======================================== To listen to this week's "This Way Out" copy/paste into your browser: www.planetout.com/support/media.html?file=/two/two20060522.rm or click on the PlanetOut link at www.thiswayout.org [our current show is usually up by Thursday nights US Pacific Time each week] or check thiswayout.org for a list of our 150+ local station affiliates in your area ======================================== THIS WAY OUT the international gay & lesbian radio magazine RUNDOWN for Program #947, distributed 05/22/06 (hosted this week by Greg Gordon and produced with Lucia Chappelle) A happy but bittersweet anniversary to Massachusetts marriage equality; International actions mark a Day Against Homophobia, an anti-gay Shiite fatwa is out of sight but not out of mind, a United Nations committee nixes queer consultants, Moscow's mayor officially bans Pride, Clapham Common killers plead guilty, the so-called "Federal Marriage Amendment" marches down the U.S. Senate aisle, and more global GLBT news FEEDS MONDAY MAY 22 from 14:30-14:59 ET on PRSS DIGITAL FREQUENCY A72.3 and TUESDAY MAY 23 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. . . . . . . . . . . . . 1:05 SEGMENT #1 - "NewsWrap": The second annual International Day Against Homophobia -- or IDAHO -- is observed on May 17th around the world, including diverse actions in Japan, Nepal, Israel, Latin America, and the U.K., but the United Nations Economic and Social Council uses the day to reject applications for consultative status from two LGBT organizations, and Human Rights Watch issues an IDAHO "Hall of Shame" listing the world's most anti-queer public officials; Moscow Mayor Yuri Lushkov officially makes good on his vow to ban any demonstration of Pride in his city; revered Iraqi Shiite Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani removes from his Web site a fatwa calling for the killing of homosexuals in the "worst, most severe way possible," but leaves a directive calling for pun ishment of lesbians; two men plead guilty in Britain and face minimum 30-year prison sentences for the brutal bashing murder of popular gay bar manager Jody Dobrowski in October, while two more suspects are arrested on the Caribbean island of St. Maarten in the viciously-homophobic attack on two CBS-TV newsmen there earlier this year; Republican U.S. Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist blocks passage of a bill that would have authorized the federal government to prosecute hate crimes against gays and lesbians, but schedules a floor vote for June 5th on the so-called "Federal Marriage Amendment" to "protect" the institution as hetero only; a Georgia judge strikes down the state's voter-approved constitutional ban on same gender marriage, while a federal judge nixes an Oklahoma state law barring recognition of adoptions by same gender couples from other states and countries; and the groundbreaking TV sitcom "Will & Grace" bows out after 8 years on primetime television, but fans can bid on a piece of the show in an online auction to benefit a Southern California children's charity [www.ebay.com/varietyskids] (written by GREG GORDON, with thanks to REX WOCKNER and GRAHAM UNDERHILL, and reported this week by CHARLS HALL and GREG GORDON) [10:40] + "TWO" I.D. by openly gay gold medal-winning diving Olympian GREG LOUGANIS [:05} + quick "TWO" CDs promo [:15]. . . . . 11:00 SEGMENT #2 - Anniversary greetings are in order for the thousand plus same-gender couples who received their marriage licenses on May 17, 2004, the first day of marriage equality in Massachusetts -- and in view of the occasion, let's also congratulate all of the 8,171 lesbian and gay partners who've married there in the two years since. "Observances" by anti-lesbigay groups include bringing the legislature an initiative proposal -- supported by presidential hopeful Governor Mitt Romney -- that would amend the state's constitution to restrict marriage to heterosexuals. And the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court ruled earlier this year that a 1913 law barring out-of-state couples from marrying in Massachusetts if that union wouldn't be legally recognized in their home state -- targeting interracial marriage at the time -- applied to gay and lesbian couples today. The gift we'd prefer to offer is a review of our coverage of the life-changing event on our broadcast the week of May 24, 2004: "CAMBRIDGE jumped at the chance to be the first municipality to issue licenses to gay & lesbian couples at the stroke of midnight. Later that day in BOSTON, as they arrived at City Hall to get their licenses, the Mayor welcomed three of the original seven plaintiff couples who successfully sued for marriage equality, and the lawsuit's namesake couple, Julie & Hillary Goodridge, were legally wed that afternoon at a Unitarian Universalist church (with comments by same gender couples in CAMBRIDGE and BOSTON and a supportive heterosexual pair; by BOSTON MAYOR THOMAS MENINO, three of the original 7 "Goodridge" plaintiff couples -- ROB COMPTON & DAVID WILSON, JULIE & HILLARY GOODRIDGE, and MIKE HORGAN & ED BALMELLI -- and attorney MARY BONAUTO of Gay & Lesbian Advocates and Defenders, the legal group behind the successful November 2003 Supreme Judicial Court ruling; and excerpts from the Goodridge wedding -- all from multimedia coverage provided on their Web site by the HUMAN RIGHTS CAMPAIGN [www.hrc.org]; begins with an excerpt from "Goin' To Massachusetts For Love" written and performed by JANICE LEBER [www.sonomacountyfreepress.com/liver], and ends with brief outro music from "Chapel of Love" by THE DIXIE CUPS)" . . . 15:10 Closing Credits/continuity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1:40 TOTAL PROGRAM TIME . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28:55 ===================================== * =============================== STATION PROMO COPY: ANNCR: NEXT TIME ON "THIS WAY OUT", A HAPPY BUT BITTERSWEET ANNIVERSARY TO MASSACHUSETTS MARRIAGE EQUALITY -- HEAR ON-SCENE COVERAGE OF THAT HISTORIC DAY IN MAY 2004... IN THE NEWS, INTERNATIONAL ACTIONS MARK A DAY AGAINST HOMOPHOBIA, AN ANTI-GAY SHIITE FATWA IS OUT OF SIGHT BUT NOT OUT OF MIND, A UNITED NATIONS COMMITTEE NIXES QUEER CONSULTANTS, MOSCOW'S MAYOR OFFICIALLY BANS PRIDE, CLAPHAM COMMON KILLERS PLEAD GUILTY, AND THE SO-CALLED "FEDERAL MARRIAGE AMENDMENT" MARCHES DOWN THE U.S. SENATE AISLE. ALL THAT - AND MORE THIS WEEK - WHEN YOU DISCOVER "THIS WAY OUT: THE INTERNATIONAL LESBIAN AND GAY RADIO MAGAZINE", ______________________________________ [DAY and TIME] HERE ON __________________________. 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