************************************************* THIS WAY OUT Rundown Program #492 (9/1/97) ************************************************* Opening Teases/Theme Music/Intro Continuity ...................... 1:10 SEGMENT #1 - NewsWrap: Australia's Wood Commission urges age of consent equality in New South Wales; the new Labour government is reportedly ready to open immigration to the foreign partners of British lesbians and gays; Buenos Aires officials lift the ban on queer couples using the city's popular "love motels"; police shut down 5 of Paris' major gay and lesbian nightclubs, while Cuban authorities detain 800 at a popular gay-friendly disco there; 16 inmates have now been arrested for murder during the so-called "condom riots" in Jamaica's prisons last week that left 16 perceived-to-be-gay inmates dead and 30 injured; a U.S. federal jury rejects an Illinois inmate's lawsuit claiming prison officials failed to protect him from sexual assaults that infected him with HIV; the Minnesota Supreme Court, citing the state's non-gender-specific anti-sexual harassment laws, rules that a man can be guilty of sexually harassing another man; the U.S. Navy is ordered to pay the $420,000+ legal fees incurred by openly-gay Petty Officer Keith Meinhold in successfully fighting his discharge proceedings, while the Los Angeles Police Department will pay $325,000 to the 28 protesters who were gay-bashed by police during a peaceful 1991 demonstration against Governor Pete Wilson's veto of a civil rights bill; and a self-avowed "family man" who fears retribution from "militant homosexuals" because he's legally challenging Chapel Hill, North Carolina's spousal benefits policy for lesbigay employees may be forced to "come out" from behind his judge-approved identity of "Publius Heterodoxus" [compiled and written by CINDY FRIEDMAN, with thanks to JASON LIN, BRIAN NUNES, GRAHAM UNDERHILL REX WOCKNER, LUCIA CHAPPELLE & GREG GORDON, and anchored by TORY CHRISTOPHER and CINDY FRIEDMAN] .................................. 9:15 SEGMENT #2 - Billboard for Outback Centre & CyberYouth features [:10] + Just weeks ago, the Florida First District Court Of Appeal took the unusual step of removing one of its opinions from the legal record. That case, Ward vs. Ward, was the highly-publicized ruling in which the Court upheld a trial judge's decision to award custody of an eleven-year-old girl to her father, a convicted murder, over her mother, a lesbian. Observers have been waiting to see how the Court's decision to drop the Ward ruling would impact other lesbian moms in north Florida, and now its ruling in a similar situation -- Packard vs. Packard -- has provided a clue. As This Way Out's SUSAN GAGE reports, it appears the judges at the appellate level now say being a lesbian doesn't necessarily make you a bad mom [includes comments by Julie Packard's attorney Jason Coupal] [3:55] .............................................................................. ............................. 4:05 SEGMENT #3 - Billboard for CyberYouth feature [:10] + The Australian Outback may be the last place one would expect to find a gay & lesbian community center. From that extremely non-urban part of New South Wales, John McLean of Griffith's Town & Country Drop-In Centre tells CARLA OMICIUOLO [of Australia's national lesbigay radio program "Out & Out"] how his all-volunteer staff serves the needs of the area's surprising number of gays & lesbians, their parents, and their children [3:40] .............................................................................. .......... 3:50 SEGMENT #4 - TWO I.D. by Doug Stevens & The OutBand (with an excerpt from their "Out In The Country") .............................. :30 SEGMENT #5 - Coming out is difficult at any age, but dealing with turmoil over your sexuality as a teenager can be a nightmare. Cruel classmates, no one to talk to, fear of getting kicked out by your parents ... that loneliness and sense of isolation has driven many gay & lesbian teens to alcohol, drugs, and even suicide. But this is the '90s, and there is salvation available on the Internet. This Way Out's ADAM-MICHAEL JAMES [with production assistance by CHRISTOPHER DAVID TRENTHAM & BRIAN HAMBURG] logs on to explore just some of the resources designed specifically for lesbigay youth (with music by MADONNA, WHAM, WHITNEY HOUSTON, OASIS, DEBBIE GIBSON & MEREDITH BROOKS) ..... 8:20 CLOSING CREDITS/CONTINUITY ........................................................ 1:20 TOTAL PROGRAM TIME ........................................................................ 28:30 ----------------------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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