[OutVoice] US strategists Kendall & Wolfson pop the marriage equality question+news

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                           The week of 02/13/06 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)
 U.S. strategists Kendall and Wolfson pop the marriage equality question;
   Cameroon tabloid "outing lists" create outrage, Congressmembers and
 Iranian activists denounce the U.S. U.N. vote reversal, the Phelps clan
 condemns Coretta the "fag enabler" but mourners hear about her lesbigay-
  inclusive rights work, the Caribbean sun begins to thaw resistance to
queer cruisers, China gets its first gay study, and more global GLBT news

*In "NewsWrap": With headlines like "The Queers Are Among Us," tabloid 
newspapers shake the west African nation of Cameroon by publishing lists of some 50 
of the country's leading entertainers, politicians and sports personalities 
the reports claim are gay or lesbian... several Congressmembers call it 
"reprehensible," and Iranian queer activists question the U.S. commitment to human 
rights, as each write to Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice demanding that she r
epudiate the Bush administration's vote in a United Nations committee 
supporting Iran's motion to deny hearing the consultative status applications of the 
International Lesbian and Gay Association (ILGA) and a Danish queer advocacy 
group... the headline-seeking Fred Phelps and his rabidly-anti-queer Westboro 
Baptist Church shock mourners by picketing the funeral of civil rights icon 
Coretta Scott King, calling her a "fag enabler", while fellow human rights 
advocates Dr. Joseph Lowery and poet Maya Angelou note her support for lesbigay 
equality during the lengthy memorial service... queer cruisers help turn the tide 
of Caribbean acceptance in the previously-resistant Cayman Islands... China 
makes history with the publication of a first-ever study of the country's 
estimated 5 to 10 million gay men, but its government bans screenings of "Brokeback 
Mountain," and the United Arab Emirates follows suit... and more GLBT news from 
around the world (written this week by JON BEAUPRE and GREG GORDON and 
reported by JON BEAUPRE and SHERI LUNN). 

* Leading advocates for marriage equality from both coasts of the United 
States came together at the recent annual Out & Equal Workplace Summit in Denver, 
Colorado to analyze the queer movement's gains and losses in recent years, and 
offer a hopeful future.  With offices in New York City and Washington, D.C., 
FREEDOM TO MARRY's EVAN WOLFSON also outlined his two simple steps to securing 
marriage equality for queer couples... but first KATE KENDALL of the San 
Francisco-based NATIONAL CENTER FOR LESBIAN RIGHTS pointed to the successes -- 
both personal, and in MASSACHUSETTS and CALIFORNIA  [with thanks to HELENE 
ROSENBLUTH of HMR Duplications in Oakland, California].
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