======================================== To listen to this week's "This Way Out" copy/paste into your browser: www.planetout.com/support/media.html?file=/two/two20041206.rm or click on the PlanetOut link at www.thiswayout.org [our current show is usually up by Wednesday 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 #871, distributed 12/06/04 (hosted by Greg Gordon and produced with Lucia Chappelle) Torture and terrorism lock Palestinian gays in limbo; Marriage equality wins Supreme South African approval, New Zealand nears tying the knot on a civil unions bill, Czech deputies debate registered partnerships, there's a remarkable step for partners in Roman Catholic Poland, Ontario turns back the clock on Canadian same-gender survivor pensions, US law schools out-flank a military funding attack, & more news "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 tease/theme music/intro continuity. . . . . . . . . . . . . 1:15 SEGMENT #1 ­ "NewsWrap": A landmark ruling by South Africa's higheest court changing the definition of common law marriage to "the union of two persons to the exclusion of all others for life" means that gay & lesbian couples could wed legally there within a year -- assuming that frequently foot-dragging lawmakers enact necessary revisions to the country's Marriage Act and related regu lations [with brief comments by EVERT KNOESEN of the Lesbian and Gay Equality Project]; a bill to create civil unions in New Zealand passes its second of three required readings, though intense lobbying by opponents to scuttle the measure continues; legislation to create registered partnerships advances in both the Czech Republic and Poland, though chances of their ultimate passage each appears to be slim, while Germany upgrades the status of existing registered partnerships there, adding survivor's pension rights and co-adoption of a partner's children; a Canadian parliamentary committee denies a floor vote to a private member's bill to define marriage as a union between a man and a woman, while the country's Supreme Court is expected to release in the coming week its findings on federal legislation to legalize same gender marriage; Ontario's highest provincial court emphatically upholds retroactive survivor payments from the Canada Pension Plan for same gender partners, but Australia's Senate rejects a proposal to extend pension benefits to the same gender partners of military personnel, flouting an order from the UN Human Rights Commission; a U.S. appeals court overturns the 1996 Solomon Amendment that authorized withholding federal funding for schools whose anti-discrimination policies banned military recruiters on campus, while the U.S. Supreme Court refuses to hear a challenge to last year's Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court ruling that opened legal marriage to same gender couples in that state; during a White House press briefing, presidential spokesperson Scott McLellan repeatedly refers to "the sanctity of marriage" and the "sacred institution" in reaffirming George W. Bush's strong support for a Federal Marriage Amendment that would constitutionally restrict marriage to heterosexuals only; and in another sign of the current American political climate, a group of Vermonters has created a Web site [VermontCanada.org] advocating the secession of that state from the U.S. to become Canada's 11th province (written by CINDY FRIEDMAN, with thanks to GRAHAM UNDERHILL, REX WOCKNER, and GREG GORDON, and reported this week by CHRISTOPHER GAAL & CINDY FRIEDMAN). . . . . 10:20 SEGMENT #2 - Throughout the Moslem world, homosexuality is a taboo, punishable in several countries by death. In the PALESTINIAN occupied territories, men and women who have consensual adult sex with members of the same gender face imprisonment and torture. They're almost always rejected by their families, and shunned by the rest of society. Several hundred Palestinian gays and lesbians have fled to ISRAEL -- but because they're Palestinian, they're illegal and they can't get asylum there. No other country wants to accept them either. In this special feature, originally heard on the Radio Netherlands program "Wide Angle," ERIC BEAUCHEMIN reports on these Palestinians in limbo (with comments by BASSEM EID, director of the Palestinian Human Rights Monitoring Group; RAMI, a torture victim of the Palestinian Authority who fled to Israel when he was 16; SHAOL GANNON of Agudah, Israel's main gay lobbying group; and DANIEL WEISHUT of Amnesty International) . . . . . . . 15:35 SEGMENT #3 - Promo for "Audiofile Year In Review 2004" (to air on the "This Way Out" program the week of 12/27/04) . . . . . . . . . . . :30 Closing continuity/credits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1:15 TOTAL PROGRAM TIME . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28:55 ==================================== * ================================ STATION PROMO COPY: ANNCR: NEXT TIME ON "THIS WAY OUT," TORTURE AND TERRORISM LOCK PALESTINIAN GAYS IN LIMBO... IN THE NEWS, MARRIAGE EQUALITY WINS SUPREME SOUTH AFRICAN APPROVAL, NEW ZEALAND NEARS TYING THE KNOT ON A CIVIL UNIONS BILL, CZECH DEPUTIES DEBATE REGISTERED PARTNERSHIPS, THERE'S A REMARKABLE STEP FOR PARTNERS IN ROMAN CATHOLIC POLAND, ONTARIO TURNS BACK THE CLOCK ON CANADIAN SAME-GENDER SURVIVOR PENSIONS, AND U.S. LAW SCHOOLS OUT- MANEUVER A MILITARY FUNDING ATTACK. 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. 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