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Blogger Tom MacMaster Apologizes But Defends ‘Gay Girl in Damascus’ Hoax
American student Tom MacMaster says the blog had been a fiction but that the facts it contained were true.
Malaysia’s anti-gay camp
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A camp set up to ‘correct the effeminate behavior’ of Muslim schoolboys violates the law and should be abolished, says Malaysia’s women’s minister. 66 schoolboys identified by teachers as ‘effeminate’ began counseling this week to ‘discourage them from being gay’. Anchor Lisa Mullins talks to the BBC’s Jennifer Pak in Kuala Lumpur. Download MP3Uganda gay rights activist killed
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Ugandan gay rights campaigner David Kato has been beaten to death, activists say. Last year Kato sued a local newspaper which had outed him as homosexual. The newspaper published the photographs of several people it said were gay next to a headline reading “Hang them”. Homosexual acts are illegal in Uganda. Marco Werman speaks with reporter Dennis Porter about the killing. Download MP3Gay Uganda blog
Being gay in South Korea
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It’s very difficult to be gay in South Korea. Michael Rhee reports from Seoul on a group of young people who are banding together to they don’t have to go it alone. Download MP3
A pitch for the pink dollar in Nepal
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Nepal’s tourism industry took a major hit during the decade of Maoist insurgency. Now Nepalese officials want to make 2011 the year of tourism. And they’re billing Nepal as a destination for gay and lesbian visitors. Habiba Nosheen has more.Download MP3Pink Triangle survivor speaks out
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The man believed to be the last surviving person sent to a concentration camp for being a homosexual decided to speak out. He’s 97 now, and has just published a book about his experience. The World’s Genevieve Oger has more.Download MP3
International egg surrogacy
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An egg from an American female donor is fertilized with sperm from an Israeli man who takes the fertilized egg to India to grow in the womb of an Indian woman. The outsourcing of surrogacy is the topic of Zippi Brand Frank’s documentary, “Google Baby”, which is airing on HBO. Katy Clark speaks with Zippi Brand Frank about the international business of surrogacy. Download MP3
“In a Bottle”
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The problem of the one and the many figures in today’s Geo Quiz. The South East Asian country we’d like you to conjure up today is one federation made up of many states and territories, 13 at last count. Download MP3
Being gay in Uganda
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It’s already against the law to be gay in Uganda. But some legislation being proposed there would drastically increase the existing penalties. One version of the bill even called for the death penalty in certain instances. We hear from Long Jones (pictured), an openly gay Ugandan living in the capital Kampala. Download MP3 Being gay in Uganda
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A Ugandan government minister has said that a proposed law which includes the death penalty for some homosexual acts is “not necessary”. The bill submitted last October sparked international condemnation. Homosexual acts are punishable by up to 14 years in jail in Uganda. Jeb Sharp talks with Maria Burnett, Uganda researcher for Human Rights Watch, about the anti-gay bill. Download MP3
Entire program – August 3, 2009
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Today on The World: NATO has a new commander and his top priority is Afghanistan; Also, what it’s like to be gay in Britain’s Muslim communities; And some Israelis turn to a new style of Judaism.
Muslim and gay in Britain
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Anchor Lisa Mullins speaks with Pav Akhtar about being gay and Muslim in Britain. Akhtar is chairman of the British gay Islamic group Imaan.
Pentagon still kicking out linguists, Ukraine’s Soviet names, and a banquet of foreign idioms
In the lastest podcast, the Obama Administration is moving to boost foreign language speakers at the State Department and the CIA. But at the Pentagon there’s a problem: the Don’t Ask Don’t Tell policy has resulted in early discharge for more than 300 linguists, including 60 Arabic speakers. Also today, Ukraine wants to change the names of cities named after Soviet heroes, many of them Russian. And a conversation with Jag Bhalla, collector of foreign language idioms. Listen to The World in Words Podcast
Iran and translation, a search engine is sick in Chinese, and a drug ring’s Arabic dialects
Patrick Cox and Carol Hills select the top five language-related
stories from June. Among them: Google translation gets to work on the streets of Teheran; Microsoft’s choice of Bing as the name for its search engine to rival Google may not go down well in China; a music festival in Quebec runs afoul of language sensitivies; and a drug ring in Pennsylvannia uses Iraqi Arabic dialects in its communications.Listen
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