********************************************************** THIS WAY OUT Rundown Program #532 (06/08/98) ********************************************************** Opening Teases/Theme Music/Intro Continuity ................................................... 1:05 SEGMENT #1 - NewsWrap: The long-delayed trial of former Zimbabwe President Canaan Banana on charges of sexual assault against several other men finally gets underway; the state of Rhode Island is on the verge of repealing its century-old sodomy law; the Gainesville, Florida City Commission adds sexual orientation to the protected categories in its human rights law; in Canadian news, after a protracted 3-year battle the city of London, Ontario finally issues a lesbigay pride proclamation; Orlando, Florida`s City Council approves the lightpole display of over 700 rainbow flags in a celebration of pride, while the anti-abortion rights group Operation Rescue protests that action, and this year`s unofficial "Gay Day" at Disney World [with a brief on- scene report from the Magic Kingdom demonstration by Tony Winton]; California victors in last week`s U.S. primary elections include San Diego Democrat Christine Kehoe, who becomes the first open lesbian to win a major party nomination for a seat in the U.S. House of Representatives, and notoriously homophobic former Orange County Congressman Robert Dornan, whose Republican primary victory sets up a rematch with Democratic Representative Loretta Sanchez; openly-gay Episcopal priest Gene Robinson was a surprising finalist among six candidates to succeed the soon-to-retire vocally-pro-lesbigay John Spong as Bishop of New Jersey, but he was not selected; and Donald Wildmon`s American Family Association, long an advocate for Internet filtering devices to prevent young people from accessing accurate information about gays and lesbians, has its own website blocked by CyberPatrol, the industry`s most popular filtering software, because the AFA site violates CyberPatrol`s standards on intolerance [compiled & written by CINDY FRIEDMAN, with thanks to BRIAN NUNES, GRAHAM UNDERHILL, JASON LIN, MARTIN RICE, REX WOCKNER, LUCIA CHAPPELLE & GREG GORDON, and anchored by CINDY FRIEDMAN and LEO GARCIA] .............................................................................. .............................................. 9:05 SEGMENT #2 - As he accepted the Tony Award on June 7th for the book of the Broadway musical "Ragtime", openly-gay playwright TERRENCE MCNALLY thanked the theatre community for the solid support that helped resurrect the planned production of his newest work, the controversial Jesus-as-gay "Corpus Christi", in the face of highly-intimidating organized religious group opposition, and death threats .............................................................................. ....................................................... 1:25 SEGMENT #3 - Billboard for "The Castro" and "The OJ Lady`s campaign" features [:10] + One of the last requests of Washington, D.C. ACT/UP co-founder Steve Michael was that his body be taken to the White House as his final protest of government inaction on AIDS. VERNA AVERY BROWN`s [Pacifica Network News] report on Michael`s uniquely-political funeral includes on-scene comments from former Democratic Convention speaker and Presidential AIDS Advisory Committee member Bob Hattoy, and one of the pallbearers, longtime friend/fellow activist Anise Jenkins [3:25] ............................................................ 3:35 SEGMENT #4 - Billboard for "The Castro" & "The OJ Lady`s campaign" [:15] + "TWO" I.D. by openly-gay actor Stephen Fry ("Wilde") [:15] .............................................. :30 SEGMENT #5 - "THE CASTRO", the Peabody Award-winning documentary tracing the evolution of the fabled San Francisco neighborhood from Irish stronghold to gay Mecca, is scheduled to debut on PBS television stations across the U.S. on Friday, June 12th*. It gets an enthusiastic "thumbs up" from "This Way Out" correspondent DAVE BUELL, who provides an audio clips-filled preview .... 4:50 (*listeners should be advised to check their local listings, as at least one major market station is airing "The Castro" earlier in the week.) SEGMENT #6 - One of the first highly-publicized events in the seesaw battle for lesbigay equal rights in the U.S. was the repeal campaign against specific protections for gays and lesbians in the Miami-Dade County, Florida anti- discrimination ordinance. 21 years later, only a limited number of cities in the state have such safeguards, and the county where it all began still remains resistent to adding sexual orientation to its anti-discrimination laws. In Part One of a 3-part series, "This Way Out"`s SUSAN GAGE recounts the 1977 genesis of the fight over equal civil rights in Dade, which pitted a politically-naive lesbigay community against a fledgling conservative Christian movement led by singer and Florida Orange Juice pitchwoman Anita Bryant [includes comments by the legislation`s original sponsor, former Dade County Commissioner Ruth Shack; Fred Fejes, Associate Professor of Media Studies at Florida Atlantic University; and Bryant`s ex-manager/husband Bob Green] ........................................................ 7:20 CLOSING CREDITS/CONTINUITY .............................................................................. ........ 1:15 TOTAL PROGRAM TIME ............................................................................. ........................ 29:05 -----------------------------Please note-------------------------------- Anyone with questions, suggestions, or NEWS stories is encouraged to email "T.W.O." 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