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 THIS WAY OUT             Program #406                   01-08-96
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OPENING TEASES/THEME MUSIC/INTRO CONTINUITY ..............  1:15

SEGMENT #1 -  NewsWrap:  A British military task force recommendation echoes
the U.S. "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy;  a British Rail employee is suing
the company because it apparently refused to provide her lesbian partner free
travel under a domestic partnership policy it announced last year;  several
London queens (from the street activist group Outrage!) protest Her Majesty's
refusal to allow same-gender domestic partners to attend the Royal Household
Christmas Staff Ball;  an interracial gay wedding stirs media controversy in
South Africa;  the U.S. House of Representatives indirectly recognizes
Congressmembers' same-gender partners, while entertainment conglomerate MGM
(Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) will provide full spousal benefits to its employees'
same-gender domestic partners, and The New York Times allows "lover" in its
paid death notices;  hundreds of lesbigay youth storm Sacramento for a
first-ever California "Youth Lobby Day" [with a brief participant phone
report from queer youth advocate and author PATRICIA NELL WARREN];  a vicious
Neo-Nazi gay-bashing murder shakes up Houston, Texas;  most mainstream
advertisers are resisting rightwing Christian pressure to pull their ads from
the statewide lesbigay weekly newspaper The Texas Triangle;  legal action by
French actress Catherine Deneuve leads the 5-year-old glossy U.S. lesbian
magazine Deneuve to begin 1996 under a new name: Curve;  the lesbigay support
group Horizons is protesting the refusal of Hong Kong's major mainstream
newspaper Apple Daily to print their promotional advertisement;  German
prosecutors deny telling global online giant Compuserve to block selected
internet newsgroups;  and feathers flew in London recently during an all-male
performance of "Swan Lake" [compiled & written by CINDY FRIEDMAN, with thanks
to BRIAN NUNES, JASON LIN, BILL STOSINE, GREG GORDON, REX WOCKNER, GRAHAM
UNDERHILL, PATRICIA NELL WARREN and RON BUCKMIRE; anchored by BRIAN NUNES and
CINDY FRIEDMAN]
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.... 10:40

SEGMENT #2 -  Billboard for Rochelle Schwab feature [:10]  +  The biggest
selling book in the world is easily the most controversial.
 Nationally-syndicated openly-lesbian U.S. newspaper columnist and now radio
commentator DEB PRICE discusses how the Bible continues to serve as the
rationale for varying political ideologies [4:50]
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SEGMENT #3 -  TWO I.D. by lesbian singing/songwriting icon Cris Williamson
[:15]  +  A recently-published novel called "In A Family Way" brings out the
web of relationships involved in an unusual custody fight between a lesbian
family and their gay male sperm donor.  Even more "novel" is the fact that
the book was written by a heterosexual woman.  JULIE DRIZIN [Pacifica Network
News] talks with P-FLAG mom and author ROCHELLE HOLLANDER SCHWAB [4:45]
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SEGMENT #4 - "Everything Possible", a lullaby "no one sang to me", written by
heterosexual singer/songwriter Fred Small, and performed by BILL McKINLEY
(from his album of the same name)   [instrumental intro begins under back
I.D. outro in Segment #3]
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CLOSING CREDITS/CONTINUITY
 ......................................................  1:20

TOTAL PROGRAM TIME
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28:10
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