THIS WAY OUT RUNDOWN for Program #673, distributed 02/19/01 (produced and hosted by Greg Gordon) Sydney sounds the launch of the 2001 Gay & Lesbian Mardi Gras Festival; A week of Valentine's Day progress for gay and lesbian couples in Switzerland, Finland, Norway and Mexico, same-gender partners bills introduced in Canada and the U.S., celebrity "outings" in Ireland and China, a children's 'toon's scandalous adventures in Thailand, 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 <== -------- 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 . . . . . . . . . . . . 1:20 SEGMENT #1 – "NewsWrap": The canton of Geneva enacts Switzerland's first legal recognition of same-gender couples, Finland's parliament opens debate on legal registered partnerships, and Norway's state church agrees to support adoptions by gay and lesbian couples; bills to legally recognize same-gender couples are introduced in Canada by openly-gay MP Svend Robinson and in the U.S. by openly-gay Massachusetts Congressman Barney Frank, while the U.S. Permanent Partners Immigration Act is reintroduced by New York Congressman Jerrold Nadler to allow binational queer couples to stay together; gays and lesbians and their allies across the U.S. join over a dozen events for this year's annual "Freedom To Marry Day", while over 200 same-gender couples celebrate their relationships in a Valentine's Day ceremony in Mexico City; objections flare to a wedding on British daytime TV between Mark Jinks and Neil Morris, officiated in full priestly regalia by Bishop Jonathan Blake of the Society for Independent Christian Ministry, as the BBC announces even more queers on TV; Dublin, Ireland's top "shock jock" Chris Barry comes out, while the stabbing of major pop music star Mao Ning in a well-known Beijing gay cruising area fuels one of China's biggest entertainment industry scandals in years; nominees announced this week for the 73rd Oscars awards include openly-gay Briton Stephen Daldry as Best Director for "Billy Elliot", and Javier Bardem's performance for Best Actor as the late gay Cuban poet Reinaldo Arenas in "Before Night Falls"; and, Belgian police bust 3 for publishing the illicit sexclubbing adventures of children's 'toon "TinTin in Thailand" [written by CINDY FRIEDMAN, with thanks to GRAHAM UNDERHILL, JASON LIN, BRIAN NUNES, CHRIS AMBIDGE, REX WOCKNER, MATT ALSDORF, GREG GORDON and LUCIA CHAPPELLE, and anchored by GREG GORDON and CINDY FRIEDMAN]. . 9:40 SEGMENT #2 - The 2001 SYDNEY (Australia) GAY AND LESBIAN MARDI GRAS FESTIVAL was officially launched on a beautiful evening outside the Sydney Opera House on February 9th before an estimated crowd of 22,000. This Way Out correspondent MICHAEL SCHEMBRI (2SER-FM/Sydney's "Gaywaves" program) provides highlights of the launch, which was co-hosted by GILLIAN MINERVINI and the British drag artiste TINA C (who is also heard leading the crowd in "Waltzing Matilda"). Mardi Gras President JULIE REGAN opened the night by acknowledging the multi-cultural diversity of the GLBT community and condemning political opposition to lesbian and gay equality during the past 12 months, and among the entertainers were the AFTER NINES, a troupe of performers from Johannesburg, South Africa. In his keynote speech, prominent gay journalist DAVID MARR, senior writer/reporter for the "Sydney Morning Herald", made a harsh reference to the first-ever failed "pink" public stock offering by the scandal-ridden Satellite Group, excoriated bishops of the Anglican and Catholic churches as the only organized opposition to queer equality in Australia, and extolled young first-timers in the crowd to have "life-changing fun". . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16:15 Closing Continuity/Credits. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1:40 TOTAL PROGRAM TIME. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28:55 ----------------------------Please note-------------------------------- Anyone with questions, suggestions, or *news stories* is encouraged to email Coordinating Producer Greg Gordon at TWOradio@aol.co ----------------------------- thanks! --------------------------------- STATION PROMO COPY: ANNCR: NEXT TIME ON "THIS WAY OUT", SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA SOUNDS THE LAUNCH OF THE 2001 GAY AND LESBIAN MARDI GRAS FESTIVAL ... 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