[OutVoice] *Corrected* GOP "False Promises" to African-Americans revealed + more Casement

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(Apologies for misspelling Rev. Dr. Yvette Flunder's name in the earlier 
version.)
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                           The week of 04/17/06 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)
 Right-wing Republican "False Promises" to African-Americans are revealed;
 A gay Irish patriot falls from human rights champion to shameful traitor;
    Nigeria considers jailing GLBT supporters, initial Italian election
   results bode well for queers, Dutch deportation of Iranian refugees is
  delayed, a Polish "Stonewall" fails to save a Warsaw gay club, lesbigays
     are eliminated from Kentucky's bias ban, and more global GLBT news

* In "NewsWrap": Nigeria makes worse what could already be the world's most 
draconian proposed anti-lesbigay legislation, but Romano Prodi, whose campaign 
promises included the introduction of a civil partnership law, appears to have 
won election as Italy's new Prime Minister, and M.P. candidate Vladimir 
Luxuria is slated to become Europe's first transsexual elected official... a 
Serbian immigrant is being allowed to stay in Britain because of the family life 
she's established with her lesbian partner, and Dutch Immigration Minister Rita 
Verdonk backs down from her stated intention to deport Iranian gays... Polish 
queers and progressives lose their battle to keep a gay club open in Warsaw, 
but about 400 people march in the third Pride parade in Phnom Penh, Cambodia... 
Kentucky's governor rescinds lesbigay anti-bias state workplace protections... 
and other GLBT news from around the world (written this week by GREG GORDON, 
and reported by SHERI LUNN and JON BEAUPRE).

* In a new report called "FALSE PROMISES: HOW THE RIGHT DEPLOYS HOMOPHOBIA TO 
WIN SUPPORT FROM AFRICAN-AMERICANS," the NATIONAL GAY AND LESBIAN TASK FORCE 
POLICY INSTITUTE charges that the Republican Party's efforts to win Black 
votes are fundamentally disingenuous.  Task Force Policy analyst NICHOLAS RAY 
explains how the data from several African-American organizations and polling 
groups was used to develop the report's conclusions... the outspoken REVEREND 
DOCTOR YVETTE FLUNDER is Presiding Bishop of REFUGE MINISTRIES, a San Francisco 
inner city-based church founded in the "Baptist, Methodist and Pentacostal 
traditions," and she issues a clarion call for African-American communities to 
begin a discourse about sexuality... and the kind of research the Task Force has 
done is long overdue as far as NATIONAL BLACK JUSTICE COALITION Executive 
Director ALEXANDER ROBINSON is concerned [www.thetaskforce.org;  www.sfrefuge.org;  
www.nbjcoalition.org].

* In the first two parts of our 4-part dramatized biography of early 20th 
century gay humanitarian and controversial Irish patriot SIR ROGER CASEMENT, 
we've heard about his dual roots in Irish Catholic and Protestant households and 
his exceedingly charming and adventurous nature.   As an agent for the British 
Foreign Office, Casement investigated and reported on the brutality of King 
Leopold's rubber-trading operation in what was then the BELGIAN CONGO -- all the 
while detailing his sexual escapades in diaries that would ultimately come 
back to haunt him.  After receiving considerable public accolades for the 
reforms his work forced in Africa, he was next sent to South America, where he 
encountered unscrupulous rubber-traders along the AMAZON and their equally horrific 
treatment of forced Native laborers.  His reports to the Foreign Office were 
so strong that just the threat of their publication moved the Peruvian 
government to institute changes.  Casement was knighted for his efforts, and while he 
accepted the honor, he felt a traitor to Ireland.  He devoted more and more 
of his energies to the Home Rule movement, speaking out for a unified and 
independent Ireland.   Producer HUGH YOUNG and narrator BARRY EMPSON continue his 
story in Part 3 of "THE BROKEN HEART OF IRELAND: THE LIFE AND DEATH OF SIR 
ROGER CASEMENT".
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