**************************************************************** THIS WAY OUT Rundown Program #588 (Distributed 07/05/99) (hosted by Greg Gordon and produced with Lucia Chappelle) Reflections on 30 years of liberation and battles yet ahead at the San Francisco Gay Freedom Day Parade, Hormel is finally sworn for Luxembourg, but Davies loses his Welsh Labour leaderhip, an openly-gay Indonesian candidate loses his M.P. bid, a Namibian court welcomes a lesbian partner's immigration, and other LGBT news from around the world **************************************************************** Opening Teases/Theme Music/Intro Continuity ........................ 1:05 SEGMENT #1 - NewsWrap: Secretary of State Madeleine Albright personally swears in Luxembourg-bound James Hormel as the first openly-gay U.S. ambassador; bisexual Welsh Labour leader Ron Davies is forced by his own party to resign his leadership posts; Indonesia's first openly-gay candidate Dede Oetomo loses his M.P. bid; West Australia Democrat Brian Grieg is sworn in as the country's second openly-gay senator, while Australia's openly-gay Supreme Court Justice Michael Kirby argues for equality at an international conference on same-gender partnerships in London; bills to open traditional marriage to lesbian and gay couples and to (almost) equalize adoption rights are introduced in the Dutch parliament; the French Senate's conservative majority delays yet another vote on the government's domestic partnership measure known as PACS ("Pacts of Civil Solidarity") until at least October; the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court rules that a non-biological lesbian co-parent is entitled to visitation rights with the child the couple raised before they broke up; a Namibian court upholds a German lesbian's right to permanent residence based on her almost decade-long relationship with her Namibian partner; Britain's Home Office notifies the advocacy group Stonewall that it has made immigration for foreign same-gender partners of British citizens easier; Kansas homophobe Fred Phelps raises Canadian ire by threatening to burn the country's flag in front of its Supreme Court building for their recognizing same-gender couples -- but then fails to show up (again); a police drug raid on iT, a popular Amsterdam gay club, shuts it down indefinitely, but the Soho-area Admiral Duncan pub, scene of the murderous nail-bombing on April 30th that killed 3 and injured dozens, reopens with a ceremony and permanent memorial at the same time of day to the minute that the bomb exploded; Missouri governor Mel Carnahan signs a hate crimes bill into law that includes harsher penalties for attacks against gays, lesbians and transgenders, the only U.S. state to pass such legislation this year; in Columbus, Ohio, 3 members of a Christian group demonstrating against the city's lesbigay pride parade are charged with misdemeanor disorderely conduct and arson for tearing down and burning the rainbow flag that had flown over the Statehouse for the occasion; and the King's Cross Steelers, the world's first gay rugby team, is now a full member of Britain's Rugby Football Union; [written by CINDY FRIEDMAN, with thanks to GRAHAM UNDERHILL, BRIAN NUNES, JASON LIN, MARTIN RICE, REX WOCKNER, CHRIS AMBIDGE, GREG GORDON & LUCIA CHAPPELLE, and anchored by CINDY FRIEDMAN and DEAN ELZINGA] ........................................................... 11:40 SEGMENT #2 - "Beer commercial" (from the ancient LP "A Child's Garden Of Grass") [:30] + "TWO" I.D. by singing Irish lesbian duo ZRAZY (with an excerpt from their CD title cut "Come Out Everybody") [:15] ........ :45 SEGMENT #3 - From major cities to small towns last month, queers and their friends held fesitvals, parades, and other events to mark the 30th anniversary of the Stonewall Rebellion, that legendary June 1969 Greenwich Village gay bar raid that sparked the modern-day LGBT rights movement. SAN FRANCISCO's GAY FREEDOM DAY PARADE on June 27th drew its usual diverse crowd of about 500,000 marchers and participants, and as This Way Out's PAUL BARWICK, BILL TRAVIS and BUDDY JOHNSTON discovered, it was a time to reflect on freedoms won -- or at least perceived -- and the battles yet ahead. Our trio of reporters talk with first-time parade-goers from Iran, Mexico, China, Hawai'i, Iowa and elsewhere, and with the parade's Grand Marshall, "87-years-young" pioneering Los Angeles activist HARRY HAY, and the president of the parade's organizing group, CALVIN GIPSON -- both of whom cite complacency as the biggest challenge to the community's achieving full civil rights (includes music from "Freedom" by DJ BOBO, "Everybody Wants To Rule The World" by TEARS FOR FEARS, and "You Make Me Feel" by SYLVESTER) >......................................................... 13:55 CLOSING CREDITS/CONTINUITY ......................................... 1:25 TOTAL PROGRAM TIME ................................................. 28:55 ----------------------------Please note-------------------------------- Anyone with questions, suggestions, or NEWS stories is encouraged to email "T.W.O." Coordinating Producer Greg Gordon at TWOradio@aol.co -----------------------------thanks! ---------------------------------- STATION PROMO COPY: ANNCR: NEXT TIME ON "THIS WAY OUT", REFLECTIONS ON 30 YEARS OF LIBERATION AND BATTLES YET AHEAD AT THE SAN FRANCISCO GAY FREEDOM DAY PARADE, AS FIRST-TIMERS FROM IRAN, CHINA AND MEXICO MARVEL ... ALBRIGHT SWEARS HORMEL FOR LUXEMBOURG, BUT OPENLY-BI WELSH LABOUR LEADER DAVIES NO LONGER LEADS, WHILE A NAMIBIAN COURT WELCOMES A LESBIAN PARTNER'S IMMIGRATION ... THOSE STORIES AND MORE THIS WEEK ON "THIS WAY OUT: THE INTERNATIONAL LESBIAN AND GAY RADIO MAGAZINE", ______________________________________ [DAY and TIME] HERE ON __________________________. 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