* 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 - November 21, 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-F72-00047 ("T.W.O." Program #347) * 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: * Conservative British M.P. comes out "by implication"; * "Creating Change" conferees confront a more conservative Congress; * Historian John Boswell challenges confused Christianity's condemnation of queers ... ... and more! ******RUNDOWN****** OPENING TEASES/THEME MUSIC/INTRO CONTINUITY ................1:20 SEGMENT #1 - NewsWrap: The Conservative Party's MICHAEL BROWN implicitly becomes Britain's second openly-gay Member of Parliament via a radio interview [includes an excerpt from Brown's speech to the party's gay/lesbian group Torche, and the "sort of coming out" interview conducted by DAVID PROSSER/BBC Radio 5's "Out This Week"]; Britain's first openly-gay M.P. Chris Smith is one of the headliners at a star-studded benefit for Stonewall, the country's national queer rights organization, which also includes Melissa Etheridge, Elton John, Neil Tennant, Richard Gere, and Sting; openly-gay U.S. Navy petty officer Keith Meinhold is warned by his second in command not to publicly state that he is gay (even though he's previously done so on national television!); U.S. President Bill Clinton names Patricia Fleming to succeed Kristine Gebbie as National AIDS Policy Coordinator; Amnesty International announces it has formally adopted the case of three members of The Gay Albania Society, who were arrested and tortured in October; a measure to decriminalize sex between consenting adult men passes favorably out of a Parliamentary committee in Belarus, a former republic of the USSR; in Australia, Tasmania's Director of Public Prosecution Damian Bugg declines to charge four men, including high-profile activist Rodney Croome, after they turn themselves in for violating the island state's sodomy law; Romanian Parliament defies Council of Europe by voting to uphold criminal penalties for same-gender sex acts between consenting adults, a measure the Council had called on them to scrap as a condition of membership in the E.C.; Patriarch Teoctist, leader of the Romanian Orthodox Church, condemns homosexuality calling it "unclean love... the tyranny of selfish, barren passion"; Latvia's Lutheran Church, the predominant religion of that former USSR republic, also slams lesbians and gays, calling homosexuality "abnormal" and "a deadly sin"; however, The Anglican Dicoese of Perth condemns the discriminatory age of consent law in Western Australia, which is 16 for heterosexuals but 21 for gay males, as "unam- biguously unjust", calling for speedy reform; in Canada, the city of Halifax, Nova Scotia extends benefits it offers to partners of its heterosexual employees to a lesbian couple; a rally for equal rights for same-gender couples in the Ontario, Canada city of Thunder Bay draws only 14 participants because, according to organizers, "people are terrified in this city to out themselves"; phone company records for a toll-free Ontario, Canada hotline for gay & lesbian youth reveals that 1,300 calls were fielded during its first few months of operation, but that 30,000 callers couldn't get through; and at a gay sauna in Ireland, appropriately called "Incognito", two priests administer last rites to a third clergyman who suffers a fatal heart attack there -- and management contends that the sauna's membership includes more than 20 priests! [compiled and written by CINDY FRIEDMAN, with thanks to RON BUCKMIRE and JASON LIN; anchored by CINDY FRIEDMAN & BRIAN NUNES] .............................................................................. ........... 10:30 SEGMENT #2 - Brief message from BRIAN NUNES promoting "TWO" e-mail address [bnunes@netcom.com] (:40) + "TWO" I.D. by "male actress" CHARLES PIERCE as "Eleanor Roosevelt" (:20) .............................................................................. ....... 1:00 SEGMENT #3 - The main topics of discussion at the Creating Change Conference, sponsored by the National Gay & Lesbian Task Force and held this year in Dallas, Texas included the ascendancy of conservatives to positions of power in the U.S. Congress, the defeat of anti-queer initiatives in Idaho and Oregon, the leadership vacancies at the Task Force and at the Human Rights Campaign Fund, and rumors of a proposed merger between the two largest U.S. gay and lesbian civil rights organizations. TWO's RON BUCKMIRE joined an estimated 1,400 activists for the conference, which began the day after the November 8th U.S. elections "Republican Revolution"; included in his report are excerpts from press conference remarks by DIANE SANDS of Idaho's No On Proposition 1 and THE REVEREND MEL WHITE of Dallas' MCC Cathedral of Hope (intro/outro music from "Changes" by YES) ............................. 5:45 SEGMENT #4 - "TWO" I.D. by TERENCE STAMP (Bernadette in the hit movie "The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen Of The Desert") (:15) + In the second part of DR. JOHN BOSWELL's intriguing short course on attitudes towards homosexuality in western cultural history, the Yale University history professor, and author of "Christianity, Social Tolerance & Homosexuality" and "Same Sex Unions in Pre-Modern Europe" traces the development of church-sanctioned homophobia from post-Greco/Roman European culture through the Middle Ages, highlighting the competing and contradictory schools of thought about homosexuality during those times [from a 1987 speech delivered at an AIDS symposium in New York City/tape courtesy of Pacifica Program Service] (intro/outro music from "It Ain't Necessarily So" by BRONSKI BEAT) ............................... 8:20 CLOSING CREDITS/CONTINUITY ......................................................... 1:35 TOTAL PROGRAM TIME ........................................................................ 28:30 ------------------Please note----------------- Anyone with questions, suggestions, or NEWS stories is encouraged to send them directly to "T.W.O." 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