[OutVoice] 14 years on: the lingering smell of "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" + global LGBT news + more!

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                              THIS WAY OUT
              the international gay & lesbian radio magazine
                 Program #1,028, distributed 12/10/07
   (hosted this week by Greg Gordon and produced with Lucia Chappelle)
       14 years on: the lingering smell of "Don't Ask, Don't Tell";
      Brazilians praise a precedent-setting presidential conference,
      U.S. Congressional "anti's" kill queer hate crimes protections,
   a secret Iranian sodomy hanging contravenes its top judge's ruling,
    Botswanan lesbigays sue for the right to organize, Martina serves
       fitness advice to the over-50 set, and more global GLBT news

* In "NewsWrap“: Brazilian President Luiz Ignacio Lula da Silva announces a 
precedent-setting national conference on LGBT rights to convene in May 2008, 
while President Vladimir Putin's United Russia party wins an overwhelming 
victory in parliamentary elections as more than a dozen gay activists are arrested 
at a Moscow polling station for protesting homophobic Mayor Yuri Luzhknov... 
the Matthew Shepard Hate Crimes Prevention Act is dumped from a 
Congressionally-passed legislative package because it was attached as an amendment in the 
Senate to a critical Defense spending bill... despite an order by Iran's Chief 
Justice that his case be reviewed, 21-year-old Makwan Moloudzadeh is secretly 
hanged for allegedly sodomizing boys his own age when they were all just 13 years 
old... Lesbians, Gays and Bisexuals of Botswana say they'll sue their 
government for its refusal to register their organization... 51-year-old lesbian 
tennis legend Martina Navratilova gets a new job encouraging her peers to stay 
physically fit... and more GLBT news from around the world   [written by GREG 
GORDON and reported this week by TANYA KANE-PARRY and DONNA ANN WARD].

* On DECEMBER 22, 1993, U.S. Defense Secretary LES ASPIN formally released 
the specific directives of the Clinton administration’s "revised" policy on 
lesbians and gays in the armed forces.   While the tangle of bureaucratic 
double-speak barely veiled the "DON'T ASK, DON'T TELL, DON'T PURSUE" policy's 
similarity to the one previously in place, the rather dubious presidential holiday 
"greeting" did reveal much about the homophobia – and the political power games –
 that highlighted the most attention-getting gay and lesbian news story in 
America that year.  Its ramifications were barely understood in 1993... but as 
"This Way Out" reported back then, the new policy itself was barely understood: 
first, from the official Pentagon press briefing that day, excerpts from 
Secretary Aspin's introductory comments; Defense Department General Counsel JAMIE 
GORELICK then attempts to clarify some of the specific policy directives, and 
respond to questions from an increasingly-puzzled press; and finally, from 
across the Potomac at the National Press Club, reaction to the Pentagon briefing 
by representatives from some of the country's largest gay and lesbian 
political organizations demonstrate queer "unit cohesion," as the new policy is 
uniformly condemned by TANYA DOMI, Legislative Director of the National Gay & 
Lesbian Task Force; TIM McFEELEY, Executive Director of the Human Rights Campaign 
(Fund); KAREN JOHNSON, a 20-year military veteran representing the National 
Organization for Women; and MICHELLE BENECKE, Co-Director of the Servicemembers 
Legal Defense Network (with intro music from “Let's Call the Whole Thing Off” 
by MICHAEL FEINSTEIN, in-segment music from “Papa-Oom-Mow-Mow” by THE 
RIVINGTONS, outro music from “What'd I Say” by RAY CHARLES, and a December 2007 
postscript).
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