THIS WAY OUT the international gay & lesbian radio magazine RUNDOWN for Program #785, distributed 04/14/03 (hosted this week by Greg Gordon and produced with Lucia Chappelle) America's "War On Terror" targets a gay Pakistani DJ; Gay "Renaissance Man" Dennis Hensley invites you to his "Screening Party"; Silent students sound off against bigotry, New Mexico's governor tops anti- bias/anti-hate bills with state partner equality, Britain's High Court rips a transwoman's 22 year marriage asunder, a gay Bangladeshi pair pleads for Aussie asylum, 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: Over 200,000 students across the U.S. observe the 7th annual National Day of Silence to raise awareness of discrimination & harassment against GLBT youth, while the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals rules in a case filed by 6 queer former students in Morgan Hill, California that public school administrators can be held liable for failing to act effectively against homophobic harassment of its students; El Paso, Texas adds "sexual orientation" & "gender identity" to the city's civil rights ordinance, while New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson issues an executive order extending spousal benefits to the same gender partners of state workers as he signs recently-passed anti-discrimination & queer-inclusive hate crimes bills [with brief sound of RICHARDSON's announcement]; in a first for Costa Rica, a transwoman known only as "Mairena" is granted "provisional custody" of a 9-year-old child she's cared for since he was a baby, but Britain's highest court rejects legal recognition of the marriage of transwoman Elizabeth Bellinger to her husband of 22 years Michael; the European Parliament adopts resolutions urging EU member states to broaden the terms of "family reunification" to include queer couples, and also calling on Egypt to end its persecution of gay men, while two gay men seek asylum in Australia's highest court from persecution in their native Bangladesh; and the prestigious Pulitzer Prizes awarded this week include two queer surprises: gay Cuban-born Florida playwright Nilo Cruz wins the Drama prize for his "Anna & the Tropics", and gay Detroit-born Berlin resident Jeffrey Eugenides wins the Fiction award for "Middlesex", his sprawling "Greek-American hermaphrodite epic" (written by CINDY FRIEDMAN, with thanks to GRAHAM UNDERHILL, FENCEBERRY, REX WOCKNER, KATHARINE KIMBALL, GREG GORDON, and KUNM-Albuquerque's PAUL INGLES & NICK LAYMAN, and anchored by DEAN ELZINGA & CINDY FRIEDMAN) [10:20] + Dennis Hensley billboard (over "NewsWrap" outro music) [:10] . . . . . . . . . . . 10:30 SEGMENT #2 - As part of America's so-called "War On Terror" thousands of immigrants from countries in the Middle East have been required to undergo "special registration" with the U.S. government. Some of them have been detained and forced into deportation proceedings, even after living in the U.S. for many years. One of them is 34-year-old KESHAV JIWNANI, who was born in KARACHI, PAKISTAN but now lives in SAN FRANCISCO, where he has helped build the local psy-trance music scene as a popular DJ. For several years, "KJ" avoided the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service because he feared returning home to a country where gays & lesbians are often persecuted. Now, Jiwnani may not have a choice. An immigration court will decide his fate this July, where he will face deportation and, if he's forced to return to Pakistan, perhaps even death. With production assistance from PAUL JAFFE, This Way Out's BRYAN GOEBEL reports from San Francisco (includes music from "In Search Of" by PSYCHOID, "Strange Planet" by SILICON SOUND, "Spy Man" by NOMAD & "Holy Bharat" by HARA GOBI). 8:30 [To contribute to KJ's legal fund: www.sflnc.com/kj] (*technical note: portions of this segment, particularly when music is playing, may sound a bit over-modulated) SEGMENT #3 ­ "TWO" I.D. by openly lesbian actress AMANDA BEARSE ("Marcy D'Arcy" on the long-running Fox TV sitcom "Married... With Children") [:10] + DENNIS HENSLEY is a "Renaissance Man" in the truest sense of the word: he's an "Everyman" who seems to be everywhere doing everything. In 1998 he turned a column he was writing for "Detour" magazine into the novel "Misadventures In The (213)", which landed him on the "Los Angeles Times" bestseller list. Then came his debut as a singer/songwriter with his GLAMA nominated CD "The Water's Fine" (from which "The Last Time" is briefly excerpted here). Next he segued into filmmaking as co-writer, co-director and co-star of the 13 minute film fest fave "Evie Harris: Shining Star". Moving on to feature films, he co-wrote the screenplay for "Testosterone", shot in Argentina with Antonio Sabato Jr., David Sutcliffe, Jennifer Coolidge & Sonia Braga, and set for release in a few months. In his dubious spare time Hensley has written "SCREENING PARTY", a new novel from Alyson Publications that's been nominated for a Lambda Book Award and turned into a Fluid Words audiobook featuring KATHY GRIFFIN, ERIN QUILL, MARK SALZBERG and, of course, Dennis Hensley. He makes his own Christmas cards and everyone who meets him claims him as a best friend, including one of his newest, This Way Out's STEVE PRIDE [7:10]. . . . . . . . . . 7:20 [www.DennisHensley.com] Closing Continuity/Credits. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1:20 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", AMERICA'S "WAR ON TERROR" TARGETS A GAY PAKISTANI D.J., AND QUEER "RENAISSANCE MAN" DENNIS HENSLEY INVITES YOU TO HIS "SCREENING PARTY"... 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