[OutVoice] Iran President's "no gays" gaffe+ endangered Nicaraguan in a Canadian conundrum+more!

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                              THIS WAY OUT
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                 Program #1,018, distributed 10/01/07
                             THIS WAY OUT
              the international gay & lesbian radio magazine
             RUNDOWN for Program #1,018, distributed 10/01/07
   (hosted this week by Greg Gordon and produced with Lucia Chappelle)
               His "no gays" gaffe roasts Iran's President;
     An endangered gay Nicaraguan is caught in a Canadian conundrum;
   Episcopal Bishops bow to Anglican ultimatums, U.S. senators seek to
 slide Matthew Shepard's law past a presidential veto, Portugal's penal
   code equalizes aspects of family law, but Rwandan lawmakers discuss
          criminalizing homosexuality, and more global GLBT news

* In "NewsWrap": Responding to the September 30th deadline set by bishops 
earlier this year in Tanzania demanding that it reverse its queer-inclusive 
course, the global Anglican Communion's U.S. wing, the Episcopal Church, issues a 
statement that it won't consecrate any more openly gay bishops or authorize 
prayers to bless same-gender couples - a document that pleases neither side of 
the debate over homosexuality in the worldwide Church... the Matthew Shepard 
Hate Crimes Act passes the U.S. Senate following House passage, despite a 
threatened veto by George W. Bush [with an excerpt from his remarks during Senate 
floor debate by TED KENNEDY of MASSACHUSETTS]... Portugal's new penal code equa
lizes the penalties for crimes committed by opposite- and same-gender couples 
against one another, and criminalizes the promotion of violence or 
discrimination based on sexual orientation, but some members of Rwanda's parliament are 
calling for the criminalization of homosexuality there... and the infamous 
airport bathroom stall where Idaho Senator Larry Craig was busted is getting a 
"makeover"   (written by GREG GORDON, and reported this week by TANYA KANE-PARRY 
and SHERI LUNN).

* ALVARO OROZCO, a NICARAGUAN man currently living in TORONTO, faces 
deportation from Canada because the country's Immigration and Refugee Board didn't 
believe he's gay.   Orozco, who's now 22, ran away from home when he was 12 after 
being beaten by his father for exhibiting apparently gay characteristics, 
hitchhiked across Central America and Mexico, and then swam across the Rio Grande 
into the United States, where he was arrested and put into a detention 
center.   He managed to sneak into Canada in 2005.   Orozco's story has been widely 
reported in Nicaragua, where gay sex is illegal, so - coupled with his 
family's attitude - his fears of violence against him if he's forced to return to his 
native country seem to be more than compelling. "This Way Out" correspondent 
HEATHER KITCHING [of CITR-FM/Vancouver's "Queer FM"] spoke earlier this year 
on our program with Orozco's lawyer, EL-FAROUK KHAKI, following the Immigration 
Board's denial of asylum.   The next step for Orozco was what is called a 
Pre-Removal Risk Assessment hearing in mid-September to determine if he would, in 
fact, be in danger if he's deported.   Kitching spoke with Khaki again for 
this update. 

* "SIR FRANCIS BACON GIVES BIRTH TO SCIENCE" in another queer history 
"RAINBOW MINUTE" (produced by JUDD PROCTOR & BRIAN BURNS at the studios of WRIR-FM in 
Richmond, Virginia, and read by ED CHAPMAN).

* The queer activists among the hundreds who gathered to protest IRANIAN 
PRESIDENT MAHMOUD AHMADINEJAD's September 24th Columbia University appearance 
could never have guessed that their concerns would end up headlining the event.   
Antagonisms around Ahmadinejad's visit to New York City to address the 
Sixtieth Session of the United Nations General Assembly had been growing for weeks.   
Most of the demonstrators at Columbia came to denounce his denial of the 
Holocaust and his anti-Israel rhetoric.   Others challenged the Iranian 
government's human rights record.   But none of those matters got such a dramatic 
reaction during the question and answer period from the largely hostile audience as 
did Ahmadinejad's response to a query involving the status of women and LGBT 
people.   With a substantial excerpt from Ahmadinejad's remarks on those 
subjects, This Way Out's LUCIA CHAPPELLE reports.
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