[OutVoice] Legal options to fight youth-targeting "ex-gays"+comic Poppy Champlin

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                           The week of 03/20/06 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)
  Advocates sharpen their legal tools against youth-targeted quack cures;
 Czech same gender partners prevail over a presidential veto, immigration
  announcements clarify Australian and Dutch policies, a top Iraqi Shiite
  calls for gay genocide, Hibernian homophobes add insult to their ban on
Irish queers, insecurity's evident in new US clearance rules, & more news;
 plus laughing and "benefiting" with rising stand-up star Poppy Champlin

* In "NewsWrap": The parliament of the Czech Republic overrides a 
presidential veto to establish limited legal recognition for same gender couples...  
Australia will recognize lesbigay couples to encourage skilled migrant workers to 
move there, while the Netherlands creates an "entrance exam" for prospective 
immigrants to be sure they accept the country's liberal queer-inclusive social 
milieu, but Dutch Muslim leaders object... a leading Iraqi Shiite cleric 
issues a fatwa calling for all gays and lesbians to be killed in the "worst, most 
severe way," while the head of New York City's annual St. Patrick's Day Parade 
defends the continuing ban on participation by the Irish Lesbian and Gay 
Organization by comparing them to prostitutes, Nazis and Klansmen... a 
seemingly-minor change by the Bush administration in language governing security clearance 
eligibility for gays and lesbians creates a major stir... a Massachusetts gay 
couple recuperates at home from their world-first husband-to-husband organ 
transplant... and more GLBT news from around the world (written this week by 
LUCIA CHAPPELLE and GREG GORDON, and reported by SHERI LUNN and CHARLS HALL).

* When you're a gay, lesbian, bi or trans teenager and your parents are 
forcing you into some kind of supposed "reparative therapy," the sense of utter 
helplessness can be overwhelming.  Most queer or supportive adults feel pretty 
helpless, too, when they hear the horror stories about 5-year-old children being 
subjected to phony "cures," about teens being dragged off to questionable 
camps, about young people committing suicide because they fail to change.  And 
according to a recent report issued by the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force 
Policy Institute, the danger is growing as the "ex-gay" movement increasingly 
targets youth.  But the advocacy group LAMBDA LEGAL is proving that young 
"reparative therapy" victims -- and their families -- are not helpless under the 
law.  Lambda's DEPUTY LEGAL DIRECTOR HAYLEY GORENBERG discusses some of the 
strategies they could pursue [www.lambdalegal.org;  1-800-LGBTeen].

* What to do "If You Wanna Be Happy," a queer take on an oldie but goodie in 
an unreleased track by ESTROGEN. 

* POPPY CHAMPLIN is a breakthrough stand-up comic who's appeared with big 
name stars like Ray Romano, Bill Maher, Brett Butler, and Richard Beltzer.  An 
alumna of Chicago's Second City comedy group, Champlin is wowing audiences with 
what critics call her high-power energy and New York savvy.  "This Way Out" 
correspondent CHRIS CECILE ["Queer Radio," CJAM-FM/Windsor-Detroit] got behind 
the stage act to find out more about the funny and the serious sides of this 
rising star (includes a clip from her live stand-up act) 
[www.poppycockprod.com/].
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