************************************************* THIS WAY OUT Program #413 02-26-96 ************************************************* OPENING TEASES/THEME MUSIC/INTRO CONTINUITY .............. 1:15 SEGMENT #1 - NewsWrap: Finland's cabinet votes to submit a bill to Parliament legalizing same-gender marriages, while measures banning recognition of same-gender marriages are spreading like wildfire through several U.S. state legislatures -- already signed into law this week in South Dakota, and being newly considered in Iowa, Idaho, Colorado and Wyoming; to stop the formation of a "gay/straight student alliance" club at a local high school, the Salt Lake City, Utah Board of Education votes to ban ALL extracurricular clubs; Chicago's Commission On Human Relations fines the local Boy Scouts Of America council for discriminating against a gay job applicant; a Swedish parliamentary committee rejects proposals for constitutional protections for gays & lesbians from defamation, Church of Sweden discrimination, and from discriminatory legislation; Amnesty International denounces a proposal in the Australian island state of Tasmania to increase maximum sentences for sodomy convictions to 25 years in prison, while a Montana district judge declares that state's sodomy law to be unconstitutional; openly-gay Tom Cunningham is sworn in as South Miami, Florida's new mayor, after his election last week with 57 percent of the vote; Costa Rican gays and lesbians celebrate the opening of "Triangulo Rosa", that country's first queer community center, funded in part by the Dutch government; more than 11,000 celebrants participate in Melbourne, Australia's first Pride march, while almost 500 African-American lesbians, gays and bisexuals meet in Dallas, Texas for the annual U.S. Black Gay & Lesbian Leadership Forum Conference; Archbishop of Capetown Desmond Tutu continues his international advocacy for lesbigay equality (including same-gender marriage) in an interview with the BBC, while U.S. lesbian-feminist humorist Kate Clinton, noting the spate of recent high-profile divorces, comically suggests that queers should abandon the same-gender marriage issue and instead try to talk straight people out of getting married, since "it's not going well for them" [compiled and written by CINDY FRIEDMAN, with thanks to BRIAN NUNES, BILL STOSINE, JASON LIN, GREG GORDON, BJORN SKOLANDER and RON BUCKMIRE, and anchored by CINDY FRIEDMAN and BRIAN NUNES] ........................................................... 10:05 SEGMENT #2 - Billboard for Andrew Sullivan feature [:10] + The surprising popularity of U.S. Republican presidential candidate PAT BUCHANAN in early state primary elections has caused more than one kind of "upset". The former Reagan speechwriter and broadcast commentator is conducting an anti-free trade, anti-immigrant, anti-gay, anti-abortion campaign. He's the cover boy on this week's editions of both NewsWeek and U.S. News & World Report, with the latter magazine's headline tagging him the Republicans' "Loose Buchanan". Not only is the G.O.P. political establishment concerned about a split in its ranks, but, as GREG GORDON reports, news of Buchanan's early political success has the international community buzzing as well. The Republican National Convention in San Diego later this year could surpass the level of vitriol at the 1992 Houston Convention, when Buchanan stunned the mainstream press with his incendiary anti-queer "culture wars" speech. Buchanan hasn't changed his tune about the so-called "gay agenda" since then, as his remarks at a mid-February Des Moines, Iowa rally to "Protect Heterosexual Marriage" demonstrate [thanks to RICK CENDO for providing tape of Buchanan's speech] (outro music from "Put 'Em Back The Way They Was" from the "Li'l Abner" motion picture soundtrack) .............................................................................. 6:00 SEGMENT #3 - "TWO" I.D. by Mitzi Henderson, U.S. national president of Parents, Families & Friends of Lesbians & Gays (P-FLAG) [:10] + ANDREW SULLIVAN seems destined to play a significant role in re-defining the language of political discourse in the 90's. In the conclusion of JON BEAUPRE's conversation with the author of "Virtually Normal: An Argument About Homosexuality", Sullivan talks about his accession as an openly-gay man to the editorship of the prestigious weekly magazine The New Republic, the pro's and con's of being a "gay journalist", and what he believes is the U.S. media's underestimation of the intelligence of the American public [with thanks for production assistance to CHRISTOPHER DAVID TRENTHAM] .................................................... 9:40 CLOSING CREDITS/CONTINUITY ...................................................... 1:35 TOTAL PROGRAM TIME ........................................................................ 28:35 -------------------Please note------------------ Anyone with questions, suggestions, or NEWS stories is encouraged to email "T.W.O." 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