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                            THIS WAY OUT
                the international gay & lesbian radio magazine
                    Program #984 - the week of 02/05/07
       (hosted by Greg Gordon and produced with Lucia Chappelle)
         A homeless epidemic traps queer youth on mean streets;
 A lesbian couple makes Mexican history while a persecuted Mexican gay
  man wins asylum in the US, Israel recognizes a gay couple's Canadian
    marriage - but in name only, Canada welcomes foreign spouses but
  criticizes UN discrimination, a Michigan court kills health benefits
  for partners of lesbigay public employees, and more global GLBT news

*In "NewsWrap": Lesbian couple Karina Almaguer and Karla Lopez celebrate 
Mexico's first civil union, while a persecuted gay man from Mexico wins asylum in 
the United States... Israel's Interior Ministry records that country's first 
same-gender marriage – although it's Canadian – while Canadians who marry 
their gay or lesbian partners abroad can now sponsor their spouses' immigration, 
and the Canadian government protests the rejection of a Quebec LGBT group's bid 
for "observer status" at the United Nations... Michigan's state Court of 
Appeals rules that provisions of a voter-passed constitutional amendment banning 
legal recognition of same-gender couples negates domestic partner benefits for 
the partners of lesbigay government workers... U.S. Vice Presidential daughter 
Mary Cheney says her pregnancy is not political... and other GLBT news from 
around the world  (written by GREG GORDON and reported this week by CHRISTOPHER 
GAAL and CHARLS HALL).

* A new report released in the U.S. this week by the National Gay and Lesbian 
Task Force in collaboration with the National Coalition for the Homeless says 
between 20 and 40 percent of homeless youth are lesbian, gay, bisexual and/or 
transgender, and that conflicts at home over sexual orientation or gender 
identity are the driving force behind these disturbing statistics.   It's been 
estimated that about 3 to 5 percent of the U.S. population identify as gay or 
lesbian, so these figures are grossly disproportionate, and there's no reason to 
believe the situation is any better elsewhere.  The report, called "LESBIAN, 
GAY, BISEXUAL AND TRANSGENDER YOUTH: AN EPIDEMIC OF HOMELESSNESS," addresses 
the harassment and violence that many of these young people experience in 
public shelters, and the specific impact on LGBT homeless youth of federal funding 
for so-called faith-based service providers.  Homeless young people 
themselves, as well as service providers in Massachusetts, Michigan and New York 
discussed the problems, and some of the solutions, during a teleconference this week. 
 Among those commenting: the study's author NICHOLAS RAY of the National Gay 
and Lesbian Task Force Policy Institute; MICHAEL STOOPS, Executive Director of 
the U.S. National Coalition for the Homeless; queer homeless youths ANGELIKA 
TORRES and DILO CINTRON; National Gay and Lesbian Task Force Executive 
Director MATT FOREMAN; COLBY BERGER of Waltham House in Waltham, Massachusetts; GRACE 
McCLELLAND of the Ruth Ellis Center in Detroit, Michigan; and THERESA NOLAN 
of Green Chimneys in New York City [www.thetaskforce.org, www.nyacyouth.org].
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