct action demonstrations have become almost as well-known around the world as Mugabe's homophobic outbursts -- but as JOHN FRAME of 4ZZZ-FM/Brisbane's "Queer Radio" notes in this interview with Tatchell, the gay human rights campaigner's association with the regime in Zimbabwe was not always adversarial.(about 12:30)
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