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                          THIS WAY OUT
               the international gay & lesbian radio magazine
                    Program #955 - the week of 7/17/06
                         THIS WAY OUT
               the international gay & lesbian radio magazine
               RUNDOWN for Program #955, distributed 07/17/06
         (hosted by Greg Gordon and produced with Lucia Chappelle)
     Iranian queer activists and their supporters wage a cultural war;
    Regional conflicts complicate Jerusalem's World Pride controversy;
     A U.S. appeals court contributes to marriage equality anxiety, a
 Connecticut judge claims constitutionality for "separate but equal" civil
unions, Madrid and Barcelona marches and Valencia weddings surely sour the
Pope's Spanish sojourn, two Canadian Mounties get their man, and more news

* In "NewsWrap": A U.S. federal appeals court upholds Nebraska's 
voter-approved state constitutional amendment not only banning same gender marriage but 
any type of legal recognition for gay and lesbian couples;  a Connecticut judge 
rules that the state's civil unions law is equivalent to marriage in all but 
name and is therefore not an "inferior" status... Spanish GLBT Pride is 
celebrated in Madrid and Barcelona, two same gender couples in Valencia "flaunt" 
their marriage ceremonies during the Pope's visit, two gay Spanish Air Force 
privates plan a September wedding, while two Nova Scotia men become Canada's first 
legally married gay Mounties... heterosexual senior citizens challenge 
Arizona's proposed state constitutional ban on legal recognition of queer couples... 
and other GLBT news from around the world (written by GREG GORDON and reported 
this week by RICK WATTS and SHERI LUNN).

* It's a fast-developing story, with no way to say what might happen next in 
the Middle East.  The volatile region has been rocked in recent days by the 
sudden explosion in the Israel-Hamas-Hezbollah conflict that threatens to engulf 
several countries.  At the same time, Israeli society is being drawn into a 
contentious debate over the LGBT WORLD PRIDE FESTIVAL AND PARADE planned for 
early August in the holy streets of JERUSALEM.  "This Way Out" correspondent 
ERAN CICUREL reports (with comments by Knesset Member YITZHAK LEVY of National 
Union, one of two small religious parties; Israeli government Minister of 
Jerusalem Affairs YAAKOV EDRI; Labor Party M.K. SHELI YECHIMOVITCH; Papal 
representative in Jerusalem PIETRO SAMBI; Muslim M.K. IBRAHIM ZARZUR; and NOA SATAT of 
JERUSALEM OPEN HOUSE, the main organizing group behind World Pride 2006); 
meanwhile, a queer Lebanese group tries to assist refugees and stop the bombing 
[www.helem.net].

* July 19th marks the first anniversary of the public hangings of gay IRANIAN 
teenagers Mahmoud Asgari and Ayaz Marhoni.  As demonstrations memorialize 
their executions in cities around the world, queer activists who have slipped out 
of Tehran's grip are coming out with their stories of oppression and their 
hopes for empowerment.  One such activist, ARSHAM PARSI of the PERSIAN GAY AND 
LESBIAN ORGANIZATION, spoke with "This Way Out" correspondent HEATHER KITCHING 
a few weeks after being granted asylum in Canada (from her "Queer FM" program 
on CITR/Vancouver, B.C.) [www.pglo.net].
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