======================================== 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 #1,039, distributed 02/25/08 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) A hunted Jamaican activist seeks Canada's protection; Queer music comes out country, fun, and equestrian in the "Audiofile"; LGBT rights could evolve in a post-Fidel Cuba, queer quake claims rattle the Knesset, a Spanish judge is slammed for his biased custody ruling, a thousand marchers honor a slain gay California teen, a marriage equality champion gets Canada's top honor, and more LGBT news = RUNDOWN = Opening teases/theme music/intro continuity . . . . . . . . . . 1:14 SEGMENT #1 - "NewsWrap": There have been hopeful signs of change in the lives of Cuba's LGBT people that could be hastened by Fidel Castro's resignation; an Israeli lawmaker blames gay people for recent earthquakes in the region, while queer groups cheer the resignation of homophobic Ian Paisley, Junior from the Northern Ireland Executive; Spain's General Council for Judicial Power suspends a judge for telling a mother that she had to choose between her children and her lesbian lover; almost a thousand young people pay tribute to slain Oxnard, California gay teen Lawrence King in a march for tolerance and acceptance; a New Jersey commission reports that civil unions have not brought equality to the state's same-gender couples; Connecticut's Jason Bartlett comes out as the U.S.'s first openly gay African-American state legislator; the Registrar General in the Australian state of Queensland invalidates the Valentine's Day marriage filing that had been accepted from a lesbian couple; and same-gender couple-marrying Toronto Metropolitan Community Church Reverend Brent Hawkes is invested into the Order of Canada, the country's highest civilian honor (written by GREG GORDON, with thanks to REX WOCKNER with BILL KELLEY, and reported this week by RICK WATTS and GREG GORDON) [10:36] + Late-breaking queer OSCARS news about "Freeheld" and "No Country's" Scott Rudin [:40] + "Audiofile" billboard [:10] . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11:26 SEGMENT #2 - With life for gays and lesbians in JAMAICA getting more desperate by the day, one leading activist decided it was time for him to leave. A year ago he was one of four men trapped inside a pharmacy by an angry mob... and that was just one of the high profile, escalating anti-gay attacks that have injured and killed dozens. So GARETH HENRY of J-FLAG, the Jamaica Forum for Lesbians, All-Sexuals and Gays, has fled the ongoing threats from police and homophobic vigilantes to seek refugee status in CANADA. In the first of a two-part special feature, "This Way Out" correspondent HEATHER KITCHING ["Queer FM" on CiTR-FM/Vancouver, B.C.] talks with Gareth in Toronto, where since January 26th he's been sheltered by the LGBT organization EGALE [ends with a quick tease for next week's Part 2]. . . . . 7:44 SEGMENT #3 – One artist makes his debut (excerpts from the tiitle track and "Downhill" from LARRY BLOCK's "LOSING TOWN"), and two stalwarts of queer musicdom add to their discographies ("The Sanctity of Marriage" and "The Day the Homos Disappear" from RON ROMANOVSKY's "TURN UP THE FUN"; and "Every Woman" and "Can't Break My Heart" from HORSE's "RED HAIRED GIRL") in this month's edition of the "AUDIOFILE" [with comments by each artist, hosted this month by CHRIS WILSON & CHRISTOPHER DAVID TRENTHAM, and written and produced with JD DOYLE] . . . . . . . 7:05 [www.audiofile.org] = artist-supplied contact info = LARRY BLOCK RON ROMANOVSKY HORSE larryblock@mac.com ron@romanovskyandphillips.com Tom@costacomm.com www.larryblock.com www.romanovskyandphillips.com www.randan.org Closing Credits/continuity. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1:21 TOTAL PROGRAM TIME. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28:50 ================================ * =============================== STATION PROMO COPY: ANNCR: NEXT TIME ON "THIS WAY OUT," A HUNTED JAMAICAN ACTIVIST SEEKS CANADA'S PROTECTION – HEAR NEWLY-ARRIVED REFUGEE GARETH HENRY... QUEEER MUSIC COMES OUT COUNTRY, FUN, AND EQUESTRIAN IN THE "AUDIOFILE"... AND IN THE NEWS, L-G-B-T RIGHTS COULD EVOLVE IN A POST-FIDEL CUBA, QUEER QUAKE CLAIMS RATTLE THE KNESSET, A SPANISH JUDGE IS SLAMMED FOR HIS BIASED CUSTODY RULING, A THOUSAND MARCHERS HONOR A SLAIN GAY CALIFORNIA TEEN, AND A MARRIAGE EQUALITY CHAMPION GETS CANADA'S TOP HONOR. ALL THAT, AND MORE THIS WEEK, WHEN YOU TUNE IN TO "THIS WAY OUT: 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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