======================================== To listen to this week's "This Way Out" online go to www.planetout.com/support/media.html?file=/two/two20040816.rm [our current show is usually up by Tuesday nights US Pacific Time each week] or check thiswayout.org for a list of our 150+ local broadcast station affiliates ======================================== THIS WAY OUT the international gay & lesbian radio magazine RUNDOWN for Program #855, distributed 08/16/04 (hosted this week by Greg Gordon and produced with Lucia Chappelle) Author and legal advocate Evan Wolfson discusses "Why Marriage Matters"; Coming out drama topples now openly-gay New Jersey Governor Jim McGreevey; Australia's Senate imposes a heterosexual monopoly on matrimony, California's Supreme Court rends San Francisco licenses asunder, and a U.S. National Scrabble champ gets censored for his abbreviated "L" word "TWO" feeds via the PRSS EVERY MONDAY @ 14:30 ET on A72.3, EVERY TUESDAY @ 15:00 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 => Monday feeds are scheduled by PRSS on A72.3 through December 2004 <= -------- 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/intro theme music/continuity . . . . . . . . . . . . 1:00 SEGMENT #1 ­ "NewsWrap": With the help of the "opposition" Australlian Labor Party, the government of Prime Minister John Howard successfully secures passage in the Australian Senate of legislation defining marriage as exclusively between "a man and a woman" and denying legal recognition to marriages of gay & lesbian couples performed in other countries; the California Supreme Court unanimously rules that San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom did not have the authority to order the issuance of marriage licenses to same gender couples earlier this year, and by a 5-to-2 vote declares all of those 4,000+ marriages null and void [with comments by MAYOR GAVIN NEWSOM and affected queer couples]; NEW JERSEY GOVERNOR JAMES MCGREEVEY comes out as "a gay American" and resigns as allegations fly about the relationship he had with another man [with brief excerpts from McGreevey's announcement]; and officials at the U.S. National Scrabble Championship scramble over an offensive three-letter-word (written by CINDY FRIEDMAN, with thanks to GRAHAM UNDERHILL, REX WOCKNER and GREG GORDON, and reported this week by CINDY FRIEDMAN & CHRISTOPHER GAAL) [10:35] + Billboard for Evan Wolfson interview (over "NewsWrap" outro music) [:10] . . . . . . 10:45 SEGMENT #2 - The August 12th press conference at the State House in Trenton, New Jersey was a wrenching amalgam of the personal and the political. 47-year-old GOVERNOR JAMES MCGREEVEY admitted that it was "arguably too late to have this discussion," but that the time to come out had arrived. It was also time, due to a pending scandal McGreevey declined to detail, to tender his resignation. That scandal, far from the first to rock McGreevey's administration, involves sexual harassment charges being made by an unqualified male aide the governor had hired for a high-paying position. However it was the poignancy of McGreevey's statement rather than the seamy side of the story that stole the headlines [6:35] + "TWO" I.D. by Russian queer activist ROMAN KALININ [:10]. . 6:45 SEGMENT #3 - "Time" magazine calls EVAN WOLFSON one of the "100 Most Influential People in the World." As marriage project director for Lambda Legal Defense & Education Fund, Wolfson was co-counsel in the historic Hawai'i marriage case and appeared before the U.S. Supreme Court in Boy Scouts of America v. James Dale. Now he's the Executive Director of Freedom to Marry, an organization working to win U.S. marriage equality, and the author of a new book entitled "WHY MARRIAGE MATTERS" (Simon & Schuster). He tells This Way Out's CHRIS WILSON why "same sex marriage" is a misnomer, debunks the oft-stated assertion that "marriage as we know it has existed for centuries," addresses the "slippery slope" argument used my marriage equality opponents, and discusses how the struggle can ultimately be won. . . . . . 9:00 [www.freedomtomarry.org] Closing continuity/credits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1:15 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," AUTHOR AND LEGAL ADVOCATE EVAN WOLFSON DISCUSSES "WHY MARRIAGE MATTERS," AND COMING OUT DRAMA TOPPLES NOW OPENLY-GAY NEW JERSEY GOVERNOR JIM McGREEVEY... IN OTHER NEWS, AUSTRALIA'S SENATE IMPOSES A HETEROSEXUAL MONOPOLY ON MATRIMONY, CALIFORNIA'S SUPREME COURT VOIDS SAN FRANCISCO MARRIAGES, AND A U.S. NATIONAL SCRABBLE CHAMP IS CENSORED FOR HIS ABBREVIATED "L" WORD. THOSE STORIES - AND MORE THIS WEEK - WHEN YOU DISCOVER "THIS WAY OUT: THE INTERNATIONAL LESBIAN AND GAY RADIO MAGAZINE", ______________________________________ [DAY and TIME] HERE ON __________________________. [STATION] ~~~~~~~~~~~~> STATIONS: MISSED THE SATELLITE FEEDS? <~~~~~~~~~~~~~ YOU CAN GET A STEREO OR MONO MP3 FILE OF THE PROGRAM ONLINE AT www.radio4all.net. ******************************************************** Some "This Way Out" operating expenses are funded by VOLUNTARY "PROGRAM ACQUISITION" PAYMENTS FROM AFFILIATE STATIONS, and through direct charitable donations from our listeners. "This Way Out" is a tax-exempt 501(c)(3) nonprofit under the corporate name of OVERNIGHT PRODUCTIONS (INC.). 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