THIS WAY OUT the international gay & lesbian radio magazine RUNDOWN for Program #695, distributed 07/23/01 (hosted this week by Lucia Chappelle and produced with Greg Gordon) A gay marriage rights lawyer tells how they achieved equality in Holland; New homespun harmonies, confessional compositions and kiwi country on CD; Germany's High Court rejects a move to block a same-gender partnership law, but there are marriage setbacks in Britain and British Columbia, the U.S. House allows tax-funded faith-based services to discriminate, trial begins for Egyptian party raid arrestees, 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 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 . . . . . . . . . . . . 1:10 SEGMENT #1 – NewsWrap: Responding to a challenge by the states of Bavaria and Saxony, Germany's Federal Constitutional Court refuses to block new "life partnership" registration for gay and lesbian couples, which will become available on August 1st, but in Canada, British Columbia's new Liberal Party-led provincial government drops its predecessor New Democratic Party government's landmark lawsuit seeking full marriage rights for same-gender couples, and Britain's Court of Appeal refuses legal recognition to male-to-female transwoman Elizabeth Bellinger's 20-year marriage, saying that the antiquated law they were forced to base their ruling on must be changed by Parliament; Michael Portillo, who in 1999 described youthful gay affairs and was the most tolerance-advocating candidate for leadership of Britain's Conservative Party, is knocked out of the race by 2 right-wing opponents and quits the party's front bench; the U.S. House of Representatives passes President George W. Bush's so-called "Community Solutions" measure to provide tax dollars to religious groups for social services, with the controversial provision allowing exemptions for such groups from state and local anti-discrimination laws – but passage won't be as easy in the Senate; Rhode Island becomes the second U.S. state to explicitly protect transgendered people under its civil rights laws, but Maryland officials certify that the anti-gay group Take Back Maryland has secured enough valid signatures on a petition to place a proposed repeal of that state's recently-passed sexual orientation anti-discrimination law on the November 2002 ballot; in West Virginia, teen suspect David Parker pleads guilty to first degree murder in last year's highly-publicized brutal gay-bashing death of gay African-American "JR" Warren and will serve at least 15 years of a life sentence, while the trial of co-defendant Jared Wilson begins in August; suspect Apete Kaisau reportedly confesses to the horrific machete double-murder in Fiji of national hero and Red Cross director John Scott and his partner of 22 years Greg Scrivener; trial begins in Egypt for the 52 men arrested on "morals" charges in a May police raid of a Nile party boat catering to gays; in Hungary, district mayor István Tarlós backs down from his insistence that "homosexual education programs" be barred from Budapest's "Pepsi Island", Europe's biggest music festival; and the Edinburgh Festival Fringe uses an emailed short video of 2 women kissing passionately to promote ticket sales, promising "2 for the price of 1 on all your favorite thespians" [written by CINDY FRIEDMAN, with thanks to GRAHAM UNDERHILL, JASON LIN, BRIAN NUNES, CHRIS AMBIDGE, REX WOCKNER & GREG GORDON; anchored by GREG GORDON & CINDY FRIEDMAN]. . 10:05 SEGMENT #2 - Billboard for "AudioFile" [:10] + Earlier this year Holland became the first country to open its existing marriage law to include gays and lesbians – there are no special provisions or restrictions to separate them from heterosexually-married couples. Lawyer and gay rights lobbyist KEES WAALDIJK played a major role in securing same-gender marriage equality there, and in this conversation with CHRIS CHAMBERS of Radio Netherlands, Waaldijk describes his personal "coming out" experiences and his education in sexual politics, comments on same-gender union ceremonies throughout written history, and discusses the social and political reasons why his country has led the world on queer equality issues [9:05] . . . . . 9:15 SEGMENT #3 - "TWO" I.D. by Russian gay activist Roman Kalinin [:15] + New words and music in this month's "AudioFile" include the homespun harmonies and humor of Nashville's country/folk group Y'ALL (excerpts from "We're Still Poor & We're Still Happy" and "Y'All Come" from their "The Hey Y'All Soundtrack" CD), the poetic introspection of San Francisco-based singer/songwriter RICHARD ISEN ("Blue Window" and "Willie" from "Let It Fall"), and country-flavored tunes with a Pacific Isles twist by Auckland, New Zealand's popular TOPP TWINS ("Milestones" and "Baby I Think I Love You" from "Grass Highway") [hosted by CHRIS WILSON & JD DOYLE, written & produced with CHRISTOPHER DAVID TRENTHAM, and also featuring comments by each of the artists] [6:40] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6:55 = artist contact info = Y'ALL RICHARD ISEN TOPP TWINS P.O. Box 24903 1678 Shattuck Ave. #52 Arani Cuthbert Nashville, TN 37202-4903 Berkeley, CA 94709 Topp Twins Mgmt bedazzled@luckygreendress.com clearsong@clearsong.com Diva Productions Ltd www.luckygreendress.com www.clearsong.com P.O. Box 5986, Wellesley St. Auckland, New Zealand info@topptwins.co.nz www.topptwins.co.nz Closing Continuity/Credits. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1:35 TOTAL PROGRAM TIME. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29:00 ----------------------------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", A GAY MARRIAGE RIGHTS LAWYER TELLS HOW THEY ACHIEVED EQUALITY IN HOLLAND, AND THERE ARE NEW HOMESPUN HARMONIES, CONFESSIONAL COMPOSITIONS AND KIWI COUNTRY TUNES FROM THE "AUDIOFILE"... IN THE NEWS, GERMANY'S HIGH COURT REJECTS A MOVE TO BLOCK THE COUNTRY'S NEW SAME-GENDER PARTNERSHIP LAW, BUT THERE ARE MARRIAGE SETBACKS IN BRITAIN AND BRITISH COLUMBIA, THE U.S. HOUSE ALLOWS TAX-FUNDED FAITH-BASED SERVICES TO DISCRIMINATE, AND TRIAL BEGINS FOR EGYPTIAN PARTY RAID ARRESTEES, BUT BUDAPEST'S MAYOR BACKS DOWN ON HIS MUSIC FESTIVAL GAY BAN. ALL THAT AND MORE THIS WEEK ON "THIS WAY OUT: THE INTERNATIONAL LESBIAN AND GAY RADIO MAGAZINE", ______________________________________ [DAY and TIME] HERE ON __________________________. [STATION] ~~~~~~~~~~~~~> STATIONS: MISSED THE SATELLITE FEED? <~~~~~~~~~~~~~ PLEASE CONTACT THE PACIFICA RADIO ARCHIVES TO ORDER A COPY OF THE PROGRAM, WHICH THEY CAN SEND YOU VIA U.P.S.; PHONE 818/506-1077 AND ASK FOR MARK OR EDGAR. ******************************************************** On the air since April 1988, "This Way Out" is the multi-award-winning internationally-distributed weekly gay and lesbian radio newsmagazine. 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