[OutVoice] Ex-gays put "Youth in the Crosshairs"+Sydney's Mardi Gras party+news

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                           The week of 03/13/06 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)
       The world "Believes" in Sydney's Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras;
          A new "ex-gay" strategy puts "Youth in the Crosshairs";
Cameroon's "outing" publisher goes to jail while 8 men and a teenager face
 prison there for homosexuality, Iranian refugees face deportation by the
Dutch government, Boston's Roman Catholic adoption agency falls to Vatican
  pressure, and San Francisco's could be next - and more global GLBT news

* In "NewsWrap": A tabloid newspaper publisher in Cameroon is jailed for 
libel after naming a government official on a list of alleged well-known gays and 
lesbians, while two men are imprisoned for homosexuality, and 8 other men and 
a 17-year-old boy face a similar fate in that central African nation... the 
Dutch Immigration Minister faces condemnation from Human Rights Watch and 
opposition lawmakers for her plans to lift a 6-month moratorium on deporting 
asylum-seeking queer Iranians back to their home country... a unanimous U.S. Supreme 
Court ruling upholds the Solomon Amendment, which requires universities that 
accept federal funding to give military recruiters the same on-campus access 
that other employers get, even if those schools have non-discrimination policies 
that include opposition to "Don't Ask, Don't Tell"... caught between a 
Vatican directive and Massachusetts' non-discrimination laws, Boston Catholic 
Charities decides to shut down its adoption services altogether, and San Francisco's 
Archdiocese may soon follow suit... and more GLBT news from around the world 
(written this week by LUCIA CHAPPELLE & GREG GORDON, and reported by JON 
BEAUPRE & RICK WATTS).

* Last year Tennessee teenager Zach Stark’s parents forced him into a 
resident "therapy" program called Love In Action to supposedly "cure" him of his 
homosexuality.  Zach’s story – which was highlighted on this program and 
championed on the Internet – raised awareness about the renewed threat to young queers 
that is the subject of a study released earlier this month by the National 
Gay and Lesbian Task Force Policy Institute.  In this report by GREG GORDON its 
author, JASON CIANCIOTTO, outlines the concerns that led to his report, called 
"YOUTH IN THE CROSSHAIRS: THE THIRD WAVE OF EX-GAY MINISTRIES";  well-known 
commentator WAYNE BESEN ("Anything But Straight: Unmasking the Scandals and 
Lies Behind the Ex-Gay Myth") says these groups, facilities and associated 
"Conferences" are motivated more by cash than conversion;  HAYLEY GORENBERG, Deputy 
Legal Director at Lambda Legal, believes a wide variety of legal avenues can 
be explored to shut down unethical so-called "treatment" programs, debunks any 
"religious freedom" defense, and offers a toll-free hotline for victimized 
teens and families;  and National Gay and Lesbian Task Force Executive Director 
MATT FOREMAN explains why his organization, in partnership with Lambda Legal, 
is turning the spotlight on this issue (with brief intro music, "Teen Freak" by 
DAVID BROWN) [www.theTaskForce.org; www.LambdaLegal.org; 1-800-LGBTeen].

* The 28th annual GAY & LESBIAN MARDI GRAS drew more than 300,000 revelers to 
the gay golden mile, SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA's Oxford Street, on the warm, balmy 
late summer's evening of March 4th.  This year's parade theme was "I Believe," 
and whether you believe in equal rights, a more "human" world, the power of 
love -- or as one float proclaimed "I believe in Fairies" -- it was an event 
filled with diversity, humor, and color.  Marching men and women and political 
floats mixed with drag goddesses in blue sequined outfits alongside surf life 
savers, not to mention the ethnic and religious contingents.  Sydney's lesbian 
and gay youth refuge took on a Harry Potter theme, and lots of cowboys were in 
evidence as The "Brokeback Mormons" sent up the banning of the iconic film in 
Salt Lake City last year.  This Way Out correspondent BARRY McKAY gathered 
reactions from some of the huge number of international visitors, both queer and 
not, along the parade route (included: indigenous Australians and New 
Zealanders, and visitors from Lithuania, England, Singapore, Tanzania, Italy, El 
Salvador, India, South Korea, Venezuela, Egypt, Hong Kong, mainland China, and Iran).
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