* 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 19, 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-F72-00051 ("T.W.O." Program #351) * 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: * Discovery of possible viral cause of Kaposi Sarcoma, more prevalent among gay than heterosexual PWA's, may lead to new life-saving treatments; * U.S. and New Zealand courts grapple with lesbian, gay and transgender family issues; * You've lived the life -- now read the book! (an entertaining conversation with the authors of "The Unofficial Gay MANual"); * "Jerry Falwell's Coming To Town": a musical socio-seasonal perennial ... ... and more! ******RUNDOWN****** OPENING TEASES/THEME MUSIC/INTRO CONTINUITY ................1:25 SEGMENT #1 - NewsWrap: The discovery last week of a new virus which may cause or contribute to Kaposi's Sarcoma, which affects more gay than heterosexual men with AIDS, could lead to new treatments for the deadly cancer; Belgian physician Peter Piot to head a new United Nations program coordinating the AIDS-related activities of 6 different U.N. agencies; the burial location of a man who died from AIDS is being fought over in court between the man's lover of 12 years and the PWA's parents; a small Philadelphia church bans HIV-positive people from joining the congregation; a Vermont Quaker Friends Meeting has contacted state legislators demanding full legal marriage rights for gay and lesbian couples; the Springfield, Massachusetts City Council extends family leave benefits to its lesbian and gay employees, and is considering domestic partner health benefits as well; U.S. Court of Appeals hears arguments in case of Robin Shahar, the lesbian whose 1991 job offer to work for Georgia Attorney General Michael Bowers (of the infamous Bowers vs. Hardwick sodomy case) was withdrawn after she celebrated a commitment ceremony with her same-gender partner; New Zealand High Court affirms legal marriage rights of transgendered people; Illinois judge refuses in two separate cases to allow lesbians to adopt their partner's children; parental visitation battle between the gay father and a lesbian couple over their artificially-inseminated daughter to be determined in New York Family Court; National Lesbian & Gay Journalists Association votes to move its 1995 Annual Conference out of Los Angeles, becoming one of the first queer groups to boycott California in protest of passage of the state's anti-immigrant Proposition 187; openly-gay activist Jack Law is appointed to Hawaii's Civil Rights Commission; and London's chapter of the Lesbian Avengers stages "Julia and Juliet" to support teacher Jane Brown, still under attack by city officials for refusing free student tickets to a performance of the Shakespeare original because of its "unrelievedly heterosexual content" [compiled and written by CINDY FRIEDMAN, with thanks to RON BUCKMIRE, JASON LIN and GRAHAM UNDERHILL; anchored by CINDY FRIEDMAN & BRIAN NUNES] .............................................................................. ........................... 9:15 SEGMENT #2 - "This Way Out" endorsement/support message by WILLIAM WAYBOURN, Executive Director of the U.S. political financing group The Gay & Lesbian Victory Fund (outro music from "It's Money That Matters" by RANDY NEWMAN) ............... 1:00 SEGMENT #3 - "T.W.O." I.D. by Jack Krumholtz and Kevin DiLallo, co-authors of "The Unofficial Gay MANual" [:25] + 'Tis still the season to make the yuletide musically gay: "Bigots We Have Heard On High" by IRRUMU & THE ALTERED BOYS [:50] ....................................................................... 1:15 SEGMENT #4 - Co-authors JACK KRUMHOLTZ and KEVIN DILALLO discuss their recently-released book of humor and survival information, "The Unofficial Gay MANual: Living the Lifestyle (or at least Appearing to)", published in softcover last month by Doubleday, with T.W.O.'s JOSY CATOGGIO (intro/ outro music from "Give Me A Homosexual" by ROMANOVSKY & PHILLIPS) .............................................................................. ................... 12:00 SEGMENT #5 - Will the crushing Republican victory in November's U.S. elections lead to more overt homophobia from numerous rightwing religious supremacists? JAN BARLOWE expresses such fears musically with her holiday perennial "Jerry Falwell's Coming To Town" .................................................. 2:25 CLOSING CREDITS/CONTINUITY ......................................................... 1:25 TOTAL PROGRAM TIME ........................................................................ 28:45 -----------------------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!--------------------------- "T.W.O." Coordinating Producer GREG GORDON is also online at: tworadio@aol.com ==*********************************************== 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? 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