======================================== To listen to this week's "This Way Out" copy/paste into your browser: www.planetout.com/support/media.html?file=/two/two20050425.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 #891, distributed 4/25/05 (hosted this week by Greg Gordon and produced with Lucia Chappelle) "Mercy Now", go "Down That Road" for some "Soulsex" in the "Audiofile"; Canadian lesbians stream into to their Suburban Coffee Club; The Inquisition's top cop is promoted to Pope, Spain moves toward marriage and adoptions equality but a Canadian corruption scandal may scuttle legislation there, France's first wedded gay couple fights their annulment, Connecticut becomes the second "civilized" state, and more news FEEDS MONDAY APRIL 25 from 14:30-14:59 ET on PRSS DIGITAL FREQUENCY A72.7 and TUESDAY APRIL 26 from 15:00-15:29 ET on Pacifica's KU satellite; Also available online at www.radio4all.net and Pacifica's Audioport, 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 . . . . . . . . . . . . 1:20 SEGMENT #1 - "NewsWrap": The selection of German Cardinal Josef Ratzinger as the next Pope portends a continuing hard line against homosexuality and Vatican political action against legal recognition of same gender couples; in Ratzinger's first week as Pope Benedict XVI, the Congress of Deputies in predominantly Roman Catholic Spain approves a measure to open legal marriage and adoptions to gay & lesbian couples; however, a corruption scandal in Liberal Party Canadian Prime Minister Paul Martin's administration may force early elections and doom marriage equality legislation currently in Parliament; a Bordeaux appeals court upholds the annulment of France's first same gender marriage, but Stephane Chapin & Bertrand Charpentier vow to take their case to the European courts if necessary; Slovenia's parliament will consider a bill to create registered partnerships following its late March Cabinet approval, while Switzerland's Government is urging the nation's electorate to approve a proposed upgrade of registered partnerships in a June 5th vote there; in the U.S., Connecticut becomes the second state to create civil unions for same gender couples with all the state-level benefits of marriage, but like the Oklahoma-area Cherokee Nation Tribal Council last year, the Tribal Council of the 180,000-member Navajo Nation -- whose lands are surrounded by Arizona, New Mexico and Utah -- votes to restrict legal marriage to one man and one woman; and Russian authorities say most plate-less vehicles are driven by those with an "untraditional sexual orientation," and label gay men -- and picnickers -- environmental threats (written by CINDY FRIEDMAN, with thanks to Graham Underhill, Rex Wockner, and Greg Gordon, and reported this week by JON BEAUPRE & CINDY FRIEDMAN) [10:35] + "Audiofile" billboard [:10]. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10:45 SEGMENT #2 - OTTAWA, ONTARIO-area lesbians seeking a haven from the bar scene have found one in the aptly named enclave of Barrhaven. The SUBURBAN LESBIAN COFFEE CLUB is clearly filling a need, as This Way Out correspondent MONICA FULLER discovered (with comments by the organizers, owners and patrons, and intro/outro music from "Java" by AL HIRT). 6:45 SEGMENT #3 - "TWO" I.D. by British "Queer As Folk" creator RUSSEL T. DAVIS [:10] + "TWO" email lists promo [:50]. . . . . . . . . . . 1:00 SEGMENT #4 - This month's "Audiofile" features partners in music and in life (excerpts from the title cut and "Marrying You" from GREEN & ROOT's "DOWN THAT ROAD"), integrated sexuality ("And I Love Horses" and "Why Not Fly" from MARK WEIGLE's "SOULSEX"), and lyrical American roots ("I Drink" and the title cut from MARY GAUTHIER's "MERCY NOW") (with comments by each of the artists, hosted by CHRIS WILSON & JD DOYLE, and written and produced with CHRISTOPHER DAVID TRENTHAM). . . . . . . . . . . . . 7:35 = artist contact info = GREEN & ROOT MARK WEIGLE MARY GAUTHIER Cozy Goat Records P.O. Box 427 401 Bowling Ave. #97 P.O. Box 3900 Graton, CA 95444 Nashville, TN 37205 Berkeley, CA 94703 mark@markweigle.com MaryGoshay@aol.com info@greenandroot.com www.markweigle.com www.marygauthier.com www.greenandroot.com = AUDIOFILE = P.O. Box 66648 Houston, TX 77006 www.audiofile.org Closing Credits/continuity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1:35 TOTAL PROGRAM TIME . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29:00 ===================================== * =============================== STATION PROMO COPY: ANNCR: NEXT TIME ON "THIS WAY OUT," "MERCY NOW", WE'LL GO "DOWN THAT ROAD" FOR SOME HOT "SOULSEX" IN THE "AUDIOFILE", AND CANADIAN LESBIANS STREAM INTO THEIR SUBURBAN COFFEE CLUB... IN THE NEWS, THE INQUISITION'S TOP COP IS PROMOTED TO POPE, SPAIN MOVES TOWARD MARRIAGE AND ADOPTIONS EQUALITY BUT A CANADIAN CORRUPTION SCANDAL MAY SCUTTLE LEGISLATION THERE, FRANCE'S FIRST WEDDED GAY COUPLE FIGHTS THEIR ANNULMENT, AND CONNECTICUT BECOMES THE SECOND "CIVILIZED" STATE. 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