************************************************************* THIS WAY OUT Rundown Program #517 (02/23/98) ************************************************************* Opening Teases/Theme Music/Intro Continuity ........................................................ 1:15 SEGMENT #1 - NewsWrap: Britain`s "Bolton 7" escape prison sentences but not other legal penalties [includes brief comments by one speaker at a pre- sentencing "Save The Bolton 7" rally]; Zimbabwe`s venerated first post- colonial president Canaan Banana, charged with several counts of homosexual harassment and assault but not yet tried, wants to leave the country for unspecified "medical" reasons; a just-released 4th annual report on the U.S. military`s "Don`t Ask, Don`t Tell" policy on gay and lesbian servicemembers reveals ongoing ignorance and more violations than ever by command personnel; a Vancouver, B.C.-area school board decides to spend over $100,000 to defend its ban on 3 lesbigay-themed children`s books; Pope John Paul II again speaks out against same-gender marriage, while a measure to legally ban them is moving through the Iowa state legislature; a hate crimes bill that included sexual orientation fails to pass in Wyoming; California Republican Robert Dornan, the most offensively-vocal homophobe in Congress before his re- election defeat in 1996, announces that he`s running for the same seat again this year; an initiative to repeal recently-enacted civil rights protections for gays and lesbians in Ypsilanti, Michigan has qualified for the ballot; Houston, Texas Mayor Lee Brown issues an executive order banning discrimination against gays and lesbians in city services and employment; the Association of Panamanian Homosexuals declares itself "a powerful political force" in the country; Auckland, New Zealand`s annual HERO parade, featuring a first-ever keynote speech by the country`s Prime Minister, is a rousing success despite a right-wing Christian group`s threatened blockade, power outages, and pouring rain; the opening of Gay Switchboard Budapest is Hungary`s first lesbigay information hotline; Swiss activists continue to lobby for specific inclusion of sexual orientation anti-discrimination protections in the country`s newly-developing constitution, while a gay swimming club in Geneva wins official recognition by the organization governing all national competitions; and the King`s Cross Steelers, Britain`s first officially-sanctioned gay rugby club, celebrates its first win [with a brief comment by Chair ROB HAYWARD: "We`re now going for 2 in a row!" [compiled & written by CINDY FRIEDMAN, with thanks to GRAHAM UNDERHILL, BRIAN NUNES, JASON LIN, REX WOCKNER, LUCIA CHAPPELLE & GREG GORDON, and anchored by CINDY FRIEDMAN and DAVID HUNT] .............................................................................. ........................................... 10:25 SEGMENT #2 - Billboard for Japan feature [:05] + A lesbian employee`s lawsuit against Britain`s SOUTH WEST TRAINS came to the end of the line on February 17th with a European Court of Justice ruling. LISA GRANT had sued the railroad company for not providing her partner with the same travel benefits enjoyed by both married and unmarried heterosexual couples. In a reversal of the opinion issued by one of its own advocate generals last September, the court found that the case was not covered by European laws against sex discrimination. MALCOLM BROWN [Pacifica Network News] reports from London [includes comments by Grant, her partner JILL PERCY, and JOCELYN WATSON of Britain`s Lesbian & Gay Employment Rights Group; tagged with late- breaking news of a more pro-lesbigay E.U. action urging all member nations to establish sexual orientation discrimination protections and legal parity for same-gender couples] (intro/outro music from "This Train Still Runs" by JANIS IAN) [6:40] ........ 6:45 SEGMENT #3 - "TWO" I.D. by openly-gay Olympic diving champ Greg Louganis [:05] + Lesbigay life is one aspect of JAPANESE culture that wasn`t explored during the international media`s Winter Olympics coverage. In the conclusion of this 2-part feature, excerpted from "The Double-Faced Mask" half-hour program he originally produced for Radio Netherlands, ERIC BEAUCHEMIN reports from Tokyo on the blossoming lesbigay rights movement in Japan, and how progress there has been slowed by the clash between efforts toward more public activism and the primacy of a "don`t rock the boat" cultural emphasis on societal "harmony" [topics include the recent rights victories of OCCUR, one of Japan`s major activist groups; how the disparity of available resources between gay men and lesbians has created significant gender-based differences in sociopolitical perspective; the relative invisibility of queer activism but odd preponderance of lesbian imagery in many forms of mainstream media; and how Japan`s same-gender couples, as in most countries denied the right to legally marry, are using the nation`s adoption laws to achieve stability and some legal protections for their relationships] [9:05] .............................................................................. ................. 9:10 CLOSING CREDITS/CONTINUITY .............................................................................. ......... 1:25 TOTAL PROGRAM TIME .............................................................................. ......................... 29:00 -----------------------------Please note-------------------------------- Anyone with questions, suggestions, or NEWS stories is encouraged to email "T.W.O." 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