======================================== To listen to this week's "This Way Out" copy/paste into your browser: www.planetout.com/support/media.html?file=/two/two20050404.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 ======================================== = BEGINNING OUR 18TH YEAR ON THE AIR! = THIS WAY OUT the international gay & lesbian radio magazine RUNDOWN for Program #888, distributed 4/4/05 (hosted this week by Greg Gordon and produced with Lucia Chappelle) Israelis and Germans cinematically "Walk on Water"; Gay New Zealand M.P. Tim Barnett discusses sexual politics; U.S. states debate bias and wedlock, Congress gets another Federal Marriage Amendment proposal, Honduras bans marriage & adoptions equality both foreign & domestic, India's Supreme Court looks at a constitutional sodomy challenge, Fairydown drawers get butch Down Under, and more news FEEDS MONDAY MARCH 28 from 14:30-14:59 ET on PRSS DIGITAL FREQUENCY A72.7 and TUESDAY MARCH 29 from 15:00-15:29 ET on Pacifica's KU satellite Also available online via mono or stereo mp3 files at www.radio4all.net, and on postal-mailed audio CD to non-satellite/non-wired stations and individual subscribers -------- 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": The U.S. state of Maine adds sexual orientation and gender identity as categories protected from discrimination in its Human Rights Act, but the Christian Civic League is already organizing a repeal effort, while Delaware's state House approves a bill to ban sexual orientation bias, but similar previous measures have failed in the Senate; proposed constitutional amendments to deny marriage to same gender couples advance in Tennessee, Minnesota, Indiana and Iowa, while a federal anti-marriage amendment is again introduced in the U.S. Congress; Honduras' National Assembly unanimously approves a constitutional amendment denying both marriage and adoptions to gay & lesbian couples; the Association for Civil Rights in Israel files a petition to have the legal Canadian marriages of two gay male couples recognized at home, while strong opposition to August's World Pride celebration in Jerusalem is voiced at a joint press conference there by conservative Jewish, Christian and Islamic clerics, which Pride organizers call "an attempt to globalize bigotry"; India's Supreme Court initiates formal proceedings for a challenge to the nation's sodomy law; Singapore's Minister for Information upholds the Media Development Authority's refusal to license a charity concert by U.S.-based openly gay Christian duo Jason and deMarco organized by an AIDS awareness group there, while Australian Democrats charge that a general public health risk is being posed by their nation's refusal to recognize same gender couples; and there's once again a Fairydown Under (written by CINDY FRIEDMAN, with thanks to Graham Underhill, Rex Wockner, and Greg Gordon, and reported this week by CINDY FRIEDMAN & RICK WATTS) [10:30] + "Walk on Water" billboard [:15]. . . 10:45 SEGMENT #2 - Openly "out" New Zealand M.P. Tim Barnett played an instrumental role in the recent passage of the nation's Civil Union Bill. A former Executive Director of the U.K. queer advocacy group Stonewall, Tim brought his activism with him when he emigrated to New Zealand, where he now serves as Labour Party M.P. for the seat of Christchurch. He's the Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Associate Minister of Justice on Human Rights issues, the Minister for the Community and Voluntary Sector and the Minister for Social Development. This Way Out correspondent UMA KALI SHAKTI [of 2SER-FM's "Gaywaves"] recently traveled from her Sydney, Australia home base to visit with Tim in his Office at Parliament House in Wellington . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6:05 SEGMENT #3 - "TWO" CDs/alternabid promo . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1:10 SEGMENT #4 - Two years after his acclaimed "Yossi and Jagger", American born Israeli director EYTAN FOX returns with "WALK ON WATER", a colorful and very contemporary road movie that takes its characters around Israel and later to Berlin. This unique movie is a non-traditional attempt to understand the role the past still plays in the lives of Israeli and German young people. Israel's top film star Lior Ashkenzai ("Late Marriage") heads an international cast that includes popular German actors Carola Ranier and Hans Tischler, Israeli Gideon Shemer, and Palestinian Yousuf (Jo) Swaid. This Way Out's STEVE PRIDE provides a sip of "Walk on Water" with some preview clips and chats with Fox about his film . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8:30 [www.WalkOnWaterMovie.com; www.PrideOnScreen.com] Closing Credits/continuity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1:15 TOTAL PROGRAM TIME . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28:55 ===================================== * =============================== STATION PROMO COPY: ANNCR: NEXT TIME ON "THIS WAY OUT," ISRAELIS AND GERMANS CINEMATICALLY "WALK ON WATER", WHILE A GAY NEW ZEALAND M.P. DISCUSSES SEXUAL POLITICS... IN THE NEWS, U.S. STATES DEBATE BIAS AND WEDLOCK, CONGRESS GETS ANOTHER FEDERAL MARRIAGE AMENDMENT PROPOSAL, HONDURAS BANS MARRIAGE AND ADOPTIONS BOTH FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC, INDIA'S SUPREME COURT LOOKS AT A CONSTITUTIONAL SODOMY CHALLENGE, AND FAIRYDOWN DRAWERS GET BUTCH DOWN UNDER. 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