"This Way Out" is the award-winning internationally distributed weekly gay
and lesbian radio program, currently airing on over 90 stations in seven
countries.

Each weekly half-hour edition of "This Way Out," presented in a "radio
magazine" format, includes NewsWrap, a summary of some of the major news
events in or affecting the lesbian/gay community, compiled from a variety of
publications and broadcasts around the world.   Conversations with authors
and performers, news feature stories, AIDS updates, humor, poetry, media
criticism, readings from gay/lesbian literature, historical reviews, and
other production features round out each program, all punctuated with a wide
variety of music (especially self-produced recordings by openly-lesbian/gay
performers, which rarely receive commercial radio airplay).

With its fast-paced and highly-produced style of presentation, "This Way
Out" offers information and perspective available from no other 
widely-distributed radio source, attracting not only the obvious target 
audience, but an impressive number of non-gay listeners as well.  The 
program is co-produced and hosted by Greg Gordon and Lucia Chappelle, 
each with over 20 years of gay/lesbian news and public-affairs program 
production experience;  their credits also include producing and anchoring 
live radio coverage via satellite of the 1979 and 1987 Marches On 
Washington For Lesbian and Gay Rights.  Cindy Friedman and Brian Nunes, 
another pair of experienced broadcast journalists, co-anchor NewsWrap 
each week, with volunteer program producers from throughout the U.S., 
and from Canada, Australia, The Netherlands, Sweden, New Zealand, and 
Great Britain contributing news and feature stories.

"This Way Out" has been honored with multiple awards from the National
Federation Of Community Broadcasters, The Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against
Defamation (GLAAD), Parents and Friends Of Lesbians and Gays (P-FLAG), and
the Gay and Lesbian Press Association.  With an initial grant from The
Chicago Resource Center, weekly distribution of "This Way Out" began in 
April 1988 (originally as "inside/OUT"); additional start-up funding was 
provided by RESIST and by National Community Funds.  Basic operating 
expenses for this all-volunteer program (a project of Overnight 
Productions, Inc., a nonprofit California corporation/Federal Tax 
ID #95-3786721) have since been funded by The Valley Business Alliance, 
The Funding Exchange, The Paul Rapoport Foundation, Christopher Street 
West, The David Geffen Foundation, The Morgan R. Pinney Trust, The 
Imperial Movie Capitol Court Of Hollywood, The Leo Model Foundation, 
The Colin Higgins Foundation (advised by the Tides Foundation), and 
The C.P. Estes Guadalupe Foundation.

"This Way Out" is available free of charge each week to over 350 
noncommercial public radio stations throughout the U.S. on the 
National Public Radio Satellite System's Channel 12 every Monday 
from 2:30 to 3:00 pm (Eastern time).  The program is also distributed 
on tape by Pacifica Program Service to qualified stations.  Distribution 
of program cassettes to libraries and other institutions, as well as to 
individual subscribers, may be arranged directly with the producers 
for a nominal charge.

Stations with no locally-produced lesbian/gay programs use "This Way Out"
as a regularly-scheduled weekly series; local gay/lesbian shows use selected
segments of the program, and some stations air the full half-hour each week
in addition to their locally-produced programming.  Still others integrate
segments from "This Way Out" into the station's regular news and/or public
affairs programming.  The weekly half-hour thus functions as both a
regularly-scheduled program produced for, about, and by lesbians and gay 
men, and as a programming service for use by each station's news, cultural
and public affairs producers.  "This Way Out" is also becoming increasingly
valuable as a sound archive, preserving the voices of and issues of concern
to the gay and lesbian community for students and other researchers.

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