======================================== To listen to this week's "This Way Out" copy/paste into your browser: www.planetout.com/support/media.html?file=/two/two20050124.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 #878, distributed 1/24/05 (hosted this week by Greg Gordon and produced with Lucia Chappelle) The real story behind Tchaikovsky's passionately-gay "Pathetique"; The top Sikh leader declares marriage equality "sick", the Canadian Conservative Party's ad campaign will promote "traditional" matrimony, while politics, not love, sparks two Russian men's marriage application, a Brazilian prosecutor seeks court-ordered same-gender weddings, the U.S.'s DOMA withstands its first challenge, sheltering SpongeBob, and more news FEEDS MONDAY JAN 24 from 14:30-14:59 ET on PRSS DIGITAL FREQUENCY A72.7 and TUESDAY JAN 25 from 15:00-15:29 ET on Pacifica's KU satellite = Also available via mono or stereo mp3 files at www.radio4all.net = and postal-mailed on audiocassette to non-satellite/non-wired stations and to individual subscribers -------- AIR THE ENTIRE HALF-HOUR AND/OR USE SELECTED SEGMENTS ------- ALWAYS FREE OF CHARGE! 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[no teases this week] . . . :40 SEGMENT #1 - "NewsWrap": In India, Giani Joginder Singh Vedanti, the top clergymember of the Sikh religion, issues an edict prohibiting the celebration of same gender marriages, calling the very idea the product of "sick minds," while Canadian Prime Minister Paul Martin, visiting India primarily to discuss tsunami relief efforts there, defends his Government's plan to legalize civil marriages for gay & lesbian couples as the opposition Conservative Party plans a widespread ad campaign in support of "traditional" marriage; two Russian male activists are refused a marriage license at a Moscow registry office, part of their plan to challenge the denial at the European Court of Human Rights, but a federal prosecutor in Brazil files for a judicial order that would require all Brazilian courts to perform same gender marriages; a U.S. district court judge in Florida upholds the constitutionality of the 1996 Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) in a case brought by a lesbian couple married in Massachusetts seeking its legal recognition in their home state, while U.S. President George W. Bush acknowledges during an interview with the "Washington Post" that the so-called Federal Marriage Amendment (FMA) has no chance of passage, at least in the U.S. Senate, until DOMA has been struck down by the courts; the Louisiana Supreme Court upholds the validity of the voter-passed state constitutional amendment defining marriage exclusively as between "one man and one woman", while Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich's official signature makes his state the 15th in the U.S. to ban sexual orientation discrimination; and U.S. Christian conservatives are up in arms over SpongeBob Squarepants' appearance in an educational video to promote respect for differences, including "sexual identity," charging that the animated icon would be "brainwashing children" into believing that gay is okay, prompting the L.A. Gay & Lesbian Center to offer him a haven from homophobia among its "gay/straight alliance of cartoon characters" [written by CINDY FRIEDMAN, with thanks to Graham Underhill, Rex Wockner, and Greg Gordon, and reported this week by CINDY FRIEDMAN & DEAN ELZINGA] . . . 10:45 SEGMENT #2 - British schools will be encouraged to teach students about the achievements of lesbians and gay men around the world in February as part of a first-ever Gay History Month, which the government's Equality Minister Jacqui Smith says is aimed at creating "a more inclusive society." As This Way Out's contribution to that effort we offer this analysis of gay composer PETER ILYICH TCHAIKOVSKY's 6th Symphony, the "Pathetique," from a perspective you almost certainly didn't get in any "music appreciation" class. It's based on what historian and Slavic languages professor Simon Karlinsky told "Christopher Street" magazine in the late 1980s. From producer HUGH YOUNG and narrator BARRY EMPSON ["Gay BC"/Access Radio - Wellington, New Zealand], we go "Beyond the Sugar Plum Fairy" . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16:10 Closing Credits/continuity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1:20 TOTAL PROGRAM TIME . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28:55 ===================================== * =============================== STATION PROMO COPY: ANNCR: NEXT TIME ON "THIS WAY OUT," THE REAL STORY BEHIND TCHAIKOVSKY'S PASSIONATELY-GAY "PATHETIQUE"... IN THE NEWS, THE TOP SIKH LEADER DECLARES MARRIAGE EQUALITY "SICK", THE CANADIAN CONSERVATIVE PARTY'S AD CAMPAIGN WILL PROMOTE "TRADITIONAL" MATRIMONY, WHILE POLITICS, NOT LOVE, SPARKS TWO RUSSIAN MEN'S MARRIAGE APPLICATION, A BRAZILIAN FEDERAL PROSECUTOR SEEKS COURT-ORDERED SAME-GENDER WEDDINGS, THE U.S.'S "DOMA" WITHSTANDS ITS FIRST CHALLENGE, AND L.A. QUEERS OFFER SHELTER TO SPONGEBOB. 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