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                        THIS WAY OUT  Rundown
                                 Program #584 
                           (Distributed 06/07/99)
         (hosted by Greg Gordon and produced with Lucia Chappelle)
   Ellen's mom offers some generous advice to parents and their children,
             Texas teens tell some chilling coming out stories,
  A legal walk down the aisle is closer in Australia, Finland and Canada,
   but Connecticut lawmakers poison an adoptions bill, California couples
              progress but students are left out in the cold,
                   Hormel can finally pack for Luxembourg,
                 and other LGBT news from around the world 
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Opening Theme Music/Intro Continuity ... [no teases this week] .....   :40

SEGMENT #1 -  NewsWrap: The Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of 
New South Wales amends more than 20 existing statutes to equalize many 
same-gender partner rights, while the Queensland government introduces a bill 
to ban job discrimination based on sexual orientation and to grant several 
rights to queer couples equal to those of heterosexual families, and the 
Australian parliament formally receives a report recommending the extension 
of old-age survivor benefits to gays and lesbians who outlive their partners; 
 in Canada, a positive surviving partners benefits ruling for two Novia 
Scotia gay men has national implications;  Finland's Justice Minister 
recommends a domestic partners registry with most of the benefits of legal 
marriage, but with specific denial of adoption rights;  Connecticut lawmakers 
poison a positive adoptions bill with a same-gender marriage ban;  with his 
signature, governor Kenny Guinn officially makes Nevada the 11th U.S. state 
to ban sexual orientation job discrimination;  positive legislation for queer 
couples, civil rights and hate crimes pass in the California Assembly, but a 
one-vote loss for openly-lesbian Assemblymember SHEILA KUEHL's Dignity For 
All Students Act (AB222) leaves school kids unprotected [with an excerpt from 
Kuehl's comments during Assembly floor debate];  breaking an almost 2-year 
logjam created by a handful of right-wing Senators, U.S. President Bill 
Clinton takes advantage of a Congressional recess to appoint San Francisco 
philanthropist James Hormel to Luxembourg as America's first openly-gay 
ambassador [with an excerpt from comments by presidential spokesperson JOE 
LOCKHART];  the heavily-lesbigay Toronto Centre-Rosedale riding elects George 
Smitherman as Ontario's first openly-gay member of the provincial parliament; 
 and homophobic U.S. televangelist Pat Robertson queers his own 
30-million-dollar business deal with the Bank of Scotland  [written by CINDY 
FRIEDMAN, with thanks to GRAHAM UNDERHILL, BRIAN NUNES, JASON LIN, MARTIN 
RICE, REX WOCKNER, CHRIS AMBIDGE, LAURIE McBRIDE, BJOERN SKOLANDER, GREG 
GORDON & LUCIA CHAPPELLE, and anchored by CINDY FRIEDMAN and DEAN ELZINGA] .. 
 9:55

SEGMENT #2 -  Billboard for Betty DeGeneres interview [:05]  +  AB222, the 
Dignity For All Students Act, sponsored by openly-lesbian Assemblymember 
SHEILA KUEHL, would have added sexual orientation to California's public 
schools anti-discrimination policy; it was defeated by one vote in the waning 
hours of the current legislative session.  Meanwhile, a chapter of P-FLAG 
(Parents, Families & Friends of Lesbians & Gays) was hosting a prom for local 
teens in Dallas, Texas.  Kuehl's impassioned remarks on the California 
Assembly floor about the need for her legislation is sadly underscored by 
some of the personal stories told by the Texas prom-goers to DAVID TAFFET & 
STEVE WALTERS-DEARMOND of KNON-FM's "Lambda Weekly"
(outro music from "Something Blue" by CRIS WILLIAMSON and
TRET FURE) [5:45] ..................................................  5:50

SEGMENT #3 -  Billboard for Betty DeGeneres interview [:05]  +  Brief obit 
for trailblazing entertainer and "male actress" CHARLES PIERCE, who died May 
31st at the age of 72, with a compilation of his "TWO" ID's as Mae West, 
Bette Davis, Tallulah Bankhead, Katherine Hepburn and Eleanor Roosevelt 
[1:05] ...................................................  1:10

SEGMENT #4 -  If becoming an activist was a surprise for lesbian comedian 
Ellen DeGeneres, her mother Betty was in for even more of a shock when she 
herself took up the banner of lesbian and gay liberation.  Now active with 
P-FLAG (Parents, Families & Friends of Lesbians & Gays) and the National 
Coming Out Project spokesperson for the Human Rights Campaign, BETTY 
DEGENERES has been on tour promoting her new book ("Love, Ellen: A 
Mother/Daughter Journey", published by William Morrow & Company) and speaking 
to parents and other family members about accepting their lesbigay children.  
This Way Out's STEVE PRIDE chatted with one of America's most famous moms 
during her recent stopover in Los Angeles (intro/outro music from "Everybody 
Has To Have A Mother" by THE NEW MISS ALICE STONE LADIES SOCIETY ORCHESTRA) 
>................................................. 10:10

CLOSING CREDITS/CONTINUITY .........................................  1:10

TOTAL PROGRAM TIME ................................................. 28:55
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ANNCR:  NEXT TIME ON "THIS WAY OUT", SAME-GENDER COUPLES PROGRESS 

LEGISLATIVELY IN AUSTRALIA, FINLAND AND CANADA, BUT CONNECTICUT 

LAWMAKERS POISON AN ADOPTIONS BILL, AND CALIFORNA COUPLES ADVANCE BUT 

STUDENTS ARE LEFT UNPROTECTED ... TEXAS TEENS TELL SOME CHILLING COMING OUT 

STORIES ... AND ELLEN'S MOM HAS SOME GENEROUS ADVICE FOR PARENTS AND THEIR 

CHILDREN.  ALL THAT AND MORE THIS WEEK ON "THIS WAY OUT: THE INTERNATIONAL 

LESBIAN AND GAY RADIO MAGAZINE",

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