======================================== To listen to "This Way Out" online copy/paste into your browser www.outinamerica.com/arts/two.asp, use the OIA link at www.thiswayout.org, or click on AFFILIATE STATIONS for our 150+ local broadcast outlets ======================================== THIS WAY OUT the international gay & lesbian radio magazine RUNDOWN for Program #1,028, distributed 12/10/07 via the PRSS Content Depot, Pacifica's Audioport, and free online downloads at www.radio4all.net and www.indymedia.org (hosted this week by Greg Gordon and produced with Lucia Chappelle) 14 years on: the lingering smell of "Don't Ask, Don't Tell"; Brazilians praise a precedent-setting presidential conference, U.S. Congressional "anti's" kill queer hate crimes protections, a secret Iranian sodomy hanging contravenes its top judge's ruling, Botswanan lesbigays sue for the right to organize, Martina serves fitness advice to the over-50 set, and more global GLBT news * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * REMINDER: There won't be a "NewsWrap" segment on the following remaining "This Way Out" programs in 2007: -Week of 12/24: Chris Wilson, JD Doyle and Christopher David Trentham bring us their 2007 "Audiofile Year in Review" -Week of 12/31: Steve Pride reviews 2007's big and small screen standouts in his "Pride On Screen 2007" * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * => Program #1,028 RUNDOWN <= Opening teases/theme music/intro continuity. . . . . . . . . . . 1:11 SEGMENT #1 - "NewsWrap“: Brazilian President Luiz Ignacio Lula da Silva announces a precedent-setting national conference on LGBT rights to convene in May 2008, but LGBT rights guarantees are rejected in Venezuela as part of a constitutional reforms referendum that would have allowed President Hugo Chavez to run for reelection indefinitely, and President Vladimir Putin's United Russia party wins an overwhelming victory in parliamentary elections as more than a dozen gay activists are arrested at a Moscow polling station for protesting homophobic Mayor Yuri Luzhknov; the Matthew Shepard Hate Crimes Prevention Act is dumped from a Congressionally-passed legislative package because it was attached as an amendment in the Senate to a critical Defense spending bill; despite an order by Iran's Chief Justice that his case be reviewed, 21-year-old Makwan Moloudzadeh is secretly hanged for allegedly sodomizing boys his own age when they were all just 13 years old; Lesbians, Gays and Bisexuals of Botswana say they'll sue their government for its refusal to register their organization; and 51-year-old lesbian tennis legend Martina Navratilova gets a new job encouraging her peers to stay physically fit [written by GREG GORDON, with thanks to REX WOCKNER with BILL KELLEY, and reported this week by TANYA KANE-PARRY and DONNA ANN WARD]. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9:45 SEGMENT #2 - Special "TWO" "Happy Holidays" message [voiced by CHRISTOPHER GAAL, with music from Tchaikovsky's holiday season perennial "March of the Toy Soldiers"]. . . . . . . . . . . . . :41 SEGMENT #3 - On DECEMBER 22, 1993, U.S. Defense Secretary LES ASPIN formally released the specific directives of the Clinton administration’s "revised" policy on lesbians and gays in the armed forces. While the tangle of bureaucratic double-speak barely veiled the "DON'T ASK, DON'T TELL, DON'T PURSUE" policy's similarity to the one previously in place, the rather dubious presidential holiday "greeting" did reveal much about the homophobia and the political power games that highlightghted the most attention-getting gay and lesbian news story in America that year. Its ramifications were barely understood in 1993... but as "This Way Out" reported back then, the new policy itself was barely understood: first, from the official Pentagon press briefing that day, excerpts from Secretary Aspin's introductory comments; Defense Department General Counsel JAMIE GORELICK then attempts to clarify some of the specific policy directives, and respond to questions from an increasingly-puzzled press; and finally, from across the Potomac at the National Press Club, reaction to the Pentagon briefing by representatives from some of the country's largest gay and lesbian political organizations demonstrate queer "unit cohesion," as the new policy is uniformly condemned by TANYA DOMI, Legislative Director of the National Gay & Lesbian Task Force; TIM McFEELEY, Executive Director of the Human Rights Campaign (Fund); KAREN JOHNSON, a 20-year military veteran representing the National Organization for Women; and MICHELLE BENECKE, Co-Director of the Servicemembers Legal Defense Network (with intro music from “Let's Call the Whole Thing Off” by MICHAEL FEINSTEIN, in-segment music from “Papa-Oom-Mow-Mow” by THE RIVINGTONS, outro music from “What'd I Say” by RAY CHARLES, and a December 2007 postscript) . . . . . . . 15:19 SEGMENT #4 Brief promo for the upcoming "AUDIOFILE 2007 YEAAR IN REVIEW" [voiced by CHRIS WILSON & JD DOYLE and produced with CHRISTOPHER DAVID TRENTHAM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . :26 Closing Credits/continuity. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1:26 TOTAL PROGRAM TIME. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28:48 =================================== * ============================== STATION PROMO COPY: ANNCR: NEXT TIME ON "THIS WAY OUT," 14 YEARS ON: THE LINGERING SMELL OF "DON'T ASK, DON'T TELL" ORIGINAL COVERAGE OF THE DECEMBER 1993< PRESS BRIEFINGS DISCUSSING THE THEN-"NEW POLICY" ON GAYS AND LESBIANS SERVING IN THE U.S. ARMED FORCES, WITH A DECEMBER 2007 POSTSCRIPT... AND IN THE NEWS, BRAZILIANS PRAISE A PRECEDENT-SETTING PRESIDENTIAL CONFERENCE, U.S. CONGRESSIONAL "ANTI'S" KILL QUEER HATE CRIMES PROTECTIONS, A SECRET IRANIAN SODOMY HANGING CONTRAVENES ITS TOP JUDGE'S RULING, BOTSWANAN LESBIGAYS SUE FOR THE RIGHT TO ORGANIZE, AND MARTINA SERVES FITNESS ADVICE TO THE OVER-50 SET. THOSE STORIES AND MORE THIS WEEK - WHEN YOU DISCOVER "THIS WAY OUTT: THE INTERNATIONAL LESBIAN AND GAY RADIO MAGAZINE", ______________________________________ [DAY and TIME] HERE ON __________________________. [STATION] =================================================================== Most "This Way Out" operating expenses are funded by VOLUNTARY "PROGRAM ACQUISITION" PAYMENTS FROM YOU, OUR STATIONS, and through tax-deductible donations from our listeners. 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