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The week of 06/26/06 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)
Queer homeless youth contend with mean streets and funding cuts;
The life and death of Gwen Araujo in Gloria Allred's film "A Girl Like Me";
"Restraint" on gay bishops and a new female chief strain U.S.-Anglican
relations, progressive Presbyterians and a conservative Puerto Rican
U.C.C. affiliate vote on lesbigay inclusion, lawmakers in Latvia and
Bermuda are prodded on anti-bias protections, and more global GLBT news
* In "NewsWrap": The U.S. Episcopal Church may have hastened a split in the
global Anglican Communion by refusing to issue a moratorium on ordaining
openly-queer bishops and electing a feminist pro-LGBT woman as its Presiding
Bishop... the Presbyterian Church (USA) softens its outright ban on non-celibate gays
and lesbians in local congregational leadership positions, while the United
Church of Christ loses its Puerto Rico affiliate because of its support for
same gender marriage... Latvia's Parliament rejects anti-bias legislation
covering gays and lesbians, but President Vaira Vike Freiberga demands
reconsideration, while a lawmaker in Bermuda will try to reintroduce in November a similar
anti-discrimination bill, voted down by Parliament last month without debate...
as tensions mount over the August World Pride celebration in Jerusalem, an
Israeli lawmaker demands that a scheduled LGBT youth group's Parliamentary visit
be prevented because it will turn the chamber into "Sodom and Gomorrah"...
and other GLBT news from around the world (written by GREG GORDON and reported
this week by SHERI LUNN and JON BEAUPRE).
* Tens of thousands of runaway and "throwaway" children and teenagers are
fending for themselves and sleeping on the streets in cities around the world.
In the U.S., as many as half of them may identify as lesbian, gay, bi, or
trans. Most escaped -- or were expelled from -- homophobic families. And many
find that the same prejudice stands in the way of the basic community services
they desperately need. Programs for LGBT homeless youth are on the mayor's
chopping block in New York City, but these vulnerable kids are not fighting alone,
as LEANNE STAHNKE of Free Speech Radio News reports (with comments by former
homeless youth BRIDGET; CARL SICILIANO of the Ali Forney Center and KATE
BARNHART of Sylvia's Place, two of the few small agencies in New York City
providing services to homeless LGBT youth; and LEW FIDLER, Chair of the New York City
Council Youth Services Committee).
* "A GIRL LIKE ME: THE GWEN ARAUJO STORY" recently began a run on North
America's Lifetime cable channel. This Way Out's STEVE PRIDE says it's a very
special movie, starring relative newcomer J.D. PARDO as Gwen and Academy
Award-winning actress MERCEDES RUEHL as her mother Sylvia (with clips from the film and
a narrative of Gwen's story by Executive Producer GLORIA ALLRED, who also
served as Sylvia's attorney during the two murder trials and is the author of a
new book, "Fight Back and Win: My Thirty Year Fight Against Injustice and How
You Can Win Your Own Battles"; and intro/outro music from "If I Should Die
Tonight" by SAFFIRE, from her album "Ain't Gonna Hush") [www.prideonscreen.com].
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