======================================== To listen to the current "This Way Out" online copy/paste into your browser www.outinamerica.com/arts/two.asp, click on the OIA link at www.thiswayout.org, or check the stations link there for our 150+ local broadcast affiliates ======================================== THIS WAY OUT the international gay & lesbian radio magazine RUNDOWN for Program #975, distributed 12/04/06 (hosted by Greg Gordon and produced with Lucia Chappelle) "3 Needles" offers a piercing look at the worldwide AIDS epidemic; Janis Ian sings about being "Married in London" - and elsewhere; "Rainbow Minutes" profile an Italian genius and a world-famous writer; South Africa's first gay newlyweds beat bureaucracy to the altar, Israel's top court affirms marriage portability, a Latvian homophobe becomes the country's human rights leader, and other global GLBT news FEEDS MONDAY DEC 4 from 14:30-14:59 ET on PRSS DIGITAL FREQUENCY A72.3 and TUESDAY DEC 5 from 15:00-15:29 ET on Pacifica's KU satellite; Also available online via the PRSS Content Depot, at www.radio4all.net, www.indymedia.org, and Pacifica's Audioport, and on postal-mailed audio CDs to non-satellite/non-wired stations and to individual subscribers => PROGRAMMING ADVISORY <= There won't be a "NewsWrap" segment on TWO Program #978 (week of 12/25/06) or #979 (week of 1/1/07). The "Audiofile 2006 Year in Review" will fill Program #978, and "Pride On Screen 2006" will fill Program #979. = Program #975 RUNDOWN = Opening teases/theme music/intro continuity . . . . . . . . . . 1:10 SEGMENT #1 - "NewsWrap" - Vernon and Tony Halls-Gibbs become South Africa's first legally-united queer couple a day after the historic Civil Union Act is signed into law, but a resistant bureaucracy and other complications will likely delay similar ceremonies until the new year, even as the country's Constitutional Court decides in a separate case that gays and lesbians should be able to inherit the property of their partners who die without a will; Israel's High Court of Justice rules that lesbian and gay couples who marry in places where it's legal must be considered legally married there, but stresses that its decision does not support same-gender marriage in the country; a Moscow appeals court upholds a lower court ruling that the city acted legally to ban an LGBT Pride parade earlier this year; Latvia's parliament elects notorious homophobe Janis Smits as chair of its Human Rights Committee; despite the recommendation of a regional United Nations conference on HIV/AIDS, the socially conservative island nation of Grenada refuses to decriminalize gay sex, while the Tasmanian Gay and Lesbian Rights Group asks Tas-born Crown Princess Mary of Denmark to "gently" urge the Danish-administered Faroe Islands to pass sexual orientation anti-bias legislation; and pop star Sir Elton John has two less-than-gentle words for Aussie P.M. John Howard about his government's opposition to legal recognition of same-gender couples [written by GREG GORDON, with thanks to GRAHAM UNDERHILL and REX WOCKNER with BILL KELLEY, and reported this week by JON BEAUPRE and TANYA KANE-PARRY] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10:05 SEGMENT #2 - (Segues directly out of "NewsWrap":) "Married in London" written and performed by JANIS IAN [1:50] + "Rainbow Minutes"/"3 Needles" billboard [:16]. . 2:06 [www.janisian.com] SEGMENT #3 - Simmons Challenge promo (with "offer ends December 31st" tag). . :45 SEGMENT #4 - "Rainbow Minute: LEONARDO DA VINCI, RENAISSANCE MAN" (produced by JUDD PROTCTOR & BRIAN BURNS at WRIR in Richmond, Virginia and read by TOM MILLER) . . 1:02 SEGMENT #5 - "TWO" Voice Montage I.D.. . . . . . . . . . . . . :22 SEGMENT #6 - December 1st marked yet another World AIDS Day in the 25th year since the disease was first identified. "3 NEEDLES," the latest film from "out" Canadian gay writer/director THOM FITZGERALD, dramatizes three different facets of the global AIDS crisis: in Montreal, a porn actor schemes to pass his mandatory HIV blood test; a young nun makes a personal sacrifice for the benefit of a South African village; and a black market operative in rural China posing as a government-sanctioned bloodmobile driver jeopardizes an entire village's safety. This Way Out's STEVE PRIDE sat down with Fitzgerald (whose previous credits include "The Event," "Beefcake," and "The Hanging Garden") to talk about his remarkable motion picture (from Wolfe Releasing) and the continuing challenges of this worldwide plague (with preview clips and music from the film, and outro music from "The Motion" written and performed by RICK KURCK). . . 10:08 [www.3-needles.com; www.PrideOnScreen.com] SEGMENT #7 - "Rainbow Minute: GERTRUDE STEIN: OUT LESBIAN ACROSS THE CENTURIES" (produced by JUDD PROTCTOR & BRIAN BURNS at WRIR in Richmond, Virginia and read by CANDANCE GINGRICH) . . . . . . . 1:02 SEGMENT #8 - Promo for "Audiofile 2006 Year in Review" . . . . :37 Closing Credits/continuity. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1:38 TOTAL PROGRAM TIME. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28:55 ================================ * =============================== STATION PROMO COPY: ANNCR: NEXT TIME ON "THIS WAY OUT," "3 NEEDLES" OFFERS A PIERCING LOOK AT THE WORLDWIDE AIDS EPIDEMIC - HEAR PREVIEW CLIPS AND COMMENTS BY "OUT" CANADIAN WRITER/DIRECTOR THOM FITZGERALD... ICONIC SINGER/ SONGWRITER JANIS IAN SINGS ABOUT BEING "MARRIED IN LONDON" - AND ELSEWHERE... "RAINBOW MINUTES" PROFILE AN ITALIAN GENIUS AND A WORLD- FAMOUS WRITER... AND IN THE NEWS, SOUTH AFRICA'S FIRST GAY NEWLYWEDS BEAT BUREAUCRACY TO THE ALTAR, ISRAEL'S TOP COURT AFFIRMS MARRIAGE PORTABILITY, A LATVIAN HOMOPHOBE BECOMES THE COUNTRY'S HUMAN RIGHTS LEADER, AND SIR ELTON HAS JUST TWO WORDS FOR AUSTRALIA'S PM. 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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