**************************************************************** THIS WAY OUT RUNDOWN for Program #653, distributed 10/02/00 (hosted by Greg Gordon and produced with Lucia Chappelle) A gay everyman travels down the dark roads of "Urbania"; New queer music features the personal, the spiritual, & down home country; Labour's gay stars shine at the party convention as repeal of Section 28 remains on the agenda, job rights progress in Europe and South Africa, Canada mourns a pioneering prime minister, a Boy has his day in Pittsburgh, and other global GLBT news "TWO" FEEDS via the PRSS EACH MONDAY @ 14:30 ET on A72.3, EACH TUESDAY @ 16:00 ET on Pacifica`s KU band, and is mailed on cassette to non-satellite-equipped stations and to individual subscribers *==> Weekly feeds now scheduled by PRSS on A72.3 through June 2001 <== IMPORTANT REMINDER: Due to possible solar interference, ADDITIONAL PRSS feeds are scheduled for OCT 2 and OCT 9 from 15:30-15:59 ET on A72.3; please note that these are IN ADDITION TO the regular feeds at 14:30-14:59 ET on each of those dates. -------- AIR THE ENTIRE HALF-HOUR AND/OR USE SELECTED SEGMENTS ------ ALWAYS FREE OF CHARGE! USAGE LIMITED ONLY BY TIMELINESS OF NEWS CONTENT! => RUNDOWN <= Opening Teases/Theme Music/Intro Continuity . . . . . . . . . . . . 1:15 SEGMENT #1 - NewsWrap: Britain's openly-gay Culture Secretary Chris Smith, Agriculture Secretary Nick Brown, and Secretary for Northern Ireland Peter Mandelson shine at the Labour Party convention –- especially Mandelson at a Stonewall-sponsored event -- and repeal of the "no promo homo" Section 28 is kept on the agenda; the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe overwhelmingly calls for a wide range of reforms for equal treatment of gays and lesbians in member nations; South Africa's Constitutional Court powerfully rules against HIV employment discrimination in the case of prospective cabin attendant Jacques Hoffman and South African Airways; Canada mourns the death of pioneering GLBT-supportive former Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau, while Stockwell Day's right-wing Canadian Alliance Party's announcement of openly-gay MP candidate Stephane Prud'homme is met mostly with derision from Montreal's gay and lesbian voters and the country's 2 queer MPs, and one of them -- openly-gay MP Svend Robinson -- corrects false reports of a refused handshake with Day; among the handful of openly-gay or –lesbian athletes at the Olympic Games in Sydney, Australia, U.S. diver David Pichler, French tennis pro Amelie Mauresmo, and Australian women's discus competitor Lisa Marie Vizaniari have less-than-medal-worthy performances, but handball-playing registered spouses Mia Hundvin of Norway and Camilla Andersen of Denmark are still in the hunt; and a Culture Club performance leads to Boy George getting his very own day in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania [written by CINDY FRIEDMAN, with thanks to GRAHAM UNDERHILL, BRIAN NUNES, JASON LIN, REX WOCKNER, CHRIS AMBIDGE, GREG GORDON and LUCIA CHAPPELLE, and anchored by CINDY FRIEDMAN and CHASE SCHULTE]. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10:25 SEGMENT #2 - "AudioFile" billboard [:10] + Gay director JON SHEAR's first film stars DAN FUTTERMAN (perhaps best known from TV’s "Judging Amy" and as Robin Williams' screen son in "The Birdcage") as a gay Everyman grieving over his ended relationship and wading through a sea of strangers confronting their own urban nightmares. This Way Out's STEVE PRIDE has several clips from the movie and chats with Shear to get the story behind the stories in "URBANIA" (not to be confused with openly-gay director John Ottman's "Urban Legends: The Final Cut") [6:40] . . . . . . . . . . 6:50 SEGMENT #3 - "Call Me" (a "lesbian from Hell" sketch from the queerly comic NELLIE OLSENS [:50] + "TWO" I.D. by comedy writer/"Hollywood Square" Bruce Vilanch [:10] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1:00 SEGMENT #4 - A San Francisco singer-songwriter who puts his personal strife to good use (excerpts from "We Don't Dance" and "What You're Hiding" from GARRIN BENFIELD's "Living A Dream"), a gay country boy who's claiming his culture (the title cut and "Cowboy's Sweetheart" from DOUG STEVENS & THE OUTBAND's "From Christopher to Castro"), and a pop to rock lesbian looking for the things that connect all people ("Progress" and "For Today" from ROBIN RENEE's "In Progress") are featured in this latest words and music offering from the "AUDIOFILE" (hosted by CHRIS WILSON and CHRISTOPHER DAVID TRENTHAM and produced with PAM MARSHALL) . . . . . . . . . . . 7:55 artist contact info: Garrin Benfield Doug Stevens Robin Renee Eighth Note Records P.O. Box 190565 Menage a Music 584 Castro St. PMB 654 San Francisco, CA 94119 P.O. Box 204 San Francisco, CA 94114 dougstev@pacbell.net Atco, N.J. 08004 garrin@eighthnoterecords.com Menage98@aol.com Closing Continuity/Credits. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1:30 TOTAL PROGRAM TIME. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28:55 ----------------------------Please note-------------------------------- Anyone with questions, suggestions, or *news stories* is encouraged to email "TWO" Coordinating Producer Greg Gordon at TWOradio@aol.co ----------------------------- thanks! --------------------------------- STATION PROMO COPY: ANNCR: NEXT TIME ON "THIS WAY OUT", A GAY EVERYMAN TRAVELS DOWN THE DARK ROADS OF "URBANIA", WHILE NEW WORDS AND MUSIC FROM THE "AUDIOFILE" INCLUDE THE PERSONAL REFLECTIONS OF GARRIN BENFIELD, THE VARIED STYLINGS OF SPIRITUALLY-FOCUSED ROBIN RENEE, AND THE DOWN HOME COUNTRY SOUNDS OF DOUG STEVENS AND THE OUTBAND. 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