THIS WAY OUT the international gay & lesbian radio magazine RUNDOWN for Program #783, distributed 03/31/03 (hosted this week by Greg Gordon and produced with Lucia Chappelle) Raw emotion, gender bending and harmonic humor spring from the "AudioFile"; The U.S. Supreme sodomy debate probes equality and privacy; "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" discharges decrease during wartime, Lebanese demo mixes peace demands & pride, South African co-moms' twins are declared "legitimate", Colorado's House okays denial of medical treatment to queers, Israeli rabbis grant a gay dad child custody, and other global GLBT news "TWO" feeds via the PRSS EVERY MONDAY @ 14:30 ET on A72.3*, on 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 audiocassette to non-satellite/non-wired stations and to individual subscribers *==> Weekly feeds are scheduled by PRSS on A72.3 through June 2003 <== -------- AIR THE ENTIRE HALF-HOUR AND/OR USE SELECTED SEGMENTS ------ ALWAYS FREE OF CHARGE! USAGE LIMITED ONLY BY TIMELINESS OF NEWS CONTENT! => RUNDOWN <= Opening Teases/Theme Music/Intro Continuity . . . . . . . . . . . . 1:10 SEGMENT #1 ­ NewsWrap: U.S. military actions in the Middle East appear to be allowing more gays & lesbians to stay in uniform, but the annual "Conduct Unbecoming" report from the queer advocacy group Servicemembers Legal Defense Network is not all rosy, while a peace demonstration in Beirut, Lebanon includes what may have been that country's first public display of gay pride; Volkert van der Graaf, the man who's already confessed to assassinating openly gay Netherlands Prime Minister candidate Pim Fortuyn ten days before last May's elections, tells the court that he did it to protect the nation's Muslim immigrants and other "weak" elements of Dutch society; South Africa's highest court confers status equal to legally married couples' children to the twins born to a lesbian couple, while the U.S. Supreme Court hears oral arguments in Lawrence vs. Texas, a landmark case with the potential to strike down all state sodomy laws; the Colorado state House passes a measure to allow medical personnel to deny treatment to gays & lesbians, while a Texas trial court judge vacates the divorce decree he'd granted to a gay couple with a Vermont civil union after the state Attorney General says it's illegal to divorce a couple who haven't been married; a rabbinical court in Israel awards child custody to a gay father for what's believed to be the first time; in Canada, 8 Vancouver, British Columbia-area Anglican parishes opposed to the blessing of same gender couples reject their own Bishop Michael Ingham's queer-supportive leadership in favor of the more conservative Yukon Bishop Terrence Buckle's, but disciplinary action against Buckle has been requested; and several queer-produced and queer-themed Oscar nominated films yield several wins at this year's Academy Awards, while openly gay writer/director Todd Haynes' "Far From Heaven" scores big at the always queer-supportive Independent Spirit Awards (written by CINDY FRIEDMAN, with thanks to GRAHAM UNDERHILL, FENCEBERRY, REX WOCKNER and GREG GORDON, and anchored by DEAN ELZINGA & CINDY FRIEDMAN) [10:55] + "AudioFile" billboard (over "NewsWrap" outro music) [:10] . . . . . . . . . . . 11:05 SEGMENT #2 - The oral arguments heard before the U.S. SUPREME COURT on March 26th in the case of LAWRENCE v. TEXAS dramatically define many of the issues that make sodomy law reform key in the fight for gay and lesbian equality. It's more than the constitutional challenges: that Texas' "same-sex only" sodomy ban violates the guarantees of equal protection under the law, and the right to privacy. It's even more than the sensational circumstances of the case, in which the couple was arrested in the plaintiff's own bedroom. Excerpts from the court transcript provide a fascinating primer on the broader legal ramifications of such laws. Attorney Paul M. Smith argued against the Texas sodomy statute before the Supreme Court; Harris County District Attorney Charles A. Rosenthal, Jr. argued in its defense. Reading from the Alderson Reporting Company transcript as published in the "New York Times" and from Associated Press accounts are This Way Out's CINDY FRIEDMAN and DEAN ELZINGA . . . . 7:35 SEGMENT #3 ­ "TWO" I.D. by pioneering queer singing/songwriting duo ROMANOVSKY & PHILLIPS (intro'd by a snippet from their "Brave Boys") [:20] + SKOTT FREEDMAN brings "SOME COMPANY" (excerpts from "The Wind" and the CD's title cut), NAMOLI BRENNET arrives as a "BOY IN A DRESS" (the title cut and "Turning Song"), and the KINSEY SICKS harmonize "SICKS IN THE CITY" ("You're Scaring Us" and "Locked Out Of The Chapel Of Love") in this month's gift from the "AUDIOFILE" (hosted by CHRIS WILSON & JD DOYLE, with comments by F reedman, Brennet and "Trampolina", and written & produced with CHRISTOPHER DAVID TRENTHAM) [7:30]. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7:50 = artist contact info = SKOTT FREEDMAN NAMOLI BRENNET THE KINSEY SICKS Violent Yodel Productions 648 E. 8th St. P.M.B. 387 P.O. Box 266 Tucson, AZ 85705 584 Castro St. Charleston, S.C. 29402 namolib@hotmail.com San Francisco, CA 94114 info@skottfreedman.com www.namolibrennet.com ksicks@aol.com www.skottfreedman.com www.kinseysicks.com Closing Continuity/Credits. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1:15 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", RAW EMOTION, GENDER BENDING AND HARMONIC HUMOR SPRING FROM THE "AUDIOFILE", WHILE THE U.S. SUPREME SODOMY DEBATE PROBES EQUALITY AND PRIVACY... IN OTHER NEWS, "DON'T ASK, DON'T TELL" DISCHARGES DECREASE DURING WARTIME, A LEBANESE DEMO MIXES PEACE DEMANDS & PRIDE, SOUTH AFRICAN CO-MOMS' TWINS ARE DECLARED "LEGITIMATE", COLORADO'S HOUSE OKAYS DENIAL OF MEDICAL TREATMENT TO QUEERS, AND ISRAELI RABBIS GRANT A GAY DAD CHILD CUSTODY. THOSE STORIES 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? <~~~~~~~~~~~~~ YOU CAN GET A STEREO OR MONO MP3 FILE OF THE PROGRAM ONLINE AT www.radio4all.net. ******************************************************** 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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