THIS WAY OUT the international gay & lesbian radio magazine RUNDOWN for Program #701, distributed 09/03/01 (hosted this week by Greg Gordon, written & produced with Lucia Chappelle) South Asian Gay Film Festival breaks ground and builds images; British activist Tatchell's plans for Zimbabwe's phobic Mugabe in Brisbane; A U.S. federal court supports Florida's ban on gay & lesbian adoptions; South African activists sue for same-gender couple pension rights while Czech Catholics petition against a partner registry bill, the "debauchery" trial of Egypt's 52 continues, 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! 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[no teases this week] . . . :40 SEGMENT #1 – NewsWrap: South Africa's Lesbian and Gay Equality Project files suit against the government to gain pension rights for queer-coupled civil servants; in Canada, the British Columbia Human Rights Tribunal rules that non-biological lesbian co-parents can be registered on the birth certificates of babies their partners bear by artificial insemination; in the Czech Republic, over 68,000 Catholics have signed a petition opposing a bill to establish legal registered partnerships; in the U.S., the Washington state Supreme Court upholds Vancouver's extension of spousal health benefits to the partners of the city's gay and lesbian employees; some 600,000 gay and lesbian couples living in more than 99% of the nation's counties declared themselves to the U.S. Census last year, but activists believe that's still a serious undercount; while legally married California elected officials are required by law to abstain from votes on issues that might affect their spouses' incomes, the state's Fair Political Practices Commission says that rule doesn't apply to gay and lesbian officials' domestic partners; a jury awards $945,000 to a lesbian who claimed sexual orientation discrimination in her firing from the San Jose, California police force; the legislature of the Mexican state of Chiapas unanimously adopts wide-ranging civil rights protections for gays and lesbians; the unprecedented trial continues in Egypt's state security court of 52 men arrested in May on a gay-inclusive riverboat club and jailed since then, who are being prosecuted for "practicing debauchery with men"; former world heavyweight boxing champ Lennox Lewis has an unscheduled wrestling match with current champ Hasim Rahman during a televised interview promoting their upcoming rematch over Rahman's earlier intimation that Lennox is gay; Australia's Sports Ministry issues guidelines against homophobic discrimination and harassment both on and off the playing field, but falsely asserts that federal law and all Australian states ban sexual orientation discrimination; and Dimitris Vounatsos, governor of the Greek island of Lesbos, suggests that all visiting lesbians should be segregated away from "children and families... in a fenced-off area" [written by CINDY FRIEDMAN, with thanks to GRAHAM UNDERHILL, JASON LIN, BRIAN NUNES, CHRIS AMBIDGE, REX WOCKNER and GREG GORDON, and anchored by BRIAN NUNES & KELLI BLANCHFIELD]. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10:05 SEGMENT #2 - In Miami this week, U.S. federal judge James Lawrence King upheld Florida's ban on gays and lesbians becoming adoptive parents -- a decision supported by brother of the President and Governor Jeb Bush. The ruling comes after the state announced it would try to rescind the foster care contract it has with Steven Lofton, a gay man in Oregon, who's the lead plaintiff in the case. This report by This Way Out's SUSAN GAGE in Tallahassee includes comments by Governor Bush's spokesperson LISA GATES, and MATT COLES of the American Civil Liberties Union Lesbian & Gay Rights Project. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3:50 SEGMENT #3 - "TWO" I.D. by gay playwright/performance artist LUIS ALFARO and lesbian comic MONICA PALACIOS [:15] + billboard for So. Asian queer film festival feature [:05] + Whether or not human rights are on the official agenda in October at the British Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in Brisbane, Queensland (Australia), at which outspokenly homophobic Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe is expected, such issues will be on the minds of many observers around the world. British activist PETER TATCHELL of the non-violent queer direct action group OutRage! has been conducting a human rights crusade against Mugabe for quite some time, which has included trying to make a citizen's arrest of the African country's head of state during some of his previous official trips out of the country. During an interview with John Frame [4ZZZ-FM's "Queer Radio"], Tatchell explained why he'll be in Brisbane next month [4:30] . . . 4:50 {scheduled to conclude with a longer segment next week} SEGMENT #4 - Homosexuality hasn't gained much acceptance in India, and images of gays and lesbians of South Asian descent on the big screen have been rare. But the tide is slowly turning, in both the social and the cinematic arenas, as This Way Out's BRYAN GOEBEL discovered at a groundbreaking South Asian gay film festival called "QFilmistan" being held this weekend in San Francisco, the first of its kind in North America (includes audio clips from some of the films, and comments by organizer SANDIP ROY, editor of "Trikone", a magazine for South Asian gays and lesbians; RIYAD WADIA, the producer and director of "BomGAY"; and openly-gay Indian poet R. RAJ RAO) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8:10 Closing Continuity/Credits. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1:15 TOTAL PROGRAM TIME. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28:50 ----------------------------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 UNIQUE SOUTH ASIAN GAY FILM FESTIVAL BREAKS GROUND AND BUILDS IMAGES, BRITISH ACTIVIST PETER TATCHELL PLANS FOR HOMOBPHOBIC ZIMBABWE PRESIDENT ROBERT MUGABE'S VISIT TO BRISBANE, AUSTRALIA, AND A U.S. FEDERAL COURT SUPPORTS FLORIDA'S BAN ON GAY & LESBIAN ADOPTIONS... 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