**************************************************************** THIS WAY OUT RUNDOWN for Program #626, distributed 03/27/00 (produced and hosted by Lucia Chappelle and Greg Gordon) Activists advise Paramount Television to tune "Dr. Laura" out; "Domestic Partner Commitment bells" ring again in San Francisco; Britain's House of Lords damns "no promo homo" repeal compromise, university "fee speech" forums are upheld by U.S. Supremes, a marriage- defining "poison pill" is attached to a Canadian couples bill, German conservatives pick a pro-gay leader, and other news from around the world "TWO" FEEDS EACH MONDAY @ 14:30 ET on PRSS DIGITAL FREQUENCY A73.5 and TUESDAY @ 16:00 ET on Pacifica`s KU band and is mailed on cassette to non-satellite-equipped stations and individual subscribers >>>> RUNDOWN <<<<< Opening Teases/Theme Music/Intro Continuity . . . . . . . . . . . . 1:10 SEGMENT #1 - NewsWrap: Britain's House of Lords rejects the Government-offere d compromise bill to repeal the infamous "no promo homo" Section 28, but efforts to do so will continue; the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously rules against Christian conservatives who didn't want a small part of their University of Wisconsin student fees to support campus groups they oppose (like the Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual Campus Center); a pressured Canadian government placates "traditionalists" but offends queer activists and supporters by adding a man-and-woman-only definition of marriage to C-23, the landmark bill to give same gender couples legal standing equal to unmarried heterosexual couples; the executive committee of Germany's conservative Christian Democratic Union picks pro-gay Angela Merkel to lead the party, while France's Communist Party considers lesbigay rights activist Michela Frigolini for its executive committee; Outrage!'s Peter Tatchell announces his candidacy for the Greater London Assembly, Norway's new government appoints both members of a gay male couple to political posts, a left-wing German newspaper "outs" embattled right-wing Austrian Freeedom Party leader Jorg Haider, and all-but-nominated U.S. Republican presidential candidate Texas Governor George W. Bush again flip-flops on meeting with the gay & lesbian Log Cabin Republicans (now it's "no" again); domestic partner benefits survive Boeing's protracted contract dispute with its engineers and technicians union, and are part of a new contract between Continental Airlines and its flight attendants, while global giant General Electric adds sexual orientation to its non-discrimination policies and diversity trainings; in an historic multi-million-dollar consolidation, leading LGBT Internet portal PlanetOut acquires Liberation Publications, owners of the venerable newsmagazine "The Advocate", Allyson Books and their just-acquired glossy monthly "OUT" magazine; Kelowna, British Columbia Mayor Walter Gray is strongly rebuked by the provincial Human Rights Commission for cutting the "Pride" out of his "Gay and Lesbian Pride Day" proclamation; and the German Parliament begins a process to finally apologize to and restore the honor of World War 2-era gay men by reversing convictions under the notorious Nazi-era Paragraph 175, which sent tens of thousands of them to concentration camps [written by CINDY FRIEDMAN, with thanks to GRAHAM UNDERHILL, CHRIS AMBIDGE, MARTIN RICE, BRIAN NUNES, JASON LIN, REX WOCKNER, LUCIA CHAPPELLE & GREG GORDON, and anchored by CINDY FRIEDMAN & LEO GARCIA]. . . . . . . . . . . . . >. . . . . . . . . . 10:50 SEGMENT #2 - Billboard for San Francisco Domestic Partner Commitment Ceremony coverage [:05] + About 500 demonstrators held a rally outside Paramount Television Group's Hollywood headquarters on March 21st, spearheaded by the stopdrlaura.com coalition, to demand that the studio halt its plans to syndicate a program featuring top-rated radio talk show host "DR. LAURA" SCHLESSINGER. Schlessinger believes -- and has frequently expounded on her radio show citing disreputable right-wing "research" -- that homosexual acts are "deviant," that same-gender attractions are the result of a "biological error," that so-called "reparative therapies" work, and that many gay men are predatory pedophiles. This Way Out's LUCIA CHAPPELLE (with thanks to KPFK/Los Angeles News Director Frank Stoltze) chronicles the chain of events that brought activists - including the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation - from negotiation suites to Hollywood's streets (with comments by GLAAD's Executive Director JOAN GARRY, SHERRY GARDNER of the pro-"Laura" Campaign for California Families, and West Hollywood City Councilman STEVE MARTIN) [5:55] . . . . . . 6:00 SEGMENT #3 - "TWO" I.D. by commentator and author Andrew Sullivan ("Virtually Normal") [:35] + For the fourth consecutive year, and despite ­ or for some because of ­ passage in California earlier this month of the anti-marriage Knight Initiative, Proposition 22, about a hundred San Francisco same-gender couples on March 23rd promised to "love and to cherish (each other) forever" and pledged "to be committed to a relationship of loyalty, love and mutual caring" in a rainbow flag-draped City Hall Rotunda ceremony officiated by MAYOR WILLIE BROWN. This report, prepared by This Way Out's GREG GORDON with on-scene sound gathered by GLENN REEDER, includes remarks at the event by openly-lesbian CALIFORNIA ASSEMBLYWOMAN CAROLE MIGDEN, comments by some of the happy couples (ROBERT HUTCHINSON+ROBERT LESKO, KALLA FELICITY+LAURA ROSE-FELICITY, DAVID+NAM SINGH, LINDA HEIDENRICH+KAREN GALLAGHER, and DANA REESE+JOEL STERLING), and Mayor Brown conducting the ceremony itself (intro/outro music from the Oscar-winning "You'll Be In My Heart" by PHIL COLLINS) [8:40] . . . 9:15 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", ACTIVISTS ADVISE PARAMOUNT TELEVISION TO TUNE "DR. LAURA" OUT, WHILE "DOMESTIC PARTNER COMMITMENT BELLS" RING AGAIN IN SAN FRANCISCO... IN OTHER NEWS, BRITISH LORDS DAMN THE GOVERNMENT'S "NO PROMO HOMO" REPEAL COMPROMISE, U.S. SUPREMES OKAY A UNIVERSITY'S "FEE SPEECH", A MARRIAGE-DEFINING "POISON PILL" IS ATTACHED TO A LANDMARK CANADIAN COUPLES BILL, AND POLITICIANS FROM ACROSS THE IDEOLOGICAL SPECTRUM MAKE LESBIGAY NEWS IN GERMANY, FRANCE, BRITAIN, CANADA, THE U.S., NORWAY AND AUSTRIA. 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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