[OutVoice] The US House loves hate crime protections+celebrating Tasmania's 10th

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                             THIS WAY OUT
             the international gay & lesbian radio magazine
                 Program #997, distributed 05/07/07
       (hosted by Greg Gordon and produced with Lucia Chappelle)
    How sodomy law repeal reformed the Australian state of Tasmania;
              The U.S. House loves hate crime protections;
 The Euro-Court says parading with Pride is a right, Moldovan Pride-
sters defy a march ban, Thai activists seek constitutional inclusion,
  new U.K. Regulations demolish discrimination, and more LGBT news
  plus celebrating an earthly band of angels in a "Rainbow Minute"

* In "NewsWrap": In the first such case heard by the European Court of Human 
Rights, its judges unanimously rule that Warsaw's ban on a 2005 LGBT Pride 
march violated freedom of association and anti-discrimination provisions of the 
European Convention on Human Rights... Moldovan organizers report two 
successful and relatively-peaceful Pride actions in Chisinau, even though officials 
banned a Pride march in the city... LGBT Thais are publicly campaigning for 
protections in the new constitution being drafted in the wake of last September's 
bloodless military coup... Singapore's founding leader and former Prime 
Minister Lee Kuan Yew speaks out against his country's laws criminalizing gay sex... 
laws banning sexual orientation bias in the provision of goods and services 
take effect in the U.K... queer protections progress in Oregon, Colorado, and 
Vermont... and other GLBT news from around the world (written by GREG GORDON and 
reported this week by RICK WATTS and TANYA KANE-PARRY).

* The U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES voted on a bill this week that would 
increase the ability of local law enforcement agencies to prosecute hate crimes 
motivated by a victim’s sexual orientation or gender identity.  KAREN MILLER of 
FREE SPEECH RADIO NEWS has excerpts from the floor debate and the final tally.

* "ANGEL ACTION AS DIVINE PROTECTOR" recalls how LGBT activists shielded the 
grieving family of gay-bashed murder victim Matthew Shepard from horrific 
homophobes in this "RAINBOW MINUTE"  (produced by JUDD PROCTOR and BILL BURNS at 
the studios of WRIR-FM in Richmond, Virginia and read by DUSTIN RICHARDSON).

* Ten years ago this month AUSTRALIA's last sodomy law crumbled into the sea, 
clearing the way for the island state of TASMANIA to move from being the 
country's most homophobic to one of its most welcoming.  The sex law reform 
struggle itself took a decade, and activist RODNEY CROOME of the TASMANIAN GAY & 
LESBIAN RIGHTS GROUP led the charge for much of that time.  When that first 
legislative victory was declared in May of 1997, Croome talked with This Way Out 
correspondent GREG READING about its significance, and about what he hoped would 
happen next (with outro music from "Never Turning Back" by JUDY SMALL).
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