THIS WAY OUT the international gay & lesbian radio magazine RUNDOWN for Program #691, distributed 06/25/01 (produced and hosted this week by Greg Gordon) Meet the Gaelic gay male couple behind filmfest fave "Adventures of Felix"; Margie Adam offers "Avalon", Cam Clarke goes "Inside Out", and Mark Islam has "The Fine Print" in this month's words and music from the "AudioFile"; Amnesty International details global anti-queer abuse, the UN debates gay inclusion in its Special Session on HIV/AIDS, the American Medical Association calls the Boys Scouts a young people's mental health menace, and other GLBT news from around the world "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 are scheduled by PRSS on A72.3 through June 2002 <== -------- AIR THE ENTIRE HALF-HOUR AND/OR USE SELECTED SEGMENTS ------ STILL FREE OF CHARGE! USAGE LIMITED ONLY BY TIMELINESS OF NEWS CONTENT! => RUNDOWN <= Opening Teases/Theme Music/Intro Continuity . . . . . . . . . . . . 1:15 SEGMENT #1 – "NewsWrap": The London-based human rights group Amnesty International releases "Crimes of Hate, Conspiracy of Silence", its first-ever report detailing abuse and torture of gays, lesbians, bisexuals, and transgenders around the world; even as the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights is collecting data on GLBT issues, the participation of the International Gay & Lesbian Human Rights Commission in the upcoming U.N. General Assembly Special Session on HIV/AIDS is challenged by Islamic countries and the Vatican; Romania reduces the penalties for sex in public for homo perpetrators to equal that for heteros in a continuing effort to conform to European Union standards, while Estonia equalizes its sexual age of consent; the American Medical Association issues a resolution condemning anti-gay discrimination by the Boy Scouts as bad public health policy endangering the mental health of young people, while Washington, DC's Human Rights Commission orders the reinstatement of and compensatory damages for 2 gay men who were kicked out of the Scouts simply for being gay; the Texas Supreme Court dismisses a legal challenge to Houston Mayor Lee Brown's executive order banning sexual orientation discrimination; the U.S. Department of Agriculture issues a first-of-its-kind job opening notice for a program specialist to serve as the Department's gay and lesbian employment man ager; over the objections of California Governor Gray Davis, a Los Angeles court orders the parole of Robert Rosenkrantz after he'd served 17 years for murdering a schoolmate who had "outed" him to his father, while in Oklahoma, Governor Frank Keating grants a stay of execution to Mexican national Gerardo Valdez, who was convicted of killing a gay man; London's "Financial Times" newspaper rejects an ad promoting a special music issue of the British magazine "Gay Times" as being too "suggestive", but in Canada, the Saskatchewan Human Rights Commission rules against a man who'd placed a Bible-citing anti-gay ad in the Saskatoon "Star-Phoenix" newspaper, ordering him not to publish it again and to pay C$1,500 to each of 3 gay men who'd filed the complaint, and in France, TV regulators have blocked an ad intended to condemn homophobia, saying that the public will view the ad itself as anti-gay; what's believed to be Cuba's first gay wedding ceremony draws criticism and curiosity in the Havana suburb of San Miguel del Padron, and in what's believed to be Canada's first public monument to a gay activist, Toronto's "gay village" area now includes George Hislop Park – though the veteran advocate notes that it lacks an essential element, saying, "What's a gay park without bushes?" [written by CINDY FRIEDMAN, with thanks to GRAHAM UNDERHILL, JASON LIN, BRIAN NUNES, CHRIS AMBIDGE, REX WOCKNER & GREG GORDON, and anchored by DONALD HERMAN & CINDY FRIEDMAN] . . . . . . 10:45 SEGMENT #2 - "AudioFile" billboard [:20] + The filmmakers behind the 1998 gay musical "Jeanne et Le Garçon Formidable" ("Jeanne and the Perfect Guy") are back. This time out the genre is the classic road film with a gay Gaelic twist called "DRÔLE DE FÉLIX" or "ADVENTURES OF FELIX" (released by Winstar Cinema), about an HIV-positive gay Arab man living in northern France who, after losing his job, impulsively decides to bicycle along the country's northern coast to find the father he never knew. Along the way he meets a series of archetypal characters who become his surrogate family. This Way Out's STEVE PRIDE chats with partnered gay co-writers/co-directors OLIVIER DUCASTEL and JACQUES MARTINEAU about both making films and a life together (intro and incidental music from "Jeux d'Enfants" by RENE DUPERE from "Alegria: Cirque Du Soleil"; outro music from "Comment Te Dire Adieu" performed by JIMMY SOMERVILLE) [8:00] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8:20 SEGMENT #3 - "TWO" I.D. by pioneering lesbian comic actress ELLEN DeGENERES [:10] + Prolific singer/songwriter/activist MARGIE ADAM is back with her 8th album, the musically-ambitious "AVALON" (excerpts from the title track and "Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow"), while CAM CLARKE puts a gay spin on some popular country/folk tunes of the 1970s with his "INSIDE OUT" ("Something In The Way He Moves" and "Son of a Preacherman"), and MARK ISLAM paints lyrical portraits of some engaging Angelenos on his latest, "THE FINE PRINT" ("Gold Enough" and "Treading Water"). They're all featured in words and music in this month's offerings from the "AudioFile" (hosted by CHRIS WILSON & J.D. DOYLE and written and produced with CHRISTOPHER DAVID TRENTHAM) [7:00]. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7:10 =artist contact info= Margie Adam Cam Clarke Mark Islam Pleiades Records LML Music Grenoble Savage Productions PO Box 7217 PO Box 48081 c/o Noble Savage Entertainment Berkeley, CA 94707 Los Angeles, CA 90048 44 Music Square East info@margieadam.com lmlmusic@earthlink.net PMB 707 www.margieadam.com www.lmlmusic.com Nashville, TN 37203 markislam@yahoo.com www.markislam.com Closing Continuity/Credits. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1:25 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", MEET THE GAELIC GAY MALE COUPLE BEHIND THE FILM FESTIVAL FAVORITE "ADVENTURES OF FELIX", WHO MAKE BOTH MOVIES AND A LIFE TOGETHER, AND PREVIEW NEW CDs BY MARGIE (Mar-ghee, not "Marjie") ADAM, CAM CLARKE AND MARK ISLAM IN THIS MONTH'S WORDS AND MUSIC FROM THE "AUDIOFILE"... 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