************************************************* THIS WAY OUT Program #410 02-05-96 ************************************************* OPENING TEASES/THEME MUSIC/INTRO CONTINUITY .............. 1:10 SEGMENT #1 - NewsWrap: ILGA, the International Lesbian & Gay Association, loses a major donor over its anti-pedophilia pledge; the Council of the province of Pisa becomes the first government body in Italy to approve official registry of same-gender couples; New Zealand's Parliament may consider a same-gender partnership registry, while several U.S. state legislatures, fearing a pro-lesbigay move in Hawaii, consider measures banning same-gender marriage - this week's update includes developments in California, South Dakota, Washington and New Mexico; the Tennessee Court of Appeals strikes down that state's law prohibiting homosexual acts, while a state senator in Kentucky wants to reinstate the sodomy law in his state; U.S. District Court judge Myron Thompson, citing "viewpoint discrimination", rules as unconstitutional the Alabama law barring support or recognition of lesbigay groups on state university or college campuses; a Florida lesbian loses custody of her child to a convicted wife-murderer, while an Australian court has ordered a lesbian co-parent to pay child support to her former partner; and Jill Sobule, who had a hit last year with "I Kissed A Girl" tells The Advocate that indeed, she has (with excerpts from the song) [compiled & written by CINDY FRIEDMAN, with thanks to BRIAN NUNES, JASON LIN, BILL STOSINE, GREG GORDON, REX WOCKNER, MARK PROFFIT and RON BUCKMIRE, and anchored by BRIAN NUNES and CINDY FRIEDMAN] .............................................................................. ... 10:55 SEGMENT #2 - Brief billboard for Andrew Sullivan interview [:10] + Todd Camp, a cartoonist with the weekly lesbigay Texas Triangle, was also editor of the children's section at the mainstream Ft. Worth Star-Telegram. After the rightwing American Family Association complained about his Triangle cartoons to Star-Telegram management, he was transferred to a more general "Arts & Entertainment" position at the Ft. Worth daily. PHILLP BABBICH [Pacifica Network News] talks with the original complainant LEAH WALKER, Texas Triangle publisher-editor KAY LONGCOPE, SUZANNE GOLDBERG of The Lambda Legal Defense & Education Fund, and DAVID MILLER, Executive Director of The American Family Associaton county office that covers the Ft. Worth area in this report on a continuing "holy war" against the lesbigay press in the Lone Star state [6:10] .............................................................................. ....... 6:20 SEGMENT #3 - ANDREW SULLIVAN is the openly-gay editor of the highly-regarded neo-conservative U.S. opinion weekly The New Republic, and author of the recently-published "VIRTUALLY NORMAL: AN ARGUMENT ABOUT HOMOSEXUALITY". In the second of a multi-part feature interview with TWO's Jon Beaupre, Sullivan explains why his Catholic faith actually helped him become a proud openly-gay man, and discusses strategies for countering the religiously-based "Prohibitionist" argument against homosexuality (intro/outro music from "Hymn" by ROMANOVSKY & PHILLIPS) .................... 8:45 CLOSING CREDITS/CONTINUITY ...................................................... 1:30 TOTAL PROGRAM TIME ........................................................................ 28:40 -------------------Please note------------------ Anyone with questions, suggestions, or NEWS stories is encouraged to email "T.W.O." Coordinating Producer GREG GORDON at: TWOradio@aol.com -----------------------thanks! --------------------- Some "THIS WAY OUT" operating expenses are funded by grants from THE C.P. ESTES GUADALUPE FOUNDATION, THE GILL FOUNDATION, and THE ADVOCATE, the award-winning national gay and lesbian newsmagazine, and by individual donations from listeners worldwide. ************************************************* For a current list of participating stations and lots of other information about THIS WAY OUT (including audiocassette subscription information), check out our continually-updated Worldwide Web home page! You can find it on the Queer Resources Directory ... Our page is at http://www.qrd.org/qrd/www/media/radio/thiswayout *************************************************