What's Coming up in August
Seems like we were just celebrating the arrival of summer and here it is August already and the students are all headed back to school. Eeeeks! Where does the time go?! This has been an exceptionally fun summer for all of us at bloomingOUT. We took much pleasure in observing and participating in the ever expanding pride celebrations held around the state, country and on the international front as well. Not only are there more events but the number of participants in parades and activities are growing by leaps and bounds. And, maybe its just us, but we sensed a more familial representation among the crowds this year which could be due to the ever increasing acceptance of LGBT families by their relatives and peers or the fact that California made us all rejoice by declaring lesbian/gay marriage a constitutional right. And, not only did those progressive west coasters join east coast Massachusetts in allowing us to legally marry, they further determined to recognize our marriages performed elsewhere as legal in their state (Massachusetts is working on this now too). Oh, yes, they also believe that we have a right to equitable health care just like other folks. Imagine that! These decisions are certainly precedent setting and cause us to have hope that other states will follow suit.
Of course our rejoicing has been tempered a bit by the fact that we don't live in either California or Massachusetts; and we have to anticipate the reorganizing efforts of the likes of Eric Miller and the American Family Association who continue on their archaic and self righteous path of resistance to not only our civil rights but our very existence. We know they are preparing for another legislative battle in attempt to negatively amend the IN state constitution and prevent any hope of lesbian and gay marriage. Never mind that this is irrelevant legislation because lesbian and gay marriage is already illegal in our state. But persist they do. We get it already! They don't like us and want us to go away. Well, we don't much care for them either and we aren't going away. So there! And as tempting as it is to just relocate to a more welcoming environment it doesn't seem feasible to pack up the entire state so changes must be made in our favor. We know it won't be easy but we must demand equity.
Each month you will hear wonderful music and selections from our ever expanding bloomingOUT cd collection; coming up in August we have "Red Molly," "Sister Funk" and "Nekked" scheduled for your musical ear. We will have some new editions of regular features like "Coming Out of the Deviant's Closet", "It's Only Sex," "Critical InQueery" and MCC Church founder Troy Perry will join us on "The Soul of Us." Abigail Sewell will be back with more of her cutting edge poetry on "Road for the Roadless" and health educator Robin Meleski will discuss HIV status and employment law. We will talk with Paul Gates from the ACLU and rumor has it that the editor of this very paper, Ted Fleischaker will join us in studio on the 14th August show.
That isn't all of our planned programming, but we want to save some surprises. And sometimes we have unexpected visitors and informed listeners who show up last minute! We hope you will tune in and become one of our regular listeners. We are educational, informative and have fun too!
Hosted by Helen Harrell and Sean Lemieux, bloomingOUT airs from Bloomington , Indiana , every Thursday evening from 6 to 7 pm EST on WFHB. For one hour each week join us for the latest updates in local, national and international news, a calendar of local and statewide events, interviews with community leaders, politicians, academics, students, celebrities and entertainers from all over the world and just every day folks as well. In addition we always have good conversations going on and never know who might just stop by our studio with some exciting news to share. So if you love real stories with real people, music, poetry, art or are a news junky, bloomingOUT is the place to stay informed.
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