********************************************************** THIS WAY OUT Rundown Program #535 (06/29/98) ********************************************************** Opening Teases/Theme Music/Intro Continuity ........................................... 1:10 SEGMENT #1 - NewsWrap: The Canadian government accepts a new definition of "spouse" by deciding not to appeal an Ontario Court of Appeal ruling allowing pension plans to recognize same-gender couples; a lopsided vote by the New York City Council approves Mayor Rudolph Giulianai`s proposed municipal legislation extending to registered partners the same rights -- and responsibilities -- as married couples; Alabama`s state Supreme Court unanimously awards child custody to a father solely because the mother is in a lesbian relationship; threatening legal action after his more than 2 years of requests fell on insensitive Wandsworth Borough Council ears, a British 15-year-old finally gets placed with a gay foster family; "breakthrough" legal action by a repeatedly-gay-bashed Fayetteville, Arkansas teen sics the feds on his school system for allowing it to happen; May`s first-of-its-kind federal court ruling ordering the reinstatement of an openly-gay Cincinnati- area school teacher is being appealed; the sodomy trial of former Zimbabwe President Canaan Banana concludes with defensive denials; Lambda Legal Defense & Education Fund`s legal challenge to the Arkansas sodomy law proceeds after state efforts to have the case dismissed are rejected by a trial court, while the American Civil Liberties Union files a legal challenge to the "crimes against nature" law in Puerto Rico; and San Francisco`s Brew Q may spawn Crystal Queer [compiled & written by CINDY FRIEDMAN, with thanks to BRIAN NUNES, GRAHAM UNDERHILL, JASON LIN, MARTIN RICE, CHRIS AMBIDGE, LUCIA CHAPPELLE & GREG GORDON, and anchored by CINDY FRIEDMAN and GREG GORDON] .............................................................................. 9:25 SEGMENT #2 - Billboard for SCOTUS report & "AudioFile" [:10] + Britain`s House of Commons votes overwhelmingly on June 22nd to equalize the age of consent for sex between men with that for heterosexual and lesbian acts, the first significant pro-queer legislation of the Blair Labour government. LUCIA CHAPPELLE`s report includes comments by Labour Backbencher ANN KEEN, who introduced the legislation; one of the hundreds demonstrating, and then celebrating, outside the Commons; Home Office Spokesperson ALUN MICHAEL; and Conservative MP NICHOLAS WINTERTON [3:20] ............................................. 3:30 SEGMENT #3 - Billboard for SCOTUS report & "AudioFile" [:15] + "TWO" I.D. by queer entertainers Romanovsky & Phillips (with a brief musical intro from their "Brave Boys") [:20] + The U.S. Supreme Court issues a number of major rulings June 25th; GREG GORDON [with thanks to Pacifica Network News] reports on two with particular significance for the lesbigay and HIV/AIDS communities: in the celebrated case of the "NEA 4", the justices uphold the Congressional "decency" requirement in the selection of arts projects for government funding [with comments by Georgetown University law professor DAVID COLE, who represented the "NEA 4"]; but in a 5-4 vote, the justices decide that asymptomatic HIV-positive people are protected by the Americans With Disabilities Act [with reaction from CORNELIUS BAKER, Executive Director of the National Coalition of People With AIDS] [4:25] .............................................................................. .......... 5:00 SEGMENT #4 - This month`s "AudioFile", our listening post for the latest and greatest in queer music, samples THE VELVET MAFIA`s "We Know Where You Live" [with comments by the band`s Dean Johnson]; "Lesbian Favorites: Women Like Us" (various artists); and [with her comments about sweets] "Almost Chocolate", a new solo album by SONIA, one half of the popular group disappear fear (produced and hosted by CHRIS WILSON & PAM MARSHALL, with CHRISTOPHER DAVID TRENTHAM at the controls) .............................................................................. ..... 7:50 CLOSING CREDITS/CONTINUITY ............................................................................ 1:20 TOTAL PROGRAM TIME .............................................................................. ............. 28:15 -----------------------------Please note-------------------------------- Anyone with questions, suggestions, or NEWS stories is encouraged to email "T.W.O." 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