**************************************************************** THIS WAY OUT RUNDOWN for Program #618, distributed 01/31/00 (produced and hosted by Greg Gordon and Lucia Chappelle) "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 and individual subscribers) ON THIS WEEK'S PROGRAM A gay student's suit over hellish high school days breaks new legal ground; Vermonters voice varied opinions on marriage in first public hearings; Lambda lawyer recalls Hawaiian marriage seeds & forecasts litigious future; 2 gay men & a transgender-influenced winner give thanks for Golden Globes; South Africa's Equality Bill gives guarantees against discrimination, and other LGBT news from around the world; >>>> RUNDOWN <<<<< Opening Theme Music/Intro Continuity [*no teases this week*]. . . . . :35 SEGMENT #1 - NewsWrap: South Africa passes an Equality Bill to back up its constitutional anti-discrimination provisions, but insurance companies ensure no coverage for people with HIV/AIDS; U.S. President Bill Clinton's last waltz includes calls for passage of the HCPA and ENDA [with a relevant excerpt from his final State of the Union speech]; Portland, Oregon's anti-discrimination protections are upheld by a state appeals court; one sailor comes out while 2 officers ship out immediately following Britain's lifting of the lesbigay military ban; "no promo homo" hoopla engulfs Britain and Scotland as repeal of the Thatcher-era Section 28 continues to dominate political discourse; and leading Norwegian Conservative politician Per-Krisian Foss is silent no more [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 JON BEAUPRE and CINDY FRIEDMAN]. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9:15 SEGMENT #2 - Billboard for Vermont features [:10] + Gay teen DEREK HENKLE was hounded out of three RENO, NEVADA high schools by verbal and physical harassment ­- including an attempt to rope and drag him by the neck down a main highway -- and worse than indifference by school administrators and staff to the daily abuse he suffered. He filed suit in U.S. District Court on January 28 against several school officials and 2 campus police officers demanding compensatory and punitive damages ­- and the high school diploma they never let him get. The litigation builds on the highly-publicized 1996 million-dollar court victory, based on equal protection laws, of similarly-persecuted gay Wisconsin teen Jamie Nabozny, but goes a step further by also claiming Henkle's first amendment rights to freedom of expression were violated because he was essentially instructed by school administrators to go back in the closet and, in one case, a school principal told him to "stop acting like a fag." Henkle and his attorneys ­ the Lambda Legal Defense & Education Fund's JON DAVIDSON and DONI GEWIRTZMAN -- discuss details of the lawsuit and its implications in this report by This Way Out's GREG GORDON (brief intro music from "Tell Me Why" by BRONSKI BEAT) [5:20] + "TWO" I.D. by gay singing/songwriting duo Romanovsky & Phillips (with an excerpt from their "Brave Boys") [:20] + Billboard for Golden Globes feature [:05]. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5:55 SEGMENT #3 - When the Vermont Supreme Court found in December that gay and lesbian partners were being discriminated against, the ruling left the remedy for that discrimination up to the state legislature: same-gender couples must be granted equal rights by including them in the same laws governing heterosexual marriage, or by establishing a separate category for domestic partners. Reporter MELINDA TUHUS ["Between The Lines"] talks with Lambda Legal Defense & Education Fund Freedom To Marry Project Director EVAN WOLFSON about the progress toward equal marriage rights since a similar but ultimately stifled ruling in Hawai'i got the ball rolling in 1993, and the likely litigious future ahead for U.S. same-gender couples (intro music from "Married" by LIZA MINNELLI). . . . . . . . . . . . 5:40 SEGMENT #4 - Meanwhile, it was "open statehouse" at the VERMONT capitol in Montpelier January 25, as some 1500 citizens braved the first major snowstorm of the season to attend the legislature's first public hearing on the issue of same-gender marriage -- a prospect that made some in the overflow crowd hopeful, and others fearful, as JEANNE BARON [Pacifica Network News] reports (includes comments by Vermont House Judiciary Committee Chair THOMAS LITTLE) (outro music from "Married" by LIZA MINNELLI). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . >. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3:55 SEGMENT #5 - There were two openly gay winners and a transgender presence at the Hollywood Foreign Press Association's 57th annual GOLDEN GLOBE AWARDS on January 23. Alan Ball took Best Motion Picture Screenplay for "American Beauty", and Spanish director PEDRO ALMODOVAR gave an entertainingly-rambling speech (we have an excerpt) in accepting the Best Foreign Language Motion Picture trophy for his "Todo Sobre Mi Madre" ("All About My Mother") which includes gay and transgendered characters. And in a field of nominees for Best Actress in a Dramatic Motion Picture that included Meryl Streep, Annette Bening and Sigourney Weaver, the winner was HILARY SWANK, who portrayed murdered Nebraska transgender Brandon Teena in "Boys Don't Cry". During her thank you's, Swank acknowledged the film's lesbian writer/director Kimberly Pierce, and her inspiration [GREG GORDON reports] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . >. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1:55 CLOSING CREDITS/CONTINUITY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1:40 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", A GAY STUDENT'S SUIT OVER HELLISH HIGH SCHOOL DAYS BREAKS NEW LEGAL GROUND ... VERMONTERS VOICE VARIED OPINIONS ON MARRIAGE IN THEIR FIRST PUBLIC HEARINGS, WHILE A LAMBDA LAWYER RECALLS HAWAIIAN MARRIAGE SEEDS & FORECASTS A LITIGIOUS FUTURE ... 2 GAY MEN AND A TRANSGENDER-INFLUENCED WINNER GIVE THANKS FOR GOLDEN GLOBES ... SOUTH AFRICA'S EQUALITY BILL GIVES GUARANTEES AGAINST DISCRIMINATION, CLINTON'S SWAN SONG RENEWS CALLS FOR HATE CRIMES LEGISLATION AND JOB PROTECTIONS, AND A LEADING NORWEGIAN TORY IS SILENT NO MORE. 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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