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 28, 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-F72-00048 ("T.W.O." Program #348) * 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: * Steffan broadsided by Appeals Court, but his case is still afloat; * Former NGLTF Board Co-Chair Elizabeth Birch selected to become Executive Director of HRCF; * Bobbies create community ties to beat British bashings; * Boswell discusses history's Acquired Intolerance Disease Syndrome; * The answer to the musical question: If God's a "He", is "He" a Queen? ... and more! ******RUNDOWN****** OPENING TEASES/THEME MUSIC/INTRO CONTINUITY ................1:15 SEGMENT #1 - NewsWrap: Full D.C. U.S. Appeals Court reverses earlier 3-judge panel's ruling that former Naval Academy midshipman Joseph Steffan be reinstated--majority of 7 Reagan/Bush appointees rule against Steffan, while 3 Carter/Clinton appointees dissent -- appeal to U.S. Supreme Court contemplated; Elizabeth Birch, now chief litigator and chief human resources counsel for the Apple Computer Company and former Board Co-Chair of the National Gay & Lesbian Task Force, has been selected to succeed Tim McFeeley as Executive Director of the Human Rights Campaign Fund, the largest lesbian and gay civil rights group in the U.S.; police in Great Britain hold historic mid-November national conference designed to improve relations with the queer community; ex-con Gary Ray Bowles confesses to the murders of at least six gay men in Florida, Georgia and Maryland; gang of youths prevents family's burial of a gay man in a Moslem cemetary in Senegal; thousands of Muslims gather in Niger's capital city of Niamey to protest "western destruction of the moral and religious codes of our society"; after 6 years and despite the AIDS death of the plaintiff, a New York City apartment co-op settles legal battle out of court allowing plaintiff's unit to be willed to his domestic partner; Canadian lesbian is allowed to sponsor her foreign lover for emigration; at a mid-November neuroscience conference, Canadian psychiatrist Sandra Witelson reports discovery of a new anatomical difference between the brains of gay and heterosexual men, adding to the mounting evidence of biological factors at least partially determining sexual orientation; 3,500 march and 50,000 view gay & lesbian pride parade in the Western Australia city of Perth; and, Illinois' mainstream Northwest Herald newspaper reports controversy of atomic proportions surrounding "Enola Homosexual exhibit" [compiled and written by CINDY FRIEDMAN, with thanks to RON BUCKMIRE and JASON LIN; anchored by CINDY FRIEDMAN & BRIAN NUNES] .............................................................................. ...... 10:35 SEGMENT #2 - "TWO" I.D. by playwright/performance artist Luis Alfaro and lesbian/feminist comic Monica Palacios [with Jesse Helms "endorsement" tag] (:15) + brief reminder from BRIAN NUNES promoting "TWO" e-mail contact address [bnunes@netcom.com] (:25) ................................................................... :40 SEGMENT #3 - In the third and concluding part of DR. JOHN BOSWELL's intriguing lecture tracing attitudes towards homosexuality in western culture, the Yale University history professor and author of "Christianity, Social Tolerance & Homosexuality" and "Same Sex Unions in Pre-Modern Europe" discusses modern attitudes toward homosexuality, which combine the older religious notions of sin with the more recent scientific concepts of individual and societal health and well-being, and -- appropriate to the observance of World AIDS Day on December 1st -- how those attitudes have impacted the battle against the most devastating plague of the 20th century [tape courtesy of Pacifica Program Service, from a 1987 Symposium held in New York City] (instrumental intro music from "It Ain't Necessarily So" by BRONSKI BEAT) ... 11:30 SEGMENT #4 - Observing Mother Nature's wonders, gay singing/songwriting duo extraordinaire ROMANOVSKY & PHILLIPS musically muse over a thorny theological theory: "If There's A God (He's A Queen)" [from their newest release on cassette & CD "Brave Boys: The Best And More Of Romanovsky & Phillips"; more info in the U.S.: phone 1-800-47-FRUIT] ..... 3:40 CLOSING CREDITS/CONTINUITY ......................................................... 1:15 TOTAL PROGRAM TIME ........................................................................ 28:55 -----------------Please note------------------------ Anyone with questions, suggestions, or NEWS stories is encouraged to send them directly to "T.W.O." 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