======================================== 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 175+ local broadcast outlets ======================================== THIS WAY OUT the international gay & lesbian radio magazine RUNDOWN for Program #1,051, distributed 05/19/08 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) California’s Court-ordered wedded equality is bliss – but nnot for all; A Swedish gay couple sues to import their Canadian marriage, homophobes assault activists in Moldova and Russia, Malaysian police raid a fitness facility/gay sex club, openly-lesbian South African national women’s soccer team member Eudy Simelane is brutally raped and murdered, and more global LGBT news = RUNDOWN = Opening teases/theme music/intro continuity . . . . . . . . . . 1:02 SEGMENT #1 - "NewsWrap": Ruling that the state constitution demanded it, the California Supreme Court opens civil marriage to same-gender couples, although right wing groups appear to have successfully qualified an initiative for the November ballot to constitutionally ban them; a gay Swedish couple who married in Canada sues their government for recognition of that marriage; homophobes assault Pride celebrants in the Moldovan capital of Chisinau and queer demonstrators in the Russian cities of St. Petersburg and Novokuznetsk; police in Penang, Malaysia raid a fitness facility believed to be operating as a gay sex club; Eudy Simelane, an openly lesbian member of South Africa's national women's soccer team, is brutally raped and murdered by a gang of youths near Johannesburg; and Mildred Loving, who with her husband Richard won a landmark U.S. Supreme Court case 41 years ago overturning the ban on interracial marriages and strongly supported marriage equality for gay and lesbian couples, dies at the age of 68 (written by GREG GORDON, with thanks to REX WOCKNER with BILL KELLEY, and reported this week by DONNA ANN WARD and ERICA SPRINGER). . . . 9:13 SEGMENT #2 - Queer Californians will forever remember May 15th, 2008 as the day the state Supreme Court accepted their marriage proposal. California now becomes the second U.S. state, after Massachusetts, to establish marriage equality – although a looming November state ballot measure too nullify the high court ruling brought concern with the celebration in the Golden State. We begin our coverage with some specifics of the decision itself: KELLIA RAMARES' report from Free Speech Radio News [www.fsrn.org] includes comments by TERRY STEWART, Chief Deputy Attorney for the City of San Francisco. The prospect of a bitter battle against the proposed ballot initiative didn’t dampen the enthusiastic response to the ruling at gatherings up and down the state: a report by DAN FRITZ of the KPFK-FM/Los Angeles Evening News includes remarks by LORI JEAN, CEO of the Los Angeles Gay and Lesbian Community Services Center; CLARE PASTORE, Counsel with the American Civil Liberties Union of Southern California; and Lambda Legal/Western Regional Office Director JON DAVIDSON and co-counsel DAVE CODELL. BRYAN GOEBEL's report from San Francisco includes comments by plaintiff couple JEWELLE GOMEZ & DIANE SABIN; MAYOR GAVIN NEWSOM; GEOFFREY KORS of Equality California; plaintiff STUART GAFFNEY; and some Castro Street celebrants. And LUCIA CHAPPELLE's report from Los Angeles includes remarks by REV. NEIL THOMAS, Senior Pastor of the Los Angeles Metropolitan Community Church, and plaintiff couples ROBIN TYLER & DIANE OLSON and REV. TROY PERRY & PHILLIP DE BLIECK (with brief intro music from "Love and Marriage" by FRANK SINATRA). . . . . . . . 16:16 SEGMENT #3 - Brief program note about continuing our series celebrating the 25th anniversary of Vancouver, B.C.'s legendary Little Sister's Bookstore next week (with a short audio tease) . . :30 Closing Credits/continuity. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1:33 TOTAL PROGRAM TIME. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28:34 ================================ * =============================== STATION PROMO COPY: ANNCR: NEXT TIME ON "THIS WAY OUT," CALIFORNIA’S SUPREME COURT ORDERING WEDDED EQUALITY IS BLISS FOR MANY, BUT NOT FOR RIGHT WING CONSERVATIVES – YOU'LL HEAR COMPREHENSIVE COVERAGE OF CELEBRATIONS AAND CONCERNS FROM SAN FRANCISCO AND LOS ANGELES... IN OTHER NEWS, A SWEDISH GAY COUPLE SUES TO IMPORT THEIR CANADIAN MARRIAGE, HOMOPHOBES ASSAULT ACTIVISTS IN MOLDOVA AND RUSSIA, AND MALAYSIAN POLICE RAID A FITNESS FACILITY ALLEGEDLY OPERATING AS A GAY SEX CLUB. THOSE STORIES, AND MORE THIS WEEK, WHEN YOU DISCOVER "THIS WAY OUT: THE INTERNATIONAL LESBIAN AND GAY RADIO MAGAZINE", ______________________________________ [DAY and TIME] HERE ON __________________________. [STATION] =================================================================== "This Way Out" operating expenses are funded by a grant from The Kicking Assets Fund of the Tides Foundation, VOLUNTARY "PROGRAM ACQUISITION" PAYMENTS FROM YOU, OUR STATIONS, and through tax-deductible donations from our listeners. Please visit www.thiswayout.org for more information. >Thank you for your financial support to keep our program on the air!< "This Way Out" is a tax-exempt 501(c)(3) nonprofit as OVERNIGHT PRODUCTIONS (INC.). ***************************************************************** "TWO" ISO LOCAL NEWS COVERAGE OR FEATURE PROGRAMMING ABOUT OR AFFECTING THE GLBT COMMUNITY: If someone at your station has produced or will be producing a news, interview or feature story which may be of interest to the GLBT community, please let us know! We can only reimburse minor expenses, but we do offer considerably wider distribution (150+ other stations) of locally produced material. Please phone Coordinating Producer Greg Gordon at (818) 986-4106 or email him at TWOradio@aol.com. Thanks! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ On the air since April 1988, "This Way Out" is the multi-award-winning internationally distributed weekly gay and lesbian radio newsmagazine. 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