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 THIS WAY OUT             Program #457                   12-30-96
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     Please note that there is no "NewsWrap" this week - 
"This Way Out" devotes all of this week's program to a look back at two of
the most significant lesbigay news events of 1996 and a brief forecast for
1997.
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Opening Teases/Theme Music/Intro Continuity ......................  1:30

SEGMENT #1 -  In its most important decision affecting lesbigay rights in a
decade, on May 20th the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Colorado's
anti-lesbigay AMENDMENT 2.  This special report [prepared and presented by
LUCIA CHAPPELLE and GREG GORDON, with special thanks to JASON LIN, BILL
STOSINE and RICK CENDO] provides a comprehensive recap of the ruling and its
implications, with comments from several lesbigay rights advocates (including
The Human Rights Campaign's DAVID SMITH, interviewed by Pacifica Network
News' VERNA AVERY BROWN;  and brief remarks by The Lambda Legal Defense &
Education Fund's BEATRICE DORN, Boulder attorney JEAN DUBOFSKY, and plaintiff
PRISCILLA INKPEN);  pro-Amendment 2 factions (Colorado For Family Values'
WILL PERKINS and KEVIN TEBEDO);  and Colorado Governor ROY ROMER and Attorney
General GAIL NORTON (outro music from "The Blizzard" by JUDY COLLINS)
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SEGMENT #2 -  "TWO" I.D. by activist/author Urvashi Vaid ("Virtual Equality")
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..   :20

SEGMENT #3 -  On September 6th, a procedural compromise led to discussion in
the U.S. Senate -- the first-ever such Congressional floor debate -- on the
issue of discrimination against lesbians and gay men.  The proposed
legislation was ENDA - the Employment Non-Discrimination Act.  From a report
that evening by VERNA AVERY BROWN on the Pacifica Network News, we have
excerpts from the sometimes-impassioned debate, featuring Senators EDWARD
KENNEDY (D-MA), NANCY KASSEBAUM (R-KS), PAUL SIMON (D-IL), DON NICKLES (R-OK)
and DIANNE FEINSTEIN (D-CA) -- tagged with a brief report on the September
10th vote ...................................................................
 7:55

SEGMENT #4 -  MELINDA PARAS, outgoing Executive Director of the National Gay
& Lesbian Task Force, talks with reporter ANDY SHARPLES ("Hangin'OUT") at the
mid-November "Creating Change" Conference about the gay and lesbian vote in
the U.S. presidential election, and political priorities for the lesbigay
community in 1997
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  3:35

SEGMENT #5 -  Promo for next week's return of NewsWrap and our review of the
hottest-button queer issue of 1996: same-gender marriage
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  :10

CLOSING CREDITS/CONTINUITY (over special outro music from "Ding Dong Ding
Dong" by GEORGE HARRISON) ...........................  2:20

TOTAL PROGRAM TIME
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28:30
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                   GREG GORDON at:  TWOradio@aol.com
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