[OutVoice] Brutal bashers test New Mexico's hate laws+more Casement drama+news

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                           The week of 04/10/06 on
                          T H I S    W A Y    O U T
             the international gay & lesbian radio magazine
   (hosted this week by Greg Gordon and produced with Lucia Chappelle)
"Black Diaries" from notorious knight Roger Casement's "Devil's Paradise";
          Brutal young bashers test New Mexico's hate crime laws;
   Same gender couples gain government support in Ireland, Colombia and
   Taiwan, Canada's new regime delays its promised challenge to marriage
   equality, the Netherlands "survives" 5 years of same gender matrimony,
"Brokeback" is banned in the Bahamas but on sale at Wal-Mart, & more news

* In "NewsWrap": Prime Minister Bertie Ahern pledges to pass civil 
partnership legislation in the Republic of Ireland, while Colombia's President Alvaro 
Uribe says he supports limited legal recognition of same gender couples, and 
Taiwan's government announces that it will include gay and lesbian couples as 
"family members" who can seek protections under the island's Domestic Violence 
Prevention Law... the government of Canada's new Conservative Prime Minister 
Stephen Harper delays for several months fulfilling a campaign promise to call 
for another vote in Parliament over marriage equality, while the Netherlands 
marks the 5 year anniversary of the modern world's first legal same gender 
marriages [with snippets from "This Way Out" correspondent MINDY RAN's original 
on-scene report from Amsterdam in April 2001]... Cameroon jails another tabloid 
publisher for defamation over the lists of alleged homosexuals that appeared 
earlier this year in his "Nouvelle Afrique" newspaper... "Brokeback Mountain" is 
banned from movie screens in the Bahamas, but global retail giant Wal-Mart 
resists religious right pressure and is selling the new DVD release of the 
Oscar-winning film... and more GLBT news from around the world  (written this week 
by GREG GORDON and reported by CHRISTOPHER GAAL and LUCIA CHAPPELLE).

* Stories about attacks on GLBT people around the world are sadly routine.  
This week alone, a mob at the University of West Indies campus in JAMAICA 
chased down and hurled rocks at a man perceived to be gay -- police believe only 
their intervention saved his life, and a senior news producer for the U.S. 
CBS-TV network and a colleague were beaten with a wheel wrench or metal pipe on the 
Caribbean island of ST. MAARTEN by 4 men and 2 women who reportedly called 
themselves "gay bashers."  And the men most responsible for last year's brutal 
beating of two gay men in SANTA FE, NEW MEXICO got what amounted to a 
preliminary slap-on-the-wrist this week from a state district judge.  As JIM WILLIAMS 
of KUNM-FM reports, while New Mexico passed a hate crimes statute in 2003, some 
of the young men involved in the attack may not see any real prison time at 
all (includes courtroom comments by the most viciously attacked victim JAMES 
MAESTAS and his mother GERRIE; victim Joshua STOCKHAM’s mother CHERYL; one of 
the defendants, DAVID TRINIDAD; CARLA C de BACA, a neighbor of another 
defendant; and post-hearing analysis by ANN BADWAY, co-counsel for the New Mexico 
Attorney General’s office, which helped prosecute the case).

* Last time on "This Way Out" we began the story of early 20th century gay 
humanitarian and controversial Irish patriot SIR ROGER CASEMENT.  The first part 
of the dramatized biography by producer HUGH YOUNG and narrator BARRY EMPSON 
described Casement's roots in both Irish Catholic and Protestant households, 
and how family, friends and associates portrayed him as an exceedingly charming 
and adventurous young man.  Hopping a ship to Africa, Casement would 
eventually work for the British Foreign Office, winning acclaim for exposing the 
brutality of King Leopold's rubber-trading operation in what was then the Belgian 
Congo.  As his story continues, we sample entries from Casement's notorious 
so-called "Black Diaries" and hear how saving forced native laborers in the 
Amazon from brutal rubber-producers got him knighted.
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