======================================== To listen to this week's "This Way Out" copy/paste into your browser: www.planetout.com/support/media.html?file=/two/two20050905.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 #910, distributed 9/5/05 (hosted this week by Greg Gordon and produced with Lucia Chappelle) Brian Sloan's very funny debut novel chronicles "A Really Nice Prom Mess"; Activists work for global GLBT-organized labor solidarity; California's Senate says yes to civil marriage equality, a Canadian judge rules that extramarital homosexual infidelity is adultery, Ireland debates adoptions by gays & lesbians, Britain rethinks its unequal fertility laws, catastrophic Katrina does not discriminate, and more global GLBT news FEEDS MONDAY SEPT 5 from 14:30-14:59 ET on PRSS DIGITAL FREQUENCY A72.7 and TUESDAY SEPT 6 from 15:00-15:29 ET on Pacifica's KU satellite; Also available online at www.radio4all.net and Pacifica's Audioport, on postal-mailed audio CD to non-satellite/non-wired stations, and to 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": California's state Senate becomes the first legislative body in the U.S. to approve a marriage equality bill, while both the Senate and House pass and send to Governor Schwarzenegger a bill to add sexual orientation as a specific category to the state's civil rights law, and California's also becomes the first state legislature in the nation to urge repeal of the U.S. military's "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy; a British Columbia judge sets Canadian legal precedent by ruling that extramarital homosexual infidelity constitutes adultery under the nation's Divorce Act; adoption by gays and lesbians is the week's hot topic in Ireland; Britain's Government launches consultation on major fertility law reforms that include equal treatment access for lesbians and other women without male partners; Manchester and Ottawa celebrate Pride but Bulgaria's Church and state block that country's first; Miss Teen Bahamas beauty pageant officials freak when winner Gari McDonald comes out as lesbian; and while some on the religious right blame Hurricane Katrina on New Orleans' big annual gay party Southern Decadence, GLBT people are among its victims, and GLBT people and organizations are aiding relief efforts [www.nyacyouth.org] (written by CINDY FRIEDMAN, with thanks to Graham Underhill, Rex Wockner, and Greg Gordon, and reported this week by CINDY FRIEDMAN & JON BEAUPRE) [10:45] + "A Really Fine Prom Mess" billboard [:15]. . . . . 11:00 SEGMENT #2 - Is there a natural bond between organized labor and the fight for lesbian/gay/bisexual/transgender rights? The queer organizations and other advocacy groups represented at the United Nations Commission on Human Rights meeting earlier this year sought to highlight that connection during a panel entitled "IN UNION: HOW CAN WORKERS' RIGHTS AND THE STRUGGLE FOR EQUALITY FOR SEXUAL MINORITIES ADVANCE TOGETHER?" Public Services International (or PSI) is one of the world's largest unions, with over 25 million members. Its Secretary General HANS ENGLEBERTS was one of the panelists who addressed that question. His comments were recorded and edited by This Way Out correspondent UMA KALI SHAKTI, who also attended the meeting as the Pacific Regional Representative of the International Lesbian and Gay Association . . . 6:30 SEGMENT #3 - "TWO" Special CDs/Alternabid Promo [1:05] + Challenge Match Promo [:30]. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1:35 SEGMENT #4 - High comedy on the silver screen gave him his first success, and he's since added award-winning playwright to his resume. BRIAN SLOAN may be best known as the queer indie filmmaker behind the screwball wedding comedy "I Think I Do" -- and now he's turned novelist. This Way Out's STEVE PRIDE says Sloan's debut in that genre, "A REALLY NICE PROM MESS" (Simon & Schuster) hilariously skewers another heterosexual tradition (includes a brief reading by Sloan from his book). . . . 7:25 [www.PrideOnScreen.com] Closing Credits/continuity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1:20 TOTAL PROGRAM TIME . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29:00 ===================================== * =============================== STATION PROMO COPY: ANNCR: NEXT TIME ON "THIS WAY OUT", BRIAN SLOAN'S VERY FUNNY DEBUT NOVEL CHRONICLES "A REALLY NICE PROM MESS"... ACTIVISTS WORK FOR GLOBAL G-L-B-T- ORGANIZED LABOR SOLIDARITY... AND IN THE NEWS, CALIFORNIA'S SENATE SAYS YES TO CIVIL MARRIAGE EQUALITY, A CANADIAN JUDGE RULES THAT EXTRAMARITAL HOMOSEXUAL INFIDELITY CONSTITUTES ADULTERY, IRELAND DEBATES ADOPTIONS BY GAYS AND LESBIANS, BRITAIN RETHINKS ITS UNEQUAL FERTILITY LAWS, BULGARIA'S CHURCH AND STATE PREVENT PRIDE, BUT CATASTROPHIC KATRINA DOES NOT DISCRIMINATE. THOSE STORIES - AND MORE THIS WEEK - WHEN YOU TUNE IN TO "THIS WAY OUT: THE INTERNATIONAL LESBIAN AND GAY RADIO MAGAZINE", ______________________________________ [DAY and TIME] HERE ON __________________________. 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