THIS WAY OUT the international gay & lesbian radio magazine RUNDOWN for Program #742, distributed 06/17/02 (hosted this week by Greg Gordon and produced with Lucia Chappelle) British civil servants win partner pensions but Lords challenge adoption equality, the ACLU fights a Michigan judge's blanket co-adoption ban, 50 Soulforcers are busted at the Southern Baptist Convention, Germany's Schroeder celebrates while America's Bush backs off a Pride proclamation... speaking of which, What's A "Stonewall", and Who Was "Christopher Street"? 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USAGE LIMITED ONLY BY TIMELINESS OF NEWS CONTENT! => RUNDOWN <= Opening Teases/Theme Music/Intro Continuity . . . . . . . . . . . . 1:05 SEGMENT #1 – NewsWrap: In Britain, the same-gender partners of the country's civil servants will receive the same pension benefits as legally-married workers' spouses beginning in October, while the queer-unfriendly House of Lords begins debate on a bill opening adoptions to unmarried couples, including gay & lesbian couples, which has already received overwhelming approval in the House of Commons; Italy's parliament considers restricting artificial insemination exclusively to heterosexual couples; in the U.S., the American Civil Liberties Union is challenging Washtenaw County, Michigan Chief Judge Archie Brown's blanket ban on his colleagues allowing gay & lesbian couples to co-adopt their partners' children, but the state of Maryland's highest court upholds Montgomery County's extension of spousal health benefits to the domestic partners of its unmarried employees; gay Texas death row inmate Calvin Burdine will be retried for murdering his partner nearly 2 decades ago following the U.S. Supreme Court's refusal to hear the state's challenge of an appeals court ruling overturning his conviction in what's come to be known as the "sleeping lawyer" case; U.S. Roman Catholic bishops meeting in Texas make no mention of homosexuality in the policy they develop to address the priestly sex abuse scandal that's engulfed the church, while in St. Louis, Missouri, 50 demonstrators, led by the anti-"spiritual violence" group Soulforce, are arrested in a protest of the Southern Baptist Convention's outspokenly anti-queer positions; U.S. Senate Republicans scuttle the latest attempt at passage of the queer-inclusive Local Law Enforcement Enhancement Act (formerly known as the Hate Crimes Prevention Act), but after some foot-dragging by a few conservative Republicans, the U.S. House of Representatives approves a bill named for openly-gay New York City Fire Department Chaplain Mychal Judge to provide a one-time payment of $250,000 to the beneficiaries named in insurance policies by him and a few other public safety workers killed in the September 11th attacks who had no surviving legally-married spouse, children or parents; as about 200,000 people celebrate Pride in Washington, D.C., U.S. President George W. Bush refuses to proclaim Gay & Lesbian Pride Month, but federal departments in his administration take wildly-different approaches, ranging from a withdrawal of sponsorship of a traditional Pride event at the Commerce Department to a proclamation of Pride Month by Environmental Protection Agency chief and former New Jersey Governor Christine Todd Whitman, while Bush's counterpart in Germany, Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder, issues a strong message in support of his country's annual Christopher Street Day events; a scheduled meeting with openly-gay Berlin Mayor Klaus Wowerweit seems to have lead Namibian President Sam Nujoma to tone down his virulently-homophobic rhetoric to use more conciliatory "live an d let live" language in response to questioning by Deutsche Presse Agentur; and openly-gay Australian High Court Justice Michael Kirby appears on "Who Weekly" magazine's annual list of the country's "25 Most Beautiful People", while openly-gay Canadian M.P. Svend Robinson appears online clad only in seashells at www.hunksforhabitat as part of an environmental group's fundraising efforts [written by CINDY FRIEDMAN, with thanks to GRAHAM UNDERHILL, BRIAN NUNES, JASON LIN, CHRIS AMBIDGE, REX WOCKNER, LUCIA CHAPPELLE & GREG GORDON; anchored by JON BEAUPRE & CINDY FRIEDMAN] [9:30] + "TWO" I.D. by openly gay Olympics diving champ GREG LOUGANIS (over "NewsWrap" outro music) [:05] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9:35 SEGMENT #2 - "WHAT'S A STONEWALL, AND WHO WAS CHRISTOPHER STREET?" It's a question of Pride, and it comes up every year at this time. Sadly, the story of the pivotal event in the contemporary GLBT movement for equality won't be found in most history textbooks, and too many GLBT people -- especially the up-and-coming-out younger generation – know little about what the annual celebrations commemorate. "This Way Out" hosts GREG GORDON and LUCIA CHAPPELLE address that problem with this audio montage about the genesis of Pride; included: an excerpt from recent OutMusic Award-winner "Pride" by JON GILBERT LEAVITT; DEBBIE LEMPKE's "Gay and Proud", performed by the BERKELEY WOMEN'S MUSIC COLLECTIVE, and lesbian-feminist icon JUDY GRAHN reading from her "A History of Lesbianism" (both from the historic 1977 Olivia Records compilation "Lesbian Concentrate"); excerpts from a January 1969 (6 months before Stonewall) gay radio program on Pacifica Radio's WBAI-FM/New York City, in which hosts BAIRD SEARLES and KERMIT LAMB lament the lack of pride and courage in the "homosexual community"; excerpts from a 1970 audio documentary about the Stonewall Rebellion narrated by BRETT ARTERY and featuring an eyewitness account by pioneering activist CRAIG RODWELL; "Long Hot Summer", a raucous ode to the Stonewall Rebellion by the legendary British rockers THE TOM ROBINSON BAND (from their landmark album "Power In The Darkness"); reporter GABRIELLE ANTOLOVICH's vox pop from a recent pride parade on the streets of West Hollywood, California; and "Gay History Rap", a live-in-concert rappin' retelling of the Stonewall tale by AGE OF CONSENT . . . . . . . . . 16:40 Closing Continuity/Credits. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1:30 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", BRITISH CIVIL SERVANTS WIN PARTNER PENSIONS BUT LORDS CHALLENGE ADOPTION EQUALITY, THE A.C.L.U. FIGHTS A MICHIGAN JUDGE'S BLANKET CO-ADOPTION BAN, 50 SOULFORCERS ARE BUSTED PROTESTING THE OUTSPOKENLY-ANTI-GAY POSITIONS OF THE SOUTHERN BAPTIST CONVENTION, A U.S. HATE CRIMES BILL STALLS AGAIN, GERMANY'S SCHROEDER CELEBRATES WHILE AMERICA'S BUSH BACKS OFF A PRIDE PROCLAMATION... AND SPEAKING OF WHICH, WHAT'S A "STONEWALL", AND WHO WAS "CHRISTOPHER STREET"? THE ANSWER TO THAT QUESTION -- AND A LOT MORE -- THIS WEEK ON "THIS WAY OUT: THE INTERNATIONAL LESBIAN AND GAY RADIO MAGAZINE", ______________________________________ [DAY and TIME] HERE ON __________________________. 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