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 THIS WAY OUT             Program #420                   04-15-96
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OPENING TEASES/THEME MUSIC/INTRO CONTINUITY ..............  1:20

SEGMENT #1 -  NewsWrap:  Alaska's legislature passes a measure allowing
better spousal employment benefits for legally-married couples than for
unmarried domestic partners, while California's Supreme Court rules that
non-discriminatory housing access is more important than personal religious
belief;  a state senator in Hawaii tries to deal with same-gender marriage
legislation in strange ways, while the Libertarian Party of Illinois condemns
Republican efforts to deny equal rights to same-gender couples;  the French
government allows hetero Swedes to get married at the Swedish Embassy in
Paris but says same-gender lesbigay Swedes can't, even though Sweden has
legalized same-gender partnerships;  The venerable New York Times editorially
endorses same-gender marriage;  Andrew Sullivan is quitting as editor of "The
New Republic";  the mainstream U.S. tourism industry discovers the lesbigay
market, while the New Zealand Gay & Lesbian Tourism Association holds its
first meeting;  in Los Angeles, open gay Kevin Thomas wins child custody, for
the second time, of a girl not related to him by blood;  New Hampshire
English teacher Penny Culliton, fired last  May for using lesbigay-themed
books in her classes, is reinstated through arbitration;  and two
Seattle-area middle school boys gain peer support for wearing skirts to class
 [compiled and written by CINDY FRIEDMAN, with thanks to BRIAN NUNES, BILL
STOSINE, JASON LIN, GREG GORDON, BJORN SKOLANDER, MARK PROFFIT and RON
BUCKMIRE, and anchored by CINDY FRIEDMAN and BRIAN NUNES]
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....  9:55

SEGMENT #2 -  Billboard for Kurt Chandler interview [:05]  +  The objects of
queer entertainment affections often have an ambiguous relationship with
their fans.  Upside Down are the latest British pop group, joining Take That,
Boys Own and others, who seem to be wooing teenage girls and gay men alike
with their hunky young singers and eye-popping promotional photo spreads.
 NIGEL WRENCH and EDMUND HALL [BBC Radio 5 Live's "Out This Week"] examine
the pleasures and the politics of the current "Boy Band" rage in Great
Britain (with several musical excerpts)
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...  4:50

SEGMENT #3 -  "TWO" I.D. by "New Republic" editor and author Andrew Sullivan
("Virtually Normal: An Argument About Homosexuality")
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.......    :35

SEGMENT #4 -  Despite the proliferation of lawsuits and school board warfare
for and against lesbigay-positive materials and programs for young people,
the real lives of gay and lesbian adolescents remain by and large ignored by
the media.  "Passages Of Pride: Lesbian And Gay Youth Come Of Age" represents
an award-winning heteroexual reporter's journey into the world of these
embattled teens.  Author KURT CHANDLER discusses how his book came to be, and
some of the information he learned during several years of research, in the
first of a multi-part feature interview with TWO's Josy Catoggio
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......................  7:35

SEGMENT #5 -  "Hold On", a song of hope for lesbigay teens, performed by BILL
McKINLEY (begins under outro continuity of Segment #4)
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CLOSING CREDITS/CONTINUITY
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TOTAL PROGRAM TIME
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28:25
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