********************************************************** THIS WAY OUT Rundown Program #539 (Distributed 07/27/98) ********************************************************** Opening Teases/Theme Music/Intro Continuity ................................................. 1:10 SEGMENT #1 - NewsWrap: There`s seemingly no room at the inn for lesbigay clergy or laity at the once-a-decade Anglican Church`s global Lambeth Conference; Britain`s House of Lords shockingly rejects a measure (overwhelmingly approved by the House of Commons) equalizing the homosexual age of consent [with brief comments by opposition leader Baroness Barbara Young and Home Secretary Jack Straw]; Austria's parliament rejects age of consent equalization, but recognizes same-gender couples for the first time; queer couples are also recognized for the first time in New Zealand labor law, while a Canadian insurance company becomes the first to accept claims from gays and lesbians whose domestic partners are disabled or killed; ruling that the 3-year statutory limit has expired, Zimbabwe`s High Court rejects all civil lawsuits against former president Canaan Banana filed by the alleged victims of his sexual assaults (for which a verdict in his criminal trial is still pending); the faltering obsessively-homophobic Oregon Citizens Alliance vows to continue, and may try to put another lesbigay-rights-limiting initiative on the state ballot in 2000; the U.S. House of Representatives renews funding for another year of the (conservative punching bag) National Endowment for the Arts; the Emmys nominate Ellen, Emma, Armistead, and "Gia"; and playing in only their second game since forming in February, New Zealand`s first gay rugby team, Wellington`s Krazy Knights, post their first victory, a 22-12 thumping of -- we`re not kidding -- the Straight Ups! [compiled & written by CINDY FRIEDMAN, with thanks to BRIAN NUNES, GRAHAM UNDERHILL, JASON LIN, MARTIN RICE, REX WOCKNER, KURT KRICKLER, MICHAEL HOPKINS, CHRIS AMBIDGE, LUCIA CHAPPELLE & GREG GORDON, and anchored by CINDY FRIEDMAN and LEO GARCIA] .............................................. 10:55 SEGMENT #2 - Billboard for "AudioFile" [:05] + The raging controvery over a decision by the Vancouver, British Columbia-area Surrey School District to ban 3 lesbigay-positive children`s books ("Belinda`s Bouquet", "Asha`s Mums", and "One Dad, Two Dads, Brown Dad, Blue Dads") is now in the hands of the province`s Supreme Court, which heard arguments in a lawsuit seeking to overturn the ban earlier this month, but is not expected to issue a ruling until October. The Surrey School Board, which had previously ordered the removal of condom machines from its campuses, as well as all resource material published by Planned Parenthood, announced that it was spending more than $100,000 to defend the children`s book ban, even though a spokesperson said the cost of litigation would require "sacrifices in education throughout the district." This report from Vancouver by HEATHER KITCHING [Queer FM] summarizes the two opposing viewpoints, traces the major skirmishes in the conflict -- ignited by the creation in early 1997 of a pro-lesbigay education task force by the British Columbia Teachers Federation -- and includes comments by MURRAY WARREN, an area teacher and leader of the group fighting the ban (intro/outro music from "The Family Song" by children`s entertainer "UNCLE RUTHIE" BUELL) [7:55] ............................................................. 8:00 SEGMENT #3 - "TWO" I.D. by author/commentator Andrew Sullivan [:30] + "We Are Everywhere" has been a lesbigay rights slogan for years -- and, as this month`s "AudioFile" demonstrates, it`s a truth you can also sing and dance to, finding expression even within ethnic musical traditions. Producers/hosts CHRIS WILSON and PAM MARSHALL of our monthly segment spotlighting some of the latest and greatest music by openly-queer performers [with production assistance by CHRISTOPHER DAVID TRENTHAM] sample "Possessed" by the KLEZMATICS (with comments by violinist Alison Svigals), UBAKA HILL`s "Dance the Spiral Dance", and "GLAMA ONE", a compilation CD featuring nominees and winners from the first Gay/Lesbian American Music Awards (excerpts from cuts by FERRON, JEFF KRASSNER and MICHAEL CALLEN, with brief comments by Krassner) [6:50] ............................................................................. ..................................... 7:20 CLOSING CREDITS/CONTINUITY .............................................................................. ....... 1:20 TOTAL PROGRAM TIME .............................................................................. ....................... 28:45 ============================*================================= STATION PROMO COPY: ANNCR: NEXT TIME ON "THIS WAY OUT", THE KLEZMATICS AND UBAKA HILL GIVE ETHNIC MUSICAL TRADITIONS A NEW ORIENTATION, WHILE "GLAMA ONE" OFFERS THE BEST OF THE FIRST ... AND IN THE NEWS, BRITISH RIGHTS ARE BATTERED BY BISHOPS AND LORDS ... THE AUSTRIAN PARLIAMENT SAYS NO TO AGE OF CONSENT EQUALIZATION BUT YES TO SAME-GENDER COUPLES ... AND "ASHA", "BELINDA" AND "BLUE DADS" ARE HELD HOSTAGE IN CANADA ... TUNE IN FOR THOSE STORIES, AND OTHER NEWS AND VIEWS FROM AROUND THE WORLD, ON THE NEXT EDITION OF "THIS WAY OUT: THE INTERNATIONAL LESBIAN AND GAY RADIO MAGAZINE", ______________________________________ [DAY and TIME] HERE ON __________________________. [STATION] -----------------------------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 GILL FOUNDATION, THE C.P. 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