=> NO OPENING RHYTHMIC DRUMS THIS WEEK <=
Starts cold with a very brief :05 tease/segues directly into Theme
Music/Intro Continuity
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SEGMENT #1 -  NewsWrap:  The European Court of Justice will hear a British
sailor's challenge to his country's anti-lesbigay military ban, while an
upcoming TV movie dramatizing the real-life story of a woman who served in
the Special Investigations branch of the military police but discovered that
she herself is lesbian should keep Britons talking about the issue;  the
first commercial television broadcast coverage of the Sydney Gay & Lesbian
Mardi Gras Parade is a ratings winner almost everywhere in Australia;
 Tasmania, the last remaining Australian state with anti-gay sodomy laws,
cracks down on "sexy media";  in Russia, financial problems force the closure
of Moscow's pioneering Triangle Center;  Malvinas Argentinas, a town near
Buenos Aires, bars same-gender couples from using pay-by-the-hour "love
motels";  British tabloids have a field day with the trial of a gym teacher
charged with indecent assault for her lesbian affair with a 16-year-old
student;  new research turns a literal "textbook case" about gender identity
on its head;  Bank of America, the country's 3rd largest, becomes the 17th
Fortune 500 company to extend spousal benefits to its 80,0000 employees'
same-gender partners, while U.S. religious conservatives launch an attack
against that move as well as lesbigay-friendly American Airlines;  and the
latest on the hubbub over a hetero kiss in a San Francisco gay bar  [compiled
& written by CINDY FRIEDMAN, with thanks to BRIAN NUNES, JASON LIN, GRAHAM
UNDERHILL, REX WOCKNER, RON BUCKMIRE, BJOERN SKOLANDER, LUCIA CHAPPELLE &
GREG GORDON; anchored by CINDY FRIEDMAN & BRIAN NUNES]
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SEGMENT #2 -  Billboard for Ballroom Dancing feature [:15]  +  While the
emphasis may be on culture, camp and celebration, the SYDNEY GAY & LESBIAN
MARDI GRAS has never forgotten its political roots.  By most accounts, this
year's 20th Annual Mardi Gras was the biggest and best yet.  We've got
highlights of the Arts Festival launch, which began this year's month-long
series of events, MC'd by "minor celebrity" GLENN BUTCHER, and featuring
remarks by 17-year-old activist Gilbert, Mardi Gras President BEV LANGE, NSW
Deputy Premier ANDREW RAFSHOGI, and openly-gay former Labour Party M.P. PAUL
O'GRADY, intercut with an oral history of Mardi Gras's
internationally-inspired beginnings by one of its founders, KEN DAVIS [edited
by GREG GORDON from original tape provided by MICHAEL SCHEMBRI of
2SER-FM/Sydney's "GayWaves" program] (intro/outro music from "Sharing The
Magic" performed by LORIN SKLAMERG & JOANNA CASDEN) [12:35]
.......................... 12:50

SEGMENT #3 -  Promo for "TWO" in cyberspace ........................   :40

SEGMENT #4 -  Ballroom dancing was on its last legs in London until the
monthly lesbian and gay Saturday "Tea Dances" at the Reveille started drawing
crowds in the hundreds.  The last grand ballroom in South London, which had
been on the brink of closure, now hosts a richly mixed clientele who are more
interested in the tempo of the music than in who's doing it with whom.
 Reporter KAREN LIPMAN [from BBC Radio 5 Live's "Out This Week"] took her
tape recorder -- and her dancing shoes -- to find out why gays and lesbians
are getting a new kick out of an old tradition (intro music from "Shall We
Dance" performed by JULIE ANDREWS)
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CLOSING CREDITS/CONTINUITY
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TOTAL PROGRAM TIME
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29:00
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