**************************************************************** THIS WAY OUT RUNDOWN for Program #610, distributed 12/6/99 (hosted by Lucia Chappelle and Greg Gordon) "TWO" FEEDS EACH MONDAY @ 14:30-14:59 ET on PRSS DIGITAL FREQUENCY A73.5 and EVERY TUESDAY from 14:00-14:29 ET on Pacifica`s KU band (also distributed on audiocassette by mail to non-satellite stations) ON THIS WEEK'S PROGRAM: 3 lesbian musicians explore race, love, and rock'n'roll; Comics fuel Ammiano San Francisco mayoral bid, but his campaign's no joke; South African high court writes same-sex partners into immigration law, Canadian couples want more than separate "equality", the Czech Republic and Latvia kill partner bills, New Zealand elects the world's first trans-MP, and other news from around the world Opening Teases/Theme Music/Intro Continuity ........................ 1:10 SEGMENT #1 - NewsWrap: South Africa's high court takes the unusually-strong step of rewriting the country's immigration law to include same-gender couples; the lesbian whose landmark "M v. H" lawsuit led to the Canadian Supreme Court's order equalizing same-gender partners with unmarried hetero couples wants a rehearing to demand more than "separate but equal" language in Ontario's provincial laws, while the Court of Queen's Bench approves the first-ever co-adoptions by same-gender couples in the province of Alberta; legislators in both Latvia and the Czech Republic defeat domestic partner bills, but efforts will continue in each country; the Seattle City Council follows Los Angeles a week earlier as the second and third U.S. municipalities to require city contractors to extend to their lesbian and gay workers' same-gender partners the same benefits they offer married workers' spouses (the first U.S. city was San Francisco's pioneering Equal Benefits Ordinance in 1996), while Trustees of the University System of New Hampshire and the County Council of Montgomery County, Maryland each extend spousal benefits to their gay and lesbian employees, and Denver's City Council establishes a domestic partners registry; a regional court of the Presbyterian Church USA okays same-gender couple holy unions if no marriage is implied, and approves the ordination candidacy of a non-celibate gay man, but conservatives are likely to challenge both at the national level; "only homo in my youth" anti-gay British Conservative Michael Portillo handily wins election to represent London's Kensington-Chelsea district in the House of Commons, while repeal of the infamous Thatcher-era "no promo homo" Section 28 becomes a tempest in the Tory teapot: the party decides to strongly oppose repeal, but its leading London mayoral candidates object, and its spokesman for London affairs is sacked for trying to fashion a compromise; and openly-gay New Zealand MP incumbents Tim Barnett from Christchurch Central and Te Atatu's Chris Carter each win re-election, while Carterton, New Zealand Mayor Georgina Beyer calls her election as the world's first transsexual MP "an absolute bloody miracle!" [written by CINDY FRIEDMAN, with thanks to GRAHAM UNDERHILL, CHRIS AMBIDGE, MARTIN RICE, BRIAN NUNES, JASON LIN, REX WOCKNER, GREG GORDON & LUCIA CHAPPELLE, and anchored by CINDY FRIEDMAN and GREG GORDON] .................................... 10:10 SEGMENT #2 - "AudioFile" billboard [:10] + TOM AMMIANO, the openly gay former teacher, stand-up comic, and now President of San Francisco's Board of Supervisors, amazed the not-so-easily-amazed Northern California city with his 11th-hour write-in campaign for mayor that earned him a second-place finish, forcing incumbent Willie Brown into a run-off set for December 14. Two of the city's prominent lesbigay political organizations have endorsed Brown, so the queer community is far from united in support of either candidate. Still, in what is being called the mother of all grassroots campaigns, local activists of every stripe have mobilized for Ammiano in unprecedented numbers, including a recent benefit put on by some Bay Area lesbian and gay stand-up comic colleagues. This Way Out's MIKE ALCALAY [with production assistance by ALAN WILEY and HRABBA GUNNARSDOTTER] reports on the yucks and bucks, featuring comments by Ammiano, and excerpts from the stand-up sets of LISA GEDULDIG, JULIA JACKSON, and Ammiano himself (with intro/outro music from "I Love To Laugh" from the "Mary Poppins" soundtrack) [7:35] ................................................. 7:45 SEGMENT #3 - "TWO" I.D. by Amanda Bearse ("Marcy Darcy" on "Married... With Children") [:10] + It's an all-woman "AudioFile" this time out, all worlds apart in background and style; what they have in common is that they all have newly-released CD's, sampled for your listening pleasure (with CHRISTOPHER DAVID TRENTHAM's usual masterful production) by PAM MARSHALL and CHRIS WILSON (featuring comments by and cuts from MAGDALEN HSU-LI's "Evolution", ZONNA's "Carved In Stone", and disappear fear's SONiA's "Me Too") [8:10] >....................................................... 8:20 CLOSING CREDITS/CONTINUITY ......................................... 1:35 TOTAL PROGRAM TIME ................................................. 29:00 ----------------------------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", THREE LESBIAN MUSICIANS EXPLORE RACE, LOVE, AND ROCK'N'ROLL ... COMICS FUEL AMMIANO'S SAN FRANCISCO MAYORAL BID, BUT HIS CAMPAIGN IS NO JOKE ... SOUTH AFRICA'S HIGH COURT WRITES SAME-SEX PARTNERS INTO IMMIGRATION LAW, CANADIAN COUPLES WANT MORE THAN SEPARATE "EQUALITY", THE CZECH REPUBLIC AND LATVIA KILL PARTNER BILLS, WHILE A U.S. PRESBYTERIAN REGIONAL COURT OKAYS NON-"MARRIAGE" UNIONS, AND NEW ZEALAND ELECTS THE WORLD'S FIRST TRANSSEXUAL MEMBER OF PARLIAMENT. 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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