Pray Away? Born Perfect! - a podcast by Overnight Productions, Inc.

Out in the Bay radio’s Eric Jansen interviews Mathew Shurka co-founder of the National Center for Lesbian Right’s Born Perfect campaign in 2014. Kristine Stolakis director and producer of Pray Away, a Netflix documentary inspired by her late transgender uncle’s horrific experiences trying to not be trans.

And in NewsWrap: Pope Francis says that private consensual adult same-gender sex should not be a criminal act; Germany’s parliament specifically honors queer victims of the Nazis during their annual Holocaust Remembrance Day in Berlin; Narendra Modi’s conservative Indian government objects to the appointment of respected lawyer Saurabh Kirpal to the Delhi High Court; Malta prosecutes a man for violating the national ban on promoting conversion therapy, while a U.S. federal appeals court upholds Washington state’s conversion therapy ban; far-right Republican Florida GOVERNOR RON DeSANTIS defends his ban of honors students’ advance placement African-American History classes statewide because it includes a “queer theory”; and Mars, Inc., which makes M&Ms, melts to rightwing pressure (led by Fox “News” blowhard TUCKER CARLSON] for updating their “spokes candy” characters and replaces them with SNL alum Maya Rudolph (written by GREG GORDON, edited this week by DAVID HUNT, reported by KALYN HARDMAN&MICHAEL LEBEAU, and produced by BRIAN DeSHAZOR).

All this on the January 30, 2023 edition of This Way Out!Join our family of listener-donors today at thiswayout.org/donate/

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