************************************************* THIS WAY OUT Program #450 11-11-96 ************************************************* Opening Teases/Theme Music/Intro Continuity ...................... 1:05 SEGMENT #1 - NewsWrap: Australia's federal government appears ready to implement lesbigay employment discrimination protections, but won't go any further; the Austrian city of Dornbirn provides a chilly welcome for the country's 6th Annual National Gay & Lesbian Forum; about a dozen U.S. transgender advocacy groups meet in King Of Prussia, Pennsylvania to form GenderPAC, the country's first nationwide transcommunity organization; about 1 in 8 U.S. bias crimes in 1995 were committed against gay men, according to annual hate crimes statistics released by the FBI; lesbigay advocates express concern about a questionable ending tagged onto "Fly High, Lesbian Seagulls", the closing song in the upcoming movie starring MTV cartoon couch potatoes Beavis & Butthead; "Totally F***ed Up", openly gay filmmaker Gregg Araki's controversial film about queer teens, faces censorship at Taiwan's Golden Horse Film Festival, while a U.S. federal appeals court strikes down the so-called "decency" clause which denied National Endowment for the Arts funding in 1990 to "the NEA 4", three of whom are openly-queer artists creating gay-themed works; a measure to remove sexual orientation as a protected category in Lafayette, Indiana's Human Relations Ordinance is defeated by the City Council after queer advocates threaten a lawsuit; San Francisco requires all companies doing business with the city to provide same-gender domestic partner benefits for their employees; the California Bar Association becomes the first statewide legal organization to call on its members to provide full spousal benefits to their employees' gay and lesbian partners; and, Jimmy Stewart's character "George Bailey" claims to be gay in U.S. cable outlet Comedy Central's upcoming holiday satire "Escape From A Wonderful Life" [compiled and written by CINDY FRIEDMAN, with thanks to BRIAN NUNES, JASON LIN, RON BUCKMIRE, GRAHAM UNDERHILL, ANDY QUAN, RIKI ANNE WILCHINS, BJORN SKOLANDER, REX WOCKNER, LUCIA CHAPPELLE & GREG GORDON, and anchored by CINDY FRIEDMAN and BRIAN NUNES] ............................................. 10:05 SEGMENT #2 - Billboard for South Africa feature [:10] + For a brief look at the November 5th U.S. elections, reporters VERNA AVERY BROWN and DON RUSH [Pacifica Network News] provide an overview (including remarks by progressive Minnesota U.S. Senator PAUL WELLSTONE, House Speaker NEWT GINGRICH, the Democratic National Committee's CHRISTOPHER DODD, Republican Party Chair HALEY BARBOUR, the Christian Coalition's RALPH REED, and conservative GOP operative PAUL WEYRICH) [4:05], and TWO's GREG GORDON reports on some of the wins and losses of a record number of gay and lesbian candidates, as well as some of the queer community's most vocal opponents [3:05] ........................................................................ 7:20 SEGMENT #3 - TWO I.D. by openly-gay Olympic diving champ Greg Louganis [:10] + In the first installment of an on-scene report from the new SOUTH AFRICA, NIGEL WRENCH and DAVID COOK [from BBC Radio 5 Live's "Out This Week"] visit Johannesburg and Soweto for a look at the practical impact of anti-discrimination protections for gays and lesbians in the country's new constitution. They talk with EDWIN CAMERON, the world's first openly-gay Supreme Court Justice, about the genesis of lesbigay rights in South Africa, and with openly-gay anti-apartheid leader SIMON NKOLI at a local bar about the country he loves [9:00] ....................................................................... 9:10 Closing Credits/Continuity ............................................................. 1:10 TOTAL PROGRAM TIME ........................................................................ 28:50 ----------------------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. 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