************************************************* THIS WAY OUT Program #416 03-18-96 ************************************************* OPENING TEASES/THEME MUSIC/INTRO CONTINUITY .............. 1:10 SEGMENT #1 - NewsWrap: In Cypress, the threat of a trial on charges of homosexuality against popular Greek Orthodox priest Archimandrite Pangratios Meraclis triggers 5 hours of rioting and 70 injuries; The Philippines' top military leader says "there is no way we will accept gays in the armed forces"; Australian queers are still hoping for passage of federal anti-discrimination protections despite the country's electoral turn to the right earlier this month; Buenos Aires lesbians turn up the visiblity--and the volume--during an International Women's Day celebration there, while elsewhere in the city, a landlord is offering units in his suburban apartment building exclusively to gays and lesbians; same-gender couples will be counted in New Zealand's next census; ten years after the U.S. Supreme Court's notorious "Bowers vs. Hardwick" decision upholding Georgia's sodomy law, the Georgia Supreme Court again upholds the statute in a new challenge to the law, while nearly 300 U.S. and British activists attend "Sex, Law and Society", a "Bowers" 10th anniversary inter-disciplinary conference in Chicago [RON BUCKMIRE provides a brief phone report]; hundreds of Irish gays and lesbians, once again prevented from participating in New York City's St. Patrick's Day Parade, take to the streets to protest their exclusion, resulting in 36 arrests; meanwhile, in upstate New York earlier in the week, the Albany County Legislature votes by an almost 2-to-1 margin to prohibit sexual orientation discrimination in employment, housing and public accomodations; at the annual GLAAD (Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation) Media Awards ceremonies in Los Angeles, actor Mitchell Anderson is greeted by a standing ovation when he tells the gathering that he is, in fact, a gay man playing a gay role on the popular Fox TV network dramatic series "Party Of 5"; parents of a Brookline, Massachusetts Christian high school student are demanding $360,000 in damages from the city, claiming their daughter suffered emotional stress after one of her teachers came out as a lesbian; measures to deny recognition to same-gender marriages are approved in both the Colorado and Idaho state legislatures, while Tennessee's state House Judiciary Committee, following passage in the full state Senate, passes a similar measure, and about 300 attend a rally sponsored by The Nebraska Christian Coalition to oppose legalizing what they called "sodomite relationships" there; and, a Canadian columnist thinks "there are more gay weddings on TV than there are in real life!" [compiled & written by CINDY FRIEDMAN, with thanks to BRIAN NUNES, BILL STOSINE, JASON LIN, GREG GORDON, REX WOCKNER, "BROTHER-SISTER", ALEJANDRA SARDA and RON BUCKMIRE; anchored by CINDY FRIEDMAN and BRIAN NUNES] ........................................................... 10:35 SEGMENT #2 - Billboard for John Berendt interview [:10] + DELTA LAMBDA PHI, a national social gay fraternity founded in 1986, provides gay men with a unique variation on the college fraternity experience. It now boasts about a thousand alumni and over 20 active chapters on campuses across the U.S. To "compare and contrast" how Delta Lambda Phi fits into the college "Greek" system, DAVID CHRISTOPHER MEITZLER [WCBN-FM/Ann Arbor] talks with president TERRY CHISHOLM and members MIKE DUSHANE and DANNY SCOTT of one of the fraternity's newest chapters, Alpha Mu, at Eastern Michigan University in Ypsilanti, just west of Detroit .......................... 7:00 [Contact info for the nat'l headquarters of Delta Lambda Phi: 1-800-587-FRAT] SEGMENT #3 - Billboard for Berendt interview (:10) + TWO I.D. by author Dorothy Allison ("Bastard Out Of Carolina") [with Jesse Helmes tag] (:15) + JOHN BERENDT's "MIDNIGHT IN THE GARDEN OF GOOD AND EVIL", featuring a black drag queen known as "The Lady Chablis" as a central character, is the best-selling tale of a sensational murder trial in Savannah, Georgia. The book has been on the New York Times best-seller list for more than 2 years, has sold more than a million copies worldwide, been translated into 11 languages, and will soon be "a major motion picture". In the first of a multi-part feature interview, TWO's JOSY CATOGGIO talks with Berendt about the phenomenal popularity of his book, how the transplanted New Yorker was "seduced" by the genteel Southern city, and the historic and contemporary role gay men have played in Savannah's upper-crust society (intro/outro music from "Georgia On My Mind" by RAY CHARLES) [8:10] .......................... 8:35 CLOSING CREDITS/CONTINUITY ...................................................... 1:30 TOTAL PROGRAM TIME ........................................................................ 28:50 -------------------Please note------------------ Anyone with questions, suggestions, or NEWS stories is encouraged to email "T.W.O." 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