[OutVoice] Anti-queer killings buried in Iraqi sectarian chaos+new gay music+news

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                           The week of 03/27/06 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)
         Anti-queer killings are buried in Iraq's sectarian chaos;
  Activists in 4 countries challenge "bloody" discrimination, a gay group
   gains first-ever official registration in India, South Korea promises
  equal treatment for gay conscripts, Americans warm to marriage equality,
    queer parents measure up in new research, and more global GLBT news;
        plus two soloists and a "man band" debut in the "Audiofile"

* In "NewsWrap": Bans on gay men donating blood are challenged in South 
Africa, Australia, the U.S. and Canada... the first officially-registered gay group 
in India prompts supportive comments from some national celebrities... after 
criticism from the country's Human Rights Commission and some bad press, South 
Korea's military vows to "treat homosexual soldiers the same as heterosexual 
ones"... several surveys are released in the U.S. supporting lesbigay civil 
rights and queer families... a law professor's response to a legislator's 
biblical question is clearly constitutional... and more GLBT news from around the 
world (written this week by GREG GORDON and reported by RICK WATTS and SHERI 
LUNN).

* As IRAQ's sectarian crisis is measured each day by the number of bodies 
left by death squads overnight, the specific targeting of lesbians and gay men is 
being ignored by both the occupying forces and the mainstream media.  For a 
rare first-hand look at the desperate situation facing Iraqi queers, we turn to 
the March 23rd installment of "DEMOCRACY NOW!" with AMY GOODMAN and JUAN 
GONZALES.  They talk with ALI HILI, an Iraqi gay man who fled his homeland two 
years ago and now works from London to free his country from Islamic 
fundamentalism, and veteran journalist DOUG IRELAND  [edited from the original "Iraqi 
Exile Speaks Out Against the Targeting of Gay Iraqis by Shia Death Squads" segment 
on "Democracy Now!" which can be heard in its entirety at 
www.democracynow.org).

* The inspiration for the artists featured in this month's "AUDIOFILE" comes 
from the big city (sampling "Spread the Love" and "The Limit" from DARREN's 
"ANYTHING IS POSSIBLE"), personal experience (the title cut and "I'll Be There" 
from MATT CLARK's "FREE YOUR MIND") -- and disco! ("Extreme Eighties" and 
"Diva Fever" from 4 POOFS AND A PIANO's "SCREAMIN' PARTY ANTHEMS")  (with comments 
by the artists about their respective CDs, hosted by CHRIS WILSON & JD DOYLE 
and written & produced with CHRISTOPHER DAVID TRENTHAM) (www.audiofile.org).
                           = artist contact info =
DARREN                       MATT CLARK           4 POOFS AND A PIANO
c/o Shark Meat Records       123 SE 3rd Ave #383  P.O. Box 567
302A W. 12th St, Ste 144     Miami, FL 33131      High Wycombe
New York, N.Y. 10014         mclarkmusic at aol.com  Bucks, England HP13 7YZ
www.darrenmusic.com         (no Web site, CD at   www.4poofsandapiano.com
darren at sharkmeatrecords.com   www.cdbaby.com)     info at telford-mgt.com
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