[OutVoice] Reviewing lesbigay troops in the Iraq Wars: 1991 and 2006 + GLBT news

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                          THIS WAY OUT
               the international gay & lesbian radio magazine
                    Program #962 - the week of 9/4/06
         (hosted by Greg Gordon and produced with Lucia Chappelle)
Lesbigay military personnel and the Iraq Wars: everything old is news again;
  Poland's P.M. denies homophobia in his country, conflict continues over
   Jerusalem Pride, an international conference galls Ghana's government,
Arizona's double-ban on lesbigay marriage and domestic partnerships gets the
Supreme green light, Argentina decides its queer military ban is "nonsense,"
                             and more GLBT news

* In "NewsWrap":  Despite homophobic slurs during the recent national 
election campaign and skinhead attacks on Pride marches in Warsaw and Krakow, Polish 
Prime Minister Jaroslaw Kaczynki tells European Commission President Jose 
Manuel Barroso in Brussels that homophobia in his country is a "myth"...  police 
deny a permit for the proposed September 21st GLBT Pride march in Jerusalem 
because it's a day before the Rosh Hashona Jewish New Year... Ghana's government 
bans an international GLBT conference in Accra... Arizona's Supreme Court 
rejects a challenge by queer advocates and five heterosexual senior citizen 
couples to the November state ballot initiative that would ban not only same gender 
marriage but also domestic partnerships... Alabama seems poised to have its 
first openly queer state legislator as Patricia Todd wins an internal Democratic 
Party skirmish over her official nomination... a revamp of Argentina's 
Military Justice Code will include lifting their ban on openly-lesbigay 
servicemembers... and more GLBT news from around the world  (written by GREG GORDON and 
reported this week by RICK WATTS and TANYA KANE-PARRY).

* With troops committed to conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq, and with an 
admitted shortage of fresh recruits, the U.S. MILITARY continues to discharge 
lesbians and gays at the rate of two a day, according to the Servicemembers Legal 
Defense Network.  Many of these booted soldiers are highly-trained experts 
with skills vital to the Bush Administration's so-called "war on terror."  There 
may be a new, more dangerous show on the world stage now, but these 
discharges are a re-run of the experiences of lesbigay armed forces personnel during 
the first Iraq War, conducted by the first George Bush.  Pentagon policy at that 
time completely banned gay or lesbian military service.  More than a decade 
after a fledgling Democratic President Bill Clinton and an entrenched 
Republican Congress instituted the allegedly more compassionate "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" 
policy, there remain common threads in the stories of servicemembers then and 
now.  "This Way Out" carried the voices of GAYS AND LESBIANS INVOLVED IN THE 
GULF WAR DURING 1991 -- but many of these stories could be last week's news 
(includes the experiences of DONNA LYNN JACKSON, ERIC BARKER, and DUSTY PRUITT, 
and comments by former Reagan advisor LAWRENCE KORB, then-Defense Secretary 
DICK CHENEY, National Black Gay and Lesbian Leadership Forum leader PHILL 
WILSON, and AIDS Quilt founder CLEVE JONES, with music by GRAHAM NASH, MARTIN F. 
SWINGER and MICHAEL CALLEN).
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