THIS WAY OUT the international gay & lesbian radio magazine RUNDOWN for Program #715, distributed 12/10/01 (hosted this week by Lucia Chappelle and produced with Greg Gordon) Pride and community conquer fear in "A Letter from Jerusalem"; The groundbreaking movie "Punks" is black and gay and romantic all over; Taiwan's "Oscars" embrace out director Stanley Kwan's first gay film, the US Christian Coalition loses its head, activists divided over new Quebec partnership proposal, India's sodomy law is challenged in court, gay Nicaraguan minister to head Latin American churches council, other news "TWO" FEEDS via the PRSS EACH MONDAY @ 14:30 ET on A72.3*, EACH TUESDAY @ 16:00 ET on Pacifica`s KU band, is available online in mono and stereo MP3 files at www.radio4all.net, and is mailed on cassette to non-satellite/non-wired 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! -------------------------------- REMINDER ------------------------------- There will be no "NewsWrap" segment on "This Way Out" programs to be distributed on 12/24 and 12/31/01. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- => RUNDOWN <= Opening Teases/Theme Music/Intro Continuity . . . . . . . . . . . . 1:15 SEGMENT #1 – NewsWrap: Openly-gay Stanley Kwan wins Best Director for his "stormy gay relationship" movie "Lan Yu", which also picks up 3 other trophies at Taiwan's Golden Horse Awards, the Chinese-language "Oscars"; virulently anti-gay U.S. televangelist Pat Robertson resigns as President of the right wing Christian Coalition political action group to focus more on his "ministry" and his Christian Broadcasting Network; U.S. President George W. Bush is praised by both the Human Rights Campaign and the gay & lesbian Log Cabin Republicans for naming queer-supportive former Montana Governor Marc Racicot chair of the Republican National Committee; Austin Democrat Glen Maxey, Texas' only openly-gay state legislator, announces that he will not seek reelection, but Karen Geraghty is sworn in as the first openly-lesbian or gay mayor of Portland, Maine; the Board of Commissioners of Multnomah County, Oregon (where the other city of Portland is located) unanimously approve a civil rights ordinance that includes sexual orientation and gender identity; the Atlanta, Georgia City Council overwhelmingly approves a measure, patterned on San Francisco's pioneering Equal Benefits Ordinance, requiring city contractors to extend the same benefits to their unmarried workers' domestic partners as they do to legally married workers' spouses, but a series of waivers its sponsor intended to include got lost in the rush to pass the measure, which could create problems when it takes effect in January since most city contractors are currently not in compliance; the American Medical Association adopts a resolution calling for equal health care benefits and legal recognition of domestic partners for hospital visitation and medical care decision-making; the government of the Canadian province of Quebec introduces a bill to create legal domestic partnerships for gay & lesbian couples, but its limitations prompt some activists to call the proposal discriminatory inequality, while class action lawsuits are filed on behalf of some 10,000 Canadian gays and lesbians seeking survivor pension benefits denied to them from 1985 through 1998; a woman in the Indian state of Chattisgarh is reportedly arrested after marrying a 13-year-old girl in a secret Hindu ceremony, while activists ask the Delhi High Court to stop the government from enforcing the country's sodomy law, which carries a maximum sentence of life in prison; United Gays and Lesbians Against AIDS Barbados, that country's first lesbian & gay organization, is officially launched on World AIDS Day, December 1st; Nicaragua's National Committee of the Latin American Council of Churches selects openly-gay M.C.C. minister Dr. Armando Sanchez as its Executive Secretary; and to the consternation of some school officials, over 77% of the senior class at Dover High School in New Hampshire select lesbian couple Nicole Salisbury and Ashley Lagasse as their yearbook's "class sweethearts" [written by CINDY FRIEDMAN, with thanks to GRAHAM UNDERHILL, JASON LIN, BRIAN NUNES, CHRIS AMBIDGE, REX WOCKNER, CHANG HWEI LIU, GREG GORDON & LUCIA CHAPPELLE, and anchored by CINDY FRIEDMAN & BRIAN NUNES] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10:50 SEGMENT #2 - "A Letter from Jerusalem" billboard [:10] + Even though it's still hard to get a gay movie made and into the theaters, more and more often these days boy does meet boy on the silver screen. What sets writer/director PATRIK-IAN POLK's new film "PUNKS" (Urbanworld Films) apart is that the men involved are both gay and black. It's a snappy romantic comedy, but "Punks" plows new ground for queer and African-American cinema. This Way Out's award-winning entertainment reporter STEVE PRIDE chats with the multi-talented Polk about the movie, racism and the writing process (with intro/outro music from the film composed and performed by Polk) [10:10] + "TWO" I.D. over fading outro music by CATHERINE McKINLEY & JOYCE DELANEY, co-editors of "Afrekete: An Anthology of Black Lesbian Writing" [:10]. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10:30 SEGMENT #3 - When this "LETTER FROM JERUSALEM" was written in August, a terrorist bomb had just rocked the city only blocks from its gay and lesbian center, The Open House. Unfortunately since then Israeli-Palestinian violence has escalated, with an ongoing series of suicide bombings in Israeli cities and an increasing show of military force in the Palestinian territories. As the bodies continue to stack up on both sides, more incidents have occurred in the vicinity of The Open House and other lesbian and gay establishments. We can only hope that "How To Survive In The Midst Of Terror", this message of mutual support and community -- and fun –- written and read by Open House Executive Director HAGAI EL-AD [and produced by ERAN CICUREL] can bring some encouragement to all those innocents caught in the world's crossfire . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4:45 Closing Continuity/Credits. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1:25 TOTAL PROGRAM TIME. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28:45 ----------------------------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", THE GROUNDBREAKING MOVIE "PUNKS" IS BLACK AND GAY AND ROMANTIC ALL OVER, AND PRIDE AND COMMUNITY CONQUER FEAR IN "A LETTER FROM JERUSALEM"... IN THE NEWS, TAIWAN'S "OSCARS" EMBRACE OUT DIRECTOR STANLEY KWAN'S FIRST GAY FILM, THE U.S. CHRISTIAN COALITION LOSES ITS HEAD, ACTIVISTS ARE DIVIDED OVER A NEW QUEBEC PARTNERSHIP PROPOSAL, INDIA'S SODOMY LAW IS CHALLENGED IN COURT, AND A GAY NICARAGUAN MINISTER WILL HEAD THE LATIN AMERICAN COUNCIL OF CHURCES. 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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