THIS WAY OUT the international gay & lesbian radio magazine RUNDOWN for Program #1,076, distributed 11/10/08 via Pacifica Radio'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) LGBT rights advocates cheer Obama, jeer U.S. marriage bans, but celebrate electoral victories. = RUNDOWN = Theme music/intro continuity [no opening teases] . . . . . . . . :37 SEGMENT #1 - "NewsWrap": The estimated 3 in 4 LGBT people who voted for Barack Obama celebrate his historic U.S. presidential election on November 4th with much of the rest of the country, and cheer the defeat of a move in Connecticut to reverse the state Supreme Court's marriage equality ruling, but lament the passage of bans on same-gender marriage in Arizona, California, and Florida, and a ban on lesbigay foster or adoptive parenting in Arkansas; marriage equality advocates hit the streets by the thousands across California – and outside the Mormon Church headquarters in Salt Laake City – to protest the passage of the same-gender-marriage-banningg Proposition 8 in California, which at least 3 lawsuits are already challenging as unconstitutional; meanwhile, a leading opponent of LGBT rights in Congress loses her reelection bid, and several openly gay and lesbian candidates win high elective offices across the country (written by GREG GORDON, with thanks to REX WOCKNER with BILL KELLEY, and reported this week by RICK WATTS and CHRISTOPHER GAAL) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10:16 SEGMENT #2 – CALIFORNIA voters approved PROPOSITION 8 on Novemmber 4th by a margin of about 52 to 48 percent, making their state the first in the U.S. to rescind established marriage equality. JUSTIN STINCHCOMBE reported from a Yes on 8 office and a No on 8 campaign gathering in Hollywood for the KPFK Evening News, while ADELAIDE CHIN reported for the Evening News on KPFA-Berkeley on one of the lawsuits already filed against the measure (commenting in these reports are Yes and No campaign volunteers; West Hollywood City Councilmember JOHN DURAN; SAN FRANCISCO MAYOR GAVIN NEWSOM; JOHN LEWIS, who with his partner Stuart Gaffney has been active in the marriage equality campaign; MATT DORSEY of the San Francisco Attorney's office; and Lambda Legal's JENNIFER PIZER). Thousands upon thousands of marriage equality activists have been protesting the passage of Proposition 8 across California literally every day and night since the election. MAYOR JEFFREY PRANG and CITY COUNCILMEMBER ABBE LAND spoke at one of the first, a huge demonstration in WEST HOLLYWOOD. "This Way Out" Associate Producer LUCIA CHAPPELLE, who was a No on 8 campaign volunteer in Southern California, has some thoughts on the Prop 8 battle and its aftermath. And we end on more uplifting notes with an excerpt from President-elect BARACK OBAMA's victory speech at Grant Park in Chicago on Election Night, and from HBO's "Real Time with Bill Maher," an excerpt from "If You're Out There," performed by JOHN LEGEND . . . . . . . . . . 16:38 Closing Credits/continuity. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1:22 TOTAL PROGRAM TIME. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28:53 =============================== * =============================== STATION PROMO COPY: ANNCR: NEXT TIME ON "THIS WAY OUT," L-G-B-T RIGHTS ADVOCATES CHEER OBAMA, JEER U.S. MARRIAGE BANS, BUT CELEBRATE ELECTORAL VICTORIES. 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