[OutVoice] Traumatized Israelis rally in Tel Aviv + more global LGBT news

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"THIS WAY OUT: the international lesbian & gay radio magazine
Program #1,115 - distributed 8/10/09
(hosted this week by Greg Gordon and produced with Lucia Chappelle)
A gunman's anti-gay Tel Aviv rampage traumatizes but rallies Israelis;
Sport overcomes spite at the World Outgames in Copenhagen, a Brazilian
LGBT group wins U.N. consultative status, American psychologists reject
"reparative therapy", and more global LGBT news

- In "NewsWrap": A murderous shooting rampage on a youth support group at the downtown LGBT Center shatters Tel Aviv's image as Israel's safest, most queer-welcoming city – a wide-ranging report... 5,500 participants from 90 countries converge on Copenhagen and overcome hate at the 2nd LGBT World Outgames... a Brazilian LGBT group wins consultative status at the United Nations... the American Psychological Association rejects so-called "reparative therapy" to change sexual orientation... and more LGBT news from around the world (written by GREG GORDON, and reported this week by CHRIS WILSON and JOHN TORRES).

- The murderous nighttime rampage on a youth group at TEL AVIV's LGBT Center on August 1st brought as many as 70,000 gays, lesbians and their supporters to the capital’s Rabin Square on the evening of August 8th.  Israel's PRESIDENT SHIMON PERES was joined on stage by one wounded and traumatized survivor, youth counselor CHEN LANGER.  "This Way Out's" corr
espondent in Tel Aviv ERAN CICUREL then takes us back to the beginning of the tragic week (includes comments by MIKE HAMMEL of the GLBT Association; Prime Minister BENJAMIN NETANYAHU; gay journalist and activist GAL OHOVSKY; ZIPI LIVNI, who heads the political opposition in Israel; openly gay legislator NITZAN HOROWITZ; murder victim NIR KATZ's sister CHEN; and with outro music by IVRI LIDER). 
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