THIS WAY OUT the international gay & lesbian radio magazine RUNDOWN for Program #793, distributed 06/09/03 (hosted this week by Greg Gordon and produced with Lucia Chappelle) Gay Asian actor B.D. Wong finds fatherhood and more in "Following Foo"; "Take Me Out" to "Hairspray" at Broadway's gayest night; Among Belgium's newest newlyweds is its first queer couple, Jerusalem elects Israel's first openly gay city official, U.S. Justice denies its Department's Pride celebration, a new gay bishop and couple blessings deepen Anglican discord, and other global GLBT news => RUNDOWN <= Opening Teases/Theme Music/Intro Continuity . . . . . . . . . . . . :55 SEGMENT #1 ­ NewsWrap: Lesbians Marion Huibrechts & Christel Veerswyvelen become the first couple to contract recently-established legal same gender marriage in Belgium, while long time partners and recently-elected Aberdeen, Scotland City Councilmembers Neil Fletcher & John Stewart express their hopes for legal recognition of their relationship there; Israel gets its first openly gay male municipal official with the election of Saar Netanel to the Jerusalem City Council; citing the recent anti-queer comments of U.S. Senator Rick Santorum, openly gay New Hampshire Republican state Representative Corey Corbin becomes a Democrat, while Republican U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft bans the annual gay & lesbian pride observance at the Department of Justice that's been held there for the past several years; serial bombing suspect Eric Rudolph, charged with targeting Atlanta's GLBT Otherside Lounge in 1997 and earlier attacks at family planning clinics and a 1996 Atlanta Olympics celebration, is finally captured in North Carolina; the British government rejects lobbying efforts by the national GLBT advocacy group Stonewall and others to include anti-bias sentencing enhancements in its Criminal Justice Bill; the appointment of openly gay Jeffrey John as Britain's newest Anglican bishop and the recent blessing of same gender couples authorized by Vancouver, Canada-area Bishop Michael Ingham increase the deepening chasm between liberal and conservative clergy in the global Anglican communion; 3 journalistic freedom advocates are arrested in Uzbekistan, and at least one is charged for homosexuality, prompting Human Rights Watch concern; bills are introduced by the governments of Lithuania and South Africa to legally recognize gender change following sex reassignment surgery; California queers celebrate passage in the Assembly of a bill to expand registered partnerships to carry most of the state's legal and financial status of marriage, but the Federal Marriage Amendment, to add to the U.S. Constitution the restriction of marriage to heterosexual couples, is reintroduced in the U.S. House of Representatives; pride season continues around the world with events in San Juan, Puerto Rico, Aberdeen, Scotland, and Knysna, South Africa, while the Canadian province of Quebec observes its first Anti-Homophobia Day in Montreal; and openly lesbian tennis star Amelie Mauresmo is knocked out of the French Open, but her celebrity status in France is enhanced by her recently unveiled wax figure in Paris' Grevin Museum and appearing on the cover of "Paris Match" - topless [written by CINDY FRIEDMAN, with thanks to GRAHAM UNDERHILL, REX WOCKNER, FENCEBERRY and GREG GORDON, and anchored this week by DEAN ELZINGA and CINDY FRIEDMAN]. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . >. . . . . . . . 10:30 SEGMENT #2 - It may have been Broadway's most unabashedly gay night ever when the 57th annual Tony Awards were handed out on June 8th at Radio City Musical Hall in New York: "TAKE ME OUT", about a star baseball player doing just that, won Best Play and a trophy for openly gay Featured Actor-Play DENIS O'HARE. "HAIRSPRAY", based on openly gay John Waters' Divine-starring film set in early 1960s Baltimore, took home 8 Tonys, including Best Musical and Best Actor-Musical for HARVEY FIERSTEIN as hefty matriarch Edna Turnblad. But the gayest part of the evening had to be the thank-you's by "Hairspray" Original Musical Score winners SCOTT WITTMAN & MARC SHAIMAN, long time domestic as well as musical partners, whose glowingly expressed love for each other early in the nationally-televised festivities prompted comments from many of the night's other winners [2:50] + "TWO" I.D. by openly-gay actor SIR IAN McKELLEN [:20] . . . >. . . . . . . 3:10 SEGMENT #3 ­ He's played "M. Butterfly" on the New York stage annd the idealistic prison chaplain Father Ray Mukada on the HBO cable drama "Oz", and is currently featured as forensic psychiatrist George Huang on NBC-TV's "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit". But in his real-life roles as gay partner, father and now author, B.D. WONG charmingly portrays himself. He discusses growing up, coming out, and the genesis of his newly released book "FOLLOWING FOO (THE ELECTRONIC ADVENTURES OF THE CHESTNUT MAN): A MEMOIR" [HarperCollins] in the first of a multi-part conversation with This Way Out's JOSY CATOGGIO . . . . . . >. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13:00 Closing Continuity/Credits. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1:15 TOTAL PROGRAM TIME. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28:50