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                                        THIS WAY OUT Rundown
                                     Program #496   (9/29/97)
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Opening Teases/Theme Music/Intro Continuity
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SEGMENT #1 -  NewsWrap:  Bill Clinton will make history as the first sitting
U.S. president to attend a lesbigay civil rights event, a Human Rights
Campaign black tie gala on November 8th;  the homosexual sexual assault trial
of former Zimbabwe president Canaan Banana is referred to the country's
Supreme Court;  with the incidence among the general population steadily
decreasing, U.S. health officials express concern about an increase in
gonorrhea cases among gay men, suggesting relapses into unsafe sex;
 Brazilian medical authorities announce they`ll be providing male-to-female
gender reassignment surgery free of charge;  a Belgian court rules that "mild"
 heterosexual sadomasochism is legal, in sharp contrast to both British and
European Court of Human Rights rulings against private consensual homosexual
S&M;  authorities pull the plug on the first Seoul, South Korea Queer Film &
Video Festival before it can even open;  Israel's High Court of Justice
orders the educational TV broadcast of a student-made program about young gay
men which had been banned by the right-wing Minister of Education;  "Ellen"
begins the new TV season with a critically-praised episode, while Elton
John`s "Candle In The Wind 1997" continues to break sales records around the
world;  and the Kevin Kline/Tom Selleck-kissed mainstream movie about a high
school teacher outed by his Academy-Award-winning student, "In & Out", is the
boffo box office winner in its first weekend of general release in the U.S.
[compiled and written by CINDY FRIEDMAN, with thanks JASON LIN, BRIAN NUNES,
BJOERN SKOLANDER, MARTIN RICE, GRAHAM UNDERHILL, REX WOCKNER, LUCIA CHAPPELLE
& GREG GORDON, and anchored by TORY CHRISTOPHER and JEAN FREER]
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SEGMENT #2 -  Billboard for Edmund White/Part 2 [:05]  +  A county judge in
Portland, Oregon has ruled a city ordinance protecting gays and lesbians from
workplace discrimination does not provide citizens access to the state courts
for redress and enforcement.  The case points up the need for state and
federal anti-bias legislation, such as ENDA -- the Employment
Non-Discrimination Act -- now pending in Congress.  ERIKA TROSETH
[KBOO/Portland] reports [4:10] ................  4:15

SEGMENT #3 -  Lesbigay Job Discrimination Informational Public Service
Announcement (the audio track of the Human Rights Campaign's PSA most ABC-TV
affiliates wouldn't air during the coming out episode of "Ellen" earlier this
year) [:30]  +  "TWO" I.D. by gay novelist Michael Nava [:15]
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SEGMENT #4 - By most any standard, Edmund White is surely among the pantheon
of great writers who are gay or lesbian.  His latest offering is the
autobiographically-inspired novel "The Farewell Symphony".  In the second of
JON BEAUPRE`s 3-part conversation with White, the famed author offers candid
-- and no doubt controversial -- comments about some of his literary
contemporaries, including Andrew Holloran, Larry Kramer, Paul Monette, Alan
Hollinghurst, Bruce Chatwin, Michel Foucault, and "the love of my life",
architect/illustrator Hubert Sorin (intro music from "Pick A Little, Talk A
Little" from "The Music Man" original motion picture soundtrack; outro music
from "An American In Paris"/Leonard Bernstein conducting The New York
Philharmonic) ..................... 10:50

CLOSING CREDITS/CONTINUITY
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TOTAL PROGRAM TIME
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