************************************************* THIS WAY OUT Program #433 07-15-96 ************************************************* Opening Teases/Theme Music/Intro Continuity ...................... 1:25 SEGMENT #1 - NewsWrap: Reports at last week's 11th International AIDS Conference in Vancouver, B.C. included an alarming increase in unsafe sex among young gay men, and efforts to improve that situation; a recently-published UCLA study suggests that closeted HIV-positive gay men developed AIDS sooner and died earlier than those who were open about their sexual orientation; ILGA - the International Lesbian & Gay Association - apparently abandons its required "no support of pedophilia" membership pledge; the U.S. Senate passes a 1997 defense spending bill without House-passed amendments to expel HIV-positive servicemembers and restore the pre-1993 outright ban on gays and lesbians in the armed forces; the first draft of the Democratic Party platform avoids the queer military issue altogether; a federal appeals court orders a lower court to review its "Abel vs. U.S.A." ruling which had declared the "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy to be unconstitutional on free speech grounds; openly-gay Lieutenant Richard Selland will retire from the Navy but continue to fight the anti-queer U.S. military policy, while the discharge ruling of another gay sailor, Lieutenant Paul Thomasson, is the first to be appealed directly to the U.S. Supreme Court; New Zealand Presbyterians vote against ordination of open gays and lesbians, while some members of The Church of England's governing body are just confused, and a defamation trial of two men who alleged that popular Cyprus Church cleric Archimandrite Pangratios Meraclis is homosexual has been dropped because Meraclis refuses to testify against them; a Pope John Paul impersonator leads about 80,000 queers in London's 25th annual Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Pride March; a Northwestern University study suggests that 3 out of 4 feminine-acting little boys grow up to be gay, but that only 10 percent of "tomboy" girls become adult lesbians; and, in a recent news item sure to please "bears" and their fans, a European psychiatrist says his research reveals a positive correlation between male hairiness and academic performance [compiled and written by CINDY FRIEDMAN, with thanks to BRIAN NUNES, JASON LIN, BILL STOSINE, GREG GORDON, RON BUCKMIRE, REX WOCKNER and ROSS STEVENSON, and anchored by CINDY FRIEDMAN and JON BEAUPRE] .......................................................... 10:20 SEGMENT #2 - Billboard for AIDS activism and "Gay Olympian" features [:10] + In an orgy of rhetoric this week, the U.S. House of Representatives passed the so-called "Defense of Marriage Act" (DOMA) by an overwhelming margin, and sent it on to probable passage in the Senate and President Clinton's signature. DON RUSH [Pacifica Network News] reports on the DOMA firestorm on Capitol Hill, with excerpts from the sometimes outrageously-homophobic floor debate (outro music from "Love And Marriage" by FRANK SINATRA) [5:20] ........... 5:30 SEGMENT #3 - "TWO" I.D. by Catherine McKinley & Joyce Delaney, co-editors of "Afrekete: An Anthology of Black Lesbian Writing" [:10] + "Gay Olympian" billboard [:05] + There was a strong political presence at the recently-concluded 11th International AIDS Conference, with an average of five demonstrations on various issues each day. In an interview with reporter GLEN REEDER [Pacifica Network News], BOB LEDERER, a senior editor at POZ magazine and a member of ACT UP/New York defends continuing uses of such direct action in the multi-issue fight against AIDS ............ 6:30 SEGMENT #4 - The spirit of Gay Games founder Dr. Tom Waddell will no doubt be hovering over Atlanta as the Summer Olympics trumpets sound on July 19th. In the third of a multi-part interview, This Way Out's JOSY CATOGGIO talks with ABC-TV sportscaster DICK SCHAAP, co-author of "GAY OLYMPIAN: THE LIFE & DEATH OF DR. TOM WADDELL" about Waddell's approach to competitive athletics and how that philosophy challenges current trends in the sports world (intro music from "Summon The Heroes" - the 1996 Summer Olympics theme - performed by JOHN WILLIAMS & THE BOSTON POPS ORCHESTRA) .............................................................................. ............... 3:50 Closing Credits/Continuity ............................................................. 1:05 TOTAL PROGRAM TIME ........................................................................ 28:40 ----------------------Please note------------------------ Anyone with questions, suggestions, or NEWS stories is encouraged to email "T.W.O." 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