[OutVoice] A different take on 9/11 from "WTC View" + A decade of jobs bias debate

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                          THIS WAY OUT
               the international gay & lesbian radio magazine
                    Program #963 - the week of 9/11/06
         (hosted by Greg Gordon and produced with Lucia Chappelle)
       A different perspective on 9/11 from Brian Sloan's "WTC View";
       Observing a decade of debate on U.S. workplace discrimination;
  International rights watchdogs defend tabloid-targeted Ugandans, a media-
 fabricated conference fuels hatred in Ghana, Taipei takes pride in hoisting
   the Rainbow, more battle lines are drawn in Canada's continuing marriage
   conflict, Manchester footballers champion diversity, and more GLBT news

* In "NewsWrap": International human rights groups and local activists 
condemn sensationalized press reports about gays in Uganda and the stepped-up police 
"crackdowns" that have followed, while the president of the Gay and Lesbian 
Association of Ghana says that a supposed international LGBT conference in 
Accra that the government officially banned last week was a fabrication of the 
media... the Rainbow Flag will be flying over Taipei City Hall on September 17th 
in what officials call a first for any Asian city... two political parties in 
Canada, the Bloc Quebecois and New Democrats, formally oppose Conservative 
P.M. Stephen Harper's push to re-open parliamentary debate on national marriage 
equality, while Alberta's provincial parliament rejects a bill that opponents 
said would have allowed job and housing discrimination against gays and 
lesbians... Manchester City Football Club, a top-level professional British soccer 
team, joins national queer advocacy group Stonewall's anti-homophobia 
campaign... and more GLBT news from around the world (written by GREG GORDON and 
reported this week by CHARLS HALL and RICK WATTS).

* Many critics of the U.S. LGBT movement's current emphasis on marriage 
equality cite the lack of federal workplace discrimination protections as one of 
the other priorities they say are being forsaken.  Those same two issues were 
vying for attention in the U.S. Senate ten years ago this month, when what 
started out as one bill became DOMA, the so-called Defense of Marriage Act, and 
ENDA, the EMPLOYMENT NON-DISCRIMINATION ACT.  The arguments for and against ENDA 
in the Senate -- a first time ever discussion of lesbigay civil rights on the 
floor of either house of Congress -- sound like they could have been recorded 
last week.  Here's how Pacifica Radio's VERNA AVERY BROWN reported the day's 
impassioned debate on September 6th, 1996 [featuring Senators EDWARD KENNEDY 
(D-MA), NANCY KASSEBAUM (R-KS), PAUL SIMON (D-IL), DON NICKLES (R-OK) and DIANNE 
FEINSTEIN (D-CA)].

* The last thing BRIAN SLOAN did on the evening of September 10th, 2001 was 
place an online ad for a roommate in the "Village Voice."  Stranger than 
fiction, on the 12th he had a number of people calling who wanted to look at his 
apartment, even though few could get downtown to see it.  This real life 
situation served as the jumping off point for his first full-length play, "WTC VIEW," 
which later became a movie, which became a favorite on the LGBT film festival 
circuit, and which is now being released on DVD and screening on U.S. cable's 
LOGO channel.  "This Way Out's" STEVE PRIDE has preview clips, and chats with 
Sloan -- also the author of "A "Really Fine Prom Mess," "A Tale Of Two 
Summers" and the writer/director of "I Think I Do" -- about his many "views" of life 
after 9/11 (with music from the soundtrack, "Nicole," performed by TODD ALMOND 
and BILLY ALLETZHAUSER) [www.BrianSloan.com; www.StevePride.com].
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