THIS WAY OUT * THIS WAY OUT * THIS WAY OUT -Since 1988, Public Radio's Only Weekly National Voice For Gays & Lesbians- TO: ALL STATIONS, especially PROGRAM, NEWS & PUBLIC AFFAIRS DIRECTORS DATE: Monday - December 12, 1994 RE: "THIS WAY OUT - the international gay & lesbian radio magazine": Content Description and Segment Times for this week's program Program I.D. #94-F72-00050 ("T.W.O." Program #350) * FEEDS EVERY MONDAY at 14:30-14:59 ET on CHANNEL 12 * AIR THE ENTIRE HALF-HOUR AND/OR USE SELECTED SEGMENTS! FREE OF CHARGE! USAGE LIMITED ONLY BY TIMELINESS OF NEWS CONTENT! ON THIS WEEK'S PROGRAM: * Norweigan Parliament warms up with its second gay member; * U.S. AIDS workers feel the chill of Elder's exit; * Hot comedy from Sara Cytron brings lesbian laughter to the Poconos; * 'Tis the season: music to make the yuletide gay ... ... and more! ******RUNDOWN****** OPENING TEASES/THEME MUSIC/INTRO CONTINUITY ................1:20 SEGMENT #1 - NewsWrap: Norwegian Labour Party M.P. Anders Hornslien confirms on a TV talkshow that he's gay, heading off an anticipated "outing"--he's now the second openly-gay member of Norway's Parliament; comments concerning teaching school children about masturbation leads Bill Clinton to fire U.S. Surgeon General JOYCELYN ELDERS [includes excerpts from Elders' "controversial" remarks during a World AIDS Day Q&A session, and reaction to Elders' departure from MIKE ISBELL of New York City's Gay Mens Health Crisis]; U.S. National Gay and Lesbian Task Force names Melinda Paras, former Deputy Executive Director of San Francisco's Shanti AIDS organization, as its new Executive Director; Matthew Coles, staff attorney for the American Civil Liberties Foundation of Northern California, is tapped to head the national A.C.L.U. Lesbian & Gay Rights and AIDS Projects; gay & lesbian activists countrywide contribute to a report heard last week by the Congress of the Mexican Human Rights Academy; 8 shelves of queer and feminist periodicals that disappeared from the University of New Mexico library late last month are found hidden in the library stacks, some defaced by graffiti and Nazi symbols; Indiana Court Of Appeals lifts lower court restrictions placed on a lesbian mother to refrain from "engaging in homosexual activity" in order to keep custody of her two sons; binding arbitration forces Bell Canada to extend spousal benefits to the partners of its lesbian & gay employees; British Airways offers spousal ticket discounts to domestic partners of its queer employees; two lesbians in the People's Republic of China commit suidice together after arguing about one's desire to find a husband; Lepa Mladjenovic becomes first open lesbian or gay to discuss queer issues on Serbian T.V.; and U.S. lesbian comic Georgia Ragsdale will become the first openly-lesbian or-gay performer ever to star in a pilot for a proposed television series on a major U.S. network, signing a reported $200,000 contract with the ABC-TV Network [compiled and written by CINDY FRIEDMAN, with thanks to RON BUCKMIRE and JASON LIN; anchored by CINDY FRIEDMAN & BRIAN NUNES] .......................... 8:15 SEGMENT #2 - Brief reminder from BRIAN NUNES promoting "TWO" e-mail address [bnunes@netcom.com] [:25] + "TWO" I.D. by author Patricia Nell Warren ("The Front Runner", "Harlan's Race") [:10]......................................................................... ........................... :35 SEGMENT #3 - 'Tis the season to make the yuletide musically gay: edited version of "Oh Little Town In Michigan" by VENUS ENVY* .............................................................................. .............. 3:30 SEGMENT #4 - SARA CYTRON has been doing stand out stand up comedy as an open lesbian since 1987, and is a favorite performer at women's festivals around the U.S.; TWO's KIMBERLY KRANICH [WPSU-FM/State College, PA] talks with Cytron, and provides excerpts from the comic's performance at the 19th Annual Sisterspace Women's Music Festival held earlier this year in the Pocono Mountains of Pennsylvania .............................................................................. ............ 12:10 SEGMENT #5 - More seasonal song from VENUS ENVY: excerpt from "Silent Dyke" [*from their album "I'll Be A Homo For Christmas" - info: P.O. Box 19501, Seattle, WA 98109] ...... 1:45 CLOSING CREDITS/CONTINUITY ........................................................ 1:15 TOTAL PROGRAM TIME ....................................................................... 28:50 -----------Please note---------- Anyone with questions, suggestions, or NEWS stories is encouraged to send them directly to "T.W.O." Associate News Director BRIAN NUNES via his Internet E-Mail address: bnunes@netcom.com --------------thanks!--------------- Coordinating Producer Greg Gordon is also online at: tworadio@aol.com ************************************************* SATELLITE DISTRIBUTION OF "THIS WAY OUT" IS FUNDED BY GRANTS FROM THE MORGAN R. PINNEY TRUST and THE C.P. ESTES GUADALUPE FOUNDATION. -------------------------------- MISSED THE SATELLITE FEED? PACIFICA RADIO SHIPS (GENERALLY VIA U.P.S.) 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